If the Dockers commercial got you wondering who sang this song, than the answer is Marlena Shaw.  I figured since I'm in San Fran state of mind today I might as well share this as well...

When OGF W. Franklin passed on a link to Medicine for Melancholy's website I immediately knew that I wanted to see it, but now that I'm hearing the buzz it's getting out in the Yay, interest level has soared even further. One of my favorite things to do in San Francisco is walk around, and much like NYC, San Francisco is extremely walkable. Each carrefour has a story of its own, and the stories often told by the friends who have served as my tour guides during these trips has made this city endearing. While I wouldn't necessarily want to live in San Fran, I definitely would never want to be denied the pleasure of walking its streets. Medicine for Melancholy appears to be an extension of one of these walking trips and my love affair with the Bay. You can check the film out this weekend in MD and SF.

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Monday April 28, 2008

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Park Slope Barnes and Noble
267 7th Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11215
718-832-9066

Hope to see you there... 

I've been working overtime of late doing some academic research and writing that I hope will soon see the light of day, as well as doing my best to stay afloat in the ever expanding blogosphere.  Two of my recent contributions to The Huffington Post have focused on our food crisis or what I call a "subprime food industry."  Our volatile housing market and rising fuel costs in our cars are not the only things we need to be worried about.  As the recent protests in Egypt, Haiti and India rising food costs are also legitimate concerns.  The second article is a more recent one from this Friday and it addresses the verdict in the Sean Bell murder trial.  Here I present my thoughts on the discomforting relationship that exists between Sean Bell and Barack Obama because of the overwhelming media coverage that these two Black men have received for very different reasons.  Here's an excerpt:

I have also recently contributed to the Applied Research Center's Daily Blog Racewire.  My first post was on Tuesday's Democratic Primary in Pennsylvania.  Entitled "Still A Big Man's Game" it explores the role of party officials such as Pennsylvania's Governor Ed Rendell in keeping Hillary Clinton's campaign afloat.  It's surprising that with all the calls asking Howard Dean, John Edwards or Al Gore to intervene and advise Clinton to bow out of the race, there's very little discussion about the diehard Clinton supporters in the upper echelons of the Democratic party who have been ensuring Clinton's victories in states like Ohio and Pennsylvania. 

 Last but not least, The Night Shift Chronicles is still running.  We are still in the process of upgrading the layout and adding more content on a regular basis.  Slowly but surely it's taking to it's new incarnation. 

 Ok, I'll stop here for now.