msbelle, how about They Might Be Giant's Mr. Xcitement. Not strictly hip hop and a lot of the lyrics are gibberish, but it's catchy.

I like Me Phi Me, but it might not be interesting to a kid.

I was the 4 yr old singing Bad, Bad Leroy Brown.

I wanted in on it, because I wanted my eyes to turn blue!

I was rampantly against it for similar not-getting-it reasons. I resented the implication that eyes would turn blue, and thought they meant it was a good thing.

Signed,
Read The Bluest Eye Too Young.

I grew up on Beatles singing about trips and Joan Baez singing about lovers and social injustice. Dad and I discovered U2 at the same time. Make of that what you will.

I can send Mac a mix of old school rap! A lot of old Kurtis Blow, Run DMC, and such are clean in content. And! And! Kriss Kross (will make you JUMP! JUMP!

Nucleus! WIKI WIKI WIKI SHUT UP!

And there are a couple of neat Beastie Boys songs. I think Sure Shot is clean, but I'll check (I want say somethin that's long overdue, that disrespect to women has got to be through. To all the mothers and sisters and the wives and friends, I wanna offer my love and respect to the end)

Weirdly, when I was in high school, a friend's mom pointed out to us that brown eyes were actually less common (don't know if this is true) and we used to sing "Brown Eyed girl" on the piano roll!!! for her and me, because we were the only two brown eyed girls in our group (the mom and I).

I didn't read The Bluest Eye until college, so I didn't have that association. I thought more that blue eyes were the closest to violet eyes, and we all know that violet eyes are the best!

Yay ita.

Another science podcast. How to Think about Science. It's actual a series from the radio program Ideas and has a limited run, but it's 24 55 minute episodes, so it will keep you going for a while. [link]

I will have Allyson include:

Kool Moe Dee, "I Go to Work"
Afrika Bambaataa, "Renegades of Funk"
Kurtis Blow, "The Breaks"

I just told my cat she's weird. Because she is. I just spent the last few hours here, giving her lots of attention. Then I left to go to the store and was back a 6-ish minutes later. So I get home and she's all meowing all freaked out that I was gone for a bit.

Once my housing situation sorts itself out, I may get her a kitten to keep her company.

When I started wearing contacts in sixth grade, I really wanted the colored kind that would make my eyes look blue or green. My mom said no. I'm grateful for that now, but thought it was So Unfair then.

We're bouncing around the living room to The Freaks Come Out at Night by Whodini! FUN!

ETA: I wish Jesse was here.

OH OH! Kristen just came up with Rob Base! JOY! PAIN! SUNSHINE! RAIN! AND THE RHYTHM OF ROB BASE!