An unusual coupling

We can always use some Sesame Street, so here’s the latest installment for thinkofthechildren. I’m not really sure what’s going on in the clip, can you imagine being a 5 year old and seeing this in the midst of the episode? Still, Richard Pryor on Sesame Street, pretty awesome. They might be right up there with The Simpsons as far as best list of guest stars.

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- suse

Afrikan Apparel

Pervy, porny vertical manufacturery is no longer confined to solid colors or gold lamé monotony.  Charney and friends have integrated cultural appropriation with their sexplotation, so you no longer have to choose.

Afrika Unite!

Meet Afrika, a lovely, young, vaguely ethnic, sort of makes you think of your one hippie friend who loves African dance and/or drumming and/or orphans type of print.  Hip, fresh, and boldly going where fashion goes after its tired of vaguely Arab scarves and styles.  Like the Ottoman Empire before them, Amerikan Apparel is going to Afrika.

However, I still have questions.  Why isn’t this line part of the Red campaign?  Doesn’t AA care about Africa with a “c”?  Where is the children’s chorus/Ladysmith Black Mambazo/Zulu warrior? And where, oh where, are the the Africans? In Park Slope and Williamsburg, I’ll bet.

- Ferrrosha

Full disclosure: I think the Red campaign is silly (sorry, Bono!) but if you’re going to make crappy, reddish, African-y type stuff, pay your dues, at least!

I think you mean “SoHa.”

From Overheard in New York:

The Occasional Hostile Stare, for Example

White girl #1: Do you live here?
White girl #2: Yeah.
White girl #1: We were thinking of moving here. How is it?
White girl #2: The super is okay. The building is fine. Good value, I guess.
White girl #1: I know! We were so excited to find a place on the Upper East Side for so cheap!
White girl #2: Uh, this isn’t the Upper East Side: this is Harlem.
White girl #1: Oh… I guess that would explain a lot.

–E 129th & Madison

There goes the neighborhood, I guess.

- Ferrrosha

I have two ears and a heart, don’t I?

So, Ferrrosha and I were talking yesterday about unironically loving Phil Collins. My favorite Phil Collins song and video is “Easy Lover”. It’s so ’80s it kills me. Here it is, courtesy of youtube:

“>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9xY_cPenSs]

My favorite part is the part where the dorky white guy (Phil Collins) is trying to learn dance moves from his New Black Friend (Philip Bailey).

- Jaime