Saturday, December 06, 2003
The view this morning: 
Seven inches and coming, possible blizzard conditions this afternoon. Andy has gone out to play (and to shovel a bit) ao I will continue decorating the blog house
Much more Christmas music! You are all in for a treat once the Hits of Yesterday goes All Christmas, All The Time; not your local radio station's version of 24 by 7 Christmas music!
Two things of note this week on the news connected with rap music: filmmaker Spike Lee decries rap music as "dangerous stuff," and a Federal prosecutor is found dead after a horrific struggle near Baltimore. He was working on a case involving two rap musicians, Deon L. Smith and Walter O. Poindexter, who were on trial on charges of running a violent heroin ring from their studio, according to the judge presiding over the case. In the story on Spike Lee, his audience wasn't an inner city group of street kids or a music industry group, it was given at Brown University, to a group of 400 students there. He said some black adults equate education, good grammar and good grades with “being white,” but when he was growing up, those things were seen as positive goals. “You were not ridiculed if you spoke correct English,” he said. Lee urged the audience to make their voices heard by not buying or viewing anything that portrays blacks in a negative way. In the procecutor's case, the defendants were behind bars at the time of the slaying and had reached a plea bargain with the prosecutor the night before. This is a tragedy in more ways than one.
More later...
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Seven inches and coming, possible blizzard conditions this afternoon. Andy has gone out to play (and to shovel a bit) ao I will continue decorating the blog house
Much more Christmas music! You are all in for a treat once the Hits of Yesterday goes All Christmas, All The Time; not your local radio station's version of 24 by 7 Christmas music!
Two things of note this week on the news connected with rap music: filmmaker Spike Lee decries rap music as "dangerous stuff," and a Federal prosecutor is found dead after a horrific struggle near Baltimore. He was working on a case involving two rap musicians, Deon L. Smith and Walter O. Poindexter, who were on trial on charges of running a violent heroin ring from their studio, according to the judge presiding over the case. In the story on Spike Lee, his audience wasn't an inner city group of street kids or a music industry group, it was given at Brown University, to a group of 400 students there. He said some black adults equate education, good grammar and good grades with “being white,” but when he was growing up, those things were seen as positive goals. “You were not ridiculed if you spoke correct English,” he said. Lee urged the audience to make their voices heard by not buying or viewing anything that portrays blacks in a negative way. In the procecutor's case, the defendants were behind bars at the time of the slaying and had reached a plea bargain with the prosecutor the night before. This is a tragedy in more ways than one.
More later...
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