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artisticcrow · 1 year
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Sausage introduced Keralis the term Wood daddy and his brain physically rearranged
Keralis has dubbed Ren his “South African Wood Daddy”
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drgreg · 1 year
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shirtlesssammy · 4 years
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3x10: Dream a Little Dream of Me
Then:
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The show keeps reminding us that Dean’s going to Hell, so enjoy his pretty face while you can
Now:
Bobby stalks his house at night. He’s suddenly attacked ---and we flash to him in a motel room, unconscious. A maid wanders in and finds him. He’s inside his mind fighting whatever haunts him. 
Dean finds Sam getting day-drunk at a bar. Sam laments the fact that he tried saving Dean. Dean settles in beside his brother and orders a “whisky, double, neat.” 
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Sam is beside himself thinking about where Dean’s going, and what he’s going to become. “How can you care so little about yourself?” Sam wonders. (WE ALL WONDER.) Dean’s saved by a phone call and the brothers rush to the hospital to find Bobby comatose. The doctors don’t know what’s wrong with him. 
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(Ooh, I forgot that Cathryn Humphris wrote this episode. So good.) 
The brothers look around Bobby’s motel room. Sam finds his murder board in the back of the closet. They find an obit of a doctor that went to sleep and never woke up. Bobby must have been looking into the doctor’s death. 
Dean heads to the doctor’s office and interviews his lab assistant. Apparently the doctor was an expert in dream and sleep disorders. The lab assistant doesn’t really want to talk. She already talked to the other detective, the “very nice, older man with a beard.” 
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Dean threatens the woman with a trip down to the station. The assistant swears she didn’t know anything about his side experiments. Dean bluffs his way into getting the doctor’s research. Good job, Dean!
He next heads to one of Doctor Greg’s test subjects. Dude offers Dean a beer, and Dean accepts. Hmm, I’m questioning your professionalism as much as the dude is Dean. Anyway, turns out the guy can’t dream. The study was the first time he had a dream since he was a kid. The guy didn’t continue with the study. 
At the hospital, Dean and Sam meet up. Sam brings research on the African Dream Root that was part of the dream study. This stuff has been used for dreamwalking (but not like Jack and Kaia dreamwalking…). It lets someone wander in someone else’s dreams. With enough of the root and practice, you can start to control things, changing dreams. “Killing people in their sleep,“ Dean suggests. YEP. 
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The boys wonder why Bobby is still alive. 
We get a glimpse into Bobby’s dream. He’s barely holding on. BOBBY. 
The brothers theorize who the killer is --probably one of the test subjects. Sam laments the fact that they can’t talk to Bobby about the case. Dean suggests taking the dream root. They realize that in order to do that they need Bela.
Later, Bela arrives at the motel. Sam’s there alone. Bela almost instantly turns on the sexy time, and Sam is VERY responsive. 
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Alas, it was just a dream and Dean wakes Sam and tells him he was making some “serious happy noises.” OH SAM. 
Dean wants to know who Sam was dreaming about but Sam wont tell. Let’s take a moment and add that Dean’s guesses are: One (1) Angelina Jolie. Two (2) Brad Pitt. DUDE, quit projecting so hard. 
Anyway, Bela arrives, much to the discomfort of Sam (and his pants). 
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She’s brought the African dream root for Bobby. Dean puts the root with the Colt in Bobby’s safe and kicks Bela out of the room. Sam awkwardly bids her adieu. 
 The brothers concoct their dream potion to save Bobby. It includes some of Bobby’s hair.
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They drink the concoction and feel no change. Sam then notices that it’s raining. It’s actually raining upside down --and they’re at Bobby’s house. It’s cleaned up. They start walking around calling for Bobby. 
Sam tells Dean he’s heading outside to look. He walks outside and it’s sunny and the birds are chirping. And when he tries to go back inside, the door won’t open. Dean can’t hear him from the inside either. 
Dean continues to wander the house. He wanders to the back closet and finds Bobby.
Dean tells him they’re using dream root to share his dream, but Bobby’s locked firmly in Dream Mode. He’s more focused on the flickering lights in his house. “She’s coming,” he pants. And his wife walks in, bloody and terrible. Oh Bobby :( She asks him why he stabbed her to death. He pleads for her to understand that he didn’t know about monsters back then. OOF. Hard stuff. 
Meanwhile, Sam’s walking through a laundry detergent commercial.
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The doctor’s former test subject suddenly shows up, whacks Sam with a baseball bat, and then declares himself “a god” in the shared dream. Well, that ALWAYS ends well on this show!
Dean pleads with Bobby to let go of the nightmare Karen who’s pounding and wailing on the other side of the door. “I’m not gonna let you die,” Dean promises, because Bobby’s “like a father” to him. BRB WEEPING. Bobby uses the power of FILIAL LOVE to control the dream, and the pounding stops.
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Sam, Dean, and Bobby snap awake at the same time (preventing Sam “Head Trauma” Winchester from getting another blow with a bat). 
Later, Dean asks Bobby about Karen. THIN ICE TERRITORY! “Everybody got into hunting somehow,” Bobby explains. Sam breaks into the soulful moment with an update on the dream dude. Jeremy Frost is a genius whose dad whacked him in the head with a bat as a child. Jeremy never dreamed after that - not until he started using dream root. Now he can trample into people’s dreams with a bit of their body - like hair, or in Bobby’s case, saliva. Bobby sipped some beer when he talked to Jeremy. Dean looks abashed. He….MIGHT have drunk a beer at Jeremy’s as well. Now that both Dean and Bobby are targets, the stakes are raised. It’s time for operation STAY AWAKE.
Two Days Later
Dean is EXTREMELY GRUMPY. It’s been two days, they haven’t found Jeremy, and he is missing his sleep desperately. #RELATABLE Bela and Bobby continue to work the case from the hotel with no luck. At the end of his tether, Dean pulls the car over and settles in for a snooze in the danger zone. He’s going to confront Jeremy on his own turf. Sam swipes one of Dean’s hairs and prepares to join Dean’s dream root nap.
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They wake up in the car, still in the woods at the side of the road. Suddenly, Dean’s movie reel mind spins up a gentle song and soft autumn colors and THERE sits Lisa in a clearing. She’s wind-rumpled and gorgeous, dressed in soft yellow and waiting for Dean at a romantic picnic in the park. 
For My Heart Aches for Dean Science:
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Excuse me while I cry in Dean’s face for thirty minutes. Sam did not expect his brother to be so damn soft. “I’ve never had this dream before,” Dean protests.
Lisa blinks out and Jeremy peeks around a tree. It’s chase time! The dream transitions to the hotel hallway, now papered in a forest print. At the end of the hallway is a door that leads to a dimly lit room. Inside the gloomy room, Dean sits at a desk. 
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Other!Dean greets himself (very polite) and tells himself that it’s time to talk. “I’m my own worst nightmare,” Dean smirks. He GETS the symbolism, and it’s BORING. Except that Other!Dean immediately peels away Dean’s bravado. He tells him that Dean is dead inside and worthless (and we bundle this man up into blankets and plop him into therapy!)
Dean can’t make the apparition disappear, and Other!Dean quickly takes control. The door slams, trapping them inside the hotel room. 
Sam wakes up back in the Impala and tries to wake up Dean, but Dean’s turned into Jeremy. Jeremy explains that he killed the doctor so he can keep using dream root and DREAM. He binds Sam to the ground.
Other!Dean continues to say every terrible thing Dean thinks about himself and it is HARD. TO. LISTEN. TO. THIS. SHIT. Everything about Dean is patterned after his father, and geared towards protecting Sam. There’s nothing TO Dean, Other!Dean argues, other than being “Daddy’s blunt little instrument.” 
Dean snaps at last. “My father was an obsessed bastard!” he shouts. And the fight begins. “I didn’t deserve what he put on me, and I don’t deserve to go to Hell!” DEAN!!!! BRB weeping some more! Dean shoots his other self, but what should be a moment of psychological triumph quickly goes south. Other!Dean wakes with black eyes and Demon!Dean gleefully tells him that there’s no escaping his fate. He’ll die, go to Hell, and become a demon. 
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Sam’s in dire straits. He’s still bound to the ground, with Jeremy hovering above him with a baseball bat. In a moment reminiscent of Princess Bride, Sam metaphorically switches the sword to his right hand and reminds Jeremy that he ALSO took dream root and has control of the dream. Jeremy’s dad barges out of the forest, a screaming terror of a parent, and Jeremy’s eyes go wide. Sam whacks Jeremy with the bat while he’s distracted, and both Sam and Dean’s dreams dissolve. They’re back in the waking world, in the Impala. Jeremy’s threat has been neutralized. 
Later, Sam and Bobby debrief in the hotel hallway. Bobby’s glad Sam saved them, but wonders if Sam’s psychic abilities came into play. Ummmm definitely not? Probably definitely not? Almost certainly definitely possibly. 
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Dean’s having trouble tracking down Bela. Bobby wonders why she was helping them in the first place. “Flagstaff,” Dean explains. This doesn’t make sense to Bobby - he just cut her a good deal on a sale there, that’s all. It dawns on the Winchesters that they may have been played. They head to the hotel safe to discover the Colt missing. 
At the Impala, Dean asks Sam what he saw in the shared dream. UM NOTHING. Dean also says he didn’t see a damn thing! He was just focused on trying to find Sam. Bbys plz. Dean clears his throat awkwardly and confesses (in a tone one might use to confess to wearing ladies’ undergarments) that he doesn’t want to die. Sam promises to find a way to save him. Dean flashes back to his dream one more time, just so it’s seeped into our hearts. We see Demon!Dean taunting Dean about his fate. Demon!Dean snaps his fingers, a cruel grin on his face, and the episode cuts to black.
Mister Quoteman, Send Us a Quote:
No one can save you, because you don't wanna be saved. How can you care so little about yourself?
Thanks for the news flash, Edison!
Dean. I love you
What are the things that you dream? I mean, your car? That's Dad's. Your favorite leather jacket? Dad's. Your music? Dad's. Do you even have an original thought?
You can’t escape me, Dean. You’re gonna die. And this? This is what you’re gonna become!
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imsafiyacharles · 3 years
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ALABAMA’S AGING BLACK FARMERS UNCERTAIN ABOUT FUTURE AS THEY STRUGGLE TO CREATE LINES OF SUCCESSION
Billy Gibbons intends to die on this land.  
At 70, the bespectacled Black farmer may very well be the last heir to work the family plot; 80  acres of black soil in Browntown, Alabama, an unincorporated community less than 20 miles  north of Prattville. 
Gibbons’ parents pinched and scraped to purchase the acreage for $850 in 1940. They intended  to pass it down to him and his brother; but he died in 1976 after contracting meningitis while  away at military training in Fort Polk, Louisiana. 
“I can remember all of this was woods,” Gibbons said, waving his arm over the crop land that  extended before him. It was a brooding morning that had already spilled rain and left his feet  besieged by shallow pools of muddy water. 
The old farmer wore a faded army jacket and dark cap with worn blue jeans;  occasionally pulling his face mask to the side to expel a portion of the chewing tobacco  occupying his right cheek, before apologizing for the habit. 
“As far as you can see to woods was woods,” he spat.  
The forest was so dense, and the family’s resources so limited, they worked only five acres of  farmland to start. 
“My Daddy, he done all the cleaning with a mule, a ax and a shovel,” said Gibbons.  
They farmed row crops — collards, turnips, mustard greens — and bought a couple head of  cattle. Gibbons had trees pushed off with bulldozers through the years. He now owns about 50  head, which he spreads across the family land and some 170 acres he rents just a mile up the  road. 
With the help of his wife, he hauls most of his vegetables weekly at the Curb Market downtown  where in 1999, he became its first African American vendor. He would serve as president for nine years.
“This is a tradition here, and it’s still standing,” he said.  
But for how long? 
Like so many of the nation’s Black farmers, mostly clustered in the South, the future remains  uncertain. 
In 1920, African Americans accounted for 14% of all U.S. farm operators. That number has  since dwindled to a staggering 1.4% percent. Alabama, the third most populous state for Black  producers, sits at 6%, according to 2017’s agriculture census.
At the turn of the 20th century, Black landowners held 15 million acres. Today, they own 3.4  million, about half a percent of American farmland.  
Black farmers have faced discrimination at every level, struggling against social and financial  barriers to achieve land ownership and the right to operate their farms independently within an  agricultural economy that has long profited from the exploitation of their labor through slavery,  sharecropping and legal loopholes. 
Over decades, many southern Black families lost land due violent intimidation, deceit and  financial hardship. Farmers who sought loans from government agencies to keep their properties  running in lean times or make needed improvements were denied, shortchanged or failed to  receive timely assistance. (The United States Department of Agriculture settled in 1999 the class  action lawsuit Pigford v. Glickman brought by Black farmers alleging more than two decades of  lending discrimination.)  
While the latest agriculture census reported a 5% increase in Black producers between 2012 and  2017 after revisions to its data collection, there was also a 3% decline in Black operated farms.  
“What I hope we don't see is the eventual extinction of the Black farmer,” said Brennan  Washington. He works with limited resource farmers across the South as a Sustainable  Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) liaison at Fort Valley State, a historically Black  land grant college in Georgia. 
In the past, Washington said, a Black farmer with a large acreage may have applied for a USDA  loan to purchase seed, among other necessities, and would find their application lagging. 
“[USDA] would process the paperwork too late for them to get their seed on time. So, they get  their seed in the ground too late, they don’t get a crop, meanwhile they’ve got a lien on that  property that USDA will seize if they can’t get it paid,” he said.  
Further complicating matters is the fact that farmers are aging, and many are finding it  increasingly difficult to get young people to replace them. Nationally, the average age of a farm  owner is 57½ years old; 43% of Black farmers are 65 and older.  
'Farming has shrunk from a mile to 300 feet'  
Browntown is a Black community founded on farming. According to local history, twin brothers  with the surname Brown bought the land that encompasses about a 20-mile radius; it was  parceled among their heirs when they died. Gibbons’ grandmother was a Brown. 
But the promise of higher-wage work, and the perceived freedom from Jim Crow segregation  and racism lured many young Black people north during the Great Migration between 1916 and  1970, away from rural farm towns like these.  
“Most of the farmers had large families and they kids was brought up on the farm. But as years  got by and all these kids grow up, they was rushing to get away from the farm, because the farm was a struggle — still is a struggle,” said Gibbons. 
The figures are dramatic. Between 1940 and 1950, more than 42% of the nonwhite Southern  population vanished. That number rose to 65% for nonwhite youth between the ages of 15 and  19, according to a 2007 SARE report. 
With four biological children and four stepchildren, Gibbons has no shortage of heirs. But their  desire to enter a business they've watched their father struggle to maintain over the years is  lacking, which means the family is currently without a contingency plan. 
Marshall, 58, and Lorenzo Davis, 66, co-own Davis Farms about a mile west of  Gibbons’ property and face a similar consequence. The brothers farm row crops, rotating  varieties of watermelon, field peas, snap beans and other seasonal crops they sell daily at the  Finley Avenue Farmer’s Market in Birmingham. 
As farm operators, the two have found themselves in a position they never intended. Fond  memories of time spent working alongside their father on the farm throughout their youth  persuaded them to keep the business alive after he passed in 2004.  
The brothers farm about 300 acres, half which belongs to the family, and 40 acres the late Davis  bought in 1960. That land is legally split between Lorenzo, Marshall and a third brother,  Andrew, who farms independently. 
Like many operators, the Davis’ maintained full-time jobs to keep their farm going. Lorenzo  retired in 2014 after 33 years as a correctional officer, and Marshall is still currently employed at  a facility in Elmore County. He wakes early most days to put in work at the farm before heading  to the prison for the second shift from 2 to 10 p.m.  
“Twenty years ago, when our father was in operation, we had cows and hogs. At one time, we  were up to 200 acres of field corn,” said Lorenzo.  
By the late-90s they had quit farming cattle. The cost of feed was expensive, and profits were  slim. Bills on a farm add up quickly — seed, fertilizer, fuel, equipment maintenance. Lorenzo  pointed out a 20-year-old tractor they owned that cost them $60,000 to buy brand new; an  equivalent today, he said, would be well over a $100,000. 
“We might eventually have to get back into growing grain because we’re aging now and you can  gather all that with machinery,” Marshall said. “Help is harder to come by now than it was 20  years ago.”  
Like Gibbons, the Davis brothers remain passionate about farming but are struggling to devise a  transition plan. Marshall’s 36-year-old daughter sometimes assists him at the farmer’s market.,  and Lorenzo has a 35-year-old son that has indicated an interest in the operation, but he doesn’t  have much experience and works a good-paying job that his farm income would likely never match.
Without a probated will, farms are vulnerable to becoming  heirs’ property 
Most farm operators are generational, acquiring land as it is handed down through family  members.  
While 65% of white Americans with a high school education report having a will, only 23% of  Black Americans possess one, according to a study reviewed by Texas A&M law scholar  Thomas Mitchell who studies heirs’ property; land owned by multiple people who typically  share a common relative that’s died without leaving a probated will. 
Kara Woods has studied heirs’ property in Macon County as a postdoctoral researcher at  Tuskegee University (TU). The historically Black 1890 land grant school’s research and  extension programs provide agricultural education and support to Black producers; often subject  to the same imposed financial limitations the farmers they serve face (Congress mandated 1890s  because southern land grants they created 28 years prior barred Black students).  
“It really goes down to generations ago when everything was in the family bible,” Woods said.  “You might have the lineage in the family bible, [unofficial] wills in the family bible. People  who were able to get land after becoming free didn’t trust white lawyers because they didn’t  have means to read and write. So, at that point it was safer to keep the land without a will  because you knew the family could always stay on it,” said Woods.  
One of the problems with heir’s property is that it isn’t divided by parcels or acres; it’s split by  percentage. That means that if a family has 50 acres and five heirs, each would be entitled to  10% of the land, not 10 acres. So, the more heirs a property has, the less value each person  holds.  
Because heir’s property is an informal form of ownership that involves multiple people, most  banks refuse to allow the land to be used as collateral in financial lending, and it’s generally  appraised at a lower value than clear title land.  
These properties also rarely qualify for state and federal grant programs that cover everything  from community development, to disaster relief and housing. Without individual ownership,  heir’s property isn’t an effective tool for building generational wealth.  
Before Alabama approved the Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act, co-drafted  by Mitchell, in 2014, a single heir could force the sale of an entire property through a legal  partition action. Usually the sale would net far less than market value for the land. (The 2018  Farm Bill includes a provision sponsored by former Sen. Doug Jones that would authorize $10  million a year through 2023 to help farmers resolve ownership and address succession issues to  avoid this and other snags.)
Lack of generational leads put Black farmers on the back foot  
Though fourth-generation Black Belt farmer Demetrius Hooks, 47, knows the value of a will,  he’s had a hard time convincing his father, Al Hooks, 72, of the urgency in getting an official  document drawn up.  
Like the Davis’, Demetrius never imagined he'd assume farming as an occupation. He 'd always  helped around on weekends at the Shorter farm, but when he lost his graphic design job at this  newspaper around 2010, he spent more time there. 
The father and son talked it over and decided Demetrius should assume a more official role. A  few years later, he ended up at TU working as a farm internship liaison.  
Demetrius handles sales and marketing for Al Hooks Produce, and his father does most of the  farm work, though the younger Hooks does get his hands dirty every now and again. He has two  siblings who have families of their own, but none work the farm.  
The Hooks grow fruits and vegetables that they sell each weekend at the Macon County  Farmer’s Market and through direct sales via text message to customers who pick up their  “veggie crates” weekly at Demetrius’ home. They hold farm stands at Auburn and Birmingham’s  summer markets, too.  
Through a cooperative partnership facilitated by TU, the Hooks previously sold some produce  items to Walmart. That created a need for an onsite processing plant to wash, refrigerate and  package the vegetables. They were able to secure a $75,000 grant to build the $125,000 site and increase their capability.  
Beyond the need to expand capacity, large retail contracts like these often require special  certifications like GAP (good agricultural practices) that can be time consuming and expensive.  And it can take months to receive payment. 
Demetrius said the business had previously maintained a contract with Whole Foods, supplying  them squash, zucchini, peppers and collard greens for a few years. When Amazon acquired the  company in 2017 subsequent changes were made to their vendor specifications, which coincided  with a cancer diagnosis. They could barely keep up with the requirements.  
For many small Black farms that lack capital to pay certification costs or labor to meet greater  demand, these large contracts remain out of reach.  
The Hooks no longer sell to either large chain and are currently working with smaller regional  retailers like Filet and Vine in Old Cloverdale; though they will again attempt to meet Whole  Foods’ certification requirements now that Demetrius’ cancer is one-year in remission. 
There’s a “gap in business development. It would be nice if everybody started their business at  the same time and you didn’t have years of being locked out of certain opportunities because  you’re Black. Once those blockages and implements of discrimination have been removed it’s  not as if the next day I can easily walk into Whole Foods and be ready to deliver to them,” said  Demetrius. 
“You still have those generational leads. Other businesses that didn’t have those problems have  that benefit of being able to maneuver through those obstacles once they come up.” 
Although nothing has yet been written in ink, Demetrius has expressed to his father his interest  in taking over the farm when he retires. But the matter of a probated will still hangs in the balance.  
“I don't really think I should have a say of how it's done; it's how he wants to do it. But I need  him to come out and tell me,” he said. 
Certifications allow access to wider markets, but can be  costly and limiting 
In recent years, a burgeoning cultural movement has emerged seeking a return to African  American agricultural traditions. Urban farmers, many of them women, have cleared blighted  plots and cleaned up city blocks in an effort to nourish and beautify Black communities that too  often lack access to fresh produce and healthy food options. The trend of “reverse migration,”  first observed in the 1970s, continues as more Black people return to ancestral land in rural  communities across the South.  
“There’s a new awakening that's happening where people who left during the Great Migration  and went to work a job in Detroit or Ohio, they're coming back to Alabama and Georgia and  Mississippi,” said Natilee McGruder, a community land, food and farming systems advocate,  who's currently working to connect local Black farmers with a national seasonal food chain. 
“There are young Black people who are in New York and California who are landless, who want  to farm, who are ‘woofing.’ There are elders connecting with young folks. And there are the  1890s that have always been here to support Black culture, Black community and Black farmers.  There's a complete renaissance that's happening,” said McGruder.  
At 77, Josie Gbadamosi-El Amin, may well be a part of this Black agrarian rebirth. When she began farming 10 years ago, she had no experience. 
With bright eyes and a wide smile, the retired substance abuse counselor described how she fell  in love with Shady Grove Blueberry Patch after a friend clued her in on a “secret” spot where  locals picked berries on a conveniently absent farmer’s Tuskegee property.  
“I had to lock my eyes on the line of trees because it was so overgrown that I was afraid I might  get disoriented, and I better find my way out,” she said. “But I was just enamored by the blueberry bushes. It was just so wonderful. I had never seen anything like it. There was  something about the spirit of this place.”  
She inquired after the land and found a few leads, purchasing the 46-acre farm in 2010. The  move was so left field that her four daughters were concerned she may have hit her head and  corrupted her judgement in a recent slip and fall accident, she recounted; then burst into peals of laughter. 
For the Watts, California native, owning a farm has been an all-consuming experience. So much  to learn and so much to do.  
Gbadamosi-El Amin moved to Tuskegee in 1969 to study sociology at TU. That connection paid  itself forward for the new farm operator. From the agricultural school, she learned that the  acreage she purchased was the former site of a working farm project led by Booker T. Whatley, the “small farm guru” who popularized the pick-your-own harvest method and subscription  buyer’s club model (commonly known today as CSA) before it was widely adopted.  
What looked like a mess of trees, tangled weeds, and overgrown bushes was in fact a model for  sustainable agriculture cultivated by one of the country’s foremost experts on regenerative  farming.  
In exchange for seedlings, Gbadamosi-El Amin got a farmer to bring his tractor and a couple  workers in to help clean up, as well as some Tuskegee students who joined in. The operation still  runs as a “u-pick” service, inviting visitors to gather their own blueberries from the shrubs in late  May through mid-August. The retired counselor also sells jams, dried fruit and blueberry tizanes  — a fragrant, nutrient rich tonic that’s made from the leaves and fruit.  
Education has been at the forefront of her approach. She and her husband work on the farm full time. With the help of extension agents at Tuskegee, Gbadamosi-El Amin has attended  agriculture workshops and is learning how to write grants to apply for farm subsidies  and improvements.  
She regularly invites people interested in learning about agriculture to Shady Grove and even has  allowed some to experiment with growing plants and herbs like turmeric, moringa and hibiscus  on site. Although she uses organic methods, she is hesitant to seek certification, not solely  because of the associated costs and paperwork but because it would likely prevent her from  facilitating the sort of collaborative environment the farm’s ethos is grounded in.  
“Once you get certified then you have to put all kinds of limits on your property. You can’t have  people just wandering in the field to you-pick. You have to really control things. It really begins  to limit the kind of interaction people can have,” she said. “What I wanted for the farm was to be  a place where people could relax and enjoy themselves. That was part of what motivated me.” 
Gbadamosi-El Amin said her daughters have since warmed to the idea of owning a family farm  and have pushed her to create a formal long-term business proposal before they agree to get on  board with any succession plans. 
New federal legislation can help, but advocates face an uphill battle  
In November, Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Kirsten Gillibrand  (D-NY) introduced the Justice for Black Farmers Act, an attempt to address systemic barriers to  success that operators have long faced; and encourage a new generation of young Black farmers  who have the will but lack the capital to get established.  
Among its aims are to reform USDA policies that facilitate discrimination, protect remaining  Black-owned land, financially empower HBCUs to assist socially disadvantaged farmers and  ranchers, and establish a land grant program to support young, landless Black farmers. The bill  would also create an agency mandated to return land to Black farmers previously seized by the  government and create a federal bank to allow easier access to credit for farmers of color.  
On Feb. 15, Democratic senators took that action a step further when they introduced the  Emergency Relief for Farmers of Color Act, a bill that would provide $4B in direct payments to  these farmers to cover losses incurred during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as systemic  discrimination. The bill, which has been lauded as historic by the National Black Farmer’s  Association, would also lay out an additional $1 billion to address discriminatory practices at the  USDA. 
It will be an uphill battle to get these measures passed, but either bill would throw a much needed lifeline to farmers. Without them, the future remains as clouded as ever.  
Gibbons, the 70-year-old Browntown man, for his part, is like most farmers, steadfast in his love  and commitment to the livelihood. He was also frank about the farm’s future: there isn't one.  Why counsel his children to leave good-paying jobs for such a risky profession? 
He was brought up on farm life, the children lack his passion, he said; and would likely be  unwilling to make the necessary sacrifices demanded.  
“They couldn’t survive, I don’t think," Gibbons said. "Aggravation. That’s what farming is all  about. I don’t know whether I love it or I’m crazy. It’s in my heart and I have no intention to  quit. I’m just going have to die at it."
Read the story as it ran on montgomeryadvertiser.com here.
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Part 3: “Is There More” #Love
*Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1,* by JJ Bach, plays delicately in the backdrop of Jade's home office. Jade finishes the last touches of her client's purchase and sale agreement, carefully written to include all the legal stipulations of their sprawling 13.9 million-dollar home.  
"At last," she leans back in her chair, clasping her hands behind her head, "and with no room for deception." She smirks and checks her left wrist for the time.  
Sunday, April 17, 2017, at 12:07 p.m.
Jade closes her almond-shaped brown eyes, and takes three deep breaths before reciting her mantra,
“All is well and in divine perfect timing.” “All is well and in divine perfect timing.” “All is well and in divine perfect timing.”
She opens her eyes, closes her slim laptop, and slowly stands up from her soft blue suede chair.
Reminiscing on the uncertainties of her relationship with her long-time friend, she grins at her glowing reflection in the hallway mirror while rubbing her baby bump.
Jade felt fulfilled with their parvenu lifestyle, and with the fact that their children would be born into a pleasant and salubrious environment. 12
Dressed to the nines, as always, Jade snaps an elegant selfie intentionally showing off her baby bump and chocolate diamond wedding ring. 14
Jade felt blessed to be celebrating their third anniversary. Jade sends Justin the selfie with a simple message “I am proud to call you my husband.”
An attentive Justin, who has just wrapped up his meeting, flashes a radiant smile when he sees his wife’s text. He returns the gesture with a phone call.
Jade feels her belly stretching to the grandiose ringtone. She answers on the third ring in a gushy tone. “Hello, husband.”
“Hello wife, are you ready to eat?” “Yes, my love, how did your big meeting go?” 8:22 start @ next!
“Another successful deal was made. I was able to get the clients to capitulate on the specified terms and conditions without complication.”
Jade’s eyes light up with glee, “I am so proud of you, babe, you are an impressive entrepreneur.”
“Much appreciated,” he responds, “I hope you’re ready. I’m sending a car to take you to Stony Black Steakhouse & Sushi. We will meet at the restaurant, momentarily.” “Yes, see you soon, my love,” she replies. *** Stony Black’s elegant décor is stunning with quarried stone and rich natural wood warmed by the glow of chandeliers and fireplaces.
“Do you have a reservation?” the hostess asks Jade. “Yes, please check under Moreau.”
The hostess quickly finds her name on their reservations list. “Yes, Mrs. Moreau your table is ready, follow me please.”
Jade is seated in a plush oversized booth by the enthusiastic hostess. “Jacob will be your server tonight. Enjoy your meal.” “Thank you.”
Within minutes Jacob arrives. “Welcome to Stony Black’s Steakhouse & Sushi. My name is Jacob. I’ll be serving you today. Can I start you with something to drink?”
“I’ll have two bottles of your Aqua Panna natural water,” Jade requests politely. “Sure, I’ll be right back with your drinks,” Jacob assures her and walks away.
Jade feels her belly become rock hard as the discomfort deep within her belly builds in intensity. Jade lifts her dainty left wrist and checks her Patek Philippe Twenty-4 to appease her curiosity.
Sunday, April 17, 2017, at 2:22 p.m.
 Another half-hour slowly passes before a tall and dapper Justin walks into the steakhouse. “Baby, please forgive me for running late.” Jade stands up from their table.
Her hormones cause her to feel passionate as she takes displeasure to his delayed arrival. Justin remedies the situation by hugging his pregnant wife gently yet tightly and showering her face with loving kisses.
Jade feels the baby move and quickly evaluates her emotions, thinking that it’s better to choose positivity over any and all negative emotions.
She kisses her husband on the lips in a genuinely affectionate manner. “I’m just glad you made it safely,” she tells him.
“I love your kind heart,” Justin replies as he pulls out his wife’s chair. Jade takes her seat.
A waiter passes by with a cheese plate for another party’s table. Jade gags at the fetid smell. “At times, I can’t wait for this pregnancy to be over with, my nose is way too sensitive,” Jade says with a smirk.
Jacob approaches the happy couple. “Are you ready to order?”
“Yes,” replies Justin. “My lady will have the Faroe Islands Salmon entree with a side order of black rice” Justin looks to Jade, “anything else, my love?”
Jade smiles and responds silently by nodding her head left and right, “Ok, and I will have the South African Lobster Tail.” “Certainly,” Jacob replies before returning to the kitchen.
“Thank you for my order daddy, with the pregnancy, my tastes are pretty wide-ranging, making it harder to choose.” “No problem bae, that was moderate of you to only order one entree today,” he chuckles.
Jade laughs. An unusual cramp begins to radiate from under Jade’s belly. Jade clenches her fists and tries to breathe through the contraction. Justin leans over to massage her belly.
“Are you alright, my lady?” “Yes, Jade replies through clenched teeth, “but the cramps have been coming and going and building in intensity.”
A worried Justin pulls out his cellphone to call the doula, she confirms they should cut the anniversary celebration short and will meet them at their estate.  
Outside of the restaurant, the valet pulls up Justin’s white Tesla. Justin helps his wife into the front passenger seat. Jade’s cramps become more intense during the thirty-minute ride home.
Back at the estate, the doula has prepared the cast iron skirted tub for the home water birth.
“Oooooh,” Jade moans and whimpers as she waddles through the front door and up the grand stairs. Justin follows closely behind her into her walk-in closet and helps her undress.
The doula prepared the water and helps the very pregnant Jade into the tub. The doula places an icy lavender-scented towel on Jade’s head and around her neck.
Jade moans as she positions herself comfortably in hot water. Jade pushes, and her moans grow louder as time SLOWLY passes on.
Sunday, April 17, 2017, at 5:32 p.m.
Jade passes out, exhausted from all the pushing. The doula wakes her up with a soothing voice and gives her a tablespoon of red Gatorade. “Your cervix has dilated 10cm, the baby is almost here,” the doula gently reminds Jade.
Jade closes her almond-shaped brown eyes, and takes three deep breaths before reciting her mantra,
“All is well and in divine perfect timing.” “All is well and in divine perfect timing.” “All is well and in divine perfect timing.”
Jade continues to push. The doula keeps Jade hydrated while Justin rubs her belly and holds her hand.
Two and a half hours later and with one last strong push, the doula now places the beautiful, slippery, wailing twins onto Jade’s chest.
Looking down at their daughter and son, Jade cannot believe her eyes. Justin marveled at the whole experience, is speechless. The doula congratulates the couple on the birth of their healthy twins.
“They are perfect,” Justin finally says in complete astonishment. “Sketched by God,” Jade responds with tears in her eyes and hands trembling.
Justin kisses his wife on the forehead. Jade silently cries, still in shock, she cuddles with their crying babies.
Sunday, April 17, 2017, at 8:08 p.m.
Justin looks at his babies, who have stopped crying and are looking around at their environment. They see him. He sees his soul in their eyes. They smile.
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rainydawgradioblog · 5 years
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RDR Essentials - Hard Rock (2/26)
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RDR Essentials is a weekly newsletter of alternating genres that outlines key releases of the past month, upcoming events around Seattle and happenings in the specified music genre.
Made in collaboration between Rainy Dawg DJs and the Music Director.
Releases:
I Don’t Know How to Be Happy - Deli Girls
https://sweatequitynyc.bandcamp.com/album/i-dont-know-how-to-be-happy
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Deli Girls crawled out of the grimy New York underground hardcore scene thanks to the group’s wild performances and fiercely gay noise, which was channeled into their first album Evidence. In a similar vein, their newest album I Don’t Know How to Be Happy pushes their trademark sound even further. The album starts off to “Officer”’s serrated beat, which hisses beneath an automated phone message regarding a court date, functioning as a brief adjustment period before exploding into passionate screaming, rapping, yelping, and laughing of lead vocalist Danny Orlowski. Orlowski continues this manic verbal assault through the rest of this album, which pounds along with a righteous and dark violence against the patriarchy. “Peg” stands out especially, pushed along because of Tommi Kelly’s fresh layer of poppy synth arpeggios. “Here We Go Again” follows, one of the more eerie cuts on the album. “You will never win because you will never be as angry as the rest of us / Another day I didn’t end my miserable fucking life” screams Orlowski, with interludes of laughter on the brink of breakdown. Get ready to run head first through whatever glass ceilings or brick walls you might experience in 2019 with this incredible album.
- Max Bryla
Vain Attempt  - SLANT
https://ironlungpv.bandcamp.com/track/the-trap
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There’s really not a whole lot out there about SLANT, a newer classic punk band that hails from Seoul, South Korea. Their recent EP, Vain Attempt 7” is just 4 tracks with the longest clocking in at 2:02, and is issued by Seattle punk label IRON LUNG Records, available on Bandcamp. Labelmates like Diät and Iron Lung have had some more mainstream success, but SLANT is much newer to the scene. They have pulled members from other bands like SCUMRAID and BLOODKROW BUTCHER, another Seoul and Boston punk band, respectively. Vain Attempt 7” definitely has a higher production value than those counterparts however, and it benefits because of it. Tracks like “Dry Heave” get right to the point, and don’t stick around too long. Terrific, fast paced drumming combine with some great vocal heft to make a really solid punk album, and this is a band that has a solid future with them, and hopefully some US tour dates.
- Max Bryla
Protogoni Mavri Magiki Dynasteia - Mystifier
https://mystifier.bandcamp.com/
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Brazilian blackened death metal band Mystifier have announced their first album in 18 years with the pre release of their track Weighing Heart Ceremony. This track plays similar to their older material with its guttural vocals, creepy and eclectic atmosphere, and overall eeriness. Their 1993 album Goetia is regarded as a landmark in South American extreme metal, showing clear distinctions from European and American artists of the same time. This new track still has the same occultish aura of the band’s earlier material, but also features a much more blackened tonality, meaning more melody and less dissonance. Rather than sounding like the soundtrack to an occult ceremony (basically the narrative of Goetia), this track is a lot more brooding and pensive. If you are into slightly untraditional black/death metal, you should check out this album when it drops on March 8.
- Zac Weiner
Forgotten Paths - Saor
https://saor.bandcamp.com/
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Saor is a scottish based atmospheric black metal band that has been pushing black metal to its most serene and experimental boundaries. Forgotten Paths sums up exactly what atmoblack is all about: beautiful tremolo picked melodies, the occasional folk instrument interlude, and a placid nature shot on the cover. This project is the perfect soundtrack for a solo walk through the woods. While some of the interludes can be a little dramatic for an experienced listener, the album makes up for it with bone chilling screams which sound even more emotional over the Gaelic sounding guitar melodies. This album is very digestible and could serve as an excellent introduction to black metal: the production is clean, the riffs sound like they were written by the bard at the Renaissance fair, and every blast beat is met with an equally long folk interlude.
- Zac Weiner
Xiu Xiu - Girl With a Basket of Fruit
https://xiuxiu.bandcamp.com/album/girl-with-basket-of-fruit
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Xiu Xiu is an noise pop / experimental rock outfit fronted by multi-instrumentalist Jamie Stewart which can never quite settle on a single sound. They’ve been consistently churning out full-length albums every year or two, varying from anti-folk to electronic indie rock to harsh noise and everywhere in between. Doing away with the cleaner indie rock sound they explored on their previous album Forget, their newest release, Girl With a Basket of Fruit, is a return to the noisier and more experimental tendencies of their early output. Produced by Deerhoof’s Greg Saunier and featuring vocal contributions from Oxbow’s Eugene S. Robinson, the album repeatedly shifts from frantic tribal rhythms (Scisssssssors, Pumpkin Attack on Mommy and Daddy) to abstract heavy electronics (title track, Ice Cream Truck) to droning ambient passages (The Wrong Thing, Amargi ve Moo) and back again, tied together by the harsh synth sounds and uncomfortable samples Xiu Xiu fans are so familiar with and Jamie Stewart’s characteristically unsettling vocals, which are pushed farther than ever on this release, whimpering one minute and screaming the next. After over half an hour of head-spinning erratic noise, the album leaves the listener on a softer note with Normal Love, a slow, stripped-back and sweet (for Xiu Xiu standards) piano pop song. RIYL - Suicide, Coil, Oxbow
- Elliot Hansen
Angel Bat Dawid - The Oracle
https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/the-oracle
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The Oracle is spiritual jazz clarinetist Angel Bat Dawid’s very first release. She recorded and mixed the album entirely by herself and performed every instrument except the drums on one of the eight tracks. The recording process, done entirely on a cell phone, was split between London, England, Cape Town, South Africa, and Dawid’s hometown of Chicago, Illinois. Though the album features not much more than clarinet, drums, Angel’s vocals, and the occasional electric piano or miscellaneous wind instrument, the numerous overdubs and effects used turn these elements into cosmic, psychedelic soundscapes, greater than the sum of their parts. Dawid’s lyrics, when present, largely reflect on African American identity and experience, as evidenced by the third track, a re-interpretation of Margaret Burrough’s poem “What Shall I Tell My Children Who Are Black?” Reverberating, overlapping vocal harmonies ebb and flow and give way repeatedly to much more abstract melodies and stranger sounds, ranging from squealing horns to wide, cosmic phaser textures and long-winded erratic improvisations. RIYL - Sun Ra, Ornette Coleman
- Elliot Hansen
Upcoming shows around Seattle:
02/26/19 - Cannibal Corpse / Morbid Angel / Necrot / Blood Incarnation @ Showbox
Openers include Necrot and Blood Incantation, bands that represent the death metal renaissance occurring in recent years and provide some of some of the freshest and heaviest sounds of the 2010s. Morbid Angel (of the cult favorite Altars of Madness) follows as the midbill. Headlining the night is Cannibal Corpse, a group that’s  infamous for their graphic album covers and truly grotesque lyrics. 8PM / $29 / AA
02/27/19 - The Big Band at the End of the World @ Vermillion Art Gallery
18 piece improvisational ensemble featuring strings, horns, electric guitar, harmonium, 3 drummers, and live visuals led by local avant-garde/free jazz saxophonist Gregg Miller. 8PM / $5-10 / AA
03/02/19 - Sandy Ewen / AF Jones / Greg Kelley / Ambrosia Bardos @ Vermillion Art Gallery
Ewen, a touring experimental guitarist, Jones, a local avant-garde composer, and Kelley, a free-jazz/noise trumpet player will perform as a trio. Ambrosia Bardos, a local noise artist who also performs under the name Morher, will perform a solo set. 4PM / $5-10 / AA
More to look out for:
FILM: Lords of Chaos / @ Grand Cinema March 16th
Depicts the sensationalized history of black metal, is now out in theaters. This film has been met with mixed reviews for its lack of honesty in portraying the events (and some really terrible cinematography) but still has merit as an introduction to the genre.
Upcoming Releases and Tours:
3/8 The Coathangers - The Devil You Know via Suicide Squeeze
3/15 The Minneapolis Uranium Club - The Cosmo Cleaners via Fashionable Idiots/Static Shock
4/2  Empath - Active Listening: Night On Earth via Get Better (”Soft Shape” video out NOW)
6/5 - Royal Trux @ Neumos (rescheduled)
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queen-asante · 6 years
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ejucated immigrant
((AUTHOR’S NOTE: @eene-fangirl For the Fanfiction Weekend Challenge! I should probably wait to post this for Rolf Appreciation Month, but there’s a lot of Jonny backstory/headcanons in here, so I thought it would count. Basically, it’s a poem from Rolf’s POV but it’s technically about Jonny, or rather, Jonny was my muse for this.
I haven’t written a poem in Rolf’s ‘’voice’’ since 2014 but believe it or not, that one little line that Edd says in ‘’A Case of Ed’’ inspired the poem (you know, the one), and as I was reading Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf, it produced said result. A turnip for your thoughts? I don’t normally write Rolf like this, it’s actually more like Rolf emulating Ntozake Shange for those familiar with her style. As an Indian Immigrant girl who’s considered suicide, that book changed my life, she’s my idol. Hence, the poem is written in ebonics and all lower case to pay homage to Shange (and I consciously dropped third person redundancies, it wasn’t a mistake). Three non-EEnE characters are briefly mentioned: the first one is Vanessa, my friend who’s half African-American and half Haitian. The second one is Ice, who belongs to my friend, Dani. Ice, in her world, is a black and white cat who becomes Double D’s pet. Rolf fears him because he’s not only black and white, but he shares the name of Immigration and Customs Enforcement by pure coincidence. Dani didn’t plan this, as she created Ice before she met me but she liked the idea of giving Rolf a reason to fear the cat, and so we came up with that story together. The third one is Dr. Feelgood who was my therapist, it’s not her real name, it was an affectionate nickname I coined for her in my years battling Bipolar Disorder Type 3.
As a closing thought, much apologies for the length, also tumblr’s going to mess up the format.))
‘’ejucated immigrant’’
dear gods,
i be 14 wit skin as rough as treebark & hands dat look old
i waz the dark skined immigrant wanting to bathe in bleach
Brown Black / Blue Black / Amber Beige / Bister Brick Bronze / Chestnut Chocolate Cinnamin
Copper / Drab / Dust / Ginger / Fawn / Ochre / Coffe Colourd Caramel
Tawny / Terra-Cotta / Henna / Sepia / Umbre
lookin in the thesurus eddward wit two ds give me when i come to dis country
everything spell Brown but nothing spell White
White sound nice like pearl like snow like milk like golden skined white skined light skined
honey dipped / lemon kissed / but begging for ivory / fair frosted silvery ashen boy jimmy
your white hands on my brown skin
i waz the dark skined immigrant botherin to drag you round
you stand there like a closed mouth statue & you insult my way of life
think you know everythin / rolf just some ignorant third world peasant or somethin
but we be livin dis way longer than the foundin of your land
your country young my country old
numbers & poppy / it just to give you illegitimately born breeds of donkeys
somethin to hee-haw over / science say there no gods either but who know dat
you cannot contain lightning bugs in a jar
i waz the dark skined immigrant dreamin of shakin the mr presidents hand
the former mr president wit eyes like a tired old man & Brown his Brown like a mud bath
it really too bad you know / rolf like your former president
dat black man who dont check dixtionaries for validation of his blackness
he not so bad / he waz sympathetic to the plight of the immigrant but his hands tied
not blame him / he not god he not have all the power in the world to fix dis weather
dis cloud dat hang over your land & who the hell is perfect?
it really such a shame / i dream to see the Hill / see the pearly house painted white the place where he live meet him shake his large brown hand / one brown hand to another
cept i not black / rolf not have to be / not pass / rolf european he is white not bloodless
he not pass he not be white enough for your country
cept i be white on the inside look coloured on the out but i aint no coloured
under my skin i am more than a colour
whoever herd of white passing for person of colour
but suddenly i get to dis country & i be treated no different than jonny
so alls i got is coloured dreams
poor grate nano lived & died on silly dreams / well they not exist
there be only reality & reality not kind to the dark skined indigenous immigrant
no one know what i supposed to be / take a wild guess
indian pakistani mexican romani rolf herd it all & none suppose right
they only looking at my face / the outside the outside not matter
cuz i waz the dark skined immigrant not italian not irish but the other kinds
& no one will see unless rolf cut open his veins & bleed
a Wood Nymph have my colour & if i check off the box dat say caucasian i get a funny look
from the lady sittin behind the counter wit the yellow nail polish & beaded eyeglass
spose if jonny do the same they wont believe him neither
jonny be good
yous see him dancin / wearin his stomach out / dark skined bare feet / swayin his hips
& grate thin arms but he not care dat he gots splinters in his fingertips
his nails turnin all black & blue & those chapped lips look like eyes starin out atchu
the gods make dis child the way he is
wit skinted knees & all & elbows pointed outwards readin you like a map
always wit the label on the left side
but he bootiful & he know it / beauty sometime come in the empty coffee can
not in the paper lillies or plastic pearls
you cant make a silk purse from a sows ear / even if dat ear be made of wood
of wood widda crayon drawn smile
jonnys mother the madwoman in the attic
rolf be certain jonny the wood boy some kind of elf from the passage of Valhöll
the mother of the Tree Sprite she not like rolf / well she not like any child it seems
weepy jimmy-boy & rolf invited to jonny-boys abode for a meeting of the Urban Rangers
& tho his mother never says so we feel she not like us very well
she never ast us to stay for lunch
even tho rolf personally would not eat a morsel of what these people eat
& we always been so polite to her but still she build walls
rolf believe she jealous of us becuz jonny likes us
she come out to the parlour / barefoot / flowers in her wild tangled mess of black raven hair
like yoko ono & wearing a long paisley skirt / she bootiful in an earthy sort of way
but she has a wild look in her eyes like a tigress
a violently insane expression like a german vampire dat make rolf think of bertha mason
she looms over her son like a dark older sister becuz they look so alike
altho her skin much darker / a deep chocolate brown / her complexion remind rolf of vanessa maybe she is haitian / she like the demon in nanas stories the one we all have widdin us
who comes out when we try too hard to be good children
she look at white as snow jimmy & myself like she disprove
either she not like us the uniforms or both
rolf forget tho these hippies wit their anti-establishment
they think every uniform represents what jonny calls ‘’the Man’’ & dats what it is rolf think
she not want jonny in the organisation
becuz she think it goes against their opposition to social norms
rolf could tell she wanted to ast us to leave / she not like jonny spending so much time wit us
becuz then he not at home meditating wit her or whatever it is they do
jonnys family is strange / they not eat meat & walk around shoeless
rolf has been called a gypsy by the children at school but flower child jonny seem to rolf more of a gypsy if there ever waz such a thing
he is almost ethereal / his family must be from a clan of faeries the kind nana warns rolf about but brown-skinned jonny seem harmless enough
i watch his mama put a daisy in the pocket of his jeans
i not know if his daddy be white or black but what difference does dat make
rolf understand it is important for a child to love their family no matter their faults
i know The Giving Tree still love his mother
even if she would prefer him to leave the Urban Rangers
of us three jimmy be the whitest of white jonny the blackest of black & i somewhere in between
but any one of us can walk into a puerto rican bar & start speakin spanish
& no one would know what we are
race too complicated & people too narrow minded / want everything boxed in
one day we waz layin on dat grassy knoll / jonny & i
where the trees whisper to us & we whisper back
cuz you know the boy talk to trees & i listen to his voice / & i be lookin at our hands you see
cuz we waz layin inches apart a flower between us & i tuck it behind his ear
then i look & see my skin only one shade lighter than his
tho the sun make me browner than i really be
out in the sun for hours & hours plowing & plowing the fields
by sundown i roasted coffee bean brown / as black as the inside of a chimney
& if i stumble into town any passing stranger would think i waz Black i mean African
id have to stay out of the sun for days to get my old colour black lest i wander round wit only the whites of my eyes visible on my sun burnt dyed rust brown brown skin
& hair so course youd suppose it come off a horses ass
lookin more like an American Indian than a White
i holdin the back of my hand up to jonnys now
how bout dat two brown hands one dark & one light but whos to say i not be a dark white & he not a light skined brown
dont you dare tell me what i am & am not
bitch dis aint no south africa where yous all can reassign us based on what you think
i aint no sandra laing but sometime i wouldnt mind bein black if it meant for you to leave me be
in fact ill gladly be whatever you want me to be but i am what i am
not black enough for black not white enough for white so what am i?
dont box me into Black & White / cuz in dis world brother dat not exist
im sorry as hell but i gettin real tired of bein called
an illegal / an alien / a wop / a gypsy / a guinea / a brownie whatever you want to call us
all your bigoted slurs clumping us together like we one & the same
dat fine but papers or no papers not define who i am
so uncle sam can take it & shove it
welcome to america!
i be having a long love affair wit your country & people
i also be having a war wit em
mama told me there are limits for dark skined immigrants stuck in dis light skined first world
we come over the border wit all the rest of them
wit all them people from central & south america
wit all them refugees from africa & asia
guess what we blend right in we look no different
look just like any other brown faced ‘’illegal alien’’
border patrol take one look at us & think we just like the rest
cuz yesterdays europeans are todays mexicans & middle easterners
coloured Sons of Shepherds gots few chances
what it like to be bilingual / to speak in two tounge
ah but to be fluent in one & not the other tryin to find any definishun in the dixtionary
in which i drop third person redunduncies cuz i only one person not three
& i only speak two language
you speak spanish?
no habla inglés
you speak english?
i dont speak spanish
one day the hat & head as one edd boy say oh rolf! youre so unejucated!
i think my ears deseeve me but i know what i herd
i wish to strike his milk honey cheeks full of nonsense
& say to him i am the ejucated immigrant you be warned about
dont talk to me bout ejucashun
i sale cross the oshun
i wash up on your shore
i lern another language
it wasnt easy
what you know bout ejucashun
all you know come from books & theories
at least i know where i stand
you are a child & i am old old old my hands notted thick wit veins like the roots of a tree
you say i sound angry / yea i angry but not as angry as you
cuz there nothing they fear more than a minority who knows what up
i used to be fraid but not no more
i used to fear the plainclothes agents in Black & White uniform
of immigration & customes enforecement / of ICE police
of eddwards Black & White cat name Ice on ICE
he must be making fool out of me to call a domesticated beast after homeland security
a cat in uniform because the gods make him so not by choice
like there be some purpose to it / i waz the dark skined immigrant you made fun of
i see what they do to the undocumented immigrant on the telly  
but now i not be fraid / becuz you cant touch me
so the grapefruit widda red ugly mouth & bleached hair sit in office now
damming all them people from ‘’shithole countries’’ / just as well but we here to stay
it not what i ast for but no use fighting it
& i will gladly pull the bookmarks from my english dixtionary
the one double d edd boy give me
no longer will i bathe in bleach / only use to washing dishes & floors
i not some bloody floor
‘’immigrant’’
at least i can spell dat  / i look it up in the dixtionary
websters dixtionary / who the hell is webster?
but now it marked up used copy wit yellow post it notes
i use it a lot to lern your tounge
i not smart but i sho as hell not unejucated / papa can tell me dat
i be in your country in first place to reseeve ‘’best ejucashun’’ like grate nano wanted
grate nano waz an adventurer / a dreamer wit big goals
he travell far & wide seeking fame & fortune
when he a very young boy immigrants from every cesspool in western & eastern europe set sale for The North / it waz always grate nanos dream to travel North
everyone say he more insane than a bovine wit mad cows disease
there no room in dis life for dreams they tell him / he prove our village wrong
when rolf eight years of age grate nano briefly left the Old Country to set sale for america
everyone say he be too old / he never too old for dreams
he wanted to find dat American Dream he hear so often about
spoken wit fondness by the tinkers who visit our land
he returned from his valiant voyage wit stories about what he seen
in the North  he said everyone has cars & money & television & running water
no one listen / The North the North they say dat is all you ever talk about
he waz a man who dreamed of a new life for his family & so he decided to send for us
& make a better life for ourselves after the plagues of the land had haunted our family for years grate nano promised us america he said youll soon be eating apple pie from off a china plate white picket fence / coca cola / santa clause / marilyn monroe / empire state building
it sound like a fairytale he spun a legend dat the streets waz paved wit gold
& we believed him for shining in grate nanos eye waz a dream & so here we are
rest his soul he wanted so much to buy us light & sun & clean wind of the oshun
‘’immigrant’’ waz a new word for rolf when he first come here
did not know after hearing the stories from grate nano dat he would soon be one himself
rolf not know what dat mean & still really dont
the dixtionary definishun say \ ˈi-mə-grənt \ noun. a person who comes to a country to take up permanent residence
\ ˈi-mə-ˌgrāt \ verb. [to go or remove into; in, into, and migrate, to remove.]
to come into a new country, region, or environment in order to settle there: opposed to emigrate.
oh sorry dat definishun not say we unclean people / flea invested vermin
sickly serpents who not speak english / greaser / sheenie
contagions of american society / incredibly dirty tramps fresh off the boat
so pervasive / such nonwhite filth / staring back at pitch black faces
not blonde haired & blue eyed / nonwhite skin only fit for dirt & waste work
mama papa kiss me goodbye i going to haiti
but it is what rolf is now it part of his identity just as much as the colour of his skin
just as much as bein a pagan / just as much as bein a male
just as much as bein the Son of a Shepherd
now rolf a new man living in the New World
i am an immigrant
sometime i wish i waz shug avery / bootiful fictional dark skin harlem singer
half man half woman / wit my large glittering masculine thighs i make an animal of men
maybe i have the courtesan complex
so i ast dr feelgood what my diag-nonsense
& she say poor soul you suffer from Stressed Shepherd Syndrome
okay so we all crazy in one way or another / it alright for some
of a mannequin in tears / of personal prejudices
im an unejucated farm boy from No Mans Land
im a poet who write in english
neisatnaf i isatnaf ne / ttim tetrejh dem gnyalp re lesgnel og gem tolrof nuh
rettenremmos i sirb ne mos rav ed / gem etlatrof nuh dro retsem nadrovh
etted tal eddejks rofrovh? / enneh lit gem trekided gej og enneh teksnø etrejh ttim
senneh enenyoø ås gej etted tla eddejks rofrovh
& this is for Sons of Shepherds who have considered suicide
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GAY MUSIC CHART – 2018 week 12
 Welcome to the Gay Music Chart, the LGBTQA related music videos TOP 50 actuality and most request.
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 Here is the recap for this week :
 OUT : Michele Bravi - Diamanti (LW: 14 / WO: 24 / PEAK: 04)
OUT : Leon Else - What I Won't Do (Lyric Video) (LW: 22 / WO: 38 / PEAK: 02)
OUT : VINCINT - Marrow (LW: 24 / WO: 3 / PEAK: 16)
OUT : Catarina Miranda - Para Sorrir Eu Não Preciso De Nada (live @ Festival da Canção 2018) (LW: 29 / WO: 1 / PEAK: 29)
OUT : P!nk - Whatever You Want (LW: 32 / WO: 1 / PEAK: 32)
OUT : Alfie Arcuri - If They Only Knew (LW: 34 / WO: 36 / PEAK: 01 (x7))
OUT : Baiana System e Titica feat Margareth Menezes - Capim Guiné (LW: 38 / WO: 1 / PEAK: 38)
OUT : Sameera Janakantha - Oba Mage Mathakaya Wela (ඔබ මගේ මතකය වෙලා) (LW: 41 / WO: 3 / PEAK: 41)
OUT : Hyphen Hyphen - Like Boys (LW: 42 / WO: 1 / PEAK: 42)
OUT : Marija Serifovic - Nije ljubav to (LW: 44 / WO: 1 / PEAK: 44)
OUT : Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy (Arnaud Rebotini Remix) (LW: 45 / WO: 7 / PEAK: 15)
OUT : Teo Entertainment - Голоса в моей голове / Voices In My Head (audio) (LW: 46 / WO: 1 / PEAK: 46)
OUT : Matthew Wood - Out (LW: 48 / WO: 1 / PEAK: 48)
OUT : Jão - Imaturo (LW: 49 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 29)
OUT : serpentwithfeet - Bless ur Heart (LW: 50 / WO: 1 / PEAK: 50)
  01 (+ 25) : Years & Years - Sanctify (LW: 26 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 01)
UK - 2018
Years & Years singer Olly Alexander says the band’s new single Sanctify is about straight men who experiment with gay sex.
 02 (+ 1) : Janelle Monáe - Make Me Feel (LW: 03 / WO: 4 / PEAK: 02)
USA - 2018 / from the album "Dirty Computer"
 03 (- 1) : Troye Sivan - My My My! (LW: 02 / WO: 10 / PEAK: 01 (x3))
Australia - 2018
The first track of his upcoming album has topped at #3 at the Worldwide iTunes Song Chart. It's the eighth single of the Australian singer in a row to be #1 in our chart.
 04 (+ 6) : Francisco Victoria - Marinos (LW: 10 / WO: 12 / PEAK: 03)
Chile - 2017
This is the first single of the Chilean singer, produced by Alex Anwandter. A revelation.
 05 (- 4) : Kylie Minogue - Dancing (LW: 01 / WO: 8 / PEAK: 01 (x3))
Australia - 2018 / from the album "Golden"
 06 (+ 6) : Saara Aalto - Monsters (LW: 12 / WO: 6 / PEAK: 06)
Finland - 2018
This song will represent Finland at the Eurovision Song Contest 2018.
 07 (=) : Sufjan Stevens - Mystery of Love ("Call Me By Your Name" OST) (LW: 07 / WO: 19 / PEAK: 01 (x1))
USA - 2017 / from the album ("Call Me By Your Name" OST)
The song was nominated for the Oscar of Best Original Song at the Academy Awards 2018.
 08 (- 2) : Calum Scott - You Are The Reason (LW: 06 / WO: 17 / PEAK: 04)
UK - 2017
 09 (=) : Allie X feat. VÉRITÉ - Casanova (LW: 09 / WO: 12 / PEAK: 03)
Canada - 2017 / from the album "CollXtion II"
 10 (+ 5) : Eli Lieb - Next To You (LW: 15 / WO: 14 / PEAK: 02)
USA - 2017
 11 (- 03) : Holland (홀랜드) - Neverland (네버랜드) (LW: 08 / WO: 8 / PEAK: 08)
South Korea - 2018
This is the first South Korean music video showing a gay couple kissing in a romantic way.
 12 (- 7) : Trevor Moran - Sinner (LW: 04 / WO: 15 / PEAK: 01 (x2))
USA - 2017
 13 (- 8) : Virgin Suicide - Evil Eyes (LW: 05 / WO: 15 / PEAK: 05)
Denmark - 2017
This Danish music video is like a short movie, telling the struggles of a closeted gay teen taken by his father to a fathers-sons's camp.
 14 (NEW) : Nakhane - Interloper (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 14)
South Africa - 2018 / from the album "You Will Not Die"
We supports the South African singer and actor, who is threatened to death for portraying a gay character in the movie "Inxeba / The Wound", which has been banned for a while in South Africa.
 15 (+ 2) : Matt Palmer - Inevitably (LW: 17 / WO: 6 / PEAK: 15)
USA - 2018 / from the EP "Get Lost"
 16 (+ 2) : Kevin Chomat - Petite Fée (LW: 18 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 16)
France - 2018
The French singer has made a song to support Lana, a young girl who has a rare genetic disease called neurofibromatosis.
 17 (- 6) : La Prohibida - Baloncesto (LW: 11 / WO: 34 / PEAK: 03)
Spain / from the album "100K años de luz"
The drag queen joined Madrid’s Three Kings float, but traditionalists didn't like it.
 18 (+ 3) : morgxn - Translucent (LW: 21 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 18)
USA - 2018
 19 (NEW) : Courtney Barnett - Need A Little Time (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 19)
Australia - 2018 / from the album "Tell Me How You Really Feel"
 20 (NEW) : Les Funambules (Maximilien Philippe) - Pardon (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 20)
France - 2018 - from the album "Les Funambules"
This song is the confession of a man who's quitting his wife because he realised he was gay.
 21 (- 8) : Troye Sivan - The Good Side (Live on SNL) (LW: 13 / WO: 8 / PEAK: 13)
Australia - 2018
 22 (+ 3) : MNEK - Tongue (LW: 25 / WO: 3 / PEAK: 22)
UK - 2018
 23 (NEW) : Lauren Ruth Ward - Sideways (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 23)
USA - 2018 / from the album "Well, Hell"
 24 (NEW) : Bilal Hassani - Shadows (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 24)
France - 2018
 25 (NEW) : Bella Ćwir - Drogie Ciuchy (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 25)
Poland - 2018
 26 (- 10) : Ryan O'Shaughnessy - Together (LW: 16 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 16)
Ireland - 2018
This sweet ballad will represent Ireland at the Eurovision Song Contest 2018. The music video is so cute.
 27 (NEW) : Jinkx Monsoon - Just Me (The Gender Binary Blues) (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 27)
USA - 2018 / from the album "The Ginger Snapped"
 28 (- 1) : Patrick Wolf - The Days (fan video) (LW: 27 / WO: 8 / PEAK: 07)
UK - 2017 / from the album "God’s Own Country OST"
The multi-awarded movie was nominated in 2 categories at the BAFTA Awards 2017, including Best Outstanding British Film.
 29 (+ 14) : Chase Sansing - Begins With You (LW: 43 / WO: 3 / PEAK: 22)
USA - 2018
The country singer comes out with this pride anthem.
 30 (NEW) : VELO feat. Luisifer - Dancer (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 30)
USA - 2018 / from the album "Cruzin"
 31 (+ 4) : CRIMER - Cards (LW: 35 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 31)
Switzerland - 2018 / from the album "Leave Me Baby"
 32 (- 13) : djfriz feat. 마샬 (MRSHLL), 메건리 (Megan Lee) - Dive (English Version) (LW: 19 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 19)
South Korea - 2018
There is also a korean version of the song.
 33 (- 5) : Namuel - Poder (LW: 28 / WO: 4 / PEAK: 25)
Chile - 2018
 34 (- 14) : Brandi Carlile - The Joke (LW: 20 / WO: 4 / PEAK: 20)
USA - 2018 / from the album "By The Way, I Forgive You"
 35 (NEW) : Pussy Riot & Dave Sitek - Bad Apples (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 35)
Russia - 2018
 36 (- 13) : Michael Blume - Blunder (LW: 23 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 23)
USA - 2018
 37 (NEW) : Aluta Humbane - Nami Ngithanda Indoda (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 37)
South Africa - 2018
The title of this South African song means "I also love a man".
 38 (+ 1) : Bagarre - Danser seul (ne suffit pas) (LW: 39 / WO: 10 / PEAK: 10)
France - 2018 / from the album "Club 12345"
Several drag queens are featuring in the music video of this French Touch house music.
 39 (NEW) : Trixie Mattel - Break Your Heart (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 39)
USA - 2018 / from the album "One Stone"
 40 (NEW) : Troye Sivan - Strawberries & Cigarettes ("Love, Simon" OST) (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 40)
Australia - 2018 / from the album "Love, Simon" OST
 41 (NEW) : Boris Jelic - Freedom (Lyric Video) (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 41)
Sweden - 2018
 42 (+ 5) : Eddy de Pretto - Normal (LW: 47 / WO: 3 / PEAK: 19)
France - 2018 / from the album "CURE"
The French singer shows here how to respond to an homophobe.
 43 (NEW) : Samir & Viktor - Shuffla (live @ Melodifestivalen Finale 2018) (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 43)
Sweden - 2018
The song came fourth in the finale of Melodifestivalen, the Swedish national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest.
 44 (- 11) : Ricky Martin feat. Wisin, Yandel - Fiebre (LW: 33 / WO: 3 / PEAK: 32)
Puerto Rico (USA) / Spain - 2018
Ricky Martin was with Katy Perry one of the most successful LGBT artist on YouTube in 2017 due to the success of his singles "Vente Pa' Ca" and "La Mordidita" with 1,4 billion views on YouTube. Will he have the same success with his new single ?
 45 (- 14) : Calum Scott - What I Miss Most (1 Mic 1 Take/Live From Abbey Road Studios) (LW: 31 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 31)
UK - 2018 / from the album "Only Human"
 46 (NEW) : Todrick Hall - Ordinary Day (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 46)
USA - 2018
This music video takes place in a alternative world where the the population's majority is black, and where a white man walking in a neighborhood can be shoot just because he's white. An alternative way to talk about the Black Lives Matter movement.
 47 (- 10) : SAKIMA - Daddy (LW: 37 / WO: 14 / PEAK: 14)
UK - 2017
 48 (- 18) : Hayley Kiyoko - Curious (LW: 30 / WO: 10 / PEAK: 08)
USA - 2018 / from the album "Expectations"
In her new song, Hayley is wondering why the girl she's dating is dating also another guy in the same time. "Expectations" will be released on March 30, 2018.
 49 (- 9) : Peppermint and Cazwell - Blend (LW: 40 / WO: 3 / PEAK: 23)
USA - 2018 / from the EP "Blend"
The purpose of this song is to make a positive trans anthem.
 50 (- 14) : Openside - I Feel Nothing (LW: 36 / WO: 6 / PEAK: 11)
New Zealand - 2017  
Lead singer Possum Plows, who is gender non-binary, raises the transgender flag in this music video. In her new song, Hayley is wondering why the girl she's dating is dating also another guy in the same time. "Expectations" will be released on March 30, 2018.
   ALSO NEW THIS WEEK
 Taylor Swift - Delicate
USA - 2018 / from the album "Reputation"
The music video faetures gay porn performaer Kevin Falk.
 Jiggly Caliente feat. Sharon Needles - I Don't Give A Fuck
USA - 2018 / from the album "T.H.O.T. Process"
 Mc Júnyork - Ta Ta Ta
Brazil - 2018
 Candy Ken - Funeral
Austria - 2018 / from the EP "Candy Trap"
 Pete Parkkonen - Myyty (Lyric video)
Finland - 2018
 Hayley Kiyoko - Let It Be [Official Audio]
USA - 2018 / from the album "Expectations"
 Lycinaïs Jean - Parfait Tourment (Version radio Edit)
France - 2018 / from the album "Lycinaïs Jean"
 Fletcher - I Believe You (Audio)
USA - 2018
Portion of proceeds donated to Time's Up for Women's History Month
 Troye Sivan "My My My!" | GIRL VERSION with Milk
USA - 2018
 REIKA by Daniel Robinson / Björk - Jóga (Howie B Main Mix)
USA - 2018
  See you next week and don’t forget to vote for your best LGBTQA music videos ! Here are the rules :
1 ) You can vote for many videos as you want under the videos on YouTube in the comment section. It could be recent or past music videos, which must provide at least one among the following conditions:
- the music video has LGBTQA related content, in the lyrics or the music video
- the artist is LGBTQA, an LGBTQA icon or eventually ally
- LGBTQA medias talked about it.
2 ) You can’t vote more than 3 songs of a same artist per week.
3 ) In case of an artist who receive votes mostly by a fan base, we will count only one song, in a limited time of 10 weeks of presence in the top.
4 ) You can vote with only one account.
5 ) If you make 5 votes or less, your first vote will represent 5 points, your second vote 4 points, etc… until your last vote and following 1 point. If you make 6 to 10 votes, your first vote will represent 10 points, your second vote 9 points, etc… If you make more than 10 votes, your first vote will represent 20 points, your second vote 19 points, etc…
6 ) People who make 1 to 5 votes form the amateur ranking, those who make 6 to 10 votes form the fan ranking, those who make more than 10 votes form the expert ranking. We form the jury ranking. And we count now the ranking of minutes of views of our weekly playlist of the previous week. The Gay Music Chart is the addition of the five charts. In case of equality, the number of votes and the dates of votes will count.
7 ) The votes will close on Thursday, 8 PM, European time.
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Relocating Your Pots and Pans Made Easy
"I believed I would certainly share a few of my outdoor camping experiences with our participants and also viewers. Perhaps to advise myself of my camping days as a kid, or simply to give you a little more understanding into the ""world of outdoor camping"" in South Africa.
I've been camping and caravanning for the better part of my life, as well as love every minute of it. I began caravanning with my moms and dads when I was 9, as well as have been doing it since. Nonetheless, when you're that young as well as your moms and dads inform you that you're going to begin outdoor camping (as it is typically referred to in South Africa, whether in a tent or a campers) as a family, you have no concept what that will require ...
You're on your method to your first camping area, and have no concept what to expect. When you ultimately get there after concerning a 2-hour drive, a sight you have never seen prior to fulfills you, and also you are surprised. White campers are parked anywhere, all with a pitched cover and also numerous different ""devices"" on display screen out the front.
The weekend flies by before you know it, and you appreciated every minute of it ... making brand-new close friends and also fulfilling more complete strangers because one weekend than you probably have your whole life. It just takes one weekend break, and before you understand it you're addicted. Camping comes to be an addiction, as well as second nature to you.
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Essentially, that's what my initial camping experience was like, and also one I am not most likely to fail to remember anytime soon.
Camping in South Africa is a fair bit different than it remains in the UK for instance. In the U.K., regardless of where you go, there is constantly a fish as well as chip shop near by or a club where you can go to get some supper or a pint. Not in South Africa ... Because the nation is so huge as well as vast, every little thing is miles away from where you camp. You can't simply enter your vehicle as well as go for a quick snack nearby, or have a fast pint of something to consume. Which in my point of view is half the fun of it as well as makes camping so much more than simply a ""slumber party weekend"".
You have to basically fend for yourself when it come to food and also drink for the entire time you're camping ... whether for a week or just a weekend break. You have to take all your food along with you for the time you will be camping in addition to any type of juices, carbonated drinks, as well as in some cases also drinking water, you might desire, as not everywhere you enter South Africa has drinkable water.
We prepare all our own food at the campers/ tent on gas cookers as well as in some cases BARBEQUE's (with wood or charcoal - not gas). When we go camping, my daddy constantly makes this impressive ""stew"", as the British would certainly call it, in a black cauldron on a gas cyndrical tube (as can be seen on among the pictures). This was a standard food preparation method used by our predecessors, the ""Boers"". On the side of their ""Ox wagon"" they would have a little consisted of fire in some type of container, and over this fire hung the cauldron. As they were always on the move, they would create a ""stew"" in this cauldron early in the morning, and by the time they reached their destination that evening, their supper would certainly be cooked and ready to eat.
This tradition has actually been continued as well as handed down with the years, as well as is to this particular day a very popular cooking approach in South Africa, specifically when one goes camping. The same concept uses ... you start your ""stew"" early in the early morning, and leave it to prepare and marinate for the remainder of the day. By the time night drops, your dinner is ready and you can loosen up with a glass of wine by the fire.
As can be seen on a few of the pictures, not all of the camping areas have lawn or anything near to appearing like turf. The most you might discover on some sites is red dirt or ground. However again, my experiences of outdoor camping would have not coincided if it were all luxury as well as cool cut ""yards"". I think it's sometimes a good thing to be ""revived"" closer to nature.
Most of the camping areas in South Africa have bathroom and bathroom centers on site (or a shower block as it is called below). Some may be a bit extra lavish than others, as it all relies on the ""celebrity rating"" of the particular campsite. On the whole, I need to confess, that they are quite fundamental, however at the very least have the needed features you will require for your personal health.
Several of the campsites would lie inside a wild nature reserve, which is quite an experience. The camping site would be totally surrounded by an electrical fencing to keep the wild pets out.
There was never ever reason to be concerned, as the fence was kept track of on a daily basis by the campground's game warden, to try to find any type of damage or to figure out if it had been breached in the evening by any one of the pets. To be fair, the fencing will undoubtedly not stay out things like serpents, which my daddy was most regrettable to come across in a camping area's ""shower block"" before now.
It may seem frightening to some, however visualize if you will, a peaceful summertime's night, you're sitting by the fire and all you can hear are the cries of the Hyenas, or the audios of the Zebra's as they work out close by for the evening. That is something you have to experience on your own, as no quantity of words can capture that magic.
As I comprehend it, camping in the U.K. is largely a ""one guy"" thing, where it would be just you and your household going camping as well as not a huge team ... unless it is some set up occasion or celebration for some rally, program or event for example.
In South Africa, most of the ""camping nation"" comes from ""SACA"", which represents ""South African Caravan Association"". Within that organization are smaller groups that create your provincial (or region if you will certainly) teams, each with it's own team president.
Once monthly (whether it's Summer Season or Wintertime) there would be an arranged camp at a certain site in South Africa, for each and every provincial (county) team. You did not have to attend if you did not want to, but we practically went constantly. Often (again, as can be seen in the pictures) a team of close friends would certainly organize to assemble someplace and drive to the camping site with each other in convoy.
At several of these celebrations there would certainly go to the very least 180 caravans going to in one weekend break, which I make sure would certainly be fairly an excellent exterior to someone who has been a ""solo"" camper for most of his/ her life.
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I can take place for pages as well as web pages regarding all my outdoor camping experiences ... to lots of people it would certainly most probably be a boring read, but to those who have outdoor camping in their blood like I do, it's something you can never genuinely discuss on paper, however an incredible adventure in life you would certainly have to experience for yourself."
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Great performances @ London Zoo
Yesterday we saw some great performances @ London Zoo.
Tiger Territory (atmosphere → Indonesian)
THE TIGER took a big step forward by thinking about the audience's perspective. He simply laid himself down and chilled, almost directing the viewer into having the same experience of 'actually being up there in the tree', like a tiger.
Gorilla Kingdom (atmosphere → African Rainforest)
THE GORRILAS worked (again) as a family this year, but this time round they explored Entrances and Exits (always accurate and contemporary). Father gorilla visibly exited the indoor back-stage area to make a grand appearance on the stage outdoors, while eating a banana. The slow but steady paste was beautiful and masculine only to be disturbed by the playful baby gorilla who energetically ran up the stage three times faster then his (we think?) father, unafraid to get hurt and very significantly noteating a banana. Then mother arrived, clearly the highpoint of this performance, grabbing a big pile of leaves only to place these upon her head like, indeed, a lady's hat. After a minute or two they all, very organically, took their exits, leaving a bit of dust and... a banana peel behind.
Land of the Lions (atmosphere → India's vibrant Sasan Gir)
THE LIONS had an exciting and conceptual concept prepared. First the stage was empty, no lion whatsoever to be found. Then, while walking past (feeling a bit disappointed) the audience was awaited a surprise of all lions piled up together and sticked to the windows. One could actually come as close to the lions as never before. But the thick, greasy glass and the fact they were making no eye contact and cuddled with each other as if 'no one was around', gave it a very forth wall experience. Alienating even.
But although these big popular mommy's and daddy's did not at all disappoint this year round, our top 3 performances were, very surprisingly not to be found in these expected areas.
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Penguin Beach (atmosphere → South American Beach Landscape)
THE PENGUINS stole our hearts by working to closely together as a team. Almost like a choreography they went for an aesthetic and satisfying experience for young and old. You could see their colonial underwater dives as well as the upper water splashing scenes simultaneously, and the dynamics of this collaboration gave some sort of hope and pleasure in these cold, individualistic times.
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THE HANUMAN LANGURS presented to us a radical love duet with absolutely no fear to express and share their true feelings and desires for each other with the spectator. This intimate portrait hit a turning point when the embarrassment made place for a kind of tender feeling. A feeling there is someone for everyone. A beautiful feeling.
And last but certainly not least our very, very unsuspected...
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THE CRESTED WOOD PARDRIDGE!
We weren't even aware of this little talent to perform during the 2019 London Zoo Festival but we're so happy she did. She stunningly used the natural environment of the bird cage (and its history) in a way it completed all her actions, tiny as they may were. She had the ability to, without any big gestures, provide the audience with a larger sense of space, time and truth. There was something very honest about this piece, since there was no tjirping or flying round (as we've seen loads in previous birdcage performances) but simply standing there, next to that little bush that suddenly.. didn't seem so little any more.
So, yet again: an all and all wonderful experience. We most certainly can't wait to see what they'll come up with next year! You can see all performances throughout all of 2019, all day, every day.
We highly recommend it.
Cheers!
The Magically Random Performance Review Team. (MRPRT)
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           I want to tell you, ladies and gentlemen, there’s not enough            troops in the army to force the southern people to break            down segregation and accept the Negro [pronounced Nigra]            into our theatres, into our swimming pools, into our homes,            and into our churches.                                    —Strom Thurmond, South Carolina                                    Senator and Presidential Candidate                                         for the States’ Rights Party, 1948            I said, “I’m gonna fight Thurmond from the mountain to            the sea.”                                    —Modjeska Monteith Simkins, Civil                              Rights Matriarch, South Carolina, 1948
The youngest has been married off. He is as tall as Abraham Lincoln. Here, on his wedding day, he flaunts the high spinning laugh of a newly freed slave. I stand above him, just off the second-floor landing, watching the celebration unfold. Uncle-cousins, bosom buddies, convertible cars of nosy paramours, strolling churlish penny- pinchers pour onto the mansion estate. Below, Strom Thurmond is dancing with my mother. The favorite son of South Carolina has already danced with the giddy bride and the giddy bride's mother. More women await: Easter dressy, drenched in caramel, double exposed, triple cinched, lined up, leggy, ready. I refuse to leave the porch. If I walk down I imagine he will extend his hand, assume I am next in his happy darky line, #427 on his dance card. His history and mine, burnt cork and blackboard chalk, concentric, pancaked, one face, two histories, slow dragging, doing the nasty. My father knows all this. Daddy's Black Chief Justice legs straddle the boilerplate carapace of the CSS H.L. Hunley, lost Confederate submarine, soon to be found just off the coast of Charleston. He keeps it fully submerged by applying the weight of every treatise he has ever written against the death penalty of South Carolina. Chanting "Briggs v. Elliott," he keeps the ironside door of the submarine shut. No hands. His eyes are a Black father's beacon, search- lights blazing for the married-off sons, and on the unmarried, whale-eyed, nose-in-book daughter, born unmoored, quiet, yellow, strategically placed under the hospital lights to fully bake. The one with the most to lose. There will be no trouble. Still, he chain- smokes. A burning stick of mint & Indian leaf seesaws between his lips. He wants me to remember that trouble is a fire that runs like a staircase up then down. Even on a beautiful day in June. I remember the new research just out: What the Negro gave America Chapter 9,206: Enslaved Africans gifted porches to North America. Once off the boats they were told, then made, to build themselves a place--to live. They build the house that will keep them alive. Rather than be the bloody human floret on yet another southern tree, they imagine higher ground. They build landings with floor enough to see the trouble coming. Their arced imaginations nail the necessary out into the floral air. On the backs and fronts of twentypenny houses, a watching place is made for the ones who will come tipping with torch & hog tie through the quiet woods, hoping to hang them as decoration in the porcupine hair of longleaf. The architecture of Black people is sui generis. This is architecture dreamed by the enslaved: Their design will be stolen. Their wits will outlast gold. My eyes seek historical rest from the kiss- kiss theater below; Strom Thurmond's it's-never-too-late-to-forgive-me chivaree. I search the tops of yellow pine while my fingers reach, catch, pinch my father's determined-to-rise smoke. Long before AC African people did the math: how to cool down the hot air of South Carolina? If I could descend, without being trotted out by some roughrider driven by his submarine dreams, this is what I'd take my time and scribble into the three-tiered, white crème wedding cake: Filibuster. States' Rights. The Grand Inquisition of the great Thurgood Marshall. This wedding reception would not have been possible without the Civil Rights Act of 1957 (opposed by you-know-who). The Dixiecrat senator has not worn his sandy seersucker fedora to the vows. The top of Strom Thurmond's bald head reveals a birthmark tattooed in contrapposto pose: Segregation Forever. All my life he has been the face of hatred; the blue eyes of the Confederate flag, the pasty bald of white men pulling wooly heads up into the dark skirts of trees, the sharp, slobbering, amber teeth of German shepherds, still clenched inside the tissue-thin, (still-marching), band-leader legs of Black schoolteachers, the single- minded pupae growing between the legs of white boys crossing the tracks, ready to force Black girls into fifth-grade positions, Palmetto state-sanctioned sex 101. I don't want to dance with him. My young cousin arrives at my elbow. Her beautiful lips the color of soft-skin mangoes. She pulls, teasing the stitches of my satin bridesmaid gown, "You better go on down there and dance with Strom-- while he still has something left." I don't tell her it is unsouthern for her to call him by his first name, as if they are familiar. I don't tell her: To bear witness to marriage is to believe that everything moving through the sweet wedding air can be confidently, left-- to Love. I stand on the landing high above the beginnings of Love, holding a plastic champagne flute, drinking in the warm June air of South Carolina. I hear my youngest brother's top hat joy. Looking down I find him, deep in the giddy crowd, modern, integrated, interpretive. For ten seconds I consider dancing with Strom. His Confederate hands touch every shoulder, finger, back that I love. I listen to the sound of Black laughter shimmying. All worry floats beyond the gurgling submarine bubbles, the white railing, every drop of champagne air. I close my eyes and Uncle Freddie appears out of a baby's breath of fog. (The dead are never porch bound.) He moves with ease where I cannot. He walks out on the rice-thrown air, heaving a lightning bolt instead of a wave. Suddenly, there is a table set, complete with 1963 dining room stars, they twinkle twinkle up & behind him. Thelonious, Martin, Malcolm, Nina, Dakota, all mouths Negro wide & open have come to sing me down. His tattered almanac sleeps curled like a wintering slug in his back pocket. His dark Dogon eyes jet to the scene below, then zoom past me until they are lost in the waning sugilite sky. Turning in the shadows of the wheat fields, he whispers a truth plucked from the foreword tucked in his back pocket: Veritas: Black people will forgive you quicker than you can say Orangeburg Massacre. History does not keep books on the handiwork of slaves. But the enslaved who built this Big House, long before I arrived for this big wedding, knew the power of a porch. This native necessity of nailing down a place, for the cooling off of air, in order to lift the friendly, the kindly, the so politely, the in-love-ly, jubilant, into the arms of the grand peculiar, for the greater good of the public spectacular: us giving us away.
Nikky Finney, “Dancing with Strom,” Head-Off & Split (TriQuarterly Books, 2011)
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Loving Memphis: A List of Bright Places to Enjoy and Meet People
Memphis, TN is a city known for four things that people typically know of before making any travel plans there: BBQ, blues, Elvis, and crime. I was raised in Memphis, and returned for two years after college graduation. I quickly realized how much easier it was to enjoy the city as a 21-year-old with a car than anyone under the age of 18. I have since maintained a list of the best and brightest places to visit based on my own experiences:
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Restaurants:
Huey’s - This is hands-down my favorite place. Known for their burgers. I always get the World Famous Huey’s Burger and Tennessee Tea.
Osaka - A nice sushi and hibachi gem in Poplar Plaza. I recommend the Big Daddy sushi roll.
Bluff City Coffee - The cutest little coffee shop downtown! They get their pastries from a local baker, and offer homemade dog treats for your furry friends. The chai tea latte and all of the sandwiches are faithfully good.
The Green Beetle - Downtown on Main Street, this seems like a dive, but has food that’s rich in flavor. The Philly cheese steak, patty melt, hot wings, and fries are to die for!
Jim ‘n Nicks - BBQ win!
Central BBQ - Another BBQ win, but the dry rub especially!
Jerry’s Sno Cones - Crack in a cone in the depths of North Memphis.
Scoops - A black-owned gelato and crepe bar downtown. Red Wine Sorbet is my flavor of choice.
Onix - A black-owned soul food restaurant that features live bands. The sweet tea is everything, but the lemon pepper wings are good, too.
DeJa Vu - A black-owned New Orleans-style restaurant in downtown Memphis. Can be pricey, but the food’s delicious.
Coletta’s - An Italian restaurant in Bartlett with an old-school, family feel.
Happy Mexican - Guess the style? lol The staff is always friendly here, and the food and drinks never fail. I recommend the fajitas, quesadillas, Taquitos Mexicanos (my fav), and the Margarita Dip! Also, please drink a Walk Me Down while you’re there. Thank me later.
Boscoe’s Squared - A cool spot in Overton Square with a huge beer menu, cool brunch menu, and intimate seating.
Babalu - A Mexican-Cuban fusion restaurant in Overton Square known for their tapas. They have really good seasonal drinks around the holidays.
Sweet Noshings - A sweet shop in Overton Square with their own candy, chocolate, ice cream, and popcorn! Let your inner child run wild!
Don Don’s Hot Wings - Wangs and thangs.
Dixie Queen - Absolutely love their lemon pepper and honey gold wings, their seasoned fries, and their lemonade.
Rendezvous is our claim to fame a la Food Network. I’ve also heard fabulous things about Southern Hands.
Tourist Attractions:
Stax Museum - An incredible history of the music of the South, particularly Memphis and Stax Records artists, starting all the way back with the significance of “field songs.” It’s beautiful and so enlightening.
National Civil Rights Museum - Fun fact: I worked here as a tour guide for a year. Your experience touring the museum after its renovation will be much better than mine working there, lol. But it’s extremely profound and an experience the whole family can appreciate and learn from.
Woodruff-Fontaine House - A cool Victorian house for an old, famous family in Memphis, known for its architecture, décor, and hauntings.
Slave Haven - A small house-turned-museum that allegedly served as a safe house for slaves traveling on the underground railroad. Historical accuracy is contested, but still cool to see.
Yes, Gracelend is here, but most natives have never been! There are also the Blues Hall of Fame and Memphis Rock ‘n Soul Museum.
Bars, Clubs, & Lounges:
Fox & Hound - If you’re a foxy lady or hound dog who likes great drinks, sports on every flatscreen, and pool, this is the place for you. I always go for the beer-battered fish and chips, and the Kryptonite ‘Rita.
Greencork Wine Bar (closed until 2018) - A snazzy little spot near the Cooper-Young district that allows you to buy a card to test out wines from about 20 dispensaries as you lounge by the fire or sit at tall tables with friends. Food options are more expensive than they’re worth, though, and you’ll need to know which types of wines you favor before testing to get more bang for your buck.
Club Love / Love Lounge - A recent business development, this lounge that typically caters to the 30s+ crowd is an excellent mix of throwback jams and new music as the night goes on. If you want a more sophisticated night out, this place is great. Hosted my 23rd birthday here.
Mollie Fontaine Lounge - Across the street from the Woodruff-Fontaine House, this historic home turns into a lounge at night with great truffle fries, girls dressed as vampires, and men Vogue-ing. It’s lit!
Wet Willie’s - While the history behind this place is pretty ugly (see Ida B. Wells placard outside), it now serves as the best place for a frozen alcoholic beverages. The Bob Marley is where it’s at! I once went with the girls, recognized a guy I knew having a birthday outing, and his crew bought 20 jello shots for us all to share. Such is the Beale Street party life.
Peabody Rooftop - This is something different. You can see the sun set, hear cool live bands, and enjoy drinks and complimentary food if you’re there on time when it starts. Great chance to be with a different crowd and have some fresh air as you sweat out the liquors, lol.
Arts & Entertainment:
Studio on the Square - A quirky, old-school theater in Overton Square that serves alcohol and real food to go along with your movie. Along with typical showings, has indie films and other cool stuff.
Paradiso Theatre - Styled like an Italian villa, this theatre also serves alcohol to accompany your film.
Hollywood 20 Cinema - More in my neck of the woods, aka in Bartlett.
Hattiloo Theatre - A black-owned performing arts theatre that hosts plays and musicals with African-American casts and narratives, as well as panel discussions and other events with topics related to the black community.
Playhouse on the Square - A theater in Overton Square.
Crosstown Arts - An art gallery in the Sears-Crosstown area that hosts changing art exhibits and other artsy-fartsy events.
Rumba Room - A nightclub that specializes in salsa dance lessons and Latin foods, while also hosting poetry nights and dance recitals from other companies and troupes around the city.
We’re also home to the Indie Memphis Film Festival and On Location: International Film & Music Festival. That scene is slowly building.
Nature:
Memphis Botanical Gardens - Make sure you go in full bloom or else it’s like your backyard, lol. But it’s really great, with a relaxed path through the entire thing as well as a Japanese garden bridge. I also enjoy their on-location restaurant Fratelli’s.
Shelby Farms - This huge, huge, huge plot of land is the best place for a wide variety of hiking and running trails. They’re also home to the Starry Nights drive for Christmas, and Earth Day in April.
W. J. Freeman Park - This little park is tucked into Bartlett, and it’s usually empty if you want some privacy for a quick jog or to walk the dog.
Mississippi River Walk - Beautiful and serene location if you want to go for a walk near some water. Just don’t stay too long into the night or when it’s storming, for obvious reasons.
Shopping:
Wolfchase Galleria
Wolfchase Commons
Collierville Carriage Crossing
Poplar Plaza
Polish Girl - A black-owned nail shop with cool sugar scrubs, mixed drinks, and a playlist that your girlfriends will enjoy.
Diva Nails - An Asian-owned nail shop designed like a Venetian spa.
Events:
Grizzlies Games - Basketball is what makes the world go ‘round here.
Redbirds Games - Good family or work event if it’s not too hot out. If so, wear a hat to shade yourself and buy some frozen pink lemonade.
Africa in April - A festival of art, food, and performances celebrating the diversity of Africa in Robert Church Park downtown!
Latino Memphis Festival - A festival of the same things, but in Overton Park with the country of celebration changing every year!
Events on my to-do list are Beale Street Music Festival, Latino Memphis Dia de los Muertos, Curtis Givens All White and All Black Affairs, Omega Psi Phi Sundresses & Linen Party, Best in Black Awards, 40 Under 40 Urban Elite, and Wine on the River.
That concludes my recommendations, everyone. A lot of things are coming to Memphis in 2017, so keep your eyes peeled for new adventures in the 901. I can’t wait to explore even more places to add to this list. Enjoy!
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