Ryan Shaw started out singing in his hometown church in Decatur, Georgia when he was just 3 years old. Performing in The Fabulous Soul Shakers gave him experience and depth in the doo-wop and soul sound of the 50′s and 60′s. The influences are distilled in a classic but unique sound. Check it out in the video below.
Ukrainian technophiles apparently inhabit a somewhat more demanding computing environment. They put this new Asus monitor throught its paces to make sure it has a good picture and can hold up to standard wear and tear, like, you know, cross-bow attacks. Eat your heart out consumer reports.
I’m not even going to hazard a guess at the who, what, why and where of this one, but the filmmaking is fascinating. A second video by the same band… I think.
A visiting professor remarked that Houston was not quite what he expected as I was driving back to the airport after one of our conferences. The image projected is a bastion of oil-rich, good-ole boy, SUV-driving, God-fearing, Bush-loving conservatism, and like most images, the reality is a lot more complex.
Case in point, the Houston Chronicle profiles an amateur cricket league driven by the part of Houston’s massive immigrant population hailing from those parts of the world where football is played with your feet and takes a backseat to the more gentlemanly sport of cricket.
This video has inspired me to coin a new acronym “AQYNKYDKBNM” for what I believe is a severely underappreciated species of internet meme – “Answers to Questions You Never Knew You Didn’t Know But Now Must”
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