Shahryar Rizvi

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  • The Problem With… Jason DeRülo’s “Ridin’ Solo” – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night

    The Problem With… Jason DeRülo’s “Ridin’ Solo” – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night. At the moment I wrote of Jason starting a Scandinavian black metal band, I was thinking about an old skit that legendary comedian Richard Pryor did called “Black Death Metal”. This video was well before Living Colour or God Forbid, mind […]

  • links for 2010-07-08

    ProPublica Photographer: I Was Followed by BP Security and Then Detained by Police (tags: sustainability media journalism social)

  • links for 2010-07-07

    Jim Rossignol — This Gaming Life: Travels in Three Cities (tags: book media games social toread)

  • links for 2010-07-06

    Juan Cole: Fundamentalist bombings of Lahore mystical Shrine leave 42 Dead, 175 Wounded The targeting of religious buildings and processions by the Taliban in Pakistan during the past more than six months, then, signals not only a determination to destabilize the country but also a conviction that Pakistan has departed from the true, pure Islam […]

  • Have a Jovial July 4

    For the past few years, I have usually posted critical or cynical media and clips on my blog about these United States of America on July 4th. Mind you, that sentiment is still with me. But this year, I’m in a good mood. This year, I’m going to be a bit more lighthearted about the affair. […]

  • The Problem With… “Dynamite” by Taio Cruz – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night

    The Problem With… “Dynamite” by Taio Cruz – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night.

  • links for 2010-07-02

    Are we really in a cultural golden age? | Music | The Big Questions | The A.V. Club Placed in combination, these factors—the natural tendency to reduce cultural intake as you get older, the oversaturation of the market in an age of globalism and digital media, and the short-sighted tendency to mistake short-term developments for […]

  • links for 2010-07-01

    Dave Zirin: The Beautiful Game, a Beautiful Cause: Why I Root for Argentina This has received next to no media coverage either in their native Argentina or around the world, but the team has fully embraced the courageous group of grandmothers known as Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo. This organization is devoted to finding out […]

  • links for 2010-06-30

    Toronto cops justify extreme G20 measures with display of LARPing props, weapons from unrelated busts Toronto Police are on the defensive this week as they attempt to defend their heavy-handed tactics during the G20. To prove the seriousness of the threat to public security, they took police on a tour of weapons confiscated from activists. […]

  • links for 2010-06-29

    The Onion — Executive, Legislative, Judicial Branches Merge (tags: politics comedy)

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