February 2012
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UofL's BLUES FOR AN ALABAMA SKY on Good Day Live! →
Check out Jacqueline Thompson (actor) and Prof. Nefertiti Burton (director) on Good Day Live, earlier this week. They were there promoting UofLouisville’s African American Theatre Program production of Blues for an Alabama Sky, by Pearl Cleage. The show opened last night and runs through Sunday at UofL’s Thrust Theater. Get ticket info here:...
January 2012
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YES. ps. lemon cake is my favorite. and it feeds me in a sunny way. i don’t know if it’s healthy, but i sure as hell love it. and i believe it loves me. AND folks who love me are often the ones who understand least, that the simpler the lemon cake, the better. amen.
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WatchCheck out the title track of the homie, Bashiri Asad’s, new album on BandCamp. We’ve shared a few gigs, looking forward to more. Support this brother’s groove by listening, downloading, and spreading the word about his brand of feel good soul.
Y’all keep it on the one, now.
JD
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On Cancer & the Resilience of Trees
So all day, I’ve been gathering samples. Samples of my writing, of my speech, my singing, trying to find the best representations of my “voice.” In my looking, I found an passionate plea that I posted on Facebook to get folks involved in the West Louisville Relay Life. I wrote this post on March 24, 2009 and closed it with the prose poem, “Four Skinny Trees,” by...
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Dissertation Abstract - That Terrifying Center:...
Hey folks,
Since I get a lot of requests from folks about my dissertation work—fewer now than when I was working on it and homicidal, it seems—I figured I’d just post my abstract (summary of the whole project in a few paragraphs) here. Also because actually watching your eyes glaze over once I start to explain can be a bit unnerving, reading the abstract from here will allow...
Watchbe encouraged,
jd
DA BASSMENT Crew (aka Swing Mob): The Rise, Fall &... →
Yessir! #ThrowbackMagic
December 2011
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Stephen King: The Link List →
Awesome times in the Stephen King/Dark Tower Universe. Yes, indeedy. Needs updating though: 11/22/63 is full of crossings, especially in Derry.
http://www.adrianpiper.com/docs/APCV_September2011A... →
now THIS is a curriculum vitae! it’s over 70 pages with a table of contents! AND Sister Piper is an active philosopher and artist. she is, in other words, AWESOME.
just fyi,
jD
November 2011
3 posts
Django Jamboree →
Gypsy Jazz lovers, check this out: next Sunday. Free concert. I’ve got to sing, but looking forward to the jam session @ The Bard’s Town that night @ 1030. Listening to some of the guys practicing now.
Can’t even concentrate on work they’re so good.
Support Louisville jazz and good music,
JD
Babyland General Hospital--Where Cabbage-y Babies... →
Honey, the culture of the Cabbage Patch is some kinda creepy when you get a couple decades of perspective to chew on. I’m just saying.
On a listing for a CPK that is very much like one I had—that my auntie gave to me—the listing talks about the doll being naked, and her panties being sold separately…
Is anyone else uncomfortable with the idea of dolls (or funny looking...
Watchimals ~ Cute 80s stuffed animals that are... →
I AM OLD! doing some research/factchecking for a few of my dissertation poems. Digging in the toys of the 80s…
Dude. I totally had a Watchimal, and lost it somewhere about 86.
Dude. The toys I grew up with are vintage.
Dude.
And if that weren’t enough— http://liketotally80s.com/80s-toys.html
Dude. Glow worms?!?
<sigh>
By the power of GreySkull,
JD
October 2011
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See You @ The Hoot! →
A FREE COMMUNITY UNITY FESTIVAL !!!!
LOUISVILLE NATURE CENTER
2011 Harvest Hoot Website- http://mightykindnesshootenanny.weebly.com/
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featuring…
**Art in eARTh Stage
Sound by Ultimate Audio
12:00-12:35 Some Day Soon
12:45- 1:10 Earth Mamas Dance Co
1:15- 1:40 Tyrone Cotton
1:45- 2:10 Andrea Davidson
2:20- 2:55 Keltricity
3:05- 3:40 Serpent...
Dr. Pepper Snapple Group Present L'Renee... →
YAY! This Friday night! Get your tickets, honey. L’Renee has all kinda folks on this program. Homegirl has designed her own concert from the bands to the lights. And she’s launching her own nonprofit organization, GirlPOWer.
Don’t miss this historic event. I’m so proud of this woman, I don’t know what to do.
Show love to Detroit music and Detroit’s girls by...
NPR.org » Native Foster Care: Lost Children,... →
This story moved me deeply. This must change. It must.
Yo! Love to @NemoAchida →
“Sometimes I’m ready to groove and then sometimes I’m unable to move...”
– Marvin Gaye, “Time To Get It Together” on HERE, MY DEAR.
“[tw: depression, suicide]
Depression is humiliating. It turns intelligent, kind...”
– Pearl (via thesunshinewaitingtobefound)
wow i just started crying at this
(via eternal-apprentice)
oh wow yup yup yup
(via aphroblazia)
I think I might print this off
and give it to my dad
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Ouch. Goddamn. Exactly like this.
(via postmodsexgeek)
I love this....
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Little Shop of Horrors Invades CenterStage October... →
Looking forward to this! And our brother, Rush Trowel, is playing Audrey II (i.e. the plant).
Runs through November.
4pm Saturday performance added ... FOR COLORED... →
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“Without Fred Shuttlesworth’s work, I’d be enjoying Steve Jobs’ iPhone on the...”
– @dglspl (via dglsplsblg)
Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth Has Died →
September 2011
10 posts
2011 Mighty Kindness Harvest Hootenanny [Family &... →
See you @ The Hoot! Can’t wait to share my songs & get fed, too. FREE.
For Colored Girls: Sat. Oct 8 SOLD OUT →
Get your tickets today, Saturday (10/8) has already sold out. And meet the cast @ Carly Rae’s on 10/7 aftet the show!
We’re getting so close,
JD
(Lady in Brown)
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Funk legend Sly Stone now homeless and living out... →
“just let me come in, just let me in, and pay me if you like it…”
“give me a job, play my music.” me & sly thinking the same thing.
damn.
this breaks my heart in innumerable ways.
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NPR.org » First Listen: Miles Davis, 'Live In... →
Yaaaaaaaaasssssssss #jazz #music
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Pretty is a state of mind; beauty is a state of... →
Because I still need the reminder that beauty isn’t a feeling, I wrote “Natural Beauty.” It’s for my mama, and my nieces, and my sisters and brothers. We all need to remember that our loveliness isn’t based on how we think we look. We are lovely and valuable because we are.
Take good care, y’all.
JD
(whose mama insisted that she was a natural beauty…)
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For Colored Girls @ The Kentucky Center Oct. 6-9,...
So, one of my most treasured choreopoems—okay, my *only* treasured choreopoem—is being presented at The Kentucky Center this October and I’m excited. Really excited.
And not just because Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf was pivotal in the composition of my blackwomanself. I’m so excited because I’m in the...
Watch Google's wonderful video doodle tribute to... →
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August 2011
3 posts
Performance Contracts: For private events,... →