links for 2009-10-31

• Light-Skin Brothers Making A Comeback
  Ta-Nehisi Coates has a post about his feelings about 80s pop diversity that brings together the personal and political in a way that blogging was invented for. Well, it's probably not the reason it was invented. That was just ease of publishing. But why it's popular. No that's not right easier. That's cat pictures and incoherent partisan ranting. But why it's important and awesome and why I still wear my Blogger sweatshirt proudly even though I use typepad. This description has nothing to do with the post itself, but you should still read it because it's rock star writing.
  (tags: Ta-NehisiCoates culture race Prince Vanity biracial ILovethe80s)