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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 7th edition of the 2024 Richard Murray Newsletter.

1) The thirty-ninth 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.  

Happy Belated Valentine's Day

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

stage vs spare vs real

Blacks in hawaii

couples classes fantasyfitnessmd

Continental Black American Unity

CENTO Series episode 39

 Heaven's been breached

lit up in neon

The empire of gold

Reborn again, the incorporated
https://www.deviantart.com/rjbg/art/FADE-INTO-BLACK-974750724

You can 

take away

what 

I was

in the first

place

I am not

within 

your chapel

and I would

do it 

all over

again

the path

of patience

and 

understanding

should do
https://www.deviantart.com/beyondcomplacent/art/Your-chapel-965514808

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 Valentine's Day

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10831-happy-valentines-day/

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

stage vs spare vs real

Stage fighting or performance fighting is one thing/ dueling with protection and rules is one thing so called real life fencing/ but the third is sword fighting in lethal situations. The problem with modernity is the lack of comprehension  that sword or spear or club or non projectile weapon fighting was a standard part of war, a standard operation on the field. the gun is the standard field weapon today but when the non projectile weapon was the standard that created another class altogether. In the past on a battlefield one may not have all the armor, may be sick, may have an injury, has no rules , these elements in my view, make the discussion of theatrical fighting versus what I will call weapons sparring limited. Compared to true non projectile weapons combat, theatrical fighting or weapons sparring are lacking. Duelling is about violence. I think sparring isn't about violence. Sparring is about athletic skill or achievement or nonviolent learning. Theatrical swordplay is about entertaining. One of the speakers mentioned the film "the duelist" but the same director made a film called "the last duel", and in it, it showed the duelling of war. In the film the duellist you have the dueling that led to many european fantasies, the closest thing to duelling in war in peace. But the purest duelling is violent, messy, tricky, really warlike.

Blacks in hawaii

Do you know anything about Blacks non native to hawaii? 

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10746-blacks-in-hawaii/

couples classes fantasyfitnessmd

Antoinette Williams

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10769-couples-classes-from-antoinette-williams-fantasyfitnessmd/

Continental Black American Unity

What unites all black people in the american continent whose descendents from 1500s to 1800s were mostly enslaved?

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10827-what-event-unites-all-black-americans-read-my-description-before-you-answer/

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 3rd edition of the 2024 Richard Murray Newsletter.

1) The thirty-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) Princess Candace new year celebration

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Do you know Dredd?

Danse Macabre from Camille Saint-Saëns

Focus Comics

American Baby

CENTO Series episode 35

 so when your turn has finally arrived

live life like there is no tomorrow

you have only so long to witness all the sights

embedded so deep within our soul

in a world that is everlasting 
https://www.deviantart.com/rtnightmare/art/Positive-Feature-Poem-Time-980353227

Denn nichts ist was war

Dem Leid zu entfliehen

Im sinkenden Rausch

Trost in der Leere

Bricht Bahn zur Unendlichkeit

Nur abwarts der Strom

Because nothing is what was

to escape from suffering

In the sinking frenzy

solace in the void

Breaks a path to infinity

Just down the stream
https://www.deviantart.com/solddown/art/Charybdis-original-953609310

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

Princess Candace new year celebration

Princess Candace is working on her statue outside the city of  Nemito [some call four rivers] for the four rivers that sector the land. Others call this place Yawakati [for the four districts in different technological times]. She won the right to build her statue on the bay of the city through her success in a gatlopp. It is new years and the city is celebrating but she is busy enjoying herself with her winnings.

color

coloring page

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Do you know Dredd?

I am a huge fan of the film Dredd starring as the top bill, Karl Urban

It's financial utilization, and its approach to a science fiction story that is quite entailed or historied into a one and done movie, i argue need to be commended.

and while we are at it, a look at the film, Underworld

Danse Macabre from Camille Saint-Saëns

Danse Macabre (first performed in 1875) is the name of opus 40 by French composer Camille Saint-Saëns.

The composition is based upon a poem by Henri Cazalis, on an old French superstition:

    Zig, zig, zig, Death in a cadence,
    Striking with his heel a tomb,
    Death at midnight plays a dance-tune,
    Zig, zig, zig, on his violin.
    The winter wind blows and the night is dark;
    Moans are heard in the linden trees.
    Through the gloom, white skeletons pass,
    Running and leaping in their shrouds.
    Zig, zig, zig, each one is frisking,
    The bones of the dancers are heard to crack—
    But hist! of a sudden they quit the round,
    They push forward, they fly; the cock has crowed.

Focus Comics

They have classes for autistic children to make comics and more. 

Thank Tony Todd, the thespian for sharing the organization.

https://focuscomic.com/

American Baby

If you were financially wealthy and lived outside the usa, never been to the usa, will you want a baby sharing your blood born there?

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10715-american-baby-on-pbs/

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 43rd edition of the 2023 Richard Murray Newsletter.

1) The twenty-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.   

2) American Fiction

3) GDBee's Hovergirls

Dates

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

24/7 Fae Farm ambiance, Blackgameselite

Book Contracts with Suzanne Lucas Gossen side Jane Friedman

The Fall That Saved Us Cover Reveal in Thistle and Verse, author Tamara Jeree

Jann Wenner and the art of the fair interview

CENTO Series episode 22

Ordained between hearts

There my disquiet soul oft finds solace

For in dreams, one dares actions

Or desecrate nature's verdant sanctum

https://www.deviantart.com/barosus/art/What-Dreams-May-Dare-971655253

I found you in the darkness,

Captured by poisonous petals

Stripped of lies and deceit

Playing with the evil

Look at me and see me

We should run away

Oxytocin waves

there is no need in God

https://www.deviantart.com/erotesque/art/Oxytocin-972261568

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? 

American Fiction

What is the role of private ownership in the artistic industry under a government that utilizes fiscal capitalism? Is it a space where those who have money are free to do as they will? Or is it a where those who have money have to act according to some philosophy/standard/viewpoint? 

Leave your thoughts in comments here or the article linked below

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10600-black-writers-your-thoughts/

GDBee's Hovergirls

Congrats to GDBee for getting her first paper publishing , get more information and various links to preorder at the link below
https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2500&type=status

or if you are too lazy

I do calligraphic commissions

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

DATES

• October 22: 2008 India's first Lunar probe 

From Official  Indian Space Research Organization (I.S.R.O.) pdf file
https://web.archive.org/web/20100613064645/http://isro.org/publications/pdf/Chandrayaan-1-booklet.pdf

wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrayaan-1

• October 23: Venus greatest elongation from the sun 46 degrees east
• October 24: Saturn Moon conjunction
• October 25: Moon nearest Earth in its orbit about Earth; Neptune Moon conjunction
• October 26: Moon at Equator, center of Moon plus Earth at Earth's equator;Jacques Villaneuve is the last  non european formula 1 winner in 2008
• October 27: Moon crossing south to north of the path of the sun in the sky, the ecliptic. 
• October 28: The Moon surface facing the earth is fully illuminatedby the Sun, -Full Moon- called a hunter for this time is best for hunting in North America; Lunar Eclipse as the Moon is in the shadow of the earth, when the light of the sun is blocked most by the earth.

Trivia: DO full moon's and lunar eclips'es happen at the same time. 

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

24/7 Fae Farm ambiance

showcased on Blackgameselite

https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/400-enter-the-cozy-realm-of-your-dreams-247-cozy-ambient-videos-make-your-dream-link/

Book Contracts with Suzanne Lucas Gossen side Jane Friedman

an in depth discussion , video free to view

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10547-a-discussion-on-book-contracts/

The Fall That Saved Us Cover Reveal in Thistle and Verse, author Tamara Jeree

click the image or url to see the cover and hear from the author

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10549-the-fall-that-saved-us-cover-reveal-in-thistle-and-verse-author-tamara-jeree/

Jann Wenner and the art of the fair interview

I read Wenner's [a creator of 'rolling stone magazine'] New York times 09/19/2023 interview  in completion.  He was asked a very personal question. How did you choose subjects for your book? His answer was honest while judgmental, but he also conveyed his own method for interviews which the interviewee of the times was ignorant of. I find it a simple reality. Wenner didn't relate to non white + non male rock and roll artist cause non white + non male rock and roll artist are different. Labor practices among women are well known to differ than men, even in the same situation. This relates to how non black or non male artist interview , which Wenner judged disconnected to the talking points of white male rock and roll artist.

The complete interview is linked using the photo or url below

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2461&type=status

For automotive lovers, do you know how to say Porsche correctly?

The most recent solar eclipse, only visible in west coast usa

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 39th edition of the 2023 Richard Murray Newsletter.

1) The eighteenth 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) Boy and Sir, following Girl from Jamaica Kincaid and Ma'am from me

Dates

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

The Intruder

Indigenous suffering

How do you define Black Greatness

Education part Nth

CENTO Series episode 18

So numb and fragile....

A home

Keep it close and hold it

https://www.deviantart.com/cayman307/art/Mute-Agony-963206637

For the ancients dance and will gift 

on the sky. For dreams and hope, dance

caught in that vast sea of crystal

unknown, where sleep is good. I ask,

here now with heavy eyes of lead.

Rest up, you sweet child of light, night

https://www.deviantart.com/prrailgun/art/Rest-Under-Stars-966600934

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

Boy and Sir, following Girl from Jamaica Kincaid and Ma'am from me

I was challenged by a fellow writer Nike < https://nikewrites.wordpress.com/ > to create two more reflections of Girl from Jamaica Kincaid. And so I did. What do you think? 

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2447&type=status

DATES

• 24th- Pluto Moon conjunction- a horizontal line parallel to the horizon or a vertical line stemming from the horizon joins both bodies in the sky 
• 25th- woodchucks hibernate
• 26th - Saturn Moon conjunction; 1898 George Gershwin born, his porgy and bess is crap for me, but his 1937 shall we dance is , i argue, truly american, not black american or white american, but american. 

'Let's call the whole thing off' - originally in the 1937 film "Shall we Dance" here sung far better by Ella Fitzgerald side Louis Armstrong 

The dancing version from the movie, i linked to when it starts
https://youtu.be/qRrw2hDjnl4?t=129
They Can't Take That Away from Me- originally in the 1937 film "Shall we Dance" from the male character but written where it can be applied from any one to another... here sung far better by Ella Fitzgerald 

• 27th- Moon closest to earth, a perigee

In 2018, A 2,066-pound pumpkin grown by  Steve Geddes of Boscawen, he held the world record in 2012 for largest pumpkin.

https://www.wmur.com/article/prize-winning-pumpkin-at-deerfield-fair-largest-ever-grown-in-nh/5269592#

 Catholic saint day to Vincent de Paul- patron of charity- benevolence to the poor, or good working to the financially weakest, a literary note, the word was used hundreds of years ago as a synonym for christian activity.

• 28th- Neptune Moon conjunction
• 29th- Full Moon, called a Harvest Moon as this Moon is when harvesting should begin in north eastern united states. ; Moon on equator means the closest thing to a line can be made from earth's center to the moon's, in an instant. 
• 30th- Moon from south to north of the path of the sun in the sky, the ecliptic

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. 

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

The Intruder

At the location of the link is the full film free to view as well as a short story by the author

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2422&type=status

If you want a taste of the kind of storytelling , here is a teleplay from the Twilight Zone derived from Beaumont's "Beautiful People" titled: "Number 12 looks just like you"

Indigenous suffering

No one has had it worse than the Native American. I will always wonder when a native american will ignite the biggest bomb ever in the usa.

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2427&type=status

How do you define Black Greatness

My Answer

I define Black Greatness, absent any desire to influence another's definition, as contentment. 

I think when Black folk are happy, nothing like it exists anywhere else in humanity. 

What is yours?

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10511-black-greatness/

Education part Nth

Another multilog. I place a list of education posts in this one. I am admittedly tired of repeating myself. The saddest thing is how people in new articles repeat what I said countless times years ago.

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2433&type=status

Here is the list of fiction in the new yorker magazine

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/fiction

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