Virtual Flaneurism

After posting that last bear-related post, I discovered that I have never posted this gem of a video. Enjoy -- it's an old favorite:

“The trial transcript quotes Ms. Hayden as saying Murphy called her a snitch bitch ‘hoe.’ A ‘hoe,’ of course, is a tool used for weeding and gardening. We think the court reporter, unfamiliar with rap music (perhaps thankfully so), misunderstood Hayden’s response. We have taken the liberty of changing ‘hoe’ to ‘ho,’ a staple of rap music vernacular as, for example, when Ludacris raps ‘You doin’ ho activities with ho tendencies.'”

- Judge Terence T. Evans, U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, opinion in United States v. Murphy (2005)

And for my friendly law school friends: United States v. Murphy, 406 F.3d 857, 859 (7th Cir. 2005). It's FN1.

“For me the music is fundamental, especially in a Western where the dialogue is purely aphoristic. The films could just as well be silent; one would understand all the same. The music serves to emphasize states of mind, facts and situations more than the dialogue itself does. In short, for me the music functions as dialogue.”

-Sergio Leone

I post this as a proud member of the feminist elite - finally, finally, FINALLY a music video gratuitously objectifying the male physique has been blasted into the videosphere.

This video is NSFW. This video is NSF your mother. This video is NSF you if you're prude, rude or got a no semi-nudes 'tude. There is butt. Shakin' butt. Toned shakin' butt.

Technically stolen from Ben, though the video had a very different effect when I saw it originally in miniature on his iPhone...

PS. This song is circling through my head like a glockenspiel tornado.