Here is a brand-spanking-new video of Def Jam artist (I love this girl) Chrissette Michele. She is working with powerhouse Tyler Perry for his new season of House of Payne! Online Videos by Veoh.com

Well the time has come to say goodbye to this whole experience. I have to admit... which seems silly, but this blogging group changed my life. I've met friends, met lovers, met inspirational people. I'm back in Los Angeles but my heart is in Boulder, back where this all began. It was a short time, but in life, you...

Last week was pretty exciting for me. On Tuesday and Wednesday I got to go see The Police at the Hollywood Bowl. Yes, both nights. It soothed the pain of last year when they originally reformed and hit up Dodgers Stadium and I could not get my hands on tickets. These two shows more than made up for that. ...

This is, for all intents and purposes, the end of the whole "Snott Normal" iggli blogging funtimes thing.  It's been a romp. I've met some wonderful people, had some fun arguments, and apparently reached an audience that I didn't even know existed. 1 I'll be picking up the pen (keyboard?) again...

If God is a DJ, then life is a radio station. I've been getting lots of static lately. Transition is a strange thing, isn't it? Zora Neale Hurston said 'there are years that ask questions and years that answer.' Oi. Ike and Tina Turner - I Want To Take You Higher Ike and Tina Turner - Come...

So I left Atlanta yesterday morning to come down to Montgomery, Alabama.  My little sister is getting married today and I've been trying to find the moment to write this blog.  My plan was to unveil some of the things that I do outside of blogging at some point.  I planned for that to be a little here...

I have been on "vacation" for the past week, which explains my persistent presence on the blog squad's home page. In about five point five hours I will be boarding a train and beginning my journey from New Haven back down to the ATL. Soon as I exit the plane, it will be back on the grind. My life will resume...

You know the "impulse buy" section you see in most supermarkets? The little aisle next to the register littered with crap you really don't need but is cheap enough for some idiot to think "Ooo, shiny?" Yeah, that section is aimed at me.  So Rich and I have been in Dorchester for a few...

I have a dear friend who loves to dance and I can always tell when he likes what he's hearing because a wave starts up his body. He's from the south so more of his movement is initiated from the lower half of his body. I guess it's a regional thing. His legs start moving, then his hips, then his arms. And...

Fried My Little Brains - The Kills Brainfeeder - Flying Lotus  Stretch your brains out some and head over to Free Documentaries.org  ,   Filmtalks.net  or Moviesfoundonline.com  to watch as many free documentaries as you can stand. I suggest either Jesus Camp or The...

If you've never heard of an asparagus before, what would you do? simply google it. Maybe find out what restaurant in your neighborhood makes asparagus dishes or look for the nearest supermarket that carries asparagus. For pre-internet people like my parents and nytimes writer Laura Vapnyar, those options were not...

I have to confess I'm a little dumbstruck by Weezer's new video for "Pork and Beans." Basically, an homage to every viral video ever - and they even tracked down the original stars to sing along. Didn't think that Chris Crocker or that Numa Numa guy would ever amount to anything? Well, now you know: they got to be...

Forget all the Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails hullaballoo. Harvey Danger had them beat by years .  To be honest, when a friend mentioned the band's stunt, I didn't remember them for much more than "Flagpole Sitta." Given how much I enjoyed pop radio back in high school (read: not very much), my brain...

  So I got Wii Fit last Wednesday and I've been "working out" with it every day since.  The truly remarkable thing though is how committed I've become to trying to lose weight.  The fact that my weight is now represented on a day to day basis (via a line graph), makes me super conscious of...

Does anyone here remember this song? I know it may be a little out of season, but I spent this Memorial Day weekend with my family. And a gathering with my family would be incomplete without myself and my siblings being exploited for our musical abilities. My aunt threatened to post the video of this...

May 27, 2008 Uploaded by 2008co2008 Watch Usher ranting on MTV's TRL...I'm all about coming of age and men acting like MEN...but man, he is DEFENSIVE about wifey Tameka... "My wife is NOT 40 years old".. "My wife did not make me fire my...

To celebrate I tried my best to climb the 65 foot wall at the REI H.Q in Seattle, and surrounded myself with two of my most favorite things: hippies, and folk music. Where you ask? Why, the 37th Annual Northwest Folklife Festival 2008! I was completely psyched to know that this smörgåsbord of folk metropolis was...

Life has been a crazy whirlwind. Living in Colorado REALLY made me appreciate my seasons, mostly my favorite one. On my calendar, summer starts with Coachella. Since then I've been on short trips to Las Vegas, San Diego, and my friend Emily came to visit this past weekend... mini vacations are the best. Warm weather...

The air smelled significantly better than it did the last time I was in LA, and the sky wasn’t blazing the majestic reds and oranges it was when I had been there for the fires over Halloween weekend.   It was beautiful this time, I must admit.   It is still crazy to me that people actually drive in LA...

For those who don’t feel connected enough through a variety of social networking sites, Google is introducing Friend Connect , a program designed to connect connectors, increase site traffic, and piss off Facebook. The Facebook team initially blocked Google from accessing their site, noting that Friend Connect might...

"Linguistic butchery while texting is one thing. In school assignments, it is quite another," writes Mary Kolesnikova in this past Monday's AJC 1  (Atlanta Journal Constitution). It is a shame that those who she is referring to will most likely not see a problem with their laxsidasical "writing...

If you're anything like me, you've been collecting movies, music videos, and tv shows from the ole internet for a while now.  Me?  I've got a CD booklet dedicated to movies, shows, and music videos all burnt to DVDs.  For a long time it was just my way of documenting the movies so I could delete them...

Check out Bee and Jay in Cannes this week. She better be pregnant; there is NO excuse for rocking that Sunday dress to the club. Yeesh                    

There has been huge anticipation for Usher's new album "Here I Stand". Could it beat his last effort "Confessions"? How has marriage and fatherhood affected his music? Had wife Tameka Foster sunk her claws into Usher and ruined his music? After weeks of leaking,  all 18 tracks of...