Email Author Christian Hoard

2003 Stories by Christian Hoard

• Ugly Details Not Omitted

  published November 4, 2003

  Nowadays, "emo" is at best a convenient tag for music-glossy scribes, and though that truncated half-word circumscribes the bathetic sweep of an... More >>

• New Thugs on the Block

  published May 13, 2003

  Even though 8 Mile turned it into a heroic, Rocky-style archetype of urban odds-beating, battle rhyming (and the raw talent it... More >>

• Mr. Showstopper

  published March 11, 2003

  Not that many people over 30 would give a shit, but the indie-comedy world—which basically runs parallel to the indie-rock world and... More >>

• Wherefore Art Thou?

  published January 28, 2003

  On the best song off the Jackson 5's excellent 1970 Christmas album, Marlon asks for new shoes; Jackie, a basketball hoop seven feet high; and... More >>