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Posted on May 29, 2020June 5, 2020

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…

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Posted on May 27, 2020May 27, 2020

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.

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Posted on May 16, 2020May 18, 2020

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…

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Posted on March 29, 2020March 29, 2020

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…

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Posted on December 31, 2019December 31, 2019

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…

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Posted on August 10, 2019May 28, 2023

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…

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Posted on August 6, 2019August 6, 2019

surely, there is a telephone to heaven

Let it go on the record that I do not care that we live in the immediate and global now. Being notified of a beloved’s passing via any medium other…

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Posted on July 29, 2019July 30, 2019

#MondayMusicMix vol 3

We meet again for another Monday Music Mix. Volume 3 already?  It’s been a busy seven days. I’ve been in and out of places and in and out of different…

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