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2Pac Shakur's "Dear Mama." His mother was one of the Black Panthers acquitted after a lengthy trial in New York in the early 70s just a month before Tupac was born. Yes, not all of 2Pac's oeuvre is gansta! And not every rapper appreciates his mom. Eminem (Marshall Mathers, aka Slim Shady) dissed his in his early work.

I'll put that on my Netflix list. Other than seeing Kanye West on the Grammys in the 2000s and "Fight the Power" from Do The Right Thing, most of what I know about hiphop is a result of leaving Western pop music for K-pop, which is significantly influenced by hiphop, mostly because Seo Taiji listened to it.

Which album, Blonded or Orange Channel?

And because I can't leave without giving you an example of the most melodic hiphop and hiphop-influenced music in the world, "Nan Arayo (I Know)," the 1992 Seo Taiji and Boys song that kicked off modern K-pop and cycles through disco influences, uncleared samples of US hiphop artists, new jack swing, rap, heavy metal and melodic pop balladry, written by the former bassist for the South Korean heavy metal group Sinawe. Just as Frank Ocean's music challenges Western preconceptions of masculinity, so does "Nan Arayo"; the chorus translates as follows: "Oh my dear, please don't go. I really should go. Oh my dear, please don't go. Right now, I'm crying." (source) I dare you to listen without at least nodding your head. P.S. K-pop falls squarely in the West Coast hiphop tradition.

More Frank Ocean:

I've been away for awhile (a month or so), but one of the things I've wanted to do was address sniping -- mostly in passing -- I see here of hiphop and rap. It's something I've seen elsewhere, including in a public radio interview with Art Garfunkel, who bemoaned the dearth of "real songs" and the predominance of rhythm over melody. He didn't say the words "hiphop" or "rap," but it was clear that's what he had in mind. Much of this comes from lack of familiarity with the genre. While it's true that hiphop and rap build on rhythm and beats rather than melody, that doesn't mean it's unmelodic. My first example of melodicism in hiphop/rap is Frank Ocean's "Bad Religion," a song about his unrequited love for another man. Yes, there's a queer/bisexual male artist who's considered on the cutting edge of US hiphop artistically and who's largely been accepted by others in the industry. He's also a good vocalist (somewhat unusual for most hiphop artists) and a poetic lyricist - something else rap and hiphop are not given credit for. In fact, these lyrics remind me most of (tada) the work of Paul fucking Simon but written in a more experimental rhyming/syllabic format than Simon does. Also please notice the instrumentation/arrangement, which is not what most people typically think of when they hear the words "hiphop" and "rap."

Felony murder, perhaps. Or depraved indifference. We know nothing useful about cause of death and I'm not familiar with Alaskan criminal law.

Thank you for reminding me about the musical episode of Scrubs.

living the dream https://twitter.com/EmrgencyKittens/status/969614570515025920?s=09 (kitten lying on its side in a bowl of dry cat food)

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Not a favorite song but favorite rock vocal: Ha Hyun Woo, lead singer of Gucckasten, appearing on the King of Masked Singer. He holds the all-time record of wins on that show. His range and technique are both impressive! I'm using a reaction video because the video the network uploaded to YouTube ends 2/3 of the way through. Ha Hyun Woo will be in the spotlight in a few weeks as he's one of the announced participants in the opening ceremony at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.

"Money-whore" implies he does it solely for the money, not because it's enjoyable. I used a dildo on a guy who's only attracted to women. That includes trans women. (I'm a cis female, for anyone who doesn't know.) I asked him about it, and having a partner who presents as female is important to him. That seems to me to be a reasonable definition of straight.

I've heard of daisy chains in the context of oral sex. I saw a women-to-women one in porn once, although it wasn't a complete daisy chain, as they formed a line, not a circle. When in doubt, consult Urban Dictionary. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=daisy+chain&utm_source=search-action

I hadn't thought about that, but it's an excellent reason to avoid eating brains in addition to the instinctive aversion I feel for it.

There are men who enjoy anal penetration and anal play but are only sexually attracted to/aroused by women. What term would you apply to them?

I like some of the French classics but prefer restaurants that aren't stuck in the past. For example, one of the local "destination" restaurants offers chateaubriand, beef Wellington and lobster thermidor, but its menu ranges beyond French classics. https://www.themanorrestaurant.com/alacartedinnermenu.html

Pro Publica reports that Woodward "was a member of the Atomwaffen Division, an armed Fascist group with the ultimate aim of overthrowing the U.S. government through the use of terrorism and guerrilla warfare." https://www.propublica.org/article/california-murder-suspect-atomwaffen-division-extremist-hate-group?utm_campaign=sprout&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=1517012208 So homophobia and anti-Semitism are in the mix as possible motives.

I used to live in an area of suburban New Jersey overrun by deer and turkeys, where I saw a wider variety of and more wildlife than I ever did in upstate New York. (I live in a more urban New Jersey location now.) We even had a turkey nest in a planter between the garage and front steps. But I never saw a coyote.

I don't understand why using people's preferred pronouns (she, he or they) is any more of a big deal than calling them by the correct name or by pronouncing their name correctly. To do otherwise is to insist on your imposing your gender politics on them. I don't see the difference between that and refusing to recognize homosexuality or same-sex relationships. Btw, Mike hinted at it, but singular "they" has been used by writers for centuries. He mentioned Shakespeare, but I believe I've seen examples from Chaucer. Also there is no reason why "you" can't be used. The issue is what pronoun to use to refer to a specific individual when addressing another person, when "you" wouldn't be appropriate.

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Someone who is 21 and generally healthy isn't in the group encouraged to get flu vaccines. I'm not saying it wouldn't be covered but that it wouldn't be administered without him asking for it.

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It's only a murder of crows if there's probable caws. (source)

Consent is revocable. It's not a one-time thing.

You're not alone. I like Moulin Rouge!