19 Jun 2009
onward and upward with the arts (and foreign policy and soccer)
i realize it has been a minute since i updated my blogrolly thing, so i added a fair amount of sites that i’ve been following both personally and professionally. most of them fall into my holy trinity— no, not guns, girls, and ganja— music, foreign policy, and soccer. i also removed some dead/worthless links that were idling around without a function like the 60-year-old popov-guzzling gents outside of the otb on queens blvd. also, i’m really not sure how i functioned as a journalist for 5 years without google reader, i’m totally dependant on it now for day job writing, music writing, soccer fanaticism, and music procuring.
some highlights include the excellent africa is country, dj/rupture’s cumbia blog la congona new cumbia, and perhaps the best lebanese politics source around, qifa nabki. also, generation bass, which has fast become one of my go-to spots for global dance music, bill easterly’s aid watch, and my former professor/dean of iran experts gary sick’s ill blog about iran, gary’s choices.
special shoutouts are due to a few friends as well. red read offers the ruminations of a whip-smart palestinan-american who may be the only person around to know more about the arabic hip-hop scene than me. the candy report will satiate all of your pop culture/hip-hop/r&b/mariah carey-obsessive needs and is written by my former co-worker who shared a cube with me when we wrote for blood diamond russ, before that hypocritical piece of shit laid us off (best thing that ever happened to both of us!). lastly, days like television is a short-form nyc/queens observation blog from my girl D, my best friend from the D, who is a very talented stage actor and all around elusive badass.
