Ever more YouTube.com links…
“NBC Dateline Reporter flees Defcon 15”
“NBC Dateline Reporter flees Defcon 15” will add more fuel to the fire kindling the “mainstream” media’s misrepresentation of personal computing in general and the “free” Internet in particular. I can easily imagine something like this happening in the painful past of an aging ultra-right-wing conservative back in the 1970s with a bunch of swarthy and hairy disco-crazed hipsters. This Dateline reporter and all of the gang in her clique now have a personal reason to help manufacture a consensus that the world needs to be “safe” from hackers. Too few American kids learn from history so too many of these hackers can’t possibly imagine what might happen to them under J. Edgar Hoover version 2.0.
“The Inappropriate Yoga Guy”
Having taken a few yoga classes with Krishna Kaur, the very funny video “The Inappropriate Yoga Guy” was timely and not as unrealistic as one would think. There are few places in the urban world of Los Angeles where a guy like me can lie down, almost shoulder to shoulder in a room full of sweating women.
“Dr. Julia Hare tells it how it is…”
Tavis Smiley’s State of Black America stage performance is quite frequently an opportunity for an educated, articulate, relatively affluent, North-American person of color to do bad Malcolm X/Martin Luther King impersonations in an infrequently used street-slang accent for a few minutes. But every now and then, people like “Dr. Julia Hare tells it how it is…”
Incredibly precise yet soulful diatribes like these have little effect on cynical, pretentious adults but YouTube.com might be doing a few thangs for the young people.
Mike Bloomfield calls Son House a “demon”…
It would not take very much work to find a young, chocolate colored kid who just wants to “fit in” to accuse me of player hating people like Mike Bloomfield. Mike Bloomfield knows more about the technique of The Blues than I do. Mike Bloomfield has more discographic knowledge of The Blues than I do. But Mike Bloomfield was wrong to use the word “demon” to describe Son House in “Son House, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, & Mike Bloomfield.” This one mistake of perception overrides all of his achievements as a professional musician. This video is an excellent conversation piece about how one’s “love” does not make it all right.
Mike Bloomfield “loves” Son House in a manner similar to how Kenny G “loves” Grover Washington Jr. —how Peter Gabriel, Steve Winwood and Robert Plant “love” Ray Charles—how Michael Bolton “loves” Sam Cook—how Michael Jackson “loves” Marvin Gaye. The aesthetics of this “love” is not pleasing to me and my preference is to keep company with the originators, the O.G. Some kid preoccupied with trying to “fit in” knows little of O.G. This is not a “moral judgment.” This is a time management issue.
Read more about Son House here in “The Son House Definition of The Blues.”