Kahomono - Still Lucky After All These Years

Random musings on whatever catches my attention that day

David F

#WhileBlack

In a racist nation, is it possible to live while black (LWB)? Racists have decided that the way to express their hatred of black and brown people is to call the police. For every damn thing. Who knows, maybe they get lucky and a racist…

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David F

He Called the Gestapo

From the WaPo: Immigrant girl hides in auto shop after escaping attendants from Florida detention facility The #MAGA who owns the shop flagged down nearby cops and turned her in. He reports, "They put handcuffs on her, but not like a criminal, like a human being." Oh,…

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David F

Bulletproof

This is what we have been reduced to. This is what the Rethuglicans, who are in thrall to the NRA, who are in thrall to Russia, have brought this once-great nation to. Children have to go to school like this. Because the greed-heads in Washington…

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David F

Greatest Concert? Probably.

They call the Queen concert at Wembley Stadium in 1986 the greatest concert of all time. I am not sure they are right, simply because it's impossible to have sampled the entire space. But I am not sure they are wrong. Not least because of...

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David F

No Easy Way

Carole King wrote them, and everybody sang them. Carole King was part of a large stable of songwriters who were mostly expected to write songs for others to sing. She wrote a lot of songs we associate with other acts (partial compilation here). Then, in the…

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