I TALK A LOT ABOUT BOB MARLEY, quote him, name domains after his lyrics, and so on. There was no more prevalent music in my childhood than Bob Marley, and his views on life informed some of my own early points of view even when I wasn’t aware it was happening. Or maybe they just provided the perfect scoring to my 70s experience, eh?
CAN’T IMAGINE who thought booking these two conventions next to each other by only two days was anything but cruel to the people who are supposed to bring some news home. This post lacks links where they would help because I am on the verge of exhaustion and if it’s going to be written, it’s [...]
TOMORROW I FLY TO DENVER where I am covering the Democratic National Convention as an Officially Credentialed Blogga. Yours truly will be hefting his videocamerasuavamente and like a cyberxicanistic Zorro, parrying his slim and svelte iPhone in hopes of capturing the Riot Cops using thier New Diarrhea Guns on the unruly. Then, on September 1, I’m off to St. Paul to cover the RNCC. Tap into this Neztronica. Here’s how.
WE ALL KNOW THAT there is a proper format for each type of critical essay or review. And I am happy to review Bajofondo’s latest album, and happy to have been asked to do so. But I won’t be hitting that expected “music critic” format, because, as the person who wrote me put it, “we [...]
THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE article that today mentioned UMX and the dialogue online about immigration provides a model of balance in reporting. Well, perhaps not total balance. In fact, they give ALI-PAC, “a conservative group whose Web campaign helped derail Immigration reform legislation in Congress last year by prompting thousands of faxes, e-mails and phone calls [...]
I’M SORRY, MOVABLE TYPE. I’ve been with you since 2002. When you were bare bones and for techies. When I had to customize every last thing, and nobody even knew ya. I was with you when wordpress blew up. And I’ve suffered your glitchy plugins and your catching up to Web 2.0, and I’ve defended [...]
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