Monthly Archives: August 2010
SPB guest blogs at Sounding Out today…
Hey you guys, I am honored and excited to be the guest blogger over at Sounding Out, a cool blog that, to use their words, “provides an outlet for ruminations on the role of sound and listening in our contemporary … Continue reading
Filed under Academia, music, PhD, Uncategorized, writing
The SCOTT TOPICS™ Mailbag: Why TV is Good (for me, at least)
“Why do you watch so much TV? And how? I’d think you’d wanna read books more than watch TV!” ~ H.J., Trenton I love books. I wouldn’t be a grad student now if I didn’t. But I watch TV too, … Continue reading
The SPB Q (Grad Chapter): Salamishah Tillet
“You can mark Du Bois as an important founding father and Anna Julia Cooper as a founding mother of those who used intellectual work to create social change and to do really interesting artistic or literary work alongside or as … Continue reading
Filed under The SPB Q
#94 … SPB’s Top 100 Records
#94 November Spawned a Monster, Morrissey One of the first singles released by former Smiths frontman Morrissey, this song made me crazy confused the first time I ever heard it, sitting in a café in Soho back in 1990. I … Continue reading
Filed under music, Top 100 Records
#95 … SPB’s Top 100 Records
#95 “Rock the Boat” The Hues Corporation 1974 I love a good metaphor. I love when a lyricist can take an image and imbue with levels of meaning beyond the words of that clever couplet that initially catches your ear. … Continue reading
Filed under music, Top 100 Records
TV Round-up: Big Brother, True Blood, Mad Men
All this love. All this pain. All my TV shows, or at least a bunch of them, have these characters suffering the slings and arrows of love affairs dying or being broken up or just coming to sad, centuries-old ends. … Continue reading
Filed under Rants, True Blood, TV
Threesome From Hell?: Rolling Stone’s True(ly) Blood(y) Cover…
Later today I’m posting a TV piece, mainly about True Blood, Big Brother and Mad Men. But I just had to post this cover shot from the new issue of Rolling Stone magazine. What do you make of it? You … Continue reading
Filed under sex, True Blood, TV
#96 … SPB’s Top 100 Records
#96 Goin’ Out of My Head, Little Anthony and the Imperials There’s a reason this song, first recorded in 1964, is one of the most–covered songs in pop history (everyone from Petula Clark and the Zombies, to Gladys Knight and … Continue reading
Filed under music, Top 100 Records
A Little Help For My Friend: Make HEATHER JOHNSTON the next Food Network Superstar!
Okay foodies, supporters of black women’s professional (and culinary) dreams, and all-around SPB peeps, I need your help. An old friend Heather Johnston is a Finalist in the Food Network/YouTube Challenge with her Video for Arancini, a delectable fried risotto … Continue reading
How One Black Person Responds to “How Black People Use Twitter”
It was something in the title that first struck me, the blatant, definitive, all-inclusive sound of “black people” in the title of SLATE magazine’s “How Black People Use Twitter.” Apparently it was time, the editors decided, not only to focus … Continue reading
Filed under Class, memes, Race, Rants, Uncategorized
