updates

It has been forever since I posted. I am sorry for the delay. so much has been happening, while many things are staying the same. I have experienced a tremendous amount of change in my personal life and am thankful-it has been all good, even the bad has been good.

On the writing frontier this has been a week of weeks. I will be a guest columnist in Noire magazine. Also, I am the winner of the No Candles Infinty contest by Osbey Books Inc.- I submitted the story of how I fell in love. I will be featured on the webcasttop discuss this and other works, I will keep you posted on updates. ALso I am now a RAWSISTAZ reviewer and am writing reviews for the newest releases.

I haven't been posting as much because I am trying to complete my third novel (but the first to be published by a publishing company) which has a deadline for November 2007. The more I write, the more the story changes and develops into something completed different than I anticipated, taking away from my time to write other things. The story is intringuing me, the characters keep changing from my original plan - so bear with me, I will get back to regular posting soon!!

Media Happenings

So - Michael Baisden is on a roll. He is experiencing that high that one gets after a planned event goes well, and you just want to keep hosting functions. I am impressed with what he did for Jena 6, it is wonderful to see a real grass roots movement, not spearheaded by the usuals whose issues I don't quite agree with but feel obligated to support. It feels so stale, following behind the regulars. So I felt encouraged that Michael was able to bring together so many people to at least bring attention to the issue, no matter what site one is on.

Well, today, he took on a new issue: Bill O'Reilly. Apparently Bill met Al Sharpton for lunch at Sylvia's, the soul food restaurant in Harlem. Bill made comments to the effect that "black people are beginning to think for themselves, people were sitting quietly, ordering, and noone was yelling mother f..." In other words, he was impressed that he didn't witness black folks acting a fool in the restaurant. Kindof an inverted compliment? So anyway, Michael asked his listeners to call Fox an invite Bill O'Reilly to come onto the Michael Baisden show. hilarious. At last listen, the Fox operators were answering the phone and simply hanging up. So, I am going to tune in to hear the outcome.

Also, I watched the Little Rock 9 HBO show tonight. SOOOOOOOO depressing. It is so easy to forget life outside of the Beltway, how the rest of the world lives. They featured a sophomore mother of two. Another little girl, no kids and honor student, trying hard, but her living conditions were: sad. I spent every summer of my preteen life in Little Rock, the stories and the living only showed one side, of course, but it was real. real. real.

Did anyone see the BET hip hop vs. america show. I can't get over my anti BET sentiment enough to watch it (unless, of course, its Lil Kim: Countdown to Lockdown), but if you saw it, let me know your thoughts....