Sunday hymnal: Please check out my boy's boy Marc Broussard, with his new video, for his song "Home." This kid is bad. Sounds like a 67-year-old black man. (Click on VIDEO beside Home.)
This historical serial, from the Hartford Courant's Jim Shea, starts pretty cool: That finally changes at about 1 a.m., when Torrington Mayor William T. Carroll gets on the phone and wakes up Gov. Abraham Ribicoff. "We've got trouble!" Carroll shouts into the receiver. "Rivers are running through the main streets, stores and homes are flooded, and it's getting worse." (Thanks Keith.)
The Wrong Way Out Of A Housing Project: "When the end came, it barely made the newspapers. Hours before dawn, on a clear 73-degree morning, someone started an argument with a girl, and between the elevator doors of 1212 Loring Avenue and the concrete dolphins out in the courtyard, Keshawn Jamel Seeley bled to death in a spray of gunfire. He was 24 years old."
Kelley Benham's Birth Of A Mother: The system taught Carrie everything she needed to know about life. But it couldn't teach her what a mother does. Carrie doesn't know what it's like to ride in a minivan like this to band camp with a pack of friends. To have one real solid parent, much less two. "You're content with the life you knew," Laurallyn tells her. "We're just the system, Carrie. We're the system." "That doesn't matter," Carrie says. "That's my family."
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