FRIDAY
she didnt self immolate, which is what i was hoping,
she slip, she slide, she got away
no big thing, so its back to the trenches, i always expect struggle
to be trench warfare, i wouldnt trust a gift if you gave it to me
it was clear she was out of her league, but not clear enuf to tear away conservative support - about what i expected
but old boy joe biden put in a stellar performance didnt he
in fact he could have been a little rougher on her, challenged her a little more but he was clearly on lockdown, i know he had a hard time not touching the general mcclellan bit (who is that)
and ive had enuf of that fake folksy you betcha, what i do thats folksy, that
other thing thats theater, george bush was folksy enuf thank you mam
so i didnt get what i wanted but i came away satisfied, joe biden held the line
and we clearly won on substance, final analysis always got to go with substance
by the way that student i said chose sarah as a change agent
upon follow up question "do you think it will work, if not why" said:
"i absolutely do not think this woman belongs anywhere near the presidential office
her religious views and asinine policies will only cause problems"
now thats what im talking about
rickydoc dont have no lame students
rickydoc dont play that, way to go meridith
okay, one more: excavators have found a bowl on which they believe is the earliest reference to christ
it says DIA CHRSTOU O GOISTAIS which the excavation team translate as
christ the magician
as he was apparently perceived in the early days
(you could call this holy grail if you so inclined)
that jesus was considered a magician is not news to me, high
magicians have always recognize jesus a fellow traveler
pretty good at what he do
rdoc
THURSDAY
hello world, old boy just barely hanging on, dont have time for this
post just feel like i should, last one was tuesday morning
tueswedthurs its just straight up schoolhouse
cause i should have prepped for class that weekend
but i take the weekend so its crunchcity during the week
didnt do no work this weekend, burning thru palf and manuscripts - got to clear my decks of obligations
when i throw down on this redpen i dont want any distractions
gon get thru these manuscripts and my palf obligations this weekend
get started on my critical redpen, if i get thru this 1 i have a novel
8 years now on the real side i been working this novel
20 if you count starts and stops, hardcore since about 2000
its hard to believe i got so little to show for it
okay this aint your concern, im feeling a little under the gun
one of my 1st year forum students today said when the
questions of blogs came up, nobody reads anybodys else blogs
and she said it with authority, class kind of agreed with her
and i had to acknowledge myself, i dont read the blogs i enjoy
blackpotmojo, rawdawg, prometheus6, bookerrising, blackagendareport et al
who got the time, i go by every once in awhile, see if they still there
take a quick look, see if they said anything worth stealing lately
who got the time for more than that, i do my daily newscan, nyt, washpost, googlenews, latimes,
wsj, timemag, newsweek - basically in that order and hopefully i didnt get obsessed with some trail
that has led into the thicket of the internet, googlenews good for that, i can either do my obligatory
daily newscan in a disciplined manner or spend half a productive day, who got time for ofp
other folks blogs
so im real appreciative of my little 100 a day, sometime i get jealous of those 1000s a
day sites and then i think of how many billions of blogs there must be out there and
im satisfied with getting enuf play to stay in the literary game, 21st century stylee
i appreciate it dear regulators, ima always do my best for you
okay a couple of quickies and its back to manuscripts (not pages lord)
interesting article here about mccains strategy lately if you can call it that
say the only chance they got are these disruptive moves that shake it up
say you can expect more of them, say mccain as recently reported is a gambler
"ima a betting man" mccain say, i bet you are, but the question is
do we want a gambling man for president
each move bring him shorterm gain but longterm it leave him looking flaky
look to me like he the one dont know the difference between tactics and a strategy
you can see that in the steady downward pressure on his numbers
lord knows i shouldnt bring up numbers but numbers different for a politician
and a visionary
so much riding on this debate tonight, i am concerned that biden will blow it
cause he not a disciplined mack, i hesitate to call him a mack at all
all palin got to do is not blow it, like bush in his debate against kerry, came
out of it without mangling his sentences and folk called it a win
we need a mangle from her, need it desperately, if we dont get it, no problem
its back to the trenches and the trenches is where we belong anyway
cause its all on the groundgame now, early voting has already started, i plan
to do absentee myself cause i dont want no adversity keep me away from the polls
somehow on nov 2nd, aint gon leave that one up to god, im taking steps on this one lord
but a good mangle will give us some breathing room
had ishmael baeh for a shared reading at syracuse, i gave my students an assignment, write a save
the world manifesto, in the discussion after we were talking about all the different approaches they took
one of the axis was changing individuals and shaping policy instruments, we had already agreed that
difficult to change the world thru individuals but often all the regular person could do, change one person
and youve changed the world, but sigificant change is more difficult
i gave them a quiz to make sure they had read each others works
i knew i shouldnt but 1 question was what change agent was in the news lately
and asked about that changes agents tech in terms of indiv influence and policy
was gon use subsequent discussion to explore his frustration with affecting one person, one community as a community organizer
and how that lead to trying to be a policy insturment to achieve more significant and lasting change
i wasnt even thinking overtly political, thought it was a great way to illustrate the point, a teaching moment
bonnie told me i shouldnt but i was fired up and willing to take the hit
of course the discussion did not go in the direction i intended, some students chose obama some diplomatically chose both presidents, one said
sarah mccain was the most significant change agent in america
and all i could do was sit there and accept that
w/the same grace i accepted other positions
it was kinda funny but kinda eye opening, palin
god i hope she mangles something, sooner or later she gon
get her footing, other political dummies have done it
i just hope its too late for this election
i was in my office preparing for class when i heard fellow facutly members in the hall arranging
to watch the debate together because they say they afraid to watch it alone in case biden stumble
i fell out laughing, i thought that was so cute
i understand, i feel you
may the ancestrals who truly love what america
could be watch over us tonight
i had something else to say but ive wandered afield and dont recall now
i got to go, i got to get thru these manucripts lord, got to clear my decks
rickydoc got to throw down
whether palin and what she represent win or not,
whether obama pull it off or not
win or lose i got to keep my hoodoo perspective
win or love i got to be dong my part
to make a better world
all my love
rdoc
TUESDAY
i think will i am produced it, this zoe kravitz,
daughter of lisa and lenny:
this just a tease, the real deal is here
soon as a decent copy on youtube ima hook you up
palin preparing for that debate, epectations so low she might slide like bush did
she went back to couric with mccain riding herd on her this time, i would put that interview
up but this snl one is much better
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdDqSvJ6aHc
so, the house voted the bailout bill down, im conflicted
i will accept that the economy needs something but i wouldnt
trust bush and his with a discretionary nickel, they ranked me
when they came out talking about 700 billion with no insight and
its got to be done by friday or else, well friday has come and gone
and aint been no else, and the loopholes in the rewritten bill could
have let wall street bull thru without much help for regular folk
who are expected to fend for themselves whatever happens to wall street
bush has just cried wolf too many times
as cover for rapacious power grabs, not inclined to give him benefit of the doubt
im concerned but conflicted, i suspect if i check my retirement account
im runniing low, but i dont retire for 10 years or so, it will be fixed by then
unless we fool enuf to elect mccain palin, either way im hunkering down
either way its going to be rough and you best pinch your pennies children, pinch them till they hurt
america is about to pay the price for living beyond its means
me and mine bracing for the hammer
colored folk use to finessing the hammer, least oldtime colored folk was
dont know about this new post colored batch, guess we will see
what they made of, struggle aint nothing but a hump
rdoc
SUNDAY
some speculation mccain/palin pushing daughters boyfriend to marry her
before the election in shotgun marriage as november surprise hailmary
surely they dont think the american voter would fall for such
most surely they do and
surely they might
obama not depending on the good sense of the american voter, he hoping on it but he depending on a good ground game,
two traditionally underrepresented constituencies, blacks and young voters, been registering in record numbers,
that dont mean they will turn out
the black vote is historicallyvunderrepresented but this remind me of the voting rights campaign and what we went thru in the apartheid south to get the vote
how i vote every election to honor the dues we paid as a people
not only do we have to ensure the black vote turnout for obama but we somehow have to leverage the moment so it becomes the watershed moment the 60s civil/voting rights campaign was for my generation
so those numbers come out in force forever
informed and engaged
winning this election come november thats the shortgame, the longgame is
turning the black vote into a gatekeeper voting block that engages
every election whether they got a champion in it or not
then you will see more champions
more policy influence, more power
its unlikely, life just dont work neat like that
but that dont mean we dont try, win or lose we
move the board
you know what tickle me, i know obama know that
cause that boy a player, that boy do longgame real sweet
it tickle me to see him treat this election like its some ramped up community
organizing project, tickle me whenever i get one of those corny hello arthur emails
you go boy, play on
one son to the other
a luta continua
rdoc
SATURDAY
this is who mccain wants to put a heartbeat away form the presidency
the couric interview of sarah palin trying to explain her foreign policy creds
this country facing some of the most serious challenges ever
the economy has tanked, america under the gun all over the world
and mccain give us this and claim country 1st
o she aint seen no mockery, the mockery has just begun
rdoc
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