Thank you for the inspiration, Stan Lee.
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Truth
“I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is.”
“Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.”
“All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.”
“…With my wits, without hatin’, without being bitter, without being mean.”
Triumph of Love by Walter Mosley
With Black History Month drawing to a close, I wanted to share this moving lecture from one of my favorite black novelists, Walter Mosley.
A Cursory Antiquity of Temporal Lengths
Today is the 75th anniversary of the famed English physicist Stephen Hawking! Best known for his groundbreaking cosmology book, A Brief History of Time, as well as his numerous appearances in pop cultural institutions like Star Trek: The Next Generation and The Simpsons, perhaps the strangest homage to the scientist came in the form of A Brief History of Rhyme, a 2004 album produced by web developer and nerdcore hip hop artist Ken Lawrence under the alias of MC Hawking. Here’s a music video for my favorite track from the album, “What We Need More of is Science”.
