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  • R.I.P. George Carlin

    No, it’s not exactly music news (although Carlin made enough albums that I don’t feel as though I’m going too far off base with this post).

    George Carlin was, quite simply, one of the funniest people to ever grace the stage. And unlike other great stand ups who completely sullied their comedic genius by appearing in shitty movies (hello, Eddie Murphy), Carlin kept being funny almost up until literally the day he passed away.

    Yeah, I’m posting the 7 Dirty Words skit like everyone else probably will, but damn if it isn’t the single funniest comedy sketch I’ve ever seen. Carlin has now officially joined Richard Pryor (his only rival for funniest man in history in my opinion…I need to investigate Lenny Bruce) upstairs. Heaven just got a whole lot funnier.

    Warning…objectionable language ahead…

  • The Falsettometer Comes To Your Emotional Rescue

    Mick JaggerMichael Philip Jagger is many things. Frontman for arguably the world’s greatest rock and roll band. Serial bedder of hot-ass women (Bianca Jagger was a dime piece…and so was Jerry Hall back in the day…hell, he’s still bedding teenage Brazilian models and he looks like a raisin these days!)

    You can’t forget, as Eddie Murphy once said “Mick Jagger’s lips are so big…Black people look at him and say “he got some big-ass lips”. Ha!!!

    He is also in possession of a rarely used yet always effective falsetto, which has rared it’s head in three of my favorite Stones/Jagger songs. (more…)

  • To All The Fathers

    Happy Father’s Day to all the fathers in the world. I commend all the fathers who are doing the right thing for their families and being the role model they need to be for their children.

    I had my first child when I was just 23 years old and in just two weeks, he turns 9 years old. While my husband skills could use some oil to get the kinks out, my father skills are on point. I really embrace the father role and it’s something I’m good at. I try to relate to my kids in the same ways that my dad related to me, which was through different activities. I’ll throw the ball around with them, but I’ll also color with them, play video games with them, write with them, and do whatever they want to do. I make sure that I help out in their class, coach their teams, and just let them know that no matter what they choose to do, I’ll be there.

    One of my favorite daddy songs is Will Smith’s take on the old Bill Withers and Grover Washington Jr. track, Just The Two Of Us. Let’s all celebrate the dads today.