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...most requested track at countless radio stations around the country. Afroman--actually Joseph Foreman, 27--admits to smoking illegal substances occasionally. "But you know," he says, "my character, Afroman, he really does." Of course, it's a novelty hit and performance art. Afroman had no idea his ode would be so successful, and he displays an endearing concern for parental sensitivities. "You know what, dude? I made this tape for all my homeboys. I didn't think I'd be talking to TIME magazine. I'm a little worried about Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich. I don't want...
...same words be both offensive and progressive? "The view changes depending on where you're standing," says Tori Amos. For her album Strange Little Girls, due in September, Amos reveals that she has covered 12 famous male-penned songs--including Eminem's wife-killing ode '97 Bonnie & Clyde--without changing the lyrics. The point? To expose what she sees as music's pervasive misogyny by animating men's songs from a woman's perspective. Amos says she invented and "befriended" a dozen different women (she has taken publicity photos dressed as all of them), through whom she sings tracks...
...Well, sure, let's call it an ode...
...daughter attending her first professional baseball game. During its better moments it would be informed by Donald Hall's essay "Fathers Playing Catch With Sons" and during its lesser ones by, say, The Bridges of Madison County. It was going to be a . . . let's not call it an ode...
...first games. Dad wanted us to see Ted Williams play before he retired. The day was fine and fair, the car ride to Boston joyous. Our first-ever trip on the T was a thrill, and then we hastened to the Fens (see what I mean, about the ode?). Three hours in Boston, all pavement and buildings bigger than we had ever seen, affected our eyesight like a dark room, and so when we walked up the tunnel into the brilliant sunshine we were blinded by the field, an impossibly huge and bright emerald with a diamond eye. The Bosox...