The Problem With Passing Along A News Item

Yesterday I passed along a story link on Facebook about how a bunch of frat boy students at the University of Central Florida deliberately misled supporters of Glenn Beck to illegally park and get their vehicles towed. The source was a longtime friend I met through LiveJournal. No sooner do I post it then I get scathing criticism from another longtime friend whose acquaintence predates my getting on the Internet. He believes that I'm making heroes out of the frat boys and demonizing the Beck followers.

Well, let me spell this out for the reading world: I'M NOT ON ANYBODY'S SIDE!

If Beck or his followers knew me, they'd hate me for something.

If the frat boys knew me, they'd hate me for something.

There are no good guys in the story, so I have no love for anybody there. I made no claims to the contrary. And I refuse to let somebody else put words in my mouth or accuse me of being their enemy.

There Needs To Be A Word For This Kind Of Awesome

The kind of thing when you hear a song for the first time in many years and it sounds super-cool. Makes you wonder why it wasn't your favorite when it was a hit.

Today, I was listening to one of the Time-Life R&B/Disco CDs I bought after the Florida trip and a song from my past just happened to catch me perfectly and knock my proverbial socks off. So why WASN'T it on my favorites list back then? Good question. Dunno if I can answer it here and now.

Maybe I'll post the video here via the Vending Machine Of Awesome. But I'll have a guessing game for YOU first. I'll give you some clues and you can guess the Artist. (Either the name of the band, or the name of the lead singer, who is a celeb in her own right.)

* I've posted a video of the band before in the Vending Machine Of Awesome, but not one of the lead's solo songs.

* The lead's NAME is used as a lyric in the title track of one of her solo albums. This song also featured Stevie Wonder in a supporting role. (Two reasons why this won a Grammy?)

* Another of her solo hits became, for a while, the theme song for one of the most popular shows on American TV...after it had been covered by another R&B star.

* Members of the band played backup on one of Michael Jackson's breakout solo hit songs. The lead also made a cover version of one of Michael's songs.

Enough clues? I'll decide on a prize appropriate to the winner. Watch this space!