Dear Hannah - I'm a #StandupStoryteller. I'm the "Brother From Another Planet". Strange people think I am strange. I think that what I experience is strange. And still I rise. Self-reflection is my "superpower". I am committed to generating hope, healing, and change ... powered by autoethnographic self-reflection, #StandupStorytelling, #YourStory, and publishing. What I see and experience makes me wanna "holler". Rather than wallow in lament, though ... I want to "spit it so they git it" ...

In June 2023, The Computer History Museum (Mountain View, CA) published my oral history (https://bit.ly/CHMOH_DB_YT) for my contributions to the computing world as an Internet strategist for The Universal Black Pages (an Internet directory of African-related content), and as the founding director of KnowledgeBase’s Project CHIP (which refurbished and redistributed 1500+ computers to Georgia families and organizations). My oral history experience inspired a new project called #YourStory. #YourStory combines #StandupStorytelling with principles and best practices of oral history recording to document the thoughts and experiences of ordinary people who do extraordinary work. EPISODE 1.14 "TRANSCRIPT": ... ... 56m55sec ... Marc Weber said "I broke the chronology" ... CMcI says "that's OK - we are there" ... 57m05sec ... then we back up to talk about BGSA ... and InfoComm ... and fish fry parties and DJing ... and birthing the KB concept as grassroots outreach and organizing ... and birthing The UBP concept as a commercialized search engine like Yahoo , Infoseek, Alta Vista, and Lycos ... 71m42sec ... Marc Weber asks if we need to stop to render first 71 minutes of footage ... CMcI now departs for a while ... THE END

Dear Hannah - I'm a #StandupStoryteller. I'm the "Brother From Another Planet". Strange people think I am strange. I think that what I experience is strange. And still I rise. We are all born. Then we "dash" to the "finish line". During the "dash" - we live, love, LEarn, handle our business, and tell our own stories. This is "us" ...