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Dilla Time and 50 Years of Hip-Hop
Hip-hop turned 50 years old this year (August 11, 1973, is considered it’s birthday). My relationship with hip-hop started 30 years ago, but, like Common says, it’s the (longest) love of my life. There has been a lot going on to celebrate hip-hop this year. Here are some of my favorites.
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First day of school
The new school year started today. The kids were saying they weren’t excited but you could see they really kind of were. It was nice to see them back with their friends, and really nice to have them out of the house again, just for a little bit.
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End of the trampoline era
Raising kids involves passing through a number of phases, from not walking to walking, to diapers to no diapers, and from can’t hurt themselves too bad to being constantly on the edge of breaking their neck. Well, today, we tried to curb that last phase a bit: we no longer own a trampoline.
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Music to rob banks too
Ritmo Machine is a collaboration between Cypress Hill’s percussionist Eric “Bobo” Correa and mix master Latin Bitman. I discovered it while listening to The Morning Show, with DJ John Richards describing it as “music to rob a bank to.” I can’t think of a better way to describe it; it’s that cool.
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Everything is inspiration
“Once I owned being an artist, I started to focus on ways to become better. After I did that, everything I took for granted began to take on a new significance: life, a beautiful day, a day on the water, the view from the top of a building, a kind word from someone, something I…
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Houses are famous for two 90%s
Remember our house renovation project? The one we thought would take four to six months? Yeah, it’s still ongoing. It’s been twenty months. We just had the landscaping done and, aside from tiling the front porch, there isn’t anything else to do. Or more accurately stated, there isn’t anything else we’re going to try to…
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The Edinburgh Fringe is well organized chaos
…at least from the perspective of this father of two young children. The Edinburgh Fringe is a massive, month-long festival spanning thousands of acts and hundreds of venues spread across one of the busiest and most touristed cities in Europe. It sounds like it could be hell for families, but our experience was just the…
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Across the Spider-verse is my favorite film of the year
I haven’t seen Oppenheimer yet, so maybe it’s a bit premature, but Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is my favorite film of the year.
Writing and drawings by Nick.
