Posts from June, 2006
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Jun3Nostalgia Tuesday
Throwing Muses, Live 1991 Runners-Up: Lush – Sweetness and Light Sinead O’Connor – Mandinka (Grammy Awards, 1989) XTC – Dear God Medicine – Aruca
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Jun1Faking It
In response to a recent Wall Street Journal article criticizing New Urbanism, Governing.com asks, “What’s so bad about faux downtowns?” You know, these are the trendy developments that incorporate grids, a mix of retail, condo, and apartments, and occasional Disney-esque sense of urbanism. Governing gets it right: “By creating pedestrian environments, these places offer suburbanites [...]
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Jun1Banned in Baghdad
Now banned in Baghdad: falafel goatees mayonnaise (made in Israel after all) smokes shorts (a tennis coach and two of his players were murdered for wearing shorts) T-shirts with English writing ice (no, really) So what is the takeaway here? Is it Islamist extremism has grown so fanatical and resistant to the modern world that [...]
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Jun1I Used to Love It
A few cuts from hip-hop’s Golden Age. Tribe leads the tour… Del Tha Funkee Homosapien – Catch a Bad One Jeru Tha Damaja – Come Clean Souls of Mischief – That’s When Ya Lost De La Soul – Stakes is High Common – I Used to Love H.E.R. The D.O.C. – Mind Blowin’ Fu Schnickens [...]
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Jun0New Voice
It’s been nothin’ but crickets around here for the past few weeks. But that should change soon. I’ve talked my friend Marty into helping out. He’s a member of Sarah’s Biology lab at UNC so you know he’ll be dropping the science. A few facts about Marty: He’s from Rochester, NY He’s getting married soon [...]
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