SUNDAY
playground rules
bush say if he cant torture people like he want
he wont let the cia interrogate terrorists no more
what kind of kiddie bullshit is this
ima take my ball and go home goverance
threatening to hold his breath
till he gets his way
i wish
im telling you bush jr got to go
we cant afford no more kiddie governance
these are some grownup times
we living in thesedays
in struggle
rdoc
FRIDAY
hello world
runnng and gunning
hitting and quitting it
its good to be the queen
young sister, aspring young actress in la and
adopted from birth, discovers father is a village chief in siera leone
striving young actress and new princess doing quite well by village standards
and as new american representative, finds herself expected to solve all problems
said obligations followed her back to la
initiatally resistant to newfound responsibilities shes started a little village fund
making microloans, doing what she can, when she can
sometime just cant say no
when folk depending on you
when for whatever foolish reason
folk believe in you
republican rhetoric: what you
thought you heard was not what i said
wanted to do this myself
translate republican rhetoric
but who got the time - american hot sausage did
found this link on prometheus 6
him and dr kioni, i like they stylee
man if i only had the time
id be styling like they be styling
specially that kioni
that boy be hoodooing
bout time colin
quote from colin powell in response to recent bush efforts
to bogart congress into letting him torture people legally
"the world is beginning to doubt the moral basis of our fight against terrorism,"
confessions of the conjureman
i bought a 16 dvd set of 74 amos and andy episodes
for $24 dollars - what can i say - i believe a.j. calhoun
would plead me guilty - he guilty as charged yo honor
thats all folk
i guess on that note im outta here
probably hit it again before day is out
add a couple more commentaries maybe
so i dont feel guilty cause
im just going thru the motions
what i really want to play with is my destinywork project
got the basic layout, whats next
im justifying this by telling myself im showing my young
hoodoos how to run the game according to rickydoc
this how i roll
how i go about trying to
influence human destiny
the nature of my works
thats a standing question with me, bigtime, just how do you influence
tribal and human destiny - in my case as a writer and conjureman
guess thats always a decisive factor in that question
where do you stand on the board
thats the hoodoo board of destiny
for folk who dont know my work
i think i will draft up the inquiry letter for destinywork
go ahead and send it to my friends and colleagues
maybe to the blacklist and kalamus list to start
see what happens
see if i get ignored, or if i get submissions
thats the biggest reservation on running good game
putting yourself out on a limb again
knowing you gon get buked and scorned
again
and got to be patient rick, it will take a minute
for those submissions to start coming in
patient and persistent, get folk to agree to send me
something, then patiently harass them about it
in the meantime flesh out the text
and the concept
sound like a working plan to me
invest one work morning a week
(alas my novel, that might not work -
what about one morning every other week)
so let me draft that inquiry post
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hello blacklist (kalumulist/orishalist/etcetc/fill in the blank)
my name is arthur flowers, aka rickydoc trickmaster
novelist, thinker, activist, conjureman
webmaster: rootwork.com and rootwork the rootsblog
some of you know me, most of you dont
im trying to put together this anthology called
destinywork: the longgame and 21st century paradigms of struggle
the premise is blah de blah de blah . . .
i am asking you for submissions to this proposed anthology
i have laid out the premise/outline of the text in this posting
and am asking potential submitters to engage the premise as a whole
or the outline at any point that calls out to you
for instance somebody might be interested in the civilrights movement
or the black arts movement
another might be interested in community organizing in
the 21st century - or during the harlem renaisance
or speculations on our destiny as a people
the destiny of all humanity
the roles of literature, culture or prophecy in our struggle
the role of magic
i would like potential participants
to determine where your interest/submission would fit and
do a piece exploring that dynamic in the context of 21st century struggle
i would like these pieces to be short and tight
no more than 2 or 3 typewritten pages (approx. _____ words)
i want to pace this work, i want it to move
say what you got to say, say it clean
welcome to submit more than one piece
this work is pure speculation at this point
but when i do sell it i will try to give all participants
a little something something
but i cant promise anything
if you do send in a submission i will assume
nonexclusive permission to use in the proposed text
or as an online document
i hope this work to be a strategic document, a handbook of struggle
i hope this work to be historically significant
an attempt to define the nature of struggle in the 21st century
and i would appreciate in particular
your participation
proposed premise/outline is as follows:
destinywork: blah de blah de blah
(do a condensed version of previous post outline
to send out w/inquiry)
what else has to be done
to make it happen
put expanding version on rootwork.com
so as to let folk explore the project more fully
to let them know what type of submissions i want
hopefully starting dialogues that will generate more submissions
and just to show folk this a real project
hopefully show its potential for true force
do all that this weekend if you can
draft and send out inquiry letters by sunday evening
ask/beg my friends and fellowtravelers to give me submissions
just to get the thing started
choose folk least likely to dismiss
much less snicker
as always pure speculation and counter reality
dont even think about it flowers
if you think about it it wont make sense, just do it
secondguess all you want but the decision is made
lay out the steps and do them one two three
just do it
in struggle
rdoc
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