May 9th, 2008 — Books, Controversy, Entertainment, Humor, Internet, Pop Culture, Race, Writing
Margaret Seltzer: Liar, yes; fraud, affirmative…but sex symbol?
As you’ve perhaps noticed, our little MEDIA ASSASSIN YouTube, “Margaret B. Jones / Seltzer’s Lie-All Gangsta Video—Exposed!”, which debuted exactly ten days ago, with an accompanying breakdown of the imaginary memoirist’s tall tales, became something of a sensation, returning the blog’s highest page view numbers to date.
Thank you, everyone.
May 9th, 2008 — Advertising, Entertainment, Film, Pop Culture, Science-Fiction
That’s more like it.
There’s nothing like a movie that knocks it out of the park on the very first trailer. That wasn’t The Incredible Hulk, though. It was too dark, it looked cheap, and, aside from a geographically fruity rendition of Harlem’s 125th St., was completely uninteresting.
They get it right on trailer 2, above. What comes through is a very pissed, very destructive Hulk, in action. You don’t need more than that! It’s not in the mind-blowing league of Iron Man or Speed Racer, but they’ve got my money, baby. Opens June 13th.
May 9th, 2008 — Advertising, Art, Design, Entertainment
Each and every frame a painting: From Tarsem’s 2006 film, The Fall
Like the best directors—Scorsese, Spielberg, Hitchcock—Tarsem, right, 46, is known to peers by one name, though it’s his first, not his last. (His full name is Tarsem Singh Dhandwar.)
You, though, may know him by his visually delirious works: the landmark, 1991 R.E.M. music video, “Losing My Religion,” or 2000’s Jennifer Lopez thriller, The Cell. Continue reading →
May 9th, 2008 — Black Music, Entertainment, Music Video, Pop Culture, TV
“Forever and a day”: Heatwave’s Wilder counts the seconds
Here you go: A gorgeous piece of videotape, featuring the funk band, Heatwave, performing live. They’re led by their late co-founder, Johnnie Wilder, Jr. (1949-2006), above, singing their perennial, six-minute, slow jam classic, “Always and Forever.” Proms, everywhere: Rejoice.
May 8th, 2008 — Controversy, Politics
As Hillary Clinton’s campaign dies, like a beaheaded serpent, it’s going through unwatchable death throes.
Her lowest move yet came this afternoon, during an interview with USA Today, in which she cited her “white” appeal to “hard-working Americans”:
“I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on,” she said in an interview with USA TODAY. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article “that found how Sen. Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me.”
“There’s a pattern emerging here,” she said.
I couldn’t have said it better myself, Hil. There’s definitely a pattern emerging here. Hopefully, that pattern will be mercifully euthanized shortly.
May 8th, 2008 — Black Music, Controversy, Entertainment, Music Video, Pop Culture, Sex
And we’ll grow 40-ish together: Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon begin their married life…and Month #2 of knowing each other
Is Mariah Carey getting stupider with age?
Like most, I didn’t get the Nick Cannon connection, when I heard she’d secretly married him. That is, until I read The Daily Mail, yesterday.
May 8th, 2008 — Uncategorized
Wake up and get your tuxes: Is this James Bond’s next chorus?
Should Gnarls Barkley record the theme for the next James Bond movie, Quantum of Solace?
May 7th, 2008 — Politics, Race
The answer is “Yes.”
The question is, when people talk about Barack Obama’s “electability,” or ask “can he get elected?”, is the word “electability” a white code word for race? (You know: Kind of the way many white people talk about “good neighborhoods” and “good school systems.”)
May 7th, 2008 — Controversy, Entertainment, Race, Radio
A reported conversation between Oprah Winfrey and BFF Gayle King on XM Satellite Radio, as transcribed and editorialized by listener “Mayme,” and posted to the comments section of Costas Panagopoulos’s Politico.com piece on white viewer flight from Winfrey’s show, after her Obama endorsement.
Reply #1
Date: Apr. 8, 2008 – 12:35 AM ESTIT’S ABOUT TIME THE DUMB “white” HOUSEWIVES WOKE UP FROM THE DAZE !!!
Transcript from Oprah’s XM Sattelite conversation with Gayle:
Gayle King: You could work for some good White folks.
Oprah (in Black slang accent, making fun of her grandmother): I hope you get some good White folks like I did ‘cuz I worked for some good Folks.
May 7th, 2008 — Politics, Race, Youth
“Where’s the brothers?”: Obama college mixer’s half-mixed crowd
Barack Obama puts himself forward as a unifier, pointing to his campaign, itself, with its multi-hued, multi-aged-, multi-multied constituency as an example of the change he is helping to create, in America.
But a recent Wall Street Journal piece, “Race on Campus: Beyond Obama, The Unity Stops: After Campaign Rallies, Black, White Students Go Their Separate Ways,” argues that, well, after campaign rallies, Black and white students go their separate ways.
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