tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post7471663418123504246..comments2024-03-17T20:04:18.872-05:00Comments on Indomitable | The online home of Chauncey DeVega: Why? CNN's "Black in America" and NPR's "State of the Re:Union" Offer Up a Potpourri of Tragic Mulattoes Before a National AudienceLady Zora, Chauncey DeVega, and Gordon Gartrellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09138154899923808806noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-37555343295613889852012-12-13T17:14:31.267-06:002012-12-13T17:14:31.267-06:00All mixed race blacks and blacks in general need t...All mixed race blacks and blacks in general need to start discussing real issues in the black community not this antebellum crap. The sexual slave and human trafficking crisis in america. Ban Rhianna from TV. Bust illegal sex crime brothels in Raleigh North Carolina. Bust the black pimps that abduct ,lure, and sell black women into sex slavery. WAKE UP BLACK NATION.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-51084882433115751232012-12-11T23:36:09.433-06:002012-12-11T23:36:09.433-06:00"Frankly". (chuckle)"Frankly". (chuckle)nomadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16196543910280589478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-2494724799652144182012-12-11T23:34:44.618-06:002012-12-11T23:34:44.618-06:00Ooohhhh. Parrish was his last name! Silly me.Ooohhhh. Parrish was his last name! Silly me.nomadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16196543910280589478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-62518918161695853162012-12-11T23:23:09.681-06:002012-12-11T23:23:09.681-06:00I can confirm that this is, indeed, THE real Tim R...I can confirm that this is, indeed, THE real Tim Reid, ya'll! <br /><br />@Tim Reid:<br /><br />I loved Frank Parish in 1987 and I caught him on YouTube in a ten-minute clip last night and I loved him even more (knowing what we all now know). Was it a struggle creating and maintaining one of the few (if not only) non-caricature Black characters in mainstream media? A. Ominoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13807400943709124236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-19832362432650099462012-12-11T19:20:49.009-06:002012-12-11T19:20:49.009-06:00@TimReid. Are you THE Tim Reid? If so this is a sm...@TimReid. Are you THE Tim Reid? If so this is a small world and your work was/is much appreciated. We do need to chat if this is the case as I do not want such a wonderful opportunity to go by unfulfilled and not acted upon. chaunceydevegahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09652406326490873337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-85015582496271112962012-12-11T18:29:54.111-06:002012-12-11T18:29:54.111-06:00You're kidding right? If not I want your autog...You're kidding right? If not I want your autograph. Who's Frank Parish?nomadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16196543910280589478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-78113174716161724942012-12-11T17:22:38.955-06:002012-12-11T17:22:38.955-06:00I've often wondered what the culture of Black ...I've often wondered what the culture of Black America would look like on TV today if Frank's Place had been allowed to continue for 3 or 4 years. I am <br />deeply saddened by the level of mediocrity that is delivered daily to our digitally enhanced receiving devices. <br />It's as if we have allowed the racial essences to be sucked out from within our souls. The incredible history of one of the greatest surviving cultures the world has ever known has been reduced to an urban caricature that bears little resemblance to what centuries of freedom fighters hoped we would become.<br />Frankly, I am ashamed, and I spend many awakened hours trying to improve my character and those over whom I may have a measure of influence. It's the kind of thing Frank Parish would have done.Tim Reidnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-75156742384620716832012-12-11T16:28:53.022-06:002012-12-11T16:28:53.022-06:00Just peeped some of it.
"Tough is being poor ...Just peeped some of it.<br />"Tough is being poor in the hood"!!!<br />Brother not lyin.nomadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16196543910280589478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-74023668021751552042012-12-11T15:12:08.233-06:002012-12-11T15:12:08.233-06:00even better stuff 2<a href="http://community.geniusinmotion.com/_Tim-Reid-Producer-part-2-of-2-/video/533373/68041.html?b=" rel="nofollow">even better stuff 2</a>A. Ominoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13807400943709124236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-15671994144983795152012-12-11T15:02:11.589-06:002012-12-11T15:02:11.589-06:00even better stuff<a href="http://community.geniusinmotion.com/_Tim-Reid-Producer-part-1-of-2-/video/533379/68041.html" rel="nofollow">even better stuff</a>A. Ominoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13807400943709124236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-82149726326041069242012-12-11T14:43:22.242-06:002012-12-11T14:43:22.242-06:00good stuff<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEhKtb-Egbw" rel="nofollow">good stuff</a>A. Ominoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13807400943709124236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-29803268292919015392012-12-11T13:26:42.240-06:002012-12-11T13:26:42.240-06:00"Frank's Place". Forgot all about th..."Frank's Place". Forgot all about that. Best black TV show of all times.nomadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16196543910280589478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-49981559399673860922012-12-11T13:13:21.861-06:002012-12-11T13:13:21.861-06:00I see you've got your very own racist troll on...<i> I see you've got your very own racist troll on your blog, too</i><br /><br />Had...,<br /><br />I fired his putrid old raisin yesterday. Gonna have to go and find me a new poster child for unrepentant knuckledragging.CNuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14152640304402402884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-21559693258741142332012-12-11T13:12:15.705-06:002012-12-11T13:12:15.705-06:00happy to spread the woid!happy to spread the woid!A. Ominoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13807400943709124236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-85652627134582318032012-12-11T13:11:47.582-06:002012-12-11T13:11:47.582-06:00This an entirely new one on me magne, thanks!This an entirely new one on me magne, thanks!CNuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14152640304402402884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-48646877280841314742012-12-11T13:11:38.841-06:002012-12-11T13:11:38.841-06:00[Yipes, CnU... I see you've got your very own ...[Yipes, CnU... I see you've got your very own racist troll on your blog, too; funny that only the super-articulate bloggers of color seem to attract them]A. Ominoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13807400943709124236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-70519866081702784242012-12-11T12:41:13.017-06:002012-12-11T12:41:13.017-06:00RE: Ludwig and suchlike: here’s something to tune ...<a href="http://www.chevalierdesaintgeorge.com/bio_fulltext.html" rel="nofollow">RE: Ludwig and suchlike: here’s something to tune the Offsprung in to! (did we talk about this already? I am, after all, senile ‘n shit) </a>A. Ominoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13807400943709124236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-79905705976416905312012-12-11T12:33:26.777-06:002012-12-11T12:33:26.777-06:00MMF very interestingMMF very interestingA. Ominoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13807400943709124236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-83810010793018582282012-12-11T12:32:25.817-06:002012-12-11T12:32:25.817-06:001) if only it were analog... my golden age turntab...1) if only it were analog... my golden age turntable pleads in a fading voice from its perch on the armoire but I avert my gaze and hurry by on the way to the underwear <br /><br />2) licensed content or bootleg? (laugh)<br /><br />3) Either way, I approveA. Ominoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13807400943709124236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-59781302738154638532012-12-11T12:17:44.080-06:002012-12-11T12:17:44.080-06:00Doubtless savored in all it's unredacted analo...Doubtless savored in all it's unredacted analog perfection?<br /><br />Ludwig-muhphuggin-Van...., I just loaded up a bunch of ludwig van on my boy's Android phone and tablet - explaining to him all the while that digital audio-reproduction sucks - but that anything beats that drivel he listens to online (with <a href="http://youtu.be/hRVOOwFNp5U" rel="nofollow">one guilty exception</a>) - anyway - <br /><br />try'na find a perfect mix of offline content to seed onto several hundred tablets I'll be issuing for a one-to-one pilot project I'm directing next semester. <br /><br />I want the kids to listen to some good music whilst they read some good books under the covers at night - with or without a connection to the Internet.<br /><br />You know what, I'ma tap into some of the <a href="https://plus.google.com/117252882195990218514/about?gl=us&hl=en" rel="nofollow">deep resources</a> available in <a href="https://plus.google.com/106743406100965315496/about?gl=us&hl=en" rel="nofollow">the community</a> and see if I can get some collaborators willing to spend some time with the chirrens in the context of making the device a seductive mobile window into a cultivated alternate reality. CNuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14152640304402402884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-43944989249927775202012-12-11T12:05:45.609-06:002012-12-11T12:05:45.609-06:00One more off piste riff: my favorite available ver...One more off piste riff: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V9VSxn2F9M" rel="nofollow">my favorite available version of it, after the guys had aged a bit into the fame of the tune… Desmond swatting the notes away from his axe with Olympian disdain! </a>A. Ominoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13807400943709124236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-56601467056664890052012-12-11T11:55:24.711-06:002012-12-11T11:55:24.711-06:00this here the shit been curlin' my toes of lat...<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjUh11EPGcM" rel="nofollow">this here the shit been curlin' my toes of late</a>A. Ominoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13807400943709124236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-20153607815080789592012-12-11T11:51:54.423-06:002012-12-11T11:51:54.423-06:00"I was young and single and loved to mingle e..."I was young and single and loved to mingle entirely too much to have followed any series during Frank's Place's run."<br /><br />I had some spectacular "in-house" _____ (pictures available by request) at that time so we'd sometimes catch things as diverse as "Frank's Place" and "The Wonder Years". This was still a few years before the idiot box went flying out my window.<br /><br />"Are there any other factors you consider germaine to the demise of cultures of competence?"<br /><br />Oh sure, but I'm thinking beyond competence or even mastery, here... I'm thinking about glorious, heroic experiments in worldview-extending "failure"! And the Successes that eventually (inevitably) accrue from that kind of gratuitous curiosity and trailblazing. <br /><br />The culture of Culture is dead along with Brubeck. The fastbuck culture of porno and violence took over and, as ever, the canaries (or heckles and jeckles) in the coal mine are hardest hit first. <br /><br />I can't even convince well-educated, upper-middle-class White Liberals of long acquaintance to reevaluate their values (did any issue other than The Economy mean *anything* to them, this last "election"?)... how would I try with people who've never read a book, played a musical instrument or stepped inside a museum? <br /><br />RE: the Gaga problem: I blame 1) drum machines and 2) ProTools. A. Ominoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13807400943709124236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-7044803346116026332012-12-11T11:19:30.007-06:002012-12-11T11:19:30.007-06:00Other than to glancingly catch a couple episodes, ...Other than to glancingly catch a couple episodes, (I remember "To miss New Orleans") I was young and single and loved to mingle entirely too much to have followed any series during Frank's Place's run. <br /><br /><i> There are finer things than money and deeper metrics of Success than number-of-piles of same... the lack of a Black Avant Garde (worth speaking of) is tied to this lower-to-middle-brow obsession with Bling.</i> <br /><br />Are there any other factors you consider germaine to the demise of cultures of competence?<br /><br />See, the death of Dave Brubeck last week put me onto this little ditty <a href="http://subrealism.blogspot.com/2012/12/todays-music.html" rel="nofollow">right'chere</a>, followed in close succession by my man Spence's <a href="http://www.lesterspence.com/2012/12/10/branford-marsalis-on-miles-and-hip-hop/" rel="nofollow">pithier Marsalian take</a> on the same.<br /><br />I also came across <a href="http://youtu.be/uZHoLN52arE" rel="nofollow">a documentary</a> about God which got me to recalling things my mother (a classicly trained pianist/baptist church trained organist who lived in Toledo during this era) had said about his holy name.<br /><br />99.99% of my frown, and wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold disdain (mischaracterized as anti-black racism) is rooted in despair at the extent to which black popular culture no longer aspires to mastery - and is instead supersaturated with trifling mediocrity - which ersatz activity is now accepted as somehow masterful!!!CNuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14152640304402402884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-71767293025559418482012-12-11T10:32:34.241-06:002012-12-11T10:32:34.241-06:00erratum: "most"erratum: "most"A. Ominoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13807400943709124236noreply@blogger.com