http://www.myspace.com/darleneanitascott Just after a punishment—corporal or otherwise—my parents had a saying, “Stop crying or else I’m gonna give you something to cry for.” The statement defies reasonable thought: whatever punishment had been dealt out was already plenty enough to cry about. Wouldn’t an extra portion be adding insult to injury? Afraid not. According to the [...]
Tag: i was just thinking
Three Questions for Barack Obama
(reprinted from http://www.myspace.com/darleneanitascott 21 October 2008) Asking me about my politics or my spirituality is like asking me what color panties I'm wearing. Those are intimate conversations to be had with a very select population. But I was reading a blog by a guy I used to know; he was writing about his skepticism with the election [...]
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Monthly Meter
Photo: Slig77 DeviantArt.com My log for the month of September: Writing/Residency/Fellowship Submissions: 2 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Acceptances: 0 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Rejections: 0 Secret Shame: that clumsy part in the choreography to Jill Scott's ultra-erotic "Crown Royal" (I just saw the dvd of my summer dance recital)...so not sexy Books: *Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie *still reading it
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Daydream Sequence #5
Once upon a time there was a nerd girl with tendencies toward hermit-ism, green-ness, and not a little--oh I already mentioned--nerd. At this time also lived a boy with tendencies toward the same, a dope sneaker collection, and random sundry other traits that bear mentioning (just not here; not now).
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Club Bangers are Made Not Born; or
Personal Responsibility and the Ways We Bullshit Ourselves Into Believing We Practice It Last night I found myself at a club with a group that is well educated, well spoken, well traveled and eat well for all of those reasons among others. They are DuBois’ Talented Tenth but instead of bringing the other ninety percent [...]
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Dispatch From the Lou’
http://www.myspace.com/darleneanitascott “You complain for the life you supposed to have/But when you try to make plans God is known to laugh…” Broken Glass, Talib Kweli I’m in St. Louis for a writing workshop even though I’m no longer convinced that writing is something I need to do. I used to have a sense of urgency: get [...]
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Another One Bites the Dust
http://www.myspace.com/darleneanitascott So I get this job offer, well not the offer, but the "You're one of our top candidates and we want you to spend some gas money and time to help us figure out if you're the top." They post the salary in this interview request; a salary that essentially says they want me [...]
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New Millenium Mayberry
http://www.myspace.com/darleneanitascottMy first couple of hours in Mayberry last weekend went something like this: First I went into the grocery store to pick up some food for the luncheon I was hosting for my sister. There I found I was over dressed in a long shapeless sundress and flip flops. Apparently there was a discount for [...]
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Free
http://www.myspace.com/darleneanitascott Love is weird. Kind of like a drug. Enough can make you feel good; too much and you feel terrible. I have loved one man in my life. Just enough to move on when we weren’t loving each other the same ways. You know: if you love something set it free; if it returns [...]
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Do You
http://www.myspace.com/darlenenanitascott I wore an orange afro for a few years. Now all that remains is a skunk streak that's slightly off center in the front of my head. I came to orange over a long year in crayon red and a motivation that was not really as contrary to the personality most people know of [...]
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