https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huffam4qf4Y I’m just going to go out on a limb here: You or Someone You Know by Worriers is my favorite record of the year. Such a perfect punk/power pop record – I listen to it when I’m happy, when I’m sad, when I’m sitting in the sun on my balcony, when I have to …
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Apropos of (my) 2016. (A. Razor: “If Bubba’s Taxi Could Talk” found in The Coiled Serpent: Poets Arising from the Cultural Quakes and Shifts of Los Angeles, eds. Banerjee, Olivas, Rodrigues, Tía Culcha Press 2016)
They continued down a havoc of backstreets. A woman carried a tray of kale on a string over her neck, trying in vain to hawk the exhausted green leaves. Is this from a) a dystopian story about the crash of the current tech bubble and the demise of formerly fashionable neighborhoods from Brooklyn to Los Angeles?b) …
Donald Sterling Is Problematic in So Many Ways
NPR’s Code Switch blog has a good write-up of Donald Sterling’s obviously racist and rather delusional statements – and his history of racist bigotry: It’s not even the ugliest racial controversy he’s been at the center of. If you took all of Donald Sterling’s racial scandals together, you might have a hard time distinguishing him …
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