E-NOTES: WHEN THE NEWS IS NOT ENOUGH. THE BLOG OF E. ETHELBERT MILLER
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
NATURE KNOWS NO COLORLINE.
One's life and welfare can change in a minute.
One day you're looking at the news, the next day YOU are the news.
All your possessions can vanish without warning.
You thank God if you survive, but you keep wondering what kind of God keeps handing out the Blue Books. It's not that the world didn't end last week - it just that The Rapture was not for you. You're left behind until October 21st - with more destruction on the way. Oh, and God tells you that the next time you see him - you better run.
One's life and welfare can change in a minute.
One day you're looking at the news, the next day YOU are the news.
All your possessions can vanish without warning.
You thank God if you survive, but you keep wondering what kind of God keeps handing out the Blue Books. It's not that the world didn't end last week - it just that The Rapture was not for you. You're left behind until October 21st - with more destruction on the way. Oh, and God tells you that the next time you see him - you better run.
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| THE HOUSE OF BERT AFTER LAST NIGHT |
CULTURAL NEWS:
Arts Club of Washingtons quirky downtown haven of clubby culture survives the ages (May 20, 2011).
Arts Club of Washingtons quirky downtown haven of clubby culture survives the ages (May 20, 2011).
My Father As Prophet
(for Egberto Miller)
He did not speak
often. I only heard
him when he spoke.
My fear of him
rewarded my silence.
His love was a gentle
terror. Out of respect
I was always good.
The fierce light in his
eyes a reminder that
my life would never
succumb to darkness.
- E. Ethelbert Miller
My father would have been 96 years old on May 20th.
(for Egberto Miller)
He did not speak
often. I only heard
him when he spoke.
My fear of him
rewarded my silence.
His love was a gentle
terror. Out of respect
I was always good.
The fierce light in his
eyes a reminder that
my life would never
succumb to darkness.
- E. Ethelbert Miller
My father would have been 96 years old on May 20th.
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| EGBERTO MILLER |
Monday, May 23, 2011
Psychology Today Posts Article Claiming Black Women Are Less Attractive
Psychology Today recently posted a controversial article on their site titled: “Why Are Black Women Less Physically Attractive Than Other Women?”
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| KEVIN SIMMONDS |
http://www.lambdaliterary.org/features/05/19/in-every-city-and-town-singing-whitman%E2%80%99s-and-our-america/
It should be obvious to the public by now that someone has broken into Skynet. Who forgot to destroy the files? Now all our "Little" Terminators are at risk.
Actress Jane Seymour Claims Arnold Schwarzenegger Has Two Other Love Children | PopEater.com
TOP NEWS
Obama Presses Israel to Make 'Hard Choices'
By HELENE COOPER
The president, speaking to the nation's foremost pro-Israel lobbying group, repeated his call for Palestinian statehood based on Israel's pre-1967 borders adjusted for land swaps.
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| ANYA ACHTENBERG |
Here is a note Anya sent me last night. She is staying with a friend in St. Paul.
"All those beautiful trees uprooted. My house damaged but basically sound. But my street is devastated, and many streets all around this way. I am safe and grateful."
So maybe we did miss The Rapture. Are we the ones who have been left behind?
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Artists for the Climate 2011 - a set on Flickr
Attendees heard the poetry of E. Ethelbert Miller, described by the Washington Post as "generous, loving, youthful, soft-spoken, outspoken, curious, ...
www.flickr.com/photos/.../sets/72157626401440605/
Attendees heard the poetry of E. Ethelbert Miller, described by the Washington Post as "generous, loving, youthful, soft-spoken, outspoken, curious, ...
www.flickr.com/photos/.../sets/72157626401440605/
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| MILES DAVIS |
Thursday, May 26, in East Saint Love: City Hosts 85th Birthday Party (With a Cake) For Miles Dewey Davis III, Famous Native Son An 85th Birthday Party will be held for Miles Dewey Davis III on Thursday, May 26, at 12:00 noon in the Council Chambers of the East St. Louis (Illinois) Municipal Bldg, 301 River Park Drive. The free family event will include a “likeness”-adorned cake; jazz by Reginald Thomas and the 85th Birthday Jazz Ensemble; “Milestone: The Birth of an Ancestor,” a poetic elegy/multimodal exhibit by ESL poet laureate Eugene B. Redmond (and Soular Systems Ensemble); and reminiscences by Miles’ high school classmates and childhood friends. Davis (1926-1991), the city’s most famous Native Son, was born in Alton (IL) and raised in East St. Louis (from age one). He graduated from Lincoln Senior High School in 1944 and joined classmate/ pianist Eugene Haynes at New York’s Julliard School of Music. A trumpeter, composer, and true “original,” this “all blues” master was revered internationally for being in the avant-garde of musical directions and cultural tastes—a pace-setter stylistically and artistically. His father, Dr. Miles Dewey Davis Sr., practiced dentistry in ESL for several decades and was active in politics and civil rights. He also owned a farm in nearby Millstadt (IL) where he raised prize-winning hogs and horses. When ESL dedicated the Miles Dewey Davis III Elementary School in 1982, Miles and then-wife Cicely Tyson were in attendance, as was Miles’ high school teacher Elwood Buchanan. Other area tributes have included ESL Riverfront festivals and bouquets of poetry—often appearing with photographs of Davis—in Drumvoices Revue, a multicultural journal co-published by SIUE and the EBR Writers Club. Thursday’s tribute to Davis continues a yearlong event-rich celebration of his 85th Birthday, ESL’s Sesquicentennial Year (150th), the 25th Birthday of the EBR Writers Club, the 20th Anniversary of Drumvoices Revue, and other “family” traditions/celebrations with dates ending in “1” or “6.” Sponsors include the Sesquicentennial Planning Committee, SIUE, the City of ESL, Black River Writers Press, and Drumvoices Revue. For more information, call Lauren Parks at 618 482- 6601 (lparks@cesl.us) or E. B. Redmond at 618 650-3991 (eredmon@siue.edu).