SUNDAY
hello world, in the delta and clocking pages everyday
always nice hanging out with family
met with imani book club from atlanta yesterday
their 15th annniversary, special meeting in memphis
another good loving blues w/commentary from author
2nd floor of the king palace cafe on beale street
as you can imagine a wonderful time was had by all
i pulled out the stops and gave them the downhome special
i had a wonderful time and been getting up every morning
crunching pages, old conjureman in the groove
all my love
rdoc
WEDNESDAY
hello dear regulators, rickydoc clocking pages,
getting on road early in the a.m. and trying
to get ahead of my count so i dont lose ground with the
scheduling chaos of being on the road
probably have to cut back to minimal 3s instead of my customary
6 to 9 hour woodshed work days - daily 3s will be victories
on the road
caught up with my scheduled pagecount yesterday whereas i been
couple days behind all summer - trying to get coupla days ahead now
cause rough keeping pagecount on the road
taking my nephews to the city, hangout w/
the hoodoo posse flowers
gon be a struggle getting 6 big fellows into my car
but i remember a roadtrip once w/5 other soldiers in a vw bug
it was hell but it was memorable, and thats what count right
mermoable experiences, tripvalue
been listening to mingus today, probably cause i remember when me and my daddy went to see him in the city - right now listening to 'a colloquial dream' where mingus talk about his dreams while he play
mingus rules
have you ever read his autobio - beneath the underdog - his spirit
tells the story, refers to mingus as 'my boy', its deep yall
im outta here, gotta clock some pages
gotta get ahead of the game
rdoc
TUESDAY
hello world, i am so tired
of everymorning getting up and having to face
spending the whole day at the sacred desk struggling
with the page, i am really tired of this drudge
be nice to get on the road to the delta for a
change in pace (that dont mean im not struggling to write
but at least its under different circumstances)
okay, lets get busy w/the commentary,
too little too late: israel needs to get serious:
israel has offered to free 250 palestinians in bid to discredit hamas
this their idea of a breaththrough offer
israel, please, work with me, give them something substantial
this is a joke that will just make them look bad to other palestinians
and make hamas look good and justified, work w/me isreal, work
with a desperate and warweary world on this one, the travel/roadblock restrictions
or something, the b movie fence, something substantial,.
its hard to chastize folks when their security at stake, you understand the
need for caution, but the world needs more than this from you
the imperial presidency & the 4th branch of government: dick cheney:
cheney say he he not part of the executive branch to get out from under a presidential directive
but whenever folk try to get him to follow rules otherwise he always claim executive privlege
go figure
read an article this morning say if we let him, bush will fight to exhaustion in iraq but the rest of us cant afford to fight to exhaustion - beg pardon but far as we concerned, we already have
54 million dollar pants:
when me and bonnie 1st heard the news about a newly appointed administrative judge in dc suing a korean tailor for $54 million dollars over missing pants 1st
thing bonnie say is i hope isnt black
since then i been hoping and praying this idiot wasnt black - well he just lost his case and the whole world is laughing at him, so today i went looking for a pic, bad news gang - the idiot is black, oh my god
why has thou forsaken us, charles taylor, robert mugabe, judge thomas and roy pearson - when does the embarrassment end lord
apparently dc powers that be are considering not reappointing him as judge
considering? considering?
any idiot brought a case asking $54 million for a pair of pants missing from the cleaners
(turned down an offer of $12,000) should not be deciding cases for other folk, okay,
while tesifying in case he started crying over his pants????
this idiot has embarrassed us enuf
let him go with the quickness please
before the bush administration decide this just the
kind of colored judge he like to appoint
we got problems enuf w/o roy pearson
representing
im outta here
rdoc
SATURDAY
hello dear regulators
been doom and gloom lately aint i
lets lighten it up some w/some commentary on the food
of the gods - watermelon - tennessee hams
im classic colored when it come to watermelon
oh boy oh joy -summertime i can live off watermelon
my nazi doctor told me i couldnt have but a cup of watermelon at a serving
diabetes or not, you know thats a joke
take a foot doc, give me another slice of that watermelon please
put some salt on it while you at it
got my 1st watermelon of the season yesterday, oh boy
i been looking but pickings been slim here in syracuse
cant wait to go home to the delta where they got real melon
best melon in the world come right off the truck
so anyway, as you know, my stock in trade
are souls and secrets
just for you dear regulators, rickydocs surefire delta secret of picking good watermelon
first you want that stem to be dry, that mean the melon is ripe
second you want some sugar dripping out the end of it,
that brown sludge, that mean its sweet
dont waste your time thumping it, nobody knows what they listening for
thats a rural myth (as opposed to an urban one, get it?)
just for you dear and loyal regulators
rickydocs surefire secret of good melon picking
okay, so much for the levity, lets get busy
this been a weak woodshed yall
i work a couple of days, i kick back a couple
that wont get it, i got to get busy and stay busy
aint found the zone
its all in the desperation, and apparently im not quite desperate enough yet
just ordered me one of those write hard die free pins, ima see if that help
interesting article in time magazine on latest developments on
expulsion of the black cherokee freedman
seems congress, pushed by congressional black congress
is preparing to withhold federal monies and such until freedmen reinstated
article talks about the romantic attachment blacks have had to their indian ties
and says this represents a 'loss of innocence' - deep phrase that
loss of innocence is a good thing, kinda like disillusioned
which means you had illusions in the 1st place
talks about how blacks and the black congressional congress in particular been
champion of indian causes caiuse of that romantic attachment and how they feel betrayed
talks about irony of using the dawes list created to cheat nativeamericans out of their land
being used now by nativeamericans to discriminate against blacks
says this move legitimizes one drop rule, which you know dear regulators
rickydoc believes in - we got to one drop the world
but just cause you identify black with the one drop dont mean you dont identify
with the other 99 - o this racial identity thing is a tricky beast
ima probably go into this deeper later this week
what else before i try to clock some pages
i had a couple of commentaries to make but all i can think
about now is two days of no work, bummer
i really shouldnt be whining about those days off
i actually schedule 2 days off a week when im working hard
because if i dont schedule them i take them anyway and feel bad
like im doing now
i got sundays scheduled, might have to add saturdays
since im taking 2 a week, need to scheduling them -
adequate rest is an essential part of a good hard work schedule
- remember that rick
you too dear hard working regulators (overachievers by definition)
aint nothing wrong with a little rest for the weary
fact that im whining about it tells me
im not really in the groove
i need a couple of weeks straight woodshed to find the zone
but im going to the delta in a couple of days
no zone for rick
do what you can
im outta here, go get me a couple
slices of that good melon in the fridge
rdoc
postscript: rootsblog numbers been climbing, hits have doubled over the last month or so
yall must like the way im coming at you - do it rick, do it good
write hard, die free
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