at long last, we are forwarding into the future
The Past When I was a child growing up in the 1980s and 90s, I watched episodes of The Jetsons on Saturday mornings and I would be entranced by the…
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in the blink of an eye
Gavsborg has a new music project! The timing couldn’t be better and the content couldn’t reflect the time more accurately. Just like this week in Black history, this EP is…
life support needed
This post is an invitation for you to take in Butler’s prayers as we collectively mourn the cruel loss of George Floyd.
future tense, past imperfect
…how in 2020 Megan Thee Stallion and Beyoncé can be celebrated as self-proclaimed “savages” …while … Ahmaud Arbery can be savagely murdered by two white men…
not a review, this is an annotation
In my field of literary study, we catalog texts by first close reading, then assessing, then writing. And when the music requires it — because the music is just too…
time between hope
A month ago I thought I saw someone dear to me. She was walking near Matilda’s Corner, perhaps heading to New Leaf vegetarian restaurant. Her long blue and purple skirt…
what if it’s written in the wrong key?
Some may think that the manuscript paper, the vinyl, the tape, the cds, or even the digital mp3s will be what preserve the music of yesteryear so that future generations…
"write pon di riddim" 