current music: you are my friend – kenny bobien this week blog surfing, i noticed that many of the white new yorkish hipster bloggin’ types have their effete panties in a bundle over nick hornby’s article “i have seen the future of rock and roll and it is the past” in the new york times. [...]

current music: don’t stop till you get enough – michael jackson ’83 french open champion and philanthropist yannick noah had a top 40 song (not his first hit ) in france this year called “ose” which i will hear today. memories of noah for me are lodged in the ’80s and summer days inside watching [...]

last night and early this morning i was down at the cambridge city hall with thousands of other folks to witness history in the making. i got some pix. will post them when i can. it was an exhilerating spectacle. i called my sis in texas so she could hear as she was watching cnn’s [...]

from the santa cruz sentinel: Internationally recognized cultural theorist and creative writer, Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa, passed away on May 15 from diabetes-related complications. She was 61 years old. A versatile author, Anzaldúa published poetry, theoretical essays, short stories, autobiographical narratives, interviews, children’s books, and multigenre anthologies. As one of the first openly lesbian Chicana authors, [...]

one nation under a groove – george clinton on urbansoulnation.com i’m happy to report that urbansoulnation.com is back! hallelujah! melvin lindsey would be glad, r.i.p. melvin created the “quiet storm” format and was one of the first hosts of bet’s “screen scene” early on its history. ml was a beautiful, talented brothah who is sorely [...]

current music: plenty – sarah mclachlan may hot stuff is online now! i’m a little late but whatev. on the list is emm gryner who i saw at club passim last thurs., may 6. i only knew a few of her tunes (“stereochrome”, “symphonic”, “higher” & “yellow”) before the show but heard several more that [...]