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At 12:29 p.m. today, an earthquake hit Southern California. Its epicenter was in the Pacific Ocean, and about 85 miles west of Los Angeles. So far, no injuries or deaths. And also no tsunami warnings.

Here are some scenes from the rattling that mercifully stopped, that mercifully did not explode into the Big One that’s always in the back of our minds.

I had no idea they were making Force Majeure 2 this afternoon.

And it even looks as good as the original.

These anchorpersons were, to use the words of the rap duo Mobb Deep, “the shook ones.”


What must also be considered in all of this is the fact that one of the rappers of Mobb Deep, the recently late Prodigy, was a Hegelian. He understood the German philosopher’s deep respect for the Absolute Master (death). To be a shook one is, to use the words of Hegel, to have “trembled in every fiber of [your] being, [and felt] everything solid and stable [be] shaken to its foundations.”

Speaking of old school hiphop: “And all the buildings for miles around were swayin’ to the groove…”

Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory...