Your Boy Darnell Wright "The MySpace Stimulus Plan"

Has been added to the TAKEOVER TOUR!!!

NonStopInfo.com got a chance to sit down and speak with Comedian Darnell Wright A.K.A. ”The Bulletin King” A.K.A. “The Myspace Stimulus Plan” (Former I Love New York 2 Contestant). His bulletins and blogs have gotten wide spread attention among the MySpace community.

Talk about talent? Darnell Wright sure has a lot of it and has no problem displaying that on stage or in his writings. He knows how to embrace the stage and make it his own. With only 4 short years in the game he’s accomplished what most strive for in a career. Darnell took a chance at his jobs talent competition and went on to win first place prize. The positive response from the crowd motivated him to pursue comedy as a career. From that moment he’s done over 300 shows nationwide, and headlined 4 sold out One-Hour-One-Man shows. He’s performed in almost every major club including the most recognized Comedy Club Caroline’s on Broadway in NYC.

He performed at countless Colleges, High Schools, and even Church events. And has shared the stage with today’s hottest comedians such as: Gerald Kelly, A.G. White, Talent, and was blessed to be coming off the stage when a Comedian Legend decided to grace the stage unexpectedly, David Chappelle at Gothem Comedy Club in NYC.

His comedic timing is right on point and his material is for all audiences across the board. Darnell is energetic, raw, and has the ability to make any topic funny. His skits deal with his drinking problems, to his outlandish jobs, his horrible dates, to even clowning his own short stint on the “I Love New York Show” season 2 on VH1. He has catchy punch lines that will have you reciting them well after the show. Darnell has the complete package to be one of comedy’s biggest stars.

To go along with his stage presents he’s also an Internet writing phenomenon. With writing for Humor Mill Magazine an online magazine geared toward Comedian and Urban News and his funny “Blogs” on MySpace, Darnell has grown is fan base to 30,000 daily readers. With blogs like “Top 5 Reasons Crack Isn’t That Bad”. In his latest blog titled “I’m  Old School You Might Be Too” , Darnell takes you on a trip down memory lane while making you laugh the whole way.

RECKLESS LETS GO!!!

A Great General Has Passed

PRESS RELEASE

Frank N. Mickens, former principal of Boys and Girls High, has passed away.

 

Frank N. Mickens, former Boys and Girls High School principal and basketball coach, passed away of natural causes at his home on Thursday, July 9, 2009.

            A lifelong resident and native of the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn, Frank N. Mickens was born to parents John and Hortense Mickens on June 22, 1946.

            Coach Mickens attended Junior Academy during the elementary years of his education. He continued with his studies in the New York City public schools, graduating from Erasmus Hall High School in 1964. Mr. Mickens completed his undergraduate studies at the State University of New York at Potsdam. He received his Masters from New York University, and completed graduate work at Columbia University. In December 1991, Mr. Mickens was awarded an honorary doctorate from Medgar Evers College.

            Dr. Mickens had over 36 years of experience as an educator in the New York City public school system. Through the years, he served as teacher, dean, basketball coach, assistant principal, principal, and assistant superintendent.

            Mickens began his illustrious career in 1968 as a teacher of Social Studies at the Old Boys High School, spending ten years there. From 1978-1982, he served as assistant principal of Junior High School 109 in Queens. From 1982-1984, he served as principal of Junior High School 324 in Bedford Stuyvesant. In September 1985, Mr. Mickens was appointed principal of Martin Luther King, Jr. High School.

            Mr. Mickens served as principal of Boys and Girls High School for 18 years (1986-2004). “Mick,” as he was respectfully and endearingly hailed by students, staff, and denizens of Fulton Street, received nationwide recognition for his commitment to young people and for the relentless campaign of his positive program on self-esteem at “The High.”

            In recognition of his initiatives for young people, Mr. Mickens was featured often in The New York Times, New York magazine, New York Newsday, and The New York Amsterdam News. Also known and loved as “The Chancellor of Fulton Street,” he appeared on The Today Show, Geraldo, The John Walsh Show, Good Day New York, CNN, Best Talk in Town, The McCreary Report and The MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour with Charlayne Hunter-Gault. On March 7, 1992, ABC National TV News designated Mr. Mickens as its “Person of the Week.”

            Mr. Mickens attended Harvard University’s Principals’ Center at the Harvard Graduate School of Education as a part-time visiting practitioner.

            On November 18, 1992, Joseph A Fernandez, the New York City chancellor of schools, appointed Mr. Mickens to serve in the position of administrative superintendent in addition to his duties as principal of Boys and Girls High School. Dr. Mickens also served as an adjunct professor at Long Island University, New York University, PACE University and Baruch College, and was also a Charles H. Revson Fellow at Columbia University.

            A noted lecturer on effective schools, Mr. Mickens spoke engagingly at educational forums throughout New York City, Atlanta, Chicago, Kentucky, Georgia and Washington, D.C.

            The New York City Department of Education lost a legend with the death of Frank N. Mickens. Mick was a mentor, brother, uncle and father to students, staff, and family. Mick touched the lives of 1000s of children and adults from NYC and across the world. He will be dearly missed by all.

            A viewing and public memorial service for Coach Frank N. Mickens will be held on Friday, July 17, 2009. The Friday viewing will take place at Woodward Funeral Home, which is located at 1 Troy Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11213-1129 from 12-8pm. The public memorial service will begin at 6pm on Friday, July 17 at Boys and Girls High School (1700 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY). Attendees are encouraged to pay their respects at the funeral home and then walk to Boys and Girls High School, which is one long block away. On Friday, attendees whose lives Mick touched are encouraged to wear “Red, Black, and White” in his honor for the home-going celebration.

Funeral services will take place on Saturday, July 18, 2009 at The Elim International Fellowship, located at 20 Madison Street, Brooklyn, NY 11238. On Saturday, there will be a viewing of our beloved Frank N. Mickens from 8-9:15am, with funeral services immediately following at 9:30am. In honoring Mr. Mickens’ internationally acclaimed Dress-for-Success program, all men are encouraged to wear bow ties to the funeral services on Saturday.

 

He will be missed.. He is truly a Reckless educator, motivator, leader and trend setter his impact on his community will be missed dearly.  Yet his accomplishments will never be forgotten. 

Devin Carthan President of Reckless Promotions

Long Live the King

By Reckless Rach

Today is a day that will be forever marked in history; and not because Honduras, after a violent military coup against it’s democratically elected president, has decided to mediate their political crisis. Nor because today marks almost a month since Iran has broke out in bloody protests and shady media coverts. No, today, there is only one thing to talk about; only one focus for every breathing person in the entire world, including some random rice farmers in Timbuktu and it’s the Michael Jackson Tribute.

With a star studded cast, live television coverage on several TV networks including CNN and MTV and millions of viewers worldwide, it was nice to see the world stop burning for one second to admire a brave and beautiful cultural icon… excuse me, the cultural icon of the Century. Even the persistent, depressive rain in NY subsided for a while in honor of the King.

And while watching the tribute and all of the people whose hearts Michael Jackson has touched, from Magic Johnson to John Mayer to his 3 children, all I could think was “Fuck all the Michael, haters! And yes that includes Kat fuckin’ Williams!”

It seems like now, in death, people have realized the huge disservice and pressure the media placed on a man who had grown up pretty much entirely in the lime light.  Can you stop for a second and imagine, I mean really imagine that type of pressure?  Really?  Imagine how you felt at that big game in high school, in front of all your family, friends and neighbors playing for a college scholarship or to impress the girl of your dreams… Now imagine that magnified by a million, complicated by shitloads of money and how it would be to feel the weight of all those expectations, of your nerves, of your fears, of defeat and humiliation being thrown onto you non- stop since you were 5 years old.   >DAMN< 

Yes, I think for that reason, the media could’ve cut Michael a lil slack.  Shit, give the guy a fucking break.

Especially since Michael was unarguably one of the most generous and humanitarian celebrities the world has ever seen.  He was always pushing for some cause, trying to get people to care about the environment and African babies way before Angelina Jolie made adopting them cool.  Even in death his generosity is insurmountable considering how he has left 20% of his estate to various charities.

So, all you Michael haters can go play in traffic.  Who on this earth can touch Michael? Madonna? That bitch stole an African baby and tried to call it adoption!  I don’t think so.  Elvis? Puhlease!  We all know Elvis stole his sound from niggas.  The Beatles? Close but they have not transcended racial barriers and cultural lines like Michael has.  You can go to the smallest, most remote village in the smallest town, in some barely inhabited island off the coast of nowhere and for sure, all 10 people in that village have heard of Michael and love his music. 

That is why today will be remembered for years and years to come as the day the world bowed it’s head in consideration and whispered “Long Live the King!”