Tag Archives: RZA

Listen Within Your Means

March 10, 2009 – 10:30 am
A couple weeks back I buffeted a friend with a hastily-issued remonstration regarding a Facebook status update where she urged people to write President Obama and plead the case for financially strapped college students like herself. I responded to her saying that, if anything, Obama needed to help people who could never even dream […]
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Lips, Sweat and Fake Asian Names

March 5, 2009 – 10:30 am
This morning I woke to a local news story about an aspiring Hip-Hop mogul caught up in a plot involving drugs, guns and kidnapping just a few towns away. While at the local news outlet’s site I noticed they have a new Twitter feed, which I clicked, intending to “follow” it. The first […]
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Bare Knuckled Beatdowns From a Philistine and a Couple of Seamen

February 24, 2009 – 10:30 am
It probably doesn’t come off here on the blog—where my demeanor is for the most part pleasant and my tone generally positive—but I have a temper. Amongst my friends I’ve long held a reputation for being somewhat like The Incredible Hulk, prone to furiously voluminous outbursts at inopportune moments. So much so in […]
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The British May In Fact Be Coming

January 22, 2009 – 10:30 am
Yeah, so our new pres is freakin’ awesome, there’s change in the air, and America has a reason to be proud of itself for once. That’s all pretty righteous, but most of the music on the radio still blows, so we shouldn’t forget there’s a whole world of sound out there to explore. […]
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Gimme a Two-Thousand-and-(L)Eight-Pass, Vol. 1: Boy Eats Drum Machine

January 8, 2009 – 10:30 am
  Yeah, 2008 is over, but I’m still discovering records that came out before the year ended. There are also a few albums I just never managed to find the time or space for during what was a very busy year on the blog. So don’t be surprised if I slip an occasional post […]
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