Song of the Day – ‘Love’

  Love is real, real is love Love is feeling, feeling love Love is wanting to be loved Love is touch, touch is love Love is reaching, reaching love Love is asking to be loved Love is you You and me Love is knowing We can be Love is free, free is love Love is […]

Song of the Day – ‘Hey Jude’

  Wilson Pickett did a cover of ‘Hey Jude’?  Really?  How do I not have any memory of this? Well, it sounds like a great idea on paper, let’s taken a listen… (clicking Play…) (GASP!!!) (Creative Adrenaline Rush!!!) (acting out and writing the sequence Kerry Washington throws my character and my trumpet out in the […]

Be Royal

  No politics or anything overly serious today. As I’ve commiserated with some of my friends who can relate, this is going to be one of those weeks when it would have been nice to be home. Monday night, Chiefs at Arrowhead. Tuesday night, Royals hosting a playoff game. In the words of the great […]

Song of the Day – ‘On Bended Knee’

  In the war for my generation’s R&B soul, I’m well known to be a Jodeci guy. But you have to give Boyz II Men their due. They obviously have made a longer career for themselves with more crossover success (by far).  And they’re great love songs are really great. This is almost certainly their […]

‘Gotham’

  So here’s the disclaimer, since I haven’t said this publicly in a couple years: whatever DC and/or Warner Brothers do now, I’m OK with it.  The genius Christopher Nolan has already told my story better than I could have possibly imagined.  Now, if I see something that I consider a Schumachery of my franchise, […]

U Mad?

  As someone who literally wore an ‘Angry Black Man’ t-shirt during his college days, I feel uniquely qualified to drop my two cents on this one… First, here’s the truth about 90 percent of the ‘angry black people’ you see… Now, I know anger.  My blood has boiled red hot, especially in the younger […]