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I didn’t see this until after Obama clinched the nomination, which is interesting, considering it was put together to help him in the Puerto Rico primary (in which he got creamed). It’s obviously a take-off on the “Yes I Can” video done earlier by Will.I.Am (seen here).

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The news that Castro is stepping down has me thinking about Cuban music. Old movies of old Havana watched years ago, a very little exposure in the meantime, the discovery of an amazing ex-pat bassist working a mundane day job locally, imagined and wished for rhythms and fusions: all these kicked in a craving [...]

I had an epiphany one night while journeying in a foreign land. A friend and I were driving aimlessly in an old jeep, on a bumpy dirt road with no signs for miles. Every time we asked directions some dude in a turban would point aimlessly and then we’d ask another dude in a turban [...]