Thursday, June 30, 2005

Time

Bill Cosby was on nightline last night expressing his views about the black community or should I say talking about what's wrong with poor black people. In a way he's right we have all met people who are like the ones he describe in his tirades .But his reason for and answers to the problem are to simplistic. There is no easy answers for complicated problems.The reason young black girls get pregnant are the same reason young white girls get pregnant its just that the abortion rate for whites girls are higher than that for black girls.And not all black boys drop out because they think being ignorant is cool some are just pushed out black boys are suspended from school for the things that white boys get a note to carrie home to mama for.Still there are people in the hood who are just like the ones bill describe and yes there are people who migrate to this country and get on the fast track to success.those people work together to help each other in a way we don't see Jose will let Juan stay with him until he find a job and will even help him find a job Kim will lend Jung money to open a business and patel will let patel work in his store until he makes enough money to open his own store. the most I will get is whose your pastor or what church you go to.yes there's some work to done in the hood but first we have to learn to like and care for each other. And as for gangster rap he's right its time to bury that sh--t.
PINK FLOYD - Time Lyrics

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way
Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then the one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's
sinking
And racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in the relative way, but you're older
And shorter of breath and one day closer to death
Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines hanging on in quite desparation is the english way the song is over the time is gone thought i had something more to say

Tuesday, June 28, 2005

When the Adman testifies

TV ad people have it rough they have to present a product and convince you to buy it in less than 60 seconds. When it comes to convincing me they fail.its only because they insult my intelligence.why would a woman have a whole box of tampons on a canoe trip.if she need to carry around a box of tampons she should be in a hospital not a canoe.and what about a woman that's so obsessed with dusting that she would dust her neighbors house. Why cant I have a neighbor like that.the male enhancer drugs were annoying then amusing then down right hilarious. Because men were going blind from using it .When they were young they were told that they would go blind from playing with themselves. Now they are going blind from being unable to play with them selves.well they say love is blind. I guess trying to make love can make you blind. But there's a upside when she says does this dress makes me look fat. He can say I don't know I cant see-wanna have sex?

Sunday, June 26, 2005

Cowboys to girls

That's an old song by the Intruders I heard it on the radio yesterday on the golden oldies station it's about guy who's remembering about how it was when he was young it seems he didn't know - but later found out- that girls were made for kissing. I don't know who told him that probaly the same people that told him that girls were made of sugar and spice, the greeting card companies.of course girls like to kiss and girls like to hug but that not what they are made for. And boys aren't made for shootem up bang bang even though that's what everybody seems to think maybe that's why men don't live as long as woman.they have to adhere to the stereotype that men have shoot the bad guy and rescue the woman, kiss her and ride off into the sunset with the girl with him on his horse, behind him of course like a four legged motorcycle(what do they call that seat).Things have changed since that song came out.Girls now go from baby dolls to career choices and with the blurring of combat lines in Iraq some have wenT from baby dolls to combat rifles.Yes your whole world has been rearranged.

Thursday, June 23, 2005

You're not jiggling baby

There comes a time in every woman life when she notices that every thing has gone south. Now this doesn't happens over night. You don't get up one morning stand up and spoing,thoses puppies are pointing at your toes. in our culture that's bad thing we are obsessed with breasts, well men are anyway.they have more names for breasts than an Eskimo has for snow.some women equate breast size with attractiveness.they pump them up and push them up and expose just enough to get that attention.but it cant last. Gravity hasn't been laid off yet he's still gainfully employed and he's going to do his job, so forget the creams the silicon and the saline injections save your money and let nature do her job. A life time of backaches is enough and if the men aren't staring at you anymore just put a stick of chalk in your purse and when you are walking down the sidewalk drop down and write out the law of quadratic reciprocity using the Legendre symbol that should get you some attention

Monday, June 20, 2005

Into every life

Its official its now summer, I know it felt like it was summer six weeks ago but the powers that be says it isn't summer till the sun crosses the equator or something like that.its also the start of hurricane season the time when nature shows the southeast who's the boss.you think fiber can make can a person move? Consider a category four hurricane bearing down on him.a category one hurricane is a singing in the rain type of storm. Category two is the same with a faster tempo,category four is run forest run.i have only evacuated once before a storm it took four hours to get out of the county and six hours to find a shelter that had room for me and my kids we followed three city buses full of people to an abandoned school in wayback Georgia or whatever it was called with no food and nothing to sleep on the sad thing about it was that there were old people there alone some in wheel chairs.but the people in that town was good people. Someone came in (in the middle of the night mind you)saw what was needed and scrounged up some food for the old folks and kids. then other people began to arrive with blankets and sleeping mats.they didn't expect this but they responded to this bedraggled horde of savannahians with charity and kindness.I wont evacuate the next time there's a category four hurricane but its good to know that for those that do there's welcoming arms out there wait to ease their suffering

Sunday, June 19, 2005

Growing pains

Yesterday while driving with a friend we passed house with a vegetable garden on the front lawn it was part lawn part farm I had to stop because the size of the cabbages on the front row. They were bigger than Lou rawls head and that's big.i have a vegetable garden but its in the back yard and nothing I grow ever gets as big as the stuff this man was growing (or woman I never got a chance to see whose garden it was)their tomatoes were big enough to lob at a bad comedian and do major damage-or a politician they all the same.to be able to go out into your backyard and pick you dinner is refreshing. And they seem to taste better than store bought produce . I can't get over those cabbages. I wonder what's in the back yard a shed carved out of a giant gourd?
(yup I growed it mysef)or a four legged chicken?. Remember that joke.(I don't know never been a able to catch him).Its good to have a hobby and growing things is one of the best. Better than trying to become a Hilton or listening to someone talk about why they ran away from their wedding.hey look Jennifer peas the size of your brains

Friday, June 17, 2005

Everybody's a star

Its easy these days to become an arthor of a best selling book all you have do is commit a crime or be involved in one or just be acquainted with someone that's disfunctional and boom you're on the best sellers list. You might even get a movie deal or a television special.But this isn't new like reality TV and tornadoes it comes in cycles (remember ,That's Incredible and Ripleys believe or not)I can't wait till this is over but I would really like to cash in on it while its fashionable. I know someone who says that they know someone who think that they might know someone who actually gave a thankyou wave when they were given a cut on a busy street and they did it while talking on their cell phone.wow courteous and talented I have got to locate that driver with the morals of a saint and the skills of a gymnast. now that's a best selling book.Do you know hard it is to find a driver with more skills than a chimpanzee. They applie makeup and they wreck,they drink coffee and they wreck, they try to eat a full course meal and they wreck.And then there's the phantom waver so skilled,so agile ,so chaching worthy. I got to get her story.

Wednesday, June 15, 2005

Its hot

Its hot enough to fry an egg on the sidewalk if that's how you like to cook your eggs. Its better to stay indoors under the fan. The brightness of the sun says come out but the heat says don't you dare and I can see that heat stroke peeking from behind that tree waiting on me.No i,ll sit here in my sun dress that wont see the sun today and get up every once in awhile and walk to the screen door and look out while wiping my forehead with a cool glass of ice tea. You know its funny how the kids cant hear you when you tell them to stop jumping on the bed but can hear the icecream man ten blocks away. Well alright here's the money. And by the way get me a bombpop and don't step on my egg it looks almost done

Tuesday, June 14, 2005

Moon walker

So mike gets to to moon walk away from an alledged child molestation conviction. I guess having money is an automatic get of jail card. People with money don't have to go to jail.i am not sure if he is guilty or not the circumstances surrounding him does seem strange an adult sharing a bed with kid that isn't related is odd. Sharing a bed with a kid that's related is annoying.like oj and Robert Blake and the ramseys he'll always have the air of suspicion around him and of course he,ll have his fans saying that hes just trying to relive the childhood that he never had but most people who want to recapture their youth dress up as aliens and go to startrek conventions and hang out with other people their ages I'm sure that there are adult peter pan fans out there somewhere

Sunday, June 12, 2005

The sly fox knows many little tricks

When he was little my brothers friend told him that he knew where they could get some sweet plums fresh off the tree, they were in an neighbors yard. The old lady that lives there didn't care but they had to climb the fence to get them. My brother said that he thought that that didn't sound to good but the idea of getting some plums drowned out that noise so to the yard and over the fence they went they were so busy picking the sweet and juicy plums they didn't see the old lady and her grown son approach. She grabbed them and asked, what are you doing in my yard. My brother said he tried to explain to the lady how his friend told him it was okay by her.His friend told him that they had to climb the fence because the lady didn't want them walking through her house.The lady told her son to call the cops. He said the lady looked at them both when she said that they were going to go to jail then still staring at them she said I'm going to tell your mamas.She then turn to her son and and said you know what to do.She held on to my brother for a few minutes then let him. Go back over the fence the way you came she said.So back over the fence he went and home to mama waiting on the porch with a belt. The sly fox knows many littletricks but the hedgehog knows one big one

Saturday, June 11, 2005

Color struck

My mom told that there was a church near her when she was a little girl that had a comb hanging in the door and if your hair got tangled in the comb you couldn't enter the church.it was a colored church 'as they used to say back then'.As I grew up and studied black American history I found out that some churches even had a paper bag test if your elbow was darker than a brown paper bag you couldn't enter that church.all of this came to my mind while I was watching a few rap videos. It seems that the person or people that audition dancers (if you can call them that )uses the same methods (and they say that they are not old school).Even athletes and movie star seem to use the same methods. Maybe there's a kit that you can buy from the drug store right next to the magnum condoms or maybe they give them out at the barber shop because it seems only men uses it.women just go out find someone white.movie and television producers get a kit when hired.that and a clause in their contract saying that they can never make a movie for kids starring a black kid unless he's a cartoon.i am not dumping on people with light skin its just that we come in such a large range of colors.its like a field of flowers. We should take in all of its beauty and not limit ourselves

Thursday, June 09, 2005

My pain your pain

The lady's face was was the definition of pain if you looked up the word pain in the dictionary her face would be right beside it and the only thing that could make it go away was marijuana. Weed, good weed, BC bud,hydro,the stickiest of the stickicky but the feds said no its against the law and enforcing the law is more important than relieving pain right?.Other people have pain you don't see them running home to fire up a fat one right?.Well pain isn't the same for everyone each person have their own set of pain receptors. You cant possibly know the real pain that someone else feels. You might sympathize with them or you might ignore them but you can never know what feelings are flowing through their bodies or how intense the pain is to them .Well your isn't like my pain when I hurt I can take a tylenol.when you are hurting and throwing from up chemotherapy the law says,well that too damn bad.

Semper Fi

My 18 year old son called home last night from Okinawa Japan, he said hello from the future. It was Thursday in Japan it was Wednesday here it was good to hear from him. I tend to worry about him with a war going on and all .I had hoped that the war in Iraq would be over by the time he had finished boot camp but it still rages on and it will be two years before I see him again after 18 years of being a mother to him it was hard to see him leave .But there comes a time when the boy becomes a man and strikes out on his own.i wanted him to go to college but he had other ideas. So he went his own way and that's good because after all its his life and he has to make his own decisions now

Tuesday, June 07, 2005

Chicken

I really hate that chicken commercial where the man recites all the things that he loves about his favorite fast food joint its worst than the one where he says that his favorite place serves mama slap chicken. He says when his mama asks him who makes the best chicken when he says ___'s his mama slaps him. I think she should slap him for wearing that ridiculous suit.what is it with black people and chicken anyway. Everybody eats chicken why but is it considered a stereotype when black people are shown eating chicken. And why are all the fastfood chicken commercials seem to directed at black people.i know for a fact white people eat a lot of chicken. And in the south chicken is the unofficial state bird in every region.i mean who ever heard of northern fried chicken or western fried chicken.in the north they boil it and make soup out of it and on the west coast its made out of soybeans and called touchen or chicfou.chicken is best fried at home on your own stove so when you eat it you would at least know what floor its been dropped on or who sneezed over it. Oh yeah you have a real salad with it and not rabbit food

Sunday, June 05, 2005

That's me in the spotlight(2)

If you ask any of the people around here what kind of religion Islam is and chances are they will say its a violent one. they will quote what others has said about what's in the quran. They would say that the quran tells Moslims to kill all unbelievers. This is an convenient misinterpretation and sadly enough a lot of Moslems believe this too. As I have said before religion in the hands of man is an dangerous thing.from The Albigensian Crusade to the latest bombing in Baghdad no religion can hide from the revealing light of history.racism is practice under the cover of religion.they are not just knights they are Christian knights.and if they don't have a religion to support their cause then they will reinvent one and say that Jews are the spawn of Satan and black people are mud people. Or they will say that the quran says the the white man is the devil. What amazes me is that people will believe anything without studying it first and then putting it in perspective when it comes to violence the old testament is rated x.the The Baghavad Gita is no fairy tale either. Wait I take that back fairy tales are full of violence too

Saturday, June 04, 2005

Everyday observances

A few things I have noticed.(1) on the road.you always end up right behind the person who passed you earlier at the next stop light.(2) traffic always move slow when you are late and moves fast when you are going to the dentist.(3)some people will pass you even though their turn off is only a half a block away.(4) the amount of time that you have to wait for someone to back out of a parking slot increases if the slot is close to the building you want to enter.in the store (1). The first cart you get will have a wobbly wheel. (2) college students buy lots of Raman noodles.(3) you will never see Asians buy Raman noodles.(4) single men shop like college students.(5) the 10 items or less line is predominantly male.(6)there are some people who would write a check for $10 worth of groceries.outside (1) there is always someone who cant remember where they parked their car. And when you get home you will find that you didn't get half the stuff you set out to get and got a lot of stuff you don't need

Friday, June 03, 2005

Con mail

Today I received five e-mails from five different individuals requesting my help in securing their money from the people or governmental authorities that were holding it from them. You might have heard of this scam before.you give them your bank account number and they deposit the money into your account. They are just playing on your kindness(stupidity) or your greed (stupidity maximus).Your might think you will end up holding several million dollars for someone but will only end up in debt or bankrupt. Its the old bait and switch game where you end up with a few dollars wrapped around cut up newspaper.so if you receive any e-mail from a Adam Bello or Prince Prince Eze (yes that's his name)Abdul Hasan or, now get this, Madame Abacha beware. I even got an e-mail from a bank (southtrust, never heard of it )they wanted my account number because they were doing a survey. I may be stupid but I am not that stupid. Remember a fool and his money are soon parted

Thursday, June 02, 2005

Fishing

Its getting warm and the water the tide is right time to go fishing as I said before my favorite place to fish is now blocked by a golf course. I don't have a boat so the next best place is a pier. I am not one of those ,set the drag take, the water temp, wet a finger and stick in the air type of fisherman. I am more of a put the bait on the hook and throw in the line in the water type of fisherman. Around here live shrimp is the best bait. I never seem to catch any fish worth keeping from the piers but there's more people so at least i have a chance to be nosy people like to talk about themselves. Ah the storys people tell especially old people of course being fisherman most of them are lieing. Then there's the tourist you can always tell which ones they are. they are the ones trying to catch crabs with the metal crab traps or fishing with worms. the fish around the piers don't consider worms good southern cuisine. I would walk around visit the other fisherman and ask if they are catching anything. the answer is always no I just got here and know I saw him there when I came so I annoy him more, what type of bait are you using ,is that beer ,think your wife is sleeping with somebody else while you are here. If I'm not going to catch anything I might as well make this trip interesting.think I,ll go bother the tourists they are always good for a laugh

Wednesday, June 01, 2005

Rainy days

It rained almost all day yesterday good for plants bad for drivers well bad for bad drivers. Some people have a difficult time operating their cars in wet weather so there are more fender benders when it rains some streets around here become flooded but people still try to drive through them here,s a rule of thumb if you cant see the white line through the water then the water is too deep to drive through. Of course flooded streets give the suv drivers a chance to use their suvs in a way that was intended driving through deep water and over steep medians and splashing water all over the people standing next to their stalled out cars and denying to themselves that the boulder that they just rode over was really a Volkswagen. Yesterday they were just shmucks lugging around groceries and a bunch of whining kids but today they are soccermomdah of the wild Yukon. Looking down on the stalled out misfortunates who thought that their cars could float,but the dealer said it was a boat car like on James bond. So let it rain today I am staying inside because its hard to find a brick to throw at a suv when you are standing knee deep in water