February 2007

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General
Noo Ock
02.17.07 | Permalink | Comment?

I am posting from Newark airport, which has added the middle name of “Liberty” since I last was here, shortly after 9-11. I arrived here on Monday and instantly laid down to sleep until Tuesday, as you do in New Jersey. When I woke up my mother’s house was snowed in:

So I took [...]
Music
Integrity
02.10.07 | Permalink | Comment?

In the song “Extradition”, off the album War & Peace Volume 1 (The War Disc), Ice Cube begins with a soliloquy to his mother explaining that “If some people came by the house lookin for me/I’m innocent of anything they say I done,” and promising to see her in the future.
How does he sign off on this message [...]
Walks with the dogs
Property
02.04.07 | Permalink | Comment?

Yesterday the dogs and I walked past a dilapidated house. What made this one interesting was the equally dilapidated doghouse in the corner of the front yard, like a statement on the whole:

The house looked uninhabited, so I could hope that no dog had to endure living out in that yard.
Today we came across a house in a far [...]