current music: beautiful – trina hamlin the black eyed susans nina simone tribute show was an amazing and inspiring success! and sold out! many thanks to pioneer arts center for the space and the superdupertalented doria roberts for organizing the event! it was fun being onstage with her, pamela and evelyn. they all rocked their [...]

“to Vanessa Williams: Miss America (black) 1984″ When you play with the big boys they will definitely fuck you. by Cheryl Clarke

last night i saw liz stahler perform at k’vetsh. she was awesome. buy her music! lizstahler.com. i’m off to noho later today. i’m excited about tomorrow night’s show in easthampton. in the meantime, i hope to see some old friends (and new ones) while i’m out in western mass. and hopefully go to the hot [...]

Morganfield has been described as a black female, 03/03/1970, 5�10,� 205 pounds. She has black hair and brown eyes. Morganfield is to be considered armed and dangerous. from a press release of the Alachua County Sheriff’s Dept., www.alachuasheriff.org Whatev. Roz surrendered: Muddy Waters’ Daughter Turns Herself In On Murder Charge 1996 Murder Linked To Drug [...]

current music: blues for mama – nina simone “Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-68) dedicated to handkerchief-headed, cotton-under-their-fingernails black preachers everywhere who [...]

current music: selassie is the chapel – bob marley & the wailers this weekend i changed web hosts. i think i only lost two or three emails. otherwise, reconfiguring everything for my web site including this movable type thing was just a pain in my a**.

it’s that time again….ncaa women’s basketball march madness. i have access to a tv and will be glued when i can steal time from working on my freelance projects and writing. i’m rooting for the lady gators who made it into the round of 64 led by former national champion of purdue coach carolyn peck. [...]

check out this article on the black eyed susans show in bay windows… Four Women, one night by RJ Grubb Growing up, popular songs have a way of becoming our personal soundtracks. But no contemporary singer quite captured the pain and celebration of being young and black like the silky roar of Nina Simone. [more]

music: big up radio roots reggae snow yet again. i was ready. set. to go. running at 5pm. a break in the endless work at the computah. instead, i lean on the windowsill and the let the high winds blow snow onto my face through the screen. watch commuters three floors down in traffic. now [...]

i know this girl. we went to high school together. we were on the basketball team together. roz, wtf?!? i always remember opening up a rolling stone magazine in the school library and seeing her standing next to janet jackson at the rock-n-roll hall of fame awards as she accepted an award for her dad [...]

current music: new forms – roni size featuring bahamadia busier than a mosquito’s tweeter…and sleep deprived. the snow has turned to rain. the sun was just here a few minutes ago. i would like to see bahamadia in concert. españa. speechless.

regular pleasures – patricia barber why is it snowing? i have new running shoes. i want to jog in the fifty-something degree weather we had last week. i have a taste for munchos doused in hot sauce. yum. nothing in the putumayo catalog seems to be on itunes. cdbaby.com is so much better. that is [...]