From Todd Boyd comes The New H.N.I.C., a clearheaded voice about the direction of black music today. Boyd talks about Lauryn Hill, receiving her fifth Grammy Award in 1999 stopping to say “This is crazy, ’cause this is hip hop music,” surprised that her sounds, previously discarded as insignificant tripe were receiving national acclaim. Hip [...]
Trey — a chair and other stuff too
Oct. 1, 2007 Leave a Comment
Trey is a unique approach to seating. At first glance, it’s a modestly comfortable low back desk chair, but a it actually converts into a three-piece table/rocker/stool, giving it a variety of uses away from your new Ikea desk. Sauder Manufacturing, the same outfit that probably made that bookshelf in the basement, put the Trey [...]
If he did it
Oct. 1, 2007 Leave a Comment
Reading O.J. Simpson’s ghostwritten pot-boiler If I Did It is a little like coming home from school to see both of your parents drunk, practicing bondage in your living room. You might be horrified, and you know you’ll never be the same again, but you just can’t look away. The book is horrifying in a [...]
Cooking Mama coming to mobile phones
Oct. 1, 2007 Leave a Comment
Cooking Mama, the popular Nintendo DS and innovative Nintendo Wii game that lets you grapple with your cooking and coordination skills is coming to mobile phones next year: September 28: Test your cooking skills wherever you are when Cooking Mama, the popular fast-action cooking simulator is served up for your mobile phone! Taito Corporation is [...]
