Nice! This new Nas song (co-produced by the late Heavy D!) would indicate that the excellence of last year's "Nasty" was no fluke, and raises the hope that the new album, Life Is Good, is going to be good indeed, when it ever comes out. (He should change the album title before it does, though. Because, come on, hasn't he read that article in Wired, or the new report from the OECD? Life sucks.)

One of the nicest things about driving north out of the city is that point ten or fifteen minutes past the Bronx Zoo when you see the familiar sign and you say to yourself or the unlucky person who's in the car with you and has had to hear you repeat your own silly little favorite sayings again and again and again for the past ten years, "Money Earnin' Mt. Vernon!" It's such a great rhyme, it rolls off the tongue perfectly, really one of the best municipal nicknames anyone's ever come up with. Sadly, the man who grew up there who coined the phrase—or, at least, the man who [...]