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Late-spring/early-summer has been hectic for your favorite man of letters. 14,400 miles in the air in May between Mumbai, London, and Virginia? Excellent. Perusing the arcades of Paris in fine Benjaminian style? Magnifique. Linking up with some old friends? Great.
Keeping pen to paper? The best. The nature of my writing has been changing quite a bit over the last few months. After spending almost two years turning out relatively short reviews, I'm moving into longer format pieces -- more extensive reviews and, now, a set of long articles for PopMatters. At the same time, I'm cooking up my second master's dissertation, a 15,000-word piece on neoliberalism, hip-hop, and policing in NYC. In other words, if there seems to be an early summer drought at CanineMind, don't worry: there's a flood of stuff on the way for your extended reading pleasure.
Enough with the persona-building backstories, let's get to the monthly business: I've got the first installment of my multi-part piece on hip-hop and policing, "America's Most Policed Art Form" -- "The Rise of the Informal Mixtape Economy," courtesy of PopMatters. A video essay on inside jokes centering around MC Hammer's astoundingly terrible-great "Pop Ya Collar" (shout out to the "Committee to Elect Hammer and Wee-Wee). And, of course, some recent reviews from okayplayer.
In the spirit of inside jokes, and in keeping with the miserable weather in dear old Londres...
"Baby I make it flood
Now you gon' need a boat."
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