hey hey...a note from the coffee-shop/office post-News and Notes Roundtable appearance. the movie, The Second Chance DOES open in Memphis, TN this weekend. so if you know friends, family, or enemies there, call them and tell them to check it out. they can find listings at Fandango.com. ah, the beauty of technology.
sending a special web shout out to my fellow Roundtable members Dr. Mary Frances Berry (www.maryfrancesberry.com) and Tara Setmayer (www.tarasetmayer.com). we had a rockin' good time with Farai (www.faraichideya.com) on the show this morning. if you want to hear it, as usual, click on the NPR link on this site and have yourself a blast. i've said it before and i'll say it again: if there is a more informative, stimulating radio program that covers the spectrum of news and culture from our perspective than News and Notes with Ed Gordon, i don't know about it. keep up with it by going to www.npr.org and checking out the show, if you're not already a listener, either via the radio or the web.
i think i've torn up my powerbook, pray for a brother. it's not gone yet, but it is wearing down. i'm kinda holding off on getting the new Macbook pro, because i've heard mixed reviews. so if i'm able--or if someone wants to hook me up with a mac endorsement--i think i'll go for a 12-inch powerbook with a super drive. it's a little smaller than my 15 incher, but i like the style and portability of it.
Ordinary Heroes
the play i talked about in the last entry just had its first public reading and it went well. a sold-out house and lot of good feedback. i anticipate minimum re-writes and a February world premiere here in Nashville. keep an eye and an ear out for it, it's an important piece.
well, i think that's all for now. i'm going to get out and hit it. i've put in a solid 3 1/2 hours of office work in here at the coffee shop and my but is starting to scream for relief. when i get a coffee shop one day, will someone remind me to consider padded seats? (or will i be thinking, don't pad the seats because customers will stay all day and you won't be able to rotate in new people?) hmmm...we'll cross that bridge one day. that's one of the side dreams: a little coffee shop, named after my pop, where people can go early and late, and hear good music and eat good stuff and see good friends and have great debates that will spawn the next generation of creative and intellectual minds. btw...
congrats to my brother, Dr. Greg Kimathi Carr, of Howard University. he has a profile on him in the campus paper and is getting ready to unleash a blitzkrieg [sp] of intellectual wisdom on the world. mark this word: your grandkids will be studying his texts. keep an eye out for him, because that cat is bad. i say that because he IS. AND he is my brother and i'm proud as all get out of him for all the lives he's touching and transforming in the classroom. if you've had the opportunity to take his class in African-American studies, you know i'm not lying. if i was a modern-day prosperity preacher, i'd tell you "You know Da Lawd is movin' yo' heart. Go on up there and when you see him, put a fifty dollar bill in his pocket, and God'll bless yah real good!"
did i tell ya'll i've heard that before from the pulpit. that's another story.
keep pressing on. someone FINALLY got the answer to my question in the blogbeforelast. i'll send out a cd Nekar.
peace
joc
