Monday Open Thread
Dayum, why did the weekend have to end?
Let’s ease into Monday with a slow jam classic…Nite & Day – Al B. Sure.
From Wikipedia:
Albert Joseph Brown III (June 4, 1968, Boston, Massachusetts) is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. He grew up in Mount Vernon, New York. During the late 1980s under the stage name Al B. Sure!, he enjoyed a brief run as one of New Jack Swing‘s most popular romantic singers and producers.
Brown was a star football quarterback, at Mount Vernon High School in New York, who rejected an athletic scholarship to the University of Iowa to pursue a music career. In 1987, Quincy Jones selected Brown as the first winner of the Sony Innovators Talent Search. Subsequently, Brown went on to work with Jones on several projects, most notably the platinum single “Secret Garden” from Jones’ double platinum album, Back on the Block. On this recording, Brown was one of a quartet with Barry White, El DeBarge, and James Ingram.
His debut album from 1988, In Effect Mode, sold more than two million copies, topping the Billboard R&B chart for seven straight weeks. The album included his single “Nite and Day“, which topped the R&B chart and reached #7 on the Billboard Hot 100. He received numerous Grammy and American Music Award (AMA) nominations, and won an AMA for Best New R&B Artist. He also received several Soul Train Award nominations, and won the award for Best New Artist. He also won several New York Music Awards. In addition, his 900 phone line was third in generating revenue, following those for New Kids on the Block and Run-DMC.
As a writer and producer, Brown introduced the multi-platinum group Jodeci and teen R&B performer Tevin Campbell (also one of Quincy Jones’s former protégés), as well as Faith Evans, Dave Hollister, Case, and Usher to the music industry.
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November 16th, 2009
Obama Town Hall In China (VIDEO): President Says Uncensored Internet Is Healthy
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/16/obama-...
SHANGHAI (AP)- President Barack Obama gave China a pointed, unexpected nudge to stop censoring the Internet access of its own people, offering an animated defense of the tool that helped him win the White House – and telling his tightly controlled hosts not to be wary of a little criticism.
“I think that the more freely information flows, the stronger the society becomes, because then citizens of countries around the world can hold their own governments accountable,” Obama said Monday in a town hall with students during his first-ever trip to China. “They can begin to think for themselves.”
Just hours ahead of talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao, Obama tried to find a political balance, couching his admonitions with words of cooperation, praise and American humility. He said few global challenges can be solved unless the world's only superpower and its rising competitor work together, and he insisted: “We do not seek to contain China's rise.”
But in his opening statement and in answers to the wide-ranging discussion with university students, Obama spoke bluntly about the benefits of individual freedoms in a place known for limiting them.
November 16th, 2009
Dayum!
November 16th, 2009
Thanks, Texas-Gril.
November 16th, 2009
Fuck the media! You know they want to get at PBO and ask him about the Sno Ho', how much ya wanna bet?
November 16th, 2009
Wow, didn't know they were doing a shuttle launch today. It's funny how shuttle launches and science fiction (like Star Trek) can inspire folks to study science and math.
What's sad is when scientists and mathematicians wake-up somewhere in there careers and realize that the “fiction” is what really inspired them more than the “science.”
I have a science background, but to be honest with you, I get absolutely no joy from discussing science. I'd rather discuss history and politics.
My advice to any high-school teenager would be to pursue an area that they love discussing in any environment. If you're really passionate about a subject, it translates to the way that you communicate about it. The passion, enthusiasm and excitement reveals itself in our voices.
November 16th, 2009
You can say that again! I wonder which reporter will dare to ask him first.
November 16th, 2009
What's done in the dark must come to the light. Thanks for the local perspective, rikyrah.
November 16th, 2009
Wow, can't wait to see this film. Thanks for rec!
November 16th, 2009
One of the frat boys, either Ed Henry or Chuckie T.
Chuckie Todd: “Mr. President, former Governor Palin, (cause you know they want to give her the fucking credentials whether she deserves them or not to make her appear equal in stature to the POTUS) is touring the country for her new book. Do you have a copy, and if so, what are your thoughts?”
President Obama: “Well Chuck, no I don't have a copy of the book.”
Chuckie Todd: Stares at the POTUS in disbelief…..
November 16th, 2009
I hear you–the film has got to be pretty enticing (or I feel the urge to support a black filmmakers) to merit today's ticket prices.
Thank goodness for our local, “dollar”-theaters too. It's funny how many beamers and benzes i'm seeing in the parking lot nowadays.
November 16th, 2009
I checked out Precious last week…for $12, you'd expect a great movie-going experience, right?
Wrong–the theater was filthy, trash cans were overflowing, and too many folks brought their kids to see this “R”-rated film. You might think that I saw the film in the “hood.”
Nope, I saw it at what is supposed to be the ATL's upper-crustiest spot in the city–Atlantic Station. The theater's condition was embarrassing.
November 16th, 2009
You kno I stay the f*ck away from Fox. I'll wait for YouTube.
November 16th, 2009
“I have a science background, but to be honest with you, I get absolutely no joy from discussing science. I'd rather discuss history and politics.”
And is fiction really fiction? After watching Star Trek, who would have thunk it decades later that we'd have cell /camera phones… Rodenberry, that whole series, genius!
My background is science too. There is a science in history and politics….in everything. Thank God, because there is science in God too.
I'm just rambling, but I find it all so very facinating.
November 16th, 2009
Oooooooh.
November 16th, 2009
Alright now LRW, will you be inviting Donnie over for Thanksgiving?
November 16th, 2009
Dang, no love for Beyonce, ummph.
November 16th, 2009
You are so telling the truth. He shouldn't be mad, becuase he decided not to embrace his gayness.
Whatever…
November 16th, 2009
I miss the dollar theatres, the last one around my way closed a couple of years ago. Don't get me started about the “discount matinees” the local multiplex offers. $8.00 for a matinee ticket? Seriously?
November 16th, 2009
“Hawass became fed up with the pop star’s attitude after she did not show the interest Hawass felt was deserved of the pyramids.”
she should have started doing her cootchie slanging dance to convince him otherwise.
November 16th, 2009
Absolutely, there is a “science” in everything and they don't call it “political science” for nothing.
We definitely need more people of color to be excited about the “hard” sciences. As it stands, most PhDs that are generated out of these programs are foreigners.
From my own personal experience, I'm really referencing physics and chemistry. I mastered those courses, but at the same time, there is no room for emotion in those “sciences.” There is a whole world of symposia where academics go and get their intellectual “nutt” from being in the company of other scientists. There are communities of black chemists, physicists, and engineers all of which is great.
November 16th, 2009
You know what, I recall somebody asking Axelrod yesterday, and Axelrod said (i'm paraphrasing), “The President has reams of documents to read related to policy issues,” Translation: POTUS doesn't have any time for that shyt.
November 16th, 2009
“Translation: POTUS doesn't have any time for that shyt.'
BWA HAHA HAHA!!!!!!!!!!!
November 16th, 2009
*DEAD* @ “Paterson should just give up because maybe the Lord did bring him that far to leave him.” LMBO. You are so wrong for that….
But for real, if you are 60 points behind, you are not going to win.
November 16th, 2009
POTUS wouldn't use Palin's book to wipe his behind much less read it unless he was in the mood for comedy.
November 17th, 2009
“I have a science background, but to be honest with you, I get absolutely no joy from discussing science. I'd rather discuss history and politics.”
wOW….Same here! I have an apitude for science too but no passion for it, either! I have a science degree but I could care less about working in the field. If I had it to do over I would have coupled it with a JD and done patent law. My passion is politics too…history, I am OK on..if it is political.. awful on war history.
November 17th, 2009
If he promises to sing…YEP!
Would be the best TG ever…errrryBODY would be talking about TG at my house for generations!!