Authenticity Is No Longer an Option

Feb 15 2009 ∞

Alright.  So you’ve seen this video.  Probably you’re even sick of the song by now.  But my God, this has been stuck in my head for like three weeks straight.  And did you see the Emmys Grammys?  (For some reason, I keep wanting to call the Grammys the Emmys.)  TI, Kanye, Lil Wayne, Jay-Z, and MIA, walking around stage nine months pregnant and wearing what appeared to be a fishnet suit.  That really happened.  We did not dream it.

Feb 06 2009 ∞

Artifice!

So I’m starting a magazine.  Also on board is Rebekah Silverman, the former Ed-in-Chief of Sycamore Review (responsible for the hot new design of that journal a few years back).  The magazine’s name, as you may have figured out from the title of this post, is Artifice, and it will publish “fiction and poetry aware of its own artifice”—think Dean Young, Grace Paley, Quan Barry, George Saunders, etc, etc.  It’s in its pre-magazine larval stages, but you can check where we’re at here: artificemag.com.  Silverman and I will be serving up a series of blog posts entitled “How to Start a Literary Magazine,” consisting of reports on whatever it is we’re doing to start this literary magazine.

Jan 29 2009 ∞

If you don’t like King Khan already, now’s as good a time as any to start.

Jan 24 2009 ∞

Things That Didn’t Happen to People Who Don’t Exist

r. made our fake friends robert and viola a quilt.

Jan 20 2009 ∞
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Percentage of the amendments in the Bill of Rights that are violated by the USA PATRIOT Act, according to the ACLU: 50

Minimum number of laws that Bush signing statements have exempted his administration from following: 1,069
— Thanks, Harper’s Index!
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A Moment, During the Ceremony

Crowd shot during Yo-Yo Ma’s performance.  People in the crowd bopping their heads to cello.  Getting down.

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“ …to choose our better history.
Jan 19 2009 ∞

My good Lord this song is amazing.  A thing I’ve noticed, since I started putting videos up on this blog?  I’ve never seen a lot of the videos from albums I’ve listened to dozens and dozens of times.  What I’m saying, Reader, is this blog is good for all of us.

Jan 18 2009 ∞

For old times’ sake.  Something very strange happens to reality in this video a little over halfway through, when Busta Rhymes appears.  You’ll see what I’m talking about.  It’s as if his presence fundamentally alters spacetime.

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Y’all, I was worried about the new Q-Tip.  I mean, you remember Tribe.  It was wonderful.  I was in a bar the other night up around Damen and Milwaukee, and they had The Low End Theory in their jukebox, and I was all like, can I kick it?  Turns out I could.  So I did*.  But what I’m getting at here is, another Q-Tip solo, after nine years, well it could have been like a bad store-bought cake with frosting made of sad.  But you know what?  Shit is hot.  Shit is hot.

*I’m not sure what that means, specifically, either.

ps.  this blog appears to be becoming a blog devoted to whatever videos I happen to be watching at the moment, posted from time to time, basically when I feel like it.  I’m okay with that, really.  I hope that you’re okay with that, too.

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