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

Welcome to the 16th edition of the 2024 Richard Murray Newsletter.

1) The forty-eigth 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)synthography sentiments

Dates

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Shirley reviewed by Movies That Move We

Kindergarten Cooking

Ki Khanga the role playing game

Notre Dame in recovery

Morgan Price of HBCU Fisk University 

Julie Bell on Monsters Madness and Magic 

a wooden hand

CENTO Series episode 48

Thanks for sticking with me,

I’m here for you too,

It means the world

And you know it too.
https://www.deviantart.com/kittysib/art/Gratitude-978318689
darkness that desires hearts to run into it's

brethren upon them. For the abyss is simply a

beckoning the many bewitched souls to sit with 

mention, so wont you jon me in this honey trap
https://www.deviantart.com/backjack-kitsune/art/Welcomed-by-darkness-981107026

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

synthography sentiments

Image

video

DATES

Faith Ringgold spirt flew

https://www.faithringgold.com/

forum discussion

 https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10948-rest-in-peace-faith-ringgold/

A gallery of total solar eclipse images

my favorite

April days

• 21 Moon at equator
• 22 Moon cross path of sun in the sky, ecliptic

Earth Day

Story 1 https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-earth-day-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=894  

Story 2 https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-earth-day-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=895  

• 23 Full Moon pink moon
• 24 Mercury static in the sky ; founder of "old farmer's  almanac" robert b thomas born 1766

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Shirley reviewed by Movies That Move We

video

join the forum to talk about it

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10952-shirley-reviewed-by-movies-that-move-we/

Kindergarten Cooking

Ki Khanga the role playing game

from Mv Media atl

I am thinking about converting that to an electronic form in Black Games Elite. Welcome thoughts or help

Notre Dame in recovery

Well, I don't see a variance. No human made home is outside nature, while nature is always an element at the heart of any human home.... I will keep my reply brief because I am a long admirer of architecture/landscaping.  I will say this I have a strong dislike of dysfunctional architecture or landscaping. I dislike it to no end. 

Morgan Price of HBCU Fisk University 

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10950-fisk-university-makes-gymnastics-history/

Julie Bell on Monsters Madness and Magic 

An interview

in Audio form

my questions 

• What percentage of women in the usa you think picked up body building through their husbands or significant others weights? 
• Did you ever draw a painting as if through a concave or convex lens ?
• Who is your favorite rock musician based on their guitar playing? male or female?
• Have you ever played a Joplin composition on guitar? Your son?
• Who is Boris's favorite european orchestral artist? 
• Someone said community college as a bridge into college or learning is underrated, what do you think? 
• Do you think the internet allows artists to move to different mediums or styles easier through exposure?

 a wooden hand

from concy_art

view it being made

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2653&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 14th edition of the 2024 Richard Murray Newsletter.

1) The forty-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) March challenge

Dates

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Introducing marcia williams

tiktok reality

Screenplays with thoughts from William Shatner aside

Cute library from writeddreams2reality

Posse from Movies that Move We

What is in your kitchen?

A day in Harlem through time

CENTO Series episode 46

a blessed treasure of earth and sky

whether grind, soak, peal, or simply apply
https://www.deviantart.com/rtnightmare/art/Positive-Feature-Poem-Herbs-985412517

the Sun can't see her mirror,

you'll always understand why,

but she's waiting for something,

Self-respect and self-awareness,

A history that writes itself when it's all okay.
https://www.deviantart.com/7evid/art/In-Between-977310841

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

March Challenge

from the AI challenge group

View video at the link

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2640&type=status

and if you are a Sarah Jessica Parker fan

the following is a video of works for a challenge by pgrainbow of deviantart

DATES

Happy Belated Birthday Toshiro Mfune, april 1st

Janus Films trailer

the original trailer

never forget Winnie Mandela , april 2nd

never forget bill Withers, april 3rd

never forget isao takahata, april 5th

https://archive.org/details/grave-of-the-fireflies_202311

never forget Lorraine Graves, , April 1st

At least she got to see Misty Copeland

https://www.dancetheatreofharlem.org/

April 

• 7 :  Moon at Perigee; moon at equator; Venus Moon conjunction; neptune moon conjunction
• 8: New moon, solar eclipse; moon from south to north of the ecliptic; mercury moon conjunction

A solar eclipse , shadowing, from on a planet occurs when a moon is between a star and said planet. A total socal eclipse is when the alignment of a moon and a star is such that  said moon completely blocks out the sun.  The reason why this is a total  is it is a new moon while also crossing the ecliptic, which is the path of the sun in the earth's sky. 

• 10 : mars saturn conjunction; jupiter moon conjunction;  uranus moon conjunction
• 11: Moon in inferior, between sun and earth
• 12Gary Soto born 1952

Oranges 1983 is from him

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=35513

• 13: Moon rides high, largest angle between equator and north pole. 

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Introducing marcia williams

enjoy the photographers works

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10906-marcia-williams/

an example of her work

tiktok reality

_{I commented to the video below}

exactly, in my memory, tiktok is the first social media website not owned in the usa to have a dominant share of usa traffic. I can't think of any other website that wasn't usa owned with such a presence in the usa. The internet isn't the usa's, but the usa wants all major social websites to be owned in the usa or by the usa's allies. 

Screenplays with thoughts from William Shatner aside

I provide my thoughts on screenplays or stageplays utilizing William Shatner's response to an interview with another as support. 

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10907-segments-of-an-interview-with-william-shatner/

Cute library from writeddreams2reality

Posse from Movies that Move We

question, have you ever seen a black cowboy space film?

Video review by clicking below

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10912-posse-review-from-movies-that-move-we/

What is in your kitchen?

I searched my favorites, other artist work,  plus my own work with the words BAKE or COOK? 

I found the entries at the following URL. 

A day in Harlem through time

Look at the changes of the area of the famed photo in time

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10926-in-front-of-a-harlem-brownstone-195819962023/#comment-66392

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 12th edition of the 2024 Richard Murray Newsletter.

1) The forty-fourth 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)The Precipice

3) Center for Black Literature Highlights, day 1 +2

4)sign on a signpost

Dates

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Movies that move we reviews: Rustin, American Fiction, Color Purple

If you could have a pet--and you had time to give it all the love and care it needs, had the space, and had the necessary funds--what would your dream pet be?

Are you a Dune Fan? 

What grammar or punctuation rules do you struggle with?

Questions of Supermen?

Thoughts to the New Shadow that never was

Black Poetry you are feeling now

CENTO Series episode 44

so for better or for worse

for the next generation is in our hands

be they nuclear or diverse

and they move onto the next lands
https://www.deviantart.com/rtnightmare/art/Positive-Feature-Poem-Parents-982918450

this art generates pure bliss

that can leave the mind blown

putting skills to the test 
https://www.deviantart.com/rtnightmare/art/Positive-Feature-Poem-Gift-Art-984156376

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

The Precipice

of the Jiausiku shadowowrlds  series
Author/Artist:  Richard Murray
 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/The-Precipice-1033130281

stageplay

Ikwawezi in snowfur form

colored
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Ikwawezi-in-snowfur-form-march-madness-1033124804

coloring page

https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Ikwawezi-in-snowfur-form-coloring-page-1033123230

tutorial to create

https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Tutorial-of-the-Ikwawezi-in-snowfur-form-1033119449

Pandaj family character page
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/The-Pandaj-Family-Coloring-Page-1033117291

Center for Black Literature Highlights

Day 1 highlights: Michael Eric Dyson

I saw Michael Eric Dyson live at the Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College, the following hold my thoughts

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10856-national-black-writers-conference-best-line-up-ever/?do=findComment&comment=66190

Day 2 part 1 highlights: Dionne Bennett, Levi Catoe, Russell Nurick

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10856-national-black-writers-conference-best-line-up-ever/?do=findComment&comment=66193

Day 2 part 2 highlights: Tiya Miles interviewed by Brenda M Greene

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10856-national-black-writers-conference-best-line-up-ever/?do=findComment&comment=66212

sign on a signpost

what would you put on the signpost?

DATES

Happy Belated March Equinox story

_{The March equinox is the beginning of spring in the northern hemisphere while autumn in the southern hemipshere}

Story 1https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-march-equinox-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=878  

Happy belated Saint Patrick's Day story   

https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-eostre-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=889  

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Movies That Move We reviews: Rustin, American Fiction, Color Purple

Review of all three movies from Movies That Move We

I offer my thoughts in the comments

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10865-movies-that-move-we-rustin-2024-american-fiction-2023-the-color-purple-2023/

View the Color Purple Review below, but use the link for the others plus my thoughts

If you could have a pet--and you had time to give it all the love and care it needs, had the space, and had the necessary funds--what would your dream pet be? 

Hmmm I went with the tomato dog in the attack of the killer tomatoes cartoon. See, it isn't a dog, it is technically still a tomato , thus a plant. so it needs water and light BUT it barks and has some sort of permanent leaves that act as   legs to crawl about. I have no idea if it is male or female... or both, and what happens if it cross pollinates . I don't know if anybody else has read this far, as I rabble on, but what if the tomato dog cross pollinates with a pumpkin or a pomegranate or a watermelon. As long as I don't see any audrey signs I am good to go. And as a tomato it has to have seeds... but, as a tomato dog, what if it mates with a canine of sorts. I don't know if the tomato dog has .. um a penis or vagina but i will love to see it mate with a black belgian shepard wolf, imagine a burgundy belgian shepard tomato wolf. I have money right, land right. I don't know what will happen. IT could be my doom. The Fall of the house of Richard by the Burgundy Tomato wolf . Imagine the howl of the tomato wolf Yeah , my dream pet is the tomato dog , I have officially convinced myself

https://www.deviantart.com/writeddreams2reality/journal/Weekly-Community-Journal-146-1027766557

Are you a Dune Fan?

Did you know how Dune the book came to survive the magazine zone

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10866-name-a-black-story-told-in-magazine-format-that-you-want-to-see-as-a-book/

 What grammar or punctuation rules do you struggle with? 
 

I want to speak on how grammar plus punctuation are approached. 
Louis 14th , or another french monarch if I am wrong, made the first french, labeled, standard.  
Why? There was a time in France where the people in the various regions spoke so many versions commercial or communicative purposes were stymied. A modern example I can give is a few years ago the coach of the english women's flag team stated the women come from so many different places , in modern england, that they have a hard time comprehending each other talking together on the pitch. So they use the standard english to communicate to each other.  
Grammar rules or punctuation rules in any language in all of human history are made and enforced to improve communication or commerce among a set of humans. 
Sequentially, don't treat said rules as the essence of writing but a ruleset. No different than the equation of a line: value in one axis equals the slope of the line multiplied by the value in the axis perpendicular  to the intercepting value in the one axis. 
You have the right to forget a rule. That is why they have rulebooks. Take your time , go through your work, and make the changes if need be. Use a reference book. Use the various electronic tools if accessible. 
But, As Zora Neale Hurston or Robert Burns prove, in opposition to commerce or communication, creative purposes do not require said commonly accepted grammar or punctuation rules. Both of said artists have work that was and is deemed negative grammatically or punctuation wise because they don't fit the commonly accepted standards. 
I end with, listen to Writed, use or apply the commonly accepted rules of the written word. They are mostly known or accepted. They do aid in making communication or commerce better. But, if you creatively wish to go another way, you are free to or not erroneous in doing so. Just be willing to accept many may or will chastise your creative work because it doesn't embrace said rules.
https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1028537409/5121061562

Questions of Supermen?

I answer the following two questions

• IF discovery channel takes your name out of a container of random writers names, and gives you the chance to do a superman movie. Describe your film in one sentence?
• LEt's say Discovery channel chose you and not tae nihis coates to do a black superhero movie, what will the superhero be and describe it in one sentence?

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10870-questions-of-supermen/

Thoughts to the New Shadow that never was

_{the following was a comment to the following video concerning the work of tolkien not finished}

The beginning of the New Shadow reminds me of Ivanhoe from Walter Scott. Ivanhoe at its heart is a book about two whose bloody merger will become one. The beginning of New Shadow suggest one who is becoming two. 

Did Tolkien ever write a story about the Haradrim or sothyrons? I know of characters but never heard of a story tolkien wrote.

To your final question, I am surprised no one in fanfiction has tried something. Tolkien has so many fans and so many fans are writers. 

Black Poetry you are feeling now
what is some favorite black poetry, I share some of mine
https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10847-still-i-rise/?do=findComment&comment=65884

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 53rd or last edition of the 2023 Richard Murray Newsletter.

1) The thirty-second 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.  

Dates

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Patrice Rushen Trio

In A Lonely Place

Honest Bunch Vibration

The Preacher's Wife from Movies That Move We

CENTO Series episode 32

trying to look at things clearly

or lost in their own maze

In the news, it was told

You run an assembly line for roboties

https://www.deviantart.com/redsterfish/art/Money-aristocracy-and-physicians-973908519

Here is a poem , a stanza, from me, based on the scheme of another, do you know which? Not a cento but a shaping inspired by the art linked immediately after.

Leopard, Leopard, stalking stare,

From the mountains snowy glare,

What eternal tongue or mind,

Could design thy fractalic rind? 

https://www.deviantart.com/beckykidus/art/Snow-Leopard-Mountain-Majesty-979814407

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

DATES

31 Sixth day of kwanzaa, kuumba, creativity

January 2024

1 seventh day of kwanzaa, imani, faith

Hopping John Recipe

Ingredients
2 cups cooked rice
2 cups cooked black-eyed peas or 1 can (16 ounces) black-eyed peas, drained and rinsed
1/2 pound ham, diced
1 cup chopped carrots
1/2 cup chopped celery
1/2 cup chopped onions
1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley
Instructions
In a bowl, combine all ingredients. Pour dressing (recipe below) over salad, mix well, and refrigerate for at least one hour. Remove bay leaf before serving.

Dressing
Ingredients
1/2 cup olive oil
1/4 cup vinegar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon dried basil
1/8 teaspoon black pepper
1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1 bay leaf
Instructions
Combine all ingredients in a bowl or a container with a lid, and whisk or shake to blend.

2: January Perihelion - 7:38pm Eastern standard time or UTC -5 the earth is the closest it will be to the sun, at  91,404,095 miles, and on its elliptical orbit about the sun, continuously increases the distance between the earth's center to the Sun's center, till the July  aphelion

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Patrice Rushen Trio

playing Haw Right Now from their album Prelusion on the Black Omnibus show hosted by James Earl Jones

Prelusion, full album

In A Lonely Place

thoughts to the film with Eddie Mueller side Anne Hockens

Another Ask Eddie discussion, involving a discussion of birth of a nation or song of the south

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2554&type=status

Honest Bunch Vibration

Can a man be the John Henry to a vibrator?

Find out what some say

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10680-agree-or-disagree/

The Preacher's Wife from Movies That Move We

check it out

Join a multilog about the film

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10681-the-preachers-wife-review-from-movies-that-move-we/

kwanzaa 2023
https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10741-habari-gani/

HAPPY BESOONED NEW YEAR!!!!!

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

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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

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

Welcome to the 41st edition of the 2023 Richard Murray Newsletter.

1) The twentieth 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.

2) Favorite 2 colors

3)Fall challenge

4)Drawtober Day 3

5) Movies That Move We review Grey Matter

6) Black Rose the samurai, an introduction

Dates

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

The truthtellers

Anyaboz animation

Meet Jason Reeves,  owner of 133art

What is the worth of Africa, as a continental region,  to the USA empire? 

CENTO Series episode 20

off in search of salt and sea

like the moss that creeps over angel wings

begging intimacy, playful bites beneath silken sheets

winter

i watched the crows build their nest

where everyone is a neon glow,

tasting for the thrill of unknown

descent

i tell the moon i love her

cozy among the thorns

embarrassed at the bruises in the early morning light

spring

i’ve seen you clip your own wings, claim it’s necessary

a diminutive thing, still perched at your bedside

i heard the sway of porch chimes,

https://www.deviantart.com/everystupidstar/art/Tree-of-Life-967176500

And with it I follow ruinous glee

denying they, who leer their envy

Of she, most sacred ruin

https://www.deviantart.com/brabimital/art/Love-s-Funeral-Shroud-966158854

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

Favorite 2 colors

I was asked
"What are your favorite color mashups? In other words, what colors do you think go best together in one illustration. I will hype the deviation you choose to make your case as well as one from your gallery if it isn't your artwork. Explain why in only 2 sentences."
My Answer
I have too many great color duets but among my work, I think medium brown with light green, but those are two key colors of the earth , used to sharing the same light.

the following shows a more elaborate green brown duet and in nature.

What is your favorite color duet?

The questioning post
https://www.deviantart.com/rtnightmare/status-update/Welcome-back-to-another-Hype-985400863

Fall challenge

In the group the challenge is simple, draw something seasonal, i made autumn dice, with 2 magic shadows, ala eight sides combined: six physical  + two of shadow.

Drawtober Day 3

It is cityscape, i figured what if a cityscape's shadow becomes the mansion of shadows.

Movies That Move We review Grey Matter

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10583-movies-that-move-we-review-grey-matter/

Black Rose the samurai, an introduction

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2483&type=status

DATES

• October 09: Indigenous People's Day
• October 10: Venus Moon conjunction; Pluto appear stationary,before appear to move again
• October 13: Moon at Equator of Earth ; Boston Americans (modern day Red Sox) won the first World Series 1903... they faced the National League champion Pittsburgh Pirates

Roy Hobbs scored the winner

just joking

• October 14: The side of the Moon that face the earth does not get light from the sun, or a New Moon; The Moon will also pass in between the Sun and the Earth thus a solar eclipse; The moon is moving north to south of the path of the sun in the sky, the ecliptic; MErcury Moon conjunction.

Trivia: Does a New Moon happen whenever a solar eclipse happens? 

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

The truthtellers

Gary Webb discovered a public secret. The USA is an empire. It's government did and does things for its empowerment that sometimes must never be admitted to or have no proof. All empires do this. I know this is real. People say they want the truth, but most of said people don't. The truth is like the magic mirror gate test. Most people, and that includes indigenous people in the usa, recent immigrants from central america to the usa, descended of enslaved black folk in the usa like myself, of course whites in the usa, and many or most others when faced with truths to what they hold dear will run away screaming.  

Interview on Democracy Now

More Links to interviews side Gary Webb on Democracy Now

https://www.democracynow.org/topics/gary_webb

film trailer

Anyaboz animation

click the image or link below and enjoy

https://www.tumblr.com/ypshadowking/727746129286086656

Meet Jason Reeves,  owner of 133art

interview and images

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10532-meet-jason-reeves-owner-of-133art/

What is the worth of Africa, as a continental region,  to the USA empire? 

I think the greater question is the last government in Africa to defeat a foreign, non african,  power in any fashion was ethiopia. Which government in africa is closest to making that a reality again? 

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Photographers, give this a show

Enjoy Kin Truly Playing Lovingly

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

Welcome to the 32nd edition of the 2023 Richard Murray Newsletter.

1) The eleventh 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) Love That Pass Ships In The Night 

3) Are you eloi or morlock?

4) Gratitude

DATES

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Plant Dye Pocket on Handmade Dress

Tools for fetishes

Little Mermaid Review from Movies That Move We

Earliest second phase Africanfuturism

Everyone joins the Black complaint line in the usa

Bo Diddly and Chuck Berry played on the same stage

CENTO Series episode 11

Not knowing if I was up or down, I clung in vain to the roof-top
Or plummeted, I know not which...
For my tower stood on nothing but a rough-hewn asteroid,
All whirling round me, God's own kaleidoscope...

https://www.deviantart.com/chaosfive-55/art/Anabasis-965876507

Sweet, little, unforgettable thing

No and I'm not sorry, 

I'm just loving my body

so incredible

https://www.deviantart.com/fkataylor/art/The-Real-Qveen-2023-Redraw-965966657

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

Love That Pass Ships In The Night 

A work I intentionally made within a day using 9 random prompts. Listed below, I hope you enjoy. Really enjoyed this challenge. 

• 9:30 am
• The last person that should be trusted with a secret
• A Frenchman
• Apolitical parade
• Twenty years in the future
• Fossilized tooth
• Blank sticky note
• Oversized feather
• scalpel

Are you Eloi or Morlock?

I am an Eloi. The traveler didn't traverse everywhere, somewhere else the local morlocks had ate most of the local eloi and began to eat themselves, eventually, the local morlocks murdered themselves off, and most of the local eloi died off of starvation. But the eloi who survived used the local green palance and lucked up to learning. they thrived by one time invites from individuals among  other tribes of morlocks or eloi who  went against the grain. One day they left eart, the traveler, never knew of this clan of eloi. 

What is your vote?

https://www.deviantart.com/chaosfive-55/poll/H-G-Wells-Time-Machine-Poll-Which-Team-are-you-on-8321140

Gratitude

Gratitude some say is being thankful or giving good will but in modernity I will suggest the best way to describe gratitude is spreading positivity to be positive. No one owes you positivity back for being positive to them just to be positive yourself. But, sharing positivity to be positive I think, is the best deterrent to negativity in all its forms as well as positivity for negative sake.
Speaking focusedly , as an artist, all other artists work i see allows me to absorb positivity even absent intent, cause the creativity to make any art can only add in the door stop of imagination to the door of the mind.  

DATES

• August 6th- Moon going from south to north of the ecliptic, the path of the sun in the sky; Honor of the catholic feast of the transfiguration, when Jesus spirit becomes radiant as john the baptist still lives, in religio-history , it is the only miracle that happened to jesus.
• August 8th- Jupiter-Moon conjunction; Uranus Moon conjunction; catholic saint dominic feast day, founder of the powerful dominican order
• August 9th- greatest elongation of mercury in the sky 27 degrees east, mercury is farther away from the sun in the sky than any time in the month
• August 10th- catholic saint lawrence, saint of firefighters, cut a light on in the night sky
• August 11th-Catholic St. Clare, the patron saint of television- 1958 look it up , she was personal friends with Francis of Assisi, wrote the first rules of life for a catholic order by a woman, to her own, The Order of Poor Ladies. The order she started is the first catholic order to have a rule of poverty. patron saint of eye disease... I think she did use her time to write a lot. The story about her joining a convent and her father's anger and her arranged betrothed rage and francis's role or perceived role is pure telenovela:) her father:) 
• August 12th- Moon highest over equator

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Plant Dye Pocket on Handmade Dress

from 

Plant Dye For Textiles

See the short

https://youtube.com/shorts/y5kYFnB6dNc?si=HZfotUaIQzEaIz5K

The following is a complete video on the process of how she uses local leaves for dyes

Tools for fetishes

Tools are simply tools, they are used to aid in doing something. By default some tools have the ability to allow someone to do a team of human's work themselves. But, at the end, the tool is never the source of the problem in the resulted craft. That is the human role.

Little Mermaid Review from Movies That Move We

My Thoughts

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10423-movies-that-move-we-little-mermaid-review/

Earliest second phase Africanfuturism

free to read in completion

https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/390-earliest-africanfuturism/

Everyone joins the Black complaint line in the usa

Growing up in the black community in the USA you always hear elders speak of nonviolent striving. The concept is simple. Follow the law, become a fiscal capitalistic mastermind, and you will wear down or upend the powers that be who allow themselves illegal growth or cheat fiscal capitalistic rules for their betterment.

But what you learn time and again as a Black person is not the futility of nonviolence. Nonviolence is not futile. But it has impotency against violent power. In the USA those in power achieved that power through violence. Nonviolence can't undo or overcome  that power to the enslaved/restricted/limited/impotent, it never has in human history< ethiopia/china/cuba/haiti/ireland unlike their peers or similars didn't achieve through nonviolence and the reason is clear> and I argue nonviolence will never undo violent power< if gandhi's movement in india, if the nonviolent adamant black community of tulsa oklahoma , if the native american's hyper green lifestyle long before the green movement of white hippies couldn't overcome violence, how can less honest or less focused attempts succeed?> 

I am not advocating violence from blacks to whites or the government system in the usa ... i am not advocating any impotent group utilize violence in the usa to their oppressor... but I am stating a simple historical fact. Power matters, power through violence isn't to be scoffed at, ownership through violence has a strength that is very strong. Those without the ability to gain power through violence or ownership through violence are not futile or dysfunctional but they have a ceiling of potency.

Now the following are two pleas. One from a latino of the usa and one from a woman of the usa, asking when the anglo, male, white owners or powerful will share power or share ownership? 

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Bo Diddly and Chuck Berry played on the same stage

Rock and Roll is Black y'all

Showcasing the great Norma Jan Wofford, aka the Dutchess

let no one tell you black women are foreign to the guitar

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 26th edition of the 2023 Richard Murray Newsletter.

1) The 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) Happy Belated Juneteenth

3) Blood Of Jesus movie review

4) Happy Belated Solstice

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

A Poem From A Child To a Parent

A Question Of Art

Mermaid coloring page

CENTO Series episode 5

So that my demons  may

end(s) in sweet sleep

will you sing to me?

https://www.deviantart.com/pufflespower/art/WIll-you-sing-to-me-956728193

cuddle the fluffy ones

let them be a source of love and devotion

and smile in the language of their kind

https://www.deviantart.com/rtnightmare/art/Positive-Feature-Poem-Baby-Animals-962295073

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

Happy Belated Juneteenth 

If you’re from the U.S., have you celebrated Juneteenth before? If you are from elsewhere in the world, are there similar celebrations of liberation in your area?
Yes, it is a tradition in my household, as well as Black Solidarity Day or Kwanzaa. All humans have celebrations of freedom cause all humans at some point were , or or will be enslaved by other... humans. I will add one thing. Freedom is important, but not all people's freedom is imagined the same. To restate, the assumption from many is that two people imagine each other free the same way, all to often that isn't true. It isn't is everybody free as much as, can everybody be free at the same time. It sounds obvious, but ... it usually isn't. 

In what ways do you express your heritage or your culture’s history through art?
In my writing I wrote two story collections based on Black Myths . 
Sunset Children Stories

Looking West and West

In terms of art, I made a recent work for Juneteenth

What is a quote that inspires you?
I will give two
<If you're not ready to die for it, take the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.> Malcolm X
< We have dared to be free. Let us dare to be so by ourselves and for ourselves." > Jean JAcques Dessalines

Showcase of Black Work for Juneteenth in Deviantart

Blood Of Jesus

Poll and Transcript and Discussion

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10354-blood-of-jesus-from-richard-murrays-corner-of-movies-that-move-we/

Happy Belated Solstice

May all be cool in the northern hemisphere summer, may all be warm in the southern hemisphere winter. A solstice is when the a pole is angled most toward the sun, thus causing the effect of the sun standing still. Another way of saying it, is the ecliptic , or axis based on the equator of the earth has the largest angle distance to a line from the sun center to the earth.

Enjoy two stories

Story 1 https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-good-news-blog-stories-through-a-year/?tab=comments#comment-909

Story 2 https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-good-news-blog-stories-through-a-year/?tab=comments#comment-910

Enjoy and sign up to my free email newsletter
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Photo reference

https://www.flickr.com/photos/lou1003/39754533505/in/dateposted/

A nice photo set

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

A Poem From A Child To a Parent

A Question Of Art

"What type of art do you want to learn/get better at making?"  
The easiest or most honest answer is all art. I have written poetry or other forms of literature for most of my life and it is just a process, no matter the awards or adulations offline or online. To my graphic work the same. 

Now, to answer your question. I need to learn or become more comfortable or suitable with digital art. Deviantart has great digital art tutorials from various members I have on a list to use one day.  Currently, I am working on learning + improving modeling art. It is 2d like  holograms not volumetric displays< the holodeck of star trek>. In a literature sense, in terms of work I am less experienced with, I am doing the July Jubilee stageplay contest and for my Black Games Elite group I will be working in the second half of the year on a literature based game.
I end with a simple message to any artists who may read my words. Be comfortable with what you are most comfortable in creating. If you like making stick figure comics, and never seem enthused to do anything else, then keep making stick figure comics. No shame exists in creating where you are happy. If, you feel you want to create in a less experienced field, remember, you are new there. All fields of art have tons of tutorials or guides or rules, but, if you have little experience respect that truth and be busy creating over technique. I have only done a few models and I know my technique as I create them can improve but at this stage I need to focus on creating and learning where I will like to create in the medium. So, do likewise to places you are new too. If you never wrote a poem before, finish the poem first and adjust it if you want, but focus on writing more poetry than appeasing the many rules on poetry. 

View the feature below

Mermaid Coloring page

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

Welcome to the 18th edition of the 2023 Richard Murray Newsletter. Enjoy the Calligraphy of the Aevemor character, created by TheBootesArtVoid . Some more thoughts to Tituba of Salem. Do you have or had you in the past an imaginary friend... I made an imaginary spirit animal, his name is Phillipe Saddletear. In the, IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR: lower the damn rent in NYC, a review of Cooley High, Polaroid week, SpringFlowers tag.

Calligraphy Commission for the Aevemor Character from TheBootesArtVoid

I enjoyed this alot, as I do all my Calligraphic work. It is my uncommon style. As a writer or drawer I like the ability to do both worlds and calligraphy is that. It is the border between said creative worlds and thus where I am very comfortable as a multimedia artist. I made quite a few sketches and other work, which I will not share. I am still trying to get to the place where I let the public in on my processes. It is not that I am afraid or think negatively of it, as much as , I like creating quietly or privately. I am not one who can draw or write online. Anyway, enjoy and if you color yourself, please do so, and I will like to see it. 

Colored Version

Coloring Version

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10239-more-information-on-tituba-and-salem-through-tony-todd/

Phillipe Saddletear

I admit he began more hawkish but I watched a hummingbird show, sequentially, things changed. The eye patch and mechanical talon was from the first sketch. Maybe he talks. I don't know. This character is young. I know the contest said imaginary friend, but I don't have that. And I believe that living beings: plants/fish/humans/the earth can connect to each other naturally. So... let me make up a imaginary spirit animal that isn't what in my heart my spirit animal looks like:)
Phillipe means lover of horses, but he is an avian. So at the last minute I gave him a last name.

Coloring page is after the color version.

Coloring Page

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Half of the people in New York City don't have the ability to afford basic needs. 

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Cooley High from Movies That Move We

Polaroid Week

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2318&type=status

SpringFlowers tag on Deviantart

url: https://www.deviantart.com/paulneptune/art/Spring-Life-917127665

search the tag: https://www.deviantart.com/tag/springflowers

Congratulations to Simone Biles side husband

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10244-congrats-to-simone-biles/

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 17th edition of the 2023 Richard Murray Newsletter.  As a Kobo Writing Life Author I am happy Kobo Plus is in the USA finally. I ask all to join Kobo Plus and read my work. A place a blog for more information. The case for Cleopatra , concerning the lawsuit against the NEtflix show about her being presented in Kemet, commonly known as Egypt, I provide. I wanted to provide an example for the Stellantis project and I am still waiting on New York City's reply for 191st street. But, the main end of month work will be fun. It is a surprise which will be in the next newsletter edition.

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The following are selected series or works. If you join Kobo Plus you can read them for free. Read them all and tell me what you think.

• Short Story Collections series
• https://www.kobo.com/us/en/series/richard-murray-short-story-collection
  • Poetry or More - a book of my poetry , from the Short Story Collections series
  • https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/poetry-or-more-1
• Tip Jar Audios series
• https://www.kobo.com/us/en/series/richard-murray-tip-jar-audios
  • Ship of Fools- a poem from the Tip JAr Audio series
  • https://www.kobo.com/us/en/audiobook/ship-of-fools-legend-to-be
  • The Golden Mirror- a tale from the Tip Jar Audios series
  • https://www.kobo.com/us/en/audiobook/the-golden-mirror-2
• JiHi series- Screenplay series
• https://www.kobo.com/us/en/series/jihi
  • The Nyotenda- free to read screenplay with storyboards, from the JiHi series
  • https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-nyotenda
• The Gospel of Joseph - to reclaim the original intent of the gospels from christianity 
• https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/gospel-of-joseph

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IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

What are your thoughts to Creed3 ? Can you handle the sporting movie structure? 

If you are fans of the book or the film, The Princess Bride, enjoy

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