I was introduced to Odd Nosdam and Anticon by virtue of last night’s Brave New Waves feature on the former, which sent me to the Anticon site. On pulling up the Artists page, I was struck by the photos of the Anticon members. Their bios confirmed that these are the rapper dorks I made fun of in high school. Talk about revenge of the nerds. I’m still downloading the mp3’s off the site.
Former SNL cast member and one-time God-loving Catholic Julia Sweeney joins a Bible-studies class at her church, only to wonder if those who would have us live our lives according to the Good Book are hoping for a return to the days of vengeful slaughter and family dysfunction.
An audio link from onegoodmove.com
(you have to scroll down to the June 05, 2005 posting)
Though no stranger to awards, Roo Borson painlessly nabbed a whole lot of bread at last night’s Griffin Poetry Prize awards ceremony. The fun-furriers couldn’t get into the swank event, even though we could quote some Don Mckay by rote, so we biked over to Coach House Press and cleared broken glass out of bp’s poem.
