Today we got commissary brought to Bpod, which is the pod that I am on. To get commissary, we fill out a list of what we want and how much of it, then with our I.D. card the officers working the pod pick it up and give it to the commissary officers. We go once every two weeks. The officers and inmates from General Population bag the items and bring them to us. They swipe the I.D. card just like a credit card and see how much money is in our account. In Texas, inmates aren't paid for work. Death row inmates can't work at all. So money is put in the inmate trust account from people on the outside.

One of the best things that they sell us is Blue Bell ice cream. They sell a pint for $1.75. As a child, I loved cookies and cream icecream. Oreo's were a big love of mine. I could eat a whole pack with a big glass of milk. I loved them so much that when my girlfriend at the time I went to T.Y.C. had a dream about an oreo truch going to my house, she took it as me coming home :) Now I get something different each time. Today they brought me caramel kettle crunch. If they sell Bluebell icecream at a store near you, try it out! It's yummy!

That's it. Since returning, I haven't done much writing. I've done nothing on my book. I just can't find the energy. Part of me doesn't want to finish the book. Though I know I got to. So much of my life is exposed in it. I am still at 13 years old and already if it was put into print today, the book would be almost 300 pages long. I am not even half way finished yet! I am still waiting on information I need to finish it! It will be a book like has never been written before. I promise that. It is not some tell all about my past in concern of others involved. I respect people's privacy. Though it is a tell all about me and the things I have been through. I know many are thinking what can 300 pages possibly cover for a kids life up to thirteen years of age. I promise you that each page is full of attention getting content. It isn't a drawn out story. I am actually trying to keep it as short as I can. I didn't plan on it being this long. As I stated, it will not be like regula r books. It is like I write my blogs. When you read the book, it will be as if we are sitting under a shade tree and I am telling you my life story. Even some parts where I go "Oh yea, that reminds me when I was such and such age, and then I get back to the current age I am writing about. I really think people will like it. It is the same format as "The Catcher in The Rye," by J.D. Salinger and "The Life Before Us." Both are damn good books, that I highly reccomend if you haven't read them!

A unique thing is this weeks newsweek had an article on J.D. Salinger! Plus had information about publishing books! I am leaning very hard towards self publishing! As a $25.00 book, the average production cost is $4.05, the authors royalty on average is $3.90! That isn't going to float with me! If I have a book getting sold at $25.00, than I am getting $20.00 of it! Just have to see. I read someone the first page of it while I was in Midland. She seemed impressed. I was going to go all into my involvement with gangs and such. Though what I am going to do is cover basics with that. I am going to write another book from a sociological study kind of position but using my life experiences as the main example. I want to write it on a level to where it can be a reference book. Something that lawyers read and College Professors have their students read. So I will work on it for a year or so and team up with a Sociologist in writing it. Sociology has been an interest of mine since I was 1 4. One of my childhood goals was after I retired from being a Chef, be a free lance Sociologist. But in my book that I am currently writing, I am going into everything, just not on the same level.

A lady is doing a documentary on my life. Hopefully it can be completed shortly after my book. With her being from Canady though it takes a little more to complete.

I am surprised no one commented on my wide range of magazines, I had on the list posted. I do like a wide range of topics. Right now I am reading four different books. "Sociology For the Twenty-First Century, 5th edition," "Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology, by Ayn Rand," "Books on Machiavelli," and a book about the female brain, (Which has only left me more confused!) ;)

I do want to thank everyone that ordered magazines for me. I really appreciate it. Also, you don't have to put my whole number, it can just be #447. As some labels have size restrictions. The 999 part of the number just indicates I am on death row. Same with 000#'s. After they switched to 999#'s, I was the 447's person to come to death row. It hink they are up in the 530's now. I also did get SOME of my mail that was supposed to have been sent to Midland. That is good. So only a few letters are going to be messed up. This place moves so slow I was able to leave for a week and come back before they even got it prossessed. :) Ha. Naw, actually they know in the mail room that I dont like them to forward my mail. Some people here when they leave, get upset if they dont forward the mail. I beg them not to! As they send it straight to the Sheffif of Midland. He opened my legal mail outside of my presense when I was in Midland in January. Which is like kind of against the LAW!! Oh also, in case, people wonder how I can read all these books all at the same time. I read some of this one and later on some of that one and I pace the floor thinking about it. I am actually a tad bit smarter then people give me credit for. In my sociolgical study book that I am going to write, I am going to reveal a theory that I am developing. It is going to be called the shield theory. I get frustrated as I know I could have truly accomplished something in life, had I not stuck a needle in my arm and had a role model that wasnt a high ranking gang member. Long sigh. Life goes on.

People sometimes pick on me about liking country music. County music is about life. How can anyone not life "What do you say," by Reba Macyntire? Twenty years from now, that song will still be relevant. I just love her voice! Though I don't only listen to country. There is a station from a University of Houston that plays symphony. I listen to it often. I am just a diverse individual :) When going to trial, my lawyers were amazed at the wide range of people I associated with. There were so many different cultural groups. One of my co-defendants was a black gangbanger from California, another guy that was involved in the case in less direct manner was a wannabe Klansman! For those overseas, a Klansman is a member of the Klu Klux Klan. The group that terrorized African American's throughout the South in the late 1800's to mid 1900's. I actually took the black guy to his house once! The black guy is Darnel McCoy. The wannabe Klansman was a guy called Hipplie. I did if for the humor of th e situation. Hippie lived in a trailor up on a hill. He called it "Hatred Hill." Had a noose hanging from the tree and all that stuff. It was funny to me as Darnel was in his house and Hippie had "No Nigg*rs Allowed," painted on his door. When he seen him in his house he went to throw a fit, but I told him, "Hey, he's with me!" so Hippie shut up and just walked off and stomped his feet. Darnel didn't think it was funny, but I couldn't help but laugh at the expression on both of their faces. It was also an alpha male thing for me. A couple days earlier Hippie had popped off and said some smart ass comment to me. Since I was in the free world, I couldn't just hop up and beat him up. (In prison, dominance is obtained through violance, disrespect is settled through fighting) It is truly like the wolfpack mentalitiy, if he was locked up, I would take my shirt off and tell him to catch his feet. I was on parole at the time and plus being in the free world different tactics would have to be used. So instead of winning a fight with fists, I won mentally. As by bringing Darnell into hippies house, I attacked his whole life position. Nothing more sacred than a man's home. I knew he was a coward. He knew he was. He got the point as from that day forward he had a more humble approach towards me. There you all get a free story from my book :) As that will be in it and more! Oh and to make matters worse, Darnel wasn't just any black guy, he was a black guy with a white wife. (Half white, half native american) Darnel's wife, was my other codefendants Cousin. So that made it worse to Hippie.

Anyways, I tell you all my book is going to be very interesting! I am going to have it released in Dutch, English, and French first. As Italian, German and etc, will take al ittle longer. Namely due to those that I have faith in doing it for me, having to translate. The English one will have to be typed up, so it will be getting done at the same as the others. This way I can get more copies moved faster.

It seems the rallies with be in September now. That's cool, more time to plan. I am going to wrap this on up. Once again I want to thank everyone that ordered me a magazine from the list as well as those that made donations to my defense fund.

Thanks!

I leave as I came.

Veni, Vidi, Vici

In Solidarity

Clinton Lee Young
#999447
Polunsky Unit
3872 FM 350 South
Livingston, Texas, 77351

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