tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post2757811490616422541..comments2023-09-29T02:49:02.989-07:00Comments on An Emphatic Umph: Poise and Some Clumsy and Some MadnessDaniel Coffeenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03912050391869734890noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post-71291839154934532142011-03-29T00:58:32.497-07:002011-03-29T00:58:32.497-07:00Back From ‘Vacation,’ Lil Wayne Returns to Reclaim...Back From ‘Vacation,’ Lil Wayne Returns to Reclaim His Perch<br /><br /><br /><br />UNIONDALE, N.Y. — Just before Lil Wayne, a k a <a href="http://www.cheapbagoutlet.com/" rel="nofollow">Coach Outlet </a><br /><a href="http://www.cheapbagoutlet.com/" rel="nofollow">Coach online </a>, went to jail last March, he took on a new nickname, Lil <br /><br />Tunechi. It seemed ungainly at first, awkward sounding and unrevealing. Plus: what rhymes with Tunechi? <br /><br />Nuisance, stupid, Stooges, sushi, pollution, substitution, movies, Jacuzzi, juicy: all <a href="http://www.cheapbagoutlet.com/coach-backpacks.html" rel="nofollow"> Coach Backpacks</a>that assonance is in just the first few <br /><br />seconds of Lil Wayne’s verse on Chris Brown’s “Look at Me Now,” one of his best since Lil Wayne’s release from Rikers Island on <br /><br />Nov. 4, and a reminder that when he’s so inclined, he can weave words like few <a href="http://www.cheapbagoutlet.com/coach-tote-bags.html" rel="nofollow"> Coach Tote Bags</a>. <br /><br />When he left for jail, he was the most popular rapper in the country and also, at times, the absolute best, a dynamo of intricacy, <br /><br />exuberance and swagger. But much changed during Lil Wayne’s “eight-month vacation,” as he’s called it. His protégés Drake and <br /><br />Nicki Minaj took over hip-hop’s center, though neither had the specific manic energy of the boss. And bombast returned to the <br /><br />genre, in the form of Rick Ross and Waka Flocka Flame. <br /><br />None of that mattered, though, on Sunday night at<a href="http://www.cheapbagoutlet.com/coach-wallets.html" rel="nofollow"> Coach <br /><br />Wallets</a> here when Lil Wayne’s “I Am Still Music” tour arrived for the first of two sold-out shows. For almost two hours Lil <br /><br />Wayne was vibrant in a performance that was less a show of progress than a reassertion of primacy. <br /><br />Lil Wayne is the only star of his generation, save Kanye West, who can consistently fill rooms of this size. Before Rikers, he was so <br /><br />deep into his winning streak that he was on the verge of an experimental phase, as heard on the sometimes noxious rock album <br /><br />“Rebirth” and the intermittently appealing odds-and-ends collection “I Am Not a Human Being.”shoppingjordanonlinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11525339195799645450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post-90994472525905885412011-03-20T18:48:19.152-07:002011-03-20T18:48:19.152-07:00Oh man, I'm glad you like it.Oh man, I'm glad you like it.dustygravelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01877215902611486889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post-85028486292449205982011-03-19T10:53:12.676-07:002011-03-19T10:53:12.676-07:00Yes yes yes: grammar! That's exactly what I w...Yes yes yes: grammar! That's exactly what I was getting at, grammars of life. I've often called tropes grammars of life, shapes and logics of distribution of sense. For that is what grammar is: the logic of the distribution of sense.<br /><br />I've never read that McLuhan but I love your description. Now you got me all riled up, in the best sense, about, grammars.Daniel Coffeenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03912050391869734890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post-88219235790851836162011-03-19T02:39:01.841-07:002011-03-19T02:39:01.841-07:00Have you ever read the classical trivium by Marsha...Have you ever read the classical trivium by Marshal Mcluhan.This is the book that first sparked my interest in rhetoric and lead me to your berkeley pod-casts. In that book Mcluhan traces the the tentions and conflicts between philosophy, rhetortic, and grammar, as they move through history.<br />Your pod casts overtly deal with philosophy and rhetoric, but the one that strikes me now is grammer. In Mcluhans book grammer is more then <br />sentense structure, Its the “book of nature”. <br />The grammarians where the teachers, collectors, sorters, and sifters of knowledge, but without contemporary disciplinary divisions shaping their methodology or final collections. That seems to explain your work as much as rhetoric or philososphy dose.<br /><br />Do you ever think of your self this way?dustygravelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01877215902611486889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post-72062429813923613152011-03-19T02:28:33.557-07:002011-03-19T02:28:33.557-07:00This is encouraging.
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