*Eats some cube steak and alfredo noodles*

“Hey hey hey, what’s happenin’?!”

OK, well that’s stupid….and I haven’t updated this thing in…how long? Damn!!! Since March the flippin’ 22?!

Alright, now that’s alot of news to share (or at least what I can recall from the past nearly-two months). Here’s the update:

1) I’m graduating this Saturday!!!!

2) The day afterward, we head off for Frankfurt am Main (via Philadelphia)!!!

3) I have been admitted to Oglethorpe (seriously, I have)!!!

4) I’ve finally given up instant messaging….permenantly!!!

5) This Friday is my last day at the job (YES, I HAVE A JOB), thankfully!!! (I hated it from the very beginning, cleaning and caring, and sometimes cooking, at this assisted living facility called Peach Valley Villas, so I’ll be glad when Friday comes)

6) I’ve finally bought back MSN with Mom’s empty checking card!!!

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So that’s the basic rundown for the past almost-two months, so I hope that you all are doing OK? RSVP, dudes.

Oh, and I’ve gotten infuriated with the situation in Haiti, with the Lavalas supporters being summarily massacred by the goons of the new government under that weak-ass Latortue.

BRING BACK ARISTIDE, BITCHES!!!!

Back, after a 12-day hiatus in which, for some unexplainiable reason, I just didn’t have the motivation to post another entry here. And yes, I have the same old-same old type of news that many of you have gotten used to, I guess.

So anyway, two Wednesdays ago, Mom finally had her tax form done, and, armed with that, I finally submitted my FAFSA online later that same evening. Furthermore, I’ve submitted online applications to University of Minnesota (which responded last night with a letter in the mail), Penn State, and the University of Missouri (a.k.a. “Mizzou”) @ St. Louis, and am working on one to CSU Monterey Bay (hey, I’m trying to keep my options open).

Now to take care of those application fees. $45, $55, $65, and so on….

Also, last night, Mom and I finally checked out “Lost in Translation (widescreen)” from Blockbuster. We haven’t bothered to chuck it into my nephew’s PS2 (to watch) as of yet, so we’ll probably see it tonight.

Oh, and yesterday was the official first day of Spring, if anyone noticed.

And 60 more days until I graduate (and get the hell out of here)!

btw, for all the Catholics who may pass by: how’s Lent?

Long post, so check behind the cut, if you please.

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What do you guys think, should I do college this fall (and I’m talking about ANY college) or put it off for at least 6 extra months?

If any of you guys happen to possess DeviantArt.com accounts, and you happen to live anywhere in the world, now I’ve created brand frickin’ new communities here for deviants from all over the world.

Continue reading New DeviantArt Communities at LJ!!! *cough* →

Well, Connie is back in Germany (we took her to the airport in Atlanta on Wednesday), and life is back to normal on the home front.

And in the meantime, I’ve written this stanza-ed essay about, well, life. Have a look?

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Considering that the North Atlantic has its NATO (which stretches in extent from [N to S] the North Pole to the Tropic of Cancer and [W to E] from the eastern Coast of North America to the eastern coast of the Meditteranean), a military/political organization that makes sure that all further post-WW2 conflicts in the North Atlantic Sphere of Influence will be solved on the primary by dialogue, compromise, partnership, and resolution (and secondarily by the force of arms), why doesn’t the South Atlantic (that is, the rest of the Ocean south of the Tropic of Cancer all the way down to the South Pole) have a SATO?

I mean, true, there IS a South Atlantic Zone of Peace and Cooperation that came about as a result of the need in the 80’s to defuse all further Cold War tensions which may have existed in that area of the world (among others), but I believe that if any of the countries in the South Atlantic, especially, if no one else, Brazil and South Africa, are ever going to come out of the long shadow of the Northern Hemisphere, it’ll only happen if the countries of (sub-Saharan) Africa and Latin America decide to come together in the same manner (or in an even closer cohesion) as the North Atlantic countries do, and make up their minds on how they plan to defuse the current crises of the Third World through either political or military means, among them being the lingering effects of slavery, colonization, imperialism, ethnocentrism, slave trading, dictatorship, and neo/post-colonialism.

Here’s a couple of links:

Continue reading The South Atlantic Treaty Organization →

*sigh* Today was depressing in a couple of ways…We went to Chuck E. Cheese for my younger nephew’s early b-day party (since Connie won’t be here for his real b-day and all)…and I was wondering even more about shapeshifting and how to accomplish it.

And I was grossed out upon impact by this: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/malcolmx/xmorgue.html

That may have set the mood for the day, I guess…and that may have been the sickest photo that I’ve ever come across (in my f*cking life!!!)

Anyway, as some of you may have heard, Malcolm X was assassinated yesterday in 1965 (how surprising that it was President’s Day as well, lol). It makes me sad that the guy died in that manner, as if he was on the verge of “becoming”, and all of a sudden he was pulled from the stage (just like that, *snap*), as if somebody didn’t want that to happen.

I mean, if he had lived beyond that point, what would’ve become of him? One can only wonder…

Many believe that he died an untimely death, that he left the world before his time was suppose to come. However, I believe that he died at the right time, in the right place, for the right reasons.

Why?

Let’s revisit the “what if?” factor. If he had lived, he may have retained the qualities which have, in the years since, made him an icon of the martyr type, but gradually, he would have resigned to a similar fate that has befallen many a rapper (like Chuck D) or civil rights leader (Jesse Jackson): becoming an entertainment piece for the accomodation of “White America” (quoting Eminem) in order to obtain wealth off of their legacy.

It happens alot these days, but I, personally, could never get used to that trend. Every time I see that happen to an MC (like Talib Kweli or BEP) or some other person who is famous for something that he does or pursues within the arts realm, I feel like something within that person, something which dedicated him exclusively to the art form, has died. And I feel sorry for the person, since it means that an era of some sort has officially passed.

So in that case, it was actually fortunate for Malcolm to depart in that particular, though somewhat agonizingly-grisly, manner. He left a legacy in his wake that only begs and pleads for further, deeper, longer-term investigation in the future, and I’m glad that he left that legacy for us, exactly 40 years after he gave his book a “surprise ending” of sorts.

And, what’s even more interesting, is that I’ve often been told by others who see my face everyday that I actually LOOK like him, lol (the 7th and 8th grade kids at the parochial school often ask me to pose with a finger to the side of my head for sake of comparison between me and a famous photograph of a thinking Malcolm). I happen to share alot of ideas, ideals and values with him, and I’ve always admired him like a personification or embodiment of human tragedy.

Is it actually possible that I could be his reincarnation?

I’ve had this idea for a long while…

A new online radio/tv network called “Africana.fm”, which will broadcast news, talk, and music every three hours.

It will, obviously, be geared toward Black communities which are located in those countries where English, Arabic, French, Spanish, Portuguese, or Dutch (and, by inclusion, Afrikaans) are either the predominately-spoken languages or the official, if not necessarily popular, languages of government, so it’ll be broadcast on 6 separate streams for each of the 6 languages, on the same schedules, so that most of the target audience can be reached (that is, if they either have the Internet at home or have found a way to jerry-rig a computer to a stereo system in, say, their car, and turn the volume up LOUD, so that the whole neighborhood can hear it, lol).

Of course, the schedule will proceed as follows:

Afternoon: 2 pm to 5 pm
Early Evening: 5 pm to 8 pm
Evening: 8 pm to 11 pm
Midnight: 11 pm to 2 am
Late Night: 2 am to 5 am
Early Morning: 5 am to 8 am
Morning: 8 am to 11 am
Midday: 11 am to 2 pm

The hourly news will broadcast every 1st hour of each schedule segment, while talk will broadcast every 2nd hour and Music will be heard on every 3rd. Of course, way will be made if a live event or a movie or special is to be shown. The format that this network will follow will be similar to that shown by http://lfx.co.jp.

The subject matter will, of course, center around sub-Saharan Africa and its Diaspora, especially in the realm of the news (sports, arts, entertainment, politics, culture, and stuff like that).

There will be 6 websites for this network:

en.africana.fm (English)

es.africana.fm (Spanish)

fr.africana.fm (French)

pt.africana.fm (Portuguese)

nd.africana.fm (Dutch)

ar.africana.fm (Arabic)

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Each website will follow the same format:

Front page (with News Headlines by region)
Forum
Blog (livejournal.com/~africana.fm)
Crew Bio/Contact
Listen Links

The news headlines, as expressed before, will be featured by region:

West Africa
East Africa
Central Africa
Southern Africa
Horn of Africa
North Africa (West)
North Africa (East)
Middle East
Western Europe
United Kingdom
Canada
USA (East Coast)
USA (West Coast)
USA (Deep South)
USA (MidWest)
West Indies
Mesoamerica
Guyanas (and T&T)
Northern Andes
Brazil (Northeast)
Brazil (Southeast)
Southern Andes (incl. Uruguay and Paraguay)

Yep, those many, lol X-D

In fact, the news in broadcast form will also proceed in the same exact form, but the news will ALWAYS, in some form or fashion, feature Black communities within them, so that other people of the same ancestry who may live a thousand miles/kilometers away from where the story is taking place will be surprised to know what is actually going on in the Black African community in that distant country or region.

The objective of this network will be to accomplish what I believe is the true and ultimate goal of journalism: to educate, To put the whole public at a point of accountability or responsibility for a newsmaking event in another country. And in this case, the “students” will be the worldwide Black African community at large.

(Not-so) Random Quote:

“

The latest age of slavery has been the enslavement of Blacks by
White people. The memory of this age will persist in the thinking of Black
people until they have vindicated themselves.

This tragic and historic event, the resulting bitter feeling,
and the yearning or the vindication of a whole race, constitute a psychological
motivation of Black people to vengeance and triumph that cannot be disregarded.
In addition, the inevitable cycle of social history, which includes the Yellow
people’s domination of the world when it marched from Asia, and the White
people’s carrying out a wide-ranging colonialist movement covering all the
continents of the world, is now giving way to the re-emergence of Black
people.

”

Muammar Qaddafi, The Green Book

Not that I’m a big fan of him, but I did read his Green Book a night ago, and I was….well…..impressed, I’ll say that much.