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    Michael Keaton

    By Joy Lynn Clark December 22, 2021 Never has in recent years and actor hits so close to home. I grew up watching Michael Keaton. As a child, I danced to the Calypso and beetle juice and robbed with Batman. Recently, I streamed the, “founder” online and then the series, “Dopesick”. I almost wanted to title this story, “Comeback Keaton” but after looking at his filmography, he was always there. It was a voiceover work that I didn’t miss but didn’t focus on as I watched the 3-D with my kid.

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    Creative

    By Joy Lynn Clark December 21, 2021 After working at a start up and then study in production, I said to the task of looking for work. I was doing Street promotion for a few venues and performing but, I wanted a better salary. Since I knew some programming and IT guys from my last couple of jobs, I always focused my résumé around being a, “creative” type. products: Creative Labs Extigy Soundcard 2000 or 2001 Creative Labs

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    D.A.R.E.

    By Joy Lynn Clark December 18, 2021 D.A.R.E. stands for drug abuse resistance education. This is another social program that I was involved with in my youth. My favorite neighborhood police officer, Officer friendly stopped by our elementary school class to teach us about different types of drugs and their negative affects. Sometimes he would relate a story or two about his Encounters with drug offenders. I was fascinated and I really liked Officer friendly. In addition to dare, Officer friendly was always the cop that was posted in my neighborhood on my walks home from school. It is not like it is today. I would smile and wave as…

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    Soundscan

    By Joy Lynn Clark a.k.a. Dazee Dizzle December 17, 2021 In 2012, while I was releasing, “Isis Spacejet Chronicles”, I went right to the SoundScan website and added all of the albums’ information and chose a genre. Verify and submit! Nearly 10 years later, I decided to revisit the SoundScan website and those genres now hold new meaning for me. Here goes directly from the SoundScan title registration page. Blues, children, Christian, classical, comedy, country, dance/electronic, gospel, jazz, karaoke, Latin, metal, New Age, R&B, rap, reggae, rock, Soundtrack, and world Based on the genres listed I have a few recommendations. Christian well that’s not a type of music that’s a…

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    Operation Snowball and Snowflake

    December 15, 2021 By Joy Lynn Clark Years ago back in the late 80s early 90s I attended operation snowflake and then snowball. Snowflake was a one-day retreat hosted by my junior high school. We spent the day doing teambuilding exercises all focused on preventing the types of behaviors that lead to drug abuse among other things. I was a pretty hip urban kid lol that did grow up in the burbs, But I visited the city a lot. Which is why I am so much cooler. I just moved to my dads house and I was struggling to fit in with my new neighborhood’s, “ Valley” sort of kids.…