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A Rolling Stone Gathers Much Puff :)

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

Was in bed the other night with the love of my life—Rolling Stone magazine —and all I gotta say is this: Boy, it’s clearly good to be the King. RS Publisher Jann Wenner does a puff-piece Q+A, and then commissions a sidebar all about how Obama’s people are impressive because they actually wield power […]

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…..you’ll just have to see the Newseum for itself. I just can’t do it justice.

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In The Sake Of Fairness……..

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

Here’s the amusing-but-true sibling to the white one.

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In The Spirit of Multiculturalism…….

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

………….I have to offer this, tongue firmly in cheek. Happy African Heritage Month! LOL!
P.S. I gave up watching “Friends” reruns a couple years back when I realized I had memorized every other line, so……

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Did You Read……….

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

………..this commentary on Amy Winehouse?

And here’s what Blige had to say about Winehouse before the Grammys.

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Happy Music, Vol. 1

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

Okay, I’m not ashamed to admit how much I miss ’80s pop.

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………..from Bruce Springsteen in his recent Rolling Stone interview.
You gotta get the mag to read all of what I read, ’cause most of it is not online.

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The Question That Is Still Relevant

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

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Easy Come………..

Monday, October 8th, 2007

 

………..and so goes Syndication One.
Nice idea. But next time, if you want to make Baisden money, then hire a Baisden! LOL!
Meanwhile, Black America is still gonna need a Black news-talk radio network, particularly during the election. Any takers?
(HEARS CRICKETS CHIRP ) 
I thought not. No one has any McDonald’s money—for Black information, at least. Meanwhile, look at […]

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SENTENCES: The Life of MF Grimm
By Percy Carey and Ronald Wimberly
Vertigo Books/DC Comics
$19.99, ISBN: 978-1-4012-1046-5
He was thisclose to getting out of The Life for good before the bullets came for his spine. But Percy Carey himself makes it hard to feel sorry for him before and after he was paralyzed from the waist down. Carey […]

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