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The Problem is… you think you have time.
Clockwise from top right: Jean-Michel Basquiat (image cr.); Dr. Martin Luther King with wife, Coretta, and daughter, Bernice (image cr.); Amy Winehouse (image cr.); and Marilyn Monroe (image cr.). It’s Holy Week; Lent is almost over. Unlike last year, I did not write daily Lenten posts. I’m in a weird place when it come…
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Little Lulu, we love you.
“Louise as the winsome French girl in Now We’re in the Air (1927).” (Photo and caption from “Lulu Forever”) I think the first time I can recall hearing the name “Louise Brooks” was years ago in a scene from “The Simpsons”. In the 2002, season 13 episode “Weekend at Burnsie’s”, Mr. Burns prepares for a big…
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Flashback Friday: Dr. Dre before NWA.
Dr. Dre in sparkly gear with a stethoscope before joining NWA. (Image Source) On Thanksgiving, I finally got around to watching the 2015 film “Straight Outta Compton”. I liked it, and Ice Cube’s son is pretty much his spawn. He is rightfully and most truly, a junior. The film starts in the years before…
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The Preachers: Jim & Tammy Faye: Part 2.
Jim and Tammy Faye (Image Source) It was thirty years ago that the tremendous house of cards that Jim Bakker had constructed out of TV ministry, millions in donations, and a Christian theme park, collapsed. It was a tremendous and precipitous fall, and when the dust settled, the ministry was gone, Jim was…
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The Preachers: Jim & Tammy Faye: Their Incredible Rise & Shocking Fall.
Jim And Tammy Faye Bakker in all their 1980s glory. (Image Source) I started composing this post months ago. I stopped partially because my blogging, as a whole, slowed way down at the start of the schoolyear (Z is now in second grade, and homeschooling demands more and more time). But mainly, I didn’t…
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Some Sunday Stuff: September 24th.
Happy Sunday! It’s been a couple of months since my last “Some… Stuff”, so let’s kick off the start of Fall with some links, shall we? (Getty Images) First up, this Motherboard story that rebuts the claim that Toys “R” Us’s recent Chapter 11 filing is due to the company being anti-tech. On the…
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Throwback Thursday: Let it be.
Note: This post first appeared at my old blog, Far Above Rubies, on October 4, 2010. ~Alisha I’m sitting in the local diner writing this on my laptop, the diner being every good Jersey girl’s version of “The Max” that Zack and Slater hung out in “Saved By The Bell.” But I’m…
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Note: This post first appeared on my old blog, Far Above Rubies, on March 9, 2012. ~Alisha If you clicked on this post expecting a piece on platforms, sorry, not getting that. But stick around anyway, okay? On Wednesday, as I rushed to grab a clean diaper for Z, I banged my heel against…
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Flashback Friday: The tragic last days of Lady Day.
Billie Holiday the d’Orly airport, Paris, photographed by Jean-Pierre Leloir, 1958. (Photo Image and Caption via Abongond) I was listening to “On The Media” a couple of weeks ago and the episode was on the topic of America’s long and costly War on Drugs. One of the segments focused on Harry J. Anslinger, the…
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Flashback Friday: Orson Welles & The “Voodoo MacBeth”.
(Image Source: Inverse) It’s mind boggling to me, but back in the 1930s, during the height of the Great Depression, the federal government paid a then-unknown, and very young Orson Welles to put on a play… featuring an all Black cast. But this did indeed happen, although it’s not well-remembered (and when it is,…
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