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CARTOON: 'Upwardly Mobile'

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Weekend in the City of Angels

Oh, boy, L.A. is the place, believe it or not. Los Angeles is just a drama on its own, and a whole lot seems to be making the City of Angels the craziest of all metropolis, especially when one becomes a target of who you are, "where you from," your lifestyle (drug addicts, alcoholics, blogaddicts, armchair quarterbacks, basketball fanatics, barebodied hotdog eating football fanatics, aloofed Hollywood wannabes and what have you) you must have done something wrong why someone is for no reason saying something about you (good or bad) for the fact it is a tradition that life goes on, no matter what.

As it happened the past weekend in Los Angeles was something I think I should talk about for many reasons. I had trooped to many places and it's just a whole lot happening the coming months before the Summer jams. I mean, the line up is so huge I'm beginning to wonder if President Barack Obama is just simply a magician. The guy is loved and the press has adored him. Every 'damn' thing is going on well now one begins to wonder why in heavens places George W. Bush and his White House gangsters deliberately decided to destroy the finest place on Earth. But that's over with and definitely "change has come to America." It is a "New Dawn," and without a doubt America is back.

But anyways, it's all good and the pop-ups is a sign of good feelings. The Playboy Jazz Festival announced last week the line-ups for this year's Summer jams at the Hollywood Bowl, and being my kind of hang out, I spoke to many of what should be expected and how "change has come America." Just hanging out as usual, the 31st Annual Playboy Jazz Festival marking its 50th anniversary salute to Miles Davis' class album "Kind of Blue" by Jimmy Cobbs So What Band scheduled for June 13-14 at the Hollywood Bowl became an interesting topic with regards to the "New Dawn." The festival will feature one of my all time favorites and friend Wayne Shorter whom I have watched uncountable times, Kenny G., the Neville Brothers, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Norman Brown, the John Faddis Quartet, the Jack Sheldon Orchestra, the New Birth Brass Band, the Pete Escovedo Orchestra, Cos of Good Music, Patty Austin, the Dave Holland Big Band, Oscar Hernandez and the Conga Room All-Stars, the Anat Cohen Quartet, Alfredo Rodriguez and the North Hollywood Jazz Essemble, and the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts Jazz Ensemble.

What a line-up!

That's not all. It's weekend in Los Angeles and I had dabbled into Tayo Okulaja and the talk was, again, "change has come to America," and it is a "New Dawn." Yep, a "New Dawn." The Playboy Jazz Festival was part of our gist and the Owambe, Juju music King Sunny Ade is in the list, too. He will be slamming his "Synchro Systems" vibes at the Hollywood Bowl and I'm quite sure he will deliver. As Okulaja and I began to see what is making news in Naija, it came out "Naija still get long way to go" and not in our generation will change come to "Nigeria." Unfortunately so, and who cares, though?

Okulaja, another crazy dude, knows a whole lot about music, too. The legendary saxophonist Wayne Shorter popped up. "So you know about my man Wayne Shorter?"

"Ah ah, which one you dey now? Abi you think say man no know what's up?"

"That's not what I mean."

"Wetin you mean?"

"I meant The Playboy Jazz Festival which I have not skipped for the last 15 years and it's becoming better and groovier each year notably as Bill Cosby always serves as master of ceremony."

Interestingly, Okulaja knew much about my man, Shorter who is still looking good at 75. Still energetic and jiving. Shorter, like we all know had started with ace drummer Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, then with Miles Davis' 60's Quintet and Tony Williams, Ron Carter and another of my favorites, Herbie Hancock. When cultural/jazz fussion popped up in the 70's as Modern Jazz Quartet and Creed Taylor's Crew at Kudu Studios began changing the theme of Jazz in what critics called crossover, Shorter connected with Austrian keyboardist Joe Zawinul in what would be an amazing journey in Jazz music. I love the man and his music is like baked in my genes. The tracks "Speak no Evil," "Juju," "Native Dancer" and "Jungle Stuff" from the days of Weather Report are all masterpieces.

Okulaja kept me talking and jazz had been the theme and I never stopped talking about jazz greats from Satchimo to Shorty Rogers. I'm still not sure who is the greatest sax player. I'll give it to John Coltrane and "African Brass" unquestionably remains my best.

The weekend did not end without Obama being on top. The bailout and all his packages has taken over in every nook and cranny of Los Angeles and people are beginning to wonder why. It's just simple. The guy has vision and "change has come to America." It is a "New Dawn."

And as always, L.A. is the place!

CARTOON: 'Big Headache'

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CARTOON: Wuruwuru Country

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CARTOON: "Rule of Lawlessness"

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Street Trading in Naija

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CARTOON: Naija Showtime

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CARTOON: Just The Fact

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CARTOON: National Assembly Members for HIV Test

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CARTOON: Nuhu Ribadu Wanted Dead

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Bizarre Happenings Around The Globe

You’re not gonna believe this. The Japanese workers have been told to leave work early to avoid demographic disaster on the basis many couples are simply too tired to have sex after long hours cracking their laptops. In a conducted survey, many couples said they haven’t had sex in a couple of months because they did not have the energy.

With the Japanese birth rate dropping dramatically and the fear of population instability, Japan's labor ministry now plans to exempt employees with children under the age of three from working long hours, so they could have enough energy for procreation. Ain't that something?

Japan has the lowest birth rate and if it continues, its population would drop by almost 30 percent by 2050, and that would be a serious demographic problem. Whatever happened to Viagra and those dangerously fantasized pills? I did not make this up. Seriously!

Well, if the labor bill passes with paid time off to guarantee a greater sexual drive, the Japanese population may explode to nearly 200 million by 2050.

Now hear this. In another related survey conducted by the Singen Institute of Condom Consultancy, a German consultancy group that provides counseling on condoms, the study showed the French need the largest condoms which suggest they have penis measuring about 6.09 inches or more while the Greek had a moderate size.

The survey was conducted by asking 10,500 men from 25 different countries to measure their penis and enter the number into a database. I wonder if Nigerians, Liberians, Zairians, Ghanaians, South Africans and Cameroonians were in this survey because of their increasingly desire for sex. Amazing!

The Mexican drug lords are scarring every part of that Latino enclave to death. The hospital scene in “The Godfather” has, for sure, been replicated in a typical Michael Corleone saving his hospitalized father from a deadly hit squad. But the difference here is that in Mexico doctors are caught in the middle of fierce drug war where an estimated 5,000 people have died so far this year.

In Nigeria, politics of intimidation has become the order of the day with the continuous harassment of the nation’s former Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Czar Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, who for the past couple of weeks has been on the eye of the microscope concocted by the fat cats of allegedly the James Ibori gang and Orji Kalu's demonic gangsters who have been in a position to buy politicians by reason of their loots from the treasury and their illegal campaign contributions.

As the bizarre intimidation of Ribadu continues making a mockery of our democratic dispensation, I see the press for not rising to the occasion. The press is not doing much which makes Nigeria journalism dangerously weak.

CARTOON: The Party is Over

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CARTOON: Heavy Duty Passenger

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Seun Kuti Storms Abuja's Velodrome in MTV Africa Music Awards

Yes, like father, like son; and he is following the footsteps of his father, the legendary Chief Priest and Baba of Afro Beat, Fela. I watched this young kid perform last Summer here in Los Angeles and he was just a carbon copy of his dad, in gestures and performances. Seun started playing the sax and piano at the age of eight and by the time he was 15 he was already a master of the wind instruments.

Well, while there is still chaos in the Niger-Delta region of that troubled country called Nigeria, at the same time, the first ever MTV Africa Music Awards in Abuja, Nigeria, at the Velodrome, had already watered down and folks out there in that corrupt capital city, yes, corrupt (Nuhu Ribadu is locked up for no reason, remember?), were stomping and made some noise as Compton-bred The Game, Kelly Rowland, Flo-Rida and many other poerformers were in the house that was jamming with the wizard dribbler Austen "JJ" Okocha as presenter of some of the awards, political tussle in a do-nothing Umaru Yar'Adua's administration continued apace.

Seun who opened the show performed "Army Arrangement" and accepted the inaugural Mama Legend Award in honor of his late father, the Chief Priest.

According to media reports, the occasion was electric and Nigerian performers took home most of the awards on that Saturday, November 22, 2008, when it was all magic and not darkness. The vibes seems to be grooving with a newer generation and let's bring it down.

CARTOON: A Hustler and Bad Economy

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CARTOON: The Animal Kingdom

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CARTOON: Democrats & Crazy Demos

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