December 2008
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isms20081210
i’d been avoiding busta rhymes’ “arab money” track ever since it came out. i just thought it would be some really ignorant ish, something i didn’t really feel the need to expose myself to. i mean, i cringed every time i heard palin say eye-raq, until i discovered that if i wanted to avoid being annoyed, all i had to do was switch the channel which she came on (a...
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isms20081209: so i like myself more than i like...
i’ve been accused of being a social recluse these last couple of months. what can i say? i happen to enjoy my own company. i like spending time with me. i’m fun. i have way more fun chilling by myself than putting on five layers of clothes, getting soaked to the kneecaps with a combination of snow and rain, freezing in temperatures nobody should be made to go through, to hang out for...
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Woman, Neneh Cherry
You gotta be fortunate, you gotta be lucky now I was just sitting here thinking good and bad But I’m the kinda woman that was built to last They tried erasing me but they couldn’t wipe out my past
To save my child, I’d rather go hungry I got all of Ethiopia inside of me And my blood flows through every man In this godless land that delivered me I’ve cried so many...
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Voyage au pays des pharaons noirs →
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The brilliance of creative chaos, from the Beeb →
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“The short story should be a sacred form, since it’s the most common way we...”
– “Northern Iowa”, Amiri Baraka in Tales of the Out & the Gone
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The Orphans of Mygoma, a documentary by Taghreed... →
Dec 7 - after I posted this, my mother sent me the following email:
“When I was young as a Bluebird and a Girl-guide, we were taken to the Mygoma where we volunteered to feed and change the babies. We were also taken to the Hospitals to the Neonate Unit to help even before the abandoned ones were taken to the Mygoma. That was in the late Sixties. It is very sorrowful to see that through...
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isms20081204
last week, i received an invitation in the mail. to the ten-year reunion for my graduating class from university college london. a whole decade since i left with a degree and an overwhelming sense of now-what?.
obligatory severely condensed wrap-up: a second bachelor degree, a masters degree, almost four certificates. london, khartoum, denver, pittsburgh, vancouver, regina, moose jaw, calgary,...
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Jazz Fan Looks Back, Jayne Cortez
I crisscrossed with Monk Wailed with Bud Counted every star with Stitt Sang “Don’t Blame Me” with Sarah Wore a flower like Billie Screamed in the range of Dinah & scatted “How High the Moon” with Ella Fitzgerald as she blew roof off the Shrine Auditorium Jazz at the Philharmonic I cut my hair into a permanent tam Made my feet rebellious metronomes Embedded record...
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Artists I have seen live (before my memory...
Genesis Joe Cocker Prince (w/The Rainbow Children) James Brown Craig David Kele le Roc Sharon Jones Anthony Hamilton KRS-1 Busta Rhymes Kardinal Offishall John Holt Tricky Roots Manuva John Legend The Roots Platinum Pied Pipers K-Os Arrested Development Big Black Lincoln The RZA Devin the Dude Tumi & the Volume Dizzee Rascal BeenieMan Tanto Metro & Devonte Shaggy Rayvon Toots & the...
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APOCALYPSE THEMES
Science gone wrong
Ordinary man as hero
End of urban living
Need for old-fashioned skills
Competing political visions
From the Beeb
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“It’s really not so good to have time. Rush, scramble, desperation, this...”
– The Last Unicorn
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