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Do Better Thursday: Who’s Doing It Right?

29 April 2010

This week has been somewhat light in the “Doing It Right” department… What it is, Do Better Nation? This edition will absent of those “Doing It Right”…  There are some things I’m “on the fence” about… And a new special portion of “I’m pretty sure I’m going to Hell for laughing at this… and so […]

Do Better Thursday: Time to Get It Together

22 April 2010

…C’mon Ben… it’s time to Do Better… so, take 6 weeks off… Cheers and blessings good people reading this text! Back from an extended break… due to a myriad of things… work… (yay!) …on.us.tees… (a real yay!) …P90X… (still on that… Day 54…) …even getting back to making beats… well, attempting to do so…  But there […]

Do Better Thursday: Levi’s Soapbox “Enough Is Too Much”

22 April 2010

Enough Is Too Much by Levi F. Daniels So once again it would seem the mercurial American public has once again expressed its discontent with Washington, DC (i.e. the Government) as a concept.  And as always it has done so with fervent protest, inane only partially informed arguments, and a variety of surveys that the […]

Clarion Call for Common Sense: Tea Party or a Bunch of Wet Bags?

1 April 2010

Clarion Call for Common Sense: Tea Party or a Bunch of Wet Bags? Now I would hope someone reading this would correct me were I wrong but wasn’t the tea party a demonstration of a group of colonists railing against a monarchy that taxed them without offering them any real voice in said government?  So […]

Clarion Call for Common Sense: Chomp and Choke

1 April 2010

DAMN YOU SPAGHETTIOS!!! Clarion Call for Common Sense: Chomp and Choke Tis once again time for me to issue my Clarion Call for Common Sense.  This time the source of my ire is the American Academy of Pediatrics.  Now, I am not ashamed to say that I had no idea this organization even existed but […]

Do Better Thursday: It’s a Big F%#king Deal

25 March 2010

…the baddest man on the planet…

Do Better Thursday: Throwbacks, Docs & Freaknik…

11 March 2010

It’s been over a year… and it’s still a beautiful thing… What it is good folks of Do Better Nation? Hope the days have gotten longer and little warmer wherever you are… This weeks Do Better Thursday post will feature more “Doing It Right”, like the picture above, than “Doing It Wrong”… Blame the warm […]

Do Better Thursday – Commentary: Daley Dose “T-Pain, You’re the Game”

11 March 2010

“T-Pain, You’re the Game” by Ordale J. Allen When I was about ten my father observed me as I “watched” my little sister. She was about two at the time.  She was standing in her crib playing with a doll and kept dropping it on the floor. I’d picked it up, but it seemed like […]

Do Better Thursday: Back In the Groove…

4 March 2010

   “Thought you could leave that easily?” What it is good people?  Hope everything’s been everything… Also, hope you got a chance to follow the Black Music History “Group Session” Series… I attempted to get 28 groups in there… but uh… life happens? Well, really Lost happened during the Snowathon and completely took all of […]

Black Music History “Group Session” – Day 18: The Temptations (The Norman Whitfield Edition)

25 February 2010

6 Degrees of Soul: After making several hits in the traditional 60’s Motown sound, Norman Whitfield decided to change his style towards “psychedelic soul”. That transition was highly influenced by Day 17’s Sly & The Family Stone and greatly benefited Day 18’s The Temptations.       …I’m going to assume that we all know the […]