Mazzistow Carrington
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| [[Image:ForkesPhoto_1.jpg|thumb|Carrington as depicted in an untitled promotional photo by [[Wilhemina Forkes]].]]''Born December 11, 1925 in Detroit. He comes in with a bottle of wine, but throws it against the wall, shining like bioluminescent scarification. He is a flightless pogo. He receives an Emmy award for his performances in the kitchen, the den, the bedroom.'' | [[Image:ForkesPhoto_1.jpg|thumb|Carrington as depicted in an untitled promotional photo by [[Wilhemina Forkes]].]]''Born December 11, 1925 in Detroit. He comes in with a bottle of wine, but throws it against the wall, shining like bioluminescent scarification. He is a flightless pogo. He receives an Emmy award for his performances in the kitchen, the den, the bedroom.'' | ||
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| [[AA]] publisher and theorist. He studied cartography at Harvard and was making maps for the Forest Service when he first encountered a coffee-stained copy of [[Reticent 27]] in a partner's pick-up. He was disturbed. He wandered back to Harvard in 1959 to begin his Masters in Sociology. His papers on [[Poob Culture]] and [[Auto-Colonialism]] were were not well received and he was expelled from the program. | [[AA]] publisher and theorist. He studied cartography at Harvard and was making maps for the Forest Service when he first encountered a coffee-stained copy of [[Reticent 27]] in a partner's pick-up. He was disturbed. He wandered back to Harvard in 1959 to begin his Masters in Sociology. His papers on [[Poob Culture]] and [[Auto-Colonialism]] were were not well received and he was expelled from the program. | ||
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| Mazzistow has written only one collection of poems, but he has published several important AA journals. He is also a well-known BBQ chef and has invented many unique creations yet to be collected into an AA cook book. | Mazzistow has written only one collection of poems, but he has published several important AA journals. He is also a well-known BBQ chef and has invented many unique creations yet to be collected into an AA cook book. | ||
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| Though born in Detroit, young Mazz was raised on the family farm near Amarillo, Texas. His Grandfather was a Buffalo Solider and there were also some cousins nearby. Mazz was a bright kid, and auto-didact who thrived on the books sent to him by a worldlier uncle, a newspaper reporter who went on to edit several "Negro" newspapers in the 1940's. He joined his uncle Theo in Washington, D.C., where he flipped the local Black community with his full-on Texas drawl. Although his education up until then had been spotty, at best, he had a lot of help from his uncle, his books and his parents; though they were farmers they were literate Baptists who had young Mazz read the Bible, Lincoln, Shakespeare, Frederick Douglass, DuBois and for some reason, Sherlock Holmes. | Though born in Detroit, young Mazz was raised on the family farm near Amarillo, Texas. His Grandfather was a Buffalo Solider and there were also some cousins nearby. Mazz was a bright kid, and auto-didact who thrived on the books sent to him by a worldlier uncle, a newspaper reporter who went on to edit several "Negro" newspapers in the 1940's. He joined his uncle Theo in Washington, D.C., where he flipped the local Black community with his full-on Texas drawl. Although his education up until then had been spotty, at best, he had a lot of help from his uncle, his books and his parents; though they were farmers they were literate Baptists who had young Mazz read the Bible, Lincoln, Shakespeare, Frederick Douglass, DuBois and for some reason, Sherlock Holmes. | ||
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A Fateful Ride
AA publisher and theorist. He studied cartography at Harvard and was making maps for the Forest Service when he first encountered a coffee-stained copy of Reticent 27 in a partner's pick-up. He was disturbed. He wandered back to Harvard in 1959 to begin his Masters in Sociology. His papers on Poob Culture and Auto-Colonialism were were not well received and he was expelled from the program.
No matter; in between freelance map-making, surveying and dowsing for water, he was getting his fill of works of anthropology, demography and statistics. Like many African-American intellectuals of his day he took a great interest in African cultures. He has voyaged to various African countries 11 times.
Mazzistow has written only one collection of poems, but he has published several important AA journals. He is also a well-known BBQ chef and has invented many unique creations yet to be collected into an AA cook book.
Automatic Ascension
Though born in Detroit, young Mazz was raised on the family farm near Amarillo, Texas. His Grandfather was a Buffalo Solider and there were also some cousins nearby. Mazz was a bright kid, and auto-didact who thrived on the books sent to him by a worldlier uncle, a newspaper reporter who went on to edit several "Negro" newspapers in the 1940's. He joined his uncle Theo in Washington, D.C., where he flipped the local Black community with his full-on Texas drawl. Although his education up until then had been spotty, at best, he had a lot of help from his uncle, his books and his parents; though they were farmers they were literate Baptists who had young Mazz read the Bible, Lincoln, Shakespeare, Frederick Douglass, DuBois and for some reason, Sherlock Holmes.
Known Works
Author of many internationally celebrated detective-mystery novels too numerous to mention here.
The Associationalist editor, 1965-67.
Auto-Colonial Bee, editor, 1967-1967.
Dallas Dumpling, editor, 1976-81.
Hephaestus and His Old Lady, poetry collection.
