It’s done. Barack Obama is the Democratic nominee for president. The emotional impact snuck up on me like a stealth bomb. Maybe because of all the drama with Hillary and Ted Kennedy. Probably because I never thought it would really happen. I came home during the delegate roll call vote and it hit me what …
The powerful speech by Dennis Kucinich at the Democratic National Convention wasn’t included on much of the media we saw and it should have been. Wake up America. This is not a call for you to take a new direction from right to left. This is call for you to go from down to up. …
This post’s title refers to something George Carlin said in the great video I posted earlier today below. I was going to post more of the updates on my own health, but this comes first. Alec posted this on his blog yesterday: Friday, August 22, 2008My aching heart I’m sorry if I was a day …
Thank you Jay for this excellent homage to the great George Carlin and his commentary on censorship and growing old: For the great one. One of the biggest influences on my understanding of everything, and his legendary “7 dirty words” court case happened at the radio station where I’ve spent half my life. One of …
A talk by Larry Lessig: How creativity is being strangled by the law. I know this is long, but it is fascinating and entertaining. At about 8:13 minutes in there are three cool video clips to illustrate Mr. Lessig’s point. 19:07 minutes – filmed Mar 2007 – posted Nov 2007 by TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design). …
Please watch How To Tell People They Sound Racist – a brilliant July 21, 2008 podcast by Jay Smooth, host of WBAI’s Underground Railroad in New York City. He is a blogger at hiphopmusic.com and the creator of the video podcast ill Doctrine. Thanks to Bil Browning at The Bilerico Project for posting it there. …
Hi everyone. I am sorry I haven’t posted for a while and I am way behind on answering some of my email. I’m okay. I was/am dealing with some health stuff that slowed me down after the last grand mal seizure which was a month ago today on July 15th. I finally got the diagnosis …
Tomorrow night (Wednesday) ‘Sordid Lives: The Series’ begins on LOGO TV. The movie Sordid Lives was fantastic and I expect the show to be too. Del Shores is also the author of the play ‘Southern Baptist Sissies’ which I saw first in Los Angeles (thank you, Michael) and then when it was done here at …
I know some of my friends read this blog for my health updates. I had another seizure yesterday at about noon and the medics came when Alec called and a firetruck arrived and then three medic/firepersons checked me and helped me walk to the car and Alec drove me to the emergency room, nurses helped …