The other day a student approached me to talk about some of my Boohabian work. It has been about six years since I wrote this intro as a part of the eRace Project.
I Googled up Boohab and found him an any number of interesting places. There's an archive from the Slate Fray in 1998. There are the demographic stats of Jasper Texas that I put together after the murder of James Byrd. Of course there's the mysterious Geib who attempted to make a poor example of my funky writing to his Jr High students by calling it postmodern drivel. There's my stuff at Abuzz, which used to be a pretty cool place. What happened? My Abuzz profile points to the defunct Boohabian Slamdance, which is about 10 posts long. When I discovered I couldn't argue as Boohab does in blog form (thankfully) I dropped that idea. Hey check out that Radio format - long live MT!
The Boohab sleeps these days, and there's no good reason to wake him up. Not while I'm doing Cobb's work anyway. I already have too many agendas. But it sure is wonderful to go back in time to the days when I had the patience to do stuff like Black Hell (not that I really did).
I am really glad that there are young folks out there with the drive and determination to pick up the ball from where I left off. There's a lot of fire that needs to be expended on the racial subjects. Things are a lot more mushy these days - racial dialog is like cable TV, 500 diverse channels but are they really saying anything? No. Anyway, if you are so inclined, do take a tour back in time and review the Boohab. I think he was pretty cool.
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