No problem. I was reading "Plan B" at the time, which tells of an underground revolution led by a charismatic black man named Tomsson Black who distributes M14s to every black person in America in order to force American whites to either exterminate black people once and for all or treat them as human beings. Himes never finished it in his lifetime; it was published posthumously.
It's not a great book by any means. But fascinating, and interesting to set it up against a book like "Soul on Ice".
So running across such material as that coloring book was interesting: the FBI trying to access what they thought was the collective unconscious of black people. I wonder who they got to illustrate it?
I wonder what Chester would have thought about this year's election?
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My Florida Studies prof wrote the cover piece for Creative Loafing (a free weekly combining light news, local stuff, and ads for porn shops and vegan restaurants)
I think he has a decent job as a sci-fi writer if the whole tenured professor thing doesn't work out.
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Posts: 5383 | Location: TPA in the FLA | Registered: February 05, 2003
I sat out on our little balcony on Wednesday - which was how we confirmed that the storm was bad, because the rain made it all the way across the balcony - with Flatmate M and his iPod, recording the sound.
I'll see if we can put some of it up. I just called Mum and told her that I almost know what it must've been like going through Tracy, like she did, and she said she wouldn't have been able to handle it were she up here.
