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People. You may not know this, but I am about to dish out the two best superhero comics you will ever read. But you do not know this. Because most my friends on this friends list don't read comics. It will be your loss to not read these two. Brian Vaughan said it at the Scream awards-- "The books that you're going to love tomorrow are in comic ( Read more... )

I'm going to give it to them. An infinitely better batch of links this time.

1. Starting with an academic article on a particular subculture. "Things just ain't the same": Hip hop's reconstruction of the gangster rap identity.

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Guilty pleasure #12: Jay Z.

I'm a fan. All right. No lengthy discussions on the nuances of rap music here. But to my highly uneducated, largely unexposed-to-rap-music ears? Jay Z's fucking boss.

Lyrics:

...I been up in the office you might know him as ClarkJust when you thought the whole world fell apart, I ( Read more... )