SATURDAY
1st justice thomas neglected to report wifes earnings of more than a halfmillion from heritage foundation,
(it was exposed thru heritage foundation filings, who knows what else they hiding) then it comes out
her conservative webiste was founded w/half milion from rightwing backer, now she has started
a rightwing lobbying firm, promising to use her 'connections' - has this man (& woman) no shame
god must have been in a bad mood when he gave us this for thurgood marshall
im doing a reading of promisedland at buffalo street books in ithaca at 3 oclock
FRIDAY
and once again i am critically behind, took 2 days off to get my novel in gear again and now im behind w/the
schoolhouse & my own work still begging, 2 days just whet my appetite, god help me there is nothing more
expensive than time - it behoove you to spend it wisely
THURSDAY ADDENDUM:cross my mind something i wanted to say, (to write it out so i can use it somewhere else and it dont just fly away like so many of my good thoughts do)
so sent that proposal to jerryward to do piece on john o for his impo noncanonical afroam voices set
he say hes full already but hes got an interview of me in there, im touched, i tell him thanks for
including me, i tell him good looking out
(not being canon (yet) one of the few things on this planet that bother me)
so im thinking about what good looking out mean to me, then i remember, it was some guy in nyc pushing blackmen onto the subway track, early 80s i think, he had killed like 4 or 5 blackmen, something like that,
so blackmen were seriously onguard when on the platform, and we were keeping an eye on other brothers, felt like vietnam again, me and you brother, against the world, so im standng there, this brother on the edge, train coming, whiteguy moves up behind him, i indicate brotherman to be alert, he move out the guys way and he say in passing - good looking out
i been using it ever since
THURSDAY
big stink in memphis & nashville w/state legislature pulling endrun around memphis consolidation vote
while shelby county in dc arguing that the voting rights act no longer necessary because we
dont use bogus and unethical legislative moves to violate afroam voting rights like we did
once upon a time w/poll taxes, etc - heaven forbid - we just dont do that anymore, not in shelby
county, not in tenn - truth comes dear in these part, always has
WEDNESDAY
damn it feels good to be working again, ima take another day, you know how it is sometime, you hit the brickwall,
step off a mintue, come back & the way is clear, you not only writing you riding the wild text, damn its good
TUESDAY
good news and bad: good: ec osondus book of shorts is out, another su mfa alum of which i am unduly proud
bad news: barbara ann teers national black theater going down, cautionary tale for folk trying to build cultural
institutions - i had a theater experience there onetime made me realize how transcendental theater can be
have not worked on my novel in about 10 days, that is so unacceptable - will take today off from schoolhouse
will take today for myself - see if i can get back in my groove, an institution of one - a literary man
todays quote: "the only reason a great many american families dont own an elephant is that they
have never been offered an elephant for a dollar down and easy weekly payments." -mad magazine
MONDAY
still no novel, but im seeing daylight on the schoolhouse load, may squeeze in a 3 this evening - help me lord
obama between rock & hardplace in arabworld, allies all repressive, egypt, jordan, saudis, etc,
so hes on wrong side of history in a process that often results in hostile regimes, iran iraq, gaza, etc,
in most part because of us support of repression - he could avoid the call long as those societies were quiet
thats a no can do now, egypt unwilling to bring down the hammer iran so ruthlessly wielded, this a done deal
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