May 5, 2005

The Return of For Myself and Others…sorta.

Delayed business…the Fryer joint has been pushed back a week. Be sure to check it out. Especially you, Roland. Especially you.

Business, baby…For Myself and Others, my personal contribution to the glut of people talking in this world, has returned in a different format. The new setup is a blog that I’ll update five days a week, and you can find the blog at journals.aol.com/bjonesfmo/formyselfandothers. On the right, there is a permanent link to the AOL blog, so you can always come here to get to it. The entries will be shorter than what I do here, but they’ll be specifically about music. That doesn’t mean that I won’t talk music on here. Because AOL won’t let me use what is commonly deemed as profanity, I’ll have more interesting things to talk about over here.

The new setup will be fun, though, and I promise that you won’t find anything else in the landscape with the perspective I’m going to bring there, so please check it out. This new format also gives me more time, so I expect to do more interviews and other writings in the coming months. As always, you can find out what I’m up to here at Virtual Bomaniland.

‘Nuff bout me…let’s talk about a great interview my man Q did with Terence Howard for BV.
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May 2, 2005

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

When I went to visit Jon’s grave a couple of weeks ago, JR handed me a piece of paper and said, “look what they put on the bulletin board of my job.” JR works security, so I was pretty interested to see what it was. Turns out it was a wanted poster for Joanne Deborah Chesimard, a name that looked incredibly familiar to me. While perusing the jillion of aliases, I came across the one that made it all connect–Assata Shakur.

It seemed odd that her poster would just appear now. First, she’d been wanted for more than twenty-five years. The other strange thing was that she’s been in Cuba for as long as nearly anyone remembers. Why put her poster up in DC?

Today, we found out why. ‘Twas a preliminary PR push.
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