2.28.2002
joy oliver, R.I.U. (rest in uhuru)
strength and fortitude to her family
and the amphibians crew
all of us,
POEM-CEES
naturalaw-dp - 6:00 PM
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2.22.2002
TONIIIIIIIIGHT, TONIIIIIIIITE, TONIGHT, TONITE, TONEIIIIIIIIIIIGHT...
in her owns magical words, of course- an invitation for you:
sweet friends, forget me not....
AQUARIA
LADY PCOQ'S SOLO DEBUT
TONITE FEB 22ND
7 PM
BORDERS BOOKS & MUSIC
18TH & L STS. NW
FREE! FREE! FREE! (in every sense of the word)
let the dawn of your weekend rise on the mist between ocean and sky
featuring:
Band- Dave Cosby, Dajando Smith, Cora Coleman, Hodari & Jabari
surprise special guests
hope to see you there!
yeah! see you there, you artsy-fartsy dope lyric lovin' mutha [shutyomouf...]
naturalaw-dp - 3:49 PM
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2.20.2002
city high member and former ms. dp?
-claudette ortiz
that funny radio show?
-actually very vile, reprehensible and devoid of taste
see, when not engaging in intelligent discourse, it's all perverse discourse
actually, it's all the same thing.
anyways...
big ups to my YAMBAGS! UNGHHHHHHHH!
continue...
naturalaw-dp - 5:31 PM
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2.19.2002
What's the Steely, Bro?
As you read this, Rhome, DP & myself are all nodding off, risking electrocution by
drooling on our respective keyboards after the good all day road trip to Manhattans
infamous BAR 13 lounge. I was wired for the drive 'cuz after popping several of them vivarin(t) things (check it out now, no doubt yo) & swigging a liter of
coke, EVERYdamTHANG became funny!
Folks on the turnpike musta thought we were loopy...
On 95 north, screaming at a soda-spewing,spleen-bursting, pull-over-so-I-can-vomit
-it was-so-funny radio show that enhanced my vocab by enlightening me to the term "nigger-rich".
Come on, now don't get sensitive on me, you know you've got a cousin like that...
and most of them were flossing at the all-star weekend...just WAIT 'till those credit card
bills start avalanching in!
on 95 south, reminiscing o'er the smell of cinna-buns & me feening for chick-peas ,
we started to play Asherus' patented either/or game (and if you're unfamiliar,
be sure to go see an Unspoken Heard show), but since we couldn't settle on anything
here are some shouts:
Aisha Tyler - I love a fine woman with a sense of humor
Marty McConnell - domo arigato for the gig (and for hooking up that 2nd mic!)
Lynne Procope - don't get too close because ya might get shot
Bassey - we are all fighting over you - but remember, I was here first
Janet Jackson - the perfect specimen - and not 'cuz she just got divorced
Celena Glenn - guys, I think we've just found our 360
To Dehejia Lovely for being the lovely Dehejia
to Sista Natalie who I ran into at the bank the other day for her good energy
to Kiera at Dreams of Cream in Detroit
yo D what's the name of that girl from City High?
Kelis - you could get it
last, but certainly not least, my heart Ishle Park - I felt you first
(Sigh) Too bad there can't be 162 of me like Jet Li - but like the Highlander
creed goes, "there can only be one". I think my boys would agree that I'm
enough though...
Pic!
blackpicasso - 3:35 PM
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2.14.2002
happy VD! or actually, happy LUPERCALIAN FESTIVAL!!!
oh...you're not up on the origins of the day?
- To see where the real romantic stuff starts, we have to go further back further than Valentine; back, in fact, to the very beginning of the Roman Empire. The VERY beginning - when Rome's legendary founders, Romulus and Remus, were suckled as infants by wolves. This supposedly happened in a cave they named, appropriately, Lupercal, on a hill that would eventually become the center of the city, state, and empire of Rome.
- From these rather kinky beginnings, Rome grew to conquer the known world. And, probably from the ashes of even older pagan rites of Spring, grew the feast of Lupercalia.
- Ostensively a feast to celebrate the gods Lupercus and Faunus (the protectors of herds and crops, and chief gods of fertility and husbandry - the Roman equivalent of the Grecian gods Juno and Pan, respectively), the Romans used this date also to celebrate the birth of their Mowgli twins.
- This was the drill: Luperci, the priests of Lupercus, would get up early in the morning and dress up in goatskins - and, no, I won't claim that this is where we get the phrase 'A wolf in sheeps clothing'.. but it sure sounds possible. They would then sacrifice a few goats and a dog, and roll around in the resulting blood. Now prepared, they would each take up a whip-like strip of goat hide, and run round and round the hill howling, and putting up a general racket.
- With all this commotion around the top of Palatine Hill, the ladies would gather, and position themselves around the hillside, so the Luperci could run by and whup them with goatskin whip. This was supposed to insure fertility and easy childbirth.
- The whip, by the way, had a name. It was called the 'Februa' (means of purification). And thus, the name of the month to this very day
- The next entertainment on the card was what has become known as 'the Lupercian lottery'. The names of the available young women were written on slips of paper, and placed in a container. The available young men would then be called to pull a slip out, and would thereby be paired with the woman of his 'choice'.
what came next? yeah baby- perversions of the highest order; and considering what came before the perversions, i'm sure these cats took their freakin' pretty seriously
enjoy your day folks- but y'all come around me?
ya might get beat with a goatskin whip
cuz a nukka's straight off the wolf tit...
HOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWLLLLLLLLL...
dp
naturalaw-dp - 11:49 AM
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2.13.2002