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Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening, wherever you are reading. 

Welcome to the 18th edition of the 2024 Richard Murray Newsletter.

1) The fiftieth of the Cento series.  A cento is a poem made by an author from the lines of another author's work. In the series I place my cento and a link to the other authors poem.  

2)Memories of mirrors

3) Three poems unraveling one story

4) The Settlement - Jiausiku

Dates

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

 Artivism project with Shawn Alleyne

Approximate galactic mergings

KWL romance tropes episode

The art of manipulation

GDBee kickstarter

Chocolate Cage

Black Statian Award list

CENTO Series episode 50

I will have to tear away at that very last veil

no matter how far I've come

and face the truths that have kept us prisoner
https://www.deviantart.com/bronsrealm/art/Poetry-The-Veil-978707224

We do not remember

As if a sculpture etched, in our mind's

will not be used for pottery.

As if our swimmer's know, by bone -

heavy, to speed the sinking.

We do not remember
https://www.deviantart.com/maggotsx/art/Memories-by-the-Lake-959383727

If you are interested in reading my own lines, here is a collection

Or if you prefer to listen,

here is a recording with art, can you tell the Cento I made of my own work in the art? 

I do calligraphic commissions

https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/commission/Microcalligraphy-signatures-1487995

Memories of mirrors

join the discussion or view video
https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2667&type=status

submission 

video

Three poems unraveling one story

The challenge was  simple, three poems as part of one story. You need to read them in order: PRivate Eye, Woman, Secretary

The Private Eye

The Woman

The Secretary

The post to discuss on AALBC

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2674&type=status

and the invitational

https://www.deviantart.com/xyron7777777/journal/Week-4-Folder-Open-AND-Poetry-Challenge-1044434074

The Settlement

A play of original matrimony

forum discussion
https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10991-the-settlement-from-richard-murray/

DATES

May

5- Moon is closest to Earth, perigee + Moon is moving south to north to the path of the Sun in the sky, the ecliptic

6- Mercury Moon conjunction

7- New Moon + Venus Moon conjunction

8- Jupiter Moon conjunction+ Uranus Moon conjunction

9- Mercury greatest elongation in the sky 26 degrees west

10- 1908 Anna Jarvis organized Mother's Day observance at Andrews Methodist Episcopal church, Grafton, Virginia 1908

11 Moon highest above equator, rides high ; Mamertus christian saint day , first of Three CHilly Saints Pancras is second, and Gervais is third

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

 Artivism project with Shawn Alleyne

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2654&type=status

Approximate galactic mergings

in four billion years the galaxy once called Milky Way will collide with the galaxy once called andromeda, completely, if you are not scared read on

explanation from nasa
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasas-hubble-shows-milky-way-is-destined-for-head-on-collision
from earthsky
https://earthsky.org/space/earths-night-sky-milky-way-andromeda-merge/

KWL romance tropes episode

enjoy the forum talk 

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10968-kwl-romance-tropes-episode/

The art of manipulation

The source of the image  you see was made with computer programs but it took 42 hours of touchups to get the source of the image you see to the image you see. Human art is still needed.

GDBee Kickstarter

she earned over 1000 preorders and still time for more

the link to the kickstarter or to discuss the artist is at the following

Chocolate Cage

You take a balloon, if you have skill form it into a shape. 
Then melt chocolate. Your preference as chocolate comes in many forms. But I think you can even melt simple hershey bars. 
Then put the melted chocolate in a funnel , wait for the chocolate to be in a melting state like syrup or honey, not a liquid state. 
then open the funnel's spout and spread the chocolate in a pattern about the balloon
Then wait for the chocolate to cool. 
then once cool, pop the balloon and a chocolate cage:)
 and you can add things to the chocolate like nuts or other things for different flavors. 

referral

https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1035682822/5125780174

thought on a creative writing degree

Black Statian Award list

I realize I have never seen a list of awards concerning the black populace in the usa that are federalwide. 

https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/345-richard-murray-creative-table-3/

Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening, wherever you are reading. 

Welcome to the 46th edition of the 2023 Richard Murray Newsletter.

1) The twenty-fifth of the Cento series.  A cento is a poem made by an author from the lines of another author's work. In the series I place my cento and a link to the other authors poem. 

2) Lee and Low 2024 titles 

3)Kobo indie book cover contest

4) The Women of Brewster Place reviewed from Movies That Move We

5) Calling N.A.S.A.

Dates

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Do you know about female snakes?

The legend soundtracks

The Music of Vi Redd

Angelique Noire and the modern dress code

CENTO Series episode 25

A Surprise Lyric Cento. I will cite the original at the end, but let's see if you can figure it out first.

Attack of the Killer Great Fungoids!
Attack of the Killer Great Fungoids! 

From Richard’s lab come forth each week 
The ripe white monsters of which we speak
Except when he has, a security leak!
Great Fungoids, Great Fungoids!

Oh, isn’t it a pity? - Fungoids eating the netty!
Can no one stop these mutant fruits? Where will we find our brave recruits?
Can Chaos get rid, of that dumb parachute?
Great Fungoids, Great Fungoids! Yes!

thanks to menaomar of youtube for the original cartoon's lyrics

Cartoon song - I don't know who manipulated the film theme for the cartoon, if you find out, do tell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixpFgIxpffU

original film song - words and music by John De Bello
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1mWDyVL7Vs

photo inspiration
https://www.deviantart.com/chaosfive-55/art/Emissaries-of-Ye-Third-Kingdom-974299166

Left to my fate, left to drift on the silver spangled sea 

Till the end of time, 

Beats the heart she stole
https://www.deviantart.com/royalartist91/art/Universal-love-968762349

If you are interested in reading my own lines, here is a collection

Or if you prefer to listen,

here is a recording with art, can you tell the Cento I made of my own work in the art? 

Lee and Low 2024 titles 

they suggested the following

MILES OF STYLE: EUNICE W. JOHNSON & THE EBONY FASHION SHOW
by Lisa D. Brathwaite & illustrated by Lynn Gaines
https://www.leeandlow.com/books/miles-of-style

SAFE PASSAGE
by G. Neri & illustrated by David Brame
https://www.leeandlow.com/books/safe-passage

I wrote a review for Miles of Style, I am getting it published soon. It will be too late for this newsletter.

The seasonal showcase

Edelweiss review book
https://www.edelweiss.plus/#catalogID=4928356&page=1

URL
https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10640-lee-low-spring-2024-titles-for-review-consideration/

Kobo indie book cover contest

If you published a book this year on Kobo, submit the cover, you only get one per author so do it for your cover illustrator. It must be an indie book. 

more information
https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2510&type=status

I submitted the following book's cover as my entry , if you didn't see it already

The Women of Brewster Place reviewed from Movies That Move We

The discussion on AALBC

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10643-the-woman-of-brewster-place-review-in-movies-that-move-we/

Calling N.A.S.A.

I asked , don't know if they will reply [I will post in a later newsletter edition if they do]

Most governments in humanity are poor, they don't have the wealth or resources of the USA. Engineering is a process of gradual improvement. For example: people who built unmotorized bicycles went into automotive or aircraft manufacturing. My question: before a mission control for space exploration can be built is the prior construction an air traffic control ?
ask
https://nasa.tumblr.com/ask
First WOman comic [text/audio/video free to view]
https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2511&type=status

I do calligraphic commissions

https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/commission/Microcalligraphy-signatures-1487995

DATES

November

• 13: New Moon- moon gets the least visible light from the sun; Mars+Moon conjunction; Uranus at opposition to the sun [look reverse of the sunrise]
• 14: Mercury+Moon conjunction
• 15: William Herschel born 1738 

Original manuscript of his Symphony No. 15 in E-flat major (1762)

Replica in the William Herschel Museum, Bath, of a telescope similar to that with which Herschel discovered Uranus

He was one of the earliest to note infrared radiation in europe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Herschel

• 16: Moon closest to the south pole, runs low; skylab 4 launched 1973, the usa's only space station
• 18:  Mars +Sun conjunction ; Pluto +Moon conjunction

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Do you know about female snakes?

I admit I knew about female snakes while totally ignorant about female snake vaginas. But I must go to the beginning. I saw the following image.

And I realized something. How can a snake-woman mate? In many images, snake woman seem to have a vagina like a human woman but that doesn't fit the snake anatomy well. Now I know that many species have an organ some call a cloaca [I learned for bird research a while back] which is designed to be a place for peeing/defecating/birthing. And I was right in my guess that snakes have cloacas. So I searched for one for females and I learned this is not commonly known. Knowing this if I ever do a hybrid snake-human woman in the future I will consider that reality in her posture. A study done in 2022 says the following in italic, with the entirety at the URL linked after the italic text. Remember to click read more. 

Despite more than two centuries' worth of data on hemipenes, however, nobody had described an equivalent structure in female snakes. The lack of evidence caused some scientists to speculate that snake hemiclitorises might not exist at all — or that, if they did, they had been reduced to a stunted evolutionary remnant.

A lack of research around female anatomy is a troubling scientific trend. Even in humans, surprisingly little is known about the clitoris. The full structure of the organ, which includes not only the little nub at the top of the labia but also two large internal bulbs full of nerve endings, wasn't discovered until the mid-1840s. Even then, it remained relatively obscure to the medical establishment until Australian urologist Helen O'Connell's work in 2005, which showed that typical textbook depictions of the clitoris were riddled with inaccuracies. In fact, just last month, scientists counted all 10,000 nerve fibers in the human clitoris for the first time.

Data about female reproductive anatomy and behavior in nonhuman animals are even more scarce. A November analysis published in the journal Nature found that between 1970 and 2021, more than seven times as many papers were published about sperm competition in animals compared with female mate selection. A 2014 perspectives article published in the journal PLOS Biology found that about 50% of all studies of animal genitalia published between 1989 and 2013 focused exclusively on males, while 10% focused only on females. 

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2471&type=status

I know i am a member , but, damn patriarchy:) 

The legend soundtracks

if you don't know the film, see the following, yes full of spoilers. but, skip to the next topic if you don't want to. And, the reviewers are biased.

Okay, I will place, Goldsmith's first and then Tangerine's second as i can only do linear positioning her for embeds.

Side note before you go, aren't the covers both great. 

The Music of Vi Redd

DO you know of another Jazz musician who is not a singer while female?

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2474&type=status

an interview

Angelique Noire and the modern dress code

view her fashion tips and see an interview where she discusses fashion

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2475&type=status

Here are some examples of Angelique Noire in fashion

Some words from a spokesperson to a majority of women , who are rarely advertised

The peoples who have been destroyed or severely diminished by other peoples is a long list

https://www.flickr.com/photos/clarkarrington/53310381903/in/feed-12326253-1699158123-1-72157721693861963

https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/345-richard-murray-creative-table-3/

Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening, wherever you are reading. 

Welcome to the 40th edition of the 2023 Richard Murray Newsletter.

1) The nineteenth of the Cento series.  A cento is a poem made by an author from the lines of another author's work. In the series I place my cento and a link to the other authors poem.  But a surprise await.

3) Dedenne in the rainforest

4) Swim across the Colby Elv - a story with PRince Menelik

5) A little nudity

6) Lifewriting Screenwriting course

7) Brown Girls Books publishing opportunity

Dates

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Dangal and International womens empowerment

Battle of Vertieres

Newlyweds blood at the altar

A Wrinkle In Citation

CENTO Series episode 19

their passion too loud

determination too great

plentiful as the stars above

within the dark

https://www.deviantart.com/rtnightmare/art/Positive-Feature-Poem-Devotion-969791845

“O Prince, I pray, embrace the day

“My Lord, shall I play?” he hears her say

while near at hand, slowly wafting a fan,

While the maiden croons her wordless tune

As if in a dream, the tired man leans

ahead awaits the serried ranks

Until with a great crack, all vision goes black

And like a shot from a gun, the sun is gone.

Standing in a familiar field.

Gone is the shade, and the comely maid,

The sun has conquered the land.

The only sign he is still awake

kneels a dark-eyed maid?

The day is hot, is it not?

https://www.deviantart.com/nobodysson/art/The-Mower-s-Dream-965258564

If you are interested in reading my own lines, here is a collection

Or if you prefer to listen,

here is a recording with art, can you tell the Cento I made of my own work in the art? 

I do calligraphic commissions

https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/commission/Microcalligraphy-signatures-1487995

Dedenne in the rainforest

For the rainforest collaboration which is now closed. I made two pokemon. 

The following is the description

Dedenne, one of many pokemon serving as a hummingbird traffic guide in the rainforest. He is standing vigilant at a food sign for Bee Hummingbird visiting the rainforest from cuba. As someone small for his species he respects the bee hummingbird's need for stillness, as he has a little queens Wreath, a vine, wrapped about how for any passing bee hummingbird nourishment.

the coloring page

and if you enjoy Dedenne, something tells me you will enjoy Sudowoodo too, so I the following link to the 37th edition will take you to him at work in the rainforest.

Swim across the Colby Elv - a story with Prince Menelik

Prince Menelik side a Norsipyan , Asmund, challenge the swim across the serene, calm, Colby river.

for various stories and art concerning Princess Candace or Prince Menelik utilize the following

A little nudity

A fellow artist , supertiti09 had a birthday raffle and so I participated and i got the chance to get one of my works made by another. Here is the work I made. It is nude so... you have to click to see.

the coloring page

Now I was inspired by a model named precious , who was shared to me by another. I will share the links, it is also mature, but I will provide the video that inspired the image after to regale you to check the adult images.

colored version

The visual inspiration

I admit i wouldn't believe it, if i didn't see it:)

Lifewriting Screenwriting Course

TEN SECRETS OF HOLLYWOOD SCREENWRITERS from Tananarive Due side Steven Barnes of Lifewriting
full video or slideshow at the following image or link

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10561-ten-secrets-of-hollywood-screenwriters-from-tananarive-due-side-steven-barnes-of-lifewriting/

Brown Girls Books publishing opportunity

shades of brilliance invite
for 12- 19 year old authors
all information at the following image or link

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10562-brown-girls-books-shades-of-brilliance/

DATES

October

Venus goes close to Regulus of Leo circa 8th or 9th. Best seen in east coast usa circa 5 a.m. On 14th annular solar eclipse visible in western states. Use eye protection when looking at it. Venus greatest distance from sun on the 23rd circa 46 degree, as it circles about the Leo constellation. 28th a one percent eclipse visible in asia while the moon is in conjunction to Jupiter. 

• 1st- Jupiter Moon conjunction, a conjunction is when a line can be made parallel to the horizon or perpendicular to the horizon  where two bodies in the sky are visible

Thomas Mantell died chasing a UFO
https://www.ufocasebook.com/Mantell.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantell_UFO_incident
Project blue book microfilm
https://web.archive.org/web/20071011185942/http://bluebookarchive.org/
Project Blue book text
http://www.nicap.org/rufo/contents.htm
Unclassified documents
https://www.fold3.com/publication/461/us-project-blue-book-ufo-investigations-1947-1969

• 2nd- Uranus Moon conjunction; California state inland rainbow trout record is 27 pounds, 0 ounces, caught at Lake Natoma by Frank Palmer of Orangevale on October 2, 2005. 
• 4th- 1987 make way for the ducklings sculpture, from Nancy Schon, inspired by the book of the same name from Robert McCloskey  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_Way_for_Ducklings_(sculpture)

• 5th- Moon makes the biggest angle between the equator and a line made from its center side the earth's, moon rides high

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Dangal and International womens empowerment

Battle of Vertieres

The last battle of the Haitian Freeing

Art: @chevelin_pierre / @chevelin_illustration
Story: Edwin Magloire @ebmagloire

Newlyweds blood at the altar

A new film from Filled With Magic productions, an independent Black film production company, led by Moon Ferguson. Here is some information, if the image intrigues you. 

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10526-the-newlyweds-blood-at-the-altar/

A Wrinkle In Citation

Citation has always been a challenge for artists. 99.99% of artists are financially impotent, sequentially, they work absent the ability to control the way in which their work is advertised. This has always been true, since the oldest rulers about the Nile. But, in modernity, the heritage of user activity, brewed through the electronic communication platform known as the internet, makes citation more than a sin, it is an absent. Citation becomes a tool for the potent and an avenue to showcase one's followship.

In the following article, cited below, the artist who made the following cover was revealed.

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2440&type=status

And a thought to website extensionality

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2470&type=status

https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/345-richard-murray-creative-table-3/

Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening, wherever you are reading. 

Welcome to the 27th edition of the 2023 Richard Murray Newsletter.

1) The sixth of the Cento series.  A cento is a poem made by an author from the lines of another author's work. In the series I place my cento and a link to the other authors poem. 

2) Witches Pendant 3D Model

3) Bulwer Lytton

Dates

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Dreadful Tales issue 45

Start a writing business from Kobo Writing Life

Fiyah Mag Issue 27

Happy belated birthday Richard Matheson

Animaltroniek

Grief in SFF from Thistle and Verse

In memory of Rod Serling

Black Education in the USA was never...

CENTO Series episode 6

And the banshee lilts her lamentations

trembling trees bow their hoary heads

and nature is anointed in tears of grief

for the lord of the land dies this night

And the banshee lilts her lamentations

https://www.deviantart.com/barosus/art/Lamentations-962954635

Won't you share an enticing cup of tea

And I will admit I madly giggled

Steeped in ambient impossibilities

What a great old time was our repartee

https://www.deviantart.com/barosus/art/A-Great-Old-Time-964168685

If you are interested in reading my own lines, here is a collection

Or if you prefer to listen,

here is a recording with art, can you tell the Cento I made of my own work in the art? 

I do calligraphic commissions

https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/commission/Microcalligraphy-signatures-1487995

Witches Pendant 3d Model

It all began with a Witchtember, a daily art prompt challenge, entry. The prompt was necklace. Where I made the following. Can you tell the spell of the pendant or the meaning of the Banners of Arms? Maybe you can guess the names of the two clans.

Then, arcencieldigitalart made a 3d contest and so I made a coloring page, do show me your colors?

and with said base I made the 3 d model. It seems embedding from sketchfab isn't working in over-blog. So you have to click to experience the image volumetric. 

Do you think I need to do the whistling blade next?

Bulwer Lytton

I submitted my one sentence. I thought about it for a while. Even though they allowed multiple entries. I wanted to be more honest and give one sentence one go. I chose a story I am working on that makes me laugh as the inspiration. It ended the 30th of June so the time has passed to submit but they invite annually since the 1980s. Have at it next time. 

DATES

• 2nd-> Moon rides low, largest angle beneath the equator of the earth Thurgood Marshall born 
• 3rd->Full Buck Moon, for the deer. Dog Day's Begin, originally corresponding to the summer solstice
• 4th->Moon closest to earth- perigee; Conjunction pluto side moon
  • Belated Flag day story https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-flag-day-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=905
  • Belated Juneteenth story https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-juneteenth-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=908
• 6th->Sun farthest from earth, aphelion ; Saturn side Moon appear in a straight line, vertical or horizontal in sky, conjunction
  • Aphelion Story 1 https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-aphelion-day-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=923
  • Aphelion story 2 https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-aphelion-day-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=924
• 7th-> Venus greatest illumination in sky
• 8th) Moon at Equator ; conjunction- Neptune side Moon

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Dreadful Tales issue 45

Start A Writing Business From Kobo Writing Life

https://kobowritinglife.com/2023/06/26/how-to-start-your-writing-business-so-youve-published-a-book-now-what/

Fiyah MAg issue 27

https://fiyahlitmag.com/2023/06/01/issue-27-carnival-toc-cover-art/

Features include:

The Spirit of Bois – a short story by Karyn Díaz

Capsule of Souls – a short story by Dexter F.I. Joseph

Petunia – a short story by Lerato Mahlangu

Sentience – a novelette by Nkone Chaka

 Cover illustrated by Manny Edeko.

Happy Belated Birthday Richard Matheson

His first sale was to the story, Born From Man and Woman

a sequel to the story was written by another writer , while Matheson was alive, and is titled:

She Screech Like Me

ANIMALTRONIEK

And for more tech magic

Here is a $20 project that can turn a can into a musical toy which can be used to aid an instrument

click the image

https://makezine.com/projects/a-can-full-of-tone/

Grief in SFF from Thistle and Verse

My Answers to the questions

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2361&type=status

In Memory Of Rod Serling

his spirit flew in 06/28/1975 

some clips from A Passage For Trumpet

if interested a story overview

Black Education in the USA was never...

bad. Black people, the community or most individuals, are simply financially poor and that comes with a reality no quantity of knowledge can undo.

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10373-education-another-venue-where-black-people-have-been-dysfunctional-to-ourselves/

https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/345-richard-murray-creative-table-3/

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

HOPE YOU ENJOYED THE HIGHLIGHTED WORK OF 2022

here is a last entry , it is used as the cover photo for this post