Once Upon A Time…

… I wrote this article for YogaJournal.com Apparently, it is now in the running for a Maggie award. You be the judge. UPDATE: I won. 🙂

She’s so out there, she’s in there.

Erykah Badu has finally given us a new album, only her third full LP of new music in, oh, eleven years. Now she says she’s learned to use iChat and Garage Band, so she’s got two, maybe three more albums coming this year. “New AmErykah, Pt. 2” in the Spring. Then her alterego “Lowdown Loretta […]

He Gave His Nose

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=See4Y0hJyqI] It’s the 25th anniversary of the release of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.” Writing my review in the Washington Post gave me occasion to really think on the album’s importance, which runs so much deeper than it’s status as the greatest selling album of all time. More than all of that, in 1983, “Thriller” almost singlehandedly […]

Obama and the Skittles vote

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2anW7kcckw] …and for a non-ignorant analysis, peep Jeff Chang’s blog here.