feeding in the digital street

MONDAY

ol gaddafi stirring the pot, 1st news conf as head of au say coups okay if peaceful

say piracy okay because it right colonial wrongs

seems there was more drama than i previously reported at that african union meeting'

reprising old battle between the gradualists and the turks

latest battleground is african union authority
report due in 3 months

more centralized african union

prognosis not too good

historical relcutance to give up power aggravated
by who they being asked to give up power to

the king of kings

another african iniative on hold is diasporic summit

apparently some leaders afraid diaspora will jack them up
be nice if they had it - so we could - jack them up

be nice if obama pushed continental africa while he the man

guess im as big a dreamer as gaddafi

schoolhouse grind on full force

been strong on my daily 3 but schoolhouse is on

 and my discipline likely to fall victim to the grind

determined not to let that fall victim to the grind

all my love

rdoc

SATURDAY EVENING

been working strong, i feel good

got this from obama, still doing his organizer thing w/his campaign email list
on the game for his stimulus plan, hes obviously gone on the offensive

i like that in a president - let me do my part

like a good soldier should

all my love

rdoc

SATURDAY

that ukrainian arms ship  has been released  by somalian prirates and on its way to kenya
kenya is embarrassed because its army cant use those russian arms but the southern sudan can

kenya is supposed to be a neutral mediator in that conflict and to be caught arming the south sudan
is considered a stumble, but i for one am glad to see that they are trying to help the southern sudan

on the black hand side

congrats to obama for getting his bill through senate, ive been concerned, its clear that he will prevail
i just dont want him to lose too many points getting it thru, i want my boy to 'look presidential'

it take a minute for you to grow into the role, every leadership role i ever had, at 1st it
didnt feel right and i felt like i was faking it, but after awhile it start coming natural to you

he just got to get thru this rough stage with everybody judging him
waiting for him to stumble

i thought this free floating anxiety for him would recede once he won but its just as strong
guess i will have to carry it for the next 8 years, no problem, got your back, black

by all accounts michael steele, that blatant and clueless attempt at pandering by republicans, is a hustler
but then thats explicit in his role as prominent black republican - hustler by definition

ben working hard on novel since ive been laid up last couple of days, its been sobering, passages
you thought were fine, come back to them after awhile and they seem to have gotten bad somehow

i wish i could just quit trying to write this novel and just coast out the rest of my life - its doable

but that aint gon happen, good or bad im going to get this novel done, good or bad i just do not care

ive come too far, for the folk who still believe and those that dont, this novel gon get done - this summer

being feted in india made me just that more determined to get this novel done

being back in the schoolhouse grind, make me that more determined to get this novel done

became conscious of how much flack im going to get from that oxford piece, things i been saying all along about how black struggle stand in the 21st century will get me jacked up in context of oxford

lines like - blackfolk are on the bottom of their respective societies all over the world, we cant blame everywhere on anybody but ourselves - man, blackfolk are going to jump all over me for that

some of their final edits were designed to make the piece more palatable to their audience (progressive south) but made me uncomfortable for mine (the black generations) we negotiating those now, thats kind of a line in the sand for me, hope its not a dealbreaker

no matter what i do folk are going to jump on me about it, cause i spoke truth to my audience, and the other audiences not that important to me - all this assumes it doesnt do the invisible thing most of my work does -  i believe because of context and content it will be high profile and perhaps even seminal

but then i think that about all my work - 

if it does get any traction, ima catch a lot of flack for it, im tempted to withdraw it but that would be cowardly, literary cowardness, i will take the punch, i spoke truth to the people

i believe blackfolk have to face the reality of our condition in order to take effective steps to deal with it

i will take the punch for that

but i got to get my work done so its all in context

basically everything that happens to me, victories and defeats, same response - work harder, work smarter

all my love

rdoc

FRIDAY

brought back a cold apparently, down for the count

been listening to the guy who scored slumdog, a.r.rehman, real popular in india
they real tickled at him getting awards for that soundtrack

so anyway i found this streetguy in kolkata selling cds w/100s of mps3 per cd,
a couple of them aarahman, this was a jackpot find im almost shamed to say

i hunted down rahman and wadami brothers at music world in kolkata and bought up a bunch of sufi music
but it was the street score set me up, even cleaning out the trash i got 100s of tracks of indian music,

rahman scores are like eclectic bollywoodic sufi pop - good working music
probably good i cant tell what they saying, the beat cross culture

every once in awhile i get self conscious about this blog and tire of putting my business in the digital street
feeling that now but if i stop blogging my numbers start falling and i dislike seeing that

i heard somewhere that sharks have to keep swimming or they die
true or not thats how i feel with this blog, with writing period for that matter

but sometime blogwork strike me as vainglorious, hey everybody look at me
i believe ima chill and just do the political commentary for awhile

good to see obama showing steel, saying what everybody know to be truth
tried to be nice but nice wasnt working, lets see what a little steel does for it

in truth they dont want obama to be successful here, theyd rather he no we go down
obama success would be that dreaded democratic realignment for 2, 3 generations

everytime i see him on tv im nervous for him, want him to look good, pull it off
everytime he attempts some legislation or policy, im nervous for him, dont want him

to stumble, to fail, just looking at him in presidential settings is deep

he hasnt really settled into it yet, it will take a moment before he,
and the american public, wear this comfortably, im pulling for him

so, what else rick

this article on connection between literature and evolution, i didnt get a thing from it
which is unfortunate because i think its an important subject, unfortunate execution

but it might work better for you than it did for me

what else

qaddafi is head of the african union, qaddafi has long harbored dreams of a
continental africa - his dreams arent very disciplined but then what dreams are

expect him to use libyan oil wealth to bid for unified africa

either way it goes this will be interesting, be interesting to see if he approaches

this as a player, or a dreamer  -   tried to play traditional leaders against
political leaders by having 200 trads presumably kings anoint him africas

king of kings

not a good sign

rdoc

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