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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #2046
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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Continue reading →: The Eighth Annual Summer Music Festival (TV Edition) / Song of the Day #2045
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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Continue reading →: Eric Fleischmann: From Marx to Markets
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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Continue reading →: Happy Birthday 101, Aunt Mary!
… 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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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #2044
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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Continue reading →: Jackie Goldberg: “Fear is Not Our Friend, Love Is”!
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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Continue reading →: Welcome to the Culture Wars: Pride Month Edition!
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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Continue reading →: My Cousins on 60 Second Docs!
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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Continue reading →: Welcome to Mars, NYC
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…
