CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • CenLamar’s Top Ten Albums of 2008

    10. Death Cab for Cutie Narrow Stairs: I’ve been a huge fan of Death Cab since the first very time I heard the album We Have the Facts and We’re Voting Yes, particularly the song “405.” Ben Gibbard, the lead singer of Death Cab, is one of the single greatest talents in contemporary “popular” music, a strange thing to admit for those of us who absorbed his music in the backrooms of small clubs eight years ago, way back when the band was just another Seattle-based upstart attempting to resurrect the scene’s primacy after the suicide of Kurt Cobain, and…

  • SNL Slammed for Governor Paterson Skit

    A few years ago, as my brother and I were walking out of a concert at the Woodlands in Texas, a group of drunk college students, upon seeing me walk by, began to chant, “Timmeh! Timmeh! Timmeh!” I’ve learned to have thick skin when people make fun of my disability, but on that night, I must admit: I was deeply offended by those idiots. “Timmeh,” for those of you who don’t know, was a reference to the physically and mentally disabled South Park character, Timmy, whose only defining trait, besides his wheelchair, was his constant repetition of his own name.…

  • Unelectability

    I should reiterate this: Unless stated otherwise, the opinions expressed on this blog belong exclusively to me, Lamar White, Jr. I am writing this to prove my own inherent unelectability in the State of Louisiana. Yesterday, I was informed on another website that Louisianans, outside of the New Orleans area, could never be elected to any office if they voiced their support for gay marriage and freedom of choice. Notwithstanding my criticisms of the construction of this argument, I opine the following: 1. I fully support the right of gay and lesbian couples to enter into legally-binding agreements ascribing the…