carol, ann & myself are a sowing cicrle today as we start making orange ribbons for our self-initiated reading awareness campaign. we're joined by kobus who promises to attend future meetings. marlon drops by... 

on tv tonite is part 2 of last week's crime documentary about gang culture & ritual murder: "the flower gang". it's strange to see something i've avoided all my life affirmed on tv; seeing local gangsterism cogitated about makes it seem more abstract & somehow logical (even acceptable). there's a coloured male intellectual providing psychological insight.