I just found out that historic structure located at Morris Brown College in Altanta, GA was designed by architect GL Norman. You can find more info here.

Labels: architecture, HBCU, history, morris brown, photograph

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A film of some guys playing some cards and of a butler or bartender pouring these guys some drinks. I assume it's beer because what else would guys drink when they're playing cards.

I've seen videobloggers take to this Lumiere style. I have no doubt that they take their cues from old films such as this from TVDays.com.

Here are some basic rules on Lumiere videoblogging.

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When wrestling was actually worth something. A time when there were three big wrestling companies competing for viewing eyes. Then one day there was only one company and wrestling started to get stale fast.

I miss this era when the original ECW actually has national TV exposure on the network once known as TNN or The Nashville Network (and they would become The National Network and then Spike). It was a great hour of wrestling everyweek I could watch at a reliable time, they still had their own syndicated programming that aired on TV stations around the nations. Then the WWF came to TNN and ECW was forced off and not too long after WWF aired their programming on TNN, ECW was a memory.

I really miss those days!

Labels: history, TV, video, wrestling

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I've been wanting to take a picture of a sign like this while I was down there, but unfortunately the car I was in was moving too fast. Better luck next time hopefully.

Anyway this sign is an indication of Mound Bayou, MS historical significance. This town was founded by ex-slaves and became an all black municipality having been incorporated in 1898. This is why I wanted to introduce this town to you.

Besides, I thought about this story I heard on cable access once where an old Irish talked about how since the Irish ran his ward in Chicago he thought the Irish ran the world. I have no doubt that some young kid in Mound Bayou thought that same way about the leaders he saw in Mound Bayou. He saw blacks on the city council and as mayor. Of course once he left this town, he would be very disappointed.

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