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"Theodore M. Kohlmann"
# Statistics
Favourites: 64; Deviations: 67; Watchers: 41
Watching: 65; Pageviews: 11351; Comments Made: 1122; Friends: 65
# Comments
Comments: 333
Dear Ted, I sincerely hope you are not dead. Make more art.
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Hey man, I remember you were in this book. Check out my latest journal entry.
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Pretty cool stuff eh? Thanks again for being a part of the project!
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you do whatever you want, and whatever you want to do always seems to be wonderful and amazing.
tk is the shit.
now make my shirt.
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You know, some of you stuff scares me, but, maybe that's a good thing.
I clicked on your page because of your screen name.
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That's a good story. Animals are so funny, they have such strange ways. I'd like to be one for a bit, even though I guess tech-ni-cally we're all animales...thanks for adding my painting to your favorites, by the way. I haven't seen anything new from you over there, but I know there must be things, so I'm very curious. Postsomeshit!
See you around, Teddy.
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i 
u have some amazing stuff in here *
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yo its your boy and im all up it this whats really really really really really really really good
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Cheers on that favorite, and for the invite to that killer cool pool party.
des.
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T-dogg:
BRAINCHILD now. In fact, check it out.
BOOKGASM
Looks like the plan is working. WOrdl domination in 5 Easy Steps.
I can't remember where we put the other 4 but hey, getting your work into that book has to be sweeet considering it is the #1 slot ON THE MAIN SITE, under Anthologies, and within the HORROR section.
So yeah man, be proud. Good work!
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yo dog. its alex from next door. just thought i'd say whaddup you got some tight shit here man.
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I AM AT THAT POOL PARTY. Hollah. and upgrade to you dear sir... and your webcam is INSANE! I saved that pic... I wish however I could identify those inerds... ah well.. thanks for everything!
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Your current webcam makes me smile.
For some odd reason I was filled with a sense of comfort and warmth at seeing it.
Maybe it is in knowing that there are organice parts underneath all the bytes.
Great new stuff here, hope the books got to ya okay!
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I wish you a happy new year
thanks for everrything my friend
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wow you're not a depressivromantidarkgoth, nor a stupid furry, nor a girlie doing selfportrait , nor a charmingnature photographer, nor a fetishist, nor a guy who not knowing what to do makes a deviantart account with thousand orrible photos of his friends. All this is very rare: You rocks guy!
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mandy showed me ur art. ur gallery is the shiznat.
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Dude, I had no idea you were on deviantart. Your stuff is awesome!
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This is treasure
...like dubloons and shiny pearls.
Lucky it's not at the bottom of the ocean.
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Perhaps best known for writing the Black National Anthem, Lift Every Voice and Sing ,
James Weldon Johnson wrote one of the first novels to probe the ambiguities of race, the
novel The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man. As a boy, the fictional title character is
sent North with his Mother to be raised in Connecticut. He does extremely well in school and
is even something of a musical prodigy.
But, he is stunned when one day in school a teacher asks the white students to stand, and scolds him
when he joins them. He confronts his fair skinned mother and she reveals that she is indeed black
and his father is a white Southern gentleman. His father later comes to visit, and even buys him a
piano, but the child is unable to approach and deal with him.
As a young man, the death of his mother & sale of their house leaves him with a small stake & he
determines to attend college. Though qualified, he rules out Harvard for financial reasons & heads
back down South to attend Atlanta University. However, his stake is stolen from his boarding house
room before he can register & he ends up with a job in a cigar factory.
When the factory closes, he heads North again, this time to New York City and discovers Ragtime
music and shooting craps, excelling at the one & nearing ruin in the other. A white gentleman who
has heard him play enters into an exclusive agreement to have him play at parties & subsequently
takes him along on a tour of Europe.
Inevitably, he is drawn back to America and to music. He tours the South collecting musical
knowledge so that he will be able to compose a uniquely American and Black music. But his idyll is
shattered when he sees a white lynch mob burn a black man. In the wake of this experience, he
decides to "pass" for white--not due to fear or discouragement, but due to "Shame at being identified
with a people that could with impunity be treated worse than animals."
Abandoning his musical ambitions, he takes a job as a clerk, does well investing in real estate & meets
a white woman who he wishes to marry. After examining his conscience he decides to tell her that
he is black. After taking some time to confront this fact, she consents to marriage.
As the novel closes, the "ex-colored man" tells us: "My love for my children makes me glad that I am
what I am, and keeps me from desiring to be otherwise; and yet, when I sometimes open a little box
in which I still keep my fast yellowing manuscripts, the only tangible remnants of a vanished dream,
a dead ambition, a sacrificed talent, I cannot repress the thought, that, after all, I have chosen the
lesser part, that I have sold my birthright for a mess of pottage."
And the reader can't help but feel profoundly ashamed of a system of racial oppression that forced a
man to make these choices--a wonderful novel.
(Reviewed
Grade: (B+)
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i love your art style , its so great, fabulous gallery!
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thanx for the comment. i've seen your gallery, i like your style.
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Just stoped to see if everything is ok and give you a 
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i'm better at decorating than actually picking songs.
there are so many songs
and the disc is so little
and i get overwhelmed.
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Welcome onboard, doll. I hope you enjoy your stay. You've got an interesting gallery. Cheers.
des.
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Hey Turbo, good to see ya in the neighborhood and thanks for the Fav.
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hi teddy 
Love, Grace
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