In Memorium

[Shwa Girl]

You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
‘Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I’ll rise.
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
Weakened by my soulful cries?
Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don’t you take it awful hard
‘Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines
Diggin’ in my own backyard.
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.
Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I’ve got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?
Out of the huts of history’s shame
I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted in pain
I rise
I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.

We thought of the same poem.
Wow.
She was inspirational

[madchives]

for those who missed (or like i wanted to see again) george's interview with dr. maya
be very interesting to see what being in her class was like, geee.
such an interspersing person.

http://www.cbc.ca/strombo/videos/guest-interview/maya-angelou

http://mayaangelou.com/

[madchives]

was sad to see the passing of knowlton nash.
such an interesting fellow, and what a history he lived
and witnessed. imagine - he took up jogging because
he was friends with jfk's press secretary.
so much he saw in those times.
http://www.cbc.ca/gsa/?q=knowlton+nash

liked the comments/tweets i saw that people
thought the 'national' was actually the
'nashional' - so blaming and thanking knowlton for me
and a lot more of becoming a bit more news junkieish.



was cute some of the faux pas, that happened during his watch
ie saying happy new year - when it was hallowe'en.
and on the last night before new year's when usually
they had 15 seconds left - to find out oh nooo
it is 2 minutes and 15 seconds left.
so of course everyone sang auld lang syne
but only knowlton's mike was on.

[madchives]

heard this last night, thought you might like it too

[Shwa Girl]

heard this last night, thought you might like it too

nice video based on Maya Angelou's poem
he did good job on the lyrics and interpritation

[Shwa Girl]

Alice from the Brady Bunch has died.

According to the couple she lived with in Texas ... Ann fell in her bathroom early this morning and hit her head causing grave damage. We're told she never regained consciousness.

Her roommate says Davis had been pretty healthy for an 88-year old woman -- and her death was a total shock. In fact, she even walked downstairs to say goodnight before going to bed.

Read more: http://www.tmz.com/2014/06/01/ann-b-...#ixzz33QzP4zKR

[Natalka]

RIP Ann/Alice

I grew up watching The Brady Bunch - loved her wisecracking ways!

[Shwa Girl]

Casey Kasem has passed away.
RIP

Casey Kasem, a radio voice who connected generations of Americans to thousands of rock and pop acts, died Sunday morning, according to multiple media outlets. He was 82.
Kerri Kasem, Casey's daughter, announced the news on her Facebook page.

"Early this Father's Day morning, our dad Casey Kasem passed away surrounded by family and friends. Even though we know he is in a better place and no longer suffering, we are heartbroken," she wrote in a Facebook post. "Thank you for all your love, support and prayers. The world will miss Casey Kasem, an incredible talent and humanitarian; we will miss our Dad."

[Zonny]

Casey Kasem has passed away.
RIP

Yes, I read this earlier this morning. He had the same form of dementia that my father had (Lewy Body Dementia), a horrible disease. RIP.

[Natalka]

RIP Mr. Kasem.

Just so very sad that his family and wife have been fighting this past while since he was so sick.

Zonny, I didn't know about LBD, just did some reading on it.

[Shwa Girl]

Casey Kasem has passed away.
RIP

He was the host of the radio show America's Top 40. Ryan Seacrest took over after Casey Kasem.
He was the voice of Shaggy in Scoobie Doo

[Shwa Girl]

Mechach Taylor, from the show Designing Women, dies.
Second actor from the show to die, after Dixie Carter.

Meshach Taylor, who played a lovable ex-convict surrounded by boisterous Southern belles on the sitcom Designing Women and appeared in numerous other TV and film roles, died of cancer at age 67.

Taylor died Saturday at his home near Los Angeles, according to agent Dede Binder.

Taylor got an Emmy nod for his portrayal of Anthony Bouvier on Designing Women" from 1986 to 1993. Then he co-starred for four seasons on another successful comedy, Dave's World, as the best friend of a newspaper humor columnist played by the series' star, Harry Anderson.

[Natalka]

He was fab on DW. Earlier this year, he was on Criminal Minds.

[Darth Penguin]

Tommy Ramone last surviving founding member of The Ramones, dies aged 65.

Tommy Ramone, the last surviving founding member of seminal US punk band The Ramones, has died aged 65 in New York, the group has announced.
The drummer died in hospice care on Friday following treatment for bile duct cancer, US media report.
Born in Hungary, Ramone immigrated to the US in the 1950s.
He started The Ramones with three friends from a New York high-school in 1974. The band have been credited with the invention of punk rock.
Although they were never commercially successful, their unique sound helped shape rock music and is still often cited as inspirations to new generations of musicians.
"There are hundreds, there are thousands, there are millions of melodies happening in Ramones songs," the biographer, Everett True, told the BBC.
"You hear their influence stretch across all of rock music from 1975 onwards... you just hear it everywhere," he said.
Their hit songs I Wanna Be Sedated and Blitzkrieg Bop, among others, earned them an induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002.

[Darth Penguin]

Blues guitarist Johnny Winter dies aged 70

Blues guitarist Johnny Winter, known for his energetic solo performances, has died at the age of 70. Winter - hailed as one of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time - rose to fame in the 1970s, including memorable collaborations with his mentor Muddy Waters.
He passed away in Zurich earlier this week, just days after playing at the Lovely Days Festival in Austria.
He recently said he just wanted to be remembered as "a good blues musician".
The Texas star said he knew he wanted to be a musician from the age of 12. He began his musical career on the clarinet, and then the ukulele, before moving on to the guitar.
His breakthrough came in 1968, at the age of 24, after opening for Mike Bloomfield. It saw him singled out by Rolling Stone as one of the best blues guitarists on the Texas scene.