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*The best place for a man to meet a woman is where a woman doesn’t expect to meet a man. This way, her guard is down. She’s at ease. He’s got a chance. That was the gospel according to Delroy. In the bleachers of Los Angeles City College’s empty football stadium, we’d have a puff [...]
*In 1965, when I was nine, my family made our semi-annual summer pilgrimage from Oklahoma City to tiny Winnfield, Louisiana to visit Daddy’s side of the family. Little more than three miles long, Winnfield made Oklahoma City feel like Manhattan. It was in Winnfield that I first saw on the doors of various businesses and [...]
*To the uninitiated, coming across reports of the May 26 death of Clarence Burke, Jr. meant reading about the passing of yet another old school entertainer whose name you didn’t know. However, to fans, Burke’s death marks the end of a fading, unremitting dream we’ve selfishly held onto for decades regarding one of pop/R&B’s most [...]
*“Stevie, we havin’ a tornado.” We were only about forty minutes into my great nephew Josh’s Northeast Academy Sunday afternoon Baccalaureate ceremony at Oklahoma City’s Greater Mount Olive Baptist church, when my sister Barbara, sitting next to me, whispered this. As proof, she presented me the National Weather Service-issued communiqué on her smart phone. “But [...]
*There’s currently a Geico Insurance commercial running in which a man loses his wife to a pig–the animal whisks her away on the back of his jet ski, no less–because the pig has better insurance. You would think it’d take more than insurance to lure a woman into the arms of a pig. Yes, I [...]
*I’m rich. I mean, loaded. What I’ve amassed over the last decade or so goes into the many millions. Perhaps even billions; hell, I’ve lost count. You know what they say-–once you get past the first 200 mil or so, it all becomes a blur. Problem is, all my cash is trapped in an international [...]
*I was walking through a parking lot in downtown Los Angeles one afternoon, when the tan, fit, well-dressed forty-something blond man coming my way issued a greeting, accompanied by a pregnant gaze that suggested he wanted to say more. Once he got just past me, he did. “Hey,” he said, pausing and swinging around. “Here.” [...]
*I’ve figured out at least one reason many people have this thing about Muslims: they don’t know any. To an astounding number of people who have chosen different paths of faith, Muslims and Islam are these mysterious anomalies to which most have been introduced largely through acts of international terrorism by misguided extremists with a [...]
*Quincy Jones was growing concerned. It wasn’t easy to see, but I could tell. Sitting in a wheeled swivel chair behind the control board at Hollywood’s Cherokee Studio late one Sunday evening in 1978, with Bruce Swedien, his loyal engineer at his side, Jones wasn’t as talkative as he had been a couple hours earlier. [...]
*“Brother, I just saw Yogi. And this time, it was me.” Having known Carl for more than 20 years, I recognize his different tones. Even through the annoying cell connection from his car, I sensed distress. “What do you mean, it was you?” I asked. “When? How?” “I had breakfast and was going through the [...]
*The email said we’d spent time together as kids in the same Oklahoma City neighborhood. He did seem to know all the ways my friends and I whiled away our enchanting childhood summers: riding our Stingray bikes in the blistering midday sun, despite Mama’s advice to the contrary; spending spectacular mornings in the swimming pool at [...]
*The young lady at the CVS store had the misfortune of being the only employee behind a register early that morning. Seven customers in line with no one to take up the slack appeared to make her anxious. “You can check yourself out over there [at the automated scanner] if you like,” she announced to [...]
*Beyonce? Justin Timberlake? For me, the breaking music news—HEARTbreaking—is that Bobby Smith passed. For the uninformed, Smith (also known as Bobbie), who died March 16th in Orlando, Florida at age 76 after succumbing to complications from lung cancer, was lead singer of vocal group, the Spinners. If you live on this planet, you’ve heard some [...]
*The voice in Nathan’s earpiece threatened to tear a hole in his heart bigger than the one he was standing in at Sixth and Western Avenue. Carla’s voice always could stir a myriad of emotions in the rugged, 6’3 hunk of a man. This time it conjured urgency. Dismay. Usually full of spunky spirit and [...]
*I’m convinced: losing two Temptations and a Miracle within a two week period is a sign from God. What else could the days-apart passing of former Temptations Damon Harris and Richard Street, and Bobby Rogers, a founding member of Smokey Robinson and the Miracles–three members of two of the most influential Motown vocal groups of all time—mean? That’s [...]
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