I’m joining the Motown tour in Los Angeles for just this week. It should be fun for a number of reasons.. 1) I loved subbing for Buddy Williams in the Broadway production 2) I get to play with one of my favorite bass players and guitarist and 3) I get to be in warm weather,…
Read moreShooting from the Hip: Camille Paglia sends #feminists into a frenzy.
Camille Paglia is one truly interesting person. This in an excerpt from an old article, but a great read. Originally posted here: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/shooting-from-the-hip-camille-paglia-sends-feminists-into-a-frenzy-she-reveres-masculinity-its-hot-tried-to-match-male-promiscuity-i-couldnt-and-believes-date-rape-is-an-occupational-hazard-sex-is-combat-is-there-any-serious-point-here-or-is-she-all-motormouth-1479082.html Paglia not only envies but reveres what she identifies as men’s naturally raucous sexuality. It is brutal masculine lust, she says, that drives men out into the world, away from the potency…
Read moreHistorian Says Don’t ‘Sanitize’ How Our Government Created Ghettos
Fifty years after the repeal of Jim Crow, many African-Americans still live in segregated ghettos in the country’s metropolitan areas. Richard Rothstein, a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute, has spent years studying the history of residential segregation in America. “We have a myth today that the ghettos in metropolitan areas around the country…
Read moreA truly horrible woman who drove the father of their kids to kill himself
New Orleans FUNK
I LOVE New Orleans. If I knew then what I know now, I would have never come to NYC after college. I think I would be somewhere down south. In Atlanta, in Southern CA, in Austin, Maui…or New Orleans – anywhere but the north. I can’t stand the cold weather. There is something about the…
Read moreCan a woman rape a man?
Can a woman rape a man? It’s a subject we don’t hear in the news very often… or anywhere at all. Rape in any situation is hard to talk about. But female-on-male rape faces its own brand of trials and hardships. Skepticism, for one. Today, we look at the problems of male survivors with female…
Read moreDennis Chambers, Mike Stern, Lincoln Goines & Bob Berg – Loose Ends 1990
THIS is what you call a “pocket” – the steadiness of the drummer. The solid playing of a drummer in a band setting where all else can musically blossom…I guess that might be a way to describe it. Ahhh! Dennis Chambers was, and still is an amazing pocket drummer – as well as a virtuoso. He…
Read moreBarbara Kay Explains Society’s Contempt For Men
Drums – David Garibaldi – “Soul Vaccination”
These ghost notes are incredible! What a groove.
Read moreHow Can Twins Have Two Different Fathers?
An excerpt from this article: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/08/nyregion/paternity-case-for-a-new-jersey-mother-of-twins-bears-unexpected-results-two-fathers.html A mother of twins was applying for public assistance in Passaic County, N.J., when she made the seemingly uncontroversial claim that one man was responsible for her progeny. The truth, it turns out, was not so simple. In an unusual ruling in State Superior Court in Passaic County, Judge Sohail…
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