A “Money Bomb:” the Future of SOMM

This month Ovation TV is airing a program titled, “Electric Purgatory: The Fate of the Black Rocker.” The gist of the documentary is that black people have been and continue to be systematically excluded from the musical genre of “rock music.” This, despite the fact that the foundation of rock music is based on the playing of three chords, often [read more...]

NBA Playoffs Short, Short Notes: Game 7s Coming Up

I didn’t want to write anything at all. So I’ll be very, very brief, which might leave even more room for discussion of the two games.  My take on the Game 6s…. For Boston, the Game was there for the taking.  Toward games end, they failed to execute and Orlando executed. Game Orlando. Before that the Celtics committed too many turnovers, Ray [read more...]

One Shining Moment: Boomer Esiason Uses the “H” Word

Here we go again. On WFAN Sunday morning former NFL quarterback Norman “Boomer” Esiason called Denver Broncos head coach Josh McDaniels “littler Hitler.” Esiason is one of the guys who is said to ‘tell it like it is,’ and who ’spares no one with his wrath.’ And similar positive spin blasther attached to his being a verbal bully. So, will Esiason gat the “he [read more...]

MY BHM Moment: Rob Parker Must Go

Hello folks, it’s Black History Month. Remember that space in time? It’s the four weeks - exactly four except for leap years - when it is ‘Black People Black People Black People Yeah!’ time. It’s the 28 days of Blackness - Kwanzaa writ KWANZAA. BHM (someone should begin a website called, “BHM” - “Because it’s Our Month All Year Long”).Since [read more...]

The Big Lead Is Now The Big Boss?

Note to Shanoff:  The Big Lead is now the Boss. … so feel free to leave the blogging world, if you really mean what you wrote. Now to the more adult conversation:  Let’s start of with a link to Dave Lozo’s excellent breakdown of Will Leitch’s weird post the other day in which he took a few shots at Deadspin’s primary rival, [read more...]

Bissenleitch For The Final Time; or, So You’re Saying I Was Right?

Leitch on 4/30/08: We cannot imagine any reasonable human being watching that display and saying, “doggone it, that raving man has a point!” DJM on 5/1/08: I come not to bury Bissinger, nor to praise him. I come to say, however, that he did have a point… So here’s my hope: the next time somebody asks Leitch to defend blogs, he say something like [read more...]

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