http://exittheapple.com/applesauce a mag. a zine. Fri, 27 Jul 2007 14:08:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Paranoid Soliloquy The mouth is a razor blade. A machete. A foil. The tongue seems harmless. Rubbing its bumpy flesh against sides of molars like a kitten against an ankle. Tasting the insides of lovers’ mouths. Lighting up on the first bite. Don’t let it fool you. The tongue is a ... http://exittheapple.com/applesauce/2007/07/krista-franklin-three-poems/ two poems Ars Poetica He gave me a book and I opened it. The first line I noticed was, “The child with the blank face of an egg.” Then, I felt my face erased to its skull. There was a missing space. So I peeled off a piece of a ... http://exittheapple.com/applesauce/2007/07/orlando-white-two-poems/ in the Quarter for now, we’ll breakfast on remoulade with violins, our lips lush with lies and grenadine. let Paris kiss the feet of New Orleans. pretty women with skirts that reach for their knees twirl wickedly at the sky. cigar smoke teases rose-colored light. duty soon will call us through her tropical hourglass, ... http://exittheapple.com/applesauce/2007/07/two-by-karma-johnson/ Dear folks at Guitar Hero, First of all I want to say that me and my wife really dig your game. All the artistry, craft and fun that went into it shine through. I appreciated the behind the scenes extras... I really felt like I got a feel for ... http://exittheapple.com/applesauce/2007/04/open-letter-to-guitar-hero/ an essay by science-fiction author Octavia E. Butleroriginally published in Essence magazine in 2000 "SO DO YOU REALLY believe that in the future we're going to have the kind of trouble you write about in your books?" a student asked me as I was signing books after a talk. The young ... http://exittheapple.com/applesauce/2007/04/a-few-rules-for-predicting-the-future/ originally posted @ cracked.com - written by Ethan Ryan and Jack O'Brien We'd like to point out that we're aware of the fact that some of the cartoons listed below did not originate in the '80s. However, they were on during the '80s, that's when we watched them, so they're '80s ... http://exittheapple.com/applesauce/2007/03/8-important-lessons-learned-from-80s-cartoons/ Who's Your Hero? ... The VIBE Mag Rebuttal. by Chuck D .... When I was first asked to do an interview answering to VIBE's concern about reality shows and the mismanagement of female images in media, I straight out flatly refused. I'm neither arrogant, elitist, nor bitter, its just that the problems ... http://exittheapple.com/applesauce/2006/09/whos-your-hero-the-vibe-mag-rebuttal-by-chuck-d/ Mike Believe of exittheapple re-visions Fat Albert footage as a video for Biggie's "Things Done Changed." In its time, Bill Cosby's "Fat Albert & the Cosby Kids" addressed a lot of often serious issues faced by inner city youth. In Biggie's time, it could be argued he did much the ... http://exittheapple.com/applesauce/2006/08/38/ excerpted from No Money Down, a collection of Cobb's essays forthcoming from Thunder's Mouth Press in April 07. You can read more of his work at www.jelanicobb.com ------------------------------------ . We could have known that it would come to this way back in 1896. That was the year that Paul Lawrence Dunbar dropped a ... http://exittheapple.com/applesauce/2006/07/we-still-wear-the-mask-william-jelani-cobb/ An Uptown Cultural Landmark Explores New Dimensions in Sound It would seem that a sensory environment drenched in sampled blackness is once again rewiring the aesthetic sensibilities of the general populace. Even the spin-talk of government officials makes use of rhythm, rhyme and meter in ways directly borrowed from black ... http://exittheapple.com/applesauce/2006/06/synaesthesia-at-the-studio-museum-in-harlem-karma-m-johnson/