I Thought The Second Hip Hop Green Party Candidate……..
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008….did a great job on her Green Party Vice Presidential nomination acceptance speech. I look forward to voting for her in future elections.
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The Man I Loved To Hate
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008Way, way back when I thought that one day (today) I’d be a famous pundit, I looked forward to locking horns with right-wingers like Tony Snow. His end-of-show commentaries on “Fox News Sunday” never failed to make my teeth grit and shout obscenities at the screen. I looked forward to him one day attacking me by name, seeing […]
Black (Activist Commerical) Radio, R.I.P.?
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008It was great hearing Bob Law’s voice on the radio again. The occasion was a new documentary film he’s narrating.
Enjoyed the recent NPR discussion about it, and Black radio. I agree with the host—the time for Black Activist Commercial Radio might be past, but not necessarily for the same reasons she brought up. Check here […]
CONGRATS To Hazel Trice Edney……….
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008…..for winning a “National 2008 Role Model Award” from the National Baptist Congress of Christian Education!
Hazel has always been my hero.
The Death Of The Magazine, The Birth Of The Magazine
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008I like “NOVAScienceNOW,” even though I’m not hosting it. Believe me, that’s high praise. It’s clear we’re in the Golden Age of the Magazine—the BROADCAST magazine. I’m happy that I can listen to three national Black(ish) radio newsmagazines in a week, watch the NOVA spinoff show every summer and check out what the brother’s doing on […]
What’s Deliberate?
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008Okay. A work of satire. I get it. Confront the enemy directly, blah, blah, blah…….. But boy, some folks are really upset! I got a relative who wants to [CENSORED] The New Yorker building!
The news media pretend it’s hard to tell a deliberate slam from a sham these days. For instance, The Reverend Nutslicer. Does […]
A Rolling Stone Gathers Much Puff :)
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008Was 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 […]
The (New) Little Tramp, The Tough-As-Nails Vamp, And The Future (of Pixar)
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008When I heard this (level of) review, I put “Wall-E” on the to-see list. So yesterday I went, and saw no exaggeration.
Another home run for the 3-D gang. It’s hard to explain the amount of, and quality of, visual storytelling in this film. The characters fit like parts of a symphony separate and attached to the music. As usual […]
Just Three Words (And One Acronym)
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008See. Hancock. Fun-nee! LOL!
P.S. Can’t believe the critics are dogging it so badly!
P.P.S. The movie brings a whole new meaning to a certain idea popularized by Michael Eric Dyson.
Surround Sound
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008I was very inspired by this one story. I guess most radio folks see themselves in this way, in this man.