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Nick Adams

I am here for Friends and Networking

My Interests

Music:

John Coltrane, The Roots, Steely Dan, MF Doom, Bjork, Little Brother, The Incredible Moses Leroy, De La Soul, Miles Davis, A Tribe Called Quest

Movies:

Star Wars, The Usual Suspects, Heat, West Side Story, Trading Places, Super Troopers, Stir Crazy, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Television:

The Wire, Nigella Bites, Emergency Vets, Pardon the Interruption, Aqua Teen Hungerforce, Scrubs

Books:

Making Friends with Black People, Red City, Fast Food Nation, A People's History of the United States, Native Son, High & Mighty, White Teeth

Heroes:

John Coltrane, El Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, Dick Gregory, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Shirley Chisholm, Noam Chomsky

My Blog

When Larry met Andy

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Posted by Nick Adams on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:25:00 PST

Strike! Strike!

(Image via Flickr user kameelahwrites)Always a beacon of sanity in the increasingly chaotic, idiotic media world, Haper's Magazine makes one of the best suggestions I've heard in a long time. Specific...
Posted by Nick Adams on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:23:00 PST

Staying current

Current TV that is. ...
Posted by Nick Adams on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:58:00 PST

The Negro Community Frowns Upon Your Shenanigans

I don't know what these folks are pissed about, but woe unto the person who is the subject of their ire.  There is so much comedy in this picture.    The skeptical eyebrow of the m...
Posted by Nick Adams on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:22:00 PST

Republicans would rather be racist than gay.

(Image from flickr user  SuzanneK)From the Orlando SentinelState Rep. Bob Allen told police he was just playing along when a undercover officer suggested in a public restroom that the legislator ...
Posted by Nick Adams on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 07:30:00 PST

LA Weekly showing some soul

Whenever I see that one of my favorite black artists in the music industry is being reviewed in the LA Weekly, I think the following to myself, "Thank you Earnest Hardy."  9 times out of 10, he's...
Posted by Nick Adams on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 07:49:00 PST

The SoftLightes want to take you to prom

Honestly...my one and only prom experience was so awful, I don't even like thinking about it.  There's no way I'd get gussied up for this, but if I wasn't performing twice this Saturday, I would ...
Posted by Nick Adams on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 06:20:00 PST

The drug war comes to Pine Ridge

From nickadamsweb.comIn 2000, Alex White Plume and his family had a great idea.  After attempts to raise alfalfa, barley and corn on the tough soil of South Dakota's Pine Ridge reservation, they ...
Posted by Nick Adams on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:13:00 PST

Big Bucks, Big Pharma

If you watch this entire documentary, you'll want to bang your head against the wall for an hour before you run to your computer to type out an angry letter to your congressman. On second thought, wri...
Posted by Nick Adams on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 12:10:00 PST

Incarcerex

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Posted by Nick Adams on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:22:00 PST