How We Will Win

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1721352&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1How We Will Win from Dantrification on Vimeo. Dan Charnas says it ain’t about Obama. (iPhone users: Click here for the YouTube version)

Can the Democrats redraw the map?

http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1242232&server=www.vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1Can the Democrats redraw the map? from Dantrification on Vimeo.

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. 🙂

Happy 2008

After an extended holiday both here and abroad, it’s time to dig into this year’s work: • As many of you know, I’ll be spending most of my time reporting and writing my book, “The Big Payback: How Hip-Hop Became Global Pop,” coming out on New American Library/Penguin in the Fall of 2009. See y’all […]

Good Intentions

The confluence of genius and psychopathy is all too common in hip-hop, the convergence of genius and altruism all too rare. Few rappers possess what Chuck D. had, try as they might. From today’s Washington Post.