13 January, 2019

Buika: La Noche Mas Larga

Listening/Watching
Hasan Kwame Jeffries: Bloody Lowndes

Reading
“I don’t usually do this unless I’m drunk or I’m high. But I’m both right now, got me talking about my life.”

–Gucci Mane

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2019: Spill the Spice . . .

Most of my adult life I’ve loved Jars. Wrote a poem about them at my lowest points in my twenties: “I’m putting my life in jars / jars of dried tomatoes in olive oil / jars of green pickles / . . . lonely afternoons a half gallon jar / a quick look crossing Prospect street in a jar near the back / anguish jars / fearful jars / don’t you dare speak to me again jars . . .”

Late 2018, year end I bought new spice jars: magnets on my wall. I peer at them each day, admiring potency captured in glass . . .

Until I realize this is a different phase of my life, I may not need jars like I used to.. “Spill all the spices, let them bleed” a trusted friend says. Hell yeah . . .

2 January, 2019

Issa Rae and Larry Wilmore, HBO: Insecure Season 2

Listening/Watching
Patrick Phillips: Blood at the Root, A Racial Cleansing in America

Reading
“Then I commended mirth because a man hath no better thing under the sun than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry.”

–Ecclesiastes 8:15

Quote of the Week