Word up: So, should I believe the Kanye hype?
Posted by Anupa in Favourite Interviews, media, Music, Pop Culture, Rappers, Word up on 24. Nov, 2010 | 4 Comments
Hiiii it’s meeee, the annoying person who has been talking about Kanye West’s new album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy for the past two weeks since it leaked!!!I promised a lot of skeptical people (fuck you!) I would stop talking about it, though I guess this post means I didn’t (sorry!). I can’t help it! [...]
Word Up: So like, are video games art?
Posted by Jef in Art, video games, Word up on 29. Apr, 2010 | 2 Comments
Steven Spielberg, enthusiastic about the medium, said five years ago video games would be art once “somebody confesses that they cried at Level 17.” At the time, a friend of mine scoffed and said he already HAD shed tears while playing games. Granted, this particular friend crying at, well, anything, wasn’t much of a surprise, [...]
Word Up: Obama’s Annuary of Amazing Adventures!
Posted by Jef in comics, Curiosities, Politics, Pop Culture, Word up on 21. Jan, 2010 | 1 Comment
A year ago, Barack Obama became president of the United States. He also gave dap to the Savage Dragon, was saved by Spider-Man from an evil duplicate, personally chose the new Youngblood roster, answered the riddle of the sphinx, was outwitted on national television by the Bomb Queen, punched out a gang leader in post-apocalyptic [...]
Word Up: A jail-breakdown
Posted by Jef in media, Politics, Word up on 02. Dec, 2009 | 0 Comments
The execution of the Beltway sniper in November triggered a few time-pegged stories about capital punishment — this, combined with some “Hey, let’s find out what’s going on in jail” stories that journalists are wont to pitch every now and again, led to an almost-meme that came and went quietly but that I think deserves [...]
Word up: Over-Gossiped Girl
Posted by jessekg in Curiosities, Pop Culture, Toronto, Word up on 20. Nov, 2009 | 6 Comments
I don’t know how it happened. At some point I went from thinking that socialites only existed in movies and New York City, to literally reading about Toronto “socialite” Ainsley Kerr every friggin time I check my email. First it was this piece from Eye Weekly, which isn’t necessary to read because I can sum [...]
