Subscribers to LEE-LOg, the weblog of Lee Henderson, author of The Broken Record Technique and winner of the Danuta Gleed two years in a row according to a notoriously regurgitated press release, have noticed a content shift in the last six months or so. Lee’s fascination with internet minutiae and artistic curiosities has been lately eclipsed by gangsta rap. Here are LEE-LOg’s thematic travels, as charted through the archives. I noticed the tide turned around the mention of the Beasties. I'm willing to blame it on Abu Ghraib:

• September ’03: Funereal tableaux of the animal kingdom by Walter Potter, Victorian taxidermist.
  
• October ’03: Virginia State Police portrait gallery of fallen troopers.
  
• January ’04: "My two favorite things in the entire world, wrestling and short stories, have combined forces with my third favorite thing in the entire world, digital rendering, and my FOURTH favorite thing in the entire world, nakedness, for this all-out, monster battle cage match fists of fury pixilated death blow polygonal excitement excitement . . ."
  
• May ’04: Dairy board propaganda. Butt cracks at Abu Ghraib.
  
• June ’04: "Today LEE-LOg exposes why the Beastie Boys is made of pure shit." The website of David Berkowitz, Son of Sam.
  
• July ’04: "Upsetting" Buddhist mandalas by American 5th graders. "LEE-LOg is proud to announce that it has expanded into the music business."
  
• August ’04: “An incredible little film of a dude taking the human beatbox thing to a whole new level of harmonica-based craziness. It's a really good thing, and it also segues nicely into what else is new. As you probably are already aware, LEE-LOg is always up on the latest advances. That's why we have expanded. To meet your log needs and to match our log interests we began to log more than unique and morbid websites. We realized we could log anything we wanted. So we started to log our favorite gangsta rap.” Jadakiss.
  
• September ’04: Ghostface. More Jadakiss. “Artwork for Jadakiss is by Lil' Scrap, who wanted me to correct my earlier assertion that he's Sikh. In fact, he is Hindu. He's 16 years old and like the rest of his crew, uses only Canadian-made Laurentian pencil crayons. I keep forgetting to ask them what the name of their crew is, but they hang out at the IGA on Main street sometimes, look for them sitting on the brick wall at the north side of the parking lot drawing with Laurentian pencil crayons in their black books and whatever, loitering, acting like idiots. I usually don't bother them unless I have money, because they're not intimidating, just really needy, so unless I'm bugging them to buy some drawings off them, they look hurt when I say good-bye, like I'm leaving them there like orphans.”
  
• October ’04: Ghostface, Killah. Wu-Tang Clan. The Absolute Best of Jadakiss.

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