My Cowboys get dumped for the season and Touchdown Jesus falls upward and into the NFL playoffs. Is there no justice in pro sports? I’m just happy to be looking to basketball for the next six months.
The DP dot com Pick ‘Em football pool is in the books and the winner is…
Can’t Wait!
Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 Century
Hookers and Blow
sabresbills04
Rathman
These five(5) poolers should send me an e-mail so I can have your snail mail addys to send out your pool prizes (made possible by the prA’li movement I might add).
The Black Power Mixtape (1967-1975) is one of the most important movies I’ve watched in a long time. The film reminded me of how badly the government sought to undermine the dignity of the African American people. From COINTELPRO to flooding the center cities with drugs and guns the social experiment of integration was purposely a nightmare.
The film was over 40 years in the making from Swedish documentarians who were keenly following the AmeriKKKan experience right before the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. You will see the humanity of people whom we only knew previously as militants or rebels. If you want to see the social conditions which created the need for Hip-Hop then you have to peep this flick.
Vladimir Putin’s government is finally showing signs of aging. Russians are filling the streets by the thousands to protest their recent elections. Russia can’t afford to pop off like Egypt or Syria and just strafe the crowds of protestors, but I’m sure they want to.
Russian’s government has to think in hardbody terms because their constituents certainly do. Chechnya is quick to kidnap a school or hospital to complain about the Kremlin. Don’t think the for a minute the people of Moscow are any less official.
You can tell the Moscovites don’t really give a fux by the propaganda, er, art they produce. Shit is all rigid and repetitive.
The pouring rain this nite was the perfect storm for going to a funeral. The wake was for a young man named Redford Stephens who lived so fast and died so young. The soundtrack for the funeral would be the Roots’ 13th studio album titled ‘UnDun’.
UnDun is a musical narrative retracing the life of a young man who choose the street life just to get by. As a street dude he knew his time was limited but he was determined to get his, if not in the here and now, definitely on the otherside.
The theme of UnDun is the Philadelphia story. And the Chicago story. And the St.Louis story. And the Camden story. Young men can’t discover their value or opportunity unless they are precariously close to losing it all. And most of them do. Redford Stephens did.
The tragic destiny for Redford Stephens is made noble by the Roots musical narrative. So maybe he does finally come up after all even tho’ he isn’t around to see his victory. Redford Stephens triumph will be the kids who hear his story and choose the classrooms over the corners.
UnDun is another masterful example of the Roots dedication to placing the highest level of art within their music. The Roots will always be the greatest live experience that Hip-Hop has to offer but they also respect the architects of this genre who lived thru the real struggle.
The essence of that sound is still here in their music if you want to open your ears to hear it.
The Roots featuring Phonte and Dice Raw – ‘One Time’
And this isn’t even including all the 42yr old Black men who no one gives a fux about to make a press release (of which I consider myself part of the population).
