Ray's List: The Mad List

MAD MAGAZINE on Cartoon Network may be the funniest, artsiest, freshest show that you are missing.

The Cartoon Network show is based on the popular magazine that has been a favorite on news stands since 1952. Not to be confused with the former SNL rival MAD TV.


MAD on Cartoon Network really is an animated version of the monthly magazine.


Here's A Few Reason Why You Should Check It Out!


1. MAD is an original-With out the success of Mad Magazine would there even be a Cartoon Network?
How many people who work at CN were either readers of MAD or influenced by readers, writers and artists of Mad Magazine. I know it was my dream job at age 15.


2. Mad Is Still Original-Over the years a few MAD rip offs came and enjoyed various levels of success there was Marvel's Crazy and also Cracked. I thought both Crazy and Cracked were excellent comedy magazines. However, only Mad has been able to stay into the 21st century. Mad is still full of ever changing and original ideas ...all of them funny.


3. The Humor In MAD should make you think more than it makes you ANGRY.
One thing I enjoy about MAD while reading as an adult is that the humor is often based on serious issues, Hollywood's lack of new ideas, and just the funny things in life.


4. Watching Mad on Cartoon Network is a great way to connect with your kids. Why watch an episode and then share some classic issues or go to the news stand and pick up the latest.
It should be a great way to at least encourage the enjoyment of reading.

The 2012 Greater Atlantic City Arts and Music Festival

Two Day Arts and Music Festival Coming To The Shore Mall
November 11th and 12th

 

November 11th and 12th The Little Wellness Arts Center and The Music & Entertainment Report are bringing a two day festival to Egg Harbor Township's Shore Mall.

The schedule of event will be released day by day.

Attendees can expect workshops, vendors, book signings, CD release events, live musical performances and an awards ceremony.

Vendors can take advantage of a special  until August 30th that will give them a table for both days of the festival and 2 radio ads for an investment of $50.

ACCC Helps Encourage ACHS Students

The Atlantic Cape Community College 

Atlantic City Campus's Department of Community Affairs 

Makes a Major Donation To 

The Little Wellness Arts Center/Music And Entertainment Report 

Atlantic City High School School Supply Drive! 

 

Here's a Sneak Peak at some of The ACCC Donations.

On Wednesday 8/22 The Atlantic Cape Community College's City Campus arranged a pick up of donations to supply as many as 50 students with pens, lunch bags, wrist bands, and water bottles.

These will be given out to Atlantic City junior highschool and highschool students via a drawing on September 6th at The Police Athletic League (250 N. New York Avenue, in Atlantic City!)

The event is sponsored by The Little Wellness Arts Center, the radio show The Music and Entertainment Report, Train Personal Fitness Studios, and T Marquise Entertainment (www.Tmarquise.com)

To make the event a total success, we are still in need of a few things more including: financial sponsors to offset other expenses (more sponsors are welcome) , office supply store gift cards, notebooks, pens, pencils, rulers, any and all school supplies are welcome.

For more immediate details please reach out to me at RaymondCTyler@gmail.com.

Again we would like to say thanks to the ACCC City Campus' Department Of Community Affairs for their donation. Now I am looking at Richard Stockton college where I volunteer and host a weekly radio show to to step up.

 

Good Night Phyllis

Phyllis Diller Thanks For The Laughter

 

 Like Lucille Ball and Carol Burnette, Phyllis Diller proved comedy is a WOMAN'S WORLD.

Today whenever you hear a Paula Poundstone,or even Mo'Nique, you can draw influences and laughs directly from the life of Ms. Diller.

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Editorial: Claim and Embrace What You Truly Want!

BLAME ME OR GIVE ME THE CREDIT

If you ask my mother I am sure she can rattle off 10 things she would choose for me to be than an artist, poet or radio host.

However, at the top of the list of all the things she wants me to be, there are several things Mrs. Tyler and I agree on.

She would like me to be a good person, she prays for me to be healthy and we both want me to be happy.

In order to be happy I have to make that happen.
I have to define what "happiness" is for me.
Then I have to claim it and embrace MY HAPPINESS.

I am blessed to be enjoying the life that I want right now.

I thought about this topic this week after two revealing events that took place.

First I attended a boat ride birthday party. After keeping to myself because there were few other Black people there, a friend of mine got me to mingling.

Before I knew it I was having a ball and living in the moment and even left that party and ventured to a beach bar where we had more fun.

I learned last week, that I enjoy sometimes living in the moment.
I understand the value of celebrating NOW!

On the flip side I spent time with someone later that week,that made realize that I am glad not to be a slave to what other people deem is "proper" for my life.

With out going into detail. I felt sad for my friend when we parted company.
 
I saw in that person, someone with the capacity to live a very fun life.Their"reasons" to me just exposed how little they had matured.

When they tried to bring me into their way of thinking I kindly ended the conversation and after a little while just parted company with them. Now I would never knock what works for someone else. However, this person admitted that they wanted enjoy themselves but took no ownership of why they chose not to.

I have to admit I was a little frustrated because their unwillingness to really enjoy the moment seemed to be based on what other people's expectations were and not what they themselves wanted from me or for themselves.

Again, if someone is NOT having a good time with someone, they should leave end of story.

I was also frustrated because because I know what I want and do very little in life half way.
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In short.

I do have limits but I do not let anyone else's expectations of who I am, what I do or what I should be , keep me from happiness.

I work hard and have worked hard to become the man that I am.

I have worked harder to become the artist that I am.

So you may see me on my way to NYC to a comic convention.
I may not be wearing the latest style because I have payment due on a radio show I am producing.
You might see me at a club dancing waaaaaay to close to my date or the woman I met there.

Whatever you see me doing, please believe that I am enjoying that moment because I want to be there. If I am not enjoying the moment I take ownership, that the choice was mine and not my momma's.

If you don't like the way I dance, the art I make, or the way I live life?

It sounds like a you problem.

JUST MAKE SURE YOU ARE ENJOYING THE PEOPLE YOU WANT TO ENJOY!
THE MUSIC THAT YOU WANT TO DANCE TO!
AND THE ART THAT MAKES YOUR SPIRIT FREE!

If not you can blame it on "momma" , your friends or your family, but it is still a FAIL!
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In 2013 Raymond Tyler will be adding the title of motivational speaker and writer to his list of credits.

EDITORIAL: To Chicken or Not to Chicken

If I had a time machine I would surely travel to Montgomery, Alabama to witness Dr. Martin Luther King lead the boycott against the bus company and the law, that put Rosa Park's in jail.

I beam with pride, everytime I read a Dr. King speech about the BUS BOYCOTT, or see the film BOYCOTT, or think about the fact that for over a year, people of color and of conscious WALKED.

So, it pains to say that at this moment in time....I really don't care if you boycott the chicken store or not.

Here's why.

1.Based on the quality of the chick place we are talking about. No one should make that chicken a regular part of their diet.

2. We are at a point in our global economy where for every chicken place, you boycott for being against gay people, there are about 3 more big chains that do far worse to people.

So we stop eating at Chick Anti Gay...but then we still can only afford a flat screen TV from from the big "Blue Mart" store that crushes other businesses. It's just hard right now to make a purchase that doesn't leave you with blood on your hands.

3.Most Importantly. WE ARE NOT SERIOUS ABOUT FREEDOM AND LIFE!
Yes. We have some people who are not qualified to do much more than boycott a franchise and that is important. However, the real work is in organizing discussion groups so that more people can understand that gay people are not two headed monsters , anymore than black people are gorillas. The real work is in meeting and working with people who may actually make you uncomfortable until YOU GET TO KNOW THEM. It's okay we all have MEDIA PROGRAMMING to clean up in our heads and hearts.

I could go on but please believe BOYCOTTING a chicken store is NOT as important as saving for your kid to go to college or reading about Rosa Parks and Dr. King or getting a $50 cam corder of some kind and making a film about something more important than a reality show about pro athletes and their concubines....all of those acts are more revolutionary and will have greater impact on your own life.

4. Even if you are BOYCOTTING Chic-ANTI-Gay...do not become a pest about it.
I would never take away the sense of pride that one gains from standing up for your beliefs and speaking truth to power. This is however, America and people have every right to be wrong. People have the right to hate gays, blacks, babies, women and the handicapped and I would be the first and last to defend their right to be wrong.

Plus I feel we do not help ourselves to create a world where people cannot talk honestly about what they don't like. That kind of pressure leads to people doing very dangerous things co-vertly when they could just tell me..."I really don't like black people."

And that statement is just that a statement...it doesn't warrant a march, an argument or much of a response.

The statement that offends me more is when people boycott Chic-Anti-Gay and they cannot tell you who Rosa Parks was, they only know Dr. King from "I Have A Dream" and they cannot effectively explain what a boycott is and what their goal is with the boycott. I am even more offended when they don't know what happens after the boycott?

For the record, I never ate at the chicken place in question.
If I had I would be thinking long and hard about going back.
I love certain cities, but I limit my dealings in these cities because they have disgusting trends in profiling people of color.

However, I write, discuss and educate people about these issues as a part of my life.
I do not wait for a spotlight issue to join a movement.
My life is THE MOVEMENT.

HERE'S TO FINDING YOUR MOVEMENT AND MAKING A DIFFERENCE FOR WHAT IS IMPORTANT TO YOU.
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