Durham is dank…

Any fair-minded Durhamanian has to say that is, in part, because Duke is dank. The thought can’t help but pop into mind driving across the dirty D at 7.30am this second to last day of August. The Dukies are out and about, moving and shaking, getting more done before 9am and so on. Durham is charged with their energy. These peeps, many of them still young, shiny and new, were smart and driven enough to get into an institution that is billed in some corners as the Harvard of the South. Elsewhere the Dukies t-shirts proclaim Harvard to be the Duke of the North. The bottom-line for the denizens of Durham is that Duke brings swarms of talented, ambitious people to our town. Some of them end up loving it as much as we do and stay. After all, Durham is dank.

Tweet of the weekend

The tweet of the weekend^* comes to us from the Twitter account of one Abbey Robinson.

Everything tempting in my life comes wrapped in either a bow tie or a bojangles box. #southerngirlswagger

^*Caution this tweet may only be funny south of the Mason-Dixon line.

What they are watching... Episode XXII

Our look at what the teens and tweens of America are watching. We peer into their world through the lens of Youtube or in this case Vimeo. You may have caught some of our earlier episodes, if not, follow this link [and scroll down past this post].

Here DJ sensation Girl Talk has inspired some of his fans to make their own video. Personally, we love Girl Talk's mixology at the Clarion Content. He rocks.

Girl Walk // All Day from jacob krupnick.

Girl Talk played Wolfstock at the Raleigh Amphitheater last week with Clarion Content fave, LiLa

Office Music

What has been jamming in the Clarion Content offices all day?

This...





Special thanks to the Cota Flota channel for publishing this live video. Word is that LiLa's latest video is dropping Thursday, as in tomorrow. They are playing NC State's Wolfstock, opening for Girl Talk.

Desire and conquest

You met her with stone eyes, even though your insecurities tried to melt them into wax. She looked down, smiled, and the rest went to rest. Now, with her legs, she envelopes you like a pearl in an oyster. Her soft cheek hugging your hard shoulder and it's woman and man. In the dark, her eyes are holes that you've learned to recognize. You know her by the sound of her breathing, by the weight of her hand on your happy trail, and by how her hair tickles your nose, but doesn't make you want to sneeze. You try to imprint on your brain how the pressure from her feels on your stomach, chest, and knees so you can call her to mind, physically, when you're alone. But you're disappointing yourself, because now you'll never be alone. Comfortable loneliness is not having any Body around and no thought of one either, and with her, that will never be actual . But right now, you're brazen. You're selfish. And don't know how and don't want to be satisfied. So, you explore her back with knuckles and callous fingers, nearly crying to God to turn the dead tips of them pink so you could feel her winding road. You realize how much of her thigh fits in your palm and how far up your hand can go until her breathing halts. Which inch makes her sigh, which centimeter makes her stretch out, and which itch she dies for you to get. As you skate on her skin up her neck, she reels back and her hair hits your face making a splash. Almost arrogantly, you move up further into her field of a black mane, and make a fist to pull it back. She looks at you and spaces out completely gone. Completely gone. Because she's found the man to pull her reins.

...by That Solid Old Man

9th Street loses its comic book store

Durham's 9th Street, the heart of Duke's East Campus drag, has lost its comic book store. While we are accustom to the high turnover of the storefronts along 9th Street, Dogstar Tattoo for example recently decamped for Golden Belt, it was still sad to see Ultimate Comics go. The word is that Ultimate Comics moving to the Falconbridge Shopping Center on NC 54 near Mardi Gras Bowling. The 9th Street store has already shuttered its doors.

Disney characters breaking it down

Thanks to Courtney Roskop for tweeting about this bemusing video. We like, we like. It shows just because one wears a furry Disney character get up, it doesn't mean one has to jettison one's hipness.