Imagine, if you can, being a historian toiling away on your work on pop culture. You focus on a cool topic, but you are still a historian. Your book comes out to solid reviews. It has a great cover. It even sells some copies. Then imagine that a couple of years down the road a member of a defunct but indubitably great hip hop group drops the name of your book in an interview as being on his bedside table.

Ray Haberski, welcome to your closeup! An OU PhD and friend of Rebunkers, Haberski is living the dream right now. On page 45 of this week's Entertainment Weekly, RZA of the late, great Wu Tang Clan declares that at the top of his list of nighttime reading is Ray's It's Only a Movie!: Films and Critics in American Culture. Congratulations, Rayray -- the RZA digs ya.

Derek Charles Catsam - 5/16/2005

I knew that -- I KNEW THAT!!!- utter brainfart!

Steven Heise - 5/16/2005

He does sports not culture, I'll give him a pass this time though how can you mess up Wu-Tang Clan with A Tribe Called Quest?

Steve

Tom Bruscino - 5/16/2005

RZA's in the Wu-Tang Clan, not Tribe. Sheesh.