Word: hops
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Indeed, I was companionless at one such deserted bus stop. And finally the watch’s slender hands came in to focus. 4:39 AM. That would probably qualify as night. Textbook case of time-to-hop-in-a-cab-itis...
...think you realized that at the time? I think I sort of did and sort of didn't. One of the truest things ever said about hip-hop, I think, was by Busta Rhymes: "Rap is funny. If you don't get the humor, it's terrifying...
...write a lot about rap both at the Onion and in the book. I really identified with hip-hop growing up. There was this incredibly pure anger, sort of free-floating rage towards everything and everyone. And growing up in a group home for emotionally disturbed adolescents, my God, we just inhabited that space. We were able to take the hip-hop tropes - hating authority, and hating the police - and use it for our own lives. It felt so empowering that you could come from nothing and become a god. Like all fantasies, it was an illusion. If you look...
Like so much of my life, it all happened in a very half-assed fashion. The A.V. Club didn't have a hip-hop reviewer, and I felt like I could do a passable job. When I started at the A.V. Club, I was not a good writer. I was a year and a half out of the group home. So I had to figure out ways to make myself indispensable. I would do things that were insane; I had a lot of chutzpah. I started a series called "Critical Beatdown," where I would ask people insulting questions. People really...
...ROCHELLE, France — Like many other unsuspecting American travelers, I came to Europe with a rather rosy idea of European train travel. Every guidebook that I have ever read expounds on the virtues of the system—travelers can hop on and off trains whenever and wherever they desire at very little expense! When I arrived in Paris, I came equipped with a Eurail flexi pass, allowing me to travel on four days within two months anywhere in France and Spain. A cheap and flexible option, or so I thought...