Michael Muhammed Knight, the provocative author of Taqwacores and The Five Percenters, (interviewed on my site a couple years back) has just written a great article over at Killing the Buddha about Father Allah. If you know nothing about this Harlem God, Knight’s piece is a great primer. And if you are familiar, as a [...]
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Michael Muhammed Knight Does It Again: A Tribute to Father Allah
Posted in Consciousness & Alternate Perception, gratitude, history, mis-education vs. raw learning, pointing at The Big Something on April 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Where They’re Crazy, We’re Crazy
Posted in Consciousness & Alternate Perception, Personal Speculation, Wilhelm Reich, but NOT The Big Something, everyday life, gratitude, mis-education vs. raw learning, pointing at The Big Something, pro-peace/pro-people, psychology, spirituality on December 30, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Here’s a basic viewpoint I hold most of the time: people are generally good and want to do what is best.
Here’s another basic viewpoint I carry around in my brain-bag: Although people are generally good, they are also generally mentally deranged. I don’t mean that they are bat-shit crazy all the time or about everything, just that [...]
Clap for Chaos and Drop The Mic (Do You Remember?)
Posted in Consciousness & Alternate Perception, everyday life, late night, mis-education vs. raw learning on September 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m trying to remember some details about the one and only time I got chosen to host a school assembly in high school my senior year. I remember that I wore my favorite stocking cap, a green and purple thing with a circle in the middle. Inside the circle, two question marks intertwined all Ying-Yang [...]
Obama Would Be the Sixth Black President, At Least!
Posted in Limnal Site of Dead Heroes, history, mis-education vs. raw learning, politics, pro-peace/pro-people, psychology on September 5, 2008 | 3 Comments »
About a year ago, a Rastafarian guy I worked with who had a lot of optimism about Obama and, to me, an unrealistic expectation that an Obama presidency would be “revolutionary,” made a statement that piqued my curiosity. In the middle of speaking on what was shaping up to be the Obama versus Hilary primary [...]
The Eyes of Mr. Blunn: High School Slavery, the Civil War, and Lincoln’s Outhouse
Posted in Consciousness & Alternate Perception, Mundane Poetics, conspiracy poetics, everyday life, gratitude, history, late night, mis-education vs. raw learning, pointing at The Big Something, pro-peace/pro-people on September 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I had an American Literature teacher in high school who looms large in my memory of those days, despite the fact that in physical stature he could have been a gnome.
We’ll call him Mr. Blunn.
He had the thinnest of comb overs on his pate, as well as piercing eyes that looked like onyx, at [...]
Putting Yourself in a Trap for Fun and Diversion (Hello to the Son of the Widow’s Son, Wherever You Are)
Posted in 9/11, Consciousness & Alternate Perception, conspiracy poetics, everyday life, gratitude, late night, mis-education vs. raw learning, psychology, shout outs on May 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We worked together for one year in Japan at the same school. He lived in Hiyoshi, same as the tiny groupuscule from the Fellowship of Friends that I ran into during that year. He taught English, went to Temple University, and lived with a Japanese wife with whom he seemed to have a pretty [...]
Just One Of Those Things
Posted in Consciousness & Alternate Perception, everyday forteana, everyday life, late night, magick, mis-education vs. raw learning, pointing at The Big Something, psychology on May 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’m in high school and I’m in speech class. I’m supposed to give my five minute speech on a historical figure today, only, uncharacteristically for me, I have arrived utterly unprepared. My procrastination binge the night before ended in a procrastination overdose straight into a deep, albeit short, night’s sleep.
So I’m up this [...]
Bill Hicks on Waco: Before and After
Posted in Consciousness & Alternate Perception, civil liberties, conspiracy poetics, history, media, mis-education vs. raw learning, requiem on March 6, 2008 | 5 Comments »
The wise man changes his views when he sees the truth.
Rest in peace, Bill.
Before the tragedy:
And after(from Rant in E-Minor):
Two Stories from Mock-Elections’ Past
Posted in everyday life, mis-education vs. raw learning, pointing at The Big Something, politics on February 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The first time we went to kindergarten, a year young, was a presidential election year. It wasn’t just an election year for the grown-ups, no. See, they just can’t help but find it adorable to provide little children with a tiny-person version of their own, hollow, big-person rituals. So it was that [...]
Holy Death in Threes and What To Do With These
Posted in Consciousness & Alternate Perception, Personal Speculation, but NOT The Big Something, mis-education vs. raw learning, pointing at The Big Something, positive aphoristics, pro-peace/pro-people on February 15, 2008 | 9 Comments »
I remember it said, by various people, of no more authority or wisdom than I, that people die in threes. Usually, I’ve heard that sort of thing out of the mouth of someone I worked with round about the end of the year after the death of a celebrity of some stripe. And [...]
