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survivor of hurricane Felix

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About Me

I started teaching in east oakland, and the first year of teaching is serious business, some say i should be crying, others say i should be quitting, i say that i should be surviving. When Im not teaching, tutoring, prepping, making copies, mentoring, calling parents, correcting homework, grading tests, and visiting students homes, I like to play madden 06 on my computer, watch the Sopranos, watch Heroes, play basketball, sleep, lay on the couch, eat ice cream, and enjoy life.
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My Interests

Poetry, Basketball, Festivals, Steet Fairs, Forums, Rallies, Open Mic Nights, Documentaries, Graphic Design, Cultural Shows, Live Music, Hip Hop and Soul Concerts, Reading, Writing Poetry, Relaxing, Going to the Beach,

Music:

Recent Additions: Chrisette Michele, Gym Class Heroes, Brother Ali, John Legend, Corrine Bailey Rae, Lupe Fiasco, and Boca Floja.Soul and UNDERGROUND Hip Hop Talib Kweli, J-Live, K-os, Mos Def, Common, Zion-I, Lyfe Jennings, Jill Scott, Raheem Devaughn, Maxwell, Mishell, Coltrane, Miles, J5, Goapele, Maroon 5, John Mayer, Dave Mathews, Gift of Gab, Dead Prez, the Foundation, Crown City Rockers, Living Legends, 9th Wonder, Little Brother, Last Emperor, Anthony Hamilton, Jill Scott all that good stuff!

Movies:

Hacking Democracy, American Blackout, Future of Food.recenlty saw, Daddy's Little Girls, Pan's Labyrinth, Babel, Science of Sleep, Children of Men, Battle of Algiers, and Stranger than Fiction.I love independent films I Heart Huckabies, documentaries like Life and Debt, foreign films like Machuca, occasional comedies and action films.

Television:

its all about Lost and Heroes.I love the Boondocks and Family Guy. I love Jeopardy and Star Trek. I like 106 and Park, yes still. I watch College Hill, lol. I watch some basketball and football.

Books:

Im reading Assata's Auto-Biography and Love by bell hooks, also reading "Don't think of an Elephant"Just read, "Sugar Blues", by William Dufty, reading "Becoming Vegan," "Cunt," and "Freakonomics." Other good ones, "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" by John Perkins wow! ----Now reading, "Pedagogy for Liberation," by Freire and Shor-----Wanna Read "The Dark Alliance," by Gary Webb---other favorites, "Why are all the Black Kids sitting together in the cafeteria,"----"A Wrinkle in Time"----"1984"-----"Beloved"---

Heroes:

My mama (Paulene Pacholski) My father, (Floyd Truss) Fred Hampton, Che Guevara, Malcolm X, Lolita Lebron, Angela Davis, Rigoberta Menchu, Paulo Freire, Alex Jones, Pedro Noguerra, Nelson Mandela, Ella Baker, Nat Turner, Emiliano Zapata, Marcos and Ramona, and many more

My Blog

my new music Vidoes

from the much anticipated debut album from TrustinTruss entitled LET THE WORD BE SPITTEN     more videos at:     http://youtub...
Posted by survivor of hurricane Felix on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:58:00 PST

Let it burn!

Spring 2006 Let it burn! "We don't need no water, let that muthafucka burn!" "What?" "Burn muthafucka, burn!"  Burning books fly in backfire, like bullets on a battle field.  Students do...
Posted by survivor of hurricane Felix on Sat, 04 Aug 2007 02:41:00 PST

20 Questions (poem about education system)

 20 QuestionsMarch 8th, 2006 ..> I sit here, arms folded, fists clenched, teeth gritty. Holding my breath, keeping back the stress, My eyes are hard, fierce, tight, squinted....
Posted by survivor of hurricane Felix on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 04:48:00 PST

Who am I 1997

9 - 3 - 97I ponder this, as I play a great game of basket ball People brag, Gloat, and perform I play Am I good? I get the job done Do I win? I play I love basketball. It wakes me, gets me...
Posted by survivor of hurricane Felix on Tue, 29 May 2007 11:54:00 PST

Freedom and Independence

Sometime in the past, when a forebear of mine felt, the warmth of the sun setting over the hill, from the swinging bench on her country house's porch.   Sometime in the past, the foundat...
Posted by survivor of hurricane Felix on Tue, 29 May 2007 11:52:00 PST

-Let the circle be Unbroken-

be Unbroken, let the Circle. A few days ago, I was asked to read a poem about being a strong black man, and I realized I didn't have a particular piece, nothing but this built up tension and tears to...
Posted by survivor of hurricane Felix on Thu, 17 May 2007 11:37:00 PST

that beat

That beat   What do I wanna be when I grow up?  I don't wanna be a lawyer or a doctor, a policeman or a fireman, naw, I wanna be that beat. That beat that that beat, that that, be...
Posted by survivor of hurricane Felix on Sat, 12 May 2007 10:36:00 PST

Baggage Overhead

Baggage Overhead          Next in line, please, sure step right up to the counter, welcome to Redemption Airways.  Um, I'm sorry but your gonna have to ...
Posted by survivor of hurricane Felix on Fri, 11 May 2007 12:29:00 PST

Always Bet on Black

Always Bet on Black(roll and snap)(roll and snap) like die cast against the side of a project building,our youth gamble with their lives,thinking they are winning,but the house always rules,especiall...
Posted by survivor of hurricane Felix on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 01:22:00 PST

scents, senses, evanescence and permanence

scents, senses, evanescence and permanence candles light my way,flames lead my eyes,to my body's surprise.sweet scents arouse my sensesthe smell beacons ...
Posted by survivor of hurricane Felix on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:07:00 PST