MIA

The question was never if she was a politically sophisticated thinker. The question was is she a more politically sophisticated thinker than Bono, who she takes down and implies is a less politically sophisticated thinker than she is. Which is truly begging the question.

the way ksh has elevated from one of the worst posters to one of the best posters is a magnificent feat like Dr. Dre going from the World Class Wreckin Cru to The Chronic in the span of a month

^ made my day

Read who it's coming from, then reconsider.

ksh has done cooler things than post colin meloy's twitter updates

still think it's hilarious that that tweet merited a fuckin P4k news story -- http://pitchfork.com/news/39014-echo-chamber-colin-meloy-vs-mia

when that showed up in my Google Reader, it may as well have just read: Hey supposedly intelligent readers, fuck you!!!

Hey supposedly intelligent readers, LOCAL NATIVES!!!

looooooooooooooooooool

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^^ m.i.a. LP4 ^^^

oops.

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Fuck it.

the way ksh has elevated from one of the worst posters to one of the best posters is a magnificent feat like Dr. Dre going from the World Class Wreckin Cru to The Chronic in the span of a month

wait do you mean "a magnificent feat like dre going from wreckin cru to chronic in a month instead of the 6 years it actually took"

If I relax my eyes, that looks like it says something about a truck.

Anyway, nabisco OTM, the end:

http://pitchfork.com/features/why-we-fight/7813-why-we-fight-4

nabiscos essay is v smart and i agree with it, but can pitchfork not afford em-dashes or something

nabisco i think is pretty much otm as usual, and i hope that his write-up re-frames the discussion from "wow look at the pop voice of the third world engorging herself in wanton luxury" to something more along the lines of "wait does MIA's imagery align herself with the oppressed or the oppressors?" which I think would make off-hand remarks about her 'incoherence' more, er, coherent...

wait do you mean "a magnificent feat like dre going from wreckin cru to chronic in a month instead of the 6 years it actually took"

that's exactly what that means, yes

http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/5600/lolp4k.jpg

http://coolrain44.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/spike-chester.jpg

OG hipster puppies

That's a terrific piece from Nabisco.

ksh that is obviously a fake Echo Chamber, there are 173 characters! O_O

u_u

lol strongo

wokka wokka.

i thought it was funny

shut up

love you too Jess

http://www.linuxbochs.net/phpBB2/files/stop_posting_1_115.jpg

no thanks

age and wisdom

can we get back to "truffle fries" now?

This thread is making me want to give war a chance.

so, MIA is like the clash with more colorful tops?

Pretty much.

If you go back to the NME/Melody Maker reviews of the second Clash album, you actually see pretty much the same arguments [nabisco] is making about casual use of revolutionary violence. It's Joe Strummer's Red Brigade shirt all over again.

nabiscos essay is v smart and i agree with it, but can pitchfork not afford em-dashes or something

I once asked Nabisco himself why Pitchfork's style is "blah blah-- excuse me-- blah blah" rather than "blah blah -- excuse me -- blah blah" and he said it had to do with line breaks (you wouldn't want to split one of those double hyphens), but yeah I don't know why they don't just use em-dashes.

i knew you'd be with me on that, jaymc

MIAdashes

this drives me insane.

trying to keep up with everybody's great jokes?

somewhere between lack of em dashes and m.i.a.

btw this week's Talk Of The Town section finally makes clear that in the New Yorker's style guide, 'douche bag' is written as two words.

new yorker's style guide is pretty wacky though, right? every issue i come across some new word that has umlauts, apparently. like just last week: "trüffle fries"

Yeah their umlauts crack me up. There's probs a dedicated thread for NYer style I suppose.

I love their tenacity with the umlauts, like they're worried people will read reentry rather than reëntry and freak out.

REEN-tree

COORD-inated.