Public Enemy posted the following on Youtube:
This is a polite respect call to the troops , to continue to inspire but reflect the people better. OTIS Redding was a humble country man from Macon Georgia who bought a jet to work in, not flash. He perished in that plane. Heres to hoping that the J & K supergroup can elevate the masses and try a little bit more to reflect OTIS heart rather than swag, because they’re too good to be less.
I remember a few years back, when Spider-Man was Indian. Then there was that Japanese version from the 1970s.
Stan Lee has often said that kids like Spider-Man because they could imagine themselves behind the mask. Of course, Marvel loses nothing by doing this; Spidey here is the Ultimate Universe version. The “real” Spider-Man—the one that Marvel will still sell everywhere on television and in film, the first one kids will think of—is still young, white, and skinny Peter Parker.
This is one of my great friends, Troy Smith, doing what he does best. 🙂
Grant Morrison’s misses in comics are better than most people’s successes. He is a brilliant creator who wrote Possibly The Best Superman Story Ever. His run on Batman, not yet over, is quite good, too! So I was happy to find out that this was on Hulu.
Nope. Still not obsessed. Not even a little. 🙂
When you read a lot of Civil Rights/Black Power movement books, you think of being serious as an activist—defined by me as taking direct (nonviolent) action that blocks and thwarts the system directly, and gladly accepting the consequences—as beloning to the era of black-and-white television, particularly in the ultra-symbolic, little-substance Obama Era. Tim DeChristopher defied that to such a degree that the judge seemed reluctant yesterday to sentence him at all. I’m sure he’ll only be in jail for eight months, tops. But his point was politically clear, and clearly articulated. Tim DeChristopher is on record, publicly defying the status quo. The judge said there were other ways to protest the land sale. But on the auction day, there was only one (nonviolent) way to stop it. And so he walked past symbolism, and chose it. What an important (political) distinction to make.
Readers of this blog might notice that I kinda liked “Captain America.” 🙂 But I admit, I did think many of these thoughts while enjoying the hell out of it—and will think it again the next gazillion times I watch it in the movies and on DVD.
Wow! My Geek People were out there in full force! And boy, does that guy look like David Tennant, or what? 🙂
What, me, obsessed?!? OF COURSE NOT…….Really! LOL! 🙂
AUGUST 12th UPDATE: This one is pretty good, too.
I first covered Larry Hamm 26 years ago as a cub for The New Jersey Afro-American, and he had been in the struggle forever THEN! It was great to see “Like It Is” do this!
Drums in the Global Village 