Dear Media, Stop Insulting My Intelligence

I would like to start off this entry by sending out my prayers and condolences to the family and friends of Delvonte Tisdale.

I came across this article earlier today courtesy of frequent blog and idea contributor @Nunnzdaname and it pissed me off, take a look:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/11/massport_invest.html

Now I clicked this link thinking there was something substantive to the story of the mutilated body found in Milton, MA last week. Unfortunately, I read this ridiculous story and all I can say is Dear Mass Media, please stop insulting my intelligence. A 16 year old boy was found mutilated beyond recognition and the airport authority is investigating to see if he could have fell out of a fucking plane, and this is breaking news? The writer mentions that the investigation is ongoing on a number of fronts, and the story that we get to read is one about a boy sneaking on a flight as a stowaway on a  in the landing gear compartment with the wheels, then when compartment opened to land over Milton airspace heading towards Runway 4R and he fell to his death frozen because that compartment of the plane is not pressurized. That's the dumbest most far fetched shit I've ever heard in my life and its because we take the shit they feed us on the news as the truth.

The sad truth is much more practical, like an axe murder who dumped the body of his victim far from the scene of the crime, or God forbid, this is the type of crime you see when a large debt is owed, or drug/street violence. But instead the suits in these war rooms decide to repeatedly insult our intelligence as human beings with extraordinary tales they call news. Few months back when 4 people were murdered in Mattapan I heard an anchor say "they run out of the house naked to flee the gunman and were found shot outside the home" no you fucking liar, they stripped and executed. Newspapers, networks, mass media conglomerates, heed the message, tell us the truth, or shut up while I find it on my own.

Letter to the Sistas...(orgin unknown)

Came across this via one of my homies, its a good read, with good points and I agree 100% with the author tell me what yall think

"This is so "true"
   When I first heard of the movie "For Colored Girls" I got so excited.  I had the idea of getting as many women together that I could think of to go see this movie.  I had visions of group discussions and moments shared with one another that would  lead to healing and growth, I guess I kind of imagined a Women's Empowerment Conference type of setting. Well after I shared my idea with a few women, reality set in andI realized that so many of us wouldn't be willing to participate for various reasons: You don't like me, you don't care for somebody I might invite, you only hang out with certain people, you don't understand the big deal about Tyler Perry making yet another movie about black people and our issues for all the world to see, you don't like crowds, so n so is too ghetto, such and such is too uppity  etc... It has ALWAYS amazed me that we as black women are each others biggest critics.  We are the quickest to bring each other down, find each others faults and nit pick at a sister until she has nothing left, nothing left to give and then we step over her and call her worthless.  We take the prettiest women and tear them down for thinking"they are cute" but turn around and dog the average sista because "she know she should take better care of herself than that - can't believe she got a man!" We call strong women female dogs and accuse weaker women of riding somebody else's coat tails. We tell a big sista to put down her burger and turn around and criticize a skinny woman for not picking one up. We ride the loud mouth woman for "talking to darn much" and likewise torment the quiet woman for "Being too quiet and needing to take up for herself"  Sad part is we don't discriminate, we talk about everybody!!! I've watched women dog out everybody from Oprah for catering to white people and Halle Berry for not being able to keep a man to young Willow Smith for acting to darn grown in her recent video. All of these females are successful and there is something about each one of them to be proud of but a lot of us can't seem to see that.  I have to wonder since we all share a common thread (whether we want to admit it or not) is there something about ourselves that we don't like, what has happened to us that we cannot seem to get along. Why is that we fight amongst ourselves,back stab & steal each others men(only to find out we should have left him where we found him). We cannot seem to be unified to support and stick up for one another. Everybody seems to be out for themselves while other groups unite against us but nobody else has to bring us down because we trample on the spirits of each other daily. Even if you live in a mini mansion, drive a luxury car, have good credit,rich handsome husband etc, this does not mean that should look down your nose at the woman with 4 kids, no husband, living in income based housing struggling to keep her lights on. We ALWAYS think the grass is greener on the other side, I had a woman who's child father is MIA tell me that I Should never complain because I receive a decent amount of child support and I laughed and let her know that I would gladly give every dime back if he would come relieve some of this overwhelming pressure of feeling inadequate as a parent.  If I could get just one full night of sleep or not always be on the verge of losing my job because I'm the one that has to call off or leave work for one reason or another to accommodate my child -yeah he could DEFINITELY have his money if I could have some peace!  Money alone doesn't make you happy (not true happiness), good credit doesn't keep you satisfied, beauty doesn't make you any less insecure, fame doesn't make you less vulnerable or cause you to be a good judge of character and being stuck up and mean doesn't keep you warm at night or prevent you from being lonely. You don't know how the sista sitting right next to could have carefully put on her make up this morning to hide the beating from last night. The teacher you handed your child over to this morning could have sent her children off to school from a dark house with empty bellies.  The teller you just got rude with at the bank could know that today is her last day on her job and have no idea how she is going to survive past next weekend.The sista at the office that appears so busy could be typing her goodbyes to all the people that she loves because she plans to blow her brains out tonight after she tucks her babies  into bed. The woman you pass in the hallway could be on her way to have an abortion because she fears what others might think or how the woman that sent you this e-mail may drink an over abundance of alcohol every night to mask the nightmares of an abusive childhood. Ladies we HAVE TO DO BETTER!!! I'm not suggesting that we all like each other and be phony, But I am asking that we all try to respect each other.You HAVE NO IDEA what the next woman is going through, you don't know what past or current hurt and pains have shaped her into who she is today.  We spend so much time trying to be as strong and hard as we are expected to be that we end up cracking from the inside out piece by piece. If we would spend 1/3 of the time we spend tearing each other down to build someone up,encourage someone, show someone some love, we could truly make a difference and save someones life.  PLEASE don't be the straw that breaks another woman's back. Believe me when I tell you that there is a woman out there that needs your smile, your hug, your support, your prayer. I hope that you read this and get something out of it other than a laugh and that you pass this on to as many women as you can to let someone know that you believe they are somebody special and that if need be you are available to listen. Nothing bad is going to happen if you don't forward this e-mail but I'd like to think that something positive will happen if you choose to pass it along.  May favor be extended to each and everyone of your lives, keep your head up and know that someone somewhere cares!!! Know that I appreciate you all and love you.  Let's share this with the ladies (young and seasoned) in our lives and love each other as GOD's precious creation.  Have a happy and safe holiday!" - Author Unknown

Still Chuckin & Jivin

I cant stand Flava mother fucking Flav! This coon continues to offend me more and more. I wanna know how you can go from fighting the power with Chuck D and Public Enemy to this shit. Flav is responsible for a lotta fucked up shit we watch on TV right now. He's the first "reality show star" I can point to that spawned the ignorant buffoonery VH1 shows America on a nightly basis. That networks reality programming department owes its existence to this clown. He started off on one of VH1's post superstar shows and he's let his ignorant nigger-dom for lack of a better term to carry him to the top of the house nigger entertainment industry. I'm convinced that if there is a camera anywhere around Flav he will proceed to act a complete ass and embarrass black people until the camera goes off. So its one thing to tap for the white puppet masters at VH1, I mean I'm not at all surprised at a minstrel show actor like Flav to do black face shit for a check, but now he's crossed the line. Now this buffoon is taking his brand into the consumer world by trying to sell us his own brand of liquor and fried chicken. No for real, the poster boy niggers, is doing more nigger shit and he needs to be stopped. I feel like next will be Flav pushing his own brand of pistol holsters next. We all know that his good friends at VH1 won't be buy FFC (Flava Fried Chicken. I'm not kidding, check out the story on this site http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.13041/title.flavor-flav-to-launch-fried-chicken-franchise-and-liquor-line.) or his bubble gum flavored vodka. I try not to wish harm on anyone, but I also think people should get treated they way they deserved to be treated, with that said, I vote to tar and feather this coon for crimes against the advancement of black people as a race. Do me a favor, please ignore the hell out of Flava Flav and let us all hope this coon fades into obscurity.

Bros Before Hoes

Whats good world. I'm getting right into it today. Earlier this week it was reported that Steve Nash's wife filed for divorce the day after having their child, talk about cold blooded, wonder how much $ she's gonna ask for to help her and their new child maintain their standard of living (If its that easy, I need rich wife i can marry and divorce so I can start collecting.) Then a day later I heard that Eva Longoria of Desperate Housewives was divorcing her NBA husband Tony Parker. First thing that popped in my head was "damn, must not be cool to be an NBA wife anymore", but in fact, something way worse was going on.

Apparently Parker had been having an affair with his former teammate's wife. Yeah, dude he hooped with for 4 years, planes trips, bus rides, all that teammate stuff, and turns around and takes down his teammate's wife. I don't know whats cool in France and what isn't, but c'mon man, you cannot be fucking your former teammate's wife. What ever happened to bros before hoes? Now it appears that Tony's teammate Brent Barry and Tony's side bitch Erin Barry are in the midst of a divorce. It hasn't yet been reported on whether Tony and Erin's affair was going on while Tony and Brent were teammates from 04-08 or not, and it really doesn't matte when it happened. Men have a set of unwritten rules we abide by, Man Laws if you will. One of those laws is you don't fuck with ya homie's ex under any circumstances, that shit is unacceptable. You definitely don't take down another man's wife. And not for nothing, anyone seen Erin Barry? I mean lets call a spade a spade here folks, Erin Barry isn't a looker, she doesn't look better than Eva, and I'm sure Tony could ride through Texas, or fucking Paris for that matter if he's looking for a side bitch. Anything and anyone but ya teammate's wife man, that's low, Tony Parker is on some absolute sucka shit and needs his ass whopped behind this shit.  

(Tony Parker, Eva Longoria, Erin & Brent Barry)

40 Reasons why Black Women are Beautiful

Got this link off my homegirl *Mrs. Boss's* blog ( no relation) Its Your World, check it out, she's a dope writer and her words will be in the pages of ya favorite magazine one day. But on to the matter at hand, this is a solid list overall...I guess. But its sprinkled with a few kinda arbitrary reasosn, that while maybe inspiring, aren't really reasons why black women are beatiful and furthermore some of these reasons really aren't true lol. What yall think?
http://www.essence.com/entertainment/hot_topics/40th_anniversary_40_reasons_why_black_wo.php

Cleveland, Ohio aka Bitterville, U.S.A.

Cleveland, I don't know yall, never been there, but I'm at a loss right now. I'm trying to figure out what got these people so bitter about LeBron. This "Quitness" viral/ commerical has been me at a loss. for those of you that haven't seen it here's the link (Quitness video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvgD9HNTMkM). I mean this is just sad. Is the city of Cleveland really that desperate? Players leave teams and cities all the time. Great players leave mediocre teams routinely. So I can't understand what made these delusional people think LeBron would stay there. Now I'm not a LeBron sympathizer, but I don't think he chose to put that city on his back, they hoped on thinking they were always welcome.

The actors who represent Cleveland citizens mention words like traitor. Really? I mean, LeBron isn't from Cleveland, he's from Akron. So he's not exactly the hometown boy doing for the home team. He wore Yankees apparel to a Cleveland Indians game during the playoffs for crying out loud. As a matter of fact the only instance when I remember LeBron being the Cleveland poster child was a marketing hatched by Nike. Nike put up the Witness posters of LeBron over abandoned buildings, They gave t-shirts to the Cavs fans at games, and essentially are responsible for gassing Cleveland fans into believing he was a Messiah they needed to follow. At no last season did Lebron ever indicate he was staying in Cleveland. In fact, all year he deflected free agency questions. All he said is he was gonna explore free agency. His Rise commercial which caused such a stir and was spoofed by these Cleveland people is actually a good commercial. He basically looks his critics in the eye and says "Fuck yall!" Frankly, I like it. Its no different from all his other shoe commercials that feature heavy doses of HIM lol. He played out his contract, and played his ass off every night. And did it on a team that refused to get him adequate help. The Decision, was done in bad taste. Bad p.r., but typical LeBron, who is as self absorbed and self conscious as any professional athlete in the modern era.  Bottom line, Cleveland, no one likes when people play the victim, get over it. The video sucks and doesn't cast anyone in a bad light except yourselves.

Missed a Week

Back on my blogging shit yall, missed yall. Lotta things happening over the last 9 days since and I haven't had a chance to put pen to paper or fingers to keys.

Off top we'll touch on the importance of yesterday's election. Twitter fb and I'm sure all the other social networks were flooded with rhetoric about the importance of voting and what to vote for. Now although I play at being a clown all the time, I am well aware of the or the social economic and political plight that we all share as Americans. Now whether our votes count or matter is a completely different issue, but there is no excuse for being uninformed on what the machine in this country is doing. One cannot complain about a flawed system if one does not at least try to participate in it before lamenting how broken the political system is. Further more I find it irresponsible to vote while being uninformed. All that being said, I now want to speak to the young men and women who take these issues seriously, be vigilant. Too often we (myself included) are active and aggressive in attentive to our politicians around election time when they are trying to get our votes. Meanwhile they coast under the radar during their terms in office hiding behind political lines and red tape, and in my District's case, getting caught taking bribes through "Preacher's handshakes". I am going to ,make an effort to play closer attention to our elected officials during their terms of service and hold them accountable as policies are being made instead of retroactively being critical of votes and decisions made months prior. Lastly, Politics is serious business, so please do not trivialize the efforts of those trying to make change in our world by pretending to be interested in politics around election time because Diddy made Voting trendy. 

Next order of business, my last posting was an NBA preview, thus far my Lakeshow has been impressive as have Celtics, and the Heat- despite their opening night stumble against Gang Green. But the season is still young, so be on the lookout for Position breakdowns, the leagues top players, after Hoops is what I do. But the sports world is a buzz with something I think is way more relevant and that is whats been going on in Minnesota. A few weeks back the Vikings acquired Randy Moss from the New England Patriots. Figuring teaming him up with attention whore and ESPN publicist client Brett Farve would help resuscitate a franchise that has bent over backwards for the 41 year old QB. 

Lets start with Moss. No secret he's had his issues, but be clear, this man is a Hall of Fame receiver, and in today's day and age of professional athletes that's usually par for the course. Irving Friar, Chris Carter, and Michael Irvin are current NFL hall of famers who had their share of character issues in the past. Moss has never been criminally convicted of anything, his run ins with the law include bumping a police officer with his car at a traffic stop. When questioned about his fine for the offense, he said he'd pay for it in "straight ash homie". White folks couldn't have liked that. Now the charges of him quitting on his team and being a baby are legitimate. He has done some selfish things in his day and has not always been a team player. That's inexcusable, but his punishments definitely do not fit his crimes. Moss has been painted as a villain his entire career, Minnesota, Oakland (where no one has excelled except for Darren McFadden this season), and his final season in New England. In a week where the media were trying to bait him into fanning flames about his return to Foxboro, the embattleled Moss wanted nothing more than to be left alone as his emotions were all a stir. Instead, he was fined $25,000 by the NFL for not being accessible to the media as the league mandates. To combat that Moss promised that we would conduct his own interviews to the media for the remainder of the season. This would fulfill his media obligations to the league while giving him some control on what is written about him. I also think it was a big "fuck you" to the NFL. In turn he was waived by the Vikings. The Vikings say it was his post game love fest for New England that caused head coach Brad Childress to pull the trigger. BULLSHIT! Be clear, Childress is a lame duck coach, and should be fired as soon as the Vikings are mathematically eliminated from any post season contention. Childress has grossly mismanaged that entire team because of his man crush on Farve. Childress thought Moss would revive his dying team. When that didn't happen he took the cowardly and easy way out by releasing him under false pretenses. This coward of a coach also threw his man crush Farve under the bus two weeks ago by criticizing his quarterback's bad decisions in a postgame interview. Now Moss is the topic of another story On ESPN because of a Coward's inability to face the music. I have the utmost sympathy for Moss who has been living under a microscope during his entire NFL career. His time in New England he proved capable of being a god teammate and citizen. Its bad enough that most of the professional athletes are discarded by their teams once their production slips. That's though of as a business decision. But when the field hands go public about wanting to be paid their worth they become selfish and not team oriented. I agree with Moss, loyalty i something to be earned, not given, and to whoever the next suitor is for Moss be warned, treat him the way you want him to treat your franchise.  


By the way, if there's anything yall want me to touch on please leave your suggestions in the comments. Forward the blog to anyone who'll read it all feedback is good feedback. See yall soon

I got a few topics in the stash and we'll get to those very quickly in the coming days. But right now, my mind is on the official kickoff to basketball season. Yall know me, so you already know whats gonna be on my tv, phone, twitter, fb, and now this blog. So indulge a Laker fan from Boston as wait on this 3 peat to come true in June.

Laker fan from Boston? Yeah that's right, a Laker fan from Boston. That's like me saying I'm a Yankee fan from Boston, but nah, that's not me, that would be my moms lol. But the Lakers are obviously the favorite, #1 because they have best player in the world still. They also have one the top 3 and by far the most skilled big in all the league. And the Lakers are led by 11 time champion  Phil Jackson. While the rest of the league was trying to stock pile super teams, with multiple all-stars, and maximum $ deals, the champs made two solid moves this off season. They singed a steady low maintenance NBA starter in Steve Blake and athletic jump shooter Matt Barnes, a journeyman his first few seasons who has in the last few seasons become a solid contributor in the rotation of 3 playoff teams. Assuming these two new additions get comfortable quickly, (there is no reason to assume otherwise) I'm expecting about 55-60 wins and the top seed in the West.

Upon first examination, the West should be won by late March early April. The only team who proved they could be on the same court as the Lakers in the West was OKC. I said they would be the toughest series the Lakers would be in until the Finals, and that proved to be true. KD will be the next to be crowned as NBA King in a year or so when age starts to do what no defense could do to Kobe Bryant and that's slow him down. They have a top 5 point guard in Russ Westbrook (my own opinion, but try and argue), and the perfect cast of roll players to compliment they're two young super stars. Portland is probably the best team to compete with the Lakers on paper, unfortunately that's how fragile the Blazers are. Injuries killed them last year, and unfortunately probably will do so again. Greg Oden is still hurt, B. Roy is an excellent talent, but battled injuries last year, and wont have a full cast of characters to help him this season. Denver would be an option if Melo was still there, he is physically now, but mentally Melo is already checked out, and will not finish the season in Denver. Houston has Yao back, and Kevin Martin and Aaron Brooks in the back court, they're just not good enough. Phoenix enters the Post Amare era without a young healthy Boris Diaw this time and San Antonio is finally too old.

So this cake walk to the finals wont be to taxing which is a good thing because Derek Fisher is a year older, and Kobe is coming of surgery. So the Lakers can heal while the East beats the dog shit out of each other. As we all know Miami is gonna be doing most of the beating during the regular season. Be clear, its still D-Wade's team. He'll take the last shot, he'll be the man because #1 they're in his town. #2 LeBron doesn't wanna be the man and Bosh just isn't good enough to be the man, he was for 7 years Toronto couldn't build a contender. So they'll lead the league in points, probably win about 66 games and lose to the Celtics when they the tow meet in the playoffs. Speaking of the Celtics, they have been an example of "defense wins championships" mantra everyone likes to allude to. Even though it only won them 1 championship, that was the last time they were competing with a healthy full roster. The Magic haven't gotten any better to me, so they'll be right behind the Celts and Heat. ATL was the team who was most fun to watch until Miami changed they're look, but again, I'm not sure how much they have improved. To me in the East the two teams to watch are the Bulls and the Wizards. The Bulls have a great point guard who is among the best in the league. They acquired Boozer who is a double double machine still, and Joakim Noah has arrived as a force in the middle. Add Celtics defensive mastermind and former local coach Tom Thibodeau to the mix could make them a viable contender. Loyalty will not allow me to count out the Wizards, during a 2007 debate i said at the time I would of taken Gilbert Arenas Over D-Wade. From strictly a talent basketball stand point, I stand by my statement. The fact that Gilbert is a lil thrown off and has had some major knee injuries I think have people forgetting exactly how good he is. A roster with talented young athletic bigs and wings could be the recipe Gil needs to get back to his world class level of play and get the Wizards back in the playoffs. Not to mention they drafted the very talented, very skilled, very much over hyped, and over promoted John Wall. He'll probably win Rookie of the Year and play very well, and he's on an exclusive list of clients that ESPN gives free publicity for on a regular basis. That list is only about 3 people long, but that's a different blog for a different time. SO in short, Lakers over Celtics again in 7. Actually, I could of cut this whole thing short with one stat, Phil Jackson's coaching championships come 3s, Chicago 1990-93; 1995-98. Los Angeles 1999-03; and now 2008-10.  

SEX: Problem? or Solver?

So I haven't had anything move me enough recently to put pen to paper or fingers to keys. So I asked some of the soon to be readers what they wanted to read about. the response was redundant, resounding, and damn near unanimous: SEX. Bunch of freaks I'm around I know, but sex its a lil too easy. Then one reader narrowed down the topic but asking me what I thought about what one of her friends told her. "Sex can about solve 80% of people's problems" she said. So i took to the keys...

Horny? Have sex. Bad/ bitter mood? Have sex. Want a baby? Have sex. That's 3 problems that sex can solve. Now I don't know bout y'all, but those 3 things aren't even problems for me, and if those 3 things are 80% of any of your problems, then ya not doing too bad. Most of you guys have student loans to pay off, that's a huge problem, and I don't care how good ya horizontal game is, NOBODY is sexing Fannie Mae to solve that problem. As a matter of fact, the more I think about it sex probably is the root of probably over 80% of problems people have. 

Ask yourself how many times shit got better once you start getting it in on the regular. I mean most people aren't as pissed off all the time, but problems don't get solved. I know plenty of broke nymphos, they didn't have money before they were nymphos, and haven't gotten money since. Some actually lose money behind buying shit to impress people so they can have more sex lol. Money is generally a big problem for people, probably bigger than 20% of a person's problems in the grad scheme of things, and does sex solve that problem?

Depends I guess. But to me, Sex doesn't solve any problems, it creates them. Lets stick with money for a stretch, that's a big problem most can relate to. Now someone tell me how sex can put money in ya pocket without selling it. Go head I'll wait....
Now lets use sex to solve that money issue, if your down with hoeing, than do ya thing, I never judge anyone. Sex doesn't pay bills though. I said earlier that bad, or bitter moods can be solved by sex. Most people would agree with that, but after further review, if the person your having sex with is the cause of ya bad moods, then chances are that's by design, so the fix u get after taking em down is just temporary. Often times that kind of situation becomes cyclical, thus making sex the corner stone of that problem. We all know people who in that situation. So nearest I can figure is that sex doesn't solve too many, and books have been written about the problems sex causes (I'm assuming this. If not authors start researching because that's a market filled with potential lol). At the most sex like drugs and alcohol help make you feel better for a stretch, but once your off that, the problem remains.

1st Entry

So I've been kicking this idea around for a while about starting a blog, vlog or some sort of social medium to express however I feel about whatever I want. So when I decided I would do it, I was trying to come up with a really good topic and came up with nothing. I don't need a intro post because all of you reading this right now know me. So I guess this first boring entry can be what I think this thing is gonna turn out to be.

After some brief thought, I have no idea wha this is gonna turn out to be. It'll be thoughtful, sometimes thought provoking, somtimes crazy, sometimes vulgar, but always honest sentiment. If there's anything someone wants me to touch on I'm taking suggestions. The one thing this blog will not be is formal. My brain will be linked to these keys and we'll see what happens from there, so welcome and I promise this will be the last boring shit I post.