Posted under Politics & Imperialismo
You all know it was not easy being a student activist, activist, or a Progressive after 9/11.
This song meant a lot back then, Get By by Talib Kweli, but man… it was not easy to be critical in such a reactionary world. Obama brought it back around, but it is up to us to keep it here.
Posted under Vario Locuras & Friends
The other night me and my friend’s wife tried to convince him that he was a very talented writer and that he should put his life to fiction. He has kept a collection of journal writings since high school of all his life experiences, and he has read so many works of fiction it would make a Creative Lit. grad student feel inadequate. Plus, I make a few cameos in those journals, so I know that they would make great fiction because nobody would believe that sh*t was true!
I don’t know if it was a mix of his wife telling him to do it, me the college geek telling him he could, or the beers in him that often time make him dig his heels in the ground. But… once he writes, it will be some fearsome stuff to contend with. What would you all recommend? [To be continued]