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Obama picks Sotomayor
In the five days since she was nominated to the Supreme Court by Barack Obama, Sonia Sotomayor’s life story has been reduced to a list of bullet points. It has been worn down by repetition to the essential elements of a political biography – humble origins, triumph over adversity – and lost much of its meaning in the process.
Flash, one more time
With hindsight, making a mixtape of old school funk and hip-hop for Grandmaster Flash was a bad idea. “This is the wack part,” he tells me, a few seconds into Shack Up by Banbarra. “They’d be throwing water at the speakers if we played that part.”
© 2009 Andrew Purcell. 