Friday, April 29, 2011
Saturday, December 6, 2008
An Evening to Remember and Breakfast to Share w/ Robert Diggs, AKA RZA in Minneapolis
The Commentary of Drunken Master RAO
There are those times in life, when you have to take a chance and when I was working in Minneapolis on a wrongful death police shooting case of a black young man
in 2004, I was about to leave town when I saw that the leader of the Wu Tang Klan was going to do a solo concert in the Modern City of the Upper Midwest, at a local upscale night club in town.
Also, earlier that same trip, I had met a very attractive young black woman, a young woman who herself had been a victim of police brutalitly and had sought to seek a formal review of the same from the local officials and she had done so with much focus, dedication and soft but serious intelligence.
This woman came to mind as I saw the add in the paper for the concert and I thought she just may want to see RzA in concert...and ..well...sometimes, as stated, one has to take a chance......we did not know each other much at all and it was a great risk to even call her and speak to her...about the same...much less to ask her to go to the concert...w/ a...well, sort of funky white guy...
but sometimes,, in life...taking risk..does have its rewards...and this time, it worked....The young beautiful girl listened to my requests to spend a evevning with her first at dinner and then attend with her at my side, the unique special solo RzA concert...
and with that, we met and went and had the dinner and then we went to the concert...
I'm so glad that she decided to join me that evening because without her, I probably would not have had the next amazing experience of my life in terms of spending time w/ a major national sized talent
all in one way...but for something this date, was more than willling to do for me...during the concert...[and no it was not anything what some guys would think...]
she in a word...believed my story and in a word, believed in my work...and she had spoken some very special words of comfort to me, about my work on police brutality cases and issues..and she noted how as a young black woman, this meant something to her, to see a white guy so devoted to the cause of what all too often, is perceived as "a black issue" mainly...in america [but isn't really if the truth were known...]
simply seeing my connection and believing in my story, and my background she literally took my business card and then did something very special with it...
she went down front...waited for the right moment..and all six feet 2 of her...and her long legged beauty...got up and began to dance on stage w/ the RZA...and by doing so...
she caught his [and everyone else's attention] in the crowd...she was something to witness and when she danced...she altogether as memesmizing as was RzA' rap...and music...and all h..began to break lose ...w/ the crowd...as this moment seemed to break open the concert...even the seriously beautiful..young dancers already w/ RzA began to dance even better...sensing they had not so much competition but a true beauty like them....opening up the crowd to what they already had been contributing to the evening...
but what truly was special...my date, like she said she would, took the business card I, in a very loyal and intelligent manner, [she could have forgotten about me and simply paid very serious attention to the WU leader...but instead..she listened and did even better than i expected...she took my card and placed it into the hand of RZA, just at the right bump and grind moment...
and with that....
a very special thing happened...next...
the live, in person solo special appareance concert....was halted...
and ..this amazing nationally recognized 'quincy jones of rap' stopped the show...
literally...music dancing and all...and simply stared for a moment...
and then asked...
"olivito...where are you..."...looking out over the crowd and pearing into the stage lights with his hands towards his eyes...
I reluctantly but firmly raised my hands...near the back of the audience...and
he smiled..and said...
"richard...you are here, in minneapolis? meet me soon back stage...won't you?"
and he gave me the wu finger signs....and i knew we had just the right mix happening....
...my date...for the evening ...was also kind of mildly surprised...she smiled and danced a dance...after that...that knocked...even the RZA off his balance and his own dancers had to take a bow to her...
and...after the concert...
we did, indeed...meet the man...and legend...and the young man, whom my own brother once before he became so famous..and so legendary in the modern music industry...
represented inside a jefferson county common pleas court room on a rather trumped up...heavy handed but very serious criminal charge, for which Robert Diggs ...after testifying in his own defense, in front of a all white jury...very well..
was completely aquitted...
my brother and i watched this occur and afterwards, this young man from the streets of Steubenville and Brooklyn....told us...at a very young age...that he was..that day...some 14 years prior...
"i'm going to be famous one day..."
and here he was....post fame, post his multimillion dollar music career...and his brillant marketing strategy for all of his klan...
and he was solo, stripped down..and raw...and he was more than happy to
see me and talk to me and invite me ...not just back stage that evening...
but...to meet him at breakfast the next morning...w/ my same date....
at a local [very nice] hotel's lobby...on him...
...we met...and Robert Diggs...in person...was as nice and as intelligent and as geniune a human being...as i ever saw...in any major personality and celebrity...or for that matter...any person..i ever met...
he was indeed, the same young man that i had met...w/ just alot more maturity and expreience and quite a life story ..now behind him...
literally...a rags to riches...story and something simply amazing to be with ...even for a very long breakfast.
and he was geniune...again...and this is what struck me the most about him...humble and geniune and...in a word
very real....
but..it was a moment in minneapolis...and with my date...and with the way this meeting would take place
it was one..that would not be forgotten....and we spoke then...of making plans on how to raise awareness of the issues that were near and dear to my heart...
later, somethings did not quite gell as i had planned and discusssed with Robert that morning...in Minneapolis, with my date, near my side...
but nonetheless...on a personal level...the discussion did continue and the ideas were not to die
and he again..would personally extend himself to invite me...to visit with him..in LA and again w/ him in other settings...
i hope...all things..otherwise...are well...
time has passed since that evening...and how that special date...went down...
I miss the moment..in some ways...because it was a vulnerable and uncertain one...
but one, that for once in life, when i took a chance on both...attempting a special date w/ a beauty...
and w/ trying to reconnect to a current rap east coast legend...
both ended in....one very special memory for all of us...
Long live the Wu...and long live the young beautiful caring and loyal [black girl] dates of the world...and all kudros..and all peace and love...
to one very geniune young man..named...Robert Diggs...
There are those times in life, when you have to take a chance and when I was working in Minneapolis on a wrongful death police shooting case of a black young man
in 2004, I was about to leave town when I saw that the leader of the Wu Tang Klan was going to do a solo concert in the Modern City of the Upper Midwest, at a local upscale night club in town.
Also, earlier that same trip, I had met a very attractive young black woman, a young woman who herself had been a victim of police brutalitly and had sought to seek a formal review of the same from the local officials and she had done so with much focus, dedication and soft but serious intelligence.
This woman came to mind as I saw the add in the paper for the concert and I thought she just may want to see RzA in concert...and ..well...sometimes, as stated, one has to take a chance......we did not know each other much at all and it was a great risk to even call her and speak to her...about the same...much less to ask her to go to the concert...w/ a...well, sort of funky white guy...
but sometimes,, in life...taking risk..does have its rewards...and this time, it worked....The young beautiful girl listened to my requests to spend a evevning with her first at dinner and then attend with her at my side, the unique special solo RzA concert...
and with that, we met and went and had the dinner and then we went to the concert...
I'm so glad that she decided to join me that evening because without her, I probably would not have had the next amazing experience of my life in terms of spending time w/ a major national sized talent
all in one way...but for something this date, was more than willling to do for me...during the concert...[and no it was not anything what some guys would think...]
she in a word...believed my story and in a word, believed in my work...and she had spoken some very special words of comfort to me, about my work on police brutality cases and issues..and she noted how as a young black woman, this meant something to her, to see a white guy so devoted to the cause of what all too often, is perceived as "a black issue" mainly...in america [but isn't really if the truth were known...]
simply seeing my connection and believing in my story, and my background she literally took my business card and then did something very special with it...
she went down front...waited for the right moment..and all six feet 2 of her...and her long legged beauty...got up and began to dance on stage w/ the RZA...and by doing so...
she caught his [and everyone else's attention] in the crowd...she was something to witness and when she danced...she altogether as memesmizing as was RzA' rap...and music...and all h..began to break lose ...w/ the crowd...as this moment seemed to break open the concert...even the seriously beautiful..young dancers already w/ RzA began to dance even better...sensing they had not so much competition but a true beauty like them....opening up the crowd to what they already had been contributing to the evening...
but what truly was special...my date, like she said she would, took the business card I, in a very loyal and intelligent manner, [she could have forgotten about me and simply paid very serious attention to the WU leader...but instead..she listened and did even better than i expected...she took my card and placed it into the hand of RZA, just at the right bump and grind moment...
and with that....
a very special thing happened...next...
the live, in person solo special appareance concert....was halted...
and ..this amazing nationally recognized 'quincy jones of rap' stopped the show...
literally...music dancing and all...and simply stared for a moment...
and then asked...
"olivito...where are you..."...looking out over the crowd and pearing into the stage lights with his hands towards his eyes...
I reluctantly but firmly raised my hands...near the back of the audience...and
he smiled..and said...
"richard...you are here, in minneapolis? meet me soon back stage...won't you?"
and he gave me the wu finger signs....and i knew we had just the right mix happening....
...my date...for the evening ...was also kind of mildly surprised...she smiled and danced a dance...after that...that knocked...even the RZA off his balance and his own dancers had to take a bow to her...
and...after the concert...
we did, indeed...meet the man...and legend...and the young man, whom my own brother once before he became so famous..and so legendary in the modern music industry...
represented inside a jefferson county common pleas court room on a rather trumped up...heavy handed but very serious criminal charge, for which Robert Diggs ...after testifying in his own defense, in front of a all white jury...very well..
was completely aquitted...
my brother and i watched this occur and afterwards, this young man from the streets of Steubenville and Brooklyn....told us...at a very young age...that he was..that day...some 14 years prior...
"i'm going to be famous one day..."
and here he was....post fame, post his multimillion dollar music career...and his brillant marketing strategy for all of his klan...
and he was solo, stripped down..and raw...and he was more than happy to
see me and talk to me and invite me ...not just back stage that evening...
but...to meet him at breakfast the next morning...w/ my same date....
at a local [very nice] hotel's lobby...on him...
...we met...and Robert Diggs...in person...was as nice and as intelligent and as geniune a human being...as i ever saw...in any major personality and celebrity...or for that matter...any person..i ever met...
he was indeed, the same young man that i had met...w/ just alot more maturity and expreience and quite a life story ..now behind him...
literally...a rags to riches...story and something simply amazing to be with ...even for a very long breakfast.
and he was geniune...again...and this is what struck me the most about him...humble and geniune and...in a word
very real....
but..it was a moment in minneapolis...and with my date...and with the way this meeting would take place
it was one..that would not be forgotten....and we spoke then...of making plans on how to raise awareness of the issues that were near and dear to my heart...
later, somethings did not quite gell as i had planned and discusssed with Robert that morning...in Minneapolis, with my date, near my side...
but nonetheless...on a personal level...the discussion did continue and the ideas were not to die
and he again..would personally extend himself to invite me...to visit with him..in LA and again w/ him in other settings...
i hope...all things..otherwise...are well...
time has passed since that evening...and how that special date...went down...
I miss the moment..in some ways...because it was a vulnerable and uncertain one...
but one, that for once in life, when i took a chance on both...attempting a special date w/ a beauty...
and w/ trying to reconnect to a current rap east coast legend...
both ended in....one very special memory for all of us...
Long live the Wu...and long live the young beautiful caring and loyal [black girl] dates of the world...and all kudros..and all peace and love...
to one very geniune young man..named...Robert Diggs...
Sunday, November 25, 2007
Drunken Master Ru Contemplates Bid For Public Office
The Wise Commentary of Drunken Master RU
Project: 'Left of C'
Status: Classified TopSecret
Objective: Use of Special Ops, Covert Causalty Risk Factors and Overt Massing of Weapons of data rich bullets flying off radar to Disrupt Enemy Strongholds
ID: Classified
DDGF: Within two weeks
Plan A of Asssault re: Plan B: Jan 08
BS[c]: Briefing of Splinter Cells: OSU [or Overall Strategic Update]
Its that time of year and that time of america's plaything called politics and public elections.
When sometimes it seems good and proper to give the appearance to the american populace
that they actually do control their own destiny, {riiiight} public offices are often sold to the
either the most ignorant, willfull or plainly rich and merely ambitious among us through
a systematic process called popular elections.
More and more its the merging of large corporate or fraternal interests with those already
weathy enough to compete inside this elitist system in a wild no holds barred popularity
contest, with certain asides and collateral rules for the wealthy competitors.
Also, in the modern sense, the process is kind of like the watching the mating of large
animals on some National Geographic television show and just about as intriguing.
Once however, in a blue moon or two....there is one or more popular candidates that can
can emerge from this rot gut process among the decadent weathy today and actually
demonstrate something of a conscience and empathy for the common man.
Its so rare, the candidate usually is given a quick brush off and classified as a "second tier"
or "distant hopeful" and then banished by all local and mainstream media outlets to the
cyber world's equivalent of a siberian gulag.
In certain poor areas of the country if not the world, the process is even more cynical
and more of a facade than anything brought to us by ABC, CNN, CBS and whatever else
some celluiloid president today can inspire us with today.
In such poor areas, or economically anemic areas of the nation, we are simply forgotten
and written off to present or any recent american history as if we were some experimental
region like area 51 which requires even today, a fifty year blackout of any true reporting
or even public acknowledgement that such a region existed.
Today, someone is going to try to reverser this trend. Its probably a doomed experiment
and is about as likely to succeed as did the latest UFO official watch group effort to declassify
the pentagon's skunk works 1950's history.
But the effort will be undertaken and it will happen on schedule and it will be announced
soon to the public, for the official reaction to promptly and efficiently nip any such real
popular uprising in the bud. Nonetheless, a covert op will be sustained and continued
The enemy is serious and more heavily fortified and armed and perhaps better organized.
But the special ops planned ground assault for the OHWYIO is preplanned, highly
sophisticated and underway...
In fact, it was launched through a special DNA encoded quasi governmental -hollywood
experiement, on a low back channel budget years ago. But the maturation point has been
reached through years of trial and error and self effacement and complete off radar
screen due diligence.
The first sign of such a forty year project is the unexpected sudden disbusement of
millions of content infected data laden bullet parts is expected to literally shock the valley into
temporary paralysis and create a form of mass amnesic reaction ...for at least 48 hours.
The first 48 and in this period, systematic levels of highly invasive and advanced
'worm works' will be employed to further destablize and shock the intruded organisim.
The virus will run through its sequence shutting down several key portals and usual
hidden anti-viral caches, and in the process such efforts will further promote
'detain and control' protocals.
The main systems will be left to themselves by this process and some elements of
stunning distractions will occur causing some to run on silence mode until they can
can get their bearing and their usual bead on the point of insertion
Such a process will be further promoted by various specific planned disinformation
'drops'. One or more faints will be employed to give the appearance of an up and running
frontal assault.
However, the true breach will be in the back door. A full head to head decapitation
drive will be necessary to drive the beast out of hiding, but this will come only at
a well structured and orchestrated "night" and after much retail recon and routine
search and destroy special ops have sufficiently weakened the areas half hidden
command structure.
Goals of intended engagement:
Specificied, low grade War mixing rural assault with some urban house to house will
result democratic regime change
c g in mind
Motto:
"Laying waste to Hue.... [in order to begin] saving Bejing." "And so the mighty have
fallen and they all said", 'it is no more'
Project: 'Left of C'
Status: Classified TopSecret
Objective: Use of Special Ops, Covert Causalty Risk Factors and Overt Massing of Weapons of data rich bullets flying off radar to Disrupt Enemy Strongholds
ID: Classified
DDGF: Within two weeks
Plan A of Asssault re: Plan B: Jan 08
BS[c]: Briefing of Splinter Cells: OSU [or Overall Strategic Update]
Its that time of year and that time of america's plaything called politics and public elections.
When sometimes it seems good and proper to give the appearance to the american populace
that they actually do control their own destiny, {riiiight} public offices are often sold to the
either the most ignorant, willfull or plainly rich and merely ambitious among us through
a systematic process called popular elections.
More and more its the merging of large corporate or fraternal interests with those already
weathy enough to compete inside this elitist system in a wild no holds barred popularity
contest, with certain asides and collateral rules for the wealthy competitors.
Also, in the modern sense, the process is kind of like the watching the mating of large
animals on some National Geographic television show and just about as intriguing.
Once however, in a blue moon or two....there is one or more popular candidates that can
can emerge from this rot gut process among the decadent weathy today and actually
demonstrate something of a conscience and empathy for the common man.
Its so rare, the candidate usually is given a quick brush off and classified as a "second tier"
or "distant hopeful" and then banished by all local and mainstream media outlets to the
cyber world's equivalent of a siberian gulag.
In certain poor areas of the country if not the world, the process is even more cynical
and more of a facade than anything brought to us by ABC, CNN, CBS and whatever else
some celluiloid president today can inspire us with today.
In such poor areas, or economically anemic areas of the nation, we are simply forgotten
and written off to present or any recent american history as if we were some experimental
region like area 51 which requires even today, a fifty year blackout of any true reporting
or even public acknowledgement that such a region existed.
Today, someone is going to try to reverser this trend. Its probably a doomed experiment
and is about as likely to succeed as did the latest UFO official watch group effort to declassify
the pentagon's skunk works 1950's history.
But the effort will be undertaken and it will happen on schedule and it will be announced
soon to the public, for the official reaction to promptly and efficiently nip any such real
popular uprising in the bud. Nonetheless, a covert op will be sustained and continued
The enemy is serious and more heavily fortified and armed and perhaps better organized.
But the special ops planned ground assault for the OHWYIO is preplanned, highly
sophisticated and underway...
In fact, it was launched through a special DNA encoded quasi governmental -hollywood
experiement, on a low back channel budget years ago. But the maturation point has been
reached through years of trial and error and self effacement and complete off radar
screen due diligence.
The first sign of such a forty year project is the unexpected sudden disbusement of
millions of content infected data laden bullet parts is expected to literally shock the valley into
temporary paralysis and create a form of mass amnesic reaction ...for at least 48 hours.
The first 48 and in this period, systematic levels of highly invasive and advanced
'worm works' will be employed to further destablize and shock the intruded organisim.
The virus will run through its sequence shutting down several key portals and usual
hidden anti-viral caches, and in the process such efforts will further promote
'detain and control' protocals.
The main systems will be left to themselves by this process and some elements of
stunning distractions will occur causing some to run on silence mode until they can
can get their bearing and their usual bead on the point of insertion
Such a process will be further promoted by various specific planned disinformation
'drops'. One or more faints will be employed to give the appearance of an up and running
frontal assault.
However, the true breach will be in the back door. A full head to head decapitation
drive will be necessary to drive the beast out of hiding, but this will come only at
a well structured and orchestrated "night" and after much retail recon and routine
search and destroy special ops have sufficiently weakened the areas half hidden
command structure.
Goals of intended engagement:
Specificied, low grade War mixing rural assault with some urban house to house will
result democratic regime change
c g in mind
Motto:
"Laying waste to Hue.... [in order to begin] saving Bejing." "And so the mighty have
fallen and they all said", 'it is no more'
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Enter the Ru
The First Commentary of Drunken Master RAO
Here comes the political bomb of the new year
coming directly at you...
laser guided and headed
for you,
underground
busting the bunker
mentality
and Doing nothing but what he does best
"behold all things are new"
talking and rapping, his way to the top
shooting thru steel commissioners doors
over the hurdles, thru the political iron mess
seeking the truth, like a special ops
between the fine print of every legal
document....and screw
making sure, his father's good name is known
again,
respect
coming and going
w/ respect once understood
distributed freely among those who truly get it...
always, and forever, among those deserving of the same...
always being kind to all tender men, women and child
but cruel to the one's who are cruel
[you know who you are...]
Courageous and tough as as Steeler
and as cold to the cold
as the black and gold
Policing the police, watching the media
giving new meaning to the theory of
Citizen Kane
we're watching all things, like Gable
and Lombard did
and soon the bad boys
will be
Gone with the Wind
and never taking a peek at what
tracy lords
lived or did,
but allowing her and her life its due redemption
nothing but clean now
in the sheets written by Steven King's
pen..
and in mingo, toronto, wanto,
we're huntin and killin the brain cancer that
Robert Diniro overcame w/ streep and
a love of all things
in Saigon
and by a Deer Hunter's sights
....long, long before Urich was taken
by the cancer of a more physical night....
all the while, keeping faith
with, a cadiz's greatest unknown son...
we're making certain
no one is headed up the ladder
no longer ... from Bingham's grave
who like wild cherry, who knew better...
and
all those, gone before, who seem to forget
where they came from...
we will mow them down
w/ bullets made of truth and peace
not giving any quarter to
bush and cheney's spies
and all who follow with their neo con
lies.... and business ties....
rooting up the past, like the present
tearing it up....making war on those who love war,
and giving peace
to those who know none
only to make, all things better,
like my baby's mother life....
we carry on
....like soldiers, marching
once inside,
we will turn this place out!
Here comes the political bomb of the new year
coming directly at you...
laser guided and headed
for you,
underground
busting the bunker
mentality
and Doing nothing but what he does best
"behold all things are new"
talking and rapping, his way to the top
shooting thru steel commissioners doors
over the hurdles, thru the political iron mess
seeking the truth, like a special ops
between the fine print of every legal
document....and screw
making sure, his father's good name is known
again,
respect
coming and going
w/ respect once understood
distributed freely among those who truly get it...
always, and forever, among those deserving of the same...
always being kind to all tender men, women and child
but cruel to the one's who are cruel
[you know who you are...]
Courageous and tough as as Steeler
and as cold to the cold
as the black and gold
Policing the police, watching the media
giving new meaning to the theory of
Citizen Kane
we're watching all things, like Gable
and Lombard did
and soon the bad boys
will be
Gone with the Wind
and never taking a peek at what
tracy lords
lived or did,
but allowing her and her life its due redemption
nothing but clean now
in the sheets written by Steven King's
pen..
and in mingo, toronto, wanto,
we're huntin and killin the brain cancer that
Robert Diniro overcame w/ streep and
a love of all things
in Saigon
and by a Deer Hunter's sights
....long, long before Urich was taken
by the cancer of a more physical night....
all the while, keeping faith
with, a cadiz's greatest unknown son...
we're making certain
no one is headed up the ladder
no longer ... from Bingham's grave
who like wild cherry, who knew better...
and
all those, gone before, who seem to forget
where they came from...
we will mow them down
w/ bullets made of truth and peace
not giving any quarter to
bush and cheney's spies
and all who follow with their neo con
lies.... and business ties....
rooting up the past, like the present
tearing it up....making war on those who love war,
and giving peace
to those who know none
only to make, all things better,
like my baby's mother life....
we carry on
....like soldiers, marching
once inside,
we will turn this place out!
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