Asher Roth, Hip Hop, and Rockism, Or Why Doesn’t My Kid Like Hip Hop?
Because Latoya and Jill polluted my wasting brain by posting about this last week, let’s go ahead and beat this Asher Roth topic into the ground. And hell, why not? ASHER ROTH IS TEH SUXXOR. ASHER ROTH IS A ROBERT HERRICK REINCARNATE. First off, Jay “Made Of Win” Smooth did a great interview with Dan [...]
...read moreAir-Breathing, Water-Drinking Earthlings
Last night Ethan’s third grade class put on an Earth Day celebration, a “Prairie Home Companion” styled radio show, that was packed full of epic recorder songs and appeals to their parents to recycle and consume water and electricity in more responsible ways. Even though it was relatively standard in the school recital sense, what [...]
...read moreAccents
My mother is adorable. She’s lived in the US for over 35 years now. She has authored, edited or translated a half-dozen books — in English! But she still sends me e-mails with lines like this, in her recipe for Japanese curry, from ten minutes ago: “In the same flying pan, add some more oil [...]
...read moreXenophobia Rears its Ugly Head in All Sorts of Places
Golf is not something that is usually on my radar screen (unless I’m getting worked up about how golf courses buy water rights to maintain their unsustainable lushness in draught-affected areas or about how the Bush administration claims to have increased the amount of wetlands in the U.S. by counting golf courses as wetlands), but [...]
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