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Doing J. Dilla's Mama Right: for Ma Dukes

Jeff Weiss knows how I feel. I’ve written on his website several times expressing my complete disgust in response to his article in regards to Dilla’s estate in the LA Weekly earlier this year. (Too bad he didn’t think my comments were appropriate enough to post.)  So off I went, on my mini crusade to
Posted December 27, 2008

Who You Callin' a Maverick??

There’s that word again: maverick. In Thursday’s vice-presidential debate, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, the Republican candidate, used it to describe herself and her running mate, Senator John McCain, no fewer than six times, at one point calling him “the consummate maverick.”   But to those who know the history of the word, applying it
Posted October 8, 2008