Monday, January 31, 2005
Friday, January 28, 2005
Post stolen from Power Man
Random 10 songs that come to mind:
1. Thankful- Sly and the Family Stone
2. Angel – Anita Baker
3. Dead Bent – MF Doom
4. Haitian Fight Song – Charles Mingus
5. Superstar – Luther Vandross
6. Car Thief – Beastie Boys
7. Dedication 2 Peo/ Gaffling whips – Big Juss
8. Simply Beautiful – Al Green
9. Sunday Kind of Love- Etta James
10. A foggy day – Ella & Louis
What is the total amount of music files on your computer? 0
The last CD I bought was: Jean Grae –The Bootleg of a Bootleg EP
What is the last song you listened to before this message? The Doors – Riders on the Storm
Write down five songs you often listen to or that mean a lot to you:
1. Soul Squeeze – Red Hot Chili Peppers
2. Kiss of Life - Sade
3. Maybe God is Trying to Tell You Somethin’ – Color Purple Soundtrack
4. Time Will Tell – Bob Marley
Don't involve Rasta in your say say...
1. WATCH LOTS OF TELEVISION. Television pleasantly induces mental stupor, telling you all you need to know. If it wasn’t on the nightly news, then it definitely isn’t true.
2 AVOID TALKING ABOUT RELIGION OR POLITICS. No matter how innocuous your speech may be, it could be misinterpreted and recorded in your Government Personal Thought Dossier.
3. DEBATE TOPICS PROMOTED BY NWO-SPONSORED MEDIA. Example: Discuss the pros and cons of government under Labor or Liberal (or Democrat/Republican or Tory/Labor) while ignoring real issues like the economy and sovereignty already sold out to foreign interests by self-serving politicians doing the bidding of powerful transnational corporations.
4. PARTICIPATE IN NWO-SPONSORED ‘FEEL GOOD’ PROGRAMS. There’s disasters all over the world and you seem hopeless to do anything about it: Why not partake in NWO-sanctioned programs like Walk for Want or 40 Hour Famine and even buy an Amnesty International Sticker for your car, while the agents of the NWO wreak havoc in parts of the world you’ve hardly ever heard of.
5. WORK, EAT, ENTERTAIN, AND SEEK MEDICAL HELP AT NWO-SPONSORED OUTLETS. Always buy NWO-manufactured grocery items preferably from large supermarkets. Growing your own veggies or purchasing organically grown produce affects the profit margins of NWO corporations. Safely entertain yourself by religiously viewing sports events, mindless TV shows/movies, as well as trivia and illusion-filled books and magazines. Listen to any type of mind-numbing music spewed forth by the corporations of the NWO. If you get sick, refrain from ‘alternative’ cures or therapy, and always seek medical help at NWO-sponsored hospitals or clinics and take whatever medicines and drugs you are given.
6. READ, HEAR AND WATCH NWO-MANDATED MEDIA. Exploring ‘alternative’ media might result in dangerous thought crimes against the NWO authorities. Disregard any ideas or reports not originating with NWO media as ‘conspiracy theory.’
7. MEMORISE THE OPINIONS OF NWO LEADERS AND TELEVISION NEWS REPORTERS. Reiterate them as if they were your own during all-social and business conversations.
8. HYPOCRISY IS THE SAFEST POLICY. And affiliations with State-approved religious organizations are permitted, and may be rich fields for business contacts.
9. WATCH OTHERS AND MAKE SURE THEY DO THE SAME AS YOU. Keep an eye on neighbors, friends and family to ascertain they are obeying the law. Always call the NWO authorities if you suspect any wrongdoing. Participate in dob-in programs. If ever confronted by someone who questions NWO policies, it’s best to convince them ignorance is bliss. If the case is serious, immediately seek help from NWO psychiatrists.
10. WILLINGLY AND HAPPILY participate in all NWO school indoctrination programs. Realize the honor associated with being a breeder and caretaker of the next generation to SERVE THE MASTERS in the NEW WORLD ORDER.
Thursday, January 27, 2005
Joy comes in the morning-
I wake up early- between 4:30 and 5am. I have to get out of the house before 6am and I need time to do a quick workout, make my morning juice of carrots, beets, and spinach usually get my clothes together and make my protein shake (MET-Rx, and rice milk), shower, and roll out. Every morning I listen to something, most of the time it’s a local community radio station. Most mornings it’s a different show, personal finance, casual conversation, return of the boom bap…ect. This morning it was the revolutionary show for the 2Pac, Bob Marly sect of revolutionaries. They were talking about being a soldier and being ready to die for ‘the cause’, a caller called in a was taking about peace and he was mocked on the air. I have a fairly long history with revolutionaries. It started in or around the 8th grade when I discovered the Black Panther Party. I read everything I could get my hands on from Soul on Ice to going to the large downtown library and read copied of the Panther news paper on microfiche. After doing all the research I could possibly do with my 8th grade education I decided to find out where the Panthers were now. A few had been killed by the police, some had been murdered under mysterious circumstances, and one Bobby…had gone on a evangelical tour with a white, Christian, preacher, later been arrested for passing bad checks, only to come back with a BBQ book. A barbecue book, called Que’n With Bobby. From revolutionary to BBQ book author. COINTELPRO very much taken into consideration. This is the common vein that I have found with 90% of the revolutionaries that I have come in contact with. In the wash all you end up with is pictures of people on T-shirts. Or a community radio personality touting Revolution over FCC controlled airwaves. This is Babylon, only Babylon can topple Babylon. (Footnote: see the history of Rome, or Greece)
Clear decisive, uncompromising action must be taken. Do and Assata and leave. Or put your gun down and put books in hands…I’m rambling…what brought me to this is an Emory Law professor has a plan of action as a response to Bill Cosby’s national finger shaking tour.
Tuesday, January 25, 2005
Oscar Nominations
Friday, January 21, 2005
overly PC???
Friday FYI
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A "morning after" treatment for the AIDS virus can help prevent infection after a rape, contact with a contaminated needle or even a night of passion without a condom, U.S. health officials said on Thursday.
Taking drug cocktails for four weeks seems to greatly reduce the risk of becoming infected with the virus, which is transmitted through sex -- heterosexual and homosexual -- drug use and shared needles, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
These drug cocktails, called highly active antiretroviral therapy or HAART, are routinely taken for life by HIV-infected patients who can afford it and have access. HAART can keep a patient healthy despite infection with the deadly and incurable virus.
The CDC said there was no ethical way to do a random trial comparing post-exposure prevention to a placebo or dummy pill.
But trials on animals and studies of rape victims and of people at high risk of HIV infection because of their behavior have shown that taking a two- or three-drug cocktail after the possible exposure does prevent infection.
"A 28-day course of HAART is recommended for persons who have had nonoccupational exposure to blood, genital secretions, or other potentially infected body fluids of a person known to be HIV infected when that exposure represents a substantial risk for HIV transmission," the CDC said.
The quicker, the better, it said.
In its report, the CDC pointed to a study of needlestick injuries to health-care workers. "In this study, the prompt initiation of zidovudine (AZT) was associated with an 81 percent decrease in the risk for acquiring HIV."
In another trial of 200 gay and bisexual Brazilians at high risk of HIV infection, doctors gave out "starter packs" of AZT and another AIDS drug called lamivudine.
In the group that used the drugs after having unprotected sex, one person became infected, while 11 people in the group that did not take the drugs became infected.
South African rape victims got a similar treatment and none of the women who started the drugs within 48 to 72 hours became infected.
"Although 400,000 new HIV infections occur in the United States each year, relatively few exposed persons seek care after nonoccupational exposure," the CDC said.
"Preferred regimens include efavirenz and lamivudine or emtricitabine with zidovudine or tenofovir and lopinavir/ritonavir (coformulated in one tablet as Kaletra) and zidovudine with either lamivudine or emtricitabine. Different alternative regimens are possible."
Pudding pops in a glass house
Police Probe Allegation Against Bill Cosby8:27 AM EST,January 21, 2005 LOS ANGELES -- A female acquaintance of comedian Bill Cosby has made an allegation against him that has prompted a police investigation in Pennsylvania, the entertainer's attorney said Thursday. Attorney Walter Phillips said he spoke Thursday with authorities in Pennsylvania who told him they have begun an investigation. He would not discuss the specifics of the allegation -- which he called "utterly preposterous" -- but said it amounts to, at the most, "inappropriate touching." No charges have been brought against Cosby. Phillips said the accuser, who lives in Canada, knows Cosby and the alleged incident in question happened about a year ago. Police in Cheltenham Township, Pa., a Philadelphia suburb where Cosby has a home, declined to comment. "I know the person making the accusation hasn't been contacted by authorities," Phillips said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press from his office in Philadelphia. "We are hopeful and optimistic that no charges will be brought forward." Dave Selby, a spokesman with the Durham Regional Police in Durham, Ontario, said police had passed on allegations from a woman there to authorities in Pennsylvania but declined to confirm whether they involved Cosby. Cosby postponed a town hall meeting in Cleveland on Thursday and has postponed three upcoming shows in Florida, his publicist David Brokaw said. Brokaw would not say whether the postponements have anything to do with the recent allegation.
Thursday, January 20, 2005
Larwence Welk, The Price is Right...and other 'programs'
I hate it here. For many reasons, but that’s neither here nor there. I used to express to people how much I hate it here but they didn’t understand…they would as “why” that’s where I should have ended the conversation then. If you have to ask why, then…Anyway, I don’t hate this place; I just hate me still being here…my goal is to escape. I don’t care if I’m washing dishes outside of Aspen, waiting tables in Florence, or doing landscaping in Alabama (they have good golf there…the Trent Jones Trail…check it out) either way, I’m out of this bitch before year end buy hook or by crook. Anyway I was planning my escape and I was thinking about what I am going to miss. The list was short. One thing is family, but that’s what they make planes for. I live in the same city as most of my family and we see each other a few times a year. Thinking about family, I miss my grandmother one time for her (lick shot), she used to have a 38 snub nose and we used to watch wrestling together. Or ‘raslin as she called it.
TYSON: DYING CAN'T BE AS BAD AS LIVING
Dec 22 2004
EXCLUSIVE: Despair of a fallen idol
From Anthony Harwood at Gleason's Gym, Brooklyn, New York
MEAN and menacing at just 14, the boy glowers from the old black-and-white photograph - a simmering volcano soon to erupt in the boxing ring.
He was destined to conquer the world with his talented fists as one of the most fearsome heavyweights in history.
This week, 38-year-old Mike Tyson was back at Gleason's Gym, where he used to train as a youngster - but the conquering days are over. This time, there is no fight to prepare for and no prospect of one.
LEGEND: Iron Mike Tyson
Instead Iron Mike is here to teach kids how to box as part of a community service sentence he was given for his part in a brawl at a Brooklyn hotel. The gym owner persuaded the district attorney that Tyson should put something back into the community instead of going back to jail.
During his visit the former world champion speaks exclusively to the Daily Mirror about what it feels like to be back on his old stamping ground - and pondering his future.
And as he shuffles around the ring, letting nine-year-olds bob and weave, pounding away at the padded mitts he holds up for them, the contrast with the boy in the poster could not be greater.
Quietly, the once-great fighter observes: "You look at old pictures and then you look in the mirror and you don't even know who that person is."
Overweight and on prescription drugs to fight depression and keep him calm, Tyson is still carrying a leg injury from the pounding he took from Britain's Danny Williams, who knocked him out in July.
Contrary to what his adviser Shelley Finkel claims, he is not planning a comeback fight in March. Maybe there will never be one. "I'm just training," says Tyson, who hasn't worked on his bad knee for more than two months. "I don't know if I still want to box. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. I feel I don't more than I want to. I'm just tired."
He did not bother to watch Vitali Klitschko's destruction of Danny Williams in Las Vegas 11 days ago.
"I don't watch fights that much no more," he whispers. "I don't like it like I used to."
But that doesn't stop him having a view on the fight. "Danny doesn't punch hard enough to hurt that guy," he says.
Yes, but he punched hard enough to hurt you, didn't he?
"I hurt my knee in that fight," he explains - which is true, because he needed surgery afterwards and is still six weeks of rehab away from being fully fit again.
THE last time I'd met Tyson was more than a year ago, after Frank Bruno was taken to hospital to help him deal with his own demons.
Tyson says he cried for his old foe at the time and is glad when I tell him Frank is on the mend.
"That makes me happy," he says. "The worst thing that can happen to you is for you to lose your mental powers, especially when you've got a wife and kids."
And he should know. Muttering something about a boxer's biggest fight coming after he leaves the ring, Tyson then comes over all philosophical.
"Dying can't be as bad as living," he muses. "There's no way that dying can be as bad as living. But while you're living you have to live.
"I don't know what I'm doing. I just live, I guess, get some food. But I don't cook. I go to restaurants every night." Asked how he fills his days, he replies: "I don't do anything. My life sucks."
Cash-strapped after blowing a £200million fortune, he has sold all his mansions, got rid of the pet tigers and flogged the luxury cars to move into a £60,000 two-bedroom house in Phoenix, Arizona.
He even has to put his own rubbish out now. But he denies that he has left the back streets of Brooklyn, where he grew up, for good.
"I live wherever I can," he says, before pondering whether it has all been worth it.
"I've reached a point in my life when I think: 'Damn, what is all this s*** for?' You forget about all the fighting and all the training.
"But I guess I'm fortunate enough, right? Never have to wait in line for anything, never have to worry about getting a nice girlfriend, a good-looking girlfriend. I don't know, it has its advantages."
Right now Tyson is more hungry for women than another title shot after splitting up with his girlfriend of two years.
"I'm trying to get some p***y, to get laid. I'm trying to get laid," he says, laughing. He has turned up at Gleason's with his ex-wife Monica and their seven-year-old son Amir. "There's no reconciliation," Monica is quick to point out. "We're just good friends."
Although little Amir is the first to pound away at Daddy's yellow padded mitts, Tyson has no desire for his son to follow him into the ring.
"I wouldn't recommend it to my son - I don't think he's got it in him," he says. "The one thing all the champions ever in the world have in common is poverty. It's all they have. You have to fight your way out of poverty."
HE mumbles instructions to nine-year-old Sherif Younan, telling him to move his head in the ring if he doesn't want to get hurt.
Sherif says later: "He told me: 'If you don't do your left hook after your right you're gonna get caught. You have to do a combination.' If I learned one thing from him it was never stay in one place - always move around."
The youngster - already an amateur champion - adds: "I move all the time so I won't get hit by a big guy like this. I've seen a lot of Tyson's fights on TV. He doesn't pitter-patter, he punches hard."
Little Sueshona Norville, also nine, says: "It was fun. I don't think I hurt him."
So what is Tyson's message to youngsters who want to follow in his footsteps?
"I tell them they need to dedicate themselves, make sacrifices and come every day," he says. "To miss as less days as possible and stay off the absentee list."
As he walks around the gym, he is all grins as he is mobbed by fans wanting his autograph or a picture with him.
"It takes me back to the days when I was training here," he says. "It's always exciting to have a crowded gym, there's a lot of personalities here. But it's weird, too. People I've known for 20 years are new to me. In 20 years things change drastically. People know my name, but I don't know who the hell they are. I think I know them and I don't know them.
"Being here now, a lot of people come up to you and talk to you, but you don't know who the hell they are. It's weird."
Bruce Silverglade, who has owned Gleason's for 26 years and is an old friend of the fighter, says: "Tyson is content in this type of environment. This is where he's familiar, because he trained here as a youngster and an adult.
"The people that train here want to emulate what he did best and it's an atmosphere that he likes best. He likes working with kids and people who can appreciate him as a great boxer.
"No one here's going to say: 'Oh, look - there's Mike Tyson, the rapist who got into trouble again the other day.'"
Tyson was jailed for six years in 1992 after raping 18-year-old Desiree Washington, a Miss Black America contestant, in a hotel in Indianapolis. He served half his sentence.
Bruce says: "He's got to be careful what he does. He recently got into trouble for jumping on to the hood of someone's car. There could have been some nut or crack addict behind the wheel who might have shot him or something."
As for his future in the ring, Bruce, 58, says: "Mike Tyson will never be a productive fighting force again. But he might get fights to make money because of his name."
Certainly, his family and those who care for him do not want him to be pushed back into action by the money men.
"I think he's just tired of everything and he wants to live a normal life now," says his sister, Jackie Rowe.
And to know that the only blows he will take in the ring from now on are the powder-puff punches of a nine-year-old girl who doesn't want to hurt her once-mighty hero.
Wednesday, January 19, 2005
sorry...but "We ready! We ready! We ready!!!!
[phone ringing][AA:] Y'all watch this, watch this[laughs][Guy on phone:] D. McNabb[Pastor Troy:] yea, yea, yea, can I speak to D?[Guy on phone:] This is D[Pastor Troy:] Hey D, AA and them Atlanta Falcons said since everybody thank they soldiers then what's up we'llgo to war[Voices in background:]Wha, Wha, Wha, Wha, (Gunfire) Wha, Wha, (Gunfire) WhaWha, Wha, Wha, (Gunfire) Wha, Wha, Wha, Wha[Chorus: AA (voices in background)]My nigga fuck what ya say (We Ready!)Ain't no more play in GA (We Ready!)My nigga fuck what ya say (We Ready!)Ain't no more play in GA (We Ready!)My nigga fuck what ya say (We Ready!)Ain't no more play in GA (We Ready!)My nigga fuck what ya say (We Ready!)Ain't no more play in GA (We Ready!)
my baby momma..
Condi is getting grilled on capital hill, she is a phenomenal woman who has accomplished a lot in her life…ok…she’s a pawn…maybe even a token, but she’s brilliant, and we have a black woman with a gap in the white house that is smarter than the President of the United States. Go to NPR.org if you want to her them question her.
On the subject of NPR I cant think of another media outlet that I find refreshing on a daily basis…
Ken Burns has a new documentary on Jack Johnson…first of all I don’t know what I like best about his documentary’s the photography or the people that he uses to do the voiceovers. In the Jack Johnson documentary he uses Samuel Jackson, and Keith David (Dead Presidents)…they have amazing vocal presence. The Jack Johnson story is amazing…check it out, its called Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson.
Another good story…
Janet. Look Janet used to be my dream girl. But hey I got older and now I look a women like Condi. I’m not a breast man…well not a breast size man…anyway that’s another post. Opinion poll are these fake? They look fake to me…
Tuesday, January 18, 2005
400 Degrees
Life is so brief. I really want to live my life to its fullest. I want to see new things touch new people, walk the earth and actually live. Most people I know don’t really live life, not even the life they know. They exist. I don’t want to exist. I want to live. Sorry, tirade over.
Friday, January 14, 2005
Grand Hustle
Thursday, January 13, 2005
if anyone cares...
Here is the D'Angelo story
E! to turn the Michael Jackson trial into a daily mini-drama...story here.
2016 Olympics in Kenya?
One of my Christmas wishes was for the Falcons to win in the second round in the playoffs...but first we have to win this Saturday.
American Idol ot resurface and make Simon another 100M.....(yawn)
creativity...
from XXL and then the O Players
Wednesday, January 12, 2005
the other 1/2...
- cause niggas will party, and bullshit, and party...and bullshit...
-Blogg award for the frist person who can tell me where I got the title for this blog entry.
Tuesday, January 11, 2005
Monday, January 10, 2005
did you see
Sunday, January 09, 2005
"you can throw back this, but patna check my knot..."
I was watching a basketball game last night and everyone including the players had on throwback jerseys. I'll all for retro...Ive had a rotary phone in my house for the past 9 years...I even have a telephone table...you gott be old like me to remember those. Any way I'm all for retro...cant we show some origionality with it tho? Like Andre 3000 bringing back the throwback ascott? Or what about a throw back Harlem Renaissance? When I see pictures of my grandfather he always had on a suit and a hat, or slacks and a hat...what about throwing that back? Why we all gotta throw back the same thing? How about a revival of women that dont wax?
I would be nice to go to a strip club in Clifornia where you can drink and smoke...lookin at strange women doing the two step in the shoe show loses something when you are drinking a cape cod without the cape. What about throwback famlies? *I feel myself slipping into a Bill Cosbyesque moment so Im ending now.
Friday, January 07, 2005
Asian culture
I was looking for some cute draws for my lady when I ran across this site for "used and dirty" panties...at first I thought wow...Asians are some freaks! but it turns out that selling used panties is big business.. WTF!?!?!? strange panties with body fluids or ...other ....ahhh matter is being bought...with real money....I'm going to do a study on sexual sub-cultures around the world one of these days...
i cant lie...
I was a huge Michael Joe fan growing up. I knew Thriller from front to back. If you ask me he made MTV what it is today. I used to watch Nite Tracks every weekend to see Beat it or Billy Jean...I even had his poster on the wall, you know the one where he had the yellow sweater and the broach on? The signs were always there... this new report is very disturbing. Maybe he is right maybe the media, and people trying to sue him for millions are plotting aginst him. I dont know, but more times than not, if there is smoke...
Wednesday, January 05, 2005
An Internet site set up by an Italian schoolboy, and previously dedicated to "The Simpsons," is helping people track down loved ones missing since the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster.
Valerio Natale, a 14-year-old high school student, says two missing Italian holidaymakers--Dario Collodi and Liliana Giordanino--have already been found thanks to postings on his Web page, http://www.tuttosimpsons.altervista.org.
"I was paging through the newspaper and saw lots of ads from people looking for relatives," Natale said. "I asked myself, Why not make a free site that can help everybody? So I made a free site, which used to be dedicated to the famous American cartoon family, the Simpsons."
The site is devoted almost entirely to Italian citizens who disappeared in Thailand, Sri Lanka, the Maldives and India when the tsunami hit on Sunday, killing tens of thousands.
It lists the names and ages of those missing, email addresses and phone numbers of worried friends and relatives, a link for photos of the missing, plus useful phone numbers such as Italian consulates, and hotels in Thailand.
The site has had 82,000 hits in two days, Natale said.
my next few thresds will be about ...
1. The woman that made realize how sexy and powerful words can be...my version of Thug Life