Rob Kapilow breaks down George Gershwin’s iconic song. What makes “Summertime” great is its simplicity.

Somehow “Rico Suave” come back to me last night and I had to fired up my Mac to check it out on YouTube. My wife thought I was nut. You guys remember Gerardo back in the early 90s, right? Hip-hop was still in its infant stage and there was this Latin dude blew up the pop chart with “Rico Suave” and “We Want the Funk.” I didn’t know what the funk he was rapping about (I still don’t), but the beats were infectious.

A 93-year-old woman wanted to vote for Obama before she died:

On the morning of Oct. 8, Fitzgerald scratched her signature on an absentee ballot from a bed in her North Charleston, S.C., home, where she had moved to be close to some of her nine children.

She died an hour after the ballot was mailed, said her son, Terry Fitzgerald, of Woodland Road in Foxboro.

Isn’t that a touching story?

Lil Wayne has recently announced the birth of his first son and the baby mama is Sarah, a young Vietnamese-Caucasian who juggles her time between taking classes at the University of Cincinnati and working as a nail tech. I guess she won’t need to work so hard anymore.

New York Times Magazine reveals the behind-the-scene tales of “The Making (and Remaking) of McCain.” The articles is filled with details on the tactics McCain’s advisors had used to run the negative tone as well as the picking of Sarah Palin. New York Times has done us all a favor by putting the last nail in the McCain campaign’s coffin. The story is highly recommended:

John McCain’s biography has been the stuff of legend for nearly a decade. And yet Schmidt and his fellow strategists have had difficulty explaining how America will be better off for electing (as opposed to simply admiring) a stubborn patriot. In seeking to do so, the McCain campaign has changed its narrative over and over. Sometimes with McCain’s initial resistance but always with his eventual approval, Schmidt has proffered a candidate who is variously a fighter, a conciliator, an experienced leader and a shake-’em-up rebel. “The trick is that all of these are McCain,” Matt McDonald, a senior adviser, told me. But in constantly alternating among story lines in order to respond to changing events and to gain traction with voters, the “true character” of a once-crisply-defined political figure has become increasingly murky.

Of course they don’t want to come out and say it. Black president goes against everything they stand for.

Washington Post

According to leaders of the large, affluent communities of Korean Americans, Vietnamese Americans and Indian Americans in Northern Virginia, sentiment among those groups favors Democratic Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.), although Republican Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) enjoys a core of loyal support among older Asian refugees who suffered at the hands of communist regimes.

Palin might be running for the VP with the Republican, but she is supporting the Democrat with her latest fashion: a scarf with donkeys and the word “vote” on it. Go Palin!

Callie Shell has captured some of the most intimate moments of our next president Barack Obama.

AP:

The message, posted Monday on the password-protected al-Hesbah Web site, said if al-Qaida wants to exhaust the United States militarily and economically, “impetuous” Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain is the better choice because he is more likely to continue the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Isn’t this a good enough reason not to vote for McCain?