Evergreen State…CHECK!! This is another college where I refuse to have my kids attend for college. Every campus where rubbish like this happens is another college I check off the list of places where my kids won’t attend There are apparently people who are living in SeanSpicerian alternate reality. “Adoption of a new policy where…
Read moreJordan B. Peterson – Harvard Talk: Postmodernism & the Mask of Compassion
“The reprehensible ideologies that are based in fundamental Marxism killed at least a hundred million people in the twentieth century, and there are still apologists. One in five scientists identifies as a Marxist. … What happened in the 1960s, as far as I can tell, and this happened most in France — which have probably…
Read moreMuscle Shoals Documentary
I watched this documentary a while ago, but today I had some downtime and watched it again. Wow, what a story. The great thing about our country is how different things can be in various parts. There are still pockets where the sound and feel of the music is different, but it is fading. We…
Read moreSoundgarden
I used to work at several record stores. Back in 1989 or 1990 when I was in DC, I got a cassette from a coworker that he labeled “soothing tunes of doom’” I still have it. It had bands like Cannibal Corpse, Death, Prong, Slayer and Soundgarden. One song on the tape he said held…
Read moreI’d Play For Free…BUT
Being a musician is a gift and a curse. We make so many people happy through what we do. People LOVE us. The problem is that we love what we do to a fault. We will do it even though we may not get paid enough to do it. Too many of us get taken…
Read moreElvin Jones
I’m sorry. I’ve slept on Elvin for decades. As an older and wiser musician who plays differently than I used to 30 years ago, I am getting a better understanding of this legend. I never got into his playing because I always thought he was sloppy and I never dug his solos. …
Read moreThe Get Fresh Crew
We started our day by checking out the very beginning of Bronx Week. Unfortunately, very few people were there at 10:30 in the morning. We left and stopped in midtown, then went to Prospect Park in Brooklyn, then late, came up to Harlem and then rode back to 205th street in da Bronx. We tried…
Read moreIn Defense of Transracialism
“For instance, consider the case of an American black couple who adopt a dark-skinned child from India. Imagine this child was adopted young enough not to develop an Indian accent. His parents raise him exactly the same way they raise his black siblings: as a full-fledged member of the black community. As he grows up,…
Read more#SUCKERS – Black Folks And The Photo Op With Trump
How are things working out for you my brothers?What did you have to lose?
Read moreLucille Lortell Awards Show
I’m playing in the band for this awards show tonight. It’s my second year doing it. It’s quite an experience learning a bunch of short cues. It’s also mildly stressful being ready to play the winning tune of a show that you have no clue as to what it will be. It’s not the…
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