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...mystique that has pervaded all his previous efforts, including his first album, Amethyst Rock Star, and an earlier epic poem, “she.” Williams begins the new disc with what could only be described as a startling reclamation of his masculinity. “I ain??t got proper diction for the makings of a thug,” he tell us, not quite ironically, “though I grew up in the ghetto and my niggers all sell drugs.” It’s a jarring and crude departure from...
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...match made in heaven. But this was kind of my point in accepting the job. I enjoy, seek and maybe even thrive on these kinds of matches. Take the conservative Republican roommate I offhandedly mention above; like it ain??t no thing for a liberal Jewish girl born and raised by secular, intellectual parents—the kind who sent me to Sunday school so that I could find “community,” and not so much because of the whole God thing—to be shacking up with a deeply religious girl from...
...then, when things can’t get any more dodgy (as they say), a bright face under dripping hair offers directions (oh, the No. 49 bus doesn’t run at night) and asks questions (there’s a lot of crime in New York too, ain??t there) in a cockney accent, not the sort known to be particularly chatty with out-of-towners. She reveals: “There’s that London [gesturing perhaps towards Buckingham Palace and Trafalgar Square] but there’s also this London [nodding...
...ain??t always easy to be funny or thought-provoking. It’s even harder to be fresh—to truly add something new to a discussion. ESPN.com’s Bill Simmons is the best I have encountered at pinpointing little things about seemingly irrelevant aspects of entertainment and explicitly explaining their absurdity. If you have never read him, please, please check him out. Sports fan or not, he is entertaining...