Recent ColumnsMonday, January 8 2001Saturday, October 7 2000Mediations of Japan: Brought to you by Public TransportationReDotPop -- Brought to you by Public Transportation. (more ReDotPop) Wednesday, July 5 2000Monday, May 29 2000It’s All About the PentiumsIt's getting to the point where you can't enjoy a simple hamburger these days. (more Popping Off) Saturday, May 13 2000Mediations of Japan: FoodReDotPop -- Food: With the duo endlessly crooning about crustaceans over radios, on variety shows, as backing in television commercials, through speakers in elevators and restaurants, via CD rentals, and in karaoke boxes, Puffy had Japan from Hiroshima to Hakodate singing the praises of scarfing shellfish along summer shorelines. (more ReDotPop) Friday, May 5 2000Like Water for Chocolate: Common’s Recipe for Progressive Hip-HopLike the surreal Laura Esquivel novel that Rashid 'Lonnie' Lynn invokes in the title of his brilliant new release Like Water for Chocolate. (more Critical Noire) Wednesday, April 5 2000Friday, March 31 2000Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Globalization?: It's getting to the point where you can't enjoy a simple hamburger these days. (more Popping Off) Tuesday, February 15 2000McGruder’s Follies: Playa Hatin’ BET in PublicIn my last two columns, I have come dangerously close to setting a trend in which I consistently attack the 'hick' culture. Not wanting to make enemies among people I don't hate, this time I'm turning the microscope on a general suburban blight of conspicuous consumption: the SUV. (more Critical Noire) In Loving Memory of the Car: In my last two columns, I have come dangerously close to setting a trend in which I consistently attack the 'hick' culture. Not wanting to make enemies among people I don't hate, this time I'm turning the microscope on a general suburban blight of conspicuous consumption: the SUV. (more Popping Off) Saturday, January 1 2000As Cool as Calvin: I owe a great debt to Bill Watterson for bringing a seven-year-old boy and his stuffed tiger into my life. Calvin and Hobbes may be the best comic strip ever drawn, and even if that's debatable to the world at large, it holds true for me. (more Popping Off) Friday, November 19 1999Sunday, January 1 1995
Damned If You Do. Damned If You Don’t.Snitching cuts three ways: it protects the community; it harms the community, and; it slices through the legal system to one's benefit/another's detriment. (more The Barbershop Notebooks)
Damned If You Do. Damned If You Don’t.Snitching cuts three ways: it protects the community; it harms the community, and; it slices through the legal system to one's benefit/another's detriment. (more The Barbershop Notebooks)
Modern Day HottietotsThere is much to be made of / on / about a black woman's backside. (more Negritude 2.0) |
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