“What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos, that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because […]
Barutiwa Newspaper resurrected via Barutiwa.com Online
We are pleased to announce that Barutiwa Newspaper (ISSN 1080-997x) has been resurrected via Barutiwa.com Online. Barutiwa Newspaper was a quarterly publication produced between 1992 and 1999 by Baruti M. Kamau in Cincinnati, Ohio. The publication was a forum in print with a focus on championing the voice of young African Americans. Today most African […]
2 Novels “Mule A Novel of Moving Weight” by Tony D’Souza and “The Bug” by Ellen Ullman
Let’s read about hustlers and hackers (in the old school sense). Some novels are guilty pleasures, others are simply de rigueur – I recommend, for your reading pleasure, Mule: A Novel of Moving Weightby Tony D’Souza and The Bug, by Ellen Ullman. Both are books dripping with detail, well researched and very, very convincing.. From […]
Obligatory Linkage long overdue…
I’ve been away for a while, time to spread the goodness. Linkage makes the web go around.. (..mildly thought provoking…) Marcotte’s Boxers Are In a Twist Over Nice Guys®, by Susan Walsh http://www.hookingupsmart.com/2011/09/30/hookinguprealities/marcottes-boxers-are-in-a-twist-over-nice-guys%C2%AE/ Food Delusions, and Discerning Between Food Produce & Feed Products , by Dave in Hawaii http://hawaiianlibertarian.blogspot.com/2011/09/food-delusions.html and http://hawaiianlibertarian.blogspot.com/2011/09/discerning-between-food-produce-feed.html (…Clean energy ‘carbon’ credits […]