It seems there’s a new edition of Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn being published, with all instances of “the N-word” replaced with “slave”, and it’s stirred quite the controversy. In particular, there was a mini-commotion over a post that Roger Ebert wrote…
Stuck In My Head: “The Cannibal Song”
Man, kids’ entertainment used to be so much… Edgier. Creepier. Just plain weirder. I’m currently obsessing over “The Cannibal Song”, a insanely catchy little ditty from Walt Disney’s Addition And Subtraction. This was an educational record from 1963, and the…
Advance Album Review: The Go! Team – “Rolling Blackouts”
The Go! Team: superheroes sent to save pop music from the tyrannical power of no-fun. Their secret hideout laboratory is located not far from here, in a blanket fort, in a treehouse, in a playground, on the corner of Beat…