Showing posts with label Stevie Wonder. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stevie Wonder. Show all posts
Sunday, May 13, 2018
Entertainment Overnight -- Happy Birthday, Stevie
Wishing a happy 68th birthday to the man, himself, little Stevie Wonder, born Stevland Hardaway Judkins, this day, May 13, 1950.
Happy birthday, brother Ray!
And thanks for all the great music and memories!
I thought this next version of my favorite song of his was especially appropriate since he mentions his mom and her passing. This is, after all, Mother's Day, of course.
Have a great week, y'all!
Monday, January 30, 2017
Sunday, January 15, 2017
Saturday, December 17, 2016
Entertainment Overnight -- On Christmas
Someday at Christmas men won't be boys
Playing with bombs like kids play with toys
One warm December our hearts will see
A world where men are free
Someday at Christmas there'll be no wars
When we have learned what Christmas is for
When we have found what life's really worth
There'll be peace on earth
Tuesday, September 22, 2015
Saturday, February 14, 2015
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Friday, July 11, 2014
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Monday, July 15, 2013
Friday, January 27, 2012
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
I'm so old...
...I remember when YouTube didn't offer an "automatic play" option on our "favorites" list. THAT old. (I will say, this feature is WAY overdue. I'd looked for it for quite some time).
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Song dedication: To Republican Leaders in Washington, DC
Especially and specifically on the debt ceiling negotiations. I feel sure Stevie would concur and approve:
We are amazed but not amused
By all the things you say that you'll do
Though much concerned but not involved
With decisions that are made by you;
But we are sick and tired of hearing your song
Telling how you are gonna change right from wrong
'Cause if you really want to hear our views
"You haven't done nothing"!;
It's not too cool to be ridiculed
But you brought this upon yourself
The world is tired of pacifiers
We want the truth and nothing else;
And we are sick and tired of hearing your song
Telling how you are gonna change right from wrong
'Cause if you really want to hear our views
"You haven't done nothing"!
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Do we really realize how big a change this is?
Just now, I'm sitting here, watching "The News Hour with Jim Lehr" on our local PBS channel, KCPT and Gwen Ifill is shown interviewing the top law enforcement chief and Attorney General Eric Holder at the National Press Club and it hit me immediately.
Here was an African-American female reporter of some skills, notoriety and import, interviewing another African-American of some incredible power in this Presidcent's administration, and he also, of course, happens to be African-American.
To an extent, we take this all for granted but we really shouldn't--we really can't.
It is a huge, watershed movement in our country and our country's history and we need to recognize the importance of all this change and advancement.
At the same time, there were two articles in The New York Times today, pointing out how far we still have to go, too. Here were the Headlines:
"The Supreme Court's Hostility to the Voting Rights Act" and
"Homeownership-Losses Are Greatest Among Minorities, Report Finds"
As always, as Stevie Wonder said, "Them that has, gets."
And them that doesn't have, gets screwed.
Here was an African-American female reporter of some skills, notoriety and import, interviewing another African-American of some incredible power in this Presidcent's administration, and he also, of course, happens to be African-American.
To an extent, we take this all for granted but we really shouldn't--we really can't.
It is a huge, watershed movement in our country and our country's history and we need to recognize the importance of all this change and advancement.
At the same time, there were two articles in The New York Times today, pointing out how far we still have to go, too. Here were the Headlines:
"The Supreme Court's Hostility to the Voting Rights Act" and
"Homeownership-Losses Are Greatest Among Minorities, Report Finds"
As always, as Stevie Wonder said, "Them that has, gets."
And them that doesn't have, gets screwed.
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