My email is all fuckered up and I can't get the message through.

It was Oakland rapper Keak Da Sneak who claims to have invented the term: upon being told by his mother that he was “hyperactive”, Keak repeated the term as “hyphy”. Since then, hyphy has come to refer to a complex group of cultural activities synonymous with Oakland: it is at once a sound, a behavior, a choice in recreational drugs.

Katy rolled snowballs and tried to make a snowcat instead of a snowman.

The sight of his scared face, his starts and pallors and sudden harkenings, unstrung me […]