I've been looking at the colossal amount of webshit I've created over the past fifteen years and I fell upon some interesting stuff lurking in my personal domain.
The first would be Higher Ground. And I look at it in a rather heartbreaking way. I recall the enthusiasm I had at the outset - the idea of creating a sacred space for black online intellectual debate, the origins of which are very deep in my past and personnas. I must confess that I need some reflection on my desires to speed. To 'get it' and move to the next space. I am impatient with what I know and I tire very easily in covering intellectual ground that is not particularly sentimental to me. And so when I look at what Cobb must appear like to my collaborators at Vision Circle it saddens me to think that they might consider this project a betrayal. Yet I continue to believe that Vision Circle was a great success and the closest thing to a black group blog.. well certainly the first one. There's a lot to say about that.
The second is Sixoseven, my musical compositions. I lost the software key to my music composition software which is now under the ownership of Sony who has jacked up the price. So I haven't been able to compose the fifth album of stuff in my head, nor can I even remember the name of the music site at which I offered some of my stuff for sale. There is no cool ass music forthcoming.
The third is the Kwaku Foundation which I never amassed enough spondoolicks to fund. I have all these wild ideas jumping out of my head and I need a billion - OK several dozen million to make them happen. I'm frustrated, eternally, eternally frustrated. I needed a Trilateral Commision handbook to world domination handed to me 30 years ago. In 10 years I will acknowledge that it's all too late and begin to become a bitter old black man, although the temptation to move from today's crusty to tomorrow's bitter ahead of schedule is always with me.
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