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"I'm in Nashville"

Kalamu Update

folks,

i'm in nashville, well, actually somewhere in the suburbs (please spare me the jokes, the suburbs are not funny)... anyway, looks like this will be the base for the near future although everything is fluid and that could change.

no mailing address yet.

cell phone is back in service: it's a long story, let's just say my old phone&pda died. i left a new phone in houston. now have a new new phone here in nashville. the number is the same. 504/710-9694

some folk have been asking about making donations. paypal (kalamu@aol.com) is the most efficient way. other than that, email me.

if you get a email bounce back because my box is full, wait about twelve hours and try again. right now i do not have 24-hour access to the internet, which i did have in houston, which was why i could keep e-drum humming with no interruption, but now, out here in the sticks... don't get me started.

within a week or so, we should be in an apartment and then we'll have the stuff hooked up, meanwhile it's 10:30pm, i'm sitting in a barnes & noble paying approximately $4 for two hours of wireless hookup. i tried just walking into a couple of hotel lobbies. that didn't work--the marriott had wireless in the lobby but only for hotel guests, wouldn't even sell me any airtime. oh, the joys of nashville.

i'm getting this off now, so technically this is the friday e-drum. and i will do another mailing on saturday.

my daughter asante is going to be the manager for the "listen to the people" project, which includes managing my speaking engagements, residencies, lectures, etc. we're ramping up for me to be active on the road over the next six or seven weeks, raising funds for listen to the people and for to keep a roof over my head and a broadband connection under the roof—actually the roof is not nearly as important as the broadband. we're about to go verizon on folk and i will have 24/7 broadband wherever i go. more on that in a minute...

meanwhile, i am not intentionally ignoring people, i'm just swamped with work. articles to write. e-drum to keep up with. last week we had a thousand emails in a two day period. and aol just quit at that point. plus, preparing for listen to the people, as well as working on sac (students at the center) matters, and other writing i've been doing (which includes a major novel: walkin' blues--a meditation and speculation on the life and legend of robert johnson). i'm about 120,000 words into the novel and hope to finish by the end of the year.

i'm going to be more elusive than ever because i will be traveling like crazy, but please bear with me. i love all of yall, thanks for all the support. we are pushing on. my health is good. and most days my head is ok too.

check out the KAT ACTION piece i've put out. i'm talking about a real tax break.

and, the neo-griot stuff just keeps rolling right along. little did we know that all the study and stuff we were doing in new orleans would be brought to bear with us far flung from each other physically but working together in cyberspace.

more in a minute, plan to spend quite a bit of time writing and touching base with folk tomorrow.

i apologize to all the folk i have not contacted or followed up with to date, things have just been moving too fast for me to catch hold to everything.

more in a minute, the next e-drum will be coming at you in a matter of hours.

a luta continua,

kalamu

posted 10 September 2005