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The New Mrs. Love

I don't want any sunbursts or marble halls. I just want you, Eaves.

About Me

Love.
{see section: interests category: general for further detail}
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My Interests

love & revolution {simple ideas with complex solutions}
food security system {plant, grow, eat, ad infinitum}
visual metaphor {puzzle pieces on the floor the day she walked out the door}
language as a malleable artistic medium {reject fallable facistic grammar conventions, make spelling inventions: pull and twist till yer feengers is gnum}

I'd like to meet:

my children. happy people.
Hot Cars + Hot Girls - Dudes= My New Favorite Video
(so ok there's two dudes at the end but really, do you even notice them?)

Music:


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Movies:

"What's so great about discovery? It's a violent, penetrative act that scars what it explores. What you call discovery I call the rape of the natural world!"-- Jeff Goldblum as Dr. Ian Malcolm, Jurassic Park (1993)

Television:

I'll wait till it comes out on DVD.

Books:

There's far too many writers and an impossible number of texts.
Poetry: Elen Gebreb (Alena Hairston), Bushra Rehman, Anthony McNeill, Pablo Neruda
Fiction: Toni Morrison, Gayle Jones, Toni Cade Bambara, Octavia Butler, Jamaica Kincaid, James Baldwin, J.E. Wideman, Arundhati Roy
Non: Edward Said, bell hooks, Paolo Freire, Cornell West, Mohanty, Spivak
P.S. Hip Hop is a literary endeavor. recognize.

Heroes:

People who Love despite {insert malady here}.

My Blog

Response to Stars Blog "Do you have NGGA in size medium?"

and: gotta say, vip letherette couches and a line up that doubles as a hip-hop pantheon aside, Rock the Bells was more bitter than sweet in the end. Where were the goddesses in the pantheon? Jean Gra...
Posted by The New Mrs. Love on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:05:00 PST

I could get with this, or I could get with that...

So my fiance says she'll leave me if I do it.Decide to teach High-School, that is.I don't blame her. I've been a wreck for 4 weeks and this is just summer school.And I used to be a pre-school teacher,...
Posted by The New Mrs. Love on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 10:10:00 PST

Cosmic Daddy

So I was out dead-heading the cosmos.It sounds like space war, but it's gardening.A black man came towards me, pushing a bike and carrying a fold up chair.He pointed down the block, to a red-blooming ...
Posted by The New Mrs. Love on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 08:10:00 PST

Cosmic Daddy

So I was out dead-heading the cosmos.It sounds like space war, but it's gardening.A black man came towards me, pushing a bike and carrying a fold up chair.He pointed down the block, to a red-blooming ...
Posted by The New Mrs. Love on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 08:47:00 PST

My Hair

I got the good old fashioned Dominican Press in Philly for my sister's wedding, and my current profile picture was taken the next day. It's not permanent, neither is it a statement for or against con...
Posted by The New Mrs. Love on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 05:45:00 PST

Teaching Blog

Ok, so today I tried Slick Rick's "A Children's Story," Chapter two of Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower" and a short story by Juan Rulfo called "Tell them not to kill me!" We used the stories t...
Posted by The New Mrs. Love on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 06:56:00 PST

For Coltrane Joseph Love, Who I Hope Will Read Books About Himself.

I often say that for all the shit I go through as a gay black woman, I wouldn't trade places with a Black Man of any persuasion for nothin. Now partly that's because I enjoy being who I am despite th...
Posted by The New Mrs. Love on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 11:56:00 PST

I Did It!!! (Sort of)

I completed my first 1/2 marathon! except the idiots who organized the race -- well the problem was they didn't really organize the race, and they mis-directed the whole first half of runners, so I o...
Posted by The New Mrs. Love on Sat, 12 May 2007 10:41:00 PST

I left my heart in Gotham City OR Six of one...

flying in over the isle i sighed, "home." missed the hustle (pace) so bad missed folks bein sharp (well dressed) and sharp (intellectually precise). i saw kanye west in the street (i am not a mutt...
Posted by The New Mrs. Love on Tue, 08 May 2007 11:51:00 PST

dressing

Pants seem like a restrictive idea. The vulnerability of a skirt is terrifying.
Posted by The New Mrs. Love on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 02:48:00 PST