Nekkid Chikin.

Thank you very much-o Mr. Ebato for putting me onto this Amerie quote:

***Interview between Amerie and Chicago's Power 92's DJ: Donnie "The Freakin' Puerto Rican" DeVoe***

Donnie: You look sort of Oriental'ish
Amerie: Actually, 'Oriental' is for things; 'Asian' is for people.

...Let's hear it for hapas, people! Shut your trap ix.

Kenzan's keeping close watch on the iPod DJ world for us. This raised an eyebrow, but I was like nah some dood with too much free time made some weird non-functional mock-up. Then this confirmed-- no hoax. Dunno how we feel about the whole thing; while no one at Via is really on the whole pretentious purist collecting records like they were comics tip, we all still get a rush from dusty fingers and digging through moldy vinyl. Besides, we still gotta make that intermediary CDJ step first (I know I've linked these before, but they are sorta pretty).

Urn put me onto this 5 year-old interview with Professor Tricia Rose (author of Black Noise) by Adam Mansbach (author of the recent Angry Black White Boy). Definitely dated material, but coming from a generation of college kids where curriculum about hip-hop (not the same as hip-hop curriculum) isn't so uncommon, it was sorta interesting to see what the first of these classes was like. I had issues with Black Noise, mostly because of how inaccesible a lot of it was (it wasn't even that bad, but... some of the rupture and repetition shit was a little stretching), but y'know... such is the nature of academia I guess. Here's hoping Can't Stop Won't Stop balances out the canon.

Hong Kong warned against eating too much of dim sum national dish
But Ho said tests on 75 different dim sum varieties showed they could be tiny time bombs. BWAAAAAHAHAHAAHHAAHAHH... oh snap them dumplings are good. Surprisingly, as resistant as I am to the idea, this spot is still pretty illy. Healthier? Bet not.