Peep Show Time!
It’s Peep Show Time again. The bunnies seem to be more popular than the chicks. It’s becoming a DC or more like a Washington Post thang that people from all over seem to want to peep in on.
Labor Day
Summer officially ends for the northern hempisphere September 22 at 10:49 EDT. Where are America’s Labor Day parades today. “As Goes Janesville,” a documentary by Brad Lichtenstein, follows the story of how the community of Janesville, Wisconsin recovers and reinvents itself after the loss of its century-old General Motors plant in 2008. The closing of [...]
Songs for My Fathers
This is a beautiful mashup featuring one of my favorite Nina Simone tracks on her “Baltimore” album (1978). “My Father” was written by Judy Collins. The first time I heard Horace Silver’s “Song for My Father” was in my junior year of college when two of my college and also high school classmates performed it [...]
Lest We Forget
A friend posted this poster on her Facebook timeline. In case you were wondering why there is a Memorial Day, which was originally “Decoration Day” to honor the dead of the U.S. Civil War, go to this Veterans Administration link. Remember.
