It’s Time

It’s Time

by KIMSNo Comments
For six months I allowed a toxic relationship to derail moving forward with my goals. I was ticking off all the things I hoped to accomplish with very little down time and this situation nearly dragged everything to a grinding halt. The only thing keeping me sane is a Top 40 Disc Jockey job at a local radio station working night shift. At least I was doing something in the entertainment field...sort of.  I was in my early twenties and feeling stupid. I'm a military veteran feeling I've accomplished nothing. I'd moved back to Georgia because I ruined my circumstances in California. That's how I felt, at the time, anyway. I dragged the toxic relationship all the way back to Georgia with me. By summer of 1989, I'd, finally, had enough. Kirk was going to be in Macon, Georgia to promote his debut album. Yep. He did have a record deal lined up. This was my opportunity to reconnect and change...
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The Beginning…

The Beginning…

by KIMSNo Comments
Well... This has been a long time coming. I'm going to tell, from my personal experience, how the whole MC Hammer phenomenon began. With the world heavy in the throws of the aggressively contagious COVID-19 disease, a manufactured recession, forced U.S. unemployment and worldwide protests demanding equal autonomy and restitution for the descendants of enslaved African diaspora, it's been a crazy beginning to 2020. I'm telling this story, not to discount the importance of all that's currently happening, but, to share something unexpectedly positive and selfless. I feel the world needs to hear this, right now. MC Hammer is an incredibly kind, compassionate and humble person toward me. He didn't know me. He just 'had a feeling' about me. That's it. That's all it took. The rest is written in the history books. So, how did we meet? It was early 1984 and my assigned Naval Air Reconnaissance Squadron (VP-47) was preparing for deployment to Okinawa, Japan. I hadn't quite met all of...
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