Heard About………..

Posted on February 27, 2008 by drumsintheglobalvillage

……..this?

Well, so much for the “new” South Africa.

Asante Sana, Sembene Ousmane

Posted on February 25, 2008 by drumsintheglobalvillage

Didn’t know about this brother until my friend Wendi Dunlap wrote to me about him today.

Here’s the email she sent:

I must admit that I’m not always the first to know things so forgive me if this is “old news.” While watching the Oscars, I discovered that Senegelese filmmaker and writer Sembene Ousmane passed away last year. For those of you unfamiliar with his work, I highly recommend that you check him out. His work is regularly shown at indie film theaters throughout [New York C]ity and you can pick up his novels at any bookstore.

One of his best known novels is “God’s Bits of Wood,” which was part of the African Literature course when I took it at Cornell. Xala is one of his more critically acclaimed films that critiques both polygamy and the corrpution of modern African leadership. A few years ago I saw “Camp de Thiaroye” at the Film Forum, a brilliant and slightly autobiographical story of how Senegelese soldiers who fought bravely for France in World War II were detained in camps and refused pay by the French colonial government when they returned home. Their military training was seen as a threat to colonial rule and the French never intended to award them for their service in defeating fascism anyway.

If you’re not famliar with Ousmane, I highly recommend that you check him out. He has always been one of my favorite filmmakers.

Best,

Wendi

Okay, Here We Go :)

Posted on February 25, 2008 by drumsintheglobalvillage

Wow! What a coincidence! This photo was given to Matt Drudge today. He says the Clinton campaign sent to to him. Surprise, surprise!

And now it’s revealed that Obama’s crowds are not being fully frisked? Is this a rehearsal for an assassination attempt? The issue is never going away.

P.S. Yes, I thought the “Saturday Night Live” skit (scroll down just a little bit, ’till you see the “CNN/Univision” graphic) was quite true. 🙂

P.P.S. Even a qualified endorsement from The Minister?!? DAY-AM!

P.P.P.S. Hehehehe…….

"Amazing Power, Ooo, Iron Man!"

Posted on February 24, 2008 by drumsintheglobalvillage

Yet another reason I’ll be LIVING at the theater this summer. 🙂

Goodbye, "Girlfriends"………….

Posted on February 24, 2008 by drumsintheglobalvillage

………..I’ll miss you, but probably for the wrong reasons! LOL! 🙂 I always did, however, appreciate the issues you raised.

State Of The Obama Union :)

Posted on February 23, 2008 by drumsintheglobalvillage

It was one of the better ones—when it was about the candidate who didn’t come.

I greatly enjoyed the dustup about the invitation (scroll down to the bottom of this link to hear Tavis Smiley’s commentary). As I like to say, Tavis keeps trying to be Larry King and Martin Luther King at the same time. It’s a mix that works for him, but he’s not the whole NAACP. He’s a communicator (and book hustler 🙂 ), not a leader. And I’m glad somebody put him in his place.

Hillary Clinton showed up at the end after trying to rip Barack Obama a new one. Before talking with Tavis (and apologizing for her campaign’s racist excesses), she outlined her career to the Black audience, but I was more interested in her view of the present: “We stand at such a historic moment.” Yep. “Unchartered terrority,” indeed.