Memphis Jookin, TN

If you haven’t seen much an update here, it is because dies were cast and some events put us to a spot most excellent but not quite expected. There is a longer story but the short form is that the Tech Wolves are working with U Dig Dance to develop Memphis Jookin, TN. It’s a season of events and a great much more around the art and culture of dance, with a spotlight on one borne from the Bluff City. https://sportsandmedia.tech/

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Insanity: An Open Letter to America

Kelsea Comb first published as a start to her blog. She is a person of many things, poet and writer are two. She wrote this letter in the days after the election for the 46th president. November 04, 2020 (Excuse punctuation, just started writing) I would like to start with a poem by Countee Cullen. Incident Once riding in old Baltimore,Heart-filled, head-filled with glee;I saw a BaltimoreanKeep looking straight at me. Now I was eight and very small,And he was no whit bigger,And so I smiled, but he poked outHis…

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A simple string board.

We contacted our friend John Lowebow, who makes cigar box guitars and more. He sent the above list. Most things are available at your local hardware store. The pickup, jack and guitar strings came from a guitar store. A next build will include diy pickups. The screws for to attach the pickup are # 4. The bridge and nut were cut from the smaller piece of wood. Measurements are important. Here, a tape was used to measure the pickup height. On the next one, the pickup was used to mark…

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Clutch is when it is needed most.

A great much has transpired to get to this point where a young man in some raggedy shoes and a car we had to jump afterwards, showed up in the midst of the mist of Hurricane Delta on parking lot at the intersection of Highway 51 and Noncannah Creek to have the chance to ask for his dream. The muses are powerful around here and so in media res we must go to follow some conventions. We left but not until I had to come back and boost Wesley’s car…

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A trip there and back or two.

A-Tonal Soul (Antonio Hobson) was scheduled to play a little diddy, as advertised on this flyer in social media and around. He’s a joy to watch and listen to. The hope was to pull some good audio with our new sound gear along with some cool video. The day prior, we had left our Mystery Van lunchbox with our camera and audio recorder with Wesley. He’s the one on the right making sparks. “He will be the one dressed to be seen and playing a saxophone.” While Zay and dude…

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