Punk's Dark Outlook May Not Have Been A Coincidence

From Flavorwire's 

7 Nefarious Punk Rock Conspiracy Theories:

The early NYC punks ripped off Death

Credibility level: Fairly high

Recently reunited Detroit trailblazers Death have often been identified as trailblazers for the music that would come to be called punk. The thing is, though, they never made a record and hardly played out of Detroit, and it seems like a remarkable coincidence that a Xerox of their sound would magically arise in New York City a couple of years after their decline. It seems an even more remarkable coincidence when you discover that they recorded a demo tape that did the rounds of NYC-based record companies, who may well have seen the potential in the music, but may also have preferred that it not be played by three black men who called themselves “Death.” Hmmm.

Laurence O'Donnell To Weiner: What's Wrong With You?

What a jerk.

Though, I must admit, it seems kind of unfair to hit Weiner with this question, alone, when so many need to have it placed before them as well,...

Ha-Ha! Been There/Done That! Won't Ever Do It Again!

Yes, this is exactly the type of headline I look for:

Widow says psychic promised help in battle over late husband's frozen sperm

And yes, this is exactly the type of quote I'll roll on the floor laughing at:

"Soon after, while on a trip to New York, Andrea Walker received bad news: The estranged husband she still loved had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. The doctor said he had six months to live. 

Walker said she stumbled, devastated, from her room in the Plaza Hotel beside Manhattan's Central Park and walked into a psychic's store across the street for a reading."

But psychic scams are still such a horrifying ordeal I wouldn't wish them on anyone,...

 

BS's Law Of Attraction BS, Free King Of New York, Tyler Perry's Tongues, Michelle Got Over, And Miley Cyrus II

Big Sean Says He Doesn't Know Why People Don't Consider Him A Top Rapper

DJ September 7th: 

Kendrick Lamar “King Of New York” (Mixtape)

Tyler Perry gives $1M for TD Jakes youth center, prays in tongues, lays hands

Michelle Obama’s Under grad Thesis 

is flawed throughout

Justin Bieber polishes his rap rep, hanging and recording with hip-hop royalty

Pews Lose, Somebody Needs Reasons, John Travolta's Answers, NY's Most Boring Cult, And We Love Assholes

'EVERYTHING BUT THE PEWS' 

STOLEN FROM MASS. CHURCH

10 Reasons for Man to Leave Religion Behind

John Travolta: 

‘Scientology has the answers to drugs 

& detoxifying the body’

I Joined NYC's Most Boring Cult

5 Beloved Celebrities 

Who Were Nothing Like You Think

Naked Ain't Poor, A Black Jesus, Scientology In Harlem, Brown Men In Jail, And The Numbers Don’t Support Fear

Jamie Oliver’s Classism: 

The Naked Chef is not the right person 

to teach the poor how to eat well.

Villagers kill infamous PNG cult leader 

known as Black Jesus

What the Daily News Left Out of its Story 

on Scientology in Harlem

“Only Brown Guys Go To Jail”

Numbers Don’t Support Fear Of Black Men

Parliament-Funkadelic Mothership 

Lands in the Smithsonian

Democrats In New York, Millennials Hating Washington, Chelsea Clinton, Gaddafi’s Harem, And Mistaken Voters

De Blasio Takes Commanding Lead Among Democrats In NYC Mayoral Race

How Can Millennials Change Washington 

If They Hate It?

Princess Chelsea

‘Gaddafi’s Harem’ book reveals that late Libyan dictator enslaved young women and shamed them to keep silent

Voters perceive non-white politicians as more liberal — even when they’re not

My French God Son Is Visiting NYC (See My Influence?)

That's a memorial to the late, great, Old Dirty Bastard,...

Slavery 2

Remember when this blog hardly had any race stuff on it? Oh - those were the days. Then white folks started jumping on my last George Zimmerman-loving nerve and we, both, now have to get a steady diet of this:

For decades, television networks routinely aired shows with few cast members of color, no matter how absurd.  Friends was famously set in New York City, but rarely bothered to show a face of color walking by. The list of similar shows over the years goes on and on and on with both comedies and dramas failing to showcase minorities in the core of plot lines. 

Oddly enough, those same network producers, writers, and executives would never dream of casting any show related to prisons without featuring people of color in prominent roles. In shows that pertain to the criminal justice system, particularly those held behind bars, black people are suddenly “must haves.” At least they are if the storyline is to be “real” in any way. 

Suggesting New Yorkers can go years at a time without seeing a person of color is somehow completely believable, while a prison sans significant numbers of black people isn’t?  Utter nonsense at its best, I say.

And that's why, whenever I look outside, I wish white folks had just left this race shit alone:

It just looks too different,...

 

I'm Trembling As I Compose This (I Need To Be Held,...)

Look - we can fix this race thing. We've just gotta prepare! Like, whenever minorities get invited to appear on TV and yell, "Y'all's CRAZY!" have a scrolling translation for white folks ready, like this:

"If America’s bipartisan establishment is agreed on something, you can be pretty sure it will be a disaster. That is my reluctant conclusion, after nearly three decades of involvement in politics and journalism, in Washington and New York. 

I say 'reluctant' because I am not a populist by temperament. I respect academic training as well as expertise based on personal experience. I think that institutions are, or should be, less likely to make mistakes than individuals. I detest people who pose as “contrarians” for the sake of controversy. I would happily be an establishmentarian, if there were a U.S. establishment worth belonging to. 

But the track record of what passes for the bipartisan elite in the U.S. in the last generation has been pretty poor. Instead of sober, dispassionate analysis of long-run trends, considered from the perspective of the nonpartisan national interest, the conventional wisdom among America’s movers and shakers has consisted of one hysterical fad after another."

See? Huh? Viola! I'd go from an "Angry Black Man" to a guy who doesn't waste a lot of words.

BTW - if the networks ever decide to call me - better amend that translation to say it's no accident the NewAger's favorite question is "What are you afraid of?"

What's an accident is, whatever we fear, we can find out - fast - at The Drudge Report. 

I'm never getting on TV, am I?