THURSDAY
ima have to admit I'm not into protests, far as I'm concerned protesting means we have lost that battle already
did it when i was a kid but i just don't do that no more, aint no soldier no more, in my maturity i call myself a strategos - recently activist students at SU occupied the admin building and i signed a faculty support statement because so many of them were my own proteges and i supported their goals, and i was once myself one of 'the memphis state 109' - wasn't going to leave them hanging but their rhetoric and some of their strategies were downright laughable - but my fellow activist faculty were like marching and chanting with them and joined their organization and start talking about we - and i felt bad for not participating but i just don't do protest and if you try to suggest strategy over rhetoric you get called a reactionary - when i was myself a young turk artist/intellectual i let the soldiers guilt trip me but no more - i back channeled them and i will support them but I'm not joining them - i have been thru many phases of struggle in my life and in my maturity i pick and choose my battles and my instruments - i don't do reactive, i don't do protest - I'm engaged in strategic long game, i got a plan - i don't do kiddiework
WEDNESDAY 11/26
hello dear regulators, i saw where i mispelled traveling show in title
but ima leave it, its like rickydocs unraveling medicine show
feels appropriate somehow
hard for me to get excited about the ferguson announcement
whoever expected them to indict him i do not know
this washpost article talks about how blackfolk are abused thruout that area
and how that abuse has just boiled up into a festering boil and i can relate
happens to me in the I-40 corrider between memphis and nashville, everytime i drive home i get pulled over, without exception and one time it cost me lawyers and trips home and it was only resolved because i had a lawyer and could pay the fine outright and i thought man if i was poor i would have been jacked - now i come into memphis the backway cause i got tired of being pulled over - sir you were weaving - and made to stand by the car and the whole bit
what really irks me is that it doesn't matter how meticulously i follow the traffic laws, one cop told me sir, you were leaning - and I'm like i was what? - and they go step out the car please and I'm like why, because i know they can't do all that unless you are displaying 'suspicious behavior' but far as they are concerned, just challenging them is suspicious behavior, but 2 o'clock in the morning, just you and the cop, you keep your hands on the steering wheel where they can see them like every blackman over 4 knows to do, and go yes sir officer - the cop who actually jacked me kept saying you don't really teach in a college do you, tell me the truth - i tend to think ima special case blackman but every time it happens I'm reminded no, that is not the case, always a revelation when something you been experiencing as personal injustice you realize its systematic and by design
these are interesting times, its like we living thru a 2nd reconstruction where practices like voter suppression, buying elections and abuse of poor folk are accepted in a way that feels unprecedented, i think the election of obama plays a large part of that, america was not ready - but in the actions of these protesters (not the rioters) and activist kids syracuse university's THE General Body i see what i hope to be a generation of struggle evolving - i look forward to them moving past protest into strategy - a luta continua
WEDNESDAY 11/20
hello dear regulators
you will be glad to know that ive come to my senses
decided instead of doing that full production i will
just promote this as a dialogue between me and drs
donald and scott on hoodoo and prophecy
then i do the little production licks anyway
have it bleed into a script but now its a
surprise and i can still blow them away but keep
it simple, that other thing not only was it labor intensive
but i was running into schoolhouse constraints
better to do that on my own down the line
keep working on that full show script,
have it right when i do do it
working on it has given me insight into my rest revision:
Storyline is that of a hoodoo sorceror, a Hoodoo Lord of the Delta, a would be prophet of the Hoodoo Way, reflecting, in his own weary eldership (I was once a man of power) on the apparent failure, in his lifetime, to transform African American culture and its destiny – and his apparent failure to bridge the challenge of being a tribal voice and/or a universal one - save my people or save them all.
im going ot give the industry the expansion of the hoodoo detective thread they askng for
but its his aspiration to prophecy that really moves me, thats gon be the drive thread
intersting all this buzz about insterstellar just as im trying to master
the physics of the universe and insterstellar travel
its like the powers that be are speaking to me
right now reading:
entering space: creating a space faring civlizatoin by zubrin
world building: a writers guide by gillett
the starflight handbook: a pioneers guide to intersteller travel by mallove
time travel and warp drives: a scientific guide to shortcuts by everett
interstellar travel: past, present and future by macvey
space travel: a writers guide by bova
100 year starship 2012 conference
intersteller travel and multigenerational spaceships by kondo
centauri dreams: imagining and planning insterstellar exploration by glister
black holes and time warps by thorne
the science of interstellar by throne
planets, ours and others by encrenaz
physics of the future by kaku
physics of the impossible by kaku
also have textbooks on basic astronomy
all these ive ordered/started in last couple of weeks
ima try to at least get a grip on this before
then end of the year, bu5 i suspect it will
be a minute before i actually master the
science of the universe
right now im in centauri dreams, entering space
and the spaceflight handbook
then im going to figure out how planets work
but right now i jsut want enuf grip to do rough
drafts of the future scenarios of humanity
becmoning a space faring peoples
arf
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