Naka on Wood

Check these guys out, Marc Maron, Louis CK, Dave Attell and Sarah Silverman circa 1995.

Click through for the New York Magazine article on the end of the 80’s comedy boom.

How stereotypical is it that I’m in a hotel room in South Georgia and I can hear the guys next door having a conversation about how other races are genetically inferior to whites? In a post racial America, you’d think racists would know how to keep it down…or at least have some theories that aren’t based on the gossip of slave traders from the 1600’s.

The idea of genetic inferiority in ethnic races is such a prevalent stereotype that even James Watson, one half of the team responsible for discovering the double helix structure of DNA, has been fired on occasion for spewing such crap in his speeches.

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shanaelmsford:

If you’re looking to Drake’s latest video for a clue as to who he is other than an amalgamation of his rap heroes you’re probably going to be disappointed.

Fire? Check

Stripper? Check

Contrived bravado? Check

Lil Wayne cameo? Check (although I do understand his appearance, I mean he is a third of the song.)

I’m trying hard to believe this guy is assisting hip hop, considering wocka flocka and momma wocka flocka are working hard to derail all progress, but this shit right here…

Still attempting to withhold judgment. I guess. Not really.

Lol, I like listening to Drake, he’s not bad. But I can never watch any of his videos. It’s like his white side takes over as soon as he gets on camera and he starts to trying to convince us that he really is a rapper. A lot of his verses sound very calm when you listen to them but when you watch him spit them in the video he looks like he’s doing his best King Kong impression…I don’t understand. This dude’s an actor, right…why can’t he act normal in a video?

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thereasontosmile:

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So it’s true…African brains do come first

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Got stopped by a stumbling, slurring, drunken man tonight to be asked two questions:

1, “Hey, you’re a black man in America, right?

2. “Do you know you look like Boyz II Men?”

Then he ran off into the distance chasing some screaming voices emanating from a bar.

Congratulations to me on looking like an entire 90’s R&B group!

Get familiar.

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Of the areas inhabited by non-literate peoples, Africa exhibits the greatest incidence of complex governmental structures. Not even the kingdoms of Peru and Mexico could mobilize resources and concentrate power more effectively than could some of these African monarchies, which are more to be compared with Europe of the Middle Ages than referred to the common conception of the ‘primitive state.

Anthropologist, Melville J. Herskovits, on the self governance of Africans at the onset of the slave trade era. “Before The Mayflower,” by Leroy Bennett Jr, 1963

Just read the first chapter of this book. Really really really fascinating.

before the mayflower cover

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I’ll be on the Seriously Funny Show…Seriously tomorrow night ie Tuesday, 8/17 at Smith’s Olde Bar.

1578 Piedmont Ave. N.E.

Atlanta, GA 30324

Always a good time

PS. For my droves of adoring fans paying attention ;-) can you guess the correct spelling of my last name?

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Facts vs Advertising

Saw this poster on my timeline:

soda=bad

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I get it, soda’s bad for you but if I drink Pepsi and this happens to me…

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…I don’t care. Facts don’t stand a chance against the memory of Michael Jackson.

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reddhead:

This is a collection of soundbites I put together backed by the music of Charles Mingus. This shit sums up my and many other minorities frustrations with showbiz.

Jasper Redd’s one of my favorite comedians. He’s out of San Francisco, originally from TN and he just got on Tumblr. Very original, check him out. Anyway these soundbites he put together are cool featuring Paul Mooney, Richard Pryor, Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock.

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At the airport, Chicago bound. Just saw an old professor from college in the suicide inducing security line. I think we simultaneously recognized each other and realized it wasn’t even worth tryna say hi.
“Hey Dr. McWhorble, remember me, from Fall ‘04 Genetics?….What?….Letting me slide with a ‘C’ caused you to lose faith in the higher education system and inspired your departure from the profession? Oh, well safe flight!”
Luckily we passed each other without even a head nod— awkward situation averted. I just hope we’re not on the same plane.

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It seems that people who make things are often remembered for the best things that they made. So, if I like Monty Python, what I know the most are my favorite sketches, and if I like the Beatles, it’s probably because of my favorite songs of theirs. In a weird way, it seems like time is really kind to the person who makes a lot of things, because as time goes on, the best things seem to float to the top and those are the ones that people notice. What I extract from that is, to just make as much stuff as possible and don’t be self conscious about the quality of it. As long as you’re learning along the way, and you don’t stop making stuff, it seems like you have more chances of making the good stuff that kind of floats to the top … It seems like volume is the answer. … It’s not the deepest thing, but I have found that if I just really make a lot of stuff, then I regret less. ~Demetri Martin (via SandpaperSuit)