February 2007

The Archives

• 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 some […]

• 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 […]

• 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 […]

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