It feels like we could learn more about our society from the Bud Powell centennial than the latest paroxysms of the news cycle, but maybe it's just too painful to contemplate: youtu.be/speBYbLYl7w?...
YouTube video by Po!nt BlanC
One thing I like about chess is that it reminds you constantly that you're only ever as good as you are on your very worst day. The worst days are a ceiling everything else is an exception.
This tombstone was set up outside the Roman fort at South Shields in NE England. It records a British woman called Regina and a man called Barates from Palmyra in Syria. Regina was a slave, but Barates freed her and married her. When she died aged 30, he made the tombstone for her.🏺 ClassicsTober24
On off chance, does anyone have access to volume 19.3 (2021) of Black Theology? www.tandfonline.com/toc/yblt20/1...
Afrofuturism, Afro-pessimism and Black Religious Thought: Conceptualizing Ideologies of Race, Religion, Gender and Sexuality in the 21st Century. Volume 19, Issue 3 of Black Theology
Man, Dikembe. That just sucks. RIP.
I mean the Bud Powell and Max Roach centennials are classic examples of this. My guess is that these are both complicated, Black men and it's easier to ignore their contributions that engage in difficult conversations about the legacies.
Making some brunch with one dubious eye on the rainy cricket from Bristol and listening to Curtis Fuller (with Benny Golson), Blues-ette (1959): youtu.be/CmIaVD74U00?...
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I'm using Zotero to help me format citations. I'm still not sold that using so-called "Citation Management Software" is a good thing for me or for academia, but since this kind of software has been all the talk lately, I thought that I'd give it a try. It seems like "AI" to me. Don't judge me.