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Archive for the ‘TBoH recommends’ Category
7 May
TBoH Recommends: SuperNews!
It’s your favorite YouTube viral video meets The Daily Show, or perhaps a South Park version of The Office. SuperNews is a new half-hour animated sketch show on Current TV that features hilarious political, entertainment, and technology satire. It also has one of the best vocal impressions of Barack Obama that I have heard to [...]
24 Mar
Bookmark This: The Obama Blogosphere
Given how successful Barack Obama’s presidential campaign was in conveying his message through the web, it comes as no surprise that a number of Obama-themed blogs continue to flourish during his first year in office. Here are a few of my favorites: Literary Obama: Think Obama meets The New York Times Book Review; this site [...]
3 Mar
Bookmark This: Color Online
The blog, Color Online, earned a special place in my heart when I discovered, posted in the sidebar, the words of black poet Gwendolyn Brooks from her 1967 work, “The Chicago Picasso”: Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home. The mission of Color Online is “the promotion, empowerment, [...]
11 Jan
Frodo, Prejudism, and “Flight of the Conchords”
The second season of “Flight of the Conchords” premieres on HBO this Sunday, January 18 at 10 pm! Woohoo! My DV-R will be working overtime to catch new episodes of “24″ and “Lost,” but I’m most excited about the deadpan hilarity of New Zealand’s “fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo” as they try [...]
1 Jan
“You Know I Don’t Mean You”
This week I spent some quality time with Dear Darkness: Poems by the incredible poet, Kevin Young. He draws on his Louisiana roots in this new collection, mourning the loss of family and faith with the characteristic voice of a bluesman. Poems such as “Another Autumn Elegy” are particularly moving, while other verses use images [...]
23 Nov
Why Postmodern Blackness?
As the subtitle of our blog indicates, we are fascinated with the workings of “postmodern blackness” here in the Bottom. But what does this phrase mean? And how does it shape the way Frieda and I approach the content on our site? Postmodernism is not easily explained, particularly given the fact that its definition is [...]
13 Nov
TBoH Recommends: A Mercy
The Bottom Line: In A Mercy, Toni Morrison takes a fresh look at familiar themes: mothers and daughters, self-destructive desire, and as always, the burdens of freedom. I was surprised by how often, during my reading of Toni Morrison’s A Mercy,my thoughts turned to another novel – The Known World,(2004) by Edward P. Jones. Both [...]
29 Sep
TBoH Recommends: “Bayou”
I can’t say enough good things about the award-winning webcomic, Bayou, by Jeremy Love and Patrick Morgan.
