June 2010
11 posts
Olde Rapping
“Birthed and reared in West Philadelphia, the days of my childhood and early youth were spent in the wildernesses just beyond our village, where my companions and I passed many an hour roaming free and frolicking, oftentimes playing ball sports in the proximity of the schoolhouse. I recall a certain occasion on which two wastrels came upon us, interrupted our pursuits, caused a general...
WELCOME FRIENDS TO BLACK CONGO NC
bcnc:
This is the beginning. This a chronicle following B C N C and the making of Live In Miami 1984, a journal that will see us through a tour slated for September 2010, and beyond. The plan is to fill these pages and spaces with items we find particularly inspiring, with songs of our own creation and created by others, with photos pulled from the depths and plucked from the skies, with art and...
I WAS CHILLWAVE BEFORE CHILLWAVE WAS COOL...
The wordery: Little Non Fact
Did you know that Frank Lloyd Wright was commissioned to design the very first Pizza Hut, and that, until the recent organizational make-overs, that classic Pizza Hut look was taken from Wright’s original?
Adam, Phil & Ben Got Iced.
yougoticed:
Now that Chris Swanson is back home, he can bring the summer games to his brothers in Bloomington. At last week’s Tallest Man On Earth concert Chris Iced Adam Voith (above), Phil Waldorf (below) and his brother Ben (2 below). Note that Ben’s wife and Darius Van Arman (of Jagjaguwar) look on as Ben contemplates taking down the tasty Ice.
And I can always say, “I was...
GLOBISH FOR BEGINNERS IN THE NEW YORKER
Some have argued that English has certain properties—a flexible grammar, a lack of masculine and feminine forms—that make it easier to learn, and thus to export. These qualities, though, are offset by arbitrary spelling, and, besides, there are other languages, such as Russian, that have spread despite being difficult to master. Armies and navies are ultimately more important than syntactic...
