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Monday, May 5th, 2008
5:02 pm	Day of mine and ours and lives and shite So it’s my first week as a partially employed person. I don’t know what to do yet. I don’t know what to write yet. I guess I just thought that working would fall right into place and all but not as easy as I thought it would be. It’s a bit more complicated right now. My thoughts are flooded and I am restless. I can’t sit for more than ten minutes at a time. I am only working 2 days a week during the days. I still have various evening engagements. Some paid. I have the new bi-weekly DJing gig that is giving me a good small chunk of cashola. If anyone is around, I’m at Manahatta which is at 310 Bowery between Bleecker and Houston from the hours of 6:30pm to 10:30pm. Everything else is various at best. I am making enough money to pay bills and a little on top of that, but its situations like this that make me happy to work at a bar. I get to drink cheap and that helps things. Urban Word mentoring helps the pocket as well but I am almost done with regular workshops for the season. The summer is not a busy time over at Urban Word. What I do know is that I don’t want to return to regular work. I don’t want a regular day job at least. Maybe a few more nightlife gigs would be nice. Bartending or DJing or something along those lines. I am exhausted of Day Jobs or full time jobs that bring no type of satisfaction to me. Maybe I should have gone to college if that were the case but I didn’t. I’m 27 and I’ve been working 6 to 7 days a week for the last 10 years. Now I have a total of 4 days a week where I am not really working for someone else. With this time I want to really work on my own stuff. Be it poetry or music or promoting or making deals and having a regular hustle, this is what I want to do. Find a way to make money while working on my arts. I’m fortunate to have enough money to pay bills without falling behind, and I am fortunate to have a girlfriend who is supporting me during this confusing time. I’m happy yet terrified. Today is day one. Tomorrow I will work. Wednesday I should have off but I have to make up a few hours. Friday I don’t know what to do. I’ll figure it out though. Writing prompts would be great right now Send them to me if you can. Please. That’s it for now. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
10:43 am	Miss Landmine 2008 Angola is a country littered with land mines. People still trip on them and live, without a limb usually. So this beauty pageant was made to uplift some of the survivors. Survivors indeed, living through a land mine is massive. I hate beauty pageants a whole lot. I don't like them at all. Besides the fact that I find them horribly boring, The woman who win usually don't seem any type of interesting. The Miss Universe Pageant have turned into an Olympic/world cup type of event, everyone rooting for their country. I still remember how happy I was to find out that Miss Dominican Republic won a few years back. We are a tiny country in this world and winning shit on a world platform just makes me happy. Besides the fact that the girl who won is like 6'5" and is the niece of my favorite musician, Juan Luis Guerra. Anyway I heard about this pageant in Angola a few months ago, and didn't pay it much mind because it was still in discussion not in action. Well this morning, on the BBC, I hear about the first Miss Land Mine 2008. Hearing the joy in the Portuguese tongue, of a woman who lost her leg, who wont wear the prosthetic because it is too heavy, who feels beautiful, who should constantly be reminded that she is beautiful. http://www.miss-landmine.org/misslandmine_news.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7315448.stm (Comment on this)
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
2:30 pm	Clinton vs Iran "Hillary Clinton has issued a stark warning to Iran, as Democrats in Pennsylvania vote to choose between her and Barack Obama to run for president. She said the US would attack, and could "obliterate" Iran, if it launched a nuclear strike on Israel. " - BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7359957.stm Really Hillary? Honestly? We want to attract the people who just wish we would use our nuclear weapons more often? Or at all. I'm shocked. Through this whole democratic primary I made no attempt to hide the fact that I want Obama. I have many reasons and I'm not going into them right now, but allow me to say that I would've voted for Mrs. Clinton in a heartbeat if she won the Nomination. Now I don't know. Seems like stupidity. If Obama doesn't get the nomination, I may not vote. Its not like it'll matter in the general election anyway. The blueness of NY will never fade. At least not in the next few months. But really Hill, you would obliterate a country that doesn't even have nuclear weapons, if they did manage to get those weapons and bomb another country. They didn't even bomb us, but we are all captain save a hoe , so we must run and bomb another country. For revenge, not help. Once that bomb goes off, there is no help. Only revenge. Counter strike. "That's a terrible thing to say, but those people who run Iran need to understand that, because that perhaps will deter them from doing something that would be reckless, foolish and tragic," she told TV channel ABC. In response, Mr Obama said: "Using words like 'obliterate' - it doesn't actually produce good results, and so I'm not interested in sabre-rattling." He said only that Iran should know he would respond "forcefully" to an attack on any US ally. </a> Isreal are big boys now, and they have proven such. Diplomacy is a better solution to all this big dick talking. Really folks. Truth be told, the USA has been the only country in history to use a big bomb. Twice in fact. I honestly don't believe that there is another country crazy enough to use it. I think we'll be the ones to start the nuclear war if it does happen. So Mrs. Clinton's remarks seem as she is trying to enter us in another Cold War. Did she want Pennsylvania that bad? So they love guns there, I don't think that means they love big bombs that go boom. I want Obama to win, and the only reason that I might not believe that he will win is because I have no faith in the country whatsoever. The country has fucked up way too much for me to take it seriously. What does a brotha gotta do to get an EU passport? Current Music: REM - Its the end of the world as we know it (Comment on this)
Monday, April 21st, 2008
4:28 pm	From Junot to Bolano to random I'm listening as I type to Rich Villar's post of a Junot Diaz's post. I read his novel. It is by far the most important novel of my life. Oscar Wao's life is my life and is not my life. vague and cliche but true. Trujillato, Dominican York, all this is in me. The dude is a real fucking amazing author and that's also what I love about his writing. He even won the fucking Pulitzer. Dopeness. Now I'm reading a book that may end up equally important to me. The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano. A book about fucking poets. Awesome. Not about poetry but about poets. Poets doing this and that and getting into this mess or that mess. It takes place in Mexico City DF, in the mid 70's. Post 9/11 (the Chilean one of course). Actually funny thing is that the book was written in the late 90's. Published first in 99' or 98' I think. Anyway the point is that the dude is dead now, and in the book he refers to 9/11 by saying 9/11. So in Latin-America the term 9/11 existed before 2001. Anyway I recommend this book to EVERY POET IN THE WORLD!!! So in poetry in Latin-America there was Neruda in Chile, Paz in Mexico. Every other poet fell somewhere in between. Then there is of course Nicanor Para (the Anti-Poet). In the savage detective you find these young adults trapped somewhere between these three points. Sorta poet rebels but poetry lovers nonetheless. Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz, ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sor_Juana ) although dead makes an eerie appearance. Okay I'm going crazy in typing but listen to this. ( http://downloads.newyorker.com/mp3/fiction/070611_fiction_danticatdiaz.mp3 ) Its Junot Diaz reading "how to date a brown girl, black girl, white girl, or halfie" Massive. It's a short story but this is a poem in my opinion. Fuckkit, its dope and that's what matters. Okay so I'm still trying to be a better Blogger. I'm trying folks, I really am. It's been a week since I came back from the West Coast. The trip reminded me of many things I am still trying to get right in my head. The biggest shock was that I made the Louder Arts semi's because of a technicality of someone being late to the draw without a proxy. I had a just in case proxy and it worked. So I made Semi's and I won my first slam every. I am now terrified. I was never really nervous or scared about slamming until now. Until last Monday when out of nowhere I score 3.something points over everyone else in the first round. I was the only one who read off paper all four rounds. I went against seasoned slammers. How did this happen? I have no answers, but the obvious. IT IS A SLAM. Judges are as random as fuck. We never know who is going to be a judge and what they want to hear and what they consider good or not good. Especially recently I've found that this is truer than I thought. Especially DJing a slam. Watch week after week how the score can go from one end of the spectrum the the next. I know that just because I won one (important) slam, that it doesn't make me a good slammer or a good poet. I know I'm not a good slammer. That doesn't bother me as much. Its more the fact that I did good to begin with. Now I'm in the contest, and I expect myself to do good. Now am I a good poet? I don't need a slam to answer that for me, and I never will. Slam is the sport that poets play. That's all it is, and the key is to move the judges and audience. How to do that? I didn't write that book. I didn't read that book. I don't care. For me its more about just going up and reading it the way I feel. Now I will (try to) memorize my 5 poems for finals. I don't know how I'll do. I'm happy with my poems and I want to write more and get better every single day. I want to be on a slam team because I don't want to pay to go to Wisconsin (I swear that aint the only reason.). Anyway. Lets leave it there for now. Today I will write a Hibun before I sleep. I need to. I feel to. Word is all. Thanks Rich for this (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
11:00 am	Superman that Tuesday So I'm not blogging daily but here is one for ya. My Opinions and such. 22 States left, Plus three territories that probably have limited delegates and the District of Columbia. Hilary only has an 80 Delegate lead, that can shift at any time. Barack has a lot more money than her as well. Its a close ass and interesting race. I'm all Obama all the time. I'd like to see both of them on the ticket though. I don't think Hilary is strong enough to beat McCain on her own. I think some Obama lovers are Clinton haters, which I am not, and that they'll flip to Rep when the big day comes against McCain. So yesterday wasn't as Super for the Dem. as it was for the Rep. Party. What will happen now? Who Knows. Here are the remaining States, etc, and who I think will win them. Some I just have no clue. District of Columbia 02/12/2008 - Clinton. Come on, they loved them here. But lets no forget that DC is Black, even though it seems that race wasn't as decisive as folks thought it would be. Guam 05/03/2008 - Obama because Guam is close to Hawaii Hawaii 02/19/2008 - Obama because he was born in Honolulu, and his Asian half sister (called hopper in Hawaii because of being half Asian half White) still lives there and has a significant amount influence. Indiana 05/06/2008 - Obama because its close to Illinois I think? Kentucky 05/20/2008 - Close call. Maybe Clinton by a nose Louisiana 02/09/2008 - Obama because they should be tired of white folks by now Maine 02/10/2008 - Clinton has most of New England Maryland 02/12/2008 - Again Clinton has lived close to there for 8 years Mississippi 03/11/2008 - Clinton because of the states history against Brown folk Montana 06/03/2008 - Obama, shit they voted for Jessie Ventura. "IDEALISTS" Nebraska 02/09/2008 - Clinton maybe. I don't know much about this state North Carolina 05/06/2008 - Obama, just because Ohio 03/04/2008 - Obama because Clinton didn't stand up for their rights during all the goddamn violated voter rights in past years. Oregon 05/20/2008 - HMMM, It can go either way. A bunch of burnt out hippies, and young hippies. Just cause I have to I'll say Obama Pennsylvania 04/22/2008 - Clinton probably Puerto Rico 06/01/2008 - Obama because he didn't have anything to do with Vieques. Clinton was around during that time. Rhode Island 03/04/2008 - Their 1 and a half delegate will probably go to Clinton. Okay it aint that tiny South Dakota 06/03/2008 - Sounds Clinton ish Texas 03/04/2008 - Clinton because I don't see the whole state voting for a Black man, even if he was Jesus and they realized that Jesus was really black all along. They may even change religion at that point. Or crucify him again. But Hopefully I'm being stereotypical and Texas proves me wrong. Please prove me wrong. Vermont 03/04/2008 - Hard to call, but Clinton Virgin Islands 02/09/2008 - OBAMA Virginia 02/12/2008 - Clinton Washington 02/09/2008 - Obama West Virginia 05/13/2008 - Clinton Wisconsin 02/19/2008 - Green Bay got beat! Oh umm Clinton Wyoming 03/08/2008 - I have no bluddy clue (Comment on this)
Friday, February 23rd, 2007
3:51 pm	I Miss LG I miss Blogging in General. I've been having less than acceptable computer access. If anyone is in NYC tonight, go to the Bowery at 10pm. I'd love to see you there. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, January 10th, 2007
8:54 am	Peter Dressel Is A Genius http://peterdressel.com/my_work/winter/ (8 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, December 7th, 2006
2:05 pm	We Want The Funk!!! So you should make it out on december 8th to the Funkworthy Show. Reasons. Besides the Fact that Demo Painted a great Funkworthy Painting hanging on my wall! 1) New venue 2) More monitors to show off the Art of Chuck Collins 3) The dubs are amazing 4) Whenever Abena Koomson opens her mouth to sing, the world should listen. 5) Raymond Daniel Medina has some dope new tricks up his sleeve 6) DJ Geko Jones just came from an exclusive shop in Seattle with some new Vinyl to spin the earth into a new axis 7) 3rd Rayl's Dancehall is sick. 8) The Baile Funk and World Beat is even Sicker, with a chaser of Drum & Bass 9) Did I forget to mention that Pure Fire Crew and Melodic are special guests, hired to do the damn thing? 10) Because It is FunkWorthy!!!!! See you then (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, November 17th, 2006
9:48 am	Was happenin Save Dem Dates. Saturday Denz on the 8th Day of December. The Funk Is Back (Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 8th, 2006
2:40 pm	Am I the only one who loves Rains like this? It is pouring hard outside. All day too. The drops are the size of golf balls, or ping pong balls or male balls. Hmmm. maybe not exactly like that. But it is raining hard and no one else seems to love it like I do. Even if I have to walk in it I still love it (as long as my socks aint wet). (Comment on this)
Thursday, October 26th, 2006
1:25 pm	Building up things and stuff. First off, Big Up to Barbara Jane and Oscar on their most beautiful of Unions. The pictures were off the hook, the sky was dope ass, and the dogs with the bowties were just too cute for school. Hilary is coming during Thanksgiving and I gots a whole lot of stuff planned. I am planning on taking her (if she would accompany me) to La Boheme and to Les Miserables. Now in NY the prices are stupid and I always aspire for more than I can handle. So today I found out that a co-worker has a friend who gets him free tickets to the opera. Ima try to push that angle. I don't get to wear suits often so it would be nice to play dress up and watch an opera. I just want to have her here really. My turf and all. Sleeping in my bed. Now on Salon Lucero. The show is coming to an end of the season. I need to take a few things off of my plate to focus on some new stuff. The farewell show will be on November 18th. I hope it does good. The last was great performance wise but the turnout did not cover the costs and I was down at the end of the night. Right now I must shift my energies to Funkworthy, and School. I need to explore this whole school thing further. And write more. and more. and more. And apply for a few awards and retreats. And i'm sorta touring in Feb. thats what I'm doing. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, October 11th, 2006
5:12 pm	Friday the 13th Salon Lucero Presents:br /Unlucky with Lucky, Beat Boxing Entbr /with Kid Lucky, Baba Isreal, Yakobr /Plus Special Guests, Black Opz Salon Lucero Presents: Unlucky with Lucky Beat Boxing Ent Featuring Kid Lucky Baba Isreal Yako www.beatboxerent.net www.openthoughtmusic.com Plus Special Guests Black Opz With "Preyin Mantis" "MC Aero" and "Hired Gun" http://www.myspace.com/freeradicalz and hosted by Eliel Lucero October, Friday the 13th @ Bowery Poetry Club 10pm $6 Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery Between Bleecker and Houston (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006
12:37 pm	Kate Rushin So the last of the Regional Cave Canem Workshops I can take will be with Kate Rushin. I just got the email yesterday telling me that I got in. I start today. A bit 11th hour but totally cool. I can't wait actually. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, September 22nd, 2006
9:14 am	Rest In Peace September 22, 2006 Mazisi Kunene, 76, South African Poet Laureate, Is Dead By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JOHANNESBURG, Sept. 21 (AP) — Mazisi Kunene, the first poet laureate of a democratic South Africa, whose works recorded the history of the Zulu nation, died on Aug. 11 in Durban. He was 76. His death, after a long battle with cancer, was announced by his family. Mr. Kunene also played a leading role in the anti-apartheid movement while in exile. While outside South Africa he published “Emperor Shaka the Great,” “Anthem of the Decades” and other poems, and two anthologies, “The Ancestors and the Sacred Mountain” and “Zulu Poems.” He taught African literature for nearly two decades at the University of California, Los Angeles, retiring in 1992. Mr. Kunene was born and educated in the eastern South African province now called KwaZulu-Natal. He used his writing to oppose the apartheid government. In 1959, with the liberation movement under severe threat, he went into exile and played a pivotal role in the founding of the anti-apartheid movement in Britain. A few years later, Mr. Kunene became the chief representative in Europe and Africa for the African National Congress. A cultural adviser to Unesco, he taught at a number of universities before joining U.C.L.A. in 1975. On his return to South Africa in 1993, he began publishing in his native Zulu language. That year Unesco honored him as Africa’s poet laureate, and in 2005 he became South Africa’s poet laureate. He is survived by his wife, Mathabo; a daughter, Lamakhosi; and three sons, Zosukuma, Ra and Rre. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, September 15th, 2006
1:27 pm	Some stuff on the old mind of mine I saw V for Vendetta a few nights ago. I am always amazed at how inspired I can be by a work of Fiction. Non-Fiction too. Black Jacobins and such. "--That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security." These are powerful words. The Declaration of independence is a wonderful document. Quite brilliant actually. Too bad they were never really followed. It is our responsibility as constituents, citizens of this country to make it what we want it to be no matter what we have to do. Our forefathers, corrupt as they were, had the right idea of revolution. So did Toussaint L'Ouverture, Dessalines, and even Castro. They saw something that was wrong and they fought to change it. Some with better results than others, but what we can't deny is the conviction. The determination to change, with the power of the people around them, conditions which are not for the better good of its Citizens. Here in the US the question is, who is the V of our generation. First thing is making sure that people are on the same page. What if the majority of this country really agrees with its politics? With Bush, and his evil regime. Something that made me happy today, was hearing that his own party is against his blatant disregard for the Geneva Convention. Keeping humane with our treatment of POW's. How do we expect our soldiers to be given the same treatment? It is obvious that there is no easy solution to our involvement in Iraq. We should've never went in to begin with. Now they are in a whirlwind of disaster. Not that they were that great before, but what they needed wasn't foreign powers to liberate them from a dictator, only to impose their own beliefs on them. That is just another form of colonizing. What if that was the original intention of the Bush administration. Having a dominated Middle-Eastern country is exactly what the greedy oil lovers need. But I ask, because I don't know. How do we get out of this now? It isn't as simple as getting a new president. How better can any of these snake career politicians ever be? Who, Hilary? I am not convinced. Dean was the only one who gave me a sliver of hope, and I don't exactly know why, but I don't see any person who could be a savior. Maybe Michael Douglas if he becomes his character as the American President. Or even Bill Paxton who saved us from annihilation. Someone tell me how. Also if the Republicans were to win the presidency again wouldn’t McCain + Rice not be such a bad ticket? I’m just think in type. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, September 14th, 2006
4:01 pm	Sasha Baron Cohen Rocks From http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=404852&in_page_id=1770 Bush to hold talks on Ali G creator after diplomatic row Last updated at 16:11pm on 12th September 2006 US President George Bush is to host White House talks on British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen. Cohen, 35, creator of Ali G, has infuriated the Kazakhstan government with his portrayal of Borat, a bumbling Kazakh TV presenter. And now a movie of Borat's adventures in the US has caused a diplomatic incident. The opening scene, which shows Borat lustily kissing his sister goodbye and setting off for America in a car pulled by a horse, had audiences in stitches when it was first shown last week. But the film, which has just premiered at the Toronto Film Festival, has prompted a swift reaction from the Kazakhstan government, which is launching a PR blitz in the States. Kazakhstan president Nursultan Nazarbayev is to fly to the US to meet President Bush in the coming weeks and on the agenda will be his country's image. President Nazarbayev has confirmed his government will buy "educational" TV spots and print advertisements about the "real Kazakhstan" in a bid to save the country's reputation before the film is released in the US in November. President Nazarbayev will visit the White House and the Bush family compound in Maine when he flies in for talks that will include the fictional character Borat. But a spokesman for the Kazakhstan Embassy says it is unlikely that President Nazarbayev will find the film funny. Roman Vassilenko said: "The Government has expressed its displeasure about Borat's representation of our country. "Our opinion of the character has not changed. "We understand that the film exposes the hypocrisy that exists both here in the USA and in the UK and understand that Mr Cohen has a right to freedom of speech. "Nursultan Nazarbayev has taken Mr Bush up on an invitation to visit this country to help build our relationship with the USA. "I cannot speak for the president himself, only for the government, but I certainly don't think President Nazarbayev and Mr Bush will share a joke about the film. "The bottom line is we want people to know that he does not represent the true people of Kazakhstan." The Kazakh government has previously threatened Baron-Cohen with legal action, for allowing Borat to, among other things, make fun of his homeland, demean women, slander gypsies and urge listeners to "Throw the Jew Down the Well." Anti-Borat hard-liners have pulled the plug on borat.kz, Borat's Kazakhstan-based Website after his frequent displays of anti-Semitism and his portrayal of Kazakh culture. Nurlan Isin, President of the Association of Kazakh IT Companies took the action after complaints. He said: "We've done this so he can't badmouth Kazakhstan under the .kz domain name. "He can go and do whatever he wants at other domains." The row originally erupted in November 2005, following Borat's hosting of the MTV Europe Music Awards in Lisbon. The Kazakh Foreign Ministry was furious over Cohen's bad taste representation of the nation. 'No such thing as bad publicity' Foreign Ministry spokesman Yerzhan Ashykbayev told a news conference: "We view Mr. Cohen's behaviour at the MTV Europe Music Awards as utterly unacceptable, being a concoction of bad taste and ill manners which is completely incompatible with the ethics and civilized behaviour of Kazakhstan's people. "We reserve the right to any legal action to prevent new pranks of the kind." Baron Cohen responded to Ashykbayev in character by posting a video on the Official Borat website. In the video, Borat said, "In response to Mr. Ashykbayev's comments, I'd like to state I have no connection with Mr. Cohen and fully support my Government's decision to sue this Jew. "Since the 2003 Tuleyakiv reforms, Kazakhstan is as civilized as any other country in the world. "Women can now travel on inside of bus, homosexuals no longer have to wear blue hats, and age of consent has been raised to eight years old." His blatant outpouring then prompted the Kazakh government to hire two public relations firms to counter the claims, and ran a four-page advertisement in The New York Times. The ad carried testimonials about the nation's democracy, education system and the power and influence enjoyed by women. News of President Nazarbayev's upcoming visit has prompted experts to study the character's impact on US culture. Sean R. Roberts, Central Asian Affairs Fellow at Georgetown University, has been studying the phenomenon. He said: "I have found that more Americans are aware of Kazakhstan than four years ago when I last lived in the United States. "The increased knowledge of Kazakhstan, however, is not due to the country's economic successes or its role as a U.S. ally in the war on terror. "Instead, most Americans who have heard of Kazakhstan have heard of it through a satire of a Kazakh journalist named Borat. "Borat certainly does not promote an image of Kazakhstan that is in sync with that which the government and its leader would like to promote abroad. "As the old adage goes, however, 'there is no such thing as bad publicity.' "If that is true, Borat is bringing much more publicity to Kazakhstan." Cohen's representatives refused to allow him or his alter ego to respond to the controversy because it's not close enough to the film's release date. (Comment on this)
Monday, September 11th, 2006
1:47 pm	So on my Friday post I said, "You know. I love people. I love people who I love from wherever they may be. That is simple enough. I have to find new ways of fighting the powers. Non-violent in nature of course. Maybe making some type of dent on society. I feel so powerless." I was speaking about the whole Chile 1973 thing. It was a bit of a political rant (not a slam poem though, Just kidding, a little) Anyway this was someone's response on myspace Her - "hose of us with words who do not fear to speak are never powerless. It's when the voices fall silent that we should all tremble" And I responded with this ME - " - Honey what do we know of fear of speaking. If anything we take our freedom for granted. - have we ever been personally persecutted for a word or beliefe? No not really. My great-grandfather was arrested for saying that he didn't think Trujillo was doing right by the people of DR. He said it publically, and he was arrested, and his house turned a muck. Barbara I appreciate your imput, but we do not know the begining of fear. We are the lucky." and then she said "Well, I'm too tired to argue with you, but I was speaking to whether or not you are powerless, not whether or not there is anything worth fearing. Seems to me that we always fear what we don't know whether it is large or small. We fear the unknown. Very, very gently said here...you do not know me well enough to speak of what I know or what my experiences have been." Now i'm asking when did this become personal. I was a bit upset. So I wrote this. "After reading the post and the comments over I can not imagine how you concluded to that last statement. I never mentioned anything of personal experience. Not at all. I sent you an emails with my thoughts. because although you said that "very, very gently", it was still a passive attack. I don't dig that too much. I am comparing Governments, Laws, Policies, and Countries. I don't understand how you could have taken that personal. I really really can't. And people do fear what they don't understand, but that is not relevant to the comment. I'm talking about fear of speaking because the result may be death. Yeah death is unkown, but umm people don't generally want to die. Hell even Galileo eventually gave up for his life. And I don't blame him. I for one, have never been arrested, kidnapped or killed for my public dislike of the current US administration. That isn't the case everywhere else. Sorry I took your passive attack personally, but I just don't know how you came to that conclusion. This comment has gotten way too long." Where did I go wrong? (1 Comment |Comment on this)
12:24 pm	Silence is not the answer! A moment of silence, yes but only a moment. We can't stay quiet for long. Speak up now! Remember Chile 1973. New York 2001. never stop the struggle, whatever it may be. Stop being silent now. SCREAM! (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, September 8th, 2006
1:15 pm	Nine One One So right before 9/11 we get another terror tape. Yeah the theory is that they sent it to us in order to place fear in our hearts and remind us that they are strong and will terrorize us. And they will. The American Government will terrorize. Com’on now. We get a new tape that was taped over five years ago. The tape was made before 9/11. Before. First off it shows people who are dead, currently incarcerated by the US gov, and some other things that in no way are recent. So why would the terrorist, send us an old tape? Why not just film a new one. Maybe one from the summer vacation or something. Osama at the beach or something. I don’t believe what they feed me is food. Because of the events of 9/11, over 20,000 were killed and 60,000 tortured and about a million exiled. I’m speaking about 9/11/73 in Chile. Santiago’s football stadium (soccer for the people who can’t think past the shores of this country) was used as a torture center and concentration camps. That is the 9/11 that I think of when the date is coming up. What happened in Chile was pushed by the American Government who aided Chilean General Augusto Pinochet to bomb La Moneda Presidential Palace, where Allende, a self-declared Marxist, killed himself before he could be assassinated. Allende was democratically elected by Chile. Kissinger once remarked, that the US should stand by and let a nation "go Marxist" because "its people are irresponsible." Consistent with that judgment, Kissinger and the CIA were centrally involved in efforts to de-stabilize and overthrow the Allende regime through various means, including military force. So the plan to get Allende out was part of a US funded (10 million dollars) “Black Opps” which was masterminded by Kissinger, Nixon, and the head of the CIA Richard Helms. Among the people persecuted in Chile, were many poets. Because of the social conscious of the poet, who frowns at injustice and voices his opinion without regret. Societies of poets were arrested and mistreated by this US placed government. Now what I was thinking today is how can I love the country that I was born in if this is how it is. But the truth is that I don’t have to. I don’t love countries. They are Governments. Governments with too much power will eventually abuse them. I hate all who hurt benevolent ones. The bastards. You know. I love people. I love people who I love from wherever they may be. That is simple enough. I have to find new ways of fighting the powers. Non-violent in nature of course. Maybe making some type of dent on society. I feel so powerless. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006
1:06 pm	Fall Season Television I finally did laundry last night. Two huge shopping carts worth. I spent about $30 in complete laundry endeavors and I didn't have any help. I washed warm and cold wear getting ready for the oncoming cold. I can't wait. I did nothing else last night. Watched the premier of Standoff on Fox. I am watching too much TV, while I have a roommate. As soon as she is gone I won’t have cable again. But really this New Series is good. It was funny and fun and it was great. The acting was amazing. I am also happy to see that the Boss in the series is an Afro-Cuban woman who plays an Afro-Latina woman. I don't know if she is meant to be Cuban but she said her last name with accent and everything. That is great. She isn't a janitor or lackey or anything degrading. She is a strong Captain or something to that level. I love it. She is also beautiful in my opinion and is married to Laurence Fishburne. She has acted before and I've enjoyed her work thus far. Now the problem is this; How can they keep up the show and still make it interesting. Its not like a regular cop show where there is always a fresh crime. They are negotiators. How often is there a standoff in today’s society? How often are people taken as hostages? Yesterday alone there were two scenarios, which were both brilliant, but how long can they keep that up. And there comes in the internal struggles. Thus making the partners in the show, Lovers. See I love House, but I also think the same about that. Yesterday what they did was make him right but not tell him. Next week it will come back. He wrote himself a prescription for some drugs, but will he use it? That is the thing that will bite us later. And he can walk and run now? Come on I liked him better as a cripple. But the truth is how many cases can he solve before running out of medical terms. So next week there is some type of poltergeist and gene anomaly. I guess it all will be happening as the kids hallucination. That’s fine and well but what happens after they run out of options? What we see here are great shows that lack a sense of longevity. I'm okay with that. Just don't "jump the shark". Know when to back away with dignity and go down in history as the show that ended and everyone wanted more of. It just feels like the right thing to do. (4 Comments |Comment on this)