………….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…… 🙂
Category Archives: magazine
Two Networks, A New Comicbook…….
Race vs. Gender (vs. Class?), Hillary vs. Barack vs. America
Jesse And Al On Obama
Rev. Sharpton’s statement
Rev. Jackson’s statement
Roland Martin’s audio interview with Obama
Obama’s Iowa victory speech
The New American Dream?
All year I’ve been amused by the journalistically fostered idea that white Americans, the (voting) majority of this country, are ready to actually go into small booths in November 2008 and, privately and deliberately, elect a Black male as POTUS. Before he gets assassinated.
Late last night, I was in bed with the great passion of my life—Rolling Stone. 🙂 It documented the overdose of optimism that is part of Obamaland. I read this article days after watching an interview Bill Moyers did with esteemed political scientist Ron Walters. Our brother seemed, well, cautiously optimistic about Barack Obama, too.
I just have a hard time believing it. I know I’m not the only one. Yes, this is the America of Condi and Oprah and Will Smith, but it’s also the America of Jena 6 and Megan Williams and institutional, if not blatant, racism in every aspect of American life—especially politics. Remember the McCain “slur” in South Carolina? Or “Harold at the Playboy party?”
Yes, the Oprah thing LOOKED impressive. But in America, it’s those angry “Washington Journal” (white) callers who actually vote. Ask Karl Rove about this. 🙂
If Walters hadn’t said what he did on Tee Vee about Obama’s chances, I’d just dismiss all of this as media hype generated by the yearning for the End of White Guilt. Let’s see what Iowa, New Hampshire and especially South Carolina will yield.
Does This Civil Rights Leader Look Chinese To You?
Some people think so. My verdict: Stop HATING! Black people do not OWN our brother MLK.
When The Sky Isn't Blue
See the above? Well, it isn’t torture—at least, not according to America’s elite mainstream media. Well, at least not yet. See, they haven’t made up their minds.
Whenever I think “Democracy Now!” sounds too strident, all I have to do is hear the MSM’s hand-wringing over the obvious to again be reminded why we need national, professional advocacy journalism based in the United States.
Did You See…….
 
…………last week’s “Bill Moyers Journal” report on media ownership by people of color?
No?
Well, then, here it is.
NOVEMBER 19th UPDATE: Here’s the follow-up on the larger issue of consolidation.
Learned A LOT About Writing (And The Artist's Balancing Act)……….
………..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.
What?!? No More Kids' WB!?!?
And then, in 2008, there was none. Damn. Money really does talk, and talk well, huh? DAMN! What happened to subsidizing your BRANDS? Oh, that’s right; the network is the CW now. Boy, am I naive! LOL! 🙂
Clearly, after 16 years of geek bliss, it’s finally time to leave the house on Saturday mornings. 🙂 I will always have great memories of the Great Animated Superhero Cartoon Commercial Television Era of 1992 (the year “Batman: TAS” premiered on Fox Kids on weekday afternoons) to 2008. “X-Men,” “Spider-Man: TAS,” “Phantom 2040” , “Gargolyes” and “Superman: TAS” followed on Fox Kids, Kids WB! or in weekdaily or weekend first-run syndication (not counting UPN Kids, ’cause it just showed repeats of the other network shows), all to great acclaim from fanboys (read: me 🙂 ).
And on and on, “Fantastic Four: TAS,” “Iron Man: TAS,” “Silver Surfer: TAS” (my all-time favorite) “The Avengers: TAS,” and more, as the ’90s turned into ’00s. Up through “The Batman” (a show I only tolerated until it began to take itself seriously, writing-wise, at the start of its fourth season) and “Legion of Super Heroes.”
With Fox Kids and Kids’ WB! gone, at 39 I really can’t make the audience investment anymore, following the remaining cartoons to cable or wherever. *SIGH* At least there are now a lot of (direct–to-) DVD animated films from which to choose.
Time to take those Saturday art classes—sculpture? painting?— I keep claiming I want. And perhaps I should start pulling out my “How-To-Write-A-Screenplay” books and my African myth anthologies……..
