The sad thing about consumerism at the top, ie: American consumerism - is that it carries the weight of veracity. That is, we luxuriate und...

That unmistakable major tone that distinguishes greater from lesser poets . -Andre Breton on Aime Cesaire Those who've helped me find ...

Today, Fish and I went to a spoken word event by the Step Up Women's Network . Normally, I don't go in for these things, but I...

In Vegas, they’ll bet on anything. One casino was ready to let me bet on whether I’d win or lose there. -Anonymous As I've chronicled he...

As a wishful musician in my mis-spent youth, I was lucky to come up in an era radically different than what Renee is currently in. The 70...

With the dearth of good Asian/APA writers, it's about time I wrote about a bad Asian sista; you can click through to her old blog above,...

Oh? Not American of Chinese descent? Saw a screening of 21 , and while I don't play blackjack for money, as most degenerates, I like g...

Shocking New Evidence for the Existence of God! Jailing of S&L chief heartens theologians With all of the stuff being pumped out about t...

Renee and I love graf, and it's been in my life since before the hip hoppers took it and made it widely known as well as evolved it to w...

I've just watched this big whoop-dee-doo CNBC piece on the burning Rome that is the music industry, and I have to get this out. [cue rio...

What is the endless fascination we have with giving over our own personal power to others? Why do we choose not to hook up with others in w...

A small table today cuz I didn't have the energy to sit through 2+ hours of grinding. Given that, the head's up with "penske5...

I've been getting back into it, chump change little sit 'n gos, but it's still good to know I can make my way through a field. ...

Noel Burch, the greatest of film theoreticians, says that the way a filmmaker approaches filmmaking is influenced by his language. Thus, th...

This is too long overdue, but brotha Glen Ford and his Black Agenda Report hold it down on the real. If you don't know then don't a...

What a game. Renee and I were yelling and rooting for the Giants big time. I normally don't diary my blog [sic], because it's fucki...

I slam my country so much for being shitheads, that it's about time I said something positive about America. And one of them is indeed ...

Fish and I went to the Third LA Biennial at Bergamot Station last week. At the end of this entry is the LA Weekly cover story that prom...