Jade "Soul" Zuberi animates and illuminates on So You Think You Can Dance

Did you feel that?

I did.  And it changed me forever. 

Back in the 50’s and early 60’s, in my godfather’s church on the south side of Chicago, I would join the congregation… Read full post »

My own "magical mystery tour" is a lot less magical than this--but it IS "virtual"

That's right, dear friends.  I’m on my first book tour.  For four weeks.  Without leaving home.

No, this is NOT an April Fool's Day joke.  Seriously.

It’s a “virtu… Read full post »

Not long ago, I posted a very short story entitled, “Gettin’ my John Boy On.”  It was written in fifteen minutes as a “quick write” at a gathering of other writers here in Tucson.  And some of you really liked it.

Today, I’m going to sha… Read full post »

 

Believe the hype this time. 

Today, anyone can publish a book.  A real book that people can buy online at the click of a mouse from Amazon.com or Barnes… Read full post »

I am not a Piers Morgan fan.

Every now and then, I tune in to see him interview someone I really like, and then he gets to that inevitable and oft-lampooned moment when he smiles that…obsequious little smile that makes me shudder, and asks:

“So…let me ask you… Read full post »

I joined a writer's group on a whim last week.  

I wanted to be pushed out of my comfort zone.  

I've never had any trouble being published.  Never had any trouble thinking of ideas to write about on my blogs or...elsewhere.

But something in… Read full post »

Here's the thing, Big John.

Anyone who has ever held a position of power of any kind has had to do what Susan Rice did the day she read the only information she had about Benghazi, at the time, to the press.

You know it.  And… Read full post »

I think I’m a member of the 50% of Americans who, according to your election night philosophy-on-the fly rant, “…want stuff.”

Here’s a history lesson for you. Let’s see if it helps you figure this thing out.

The first slave on my Dad’… Read full post »

America was its good old, stubborn, sassy self yesterday.

We refused to be "bought." Or sold.

Or--and this is most important--fooled by cynical political strategists with a "plan" that only needed the right "yes" man to put into place.

Obama won by a much larger electoral margin than… Read full post »

You can read this.  Nothing I could say in words would "spoil" the experience of this film.

I sat down to write my way to some kind of understanding of what had just happened to me while watching this film…and I’m not sure I ever got… Read full post »

In that perfect world we all like to wistfully evoke, Kayah (Kayah's Official Web site), and Natu ( Natu's Official Web site) and all the other Eastern European  R & B/soul divas would be right up there on the American charts with Mary J., Beyoncé and even Jill Scott and her… Read full post »

Magic Mike and the Boys

Aw, man. 

I really wanted to love Magic Mike.  I mean, it has Channing “Is there anything I can’t do?” Tatum, who can go from being a torch carrying Nicholas Sparks romantic lead—twice--to the bumbling airhead sidekick in 21 Ju… Read full post »

For those who fear the end of OS is near--I'm inclined to agree.

Because I learned the hard way this weekend that there does not appear to be any such thing as "tech support" for OS anymore.  Or Salon.  Or...you can't reach them via the OS mailbox,… Read full post »

 As I wrote a few days ago, in anticipation of the demise of Open Salon, I installed a Firefox addin, DownThemAll, which promised to "batch download" most of my blog posts at the click of a mouse.

It did.  And it also sucked all of them down from Open Salon… Read full post »

As I wrote a few days ago, in anticipation of the demise of Open Salon, I installed a Firefox addin, DownThemAll, which promised to "batch download" most of my blog posts at the click of a mouse.

It did.  And it also sucked all of them down from Open Salon… Read full post »

As I wrote a few days ago, in anticipation of the demise of Open Salon, I installed a Firefox addin, DownThemAll, which promised to "batch download" most of my blog posts at the click of a mouse.

It did.  And it also sucked all of them down from Open Salon… Read full post »

As I wrote a few days ago, in anticipation of the demise of Open Salon, I installed a Firefox addin, DownThemAll, which promised to "batch download" most of my blog posts at the click of a mouse.

It did.  And it also sucked all of them down from Open Salon permanent. … Read full post »

As I wrote a few days ago, in anticipation of the demise of Open Salon, I installed a Firefox addin, DownThemAll, which promised to "batch download" most of my blog posts at the click of a mouse.

It did.  And it also sucked all of them down from Open Salon… Read full post »

As I wrote a few days ago, in anticipation of the demise of Open Salon, I installed a Firefox addin, DownThemAll, which promised to "batch download" most of my blog posts at the click of a mouse.

It did.  And it also sucked all of them down from Open Salon… Read full post »

As I wrote a few days ago, in anticipation of the demise of Open Salon, I installed a Firefox addin, DownThemAll, which promised to "batch download" most of my blog posts at the click of a mouse.

It did.  And it also sucked all of them down from Open Salon… Read full post »

 As I wrote a few days ago, in anticipation of the demise of Open Salon, I installed a Firefox addin, DownThemAll, which promised to "batch download" most of my blog posts at the click of a mouse.

It did.  And it also sucked all of them down from Open Salon… Read full post »