jazz

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 1st of the 2024 Richard Murray Newsletter.

1) The thirty-third 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) December Secret Santa 2023

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Reverse Katana test from shadversity

Shaolin soccer review from Accented Cinema

International Sweethearts of Rhythm

The Statian Empire

CENTO Series episode 33

It seems they want to get even with everyone's story

A dog was barking on the other side of the lake

The wind moved the branches of the shaving brush

Put the coins in

Then you started to scratch in broken English
https://www.deviantart.com/redsterfish/art/Time-Of-The-Witches-977580936

Excitement fuels their spirits

Beyond human bounds

Defining mankind's fate

In the spiral of change
https://www.deviantart.com/lennergy/art/Adventurers-974473683

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

December Secret Santa 2023

Secret Santa is when a community of artists decide to do a work inspired by the request of another artist in the community. The person i was selected gave options for a romantic scene and I chose a romantic scene with Bob and Dot Matrix of Reboot.

coloring page

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

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Coloring Book

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10750-black-unicorn-coloring-book/

Reverse Katana test from shadversity

since the reverse edge sword is from kenshin which is designed to be a sword that does not cut, that is hard to use as a sword, their rating of the concept as a sword i feel is correct, but also validates the sword's purpose. This sword should be rated low as a concept for use as a violent weapons, which makes it perfect for kenshin to use for his nonviolent purposes. The caption should be: It Sucks YES!!! as this is a good thing that it isn't preferable over other similar weapons. 

Shaolin soccer review from Accented Cinema

I just love Shaolin Soccer, any time i get a chance to share, it is a must:) 

International Sweethearts of Rhythm

enjoy a member Tiny Davis

To see the band in full, and share your thoughts or if you have more information

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2524&type=status

The Statian Empire

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2526&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 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 44th edition of the 2023 Richard Murray Newsletter.

1) The twenty-third 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) Rainforest pokemon

3) Fright-ing poetry challenge part 1

4) Cursed costumes entries

Dates

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

5 minute yoga

Mary Lou Williams plus James P Johnson bridges

Statian Wives

Under pressure sustainability livestream 

CENTO Series episode 23

No Cento This Edition, This Edition Is A Limerick plus a Lyric 

A Limerick

Do I know of a great use of the limerick? 

I recall many fail'd attempts by young Schmendrick 

at Haggar's hump

poor Molly's rump

Where a king began an era like Alaric

https://www.deviantart.com/writeddreams2reality/art/WWW-48-Types-of-Poetry-The-Limerick-969124356

A Lyric - do you know the source? 

Ebony and Ivory

Cast together in perfect, harmony

Side by side with their livros, sweet rose

Oh Earth, why don't we!

We all know

That witches are the same, wherever they go

There is good and bad, in everyone

When we learn to spell, we learn to give each other

what we need to survive

Together alive

Ebony and Ivory

Cast together in perfect, harmony

Side by side in their Cauldron, all spells

Oh Earth, why don't we!

We all know

That villains are the same, wherever they are

There is good and bad, in everyone

When we learn the glyphs, we learn to give each other

what we need to survive

Together alive

Ebony and Ivory

Cast together in perfect, harmony

Side by side in their Cauldron, all spells

Oh Earth, why don't we!

Side by side in their Cauldron, all spells

Oh Earth, why don't we!

Ebony, Ivory

Casting in perfect harmony

Repeat to fade

https://www.deviantart.com/ivy-alive/art/Rose-Library-952607931

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? 

Rainforest pokemon

a collaboration, ind my sudowoodo + dedenee

https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/423-pokemon-rainforest-collab/

Fright-ing poetry challenge

13 poems by the 31st. 

I will present in an order by time posted, they are all ranked equal for me.

SikaReno

poem

color calligraphy

Black and white calligraphy

Ms. Wisp

poem

Colored calligraphy

Black and White calligraphy

Namwizi

poem

Colored Calligraphy

Black and White calligraphy

I See

based on the following scene

the poem

Next week I will have the others:) 

Cursed costumes entries

Tumblr has a challenge to place characters in costumes. I made three characters and utilized one slot for fan fiction.

Atumapac

best baddie- lord of the summer isles

pirates

Tour group

in color

shapeshifter

Ebon Bon 

best baddie-As Evilene of the Wiz, happy 45 years

Pirate princess

Touring artist-sade

shapeshifter

Becko Nascimento

 Best Baddie-Prince Prospero

Pirate king

Touring artist-Daft punk

shapeshifter

Ben Burns

of speed racer

best baddie- The headless horseman

Pirate tune-up

Touring musician- CARS!

shapeshifter

I do calligraphic commissions

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

DATES

October 

• 29th: Mercury Mars conjunction; Uranus Moon conjunction; Jupiter Moon conjunction
• 31: All Hallows- enjoy some All HAllows stories

Story 1

https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-halloween-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=957

Story 2

https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-halloween-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=958

November

• 1st: Boston Female Medical College , First medical school for women in the usa, opened 1848 in boston
• 2nd: Moon closest to the north pole in its orbit while farthest in a perpindicular line from the equator ; first titanium mill opened in toronto ohio 1957, titanium is used in everything from concrete to toothpaste to metal pipes in war vessels.
• 3rd: Jupiter in opposition to the Sun at sunrise
• 4th: Saturn is appear stationary in the sky, will appear moving the next day and afterward.  ; Sadie Hawkins day, based on the lil abner comic strip, where a character named sadie hawkins who kept trying to ask lil abner for a date or a dance, officially the 26th and prior the 15th ; The oldest golf club in north america, the royal montreal golf club was founded in 1873 . 

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

5 minute yoga

five yoga exercises with explanation to do in the morning. Click the image below, showing the simple knee to chest posture

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2460&type=status

Mary Lou Williams plus James P Johnson bridges

De Organizer from James P Johnson side the Zodiac Suite from Mary Lou Williams are being remade. Click to listen to her zodiac suite and learn more information

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2459&type=status

Statian Wives

The women of the USA are suggested through a very narrow study to have three different opinions on their name after marriage. Black is not (Mestizo+Mulatto) is not White. It gives a small glimpse as to why the woman's movement has fissures. Different subraces of women, like the phenotypical mentioned above, differ in self identity. 

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2458&type=status

Under pressure sustainability livestream

The show had no transcription plus a recording isn't hosted. So the only record i could create was from my own thoughts as I listened, which you can see by clicking the image or Uniform Resource locator below.

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2462&type=status

BOO

movie

Don't Look Now in Audio

To see more

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2492&type=status

And here is a game, place the name of a film referenced in a comment

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