Entries from July 2008

July 25, 2008

Fighting, Professional Sports, and Black Obligation

It was bound to happen sometime.
The WNBA punished and suspended  several players and coaches for the brawl that broke out near the end of the LA Sparks at Detroit Shock game.  10 players total were suspended and one assistant coach were given varying degrees of suspension, with Shock forward Plenette Pierson getting the hit hardest [...]

July 22, 2008

Washtenaw and a Night with Thumbu

Local city and music historian Thumbu and I hung out and he gave me a fun, informative, and of course, greasy tour of Ypsilanti, a neighboring town to Ann Arbor. Ypsilanti isn’t that far from Ann Arbor and is connected by Washtenaw, a street that has an odd mix of dilapidated retai spaces mixed in [...]

July 3, 2008

Joy and Pain

This should be the title of next album given how much physical and mental pain my still-untitled forthcoming mix has given me.
No, I’m not actually doing my body any damage. But I’ve been going through some weird flu-like symptoms the last few days that seemed to have been onset by a few rough sessions of [...]