Questlove’s Digital Memoir: Humanizing What We Idolize
We live in a culture that has enabled people to believe they know celebrities based on gossip blogs, tweets and status updates. The things we think we know have been filtered through rumor mills, taken out of context and embellished by people 1,000 degrees separated from the celebrity in question. The Roots drummer and Jimmy [...]
Read MoreBreaking: Microsoft Kills Kin
What’s @questlove gonna do now? Microsoft decided to halt work on its Kin phone and focus on developing and launching its Windows Phone 7, which is scheduled to be released for Holiday 2010. The company has stopped all plans to ship the Kin over to Europe. And this past weekend, Verizon slashed the prices of [...]
Read MoreNBC Celebrates Black History Month with Fried Chicken and Corn Bread
Drummer @questlove of The Roots, NBCU employee, brought this to our attention today via Twitter. His commentary on it inside:
Read More?uesto’s Bus Crashes, Blogs / Twitters It
If you follow ?uestlove, the eccentric and completely awesome drummer of the Roots, on Twitter, you get the feeling that dude is constantly on his mobile device, in front of his computer, or doing something electronic-y when not DESTROYING a set. Such as the case, recently, when their tour bus crashed last night in Paris. [...]
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