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

Welcome to the 48th edition of the 2023 Richard Murray Newsletter.

1) The twenty-seventh 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)  Literary opposition to Gaza

3)Celebrating the Flickr x Black Women Photographers Grant 2023 Finalists and Recipient

Dates

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Do you know what a machicolation does? 

What does the standardization of grammar mean?

What is the lesson in the Palestinian?

Dark Academia

CENTO Series episode 27

A woman's third eye sliced by stagnant wind

Not an iota of regret

But I will always drown out the sound with the

Two pillars breaching heaven
https://www.deviantart.com/leehon/art/Ta-An-Gra-Athraithe-Ni-Bhfuair-Se-Bas-969188947

That is a dream we work to make real because, like it or not,

These are expected reactions to creatures from the darkest pit
https://www.deviantart.com/shining-scribe/art/One-With-The-Shadows-972011448

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

Literary opposition to Gaza

your thoughts?

join a discussion

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10665-national-book-award-finalists-oppose-the-ongoing-bombardment-of-gaza/

Celebrating the Flickr x Black Women Photographers Grant 2023 Finalists and Recipient

Photographer: Genesis Falls

Title: “Children at Play”

see all the black female photographers

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2525&type=status

DATES

November 

• 26: Uranus+ Moon conjunction
• 27: Full Moon, Moon reflecting the light from the sun maximum
• 28: 1895 first automobile race held in the USA

The Chicago Times-Herald race

the route

the winning car

second place

the award

• 29: Moon largest angle from its center to the center of the earth and the equator while closest to the north pole; C. S. Lewis born 1898, author of the narnia series. I like the dawn reader best.
• 30: 1st solar eclipse recorded in europe. Ireland 3340 b.c. [ https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/first-solar-eclipse-in-the-world ]

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Do you know what a machicolation does? 

learn below

What does the standardization of grammar mean?

 the introduction

This is a time of much division. Families and communities are splintered by polarizing narratives. Outrage surrounds geopolitical discourse—so much so that anxiety often becomes a sort of white noise, making it increasingly difficult to trigger intense, acute anger. The effect can be desensitizing, like driving 60 miles per hour and losing hold of the reality that a minor error could result in instant death.

Read more, click the image or link below

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If unconvinced I said the following about the film, The Intruder

 the movie was a financial failure but Roger Corman admitted this was an art film, which he was able to barely afford, but he wanted to do. Comprehend this movie had to be a loser. Shatner's character didn't die? the rich guy of the town wasn't convicted of some crime. The black guy didn't become a hero. The truth is, the intruder speaks to the truth of alof of interracial situations in modern humanity. It is the same as the pawnbroker with rod steiger. 

The populace in the usa: white black or other, likes convenience. Likes narratives. Any art that goes against narrative is rarely liked. If the matrix ended with neo being killed and the system rebooting and then in some far date in the future, the sun returns and  the machines don't need the matrix for power, that would bea downer. audiences like a set narrative. 

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10571-aalbc-at-the-movies/

What is the lesson in the Palestinian?

Notice I didn't ask about their relationship to jews/zionists/israelis. The Palestinian at once time circa 1947 had a situation that had two main problems for them. 

1) Their country was governed by an outside force, the united kingdom of britain

2) A set of immigrants with ever growing support from The United States of America- the most powerful military among the college of human governments on earth circa 1947 plus said united kingdom wanted into their country.

The lesson is straightforward: never accept foreign control + never accept immigrants who don't share your heritage plus culture. If you do these two things you end up  like the palestinian in israel as well as the native american in the usa. 

Don't be a fool. 

Dark Academia

The following is a question and answer I gave concerning the Dark Academia artistic theme.

Do you have any favorite pieces of media that fit the dark academia theme?

I can't say the following film is most beloved or most favorited by me, but I like the films: "the covenant" ... I recall an old legend, I do not know where it is cited online, I read it offline. The old legend, told my way,  says that in spain, under a mound somewhere, is a gateway to a classroom. In this classroom, a negative spirit teaches all the students spells pertaining to shadows. The students live there and at the end of the course, the student with the worst grades must stay , their soul locked their forever.

How do you feel about dark academia as an aesthetic? Would you incorporate elements of it into your art or everyday life?

In my mind dark academia and the modern goth artistic movements are similar. I am an open minded artist so I don't have any biases to any aesthetic. I am not one to dress in it, but it is fine if someone else does. I know people offline who are goth or have a similar taste.  In terms of my own work, I can't recall anything that is dark academia. But I have written quite a bit. I have written work that deals with people learning magic and doing negative things but I don't see that as dark academia. Just learning negative magic or powers doesn't equate to dark academia for me. IF so, then every sith student in star wards is an example of dark academia and I don't see it that way. I think the larger environment has to bound to the darkness. Having house slytherin doesn't make harry potter dark academia.  Now,  a story about Durmstrang, the rival school to hogwarts, that teaches the full spectrum of dark magic <if you want me to write something, message me>

Share dark academia art in your comment, whether you made it yourself or a favorite artist did!

I realized I have little to nothing in my deviantart galleries that fits dark academia... here is what I think fits, I am open to read your thoughts on whether you think it does or does not:) 

the following is some art of mine I think is Dark Academia, what say you?

Referral

Catalog from Glenat

https://www.calameo.com/read/000490875d8456fb8d14c?authid=GRW1zV0CDItX&page=1

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 47th edition of the 2023 Richard Murray Newsletter.

1) The twenty-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) Killens review

Dates

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

The problem with not saying what you want?

Tokyo Makers Faire 2023

Barbara Lynn

KidTheWiz and company

CENTO Series episode 26

When I was lost

What matters most 

I am my best version 

I'm glowing 
https://www.deviantart.com/thecosmictraveler/art/Worn-Traveler-969851922

"Ach schaut euch mein Gefieder an,

"Ich könnte es den Menschen zeigen...

Nur bei mir, da ist er nichtig,

Doch kann ich dir dann nicht versprechen,

das so herrlich leuchten an.

Das Meer ist blau, die Zukunft grau

"Oh look at my feathers,

"I could show people...

Only with me, then it is worthless

But then I can't promise you

that shine so beautifully.

The sea is blue, the future is grey
https://www.deviantart.com/mutabi/art/Das-Rotkehlchen-721926804

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

Killens review

Accepting submissions till december 1st 2023

get more information

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2513&type=status

DATES

November

• 20: Saturn+Moon conjunction
• 21: Moon nearest to earth,perigee
• 22: Moon on line to the equator; Neptune+Moon conjunction

Wiley Post  born 1898 , first from usa to fly around earth. 

start on June 23, 1931
finished  on July 1, after traveling 15,474 miles (24,903 km) in the record time of 8 days and 15 hours and 51 minutes

• 24: Moon croses south to north of the ecliptic
• 25: Jupiter + Moon conjunction

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

The problem with not saying what you want?

People like Greenwood never seem willing to admit their problem. They want the community they live in to be based on some conduct code ,but are unwilling to call for it. While they know they live in a fiscal capitalistic community which by default breeds a primary profiteering culture.

Greenwood wants no criminal or illegal activity plus the dismissal of penny dreadfuls by individuals. That is what his words suggest. The only way that can happen in the fiscal capitalistic england of his time is for fiscally poor people to embrace their poverty with a smile and become devout to the rules set by various christian denominations.

Read his thoughts and tell me what you think?

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2476&type=status

Tokyo Makers Faire 2023

From Caleb  Kraft of Make magazine

highlights

Maker’s comment: This is a 50cc motorcycle I built as a hobby. It took about 15 months to complete, and I learned how to design, weld, and do electrical wiring on my own. The motorcycle weighs approximately 170kg and has a 3-pedal 6-speed manual transmission, with a top speed of 60-70km/h. I’ve ridden this motorcycle and covered 47 prefectures in 233 days, totaling 20,052.8 kilometers.

makers's twitter
https://twitter.com/toyoyo57790459

Maker’s comment: I am creating a marble machine that rotates the entire course to roll the ball. We will be showcasing avant-garde works, including the “reverse marble machine” where the flow of the ball is opposite to the norm and the “infinite descent marble machine” where the ball continues rolling without stopping, offering something unique that you won’t see elsewhere.

Maker’s Twitter
https://twitter.com/marble_machine2

Referral Page

check out:

Handmade Gacha by KUA GACHA 

From scratch, Home-made Hub-steer electric motorcycle by Takeshi Maeda

Mini Steam Engine by asafactory

Crab Tank (Splatoon3) by T2 Nintendo lovers

Barbara Lynn

a left handed black female guitarist

performing what i'd say

recording of your gonna need me

KidTheWiz and company

for mothers:)

Do you know sign language?

Enjoy this song from wife to husband

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 45th edition of the 2023 Richard Murray Newsletter.

1) The twenty-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 Fright-ing Poems complete

3)Britney Spears interpretation

Dates

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Artworldvk masquerades

Black progression

Biyan-e by Princia

Is Donald Trump a leader? 

CENTO Series episode 24

On that faithful day

There is nothing left but jewels, silk and velvet.

I refused to let them burn,

I always make the wrong decisions.

https://www.deviantart.com/erotesque/art/Chrysolite-973401311

their stories still told

or fairies hidden in the wood

with vast wings and tails so long

their stories still told
https://www.deviantart.com/rtnightmare/art/Positive-Feature-Poem-Mythical-974384620

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? 

The Fright-ing Poems complete

Last edition, I posted the first four LINK. This week I post the complete set. Some are DTIYS's that have a calligraphic image with them. Some are part of a group called the scary set. I will not each. Two are incomplete as their calligraphies are not finished:) But all the poems or literature is done. 

SikaRengo - dtiys

Ms Wisp - dtiys

Namwizi - dtiys

I See

Infigito - scary set

Countdown to the second apocalypse- scary set

Posthumous letter of Chocoti  - scary set

The Gulf Club Reveal - scary set

Pa Bones Hustlers  Poem 

SGflight's first part in Sappers Delight from The SuckleCave Gang - dtiys

Harvest Eternal - dtiys

Britney Spears interpretation

Britney Spears invites interpretations to the cover of her biographical book. The woman in the me. The following is mine. 

I submitted the colored version. We will see if it is featured.

I do calligraphic commissions

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

DATES

November

• 6th: Moon furthest from earth in its orbit about earth; 1572 first sighting of supernova in Cassiopeia[ its remnant can be seen today]

Talked about in the book "De Nova Stella" from Tycho Brahe

https://causascientia.org/science/Tycho/DeNova.html

• 8th: Rodrigo Koxa  surfed eighty foot wave, setting world record, in Nazarre Portugal 2017. 

but nobody sells it better than Bodhi

• 9th: Moon at the equatorial line of the earth extended. Alice Coachman- first Back woman to win an International Olympic Committee Olympic Games gold medal. She high jumped for Tuskegee University. Funny how that isn't honored.

Photos:

• 11th: Moon crossing from north to south of ecliptic; Veterans Day .

Some veterans day stories

story 1

https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-veterans-day-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=959

story 2

https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-veterans-day-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=960

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Artworldvk masquerades

Enjoy this mixed media masquerade

Black progression

a few points of the history 

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2463&type=status

Biyan-e by Princia

a model who designs her own clothes. I found her ankara inspired styles, interesting.

Her official website

https://www.biyan-e.com/

A quick glimpse

Is Donald Trump a leader? 

The obvious problem in the discourse to leadership is what determines a leader. This is not a universally definable thing, absent some form of slavery. I will not tell you to accept my definition to what makes one a leader. Rather, consider my definition is one that organizes,plans,inspires,implements, risks for a group.

Based on that definition, Schrumpft is not a leader, but then what is he? I offer what I think below. Remember to click, read more. 

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2465&type=status

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