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    Thursday
    25Feb2010

    a little reading comprehension would prevent stuff like this

    DateThursday, February 25, 2010 at 13:37

    Have you seen Linkbait Generator? It's pretty brilliant. I think HuffPo may actually be using it. The reason it's so clever is because blogs with authority - stuff cosigned by legit web outlets - keep running headlines like this:

    'Twilight Star' Robert Pattinson a Racist?

    Oh, it's a shameful thing. Come on, Black Spin headline editor, haven't you seen the 'How To Tell People They Sound Racist' video?

    Here's the Details piece, which looks interesting, though unbutton that blazer, fam.

    What seems like the obvious interpretation of this:

    Rob, did you know that every time you say actor or acting you lower your voice to a whisper?
    He's genuinely startled. "I do?"
    Yes, so quietly it's like you're saying Negro.
    He laughs, lightens up. "What if we were 'acting' like 'Negroes'? Then we'd be fucked—we couldn't hear anything. . . ."

    Pattinson is posing a hypothetical sentence or conversation where he uses the word that he lowers his voice to a whisper to say, and a word many people lower their voices to say. Then you couldn't hear anything because his voice would be so low. It's a pretty clever response. Nontroversy.

    Seriously, Boyd Watkins and whoever wrote the headline, pick on John Mayer or something.

    At BV, folks are picking on interviewer Jenny Lumet for using 'Negro', which does seem a little outdated and an odd choice, but Pattinson's British, maybe it's still in whispervogue across the pond.

    Embedding 'How To Tell People They Sound Racist' after the jump just because I'm that much of a Jay Smooth stan.

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    Friday
    19Feb2010

    sky blu is what's wrong with politics today

    DateFriday, February 19, 2010 at 13:58

    The LMFAO-Mitt Romney story is a remarkable confluence of my interests: hiphop in mainstream media, flight security, rich folks interaction. Of course, what ends up fascinating me is a one-off comment about politics. Hate is a strong word. I almost hate politics. But peep this, towards the end of this video:

    Sky Blu: I have no hard feelings for him, I'm sure he's a good dude.

    Redfoo: Will you vote for him?

    Sky Blu: [matter-of-factly] No. 'Cause I'm a democrat, he's a repub.

    Can it all be so simple? This is what I read on Newsvine with far too much frequency. I would never vote for ______ because I am ______. That 'gang mentality' bit Chris Rock did six years ago is relevant as ever. Sky Blu looks like he's explaining something to an alien. 'Look, this is how it works.' SMH.

    Other thoughts:

    • As a frequent rap apologist, I have no defense for LMFAO, who are truly lowest common denominator club music, but it's shortsighted to get all reactionary and claim that this guy will 'end up in prison or murdered'. He's a rich kid, Berry Gordy's grandson. Not a gangsta.
    • Good gravy I forgot how bad LMFAO is. Have you heard 'Shots'? Gack. Lil Jon is slumming.
    • You can lean your seat back in first class. It's never occurred to me, but I feel confident that flight attendants do not roll up on first-class folks and ask them to return their seat to upright and locked. That's where the money's at. And that's why Romney was prodding Sky Blu in the first place.
    • I wonder if Blu is cringing at this the way I do whenever I remember House of Payne is still on.
    • LMFAO actually come off really, really well in this. It's good PR, and anyone who will dismiss it because they're in their underwear would probably dismiss it in suits at a press conference anyway.
    • If you're on that plane, who do you recognize first, LMFAO or Mitt Romney? Do you feel good about recognizing either?
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    Thursday
    30Jul2009

    this is how you know it's a heat wave

    DateThursday, July 30, 2009 at 2:44

    It's nearly 3 and I'm awake against my will because
    My apartment, for all of its winter awesomeness, does not have A/C [tho the ceiling fan is saving me] because
    Seattle is simply not supposed to be this hot and I've grown up here never expecting it to be so hot you don't want to get in your car.

    At 10ish, I walked to my local semisupermarkets in search of Dreyer's Fruit Bars, which are what's up when it's hot out. [Also, Buttercup can eat them.] Aaaaand none. Not because they don't carry 'em:

    Because the ice cream aisles, the handheld portions in particular, were a barren wasteland. Hot damn. [ settled for some peach pie. Not too heartbroken.]

    Let me rephrase; this is how you know it's a heat wave in a city that don't know nothing of heat waves. We ran out of fans in stores, too.

    Offical: hottest day in Seattle's recorded history today.

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    Tuesday
    09Jun2009

    workarounds and bruises

    DateTuesday, June 9, 2009 at 8:46

    My homeboy Nate, one of the better-raised people I've ever met and one of the few poets I like listening to, is in China currently, tho the blog name is prior:

    Nate and Dan in Japan

    I'll let him explain:

    Unsatisfied with my life in NYC, I hit the road, or the air for that matter. Currently living and working in Shanghai, things are slowly falling into place.

    The kid can write, too - check his 'Stepping Out of Bounds' essay that's in this book. Still digging through the archives, but this is why blogs can be great tools: not only do I feel like I kinda know what's going on with him, I'm learning a ton even if just from the picture posts.

    So Nate's working around China's blocking of blogspot, teaching, running marathons...you know, everyday business. Also, doing 'cupping':

    Credit to NADIJ and Nate. Duh.

    Gah. He claims it doesn't hurt. Whatever, do you. I need to get out of the country at some point [no Camera Obscura].

    Maybe I can find the Zarni track that both of us are on, I'll add it if I do.

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    Wednesday
    06May2009

    this seems like a handicap to being a wide receiver

    DateWednesday, May 6, 2009 at 0:01

    I'm pretty freaking happy the C-Hox don't have to deal with Torry Holt in our division anymore. He used to eat us alive, and apparently he's been doing it with a hand straight out of the interrogation scene in Shoot 'Em Up.

    Barf.

    H/T to Field Gulls community, who also schooled me to the fact that Rick Mirer is now in the business of gettin' ya drunk.

    [Holy Sh--, Torry Holt is a Mutant]

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