Tag: racism
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Vintage Cable Box: “Richard Pryor: Live in Concert, 1979”
“What-choo takin’ my picture for? Who you gonna show it too? ‘I got a picture of Richard Pryor!’ ‘Who gives a fuck?’ Sit yo ass down! Motherfucker, sit down! You know you ain’t got no film in the camera. You just bullshittin’ just flashin’, ain’t nothin’ flashing. Sit yo ugly ass down!” Richard Pryor: Live…
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Vintage Cable Box: The Toy, 1982
“If you want a friend, you don’t buy a friend, Eric, you earn a friend through love and trust and respect.” The Toy, 1982 (Richard Pryor), Columbia Pictures Jack Brown (Richard Pryor) is a frustrated writer who can’t seem to find work. What? Is this 2016? He insists to anybody who will listen, “writing a…
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New Episode! “T.n.T. (Terror ‘n Tinseltown)”
88th Academy Awards with Chris Rock, Angela Bassett, Louis C.K., and Leonardo DiCaprio produced by David Hill and Reginald Hudlin. Directed by Glenn Weiss. “Act Naturally” (Johnny Russell/Voni Morrison) by Buck Owens and the Buckaroos. “Til It Happens to You” (Lady Gaga/Diane Warren) by Lady Gaga. “Mad Max: Fury Road” (a 2015 film directed by…
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NEW PODCAST: “The Creature That Touches Heaven”
There were three “King Kong ” movies made, original “King Kong” movies, same plot device, few useful derivations, but basically getting on the boat, taking the boat to Skull Island, having a hot blonde lady for company, running afoul of natives, abduction and big apes, or chimps, or monkeys, I can’t tell which, I have…
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BlissVille Fridays: “Why Did The World Unravel Us?”
The shooting of Walter Scott occurred on April 4, 2015, in North Charleston, South Carolina, following a daytime traffic stop for a nonfunctioning brake light. Scott, a black man, was fatally shot by Michael Slager, a white North Charleston police officer. Slager was charged with murder after a video surfaced contradicting his earlier police report.…
Misadventures in Blissville 