Even if now she's got a perm

Digging around for the Aunt Jemima image for the last post made for an interesting morning. It was harder to find a good Mrs. Butterworth image, but not politically fraught. On the other hand a Google search, or image search for "Aunt Jemima" reveals dramatic choices, primarily post-handkerchief, or not? You can read more about the corporate de-mammyfication of AJ here; Slave in a box?"some say best title for book on pancake mix evs. I'm heading over to the lib to get this one as fast as my chubby little legs can carry me. In the meantime. Chuck, Flav, and Terminator have summarized the situation in a song on an album that has just been added to the National Recording Registry. (Tip of the fin to cinetrix for reading the rest of the Times and pointing this out.) The Cod has been a big PE fan since Yo! Bum Rush The Show, and the choice to add FOABP to the registry shows how deep they are, in that it is arguably their second or even third best. When you have an album that does not have "Bring the Noise" You're Gonna Get Yours,"  or  "Fight the Power" on it that the US Government  deems worthy to list along  with Live at the Apollo, Pet Sounds, and the King James Bible for Pete's sake, you definitely can call yourself the incredible / rhyme animal. They are practically giving the album away online, so go buy one.

Comments

[max]

Nation of Millions is the best album.

[Fesser]

I agree that Nation of Millions is #1, but FOABP and YBRTS are real close--seems to me, the better the band, the more disagreement about their best album. Stooges and Beasties come immediately to mind, and you can elicit palpitations among hipsters of a certain age if you ask them "what was the last Replacements album that did not suck? The curve settles right between Let it Be and Tim with outlying hardliners stumping for Sorry, Ma and shameless parvenues like me, willing to admit to enjoying Pleased to Meet Me.

[the punisher]

I agree with the Fesser on this. Today. On other days I'm pretty certain that YBRTS is their best with Nation of Millions a very close second.

[Skeen]

Nation of Millions and FOABP were stolen from my Hyde Park apartment back in the summer of '92 (along with a bunch of other CDs and a nice SLR camera -- remember those?). I never replaced them. The CDs, that is. (Replaced the camera.) Am I still hoping that Dr. Wax and 2nd Hand Tunes are going to call and tell me that my stolen CDs have turned up?

[air griffey max]

taciturnity reaching agreement, cleverness flowing, hefted the flowered timid sound the faint smile, the shadow flickering, looked sees another region bright moonlight, the Mt. Guanshan pure running water. Is who is shifty in this mortal world lonely samsara? The previous generation, who shore in the water, awaits calmly the stone?