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Category Archives: television
The Police Killed Fred Hampton In His Bed, 39 Years Ago Today (Dec. 4th)
Regenerated! (Well, Soon, Anyway)
Sad but not surprised by the news. It was time. I’ve felt for at least a couple of months now that it was time for David to leave so he could become one of the greatest actors of his generation.
And besides, after that amazing Season Four finale (take a little peek here, while it’s still up 🙂 ), what more could he do with the role?
The Three Presidential Debates, In Summary :)
Special thanks to Greg Adamo for showing me this!
Did You See…….
“Torturing Democracy” when it slipped onto public television this month? If not, PLEASE go to the site and watch it, and you’ll see why the PBS folks are not that thrilled. Of course, this level of cowardice from PBS isn’t exactly new.
40 of "60"
Wow! Kinda relevant, huh? 🙂
Wow! National Review Columnist–A Buckley, Even!–Endorses Obama!
Brief Book Review: Post-HipHoppers
This brand-new book occupies the intellectual space between Kevin Powell’s essay collections and Bakari Kitwana’s seminal work.
M.K. Asante, Jr., a filmmaker, poet and college professor, adds his name to the list of young (under 45 🙂 ) Blacks who’ve written works that seek to combine journalism, personal essays and contemporary history, using hiphop of the point of departure. He is an optimistic self-described “artivist,” a 26-year-old writing to inspire younger people who will pick up this book because of its title. It’ll be their text for Black Contemporary Socio-Political Development 101, and believe me, they need it.
Get this book for the teenager (or college-aged young adult) in your life and make him or her read it. Then make him or her look up all of the authors he mentions.
Must-See? No! Fun? YES!
There were SO many ways to mess up a “Knight Rider” revived series, and they failed to mess it up! Last night was on fire! Literally, if you count the first 10 minutes. 🙂
(I missed the backdoor pilot that aired earlier this year. Dang. Had I known it was this good……)
Written by folks who’ve clearly seen at least one episode of “Star Trek” and “Torchwood,” the series premiere was fun and exciting from beginning to end, with the same tone as, say, “Iron Man.”
Trailer Time!
Although I will never be a fan of Reginald Hudlin’s first arc (see my comments at the bottom of this link), I admit this trailer (check the interview below it)—a word-for-word, scene-for-scene adaptation of that story’s first few pages—had me quite excited.
He’s greatly improved (I really liked BP 38), but to be honest, I’ve always thought that Hudlin’s Panther work would make better movies and television than comics. But I think it’s more about me being too old to read modern Marvel Comics. Judging by the first issue, the writer who replaced Hudlin for the current arc made the BET exec seem literary in comparison. 🙂
