If you ain’t never been to the ghetto Don’t ever come to the ghetto ‘Cause you wouldn’t understand the ghetto ~ Naughty By Nature, “Ghetto Bastard” used to be that if you were a musician the only way you could get ANY kind of significant distribution for your music was through a record label. cassettes [...]
i keep being pressed to come up with alternatives for the word “viral.” since people are supposed to stop saying it, what are they supposed to say in its place, right? (virus-like? virusy? air-borne?) the point here isn’t really about how to refer to the germ so much as it is identifying that contagion spreads [...]
“the biggest problem americans have is what cereal to buy in the cereal aisle.” -my dad (who spent the first 56 years of his life in the USSR) i’ve been watching my friend sarah write about her adventures in crazyblinddate land, and it’s gotten me thinking. sarah explains: CrazyBlindDate.com was started by the folks who [...]
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A deft mix of memoir and cultural mapping."
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