Remember Whens-Day: Lady Blackhawk by Brian Stelfreeze

From Brian Stelfreeze, a striking portrait of Zinda "Lady Blackhawk" Blake. (Okay, so technically she's not a Golden Age character, since she first appeared in 1959...when I asked for the sketch, I thought she went back further than that. Besides, who's going to argue with results like this?)

Lookin' Good & Mouthin' Off

Listening to Kelly Hogan's CD "Because It Feel Good," it occurred to me how well "Sugarbowl" (one of my favorite tracks on an album chock-full of good songs) applied to the friendship of Big Barda and Zinda Blake. Just substitute "mega-rod" for "tire iron":

We had some hard ones, didn't we, boys?
Remember those mornings?
Remember that white, white day
When you wielded my tire iron?
Kickin' and cussin'...
But damn if you didn't get it up again.

Hey there Sugarbowl,
My little Miss Solid Gold,
You were always a lady,
Just like a lady should be.
And I know times were bad,
But looking back inside my head,
The mountaintops are all that I can see.


Hey there Sugarbowl,
My little Miss Solid Gold,

You were always a lady,

Just like a lady should be.

And I miss you still,

I reckon I always will,

You were my ideal of beauty.