Musician Gil Scott-Heron (#Gil Scott-Heron), who helped lay the groundwork for rap by fusing minimalistic percussion, political expression and spoken-word poetry, is gone. He was 62, still young by 2011 standards.

Gil Scott-Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - youtube.com 3 min - Pieces of a Man (1971) Also watch on: Dailymotion - dailymotion.virgilio.it - WAT TV

1. Gil Scott-Heron

   Official website for I'm New Here by Gil Scott-Heron.
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   Gil Scott-Heron (April 1, 1949 – May 27, 2011) was an American poet, musician,

   and author known primarily for his late 1970s and early 1980s work as a ...
   

   I'm New Here - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Free Will (album) - Category

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RIP Gil Scott-Heron

Hudson Valley poet Paul Clemente will read his work at the next program in the Poetry on the Loose Reading/Performance Series. The event will be held in the rear room behind the Utopian Directions bookstore at 7 West Street in Warwick at 4:00 p.m. on April 2. Following the feature, others are welcome to read original work. Admission is free.

Clemente is known not only as an original and compelling poet, but as the producer of the Read for Food Series that raises money for local food pantries. He locates himself in the region’s time-line as “young enough to have missed Woodstock and old enough to remember the mothballed WWII fleet that was moored for years in the Hudson River’s mountainous Haverstraw Bay.” Professionally, Clemente is a scientist with the DEC.

Poetry on the Loose ::: Paul Clemente

The Dancing Bear sat upon a hill
telling all who chanced to listen
of his personal conquest thrill,

The rusted hinges
on the door of the fortress
that is his heart, cannot be moved.

Ancient Kings no longer rest
their spirits having been summoned
souls floating upon the River Time.

Thousands pushing forward,
millions waiting to follow
no one can explain the crowd.

What does he hold in his hand
that I cannot in mine?
His reign is sinking in the sand.

The Tablets of Law lie open,
the trial being unfurled and
life will review soon if not already.

In case you missed the nightly news,
you're only young awhile and when you
realize you're old -
too late to change your style.

Tags: poetry, Green Notebook

#Egypt #Jan25 MUSINGS from the GREEN NOTEBOOK : Excerpt 1 - Poem 4 #Egypt

Sister Feng in New York City! (more below...)

It's that time of year when Pop Culture most remembers THE BEATLES ::: this is the month they went viral in the USA (I'll be posting on this during the week- you won't want to miss it!) and also the month John Lennon was killed.

Do we need local teevee news at 0430? CBS6 starts it Monday. I think it's a great idea! I'm up at 0430, and catching up with news and weather at that time is perfect for me! This will definitely get me off to a better start, so when I'm out on my morning run, I'll be able to frame up a few story ideas. Usually I rely on radio news, because I have no time to WATCH anything between 0600-0700!

Sister Feng’s New York Job Interview With Sinovision - Chinese internet celebrity Sister Feng interviews for a job with Sinovision, an American Chinese-language television station ::: "The news director that interviewed her praised Luo Yufeng as not being the way China’s media publicized her as being but rather an independent-thinking, frank and sincere, clear-eyed, and quick-thinking person." Fauna has posted background videos as well as translationss of Sister Feng’s latest [Sina Weibo] microblog messages!

Last Tuesday, the students at I.S. 192 in Queens, NY got a visit from Fabolous for the New York After-School All-Stars (ASASNY) program. Loso spoke to the students on proper internet usage on social networking sites like Facebook & Myspace.

Here is a poem about Jerusalem.

Dragonblogger ::: 14 Reliable Alternatives to Google Adsense

Do you really want to waste your time with Adsense, etc? Here's where the money is! A Newbie's Guide to Publishing :::The Bestseller Shift - In just a week, Amanda Hocking has sold over 10,000 ebooks. Who is Amanda Hocking? She's a self-published paranormal romance author. Check out her blog.

Lifehacker :::Improve Your Bandwidth-Heavy Activities with Router Tweaks [Networking]

Around The Blogosphere 12 December 10

Yesterday I sent a personal email off to one of my favourite bloggers. This one I have followed since the blogger was NObody and is now an international star. I reminded that blogger of the fact that had there been no internet and no Blog*spot, the blogger would probably just be another "ordinary person." There's a lot of life ahead for that blogger!

But what about other bloggers, some of whom feel they've gone as far as they can?

Madame X set out on a blogging mission about 5 years ago. She used her blog as a tool to enrich her personally. Here is her assessment of the situation.

Here is another: Reflections On Two Years Of Blogging: Lessons Learned from The Creative Penn by joanna@TheCreativePenn.com (Joanna Penn)

Around The Blogosphere 07 December 2010

Michelle Malkin ::: Michelle Malkin vs. Gawker in a "digital dustup" - you don't wanna mess with Michelle, ever! (Longtime readers of MM's blog know all about the Gawker smear machine and its misogynist war on conservative women.)- Next, MM takes on Joy Behar! Oh, such fun!

"Let my lusts be my ruin, then, since all else is a fake and a mockery" ~ Hart Crane ::: Having quoted that, Nicki Minaj is out with a new video.

A lot of fuss over my post :::"Dave Lucas" - Twitter Search :::

"Viral Video ::: Charlie Chaplin's "The Circus" Cell Phone Time Travel" and related posts http://bit.ly/9Ska1G

Now take a look at AOL's 25 for 25 winners!.

Orient Lodge ::: Connecticut Bloggers - Looking for CT blogs? Aldon has directions! -

Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot

"Marley at the Crossroads: Invocations of Bob Marley in the Poetry of Geoffrey Philp"

Big Brother Africa is a television show produced by Endemol in South Africa. The show, which has become the most popular TV reality show in Africa, entered its fifth season with Big Brother Africa All-Stars. After 91 days of stiff and exciting competition, Nigerian musician and actor Uti Nwachukwu was announced the winner of US$200,000. The final two housemates were Nigeria's Uti and Zimbabwe's Munya Chidzonga. Although Munya lost, he ended up "winning" US$300,000. Follow Zimbabwean bloggers to know what happened. read »

Around The Blogosphere 28 October 10

I have a vision
I watch the dead
Watch them dance
Watch them sing

they live, they laugh
they grow, they cry
they love, they hate
they die

I rest and wonder why

I get up and wander
through the river Life
wondering
Am I better
for all their strife?

Now, how would one go about making a motion picture out of my short simple poem? Impossible! Filmmakers have tried to capture the essence of poetry, to accolades and criticisms!

The word "televisor" eventually gave way to "television" and you can read more about the "chronovisor" and its quirky fabricator here.

The idea for this poem came suddenly while I was driving. I dictated the words, as they came to me, into my mobile phone. It could either be interpreted as a work of literary zen, or perhaps more accurately, a poem questioning the usefulness of watching television, specifically, old movies from the 1930s where all of the actors are now dead. Celluloid ghosts, representations of beings that once were.

Televisor (An Original Poem Inspired By Father Ernetti's Chronovisor)

Ever heard of the Random Twitter Poetry Game? Dragonblogger has been hosting the game, which yours truly partakes in from time to time.

Drag beckons twitterers to join the game by tweeting a single word back to him, which he incorporates into his poem of the day! Here's today's (WEDS) poem:

Now Awakened

Relaxed after a quatercentenary of sleep
spun from some obsequious equinox thread
the incarnation of a snafu karma hyperbole

Flying over the ancient Mediterranean Savannah
immortal scales glinting like polished palladium
with strength of the oak and wisdom of dreams

Community of hallowed energy in one being
men with frugal spirit testify shamelessly
afraid of being simple mortal nomz appetizers

Ancient being of apocalypse now awakened
salvation or slayer to be determined
as the world revels in awe and fear

-Poem by Dragon Blogger

The daily poem is published on the blog WANDERER THOUGHTS.

Blogger Tweets Poetry!

Indonesian businesswoman Fahira Idris won as the most inspiring person on twitter through an online survey.

Lookie! Another "Bluebird" lover! (Who couldn't love Little Miss B?)

Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot

An Ode to Glenn Beck - That ole time religion is good enough for me: Back when the universe was like a three-layered cake, And anything white men wanted...

The Republic of Silence has shared [fa] a video from film maker Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy. How does the Taliban convince children to become suicide bombers? Propaganda footage from a training camp is intercut with interviews of young camp graduates.

Uh-oh! What do we have here? Han Yifei Nude Photos Fulfill Chinese Basketball Promise has been uploaded to chinaSMACK by Fauna! Among comments posted to the blog" "Nowadays, women can only use getting completely naked to attract eyeballs." And my favorite, "Even though I know it is a publicity stunt, I should still take a look first." LOL!

Famous Bloggers

The Viral Marketing BluePrint - Before you can ‘do everything’, you need to ‘be everywhere’...And it all starts at this point.

The Poet as a Sculptor and Other Thoughts on Writing Poetry
from Everyone's Blog Posts - Caribbean Literary Salon by Althea Romeo-Mark

Around The Blogosphere 8 September 2010