I'm kind of sad about Michael Jackson dying. I will totally buy the inevitable posthumous release, despite feeling like that's a bet...

Everyone knows that any presidential candidate worth voting for has to have a good mixtape. Barack Obama has a kickass mixtape produced by...

My musical exploration is generally guided by one principle: the quest to find another Lauryn Hill. Except one who still makes music and isn...

The scene: Dinner at the Fobcave. S-Boogie: Rolls are rolls. Mr. Fob: Really? S-Boogie: Yeah. Everything is everything. Mr. Fob: That's ...

Here's how it happened: Barack read my post about McCain almost winning me over by being a Lauryn Hill fan and he was all like, "W...

Your most recent campaign ploy, obviously done with the specific intention of getting my vote, is quite clever. I have to admit, having your...

After five years of announcements and rumors like these , I know better than to get excited. Still, though, if her own record label is sa...

I wrote “Getting Out” as a somewhat naive twenty-four-year-old. Now I return, in theory a wise and mature twenty-five-year-old. Inevitably, ...

In my job as an admissions reader, I am completely unbiased and impartial. If I were partial, though, I would be partial to the following ap...

by David Levithan When I first heard about Wide Awake , I immediately put it on my Amazon.com wishlist. I really really liked Levithan's...

My friend Melyngoch , who is the recurring motif of this series, intends to keep her last name when and if she gets married. Another friend,...

If the Angry Feminist (who happens to have long hair but is not Melyngoch) who declared conclusively that FoxyJ's taking of my last name...

(You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here.) Tonight I listened to the closing CD I made for Job #1 for the last time. I he...

India.Arie makes me happy. She's sort of like Lauryn Hill without the rap thing and without the nine-years-since-her-last-studio-album ...

I hate to admit it, but I'm afraid I might be--man, it's painful to even say this out loud, but I have to face the truth. Okay, here...

You are under no obligation to read S-Boogie's new blog . We created it chiefly for the following reasons: 1. To chronicle S-Boogie'...

Without you baby, Feels like I sampled true love But the shit didn't clear. --Erykah Badu, "Love of My Life (An Ode to Hip-hop)...

Stop whatever you're doing and go see Dave Chappelle's Block Party right now . Seriously, it's a cool movie. Even Foxy J says s...

If I had a scanner I'd show you the ultrasound printout, but I think we ought to wait until we have space to put it before we get a scan...

Edgy Killer Bunny's post tonight resonates with the post that's been forming in my head for the past couple days. On Saturday when ...