…………did he win/lose because of, or despite, this song? LOL! 🙂
Below is what he looked like when he beat Adam Clayton Powell.
And now:
And here’s a timeline.
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I Will (As) Happily (As I Can) Wait Two Years For “Sherlock’s” Season 4……..
…..as long as Stephen Moffat keeps the quasi-promise he makes here. 🙂
Eddie Conway and Paul Coates: Protracted
Thank You, Casey Kasem
I’ve told several people that I didn’t know what white radio was until I was in my early teens, in the early 80s. What I don’t mention was that when I did “discover” white radio, I found (? was told about?) Casey Kasem and that was it. Casey Kasem and “American Top 40” WAS radio to me.
When I decided I wanted to be a broadcaster, I started to imitate Casey Kasem. Listen to me read something today, and you’ll hear me pause before the last three words or so of a paragraph. That’s me still doing Casey Kasem.
Stop Kidding Around, Warner Bros!
The “Man of Steel” sequel has Batman, Wonder Woman AND NOW AQUAMAN? LOL! Just call it a “Justice League” movie, already! (I hope Henry Cahill is happy about the money he’s going to make!)
And, Speaking of “Star Trek” (re: Levar Burton Reading Rainbow/Kickstarter Update)……………..
………….I found this a GREAT idea! They’ll make $5 million for sure, now! (Although they were going to, anyway 🙂 )
For some reason, I’ve become obsessed recently with the LYRICS to “Star Trek: TOS.” It’s a little known fact. Here they are (and good going, whichever fan sang this 🙂 ):
Beyond
The rim of the star-light
My love
Is wand’ring in star-flight
I know
He’ll find in star-clustered reaches
Love,
Strange love a star woman teaches.
I know
His journey ends never
His star trek
Will go on forever.
But tell him
While he wanders his starry sea
Remember, remember me.
Asante Sana, Little Jimmy Scott
Asante Sana, Ruby Dee
In Europe And Want To See “Mumia?”
Well, here’s your chance!
A powerful film (and yes, of course I would say that! 😉 )!
re: Maya Angelou, The “Loaned Voice of God” (And My Thoughts About The Funeral, Which Can Be Seen Here)
My two cents: Oprah’s eulogy was powerful, but understandably restrained.
FLOTUS’ was beautifully crafted.
I wanted Cicely Tyson to keep going.
As former President Bill Clinton said, she lived so many lifetimes that all the speakers could show up and talk about just a part of her life. Unfortunately, virtually nothing of the political Maya was mentioned, other than a brief mention of the Harlem Writer’s Guild, her work in Ghana, and knowing Malcolm X. And most of that was done by Clinton, not the Black speakers! LOL! 🙂
Below is from “Democracy Now!”:
SONIA SANCHEZ: It’s going being her sister, Amy, and you are right, it is a very sad occasion, but anytime I can hear and see her perform, you know that she will live forever. I first met Sister Maya in the 1960’s. That was period when we were all gathering together to change the world. I saw her on a couple of occasions at affairs where we all read our poetry. I most especially remember her in the play “The Blacks.” She came out in her tall, six feet majesty, and you were just stricken by her, by her beauty and by her grace. And I still have in my memory, when Lumumba was killed, Louise Meriwether and Sister Maya, climbing, going over the walls there at the U.N. They were protesting. To have seen that, you stood there in awe.
AMY GOODMAN: The first president of the Congo.
SONIA SANCHEZ: Yes, Lumumba.
AMY GOODMAN: The democratically elected president of the Congo.
SONIA SANCHEZ: It was an amazing moment to see the resistance that they were doing there in New York City at the U.N.
The post below, showing a conversation between Dave Chappelle and Maya Angelou, show the “realness” of her much more than the soft-shoe funeral did.
Drums in the Global Village 