Laying it down as it comes to mind, eye and ear. My blog is not for the culturally timid, politically lame, sexual prudes or musically narrow-minded sorts.
Cultural name - Khalid Aikiiki Gamba (Eternal Friend & Warrior). Organizer-Harriet Tubman Freedom House Project.
Hear me Sunday 4-5pm on "Live from the Land of Hopes and Dreams"on Sirius 146. Regular columns in The Progressive and Counterpunch.
“A Call for a New Anti-War Movement” appears in How to Legalize Drugs: Public Health, Social Science and Civil Liberties Perspective edited by Dr. Jefferson Fish of St. John’s University. “The Legacy of Strom Thurmond” is in Jack Newfield’s American Monsters and “Soul Brother” featured in Alex Cockburn and Jeff St. Clair’s Dimes Worth of Difference.
Essays on race & politics have appeared in The Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy – “The Intensification of Racial Solidarity in the 1990s under the guise of Black Nationalism”; The Washington Post Outlook Section, Emerge,The American University Graduate Review & numerous other publications.
This is a video clip Daniel Aragao made for this Steely Dan song. Words and music by Donald Fagen & Walter Becker. The images came from public domain images of burlesque’s dancers from the 50’s.
HAITIAN DIVORCE
Babs and Clean Willie were in love they said So in love the preachers face turned red Soon everybody knew the thing was dead He shouts, she bites, they wrangle through the night She go crazy Got to make a getaway Papa say Chorus: Oh - no hesitation No tears and no hearts breakin No remorse Oh - congratulations This is your haitian divorce
She takes the taxi to the good hotel Bon marché as far as she can tell She drinks the zombie from the cocoa shell She feels alright, she get it on tonight Mister driver Take me where the music play Papa say
Chorus
At the grotto In the greasy chair Sits the charlie with the lotion and the kinky hair When she smiled, she said it all The band was hot so They danced the famous merengue Now we dolly back Now we fade to black
Tearful reunion in the usa Day by day those memories fade away Some babies grow in a peculiar way It changed, it grew, and everybody knew Semi-mojo Whos this kinky so-and-so? Papa go