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The musings of someone who picked it up on the streets.
I have been writing about both literature and race issues quite a lot lately. The saga of Margaret B. Jones, aka Margaret Seltzer, shows that I’ve been on to something.
She was the author of “Love and Consequences”, a memoir of growing up in a black foster family in South Central Los Angeles. Her tale was a wild ride with a strong mother and gang violence, death and redemption. It also turned out to not be true when Ms. Seltzer was ratted out by her own sister.
I have been giving far too much thought lately to the idea of Literary Theory. This is part of my effort to understand my fellow writers and other people in the writing industry. My college degree is in Engineering, not one of the social sciences, so my understanding of social theories is pretty limited. You can make your own jokes about my abilities in social anythings if you’d like.
On this Oscar Night, my mind is otherwise occupied. I have work to do and some serious politicking to practice. Besides, I have little interest in the show biz aspects of show biz. I will watch it a bit later just to see what Jon Stewart comes up with.
Newspaper readership continues to decline in the USofA, with online readership not even beginning to make up the staggering losses in print. The most recent study I could find was by the Pew Research Center in 2006, which shows that from 1993-2006 the percent of people in the USofA who read a newspaper, in print or online, declined from 58% to 40%.
It’s Tuesday, the day that I answer mail. I’m thinking very seriously about moving over to a normal blog format that allows comments to improve the interaction here, so that I don’t have to do this.
This week I had a good conversation starter on a topic that I think deserves interaction. The basic question is a simple one:
Barataria - The work of Erik Hare 