Front porch of Professor Henry Louis Gates's residence, #Redacted Ware Street, Cambridge, MA 1 August 2009:
WTF?
A) The National Conversation on Race™ has devolved into a beer tasteoff.**
or
B) Gates will start drinking domestic, nay Boston-brewed beer. Let the healing begin!
or
C) Other. Feel free to chime in in the comments below.
*A prize to the first person to twig this phrase.
**On the egghead tip, the notion of the disavowal of the political Zizek outlines (put in the diacritics yourself, if you want) seems to be a pollyannaish overestimation of the ability of US discourse to reduce any political conversation into a variant of the Pepsi Challenge in the time it would take Johnny Knoxville to fly a Stuka into a whoopie cushion factory.
that would be lyrics from Eric Burton's "Paid in Full".
also, the amount of beer needed to fix social issues like this would be counterproductive to the cause - or everyone will pass out several hours into the negotiations and wake up forgetting why they were drinking in the first place. maybe someone can set up a solution while no one else is conscious.
cheers!
Posted by: Brie | Sunday, 02 August 2009 at 03:03 AM
Now THAT'S some ballsy street team action. If you are the responsible party, I salute you.
MM
Posted by: Mandy Mastrovita | Sunday, 02 August 2009 at 09:20 PM
It might be more accurate to say Eric B and Rakim's Paid in Full (7 Minutes of Madness Coldcut remix). I can't source the sample, but have always thought it sounded like Don Pardo. In any case, I will sing the whole thing for you if there's a prize in it :)
xo
kg
(realizing now my prize is learning this use of twig from you! long ago, you taught me ubiquitous and unwieldy, too.)
Posted by: kg | Sunday, 30 August 2009 at 12:26 AM