Founder Lawrence
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Question about society...
I was thinking about this…are young people today growing up with institutions and structures that provide them with boundaries, expectations, and goals? For example, I grew up in the Black church, and one of the things expected of Black children was that they needed to enunciate their voice. How did you do that? You were given tasks, such…
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Hey, can we know in advance whether or not we’re supposed to honor Nick Fuentes at some point, and believe that he’s not a white supremacist? That would help us brothers and sisters out. Thanks!
–The Blacks
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Labor Day Weekend Plans? Us? Chill. Nothing special. What about y’all?
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Yoga, watching sports, reading, tv with the wife
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Watched daughter’s team vs USC and then vs LMU. Played beach volleyball a couple days. Then played pickleball at friend’s house. That makes me think pickleball would be another good in person get together for Metaphor Club.
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Good morning, everyone!! Where are my writers at? What ya working on?
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Good morning! I had to present a speech at a retirement party for a muck-a-muck from a large University system… instead of a traditional speech… I wrote and dedicated a poem to the individual. I flexed a different writing muscle and was pleased with the results.
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QUESTION OF THE DAY: “If you could erase one idea from history forever—or amplify one forgotten idea so everyone knew it—what would you choose, and why?”
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The moment Adam and Eve doubted God meant what he said. Doubt just jacks everything up and makes the wonder of life and living unnecessarily hard.
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Someone give me a question of the day. I was thinking, but nothing popped up.
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Will Texas repubs succeed in their plot to gerrymander voting districts prematurely? And, if so, will California dems counter with some gerrymandering of their own?
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What advice would you give your younger self?
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My writing count for the day is 3000 words. What’s yours?
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Sorry about the late post. I was writing until 4:30 a.m., so I just got up. I’m very proud of myself because the organizational work for my satirical novel, which began as a ten-pager in our MetaREAD before the pandemic, is probably some of my best writing. Any of you writing something?
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I’m a musicologist by trade, so I’m doing some academic writing, which I think is best when it tells a story with discernible ramifications. My current project is on New Orleans-born composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk (b. 1829), the first American musician to be recognized as a legit composer by the European musical establishment.
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Share a little-known piece of info about yourself. This is our first ‘Get to Know Me’ Thread…
I’ll start…
I appeared on the Joker’s Wild right after my freshman year at Berkeley. Here’s a short clip…
https://drive.google.com/file/d/105Z7TX31_TZ5MfszRjkzHz2xZAsq514U/view?usp=sharing
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Well I’m going to copy you and go with TV appearance. Sweat Equity in 2010. Here’s a link to the season if you have Discovery+. If you don’t already subscribe to it, fair warning that it’s not worth the $5.99 to watch me stumble through a TV appearance. Plus ex-wife involved. https://www.amazon.com/Sweat-Equity-Season-6/dp/B091Z6J3WN
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I am the boy silhouette running during the opening credits to _Escape to Witch Mountain_ (1975)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDYXQY-Qncs&ab_channel=%F0%9F%9B%B8MIKE%27SMYSTERYMACHINE%F0%9F%9B%B8
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When I was about 5 years old and still lived in Atlanta, my family was featured in a Jet Magazine ad for LeConte hair products.
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Wanna see the Ross family on Family Feud in 1976?
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QUESTION OF THE DAY for Saturday, July 5th:
I believe we’re squarely in Jim Crow 2.0. If we take that as a reasonable position, what are the little things you’re doing to adjust to the new reality?Are you considering leaving your job to start something new?
What are you going to do with education if you have children headed off to college,…
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Putting this on the must read list.
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