"Quick! I want to know the secret of life and I want it now"

Mark Ramsey, the Oracle du jour in matters high tech, appeared on my SignOnRadio.com Internet radio show last week and proclaimed that everyone’s beginning to register impatience with what they are beginning to condemn as the “glacial speed” of information retrieval. In his own words, “When we train people not to have to wait, they end up not wanting to wait..”

He is the genius whom we often read on Radio Daily News, and this is why I asked him to appear with me. It is a bonus with cheese that he is a San Diegan, so it was an in-studio appearance.

It doesn’t seem to matter that at the rate we’re going, we may soon sit down at the computer, and bring up stuff rivaling the speed of light, or even faster.

Will this new instant gratification phenomenon ripple to one minute suspense dramas on television? Somebody gets into trouble and gets out before you have time to settle down with your popcorn.

A new instant version of “The Wizard of Oz.?”

“What happened?”

“Dorothy went to Oz, and came back to her Auntie Em in Kansas.

“But…what happened to courage for the Cowardly Lion, the heart for the Tin Man and the brains for the Scarecrow?”

“Whatever!”

Let’s simply say that he is the go-to guy if you want to know where to go, our personal GPS on how to navigate the new paths toward…wherever.

I read all of his pieces on RDN, and think hard about them and their possible impact on the future of media.. I only understood half of what he said, but don’t say I didn’t tell you that he was going to be on.

While football is fresh in our minds I would like to make a suggestion; that we build roofs on the stadii where they stage the games.

It is trying enough for the players that they bang each other for four quarters without making the games a spin-off of “Survival.”

Playing a game at Lambeau Field at Green Bay. Are they kidding? I suggest we re-name it “Rambeau” Field.

If they are going to play games under arctic conditions why not just have done with it and stage the game at the North Pole, ” The Pole Bowl ?”

If they are going to force the players to play under obstacle course conditions, Why not stage a game in the Florida Everglades? In a swamp full of alligators….a real “Gator Bowl”?

Monday the 21st, was Martin Luther King Day, what many have shamefully come to abbreviate as MLK Day

A little known bit of trivia. He had not scheduled the immortal, “I have a Dream” portion of this address that day in 1963 at the Lincoln Memorial.

It so happened that Mahalia Jackson, the great spiritual singer, was seated next to him and whispered to him as he rose to speak, “Martin, tell them about your dream.”

She had heard him tell his Ebenezer church congregation in Atlanta about his “dream” some weeks prior.

I have told you about my association with the Hollywood motion picture company, Picture Palace Films…well…it’s finished.

Robert Page Jones has written and produced a masterpiece, “Kings of the Evening” directed by his genius son, Andrew Jones.

This much anticipated film will be featured at two prestigious Film Festivals: at Los Angeles and San Diego.

In Los Angeles, the star studded Pan African Film Festival will feature “Kings of the Evening” Sunday February 17th at the Magic Johnson AMC Theaters Crenshaw 15.

In San Diego, “Kings of the Evening” shows Saturday, February 2nd, at the Black Film Festival. at the Regal United .Artist Theaters 14 at Horton Plaza.

It is a deeply moving story of survival in a small Georgia town in the 1930’s, and how these down and out people who had nothing, took that “nothing” and created lives of worth, a story that reflects our noblest aims brought sharply into focus by these renowned African American actors.

I promise that you will be richly rewarded if you attend either of the two Film Festivals, For Los Angeles. the link is: www.paff.org

For San Diego, it’s www.sandiegoblackfilmfestival.com

I am highly honored to have had a hand in this sensitive and highly atmospheric film.

If you are a film buff, this is a must see affair.

This years’ Darwin Awards Yes, it's that magical time of the year again when the Darwin Awards are bestowed, honoring the least-evolved among us. And the glorious Winner for 2007 is

1. When his 38-caliber revolver failed to fire at his intended victim during a hold-up in Long Beach, California, would-be robber James Elliot did something that can only inspire wonder. He peered down the barrel and tried the trigger again. This time it worked.

And now, the Honorable Mention:

2. The chef at a hotel in Switzerland lost a finger in a meat-cutting machine and submitted a claim to his insurance company. The company expecting negligence sent out one of its men to have a look for himself. He tried the machine and he also lost a finger. The chef's claim was approved

Electile Dysfunction: The inability to become aroused over any of the choices for president put forth by either party in the 2008 election…………