Gaddafi is dead, III

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Today I started thinking of all the odd bits I have read or heard about Gaddafi. Hopefully I’ll post more.  Like the apocryphal story of when the G.O.A.T. Muhammed Ali met the future dictator Muammar Gaddafi. About these ads

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Found Objects No. 15

Richard Pryor as Uganda’s dictator Idi Amin Dada on his short-lived 1977 TV sketch comedy show on the American network channel, NBC.

Music Break

Rapper Stalley, late last year, channels Muhammed Ali. He could have done without the racial epithet.

Sunday Ephemera No. 1

The G.O.A.T. Muhammed Ali interviewed on the British TV talk show, “Parkinson’s”back in 1971, about whether he would like to be President of the United States.

Rumble in the Jungle

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Revisiting the Muhammed Ali-George Foreman fight in the then-Ziare in 1975 as performance art. Tonight in Brooklyn.

Kinshasa Branch

Shot in the streets of Kinshasa, site of Muhammad Ali’s legendary ‘Rumble in the Jungle’, Karibu Ya Bintou (“Welcome to Life in Limbo”) is a short film with music from the 2010 album ‘Kinshasa Succursale’ by Baloji.  Electric finger piano (likembé): played by Konono N°1, the legendary Congolese band who collaborated with Björk & count […]

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