THURSDAY 5:50 PM
clocking pages, life is good
my boy george saunders got 3 fan page on facebook, they good reading because folk think they talking to george instead of whoever set it up and after awhile it start reading like one of his stories
life as satire
rdoc
THURSDAY 4:43 AM
old boy struggling
between family and novel life being doing me wrong
uncle just died, last of that flowers generations except for my mother
walter, arthur, elise, martha, and their mates
walter the oldest, hung in there longest, dont know that i will be able to make the funeral - just got back from the delta
and taking these dcs parenting classes to adopt my nephew that if i miss i have to wait until the next
cycle to make them up, been doing them since january cause of makeups, uncle walter will understand if i
dont make the funeral but god that will hurt,
went youtube this morning cause i joined the randy crawford fanclub on facebook
and saw these live randy performances that werent there last time i looked
you have to understand, randy crawford is my favorite performer ever was, voice like a bell - i have her entire collection, over the years ive hunted down everything she ever did, starting w/her 73 (?) work in the folk opera john henry by cannonball adderly and other old lps ive hunted down and digitized
but the live youtube performances were like a goldmine of new randy crawford, i missed her at
radio city music hall one year, came down to newyork for a party at patrices house and here come old
comrades in struggle talking about they coming from a randy crawford concert, me and bonnie were
too distraught, if only we had known, last time i went to radio city it was to see nina simone, you talking about somebody acted a fool w/the audience, swore i would never pay good money to see nina simone ever again, but looking back it was a wonderful experience - apparently randy the same kinda diva, at one point they said she laid on the floor and sang - now i keep up with her concert dates, ima catch her before i die
or she do - in the meantime im going to bootleg her live concerts off youtube, and listen to the collected works of randy crawford till my uncles funeral tuesday in memphis,
and ima do my damnedest to get back home, good lord willing and the crick dont rise - if i dont make it my uncle walter will understand, got to take care of the next generation - in their name - the delta clan flowers - hanging in there
in the meantime, in uncle walters name - ill fly away - by randy crawford and joe sample- enjoy - life is so precious
all my love
rdoc
WEDNESDAY
hello world, back in the cuse but still kind of out of body
my stats have gone bad but they always do during the summer cause my posting get spotty
been fiddling aorund with facebook, bonnie kept suggesting i do it, but for awhile there it just
seemed like it was designed for folk w/time on their hands, of which i have none
then i found all my syracuse mfa folk there, found my fellow travelers in the tradition there, good % of my literary crew, joined fanclubs for ishmael, sekou and safiya
and just this morning started a fan club for john oliver killens - my underappreciated mentor, always take an op to give him some props
im under arthur rickydoc flowers, i tend to use my given name and my hoodoo name online these days
so if folk want to find me under either face they are able to do so, was explaining to a young hoodoo
in training about your magical name, how you choose one that makes you feel powerful, how you keep
it secret during your early training cause if somebody sneer at your magical aspirations they will kill the magic
because you are vulnerable in those early years and you have to believe in your magic in order for it to be
but as you become publicly defined as a magician your magical name becomes public - there are folk
in the hoodoo/atr worlds who only know me as rickydoc these days so when
they google et al i want both names to show - my literary name and my hoodoo name
of course i still got hidden names - you never show your whole hand
by the way: note the 5 defcons, ima use this in the future, stay tuned:
DEFCON 5 Normal peacetime readiness
DEFCON 4 Normal, increased intelligence and strengthened security measures
DEFCON 3 Increase in force readiness above normal readiness
DEFCON 2 Further Increase in force readiness, but less than maximum readiness
DEFCON 1 Maximum force readiness.
all my love
arthur rickydoc flowers
aka arf aka rdoc
WHO KNOWS WHAT DAY IT WAS
hello world, im down here in the delta
doing the family thing
good news for literary folk, kayla blatchley doing a blog thats focused on close readings
a particular forte of hers, one of the good things about teaching mfa is constantly being challenged
by young guns, they keep you on your toes, keep you connected with latest innovations in the field
they keep you sharp, kayla one of those, young gun with a literary eye ive always found enlightening
i like to think this a literary blog but kayla put me to shame, her forte is the text, and she strong enuf
in it to hold your attention, teach you a little something something, im tickled shes up, i plan to be
intersting sullivan pieece about those torture photos, say obamas longgame showing
in his about face on the photos, say we need to slide him some slack on this one
cause the game still on and he doing what he can but inflaming our enemies dont seem to be called for
say one of obamas fortes is giving the rightwing enough cookies to keep them calm while being resolute
on the longgame - i enjoyed the read
all my love
rdoc
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