May 20, 2004
Welcome to My Blog, Now Please Go Away
Hello, readers of Spin magazine. You may have been given the impression that this is some sort of cool new music blog, regularly updated with funny jokes and such. Perhaps I can keep you from noticing how untrue that is by linking to a bunch of other places where cool stuff is happening:
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If they had a pulitzer prize for music blogging, Aaron Wherry would be the frontrunner after scoring this e-mail interview with Ibrahim Ferrer.
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Prince just put up some tasty little concert clips on the front page of his site.
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Nerve.com has decided there are not enough unreadable blogs in the world, and started a new contest to rectify this. But uhh, Nerve editors, I'm saying.. it's no surprise to find that you draw a lily-white demographic, but couldn't you have at least given us one person of color in this thing? Even Friends hit us off with some Aisha Tyler.
(in all fairness, I will grant that some of the contestants do not entirely suck)
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Speaking of which, Richard Prince has the scoop on why Friends may be "NBC's Last All-White Sitcom". His page is worth a regular look for perspectives on race and media. Another blog steadily hitting home runs on racial issues is Prometheus 6.
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Glutter (AKA Dan from the Real World's favorite blogger) has sparked a great conversation on Iraq, to which I briefly contributed.
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We didn't get around to acknowledging Malcolm's birthday yesterday, but Democracy Now! was on the case.
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And last but not least, I added a bunch of new sites to my links over there on the right side, be sure to check those out.
P.S. - I happen to think Apple is a mighty fine name.
Posted by jsmooth995 at May 20, 2004 01:31 AM
thanks jay. much appreciated.
Posted by: aaron at May 20, 2004 02:02 AM
what a great read. thanks!
Posted by: ella at May 20, 2004 02:30 AM
I almost entered to be a Nerve blogger -- and then I remembered that as is I barely have enough material for my own. Besides, boys have cooties.
Posted by: Candicissima at May 20, 2004 09:31 AM
I would encourage anyone from Spin to check out his links section. Especially that 4th one, it's really good.
Posted by: Not Bol at May 20, 2004 11:06 AM
also the third link. but seriously, apple is kind of a great name. i'm embarrassed to admit it. damnit.
Posted by: sally at May 20, 2004 10:42 PM
Jay, I was meaning to ask you this eventually (even though I'm not one of your the newcomers from SPIN), but, could you recommend some good music related blogs? Honestly, I've had a hard time finding them, but I know they must be hiding somewhere... and uh, please, NON-hip hop related music. I like other genres too. :(
Posted by: Mickey at May 21, 2004 06:19 PM
