sept 11, 2008: a time to be serious about it all: look like its the trenches for me

FRIDAY

hello world, after all those wolftickets i sold yesterday
i aint going in no trenches, who got time for trenches

 until this novel done i aint taking on no campaigns, none, whatever
discretionary time i can beg borrow or steal got to go to this novel

boy obama gon have to pull this one off w/o me

i will do what i can when i can

been a longtime since i had to do gruntwork
back in the 60s i was s straight up trooper

round about the 80s im a lieutenant in killens kommandos, spent the me 90s a footlose mercenary, and lately fieldgrade officer in allens africana corp

been strategos for rickydocs regulators for about 10 years now
i just dont do gruntwork, i give instructions, that dont mean i dont

work hard, i just aint been called to gruntwork in years
(well, days at least)

but its only 60 days rick, surely the world wont fall apart
if you refocus for 60 days, we will see

after all those wolftickets yesterday it behoove me to follow thru
but the most important game in all the world to me is still my novel

rest for the weary

i suspect this will be a quandary

as for the wolftickets, dont know what it is about me
when i get to macking i just dont know when to quit

all my love

rdoc




THURSDAY 11 AM

you know what im thinking, im thinking i might have to go to the trenches
who got time for the trenches, ive gon to the trenches before, starting to

feel like thats what called for now, posting on rootsblog thats costeffective
i can always find time for an occasional post, but the trenches, thats a commitment

not only of time but you opening yourself to abuse, being buked and scorned,
i hate being buked and scorned, all that abrasion of my deflection shields

rootsblog i dont have to put up with that, i say what
i want to say and go on about my business

for instance i should go onto black agenda report and start posting there
mount a spirited defense of obama there and i would pick up a

couple of believers, couple of voters, couple of activists, maybe neutralize
that campaign they running against him and elevate they game in general

o but the abuse

i need to do comments on media blog like the washposts fix et al, do op eds and listserves, been on mybarack.com since i been donating, need to find their blog, i know they got one

start laying strategics on them, reactivaterootsletter mailinglist, been thinking about that anyway
get aggressive about entering the dialogue, looking for people to play, roots to work, avenues to influence

i know how to do the trenches

i just dont wanna, i aint got time for no trenches
god help me im already swimming underwater

but boy obama do seem to be in trouble dont he
america seem to be in trouble - the whole world

i been trying to help him on the cheap, money and
some rather fine if i do say so rootsblog posts

but rootsblog so longgame
armchair work, my favorite

what i call myself doing is inculcating a longgame perspective, a strategic posture
into my players and activists, my warrior clans, into the culture and its influentials

thats you dear regulators

i would you all be masters of strategy

the key that opens all locks

those that see come get a little something something occasionally, keep their game sharp
aint a lot of them but im comfortable with that, by definition the best of the best

aint spose to be a lot of them
god dont work like that

over the years we both grow in the game and before its over, give me a good 10 years or so
and i will have trained a generation of players in the longgame - im comfortable with that

but rootsblog such a passive orchestration, so minimum maintenance, i got to get
busy, mount some initiatives, ohwell, one good thing about the trenches,

it gets your name out there, builds your
infrastructure, your power network

liable to pick up a couple of new regulators
seed an institution or two

ima toss it around a little bit, cause god

help me it will cost me noveltime

but i believe ol trickmaster gon have

to go to battle, cant you hear the warhorn calling

and in my mythic heart of hearts

let it be said he was a warrior born

word by trickmaster

wouldbe prophet of

the hoodoo way

THURSDAY

hello world, hope things okay w/you

dont have anything real to say, just felt like i should do a post on sept 11
cause im feeling real serious about america these days what with this election

and the potential of mccain palin pulling it off

mccain palin, its a nightmare

its like when folk shrugged after the supreme court gave the election to bush , decided it didnt really matter

but it was  because bush in charge on sept 11, what could have been an opportunity to unite the world

became a politicalized authoritarian government, a blood bath in iraq, a farce in afghanistan, cheney, an economic meltdown, the imperial presidency and god knows what else

having bush in charge on sept 11

was a tragedy

now folk talking about giving the presidency to mccain and god help us palin if mccain falter - i just dont know what to do, i can call her out on the okeydoke but for my readership thats

preaching to the choir, i guess just keep chipping away,

i can comment on the ongoing battle to define her but im reluctant to spend noveltime on what feel like inessential commentary, it offend me to spend worktime obsessing over palin or mccain

i expect revelations but i dont know they will be enuf, she got that teflon apron on

im banking on the debates and the ground game, im banking on her charm wearing
thin with the american people as she become more well known

i can only hope the press is not intimidated as they were w/bush, with iraq, as they
have been so many times when the repubs get to bashing them, get to playing them

team mccain obviously think she ready for the public finally, she doing her 1st media
interview in a couple of days, she been prepped and primed to the nine, i dont foresee

no major stumbling, no game changing, its been a pretty adept rollout, this will be
a major challenge to obamas political skilz and i can only hope he is up to the test

that lipstick comment was an invitation to target practice

o i got to go, im woefully behind, didnt work yesterday, schoolhouse took it all, should
take it all today, its 5am now, 3 hours novelwork would be 8, domestics about 2, say i

get to work about 10, class at 330, that give me about 5 hours to critique 2 stories at about 30 pages
of manuscript, thats cutting it little tight, mean my critique wont be as thorough as i would it be,

mean 3 hours of performance anxiety in front of a tough audience - undergrads - should have
read these stories days ago but im in a crises mode here, doing what i can when i can

i had my grads give me manuscripts of their mature stories so i can get a better idea of their body of work
their aesthetics and aspirations - good idea but the reading load is killing me - averaging 2 manuscripts a week here

i got to keep my own novel going no matter what the load, and god help me i just cant miss
2 days straight, not 2 days in a row lord, either way ima be zombie tired at the end of the day

i got to muscle thru

or should i get straight to manuscripts, 8 hours prep mean
i get thru class with my honor and my rep intact

inadequate class prep is a curse
either way im gone

the one thing i cannot do is
sit here blogging

all my love

rdoc

Comments

[PAPA GEDE NIBO BEY]

9/11/ Reflections

9/11 Reflections
WOW ! It"s been 7yrs. since My guides guided me away from the "Twin towers '9/11/01 situation . I was on my way to China town - canal st . The ' PATH "( port authority public train system ). I had a choice of taking the twin towers train to the towers or taking the 33rd. st up town and work my way back down town .

I Choose up town as my guides suggested . you can look out the window and see the N.Y. skyline including the " Twin Towers ". Someone said ; A plane just hit the world trade center . I was just getting off from work as a professional Fire fighter in Newark N.J. 3 months from retiring on a 30yr. stint .

I could see the smoke , I said too myself ; Probably a small craft , pilot -couple of passengers and maybe a few people on the ground . Then someone said a 2nd plane hit the other tower and another plane was hitting the pentagon and the tower collapsed .

I started to get uneasy , In the fire dept radio you hear an alarm , units start to respond ,within 2min. someone will say on the scene and tell you what"s up , nothing showing or working fire etc.All I could hear was all about being attacked .

As a former jet mechanic in the " Strategic air Command " ( S.A.C ) , Expected to hear some military response , hearing " Nothing ", I thought we were at war and had lost this round .

I was supposed to work that night , I was 2hrs from my family . I would"ve went to ground ' Zero 'to help . I called in sick and made my way home .After 30yrs of firefighting I had enough stress for a lifetime .

after I see how the first responders are being treated I thank my " GUIDES "for another day each day .

in the name of the " KONKER ",consciousness prevail .

[arthur flowers]

gede nibo bey la kwa
been intending to get in touch with you

ive lost some hoodoo threads
need to be rewoven

will call

rdoc