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    Song of the Day #2046

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    June 23, 2023

    Song of the Day: Cobra Kai (“Strike First”) [YouTube link], composed by Leo Birenberg and Zack Robinson, is from the soundtrack to season 1 of this fun series that premiered in 2018. Now 5 seasons in, the show is a sequel to “The Karate Kid” franchise and stars Ralph Macchio…

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    The Eighth Annual Summer Music Festival (TV Edition) / Song of the Day #2045

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    June 21, 2023

    Song of the Day: The Jeffersons (“Movin’ on Up”), co-written by Ja’Net Dubois and Jeff Barry, opens this show, which was the second “All in the Family” spinoff (after “Maude“), developed by Norman Lear. “The Jeffersons” ran for 11 seasons (1975-1985). In its run, this show received 14 Emmy Award…

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    Eric Fleischmann: From Marx to Markets

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    June 20, 2023

    My dear friend, Eric Fleischmann, whose work and music I’ve spotlighted on Notablog, is interviewed on Non Serviam by host Lucy Steigerwald. The Podcast (#48), “From Marx to Markets: Materialism, Agorism, and Laurance Labadie“, exhibits how well Eric has benefited from the “cross pollination” of ideas, integrating lessons from communist…

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  • Personal, Remembrance

    Happy Birthday 101, Aunt Mary!

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    June 19, 2023

    … with my love always! Clockwise: Aunt Mary with her goddaughter, my sister Elizabeth (1995); with me (2022); with my Mom, her sister, dancing a Lindy hop (1978)

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    Song of the Day #2044

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    June 18, 2023

    Song of the Day: Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag (Parts 1 & 2), words, music, and performance by James Brown, spent 8 weeks at the top of the 1965 R&B charts and was the first Billboard Top 10 hit in the artist’s long career. It also earned Brown his…

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  • Culture, Education, Politics (Theory, History, Now), Religion, Sexuality

    Jackie Goldberg: “Fear is Not Our Friend, Love Is”!

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    June 16, 2023

    As a follow-up to my Medium piece, “Welcome to the Culture Wars: Pride Month Edition!”, check out this impassioned plea for tolerance in our schools from Jackie Goldberg, current President of the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education for the 5th District. #Pride2023 This was also published on…

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    Welcome to the Culture Wars: Pride Month Edition!

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    June 11, 2023

    This article also appears on Medium and on C4SS. The Woke Nightmare That Doesn’t End! It’s in commercials! It’s on storefronts! It’s on social media, on television shows and streaming platforms! We may not be able to define what “woke” is, but, dammit! Like any obscenity, we know it when…

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    My Cousins on 60 Second Docs!

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    June 10, 2023

    These are my cousins on 60 Second Docs … on the magic of Disneyland in the heart of a beautiful family: Alex Gonzales, Henry Gonzales, Sara Gonzales, and Genevieve Teresa Gonzales.

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    Welcome to Mars, NYC

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    June 8, 2023

    It was like the surface of the Red Planet around here yesterday, as smoke from Canada wildfires turned the NYC skyline to a red-orange hue. The Air Quality Index hit an unprecedented 484 yesterday, giving NYC the most hazardous rating of any city on the planet. Things should improve over…

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  • Education, Politics (Theory, History, Now), Sexuality

    Happy Pride Month!

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    June 1, 2023

    No better time to proclaim it than now!

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