There are two things to never ever forget about America: What America is about, and what it’s supposed to be about. You forget either one of those facts, and it’s dangerous, and so are you. I know it’s ethically and technically back pedaling, but for practical purposes can we just meet in the middle? Half …
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If James Brown saw this Bruno Mars show in his prime, he would have shot his ass. James missed Joe Tex. Maybe those were warning shots. But he would have finished the job on Bruno and would have sang his pledge of guilty with his Famous Flames singing back up as the legal team. Because …
Watch the Throne. They should name their first son Winston and their 4th son Churchill. Americand Mommas make British heroes. This is like Barack Obama marrying the Queen and I love it. Never forget Jenny Jérôme. America f_ck yea. Let’s make some kings. – Davin Michael Stedman
One of the many things I am thankful for is that I get to genuinely lend a hand to young bands like Brotha’ Groove, that represent the next 15 years of the scene. I am going to be a special guest like a dashing Uncle from another planet, at their show at The Vera Project …
This is the only good Blair Walsh story of 2017: my friend’s 7 year old son Max is a huge fan of The Seahawks and the Cougars. Last night my buddy looked worried at Leny’s Place as the Cougs were struggling through the Apple Cup, and I asked why a guy from Detroit was taking …
Prediction: these driverless long haul trucks are going to get robbed and destroyed in sparsely populated areas. What are the companies going to do? Man them with security that makes less than the driver? Killer robots are going to be hopefully banned in the battlefield, so I don’t know if Walmart will be able employ …
The greatest scam of this generation is that the mega-rich are clearly hoarding resources because they know the scientists are right about Climate Change. But the hustle is that these same people have bought off the Republican Party to create a rule of law that signals this is not the case, while duplicitously deregulating our …
I am so happy to be one of those bands you just might catch at Sea Monster Lounge. Catch me this Saturday with The Staxx Brothers and my 12th Street Horns. Andrew Nunez has built an Empire of funk, based on a Constitution of Jazz; founded upon on a deeply authentic Declaration of Soul, amended …
I had a moment tonight remembering what real journalism feels like. A United States can’t elect a Donald Trump unless they have been inoculated by a critical mass of Opioids and click bait. Yes, The New York Times has a slant. All papers have an audience and a point of view. I am not in …
My friend in Lagos, Nigeria Mtrill Teria is going to be doing a TED talk November 11th. On the bright side of social media I have been able to have a consistent glimpse into the lives of many Nigerian innovators in music, business, and technology. I have also got a 3rd row seat into the …
Tadej Tadiman Tratnik is one of the more intriguing reggae artists I met in Kingston, Jamaica. He definitely stood out Inna di Yard at Chinna’s place. Though this world had signs of diversity, from a Japanese Rasta that smoked but never spoke to an esteemed professor from Berkeley, Tadej found a way to blend in …
HELP, IS THIS ALREADY A SCI-FI STORY? In the year 20xx, a super computer at Cambridge finally becomes self aware. Our worst fears that such a computer will destroy our civilization comes to pass, but in a twist humanity itself is spared. The computer gains consciousness and becomes immediately aware of the evil, manipulation, and …
When I go back to Jamaica, one of my goals I am sending the mysterious German manager Lennart Tacke, is filming myself playing my Bond song at Goldeneye. Of course I haven’t written my Bond song yet. But I told Scott Rowe I would pen such a tune for our Brighton band Sherlock Soul. It’s …
Let me tell you something that Putin understands, that his Soviet predecessors were blind to in their circle jerking Marxist cult: America was never going to be over thrown by Leftist labor leaders, or beatniks, or hippies, or Black Panthers that took night classes and found out they had the right to bear arms. The …
YOU SEE I KNOW THIS SQUIRREL that is quite obsessed with Van Morrison: As I trade texts with the great Rock & Roll music critic Dennis Cook about the virtual Morrison mix tape he is making for me, for you, and for Mother Earth, I recalled this amazing little story I forgot to tell you. …
It’s a GIGANTIC lie that Donald Trump supports the Troops and here’s why: The Face of our modern US Military is an African American woman. When you look at the numbers it’s staggeringly obvious. African Americans only comprise 13% of our population of the United States. Yet Black Women comprise 30.1% of all women in …
I came to a hard realization today. If we are dealing with a people that dealt with losing a War by spending the next one hundred years putting up 1500 cheap statues, there is no way we are going to convince them they were fooled by Donald Trump. Not in our lifetimes. These are the …
I am thinking about writing an absolutely chilling Halloween story called THE CHOSEN. It is an only barely dramatized version of what happened to my friends, but thankfully not my immediate family, as RIGHT WING & RUSSIAN BOTS began to scour the internet for victims. Throughout 2016 I watched as these BOTS zeroed in on …
I think I may have figured out how Americans of Indigenous Eurasian ancestry, such as myself, have confused the Jewish God Jesus with all our lost but only half forgotten Gods of War. This has something I have wanted to say for quite a while, but this has reached a boiling point. And traveling to …
Here’s a question that troubles me, ever more as 45 awkwardly ass smacks the drums of War as a creepy Game Show host that gets to pick the wrong door. Who cares about the Troops more? The person that supported sending our young men and women to fight in Iraq or Afghanistan, or the person …
I tread very carefully here, but I have been getting…how can I say this? I have been getting interesting feedback from my conservative friends and acquaintances about what happened in Vegas. I am not throwing anyone under the bus here (Charlottesville & Nice has loaded that saying with unnecessary imagery). What I am driving at …
OK I will say this, to put Las Vegas and the firepower we all heard echo in a historical perspective: As the automatic crack of a machine gun fire rang into my ears at a handful of rounds per second, I asked myself with little practical knowledge of American arms, if that was the sound …
I am not going to comment right now on the insane machine gun slaughter at a country music concert in Vegas, or tell you yet what Tom Petty means to me. But I will head into work to trim that sweet legal erb and keep getting a little smarter and laughing out loud a little …
Do you think our military might be dangerously overextended if we can’t ‘invade’ Puerto Rico and help what is inevitably going to be our 51st State? The National Guard should not be in Iraq and Afghanistan. That is a sign of Imperial stupidity. Folly in every sense. Sun Tzu would have some interesting things today …
Real Question: can you recall via living experience or historical knowledge, a President so incapable of doing, or even knowing the basic functions of his job? This isn’t even a Partisan question. Here’s part II: If your party has a President that is shame f_cking both the pillars of your party’s alleged ideals, as well …
At what point do you feel like people are going to just anonymously start destroying self driving cars? You know, peacefully, without harming humans, only corporation. Will Uber & Lyft tint the windows so protesters will not know if these vehicles are unoccupied? With the tradition of populist uprisings in the United Kingdom and France …
You can call it White-splainin’ or Man-splainin’ or man-spreading or cheese breadin,’ but Bob Costas just freestyled from his dome some of the greatest commentary on the intersectionality of Sports, Racism, and Patriotism OF ALL TIME. PLEASE WATCH, especially my dear friends from other nations. This is a fellow Civilian I salute: Donald Trump is …
What are the mathematical chances of 4 Navy ships suffering nearly unheard of collisions in one year? Before this most recent deadly incident with the USS John McCain killed at least ten sailors, the previous collision was a direct hit to the Captain. His sailors had to use kettle bells from the ship’s gym to …
One of the most glaringly stupid ideas I have encountered is the assumption that if the society collapses the ability to shoot a gun will be key to survival. It’s not. The real race will be to go after the libraries. When the light goes out the only way to turn them back on physically …
Being influenced by African and European music is a damn good thing. Anybody who tells you any different has no clue about Western Music. It’s like this mighty river where two other mighty rivers combine; and as rough as the waters may be, the undercurrent is even stronger. As ugly as our past is, the …