eyes wide shut, mouth wide open.

peep the suit, the watch, the plate and that chicken bone, then check the watch again.

why a perm?

This is the question that we all have once pondered.

and the answer is written by LARRY NEUMEISTER,(Associated Press Writer)


[The Rev. Al Sharpton remembers spotting his mentor, James Brown, for the first time backstage just before an early 1970s concert.

Brown, in front of a mirror combing his spiked hair, urged the impressionable teenager to aim high. Brown advised Sharpton not to “go for little things — go for the whole hog.”

Then Brown, grabbing a microphone, kept talking right up to when he put the microphone to his lips and sang. The startled Sharpton realized he had followed his idol on stage.

“I didn’t know what to do so I started dancing,” Sharpton recalled in an interview Monday.]

And here’s the most important part of the story:

[Every day, Sharpton delivers on a promise he made to Brown a couple of decades ago when he asked the civil rights activist “to straighten your hair like mine so when people see you they think you’re my son.”

Sharpton said he will never give up the look: “That’s my bond with James Brown,” he said.]

we are gonna have fun with this one. don't bite.