Monthly Archives: December 2008

“You’re the Best, Around…” (El Keter’s Favorite Albums of 2008, Day Two)

December 19, 2008 – 10:32 am

  Out of all the records I enjoyed during 2008 I chose 20 of them as my favorites. I put them all in alphabetical order and wrote about them. Here are five more… Last week I got an e-mail from Asthmatic Kitty Records announcing that a certain website gave Ropechain, the sophomore album from Indianapolis, Indiana’s Grampall Jookabox a […]

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“You’re the Best, Around…” (El Keter’s Favorite Albums of 2008, Day One)

December 18, 2008 – 10:35 am

Out of all the records I enjoyed during 2008 I chose twenty of them as my favorites.  I put them all in alphabetical order and wrote about them.  Here are the first five… In 1988 poet, teacher, philosopher and metaphysician Lawrence Krisna Parker described Hip-Hop’s talent pool as “a lot of suckers with colorful names.” He […]

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“Lemonade Was a Popular Drink, and It Still Is…” © Keith Edward Elam

December 17, 2008 – 10:24 am

Unless you’re planning on busting out your old Snoopy Sno-Cone Machine so you can mix it together with some of the snow blanketing the country right now and make a tasty homemade lemon icy it’s not really the season for lemonade. I’m not generally a fan of warm beverages myself, but after the ice […]

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“Cheesy Rat, You Ain’t All That…” © James Todd Smith

December 16, 2008 – 10:30 am

When I was young and could care less about my Hebrew ancestors’ pronouncements against “unclean animals” I somehow talked my mother into letting me keep a mouse in our house as a pet. I also owned a cat who was, by coincidence, named after a fictional mouse. The cat and the mouse were, […]

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Dear Q-Tip; Thanks for Not Sucking

December 15, 2008 – 10:30 am

One thing music lovers of every stripe can agree on is that they just don’t make ‘em like they used to. The cliché holds true for both today’s artists and the veterans of the olden days who are still around, and is applicable to music regardless of genre. No matter how much I […]

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