On YouTube, the video for Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' smash, 2012 'Thrift Shop,' feat. Wanz, has been viewed over 1.8 billion times.

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With her endorsement of Donald Drumpf, Nimarata Nikki Randhawa, aka Nikki Haley, shown in her 1989 HS graduation photo, below, reveals the insidious poisonousness of MAGA, the foul creakiness of Dixiecrat politics, and the sickening blandness of passing in one fell swoop. BE OUT.

Cue the Ginuwine.

I just saw I Love Gain detergent's Relax Flings and Scent Beads ad, below — the one which samples Mark Morrison's 1996 MOAB, 'Return of the Mack' — and frankly…I'm not mad one bit!! #TheWorldIsYoursMarkM

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Best-Ever Non-P.E. Memory of Catching Advance Fire: FAB 5 FREDDY showed up at the The Village Voice and told (was it?) Ben Mapp and me to follow him outside. There, in his car service, he had the last 4 minutes of this.

We trounced the Village, BLASTING it.

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EW&F's 'That's The Way of the World' always struck me as one of those songs to which you miss being young; the kind that sounds best on a New York City fire escape at night; the sort you broke up to the summer of '75 and, half a century later, still stings your heart to hear it.

'Defend the weak and the fatherless;
uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed.
Rescue the weak and the needy;
deliver them from the hand of the wicked.'

— Psalm 82:3, 4 (NIV)