Tag Archives: Samuel Clemens

The Merchant of Venice Plying Big Muddy Waters

Posted on January 13, 2011 by Dave

Huckleberry Finn is in the public domain.It is unchained and off the perils of indentured labor. Its simply reality television, unfettered by broadcast license and restrictions thrown back at in an untransformed state. This is not hate literature; it was … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous | Tagged Alex Alonso, Amelia Bassano, Anne Frank, Baudelaire Jones, Beth Schelle, Bobby Seale, Chris Rock, D.W. Griffith, Graeme Dalling, Huckleberry Finn, Huey Newton, Mark Twain, Mike Dyson, Richard Pryor, Samuel Clemens, tabatha Southey, Todd Boyd | 1 Comment

FEAR OF A BLACK PLANET: Sail Away to Victimhood

Posted on January 11, 2011 by Dave

Huckleberry Finn as everyman. Chronic suffering of brain cramps, broken by occasional lapses of sanity. The decision by a publishing house, NewSouth Books, from Alabama, to exchange the nigger word in Mark Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn”, , for “slave” , or … Continue reading →

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CHRISTMAS: IT'S IN THE MIND'S EYE

Posted on December 23, 2009 by Dave

Christmas. Undoubtedly the holiday with the greatest inclination to bring out the fruitcake in all of us. Is Christmas really any worse than other times of the year and do the Christmas blues really exist? Carl Jung differentiated himself from … Continue reading →