Taibbi dissects what has got to be one of the worst things Brooks has written in recent memory.
http://trueslant.com/matttaibbi/2010/01/27/populism-just-like-racism/
― KORGÜLL THE EXCHEQUER (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 28 January 2010 15:24 (fourteen years ago) link
WHOA is this the right David Brooks, why is this in ILM, etc.
― KORGÜLL THE EXCHEQUER (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 28 January 2010 15:32 (fourteen years ago) link
All I know is that David Brooks was a pseudonym used by Genesis P-Orridge in the TG days
― Tom D (Tom D.), Thursday, 28 January 2010 15:34 (fourteen years ago) link
i... do not comprehend this thread entitled "David Brooks - GANGSTA!" that is not about mavado. what is happening here?
― r|t|c, Thursday, 28 January 2010 15:50 (fourteen years ago) link
LOL
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 28 January 2010 16:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Thankfully that album isn't called David Brooks: A Better Tomorrow. Imagine how confusing that would get for NYTimes editorial readers!
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 28 January 2010 16:40 (fourteen years ago) link
― r|t|c, Thursday, January 28, 2010 3:50 PM (55 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
^^pretty much my thought process
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Thursday, 28 January 2010 16:46 (fourteen years ago) link
the first album was gangsta 4 life: the symphony of david brooks though!
― r|t|c, Thursday, 28 January 2010 17:11 (fourteen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mavado_(singer)
lolz, vybz has been at the wiki edit i see
― r|t|c, Thursday, 28 January 2010 17:16 (fourteen years ago) link
"the first album was gangsta 4 life: the symphony of david brooks though!"
Hah I forgot about the subtitle.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 28 January 2010 18:58 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/28/opinion/brooks-the-psych-approach.html?hp
Finally, pop culture has been far out front of policy makers in showing how social dysfunction can ruin lives. You can turn on an episode of “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo,” about a train wreck working-class family. You can turn on “Alaska State Troopers” and see trailer parks filled with drugged-up basket cases. You can listen to rappers like Tyler, The Creator whose songs are angry howls from fatherless men.
would like to see a lab report from the research he's been doing
― j., Friday, 28 September 2012 12:34 (eleven years ago) link
His bathroom?
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 28 September 2012 13:51 (eleven years ago) link
He's got his newspaper copy of the New York Times there. He's written about going to Europe to see Springsteen shows but I doubt he has even listened to Tyler on his laptop
― curmudgeon, Friday, 28 September 2012 14:09 (eleven years ago) link
srsly can't post enough photos of Brooks lookin pedantic
http://neveryetmelted.com/wp-images/DavidBrooks.jpg
― taking tiger mountain (up the butt) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 28 September 2012 14:15 (eleven years ago) link
has obviously never watched an ep of honey boo boo before either
― flopson, Friday, 28 September 2012 16:01 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/03/opinion/brooks-weed-been-there-done-that.html
― just sayin, Friday, 3 January 2014 09:31 (ten years ago) link
Turns out studies and findings all agree with him, imagine that.
― barranca jagger (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 3 January 2014 09:59 (ten years ago) link
Paul Krugman is off today.
― barranca jagger (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 3 January 2014 10:00 (ten years ago) link
"I stumbled through it, incapable of putting together simple phrases, feeling like a total loser." No doubt.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Friday, 3 January 2014 13:39 (ten years ago) link
writing process revealed
― bnw, Friday, 3 January 2014 13:47 (ten years ago) link
"I stumbled through it, incapable of putting together simple phrases, feeling like a total loser"
so he still smokes it then
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 January 2014 13:58 (ten years ago) link
I hope footage from that presentation leaks
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 3 January 2014 14:10 (ten years ago) link
"learning about drugs without facing criminal charges should remain an activity solely reserved for the rich"
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 3 January 2014 15:28 (ten years ago) link
" Others fell deeply in love and got thrills from the enlargements of the heart."
lol
― andrew m., Friday, 3 January 2014 16:36 (ten years ago) link
My friend died from enlarged heart u asshole!
― andrew m., Friday, 3 January 2014 16:37 (ten years ago) link
The 1990s brought astonishing hip-hop — Tupac, Biggie, Jay-Z, Wu-Tang Clan, A Tribe Called Quest, the Fugees — and I got introduced to all of that like everybody else at the time. My hands were writing and editing conservative editorials for The Wall Street Journal; my ears were straight outta Compton.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 24 November 2022 18:12 (one year ago) link
Brooks otm
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 24 November 2022 18:15 (one year ago) link
I want to do an AI image rendition of "David Brooks being introduced to Wu-Tang Clan like everybody else at the time."
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 24 November 2022 18:17 (one year ago) link
It’s telling that he writes & edits with his “hands,” not his brain.
― "Mick Wall at Kerrang!" (morrisp), Thursday, 24 November 2022 18:21 (one year ago) link
Then there are the times that are just awkward — like the time at a Nas concert when a seven-foot-tall woman in a black bodice came up to me and asked, “What on earth are you doing here?”
haha
― jmm, Thursday, 24 November 2022 18:25 (one year ago) link
Possibly a true story
According to my cousin, @nytdavidbrooks is currently at the Nas/Lauryn Hill concert. I can't begin to process this.— Hayes Brown (@HayesBrown) November 5, 2012
― jmm, Thursday, 24 November 2022 18:29 (one year ago) link
xp that woman should be paid a good salary to just keep doing that wherever he goes.
― JoeStork, Thursday, 24 November 2022 19:07 (one year ago) link
I asked, and it was her!
I just texted my cousin and…I think the answer is yes??? https://t.co/1qIj3Eu3oS— Hayes Brown (@HayesBrown) November 25, 2022
― jaymc, Friday, 25 November 2022 03:49 (one year ago) link
None of the rappers he mentioned were from Compton,
― curmudgeon, Friday, 25 November 2022 03:58 (one year ago) link
lol, thank you jaymc. I had a feeling...
― jmm, Friday, 25 November 2022 04:18 (one year ago) link
How did you find that old HB tweet?
― jaymc, Friday, 25 November 2022 04:31 (one year ago) link
I googled "david brooks nas concert" and that tweet was the second result
― jmm, Friday, 25 November 2022 04:35 (one year ago) link
Nice
― jaymc, Friday, 25 November 2022 04:36 (one year ago) link
What a night. Usually when I’m up this late it’s because I’m listening to NBA Youngboy.— David Brooks (@nytdavidbrooks) November 4, 2020
― just sayin, Friday, 25 November 2022 09:09 (one year ago) link
Also found this interview where he mentions the concert. He is so proud of having gone to that concert.
https://www.newsweek.com/david-brooks-new-york-times-columnist-narcissism-mockery-and-hip-hop-340318
"I believe that, over the centuries, smart people had incredibly valuable perceptions. But I don't live in the past. People stereotype me as a fogey. I am not. I go to hip-hop concerts.""Pardon?""I listen to Kendrick Lamar. I was at a Nas concert not long ago."
"Pardon?"
"I listen to Kendrick Lamar. I was at a Nas concert not long ago."
― jmm, Friday, 25 November 2022 13:57 (one year ago) link
Though this is the unassailably best quote imo:
"I had metaphorical moral headphones on. People didn't associate me with an intimate life. Now, when people have a trauma, they talk to me."
Meanwhile the interviewer is needling him the whole time.
― jmm, Friday, 25 November 2022 14:00 (one year ago) link
"People have traumas after talking to me."
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 November 2022 14:04 (one year ago) link
In 1991 when David Brooks was a 30 year old man writing columns about how the Black people who make the music he likes deserve poverty and suffering, his current wife was six years old— Hilary Agro 🍄 @hilarya✧✧✧@masto✧✧✧.l✧✧ (@hilaryagro) November 24, 2022
― curmudgeon, Friday, 25 November 2022 18:45 (one year ago) link
― JoeStork, Thursday, November 24, 2022 2:07 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
lol otm
― The field divisions are fastened with felicitations. (Deflatormouse), Friday, 25 November 2022 18:52 (one year ago) link
This dude and his Nas concert.
https://chicagomaroon.com/17637/news/uncommon-interview-david-brooks-a-b-83/
CM: So I read somewhere that you listen to rap music. Who are you listening to now?DB: [Laughs] It’s true. I was at a Nas concert! I can barely stomach Tyler the Creator, who gets a little raw for me. I come into contact with them through my kids, so they’re my avenue into the world.
DB: [Laughs] It’s true. I was at a Nas concert! I can barely stomach Tyler the Creator, who gets a little raw for me. I come into contact with them through my kids, so they’re my avenue into the world.
― jmm, Friday, 25 November 2022 20:54 (one year ago) link