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(some balance for “Family Tree”)
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Alexey Terehoff
UPDATE: Here’s a version of “Capital” with subtitles – you may have to watch it full screen in order to read them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE3q8hAaxCQ I’ve kept the I believe higher quality Vimeo version below (tho if you click on 720p on…
Put on your bangles, frogs
Wanted to explore subtitling anyway, plus I was sorely disappointed that the version of “Alif Allah Chambey Di Booty” with real-time English language subtitles disappeared from YouTube. It will take a good long while for the video to load once…
Meesha Shafi, Chori Chori
(the frog isn’t the only one here who can post music videos just because) Translation:
America’s Least Needed
Howard Portnoy: Kill each other over money and white boys for fun. That line, in case anyone missed it in a previous column on the topic, comes from rapper Common’s song “Don’t Come My Way.” It is a blatantly racist…
Feelin good anyway
Odd coincidence. Nina Simone happened to come up in brief discussion last night in relation to a headline item. First time, probably, she was ever mentioned on this blog. Turns out it was the anniversary of her death: Nina Simone,…
East-West Past-Future Materialist-Spiritualist Fusion
I know I should be coming up with a Thanskgiving message – how about “Thanks for sticking around!”? – or watching football, or cleaning up the house while preparing to head out for the family shindig. Instead, I found myself…
It’s strange, sure is strange
New possibility for Tea Party campaign song, especially given the latest Christine O’Donnell revelations, based on Bill Maher’s boffo tape from O’Donnell’s appearance on Politically Incorrect in 1999: O’DONNELL: I dabbled into witchcraft — I never joined a coven. But…