I’m a lover of music. I own an insane amount of it and a very wide variety. I also am a fan of a well chosen sample that can turn a good song (“Fantasy” by Mariah Carey) into an awesome song (“Fantasy” remix featuring Ol’ Dirty Bastard). But not all musical rip offs are equal.…

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Obviously, The Snob is a pretty big fan of the internet. As a political, cultural, history nerd, I was in reference section heaven. The internet could settle sports debates between me and my father. (Like the great “Who Told Tiger Not to Bring the Fried Chicken or Whatever They Eat” to the Masters when Tiger…

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Snob reader Peggy Sue hipped me to some Obama for Obama coverage. I’d heard a few things about the city of Obama, Japan rooting for Barack Obama for president, but I hadn’t blogged anything on it. The video above is a shorter flick I found on YouTube. Peggy sent me a link to a series…

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Barack Obama getting lunch at Johnny J’s Restaurant in Wyoming, March 7th. (Associated Press) Barack Obama won Wyoming. Solidly. Coming in at 59 percent to Clinton’s 40 percent. While I’m sure someone out of Hillary Clinton’s camp will remind me that Wyoming totally doesn’t count for many different reasons, especially considering this was a caucus,…

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Democratic presidential candidate and Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) reaches for a sign to autograph after she spoke in Cheyenne, Wyoming March 7, 2008. (Rick Wilking/Reuters) Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., speaks at a town hall meeting in Casper, Wyo., Friday, March 7, 2008. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) The Hillster has been kicking around the…

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Young, Black and Fabulous is reporting that my Flo-Mo hometown girl is bringing her not-black-black-ass to St. Louis to host Fashion Week later this month. St. Louis is not known for its fashion sense. (Is a Cardinals cap with a Budweiser shirt and black sweatpants a fashion statement?) But the city is still trying to…

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It’s been a while since I wrote about a few of my “Limits of Blackness,” places and things that go “a Negro too far” for me. As African Americans, a lot of time we feel pressure to cosign onto things and fads that we’d rather not be associated with. But often if you express displeasure…

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