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...resist the temptation to try out what has become almost legendary in the West: pure opium. The drug is grown mainly by the hill tribes who came south from Yunnan, China, in the last century and brought a taste for the black, inebriating tar with them. Tribes like the Aka and Hmong cultivate the crop in the otherwise arid highland climate, and bring it down to sell to Vietnamese dealers in the main towns. Ton pays about $20 for a wax-paper sheet of opium, 6 mm thick and as wide as his hand. Broken down into the individual pipe...
...provost. Rudenstine wanted to shift the age-old University paradigm of “every tub on its own bottom” to “every tub on each other’s bottom,” to create an interdependent relationship between the many tubs—aka faculties—of the University...
...song itself comes from what might seem like an unexpected source: J. P. Richardson, aka The Big Bopper, best known for the upbeat "Chantilly Lace" and for having perished with fellow rockers Buddy Holly and Richie Valens in a 1959 plane crash. Richardson, though, before he entered the rock world - which, of course, was not as divorced from country as it is today - came from a rural background similar to Jones'. In fact, the two were pals in Beaumont, Texas, where the Possum's family moved when he was a boy. Richardson also was a discovery of Jones' original producer...
...Naughty Bits," by Roberta Gregory Roberta Gregory's "Naughty Bits" gets props as the only unabashedly female-centric comic currently in existence. Its complex heroine, Midge, flaunts the conventions of what women are allowed to do in comics and other pop-culture media. Midge, aka Bitchy Bitch, is fast approaching 40, hates her pointless desk job, uses "marital aids" without being married, gets very angry very quickly, judges people, and seems to menstruate much more than ordinary. Still, her desire for love and satisfaction make her sympathetic. She has acquired a large enough fan base that...
...simply as a joyous culture of black self-expression for a new generation eventually came to dominate the American cultural landscape. Will Smith may today be one of Hollywood's most sought-after leading men, but a few short years ago he was simply Philadelphia's ranking rapper, aka The Fresh Prince. And could Chris Rock have emerged as America's preeminent standup comic - making audiences laugh nervously as he rants on about hating "niggers" - without two decades of hip-hop having passed under the bridge...