Monthly Archives: January 2010
Rest in peace: Howard Zinn, 1922-2010
Howard Zinn died today, he was 87 years old. An activist, professor, and author of the seminal revisionist history text, A People‚Äôs History of The United States, Zinn’s teachings and writings asked as, us Americans, to question the established vantage point of history, among myriad other ideas. I am, however, by no means a scholar of Zinn’s work. If…
David Patrick Kelly, What A Creep
Luther was a creep. And what’s worse, an annoying creep. This scene from The Warriors, played brilliantly by character actor David Patrick Kelly, was lodged in my brain for weeks after I first discovered the film in the early 1990s. The Warriors is both hysterical and fascinating. The bottles-on-Luther’s-fingers scene remains so memorable because Kelly plays a great creep,…
Video: Jay Electronica “Exhibit A”
Listening to Jay Electronica this afternoon, attempting to get some work done on several writing projects. One project is an article for The Crime Report, and was initially conceived as an in-depth look at why graffiti has become such a high-profile prosecution in America. Without the necessary word count though, looks like it might be less in-depth than I…
Saber strikes back at Fox News, Sean Hannity on health care reform
Back in October, Fox News host and habitual shit-stirrer, Sean Hannity took L.A. graffiti artist Saber to task (video here) over artwork created as part of Organizing for America‚Äôs ‚ÄúHealth Care Reform Video Challenge.‚Äù In a video titled ‚ÄúSaber Speaks,‚Äù the L.A. graffiti writer used the American flag as a visual focal point ‚Äî painting over it in brief…
Banksy hijacks the Sundance Film Festival
There have already been rumblings this week regarding Banksy’s presence in Park City, Utah in advance of the Sundance Film Festival. Primary chatter has concerned the stencil work he’s been leaving in his wake. Animal New York has some shots of the pieces over at their blog. But the real reason for Banksy’s visit to the city pertains to…
Clipse debut “Freedom” from Til The Casket Drops
The new Clipse single/video for “Freedom” picks up where Hell Hath No Fury left off. Malice and Pusha-T’s execution in craft remains, as it has for over a decade, some of the best in hip-hop. The Virginia Beach duo consistently releases powerful, resonant hip-hop. They unapologetically rap about women, cars, clothes, and jewelry. But they then counterbalance their swagger…
The 1982 World’s Fair in Knoxville, TN
This past October, I visited Knoxville, TN on a two-week road trip with my wife Michelle and son Ethan. The trip was a fitting end to a summer/fall that had been challenging and strange. Starting with the loss of my job as an editor in June (read about here and here), we had all weathered a difficult but ultimately fun…
