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Hold Off on that Beer…

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
 Audio of the Skip Gates arrest was released today, and, just as many people suspected, Crowley's account of the arrest is sounding more and more, shall we say, embellished. (Forgive the bootleg-ish quality of the following youtube videos, but the audio here does line up with the Boston Globe's audio.)    Read More

Putting the “Yak” in Yaki Weaves

Monday, July 27th, 2009
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Everybody Knows About Mississippi…

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
    Despite the tinkling music in that… Read More

Black Scholars Get Arrested Too

Monday, July 20th, 2009

  Harvard Professor Henry "Skip" Louis Gates Jr. was arrested last week at his home for "exhibiting loud and tumultuous behavior.”  I'm trying to approach thiswithout bias but that's easier said than done. I can't help but carry these stories with me. Granted we only have one side of the story (peep the police… Read More

It’s Friday, You Aint Got No Job…

Friday, July 17th, 2009
Or, if you're at work (hardly working) like myself then you should be listening to Pac Div's Church League Champions. It's been on steady rotation all day at the day job and good lawd I'm happy I finally stumbled on something to replace all the Maxwell I've been listening to.     All of the hip-hop artists emerging from the left coast are phenomenal and are renewing my faith in the genre. Nobody's getting the proper shine they deserve but if artists like Pac Div continue to drop jewels PT will continue to show love and tell all… Read More

In the Year 2000…

Friday, July 17th, 2009
Tired of reading about MJ?  Well, direct yourself to the PT Disclaimer. I spotted this at The Smoking Section and I thought it was the coolest thing ever. Not because Chicago artist Nathan Wright was way off base with his 1985 Ebony Magazine prediction of what Michael would look like in the year 2000, but because if Michael hadn't have had so much surgery, or  vitiligo, he probably would have looked like… Read More