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May 20, 2004

Welcome to My Blog, Now Please Go Away



Hello, readers of Spin magazine. You may have been given the impression that this is some sort of cool new music blog, regularly updated with funny jokes and such. Perhaps I can keep you from noticing how untrue that is by linking to a bunch of other places where cool stuff is happening:

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If they had a pulitzer prize for music blogging, Aaron Wherry would be the frontrunner after scoring this e-mail interview with Ibrahim Ferrer.

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Prince just put up some tasty little concert clips on the front page of his site.

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Nerve.com has decided there are not enough unreadable blogs in the world, and started a new contest to rectify this. But uhh, Nerve editors, I'm saying.. it's no surprise to find that you draw a lily-white demographic, but couldn't you have at least given us one person of color in this thing? Even Friends hit us off with some Aisha Tyler.

(in all fairness, I will grant that some of the contestants do not entirely suck)

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Speaking of which, Richard Prince has the scoop on why Friends may be "NBC's Last All-White Sitcom". His page is worth a regular look for perspectives on race and media. Another blog steadily hitting home runs on racial issues is Prometheus 6.

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Glutter (AKA Dan from the Real World's favorite blogger) has sparked a great conversation on Iraq, to which I briefly contributed.

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We didn't get around to acknowledging Malcolm's birthday yesterday, but Democracy Now! was on the case.

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And last but not least, I added a bunch of new sites to my links over there on the right side, be sure to check those out.

P.S. - I happen to think Apple is a mighty fine name.



Posted by jsmooth995 at May 20, 2004 1:31 AM






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