on conjuration and the nature of mythwork

SUNDAY

hello world, im in a good space, been listening to dinah washington all morning
got a 5 day weekend and struggling with the page - thats all i ask

got me a literary cat, serenity is her name

she likes to sit/lay/sprawl next to me while i type
(we had to get an understanding about the keyboard)

after lady comes calling died, my cat of 15 years, me
and bonnie decide 2 cats this time

bonnies idea, they would be
company for each other

we decide bonnie choose/name one, i choose/name one - so  i chose the cream calico, spca cat, love at 1st sight

brought her home she act like i dont exist, except when its feeding time - then we buddies - otherwise she follow bonnie everywhere - purring

i come into bonnies office and there she is sitting on the arm of bonnies chair - looking at me like whats your name again - oh thats right you the one know how

to open the cat food, thats a good skill to have, why
dont you go practice some - o i was quite distraught

but then we got the tabby,bonnies choice, a foundling, and cats
being what they are shes adopted me - wherever i am 

the house she be there too - just chilling
both of us, just chilling, we be chilling

im just as tickled as i can be
got me a literary kitty

that ought to be worth some pages

some commentary under subject: bodacious claims:

bodcacious claim; us/iraq claim they fighting against iranian backed mahdi army
truth: malaikis gov based badr militia more thoroughly in irans pocket than sadr

bodacious claim: hillary accuses obama of negative campaigning
truth: where do we start with that one, its so bodacious its a joke

all my love
rdoc

FRIDAY

nice video here of obama commenting on debate
say clinton took advantage of opportunity to twist the knife

say it took them 45 minutes before they started talking
about a single issue important to the american people

look like abc was twisting the knife a bit too
engaged in trivial pursuit

i keep trying to withdraw from the fray but this boy
make a good case for bloggers being on it - for the role

they played in spinning the debate

in video boy obama mimic brushing off her attacks
check it out, boy showing some style

punching back while still staying positive

clinton/mccain/republican tagteam trying to swiftboat him
except this time one of our own aiding and abetting

she say she discussing his electability
thats just a cover for her to throw mud

i like that shoulder brush move, boy obama learning
how to punch back - gracefully

but look here, so as not to end on a negative note,
let me drop a hoodoo blessing on you

check out djenra windwalkers orb of djenra, she recently moved to
blogspot and is doing regular postings, djenra some kinda hoodoo queen

most powerful hoodoo i know
she kinda prickly though

she be dropping science, knowledge and wisdom
but she dont drop it often - best to take advantage

of it while she in a generous mood
i know i will

all my love
rdoc

THURSDAY

hello world, i will make this a real post later

but for right now i just want to pay homage to a master

just made ancestor, the incomparable aime cesaire

negritude poet and organizer from martinique

panafricanist spirit

godfather of chamoiseau and the creolites

o master of the word o master of fa

guide guardian babagriot

one hopes there is rest for the weary

also let me say i really dont like whats going on in zimbabwe
no africanist population should be subject to repressive authoritarian rule

w/o swift condemnation from the african powers that be
w/o efforts to move heaven and earth in redress

so say rickydoc
so shall it be

in the name of cesaire
he who loved the people

WEDNESDAY MORNING 11:54AM

man i am so damn near woodshed, im sitting here
on my 2nd floor wrirting porch and i am so feeling it

i dont want to do no more schoolwork, dont want to do nothing
but write, this last 2 weeks schoolhouse gon be rough

so anyway i just wanted to post what
springsteen say about obama, feel kinda

corny posting springsteen, ima
justify it as an artist thing ima

claim fellow
traveler:

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Dear Friends and Fans:

LIke most of you, I've been following the campaign and I have now seen and heard enough to know where I stand. Senator Obama, in my view, is head and shoulders above the rest.

He has the depth, the reflectiveness, and the resilience to be our next President. He speaks to the America I've envisioned in my music for the past 35 years, a generous nation with a citizenry willing to tackle nuanced and complex problems, a country that's interested in its collective destiny and in the potential of its gathered spirit. A place where "...nobody crowds you, and nobody goes it alone."

At the moment, critics have tried to diminish Senator Obama through the exaggeration of certain of his comments and relationships. While these matters are worthy of some discussion, they have been ripped out of the context and fabric of the man's life and vision, so well described in his excellent book, Dreams of My Father, often in order to distract us from discussing the real issues: war and peace, the fight for economic and racial justice, reaffirming our Constitution, and the protection and enhancement of our environment.

After the terrible damage done over the past eight years, a great American reclamation project needs to be undertaken. I believe that Senator Obama is the best candidate to lead that project and to lead us into the 21st Century with a renewed sense of moral purpose and of ourselves as Americans.

Over here on E Street, we're proud to support Obama for President.

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couldnt have said that no better myself

a luta continua

rdoc

WEDNESDAY MORNING 4:14 AM

hello world, been on minimum maintenance lately
pre woodshed, chomping at the bit

never know how my rootsblog posts will respond during woodshed, i generally
do more posting but its personal and self referential

which i would prefer otherwise - i hate when
all i talk about is me - such is the nature

of mythwork - this frederick douglas piece

came from the syracuse poster project - hilcock artist
wilber poet - nice huh, wish i had thought of it

you notice ive taken a break from the campaign, i was too close up on that, all those ups and downs just too stressful for me, im floating now, in my more customary

observatory mode, i see but am not seen - attuning myself
to the strategic flow, if i see a rootpoint i will press it

minimum effort, strategic impact - rootwork
on the hoodoo board of destiny

building institutions and infrastructures that
enable cultural orchestration

so when the crossroad moment come
you got something to bring ot the table

i see my homeboy rawdawbuffalo got a new book out
dirt behind my ears -  torrence stephens

way to go dawg

wordage into product
o i do love the game

some quick commentary:

bloated kenyan cabinet an expensive joke
reflective of traditionally exploitive politic

clinton and obama still crossed, lost points with
bitter clinging bit, gave the haters another opening

to go where they want to go anyway, i assume he will survive it, just a bump
in very hard road - a little seasoning for a blackman want to be president

obama gon have to be more careful - everytme
hillary in trouble she stir the racial pot

zimbabwe under the gun, no good news there - darfur damn
near off the map, rebel disarray has crippled that initiative

far as i can see the west coast of africa is stable, the east coast in turmoil, central
africa has stabilized in a lowgrade crises mode, north africa still being eaten by islam

from a panafrican perspective that is

blackworld you got the significant black populations of the americas, north america we in a prettymuch lowgrade
crises mode too but no more than normal, got some strategic initiatives (best left unsaid) in play that might

flip the board - times is

hard but we okay with it - then you got south america and the caribbean
dont know that i can rightly put those two together

the caribbean pretty much a strategic grouping of its own - africanist, multicultural, multiracial,
multilingual - marginal geopolitical posture,  economically vulnerable  - how does it position itself

south america, significant africanist population/culture in an area with untapped geopolitical potential - then you
got the marginal populations of europe and asia, the strategically marginal pacifica, the uncertain blacks

of india and arabia

got to wield them all into a
geopolical/cosmic force

shape the tribal
soul and destiny

the only blackworld common is that we been a weak people - that we
need a new kind of people, a different kind of people - confident and

competent, an affluent, illuminated and powerful people
(all that we currently are not) cultural custodians and

masters of strategy
the key that opens all locks

destinyplayers

but let me not get on my high horse - its 4 in the morning
and i need to clock some pages before the

schoolhouse come to get me

times like this i love blogging, my very marginality allow me to
talk about whatever i damn well please - its not like im gon be

losing readership, i got none to lose - africanist speculation

of this sort is very dear to me - and of little commercial/career value it seems
least not the way i do it, but i enjoy doing it, got all kinds of ideological

initiatives buried in this post - initiatives that might never come
to fruition, but tricks that i enjoy laying nevertheless

conjuration is all about forcing reality to respond to your will - you create this
magical/artistic reality in your head that is by definition deviant from reality as it is

reality as it is generally stronger than your personal reality which
we shall call for purposes of this discussion your fantasy

but you hold to magical reality with magical Will and you produce Works that seed
that reality in the cultural/ideological consciousness - the human/tribal soul

and you hold that reality and you live that reality until it takes root in reality as is
and becomes a reality in the world  - conduct yourself as you aspire to be and you shall

this is the essence of conjuration
according to rickydoc

and in the reality/vision i see blackfolk are a beautiful powerful people with strong and
beautiful communities that make many contributions to the human condition

in my reality humanity always strives to evolve and transcend
and constantly struggles to enhance the human condition

for everybody - and every thing
in my reality humanity meets all challenges

im my reality i am a man of power and a
force of historical stature and significance

not to mention a
great writer

all my love
rickydoc trickmaster

wouldbe prophet of
the hoodoo way

Comments

[omi]

if you've got a literary cat, i've got a prayin'/conjurin' one. i can't *look* like i'm gonna toss a cowrie without him being right up under me, tryin to see how they fell. and, at the same time, he knows enough not to play with 'em like he fools with everything else.

but, most times, he just curls up next to me and listens, like he's gonna take all the prayers where they need to go when i'm done. which is fine with me. *smile*.