The GoFather Of Math: 22nd Day of Black History Month: Six Days In Advance

It began as the GODFATHER OF MATH, evolved into the GOODFATHER OF MATH. Now this. Go figure...

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The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes = G. CARLIN...Stain glass, engraved glass, frosted glass
–give me plain glass = JOHN FOWLES ... Music is the mathematics of the gods=PYTHAGORAS ... Nothing is more fluid than language = R. L. SWIHART

I cannot live without the oxygen of laughter = DAWN POWELL ... !!! ... But laughter cannot survive without the hydrogen of gravitas = PAUL OLIVERIO

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Thursday, February 22, 2018

22nd Day of Black History Month: Six Days In Advance

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Love is a clown
That always fools around
Tears and laughter

Are sure to be found

Frankie Lymon And The Teenagers
(1956)


Last week, it was my privilege to watch a 45 minute interview with the surviving Teenagers, Jimmy Merchant and Herman Santiago They are both alive and well in 2018 Two thousand and eighteen may also be how many times they sang Love is a Clown BUT It might be more accurate to say that two *million* and eighteen is how many times WHY DO FOOLS FALL IN LOVE —their signature song— has been recorded or performed or exploited or poeticized ... However, Jimmy and Herman would have been nothing more than music trivia's delight if FRANKIE LYMON had never existed But Frankie died the same year as Martin Luther King The last day of this Black History Month will be the 50th Anniversary of Frankie Lymon's departure He died on February 28, 1968