Back from Seattle

Talk about Academic Rock Stars! Just back from Seatlle and the Experience Music Project's Annual Pop Conference. Some highlights, in the form of blind items ...

Who promised that his next book would be called Blonde on Blonde?

Who said that if he had written Love and Theft it would have been called Love and Corroboration ... and would have flopped?

Which author of a well-received book on the blues got snarky about having to live in a world where not everyone knows Chalino Sanchez?

Who called Lil Jon "crunkface minstrelsy"?

Who said Mick Jagger was an updated Zip Coon who went and hunted some cool in order to turn those lips into an asset?

Who dissed my motherland by cracking this joke about unwanted/excessive blog comments: "Hi, I'm from Kenya. Give me your bank account number"?

... And lastly, a non-blind item (click the link) ...

Which fabulous performance artist included this line in her one-woman show, (which is coming to NYC Gay Pride this summer):

"The important thing isn't to look pretty. The important thing is to look like you have something to hide."