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 century flavor,” and not, “Wasn’t I once a serious actor back in the 1990s, and why did I have to be in the ‘Star Wars’ films that sucked?!?” LOL!

And then, this:

…..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!

All I can say is THANKS.

Thoroughly enjoyed! As usual, thanks to Jared Ball for telling me about this. Maybe this will end the conspiracy talk. Do we really need another year of that? LOL!

Victory! (I think.)

As a so-called “professional content producer” and/or “artist,” I do understand how complex this could get.)

And here’s an important related story.

Here’s why Juan Williams gets paid so well to be FOX’s token Black liberal.    He did a good job here asking tough, direct questions to Gingrich, and Gingrich did a great job responding.  (Gingrich always rises a little after a debate, and this is why.) I agree with the former Speaker: I, too, want him to debate President Obama, because he knows how to lie entertainingly!  LOL!

Nothing more to be said.

My department colleague, Dr. Baruti Kopano (starts at about 40:00; you MUST hear his pledge at 1:51:50!), was part of this recent event. Check it out!

News For All The People: The Epic Story Of Race And The American Media.
Juan Gonzalez and Joseph Torres.
Verso.
480 pp. $29.95.

When journalists write history, there is always the danger of that history being shallow, surface-level. This remarkable book is one of the rare instances of such a problem being a positive, due to its great, realized ambition. For this narrative successfully weaves the history of Black media, Native American media, Hispanic media and Asian media within the context of the history of America’s capitalistic media development.

Building on the work of media historians and colonial and American newspapers from three centuries, the authors outline a people’s history of American media, with the people publishers and broadcasters of color, and how this history ebbs and flows with the creation of  The One Percent and its information expansion throughout the country, respectively. It matches the growth of the media with the constant surging of America’s white supremacy, each reflecting the other. It finds “rebel editors” of all colors and their publications who resisted the racist tides, often at great personal risk. And it connects these historical figures with the up-to-date issues and modern resistance that the media reform movement is currently waging to save the World Wide Web from being consumed by corporations. “With each day that passes, with each new advance in mass communications technology,” Gonzalez and Torres posit, “our biggest media companies feverishly race to readjust, to become bigger and more dominant in the marketplace. Only by clearly grasping the main conflicts and choices that shape our current media system can ordinary citizens successfully unite with the concerned journalists and workers within the system to bring about meaningful reform. The second democratic revolution of the U.S. media has already begun.”

Ultimately, the authors believe that explaining the history of this sometimes radical, sometimes capitalistic reform will inspire 21st century media practitioners—meaning, all of us—to (continue to) organize with keyboards and cellphones.  As 2011 ends, Gonzalez and Torres provide not just a clear understanding of how the enemy built the empire, but merge historical ideas on how to use the new/old tools at our disposal to resist it.

………That Newt Gingrich comment about poor kids and work.  Of course this was forwarded to me by Gregory Adamo.

……… the Republican campaign prior to Iowa. (I thought I would REALLY miss Herman Cain, but Newt….WOW!)  This debate is gaffe-free and was on FOX News. Interesting what’s going on there.

……..The GREATNESS of this comic! (Think Tony Stark as “Doctor Who,” with a Black man’s smoothness. )  Buy this!!!

And, speaking of buying this:

…….How happy I am to own this new book! I’m looking forward to being part of a Jared Ball 89.3 WPFW-FM radio discussion with this author on Jan. 6 at 10 a.m. EST.  JANUARY 18TH UPDATE: And here it is!

…..how Season Two of “The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes” is taking longer and longer to premiere.  Sometime next year. *SIGH*