http://www.ttaraturk.com deep and shallow thoughts from various areas in my brain - t.tara turk Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:26:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sometimes, as a writer, the road is long and hard and super silent. There are some who are lucky enough to be at the right place at the right time early and they get agents and what not. I'll not bore you with the infamous details about how for every ... http://www.ttaraturk.com/2011/11/22/yay-humble-brag-i-won-a-festival/ I miss you, dad! http://www.ttaraturk.com/2011/07/19/my-favorite-things/ Like so many, New York had a pull on me even before I moved there. The benefit of growing up in the 90s meant there was SO much good music, hip hop specifically, happening there that I had to go even when I had no idea what I was going ... http://www.ttaraturk.com/2011/07/10/beats-rhymes-life/ This. Is. Funny.. http://www.ttaraturk.com/2011/07/06/i-have-such-bomb-friends/ I stan this video, this song, this choreography, this...oh just this. thanks to Bossip http://www.ttaraturk.com/2011/06/29/469/ It's fascinating because with the invention of Twitter and Facebook, blogs sometimes come to a standstill because you've kind of already said a bunch of stuff in a bunch of places. I've been trying to figure out what piece of my writing goes where. I write fiction but I'm trying ... http://www.ttaraturk.com/2011/06/07/i-knowi-knowits-been-a-long-time/ Dead Poem by t.tara turk Today I wrote a poem And it died on the street like a homemade bomb crafted with desperate hands When I hear homemade I think of lemonade and soft hands in grease touching scalps and scabs making pains go away The faint smell of cigarettes that should have been discarded ... http://www.ttaraturk.com/2010/12/08/dead-poem/ In the spirit of John Legend's new crusade "Wake Up Everybody" (though some of you from Detroit may remember this as Teddy Pendergrass on WJLB reminding you that it was time to get to school and not necessarily an anthem for grass movements), I'd like to reflect ... http://www.ttaraturk.com/2010/10/04/wake-up-everybody/ I might dead on news. Though I consider myself fairly news oriented, since "Yes We Can" I've literally been on a downward spiral from what we now call news. I don't think I was prepared for the wave of negativity, backlash, ridiculous grand standings, rush judgments and ... http://www.ttaraturk.com/2010/10/04/xx-over-my-eyes-when-the-news-hits/ Listen, Kanye is outside of the box. We all know this. I wish I turned myself into a stampin fool when my father died but I went inward cause I don't have that big beautiful painting of an ego that Kanye has. It's not a diss. That ego is like ... http://www.ttaraturk.com/2010/08/19/flashing-lights/