Kobye - The Kobe That We Used To KnowWritten and Performed by Dan RibMusic Performed by Ken BelcherVideo Filmed by Toni AubrechtBack Up Vocals by Ken BelcherAux. Percussion by Dan RibVideo Edited by Dan Rib"The Kobe That We Used To Know"Now and then I think of when you were much younger.You had a fro and said that Jordan should respect your game. With Shaq you won rings 1, 2, 3, But you didn't like his company. You shipped him out and that's an ache we all remember. You can get addicted to a certain kind of winning.Like resignation to a 6th ring. Always that ring. So when the triangle came to an endWell you said that you would win again. But you admitted you would ... Continue reading →
Representatives of the Korean, Filipino, Chinese and Japanese communities attended the meeting at a Baptist church in Southeast Washington. “Korean stores are filthy,” a woman could be heard saying at the meeting, part of which was closed to reporters. The woman later identified herself as Geraldine Hall. “Inside and out, they are filthy,” she told reporters, referring to Korean-owned businesses, as she left the meeting. At a press conference, Barry and several Asian American leaders said the dialogue is an important step toward defusing long-standing tension between blacks and Asians. Asked about the underlying sources of the conflict, Barry said the United States “has had racial tensions since was it founded.”“The Irish caught hell, the Jews caught hell, the Polacks caught hell,” Barry said, invoking ... Continue reading →
The following is a very unusual account of a true but unusual experience:I had an arterial problem for a couple of years, which reduced blood supply to my heart and brain and depleted B vitamins from my nerves (to keep the heart in good repair). Although there is some vagueness as to the mechanisms, this made me forgetful, slow, and easily overwhelmed. In short, I felt like I was stupid compared to what I was used to, and I was.It was frightening at first because I knew something wasn't right but didn't know what, and very worrying for my career because I was simply not very good any more.However, once I got used to it and resigned myself, it was great. Even though I knew ... Continue reading →
Love is not all you need, laughter is not necessarily the best medicine, and while money doesn't buy happiness, neither does poverty. But it is a truth universally acknowledged that there is almost no mood a spontaneous dance party can't lift. Hanna Horvath, the protagonist of "Girls," knows this well. At the end of episode three, she starts getting down to Robyn’s “Dancing On My Own” in her room. What starts out as some seated swaying on her bed turns into a full body dance, and soon her roommate and best friend Marnie is in there rocking out with her. In that moment it doesn’t matter that Hannah just found out her ex-boyfriend is gay or that her new one probably gave her HPV. And ... Continue reading →
This evening, the New Yorker Fiction Department (@NYerFiction) will start tweeting Jennifer Egan’s new story “Black Box,” which will appear in its entirety in the Science Fiction Issue, out on Monday. We asked Egan what inspired her to structure her story in paragraphs of a hundred and forty characters or fewer. Several of my long-standing fictional interests converged in the writing of “Black Box.” One involves fiction that takes the form of lists; stories that appear to be told inadvertently, using a narrator’s notes to him or herself. My working title for this story was “Lessons Learned,” and my hope was to tell a story whose shape would emerge from the lessons the narrator derived from each step in the action, rather than from descriptions ... Continue reading →
