Happy Birthday: Bertolt Brecht, poet/playwrightBorn Feb. 10, 1898 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7fqMPDcKXM 50 States, 100 Weeks: The Big Chicken, Marietta, GA Photo credit: archpaper.com Music: Flyin’ the Flannel by fIREHOSE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE5V-nCNswE Poetry: Ode to Big Trend by Terrance HayesPretty soon the Negroes were looking to get paid.My partner, Big Trend, wiped his ox neck and said He wasn’t …
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Care Package for Sunday, Feb. 9, 2020
Happy Birthday: Mia Farrow, actressBorn Feb. 9, 1945 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv3p8kIyqLI 50 States, 100 Weeks: Expedition: Bigfoot! The Sasquatch Museum, Cherry Log, GA Photo credit: columbian.com Music: John the Revelator by Blind Willie Johnson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTvq3sOWfGM Poetry: The Gospel of Barbecue by Honorée Fanonne JeffersLong after it wasnecessary, UncleVess ate the leavings off the hog, dousedthem with vinegar sauce.Read …
Care Package for Saturday, Feb. 8, 2020
Happy Birthday: Jules Verne, authorBorn Feb. 8, 1828 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-_-0O7c-PE 50 States, 100 Weeks: The Paris Market and Brocante, Savannah, GA Photo credit: atlantamagazine.com Music: By Tomorrow by Black Tambourine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM86g6cYKb4 Poetry: Dancing With Strom by Nikky FinneyThe youngest has been married off. He is as tall as Abraham Lincoln. Here, on hiswedding day, he flaunts …
Care Package for Friday, Feb. 7, 2020
Happy Birthday: Laura Ingalls Wilder, authorBorn Feb. 7, 1867 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsE_hZ0lT1k 50 States, 100 Weeks: Etowah Indian Mounds, Cartersville, GA Photo credit: ancientpages.com Music: Illegal Smile by John Prine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmjnQjRvPUQ Poetry: Poem for My Father by Quincy Troupefather, it was an honor to be there, in the dugoutwith you, the glory of great black men swinging …
Care Package for Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020
Happy Birthday: Tom Brokaw, news anchorBorn Feb. 6, 1940 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvjVwYIYs2c 50 States, 100 Weeks: Jimmy Carter Peanut, Plains, GA Photo credit: roadsidewonders.net Music: Something About What Happens When We Talk by Lucinda Williams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R_dkP2duog Poetry: Ballad of Birmingham by Dudley Randall“Mother dear, may I go downtownInstead of out to play,And march the streets of BirminghamIn …