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She touched on my eyelids, the room fell silent
She walk away smiling, singing Gregory Isaacs like...

~ Mos Def

I still love watching reruns of Sanford & Son.  Redd Foxx in all his network television, censored glory.  Everyone loves the theme song but not everyone knows that it's the handywork of the one and only Quincy Jones.  Dig it.

I remember being 10 years old spending the night at my neighbors house.  Their youngest son was one year my elder.  We stayed up late listening to records - the last of which was George Carlin's Occupation: Foole (1973).  I laughed hard - harder than I ever had before.  But it wasn't just dirty jokes, he was telling the truth.  The ugly, brutal truth.  Real talk.  Here is George in his stand up special, Life is Worth Losing (2005).

In August of 2007 I got the call to open for Trombone Shorty.  I knew he was a young New Orleans cat making a name for himself - but I wasn't prepared for what I saw and heard that night.  We talked after the show and I told him that I really felt like "I saw someone tonight".   I had a glimpse of what the rest of the world will soon see.  Don't let the name fool you, Troy is just as skilled on the trumpet.  Watch him and his boys tear it up live on KEXP (shit gets real hectic around the 2:25 mark).

You may remember Vicki Lawrence from her time on the Carol Burnett Show or her own series, Mama's Family.  But in 1973 she scored a hit with "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" (written by her husband at the time, Bobby Russell).  All too appropriate for those of us watching the Troy Davis case.  With so much doubt, so little evidence and millions of people crying out for clemency, the Georgia judicial system pushed this through on their own will.  Disturbing.