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I’ve never done these blog-meme things before this week, and this particular one’s overripe to boot. But the other week Sandy and I were walking down the street, talking about Vanilla Ice’s reality show, and he confessed that until recently (…)

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Excellent: someone defends Batman Forever on k-punk. Hey, I like Batman Begins as much as the next person, but I’m sick of people boosting it by trashing both of Joel Schumacher’s Batman films when it’s patently clear (to me at (…)

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If you could have one superpower, what would it be and why? (Assume you also get baseline superhero enhancements like moderately increased strength, endurance and agility.) I tried to think of something interesting, but here’s something real instead: when I (…)

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Abandoned Cool Russian ruins! (tags: urbanism ruins photography city)

MapHub.com: Shared Urban Storytelling “MapHub helps urban residents search and publish information about their city” (tags: community mapping maps media mobile newmedia software technology urbanism urban-spatiality storytelling)

These two young women are the most irrepressible MC superhero team I’ve ever seen. At the Hip Hop Projections gig, Caro and I were just standing there with our mouths open — fucking out of control. Pure attitude. Their names: (…)

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Went to Sandy‘s seminar on Friday. Now, the only times in the last decade that I’ve been back on the Sydney University campus for actual academic stuff have been for such seminars, hosted by the Gender Studies Department. It’s been (…)

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SLINGSHOT HIP HOP “SlingShot Hip Hop is a documentary film that focuses on the daily life of Palestinian rappers living in Gaza, the West Bank and inside Israel.” (tags: film documentary hip-hop palestine)