Old School Friday: Road Trip Songs

This week's OSF theme is road trip songs. My pick is "Award Tour" by A Tribe Called Quest. The Midnight Mauraders cd was in constant rotation in 1994. I was in graduate school in Maryland and use to drive six hours to go home every so often. It was Tribe's best CD in my opinion and I would listen to it repeatedly on those long road trips.


From the same CD "Electric Relaxation"



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I Blame T-Pain For This

Kanye West 'singing' mostly through a vocoder at the MTV Video Music Awards.

Old School Friday --- It's Disco Baby!

This week old school video theme is Disco! My pick is the late, great Andy Gibb! I had a major crush on him when I was in 4th grade. I thought he was dreamy. I even remember watching him on Solid Gold back in the day. I was so shocked when he died at 30!!! in 1988. Here is Andy in his hey day with "Shadow Dancing".

andy gibb - shadow dancing
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You Know Its the Sign of the Apocalypse....

When a pregnant 17-year-old girl and her baby daddy represent "Family Values" and are featured prominently at the Republican National Convention.

Aww...ain't they cute. Holding hands and all.

The Four Horsemen are coming. You better get right with the Lord....

Yet Another Reason Why Rappers and Politics Don't Mix

I found this on the Huffington Post. The originator of the "Vote or Die" campaign of 2004, Diddy, expressing his views about John McCain's VP pick, Sarah Palin. There's a point in there somewhere...I think...


Maybe he should think about returning to Howard University and completing that degree.

We're Sexy, We're Great, We're the Class of 88!

You know you are OLD, when you attend your 2oth high school reunion!! It's official, I am MIDDLE AGED!!! I cannot believe its been 20 years since I graduated high school. In 1988, it was all about Keith Sweat, Al B. Sure, high-top fades, and stone-washed jeans. In 1988, I saw the movie "School Daze" and couldn't wait to attend North Carolina Central University, a HBCU in Durham, NC. In 1988, I would vote in my first presidential election -- Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro vs. George H.W. Bush and Dan Quayle. Who knew what a wacko Ms. Ferraro would turn out to be.

This weekend, I attended my 20th high school reunion. What a difference 20 years makes. Everyone in my class is now middle-aged. Gone are the high top fades, asymetrical hair cuts, and tight 18-year old bodies. Wide hips, pot bellies, gray hair, NO HAIR, and general middle-aged spread are the order of the day. Some people aged-well and some people.....not so much. The hell-raisers are now born-again Christians (one hell-raiser became a pastor) and many people are on their second, even third marriages. And unfortunately, we lost several classmates since the last reunion 10-years ago. The last reunion, I was single with no prospects. This time I a married mom of a two-year old.

High school reunion's are a funny animal. I remember my mother talking about her own 20-year reunion when I was a teen, and she mentioned how she'd forgotten the names of many of her classmates. At the time I thought she was ridiculous, I just knew I would never forget my classmates. And yet this weekend, there were several times when a classmate approached me, I looked at their name badge first because I could not for the life of me remember their name. And those who didn't wear a badge, I just smiled and laughed and acted like I knew who the hell they were.

In 1988, Kool Moe Dee had a hit with the "Wild, Wild West". That was our theme song, since our school was named Westover. So I dedicate this to the Westover Senior High School Class of 1988!

Kool Moe Dee - Wild Wild West
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