Archive for February, 2012

A 21st Century Video Game :)

Tuesday, February 28th, 2012

Clearly we’ve come a long way since “Donkey Kong!” LOL!

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Randy Weston, “An African Born In America”

Tuesday, February 21st, 2012

Powerful.

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I paid $5 to see this movie in a matinee yesterday. It was the right price—not more, not less.

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Homegirl

Tuesday, February 14th, 2012

Once apon a time there was a little girl in the ghetto (in my home ghetto, in fact) who wanted to be a princess. She had the talent (and, yes, beauty) to get away with it. She could sing with the range of her godmother and the articulation, the clarity of her cousin. She found [...]

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Nothing Like Catching Up With…..

Saturday, February 11th, 2012

…..a show you realize is GREAT but hadn’t seen a lot of before! “Batman: The Brave and The Bold” (which ended last fall after 65 eps) is FUN, FUN, FUN! (And the more you know about superhero cartoons and comics, the funnier they are! For example, this clip (a pre-opening teaser) makes fun of ’60s [...]

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…..but I admit that I thought about his tweets when I watched this. This young brother’s courage is admirable!

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Who’s that next to Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.)? The purple shirt is a HUGE hint! Awww…..some Silver Age comic continuity here? I guess this scene picks up right where the post-credits “epilogue” scene of “Captain America” left off…… I hope Samuel L. Jackson is thinking here, “I am giving this white boy some serious 21st [...]

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Thanks, Courtland…….

Saturday, February 4th, 2012

…..for keepin’ it real with “Red Tails.” Yep, we saw the same movie—the one with the *%$#$%-up script! (Enjoyed reading the “Letters To The Editor.”) Folks, this film made me want to run out and buy the HBO ’90s joint on DVD! LOL!

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Sheesh! I was just getting used to this, and now I gotta deal with this and this!  (And, of course, I [happily] used Google to find these images! AUUGGGHHHHH!!!!! LOL! )

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Change! (2)

Saturday, February 4th, 2012

  PHOTO AND CAPTION FROM NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD: SCI Mahanoy, February 2, 2012. Mumia Abu-Jamal celebrates his move off of death row with Heidi Boghosian and Professor Johanna Fernandez. This was Mumia’s second contact visit in 30 years. His transfer to general population  comes after a federal court ruled that instructions to jurors during his trial influenced them to choose death. [...]

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