DAY ONE: Taking Hilary Mantel's The Giant O'Brien as company on a trip to Los Angeles was serendipitous. Relying on my love of the author I hadn't read any of the blurb so I didn't know that it is set in late 18th Century London and that one of its prime concerns is the relationship between coarseness and greed. ..KEVIN CAREY, "SMALL STEPS" MY GLASS HOUSE: Okay, I screwed up. I put my trust in someone who couldn't even leave with dignity. [See Vox Populi.] Again, I have to ask, "Who knew?" I thought it would be good thing to have someone else edit G21. Forgive me... ROD AMIS, "The Ghost Who Walks" RECOMMENDED DAILY REQUIREMENT: If anything, we say that jazz frees us of exclusion, it is the music of the soul, that transcends race, class, economics and all those other categories which we use too often to divide us. ROD AMIS "JAZZ" RDR 04.10.00: Reminiscence of things past. ED CANTARELLA "Still" RDR 04.11.00: KEVIN CAREY speaks to the implications of the April Fool's Day massacre in Zibabwe. "Mugabe" PLANETARY MADNESS: Bold, irreverent, saucy and sassy Aries roils our juices for most of April. As the first sign of the western zodiac, Aries cajoles Initiation (smack the lips while amidst beginnings) and goads the guileless initiative needed to enact Initiation (whoop and dig into frisky, risky beginnings). I click my heels and swing the tassels that adorn the horns popping-out of my Aries brow. ...JENNIFER BLUE "APRIL, 2000" VOX POPULI: From Catherine R. (No City Provided.) Delaware, USA: i have been avoiding andovernet and g21 cuz you weren't there. glad that you have resurrected...and, to think that i was having doubts about the Resurrection. don't go away. stay put. catherine r. Your "Letters" Page continues.

G21 ASIA AL DUNSMUIR The Courage of Tibet Everyone knows that China has abused human rights in Tibet, but what is not clear are the facts. It is not surprising. Freedom of information is not high up on the Chinese Government's "to do" list for the foreseeable future, leaving us to judge the truth from what Government backed sources tell us, and from those who have experienced Tibet first hand and now have an international voice... MEMOIRS OF THE INFORMATION AGE ED CANTARELLA Stealth IT There is a faceless agent out there, one that doesn't show up on anyone's roster of IT workers. They infiltrated the electronics revolution while the pocket-protector clan was busy hugging Unix like a high school hottie. I am talking about that 1 in x-many workers, that makes up the Ee or End-electronics department. You know, the guy or gal that really seems to "get" electronics, from programming the 15-in-1 machine the office just got, to making complete use of the feature set of every program on their machine, as well as yours.... POWERSSOUND BOB POWERS Jazz Guitar Groover As the album notes point out, Johnston is no wet-behind-the-ears novice hoping to make some noise in the music world. He's a veteran performer, having worked with a number of stars, including Etta Jones, Houston Person, Irene Reid, Warne Marsh, Sonny Fortune, Lionel Hampton, Brother Jack McDuff and Lou Donaldson. Johnston has been making the scene since graduating from college in 1981. These days he is employed as a teacher at the Hartt School of Music in Hartford, Conn... RADIOACTIVE RADIO RAHEEM New York's Finest From the link to the Without Sanctuary site in RDR this weekend to quoting Cruddup's "That's Awright Mama" --- which Elvis Presley always did in live performance, I personally had to shed tears of joy. RodMan was back running this magazine. We were going back to being a Class Act. As it should be. Rather than a Web site involved in intellectual masturbation. So I'm back, too. Let's start talking 'bout the business of The People again. Patrick Dorismond, a Haitian American who happened to live in New York City is now dead. He's dead because he was yet another unarmed Black man who encountered an undercover member of New York's Finest.

"That's awright, Mama,
That's awright with me.
That's awright, Mama,
If that the way you wannah be.
Well, that's awright." --- A. Cruddup. Popularized by E. Presley

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