March 2012
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D-WHY “Macchiato Music” It had never occurred to me that a slippery-slope argument would have explained quite well why I don’t much care for Drake. Sure, the slippery slope is considered a fallacy, and it’s the sort of thinking that led Rick Santorum to think about men fucking (and loving) turtles, but here (above) we have proof positive that Drake’s influence on rap...
Mar 1st
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Mar 1st
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February 2012
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Feb 29th
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Complex: Too $hort Breaks Down his 25 Most... →
I talked to Too $hort about his catalog pre-XXL kerfluffle, so I think he was a bit more candid than he might have been otherwise. He’s a no-frills sort of entertainer, which is important to understand when approaching Too $hort’s catalog. He remade songs from his 75 Girls days (‘83-‘85) all the way until 1999, with “Invasion of the Flat Booty Bitches”.  ...
Feb 24th
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Feb 20th
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“Silicon Valley, where engineers in khakis write software code, might not at...”
– Blogger Uses Rap to Teach Pithy Business Lessons Speaking of ledes, this is the worst one I’ve read in some time. (via seanfennessey) Berkeley High stays putting out good rappers. To date: The Pack, Saul Cohen, this douchebag blogger.
Feb 20th
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Feb 19th
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“As Willy Staley argued in 2010 in an online column for Next American City...”
– From Charles Blow’s op-ed today in the New York Times. I feel like he could have thrown ellipses over the ‘is’ or bracketed [presents] over the whole mess as a courtesy, but of course I love to pass the buck. I introduced a stupid, massive copy error into something that I wrote two...
Feb 18th
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Feb 17th
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Listenchampalecast: Episode 13 -Internet Anxiety with...
Feb 17th
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What my friends think I do: [picture of man sobbing at computer], What society thinks I do: [picture of man sobbing at computer], What my mom thinks I do: [picture of man sobbing at computer], What my clients think I do: [picture of man sobbing at computer], What I think I do: [picture of man sobbing at computer], What I really do: [picture of man sobbing at computer].
Feb 16th
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Feb 15th
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New York Magazine: Vines by the Rhyme →
kylekramer: willystaley: I wrote a short Intelligencer piece for New York Magazine about how rappers have helped make moscato more popular than it might be otherwise, and how that’s interesting because it’s the first time rappers used their considerable influence on consumers to drive us towards a species instead of a product (maybe?).  This is entertaining! I am looking forward to the new...
Feb 14th
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Feb 11th
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An Essay I'll Never Actually Write
Between reddit image ‘memes’*, “Shit ____ Say” videos, and Tweets that begin with “That feeling that….” or “That thing where…”, the middlebrow Internet has become fixated on trying to make the most mundane aspects of everyday life humorous — somehow. That isn’t to say this is an impossible task. Seinfeld was great at it. Louis...
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Feb 9th
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New York Magazine: Vines by the Rhyme →
I wrote a short Intelligencer piece for New York Magazine about how rappers have helped make moscato more popular than it might be otherwise, and how that’s interesting because it’s the first time rappers used their considerable influence on consumers to drive us towards a species instead of a product (maybe?). 
Feb 9th
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GIRLS ARE PRETTY: Fistfight Over Leanne Day! →
girlsareprettyforever: When you spot some random dude walking your old Corgi Leanne you run out of the bar to find out what the fuck. “I’m just helping out Sharon,” he’ll say. His name’s Mark. “She won’t be home in time.” “Yeah well you may get to fuck my ex-girlfriend, but you do not get to walk my dog.” Punch him… If you’re not following Girls Are Pretty Forever, why do you even...
Feb 8th
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Gucci Mane “Quiet” 1. Gucci Mane is good again. 2. The hook equates money with speech, which is just so timely.
Feb 4th
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Errol Morris: El Wingador →
“Hey, my name is ‘El Wingador,’ not ‘El Hotdogador.’ ” This is the sort of thing that you can only get away with if you have a thick South Jersey/Philly accent.
Feb 4th
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“I think “Jamal” trying to tre-flip 20 stairs and taking out an old...”
– A commenter on The Classical known only as ‘peyote,’ to me. It’s especially amusing because he’s vaguely racist himself and cannot write. Pretty harsh stuff, though!
Feb 3rd
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