DP Dot Com’s very own Sue Simmons better known as MAXINE brings us the link of the ageless NBC anchorwoman asking someone on the set of her news broadcast the timeless question…
Archive for May, 2008
SO SUE ME…
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008A Tree Grows In Brooklyn…
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
The rendering above is of the retrofitted Brooklyn Children’s Museum. Those of you that have grown up in the boro of Kings over the last thirty years should be quite familiar with the older version. Even though I was raised in Corona, I visited this building often because it was located in Mr. PENN’s former ‘hood.
I have enjoyed a pretty fantastic professional career thanks to the architects that schooled me in my post-high school dropout years. I have been able to take a firsthand account of the revitalization of New York City’s greatest immigrant county. More importantly, I have had the opportunity to deliver some of the best architectural projects to the people of the city since the days of the great depression.
I know that my dad and the Old Jew are proud of me. Without their stern lessons, and mostly their love, I would never have made the journey. I have to take a moment to thank AAUM for both of them. For my mind, there is no doubt that they both helped me get through this project. Their steadfast resolve and discipline are the biggest things I think of when the going gets tough.
This past week the ribbon was cut for the grand re-opening of this state of the art cultural science learning center. The Brooklyn Museum of Art has a grand facade made of steel and tempered glass. The Brooklyn Central Public Library has a gorgeous plaza and brand new multi-use auditorium. The Brooklyn Children’s Museum has all of that, AND it is expressly for the children.
Some of the people at the opening gala who have become accustomed to seeing me with a raggedy beard and shiny sneakers were shocked and amazed to see me in my pinstripe suit. I’m sure they all thought that I cleaned up my act to impress the politicians. What I didn’t bother to tell them was that my haircut and suit were donned out of respect for the men that put me in the place that I am.
This was how I thanked them both.
illDoctrine: Stop Talking, Start Plumbing…
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
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GO SEE SPEED RACER!
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
I can’t remember so many good movies being released in the same summer. It is mind-boggling to say the least. Indiana Jones’ latest installation drops next week, the Hulk is on its way, Star Wars will have an animated feature and lets not forget the Bat.
If you are concerned about your ability to afford to see all of these flicks in the theater then I suggest you start returning your empty soda cans. Each one of them has previewed a trailer that has been something like a SUGE KNIGHT sighting in the club – lights out. Of all the movies that I had on my list to see this summer ‘Speed Racer’ held the least expectations. At the end of the summer I might just say that ‘Speed Racer’ was the best.
The WACHOWSKI brothers got this one off biggtime. ‘Speed Racer’ has action and comedy moving at you faster than the legendary Mach 5. What impressed me more than anything was the WACHOWSKI’s fidelity to the O.G. cartoon characters without becoming a camp-fest of nostalgia and nonsense. There have been several movies which were derived from cartoons and none of them hit the mark like ‘Speed Racer’ does.
You really want to know how good this film is? Chocolate Snowflake, who is my best and most thorough critic is willing and excited to sit through this movie again. C.S. liked ‘Iron Man’ but hasn’t accompanied me to any of my subsequent screenings. ‘Speed Racer’ is silly at times but it never gets off track from its mission which is to prove that determination and justice will triumph in the end.
I say that the WACHOWSKI brothers got this one off because I wasn’t really fucking with them too tough after learning about how they stole the ‘Matrix’ storyline. Despite the fact that the WACHOWSKI’s cast a gang of Black people as heroic characters in that series. I still felt a kind of way. The truth is the WACHOWSKI brothers operate to their own drummer and they make fucking good movies. ‘Speed Racer’ has Black characters and faces throughout which satisfies my internal NAACP quota and it isn’t egregious or tokenistic. It just is what it is.
But bigger than all of that was the direction which took this movie to another level. The WACHOWSKI brothers take you into a kaleidescope of colors, shapes and sounds. the car races are about throwing the laws of physics against the wall and just having fun. The fight scenes are better than anything in the Matrix. Nerditry wasn’t lying about this being the perfect film to trip at. C.S. is on her way to San Fran this weekend to see her girlfriend so when the cat is away the mice will play. Well, the mice will trip. I’m copping some IMAX tickets to this joint for Saturday night. Holler at the kid if you are trying to go in[ll]. Go speed go.
CLEVELAND, HERE I COME…
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Chocolate Snowflake is constantly asking me to reconsider staying in New York. There are tons of cities all around America that are building up, and even re-building, and could use the talents and skillsets of a construction project manager. I like Phoenix a lot. Even though I have only been to the airport I still imagine that I would love to live in Arizona. Despite the fact they are reputedly virulent racists. Hey, this is AmeriKKKa isn’t it?
I hadn’t really considered anywhere in Ohio since its pretty much understood that Ohio is a drive-thru state. Most people simply drive-thru Ohio to get to places like Chicago and even Detroit. That has to be a pretty good qualifier this is a state which is fucked the fuck up when people would rather be in Detroit. I’m starting to reconsider my thinking about Ohio, particularly Cleveland. Take a look at this news story about some dude literally having the pants beaten off his ass…
Fatal beating unnerves Cleveland neighborhood
Please read that article and find the part where the City Councilman says that the gang has sent word that anyone who speaks to the police “will face retribution”. What the peanut butter and jelly town has a councilman who works as an emissary for the local gang? I don’t doubt that the gang is superbadass, but when you have a councilman presenting your depravity as a warning to the rest of the city you are asking for the Feds to come through your town Waco style.
After the Feds get involved and start clearing this ‘burg up there will be tons more housing rehab opportunities available for those who want to work. the prices for houses in the neighborhood where dude was merc’ked sound pretty affordable too. Elderly lower working class residents living off their social security checks and medi-caid will be dying off soon. Buy their houses with cash and tell them to move the fuck to Atlanta or wherever elderly colored folks go to fade to black.
“Yesterday, this old home was a meth factory and gang hideout, today, it’s worth ten thousand euros.”