After watching CNN’s “Black in America”, I’ve come up with several thoughts. Numero Uno, they didn’t tell me anything I didn't already know. Numero Dos, I think the only people who watched this are people already in the "know,. On Wendy Williams syndicated talk show a caller said "if they wanted Black people to view [...]
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I think this is much to do about nothing. I hate PETA.
Season One Episode 1 Taalam Acey & One Wise African Season One Episode 2 One Wise African Season One Episode 3 Beny Blaq & Hanalyn Colvin Season One Episode 4 Love the Poet & Che Ray Season One Episode 5 E. The Poet Emcee, Naima J. & Fredlocks of Mic Life Season One Episode 6 Jahipster & Lady Wisdom Season [...]
Anybody that knows me and sees that picture probably thinks I’m bigging up my Cowboys also known as Big D. When my Cowboys beat the Giants this Sunday top of my list was to go talk shit to my boy “Big D” a staunch Giants fan. I just found out he passed in his sleep [...]
This is our new TV show, soon to be broadcast on Comcast Baltimore/Anne Arundel County, but thank God for the internet–here’s the first episode. Click here
So I throw a monthly happy hour, social and invite a few fellow bloggers. It was a slow night, my DJ and a few friends decided to host a concert for some dude named Clifford Smith so the vibe was slightly different, and my crew of lesbian lushes didn’t show. Fellow bloggers TTD and GTL who [...]
BALTIMORE — Baltimore police are still trying to determine the motive for the fatal stabbing of a 17-year-old city girl near a light rail station. It happened shortly after midnight yesterday morning in West Baltimore near the Jones Falls Expressway. Police and family members say Nicole Edmonds and her 16-year-old brother had stepped off a [...]
Know how I know I’m not? Well as it happens I still read blogs every now and then to keep up with what’s going on in peoples lives. Some old friends some new friends, some folks I never met that I just voyuer across their blogs. So during my blog recap today I notice pics [...]
March 9th is once again upon us, and every March 9th me and my man P-Funk, my favorite and best DJ in the land somehow find a way to pay tribute to Christopher Wallace, AKA Biggie Smalls, AKA Biggie, AKA, B.I.G., AKA The Notorious Big, AKA Big Poppa, AKA Frank White, AKA The King of [...]
OBJECTIVE: To obtain wealth, maintain my health, and achieve the highest level of knowledge of self while maintaining myself, achieving the potential of self while being myself, so I say to myself – self: who am I and why –and why is it so hard obtaining wealth, maintaining my health allthewhile being myself. And myself [...]
Gordon Parks died recently at the age of 93. This man was a true Renaissance man, the photography, the poetry, the Life magazine covers, Shaft– what more can one man do. Rest in Peace elder.
Being lazy I will add my comments on the Three-Six Mafia Oscar performance from Rell’s blog rather than make it a post. I may expound on it later. Let me start by saying I “hate” on southern music, hell I “hate” on all music, I hate on bafoonery, and I also support the claim that [...]
In one of many of my artistic endeavors, well ideas– sometimes the thoughts don’t immediately come to fruition, I wrote a one man play entiled “The Soundtrack to My Life”. It was a musical theatric one man show detailing my life accompanied by my favorite songs. Well strolling through Angie’s spot– who coincidentally I have [...]
I got this from narrowcast and find it utterly hilarious. FYI I despised the last Puffy Biggie creation, I really hated the dope verse Puffy spit on the one track. Only reason it was dope is because Eminem wrote it. Puffy gotta be the smartest, richest talentless mofo on the face of the Earth.
Ebony, by Lerone Bennett, Jr. New Book Says Most Famous Act In American History Never Happened THE presidential campaign of 1860 was over, and the victor was stretching his legs and shaking off the cares of the world in his temporary office in the state capitol in Springfield, Illinois. Surrounded by the perks of power, [...]
Reading a story in the Philadelphia Daily News I was reminded of a story I have retained over the years. I was told the story by my father’s brother, Edward Torrance, BKA Fast Eddie, about his son (or step-son, things are still sketchy), who was my age when he was arrested years ago. The only [...]
Can this organization stop effing up? WASHINGTON Feb 12, 2006 (AP)— Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and injured a man during a weekend quail hunting trip in Texas, his spokeswoman said Sunday. Harry Whittington, 78, was “alert and doing fine” after Cheney sprayed Whittington with shotgun pellets on Saturday at the Armstrong Ranch in [...]
* So, my main man the Baba man has been out of town on work and vacation forever, he texts me about meeting for happy hour. We usually drink up at least thrice a week, so I text him back and agree to meet him for happy hour at a slightly posh spot that offers [...]
OK, Friday night, just got paid, me and the lady live it up– all the time. We’re at my buddies club, same club (former owner) that gave me a bottle of Moet because I told her I was a one woman man now, same club I met Indie Arie twice, same club Derek Jeter, Ray [...]
So, I reach into the mailbox today and grab the mail, some “have you seen me” crap and a magazine, it wasn’t mine, it was Micki’s so I didn’t pay much attention. On the elevator ride up I look at the cover, it’s Cosmo and I’m thinking, wow that is a cute white girl. I [...]
me: (cleaning my monitor with wet wipe) Old Guy: Why are you in DOS? me: I just wanted a black screen so I could see all the spots Old Guy: Tif, you know you could of just turned the monitor off. Tif
I mean I like Kanye as much as the next man, definitely more than the no homo guy (after I looked up his page I noticed he blogged about the same thing I’m blogging about this second). I love his music, I love his comment about the president, but c’mon– this pisses me off and [...]
I was strolling by Nia’s spot and I read her Stereotype of a black male post and the comments associated with it and it provoked a lot of memories and even more thought. Being a black male from the inner city you come to grips with the fact that at any time you can have [...]
I love basketball. I really do. When I was younger I used to eat and sleep basketball playing from sun up to sun down, and then our impoverished neighborhood got lights and we played maybe 12 hours a day. I’ve played with NBA players like Pooh Richardson, Dough Overton, Rasheed Wallace, Aaron McKie, Chris Webber, [...]
Police in Brazil kill hundreds, yet stir little outrage By Henry Chu Originally published January 8, 2006 RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil // The five bodies in the bar were riddled with bullets fired at almost point-blank range. Four of the dead were boys no older than 16. The admitted gunmen: police officers carrying out a [...]
“One ever feels his twoness-an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.” W.E.B. DuBois OK, I’m not hood– but then again I am- I have denounced the hood– but I was once hood. It’s like [...]
She weeps OK where, shall I start, I won’t bore you with the details on when I planned this or how I had the ring picked out for about a year (because I didn’t), but here we go. We are in the Poconos staying in a rented cabin with five other couples that went to [...]
I’m sitting home lonely on Xmas, the lil lady is home in Tennessee, as I said earlier for the first time in five years I didn’t take the trip– that won’t happen again. I mean I’m Muslim and the church services, and the 40 hours in malls kinda takes a toll on a brother, so [...]
If you can’t tell by my discourse or by the friggin title of this blog– I am an asshole. I just am. But sometimes I humble myself for the sake of mankind, and I think this is one of them times. So I go to one of my favorite watering holes with my baby on [...]
OK I plan for a simple night. The sexified Micki goes to her office party– is it because of the recession that companies don’t invite spouses to these things anymore? Anyways I’m sitting at a bar minding my own business sipping on a martini and this drunk girl keeps bumping into me, apologizing, starting conversations, [...]
Micki gave me this idea on her post of the same nature. My alma mater: Simon Gratz High School From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jump to: navigation, search Simon Gratz High School is a secondary school located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. An inner city school, it is perhaps best-known for its famous alumni (listed below). Its [...]
OK, I’ll take a stab at a personal post of some sorts. The lil woman and I were moving to NY. Big city of dreams. Well almost, a suburb in West Chester county 10 minutes outside the Bronx. She’s already living at her college roommate’s house in Brooklyn and I’m staying with a college friend [...]
I typed a long post yesterday and somehow lost it so I will fill this post with a little anecdote that you probably haven’t read in your studies or learned in church. I will ad-lib rather than look for the detailed account of this occurence. It goes like this. Disclaimer: I believe that none of [...]
I’ve been reading Jamie and Jame’s blogs and damn if the names alone don’t make them the perfect couple. I also realized that although I love their blogs for the individual efforts– But, I could never be that “personal blogger”. For several reasons that I have already mentioned but for the record lets recap and [...]
I’m not absolutely sure but it is my belief that Dave Chapelle is back in business! Tell me what you think Appendix I Turns out to be propoganda for a movie by Charlie Murphy and one of the writers of the Chapelle show. I aint mad at them– they gotta eat too. imagine if you’re [...]
Shortly before 7 a.m. Wednesday, a man with at least one gunshot wound to the head was found dead at a bus stop in the 5600 block of Eastern Ave., near Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. Police withheld his name pending notification of relatives. Police consider his death suspicious, a police spokesman said. By Gus [...]
Boom Boom So Big Willie throws monthly parties with his friends, hip hop aficionados and DJ’s from far and wide. The crowd is diverse and by that I mean the true meaning of diverse, but cool, grown and sexy people nonetheless. Usually gets 200+ people and is a great time. So Saturday we had a [...]
Deep, never heard this story. Payments to family of riot victim approved York, Pa., settles suit in 1969 killing Associated Press Originally published December 7, 2005 YORK, Pa. // The children and sisters of a black woman who was killed during race riots in this Pennsylvania city 36 years ago will share in a $2 [...]
Being that I don’t see being a Supreme Court candidate anywhere in my future, I think I’ll spew on the death penalty a bit and for the record I’m pro-choice. This decision not to join the high court is not because I’m not a judge, that doesn’t seem to matter, it’s just because I’m no [...]
You can’t come in to no negroe’s home–even if you gave it to them–and tell them when to get out of bed. Two wrongs don’t make a right but two Wrights made an airplane. A gift of generosity goes awry Ties are broken when a vacant home offered to a displaced Katrina family is left [...]
First Genocide, Then Lie About It Why I Hate Thanksgiving By MITCHEL COHEN With much material contributed by Peter Linebaugh and others whose names have over the years been lost.–MC The year was 1492. The Taino-Arawak people of the Bahamas discovered Christopher Columbus on their beach. Historian Howard Zinn tells us how Arawak men and [...]
I was reading Nia’s blog and one of her accounts in “Tales from the CCCrypt” reminded me of a similar tale. Me and my daughter then maybe 2-3 years old are chilling in my one bedroom apartment in Baltimore where crime is avidly ramped. My sweetie and I had just begun to date and lived [...]
Baltimore ranked 6th-most-dangerous city By John Fritze Sun Reporter Originally published November 22, 2005 Baltimore is the sixth-most-dangerous city in the country – worse than Atlanta, Washington and Gary, Ind. – and the second-most dangerous of the nation’s largest cities, according to an annual ranking released yesterday. Despite a reduction in crime in recent years, [...]
Speaking of bad shots, this is 50 in the new XXL. Magazines should send proofs to you before they go to print. Is it just me or does it look like 50 is D.L. rapper posterboy of the year. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not making any accusations (and not that it’s anything wrong with [...]
I find this utterly hilarious: Upon receiving her VLegend award at the Vibe Awards ceremony Mary J. Blige declared the following: “For so many years, VIBE has given me great, great, great covers, but I must say, I’m very, very disappointed at the cover this time, so Mimi, me and you really need to talk, [...]
My take on the 50 movie. Hmm. If I were up under a rock and had no clue who 50 was I would find the movie entertaining. If I look at the movie from a “a rapper made this movie” perspective, I would say “great piece of work” in comparison to the b.s. we’ve been [...]
Yall heard the rumors now witness for yourself: Jay-Z and Nas together on the same stage. [click here for video]
Telemarketer: “sir, I’m calling to ask you to support the families of officers slain in the line of duty” me: “not interested but is there any way you can connect me to the families of the people who slayed the officers? I think I got some extra cash lying around”
Sacred ignorance By Scoop Jackson I used to love H.I.M. He used to be my man 50 grand. The Revolverlutionary. The Phrenologist. I used to hold him down to no end. Triangle offense? Ride or die. Phil Jackson was the one dude, despite all his flaws, who I publicly protected and defended. Said nothing when [...]
OK, I’m a complainer. Not one of them nit-picky complainers but I’m a person that believes McDonald’s should never tell you “we’re out of fries” and things of that nature are just not acceptable. I’m also big on customer service. You show me good customer service and I won’t even notice whatever you’re serving me [...]
Forgotten Slaves UM Professor Ira Berlin has helped the New York City’s historical society tell a story that challenges conventional wisdom about slavery in America. By Michael Hill Sun reporter Originally published October 30, 2005When Ira Berlin was growing up in the Bronx, he knew Van Cortlandt Park as a leafy attraction of that northern [...]
This is the infamous heroin lean. I woulda got more pics but this guy kept popping to attention. I remember this lean well from the early 70′s growing up in Philadelphia, and I would ask my grandmother why people were leaning like that and my only answer was “drugs, baby”. So I really couldn’t figure [...]
One of my many vices is a good smoke. Contrary to popular belief I have never smoked marijuana in my life. I have no gripes about it, I support those who smoke it and who want to appeal the laws, etc.–I just don’t smoke it– I have enough monkeys on my back and a new [...]
OK this is pure genius and idiotic at the same time. Great stunt in that now I know that there is another DeBarge and that said DeBarge has an album– but couldn’t he have done the math? Well at least he didn’t kill himself like Christopher Williams did to promote his album. NEW YORK Oct [...]
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If it is it’s sad. [CLICK HERE]* *WARNING: POTENTIALLY EXTREMELY GRAPHIC MATERIAL Appendix I This is a blog so I can say what I want, hate me if you want: Why not just shoot the broad? Appendix II This is more my style
As of Wednesday (10/12/05), about 1.3 percent of the $2.3 billion in FEMA contracts [for N.O. reconstruction] had gone to minority-owned firms. And 91 percent of FEMA contracts have gone to firms outside Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi, according to data released earlier this month from the Department of Homeland Security
The leading suspect in the case of the death of 17 year old VCU student Taylor Behl, is a very captivating individual as are most intimate killers. The following is taken from a blog of another young girl who was perfectly anamored with him as you can see. The suspect is 38 year old Ben [...]
Not that I know anything about counterfeiting or had any part of that big ’90′s faux dub catastrophe, or was barred from any bars or crap games in my time, but this article humbled me. Pure genius, mad I didn’t think of it. I guess a criminal mind fades with the criminal acts you cease [...]
O.K. this is a case of media hype and total ignorance. First off the supervising adult should be responsible being negligent of a child drinking a strange substance in an open field. Originally published October 13, 2005 The Baltimore Sun A 21-year-old Cecil County man has been arrested and charged with constructing a “soda bottle [...]
OK, I’m no criminal genius, hell I’m no genius at all, but I think the biggest criminal in the hip hop industry (Kenneth “Supreme” McGriff) would a)know better to talk openly on the phone from prison and b)talk to one Christopher “Chris Gotti” Lorenzo, the same idiot that shot hiself accidentally in Manhattan. I don’t [...]
The Baltimore Sun has a compelling article about two homeless teenagers trying to graduate. All the current chapters are available here, the story will be complete this week. On their Own About this series: Reporter Liz Bowie and Photographer André Chung spent time with Iven Bailey and Gary Sells over many months, witnessing most of [...]
Police charged with battery in New Orleans 3 arrested after subduing 64-year-old, confronting camera crew Monday, October 10, 2005; Posted: 12:07 p.m. EDT (16:07 GMT) New Orleans police officers restrain a man Saturday night in the French Quarter. Violent arrest caught on tape (Viewer discretion advised) (2:14) SPECIAL REPORT NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AP) — Three [...]
That’s right boys and girls. The only thing I rep harder than my neighborhood (which I really don’t rep anymore), my race (which I am ashamed of sometimes), and my gender (which I only do until I get home), is my school– PSU, I bleed Blue & White. You may think this foolish, there’s a [...]
A meme from Marlo Girl 1. Go into your archive. 2. Find your 23rd post. 3. Find the fifth sentence (or closest to). 4. Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions. 5. Tag five other people to do the same. here’s what i found: “It’s purely unintentional, but I’m [...]
Institutionalized or natural born killer? You be the judge. Man on probation charged in killing Store owner’s death has others on guard in Cherry Hill By Gus G. Sentementes and Melissa Harris Sun reporters Originally published October 5, 2005 William R. Langley spent more than 20 years in prison after he sprayed gunfire into a [...]
Ok, I will eventually start a virtual mixttape forum here on stuff I like, but I will start with something that humored me that I found on Kalamu’s blog, a song from The Legondary K.O.’s page: Listen to George Bush Don’t like Black People. Enjoy. Appendix I A Message From The Legendary KO September 27, [...]
Robbery/arrest // A 25-year-old man was walking in an alley in the 500 block of S. Madeira St. about 2 a.m. Saturday when a man robbed him of a knife and backpack. Arrested a short time later and charged with unarmed robbery was Allen Williams, 25, of the 300 block of S. Chapel St.
I find this funny. City animal control officer deals with the creatures we love — and those we don’t By Tyrone Richardson Sun reporter Originally published October 3, 2005 Crisis on Cliftwood Avenue. Yvette Eppes and her daughter Keyona were pinned in their bathroom for two hours as their cat scratched and hissed from the [...]
August Wilson was a real playwright. May God continue to bless him. By J. Wynn Rousuck Sun theater critic Originally published October 3, 2005 August Wilson, one of the most accomplished, ambitious and prolific playwrights in the history of the American theater, died yesterday of liver cancer. The 60-year-old playwright had most recently been working [...]
Jayne Kennedy. Man she was so fly. So what she was with that punk dude from the Penitentiary movies but this chick was banging. I didn’t get to see Fun With Dick and Jane until recently. For all those that don’t know Fun With Dick and Jane was a home made porn that Jayne Kennedy [...]
I found out my boy Ced was cool with Biggie, who had just come home, which came as a surprise to me because Ced aint really roll like that. So Ced said B.I.G. would be by that evening so I decided to stop by. Although I’m a Big fan, I aint want to sweat the [...]
We’ve been in Chicago since Thursday, alot to blog about, so stay tuned. I took my laptop but when you’re in a wedding, you are about as busy as the bride and groom. Later.
an animal hospital after their owners had left town without them
From thesmokinggun.com SEPTEMBER 20–With dead bodies still floating in the streets of New Orleans, a pair of Louisiana lawyers are seeking to cash in on the killer hurricane by slapping the name Katrina on alcoholic beverages. In a new filing with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Andrew Vicknair and Harold Ehrenberg provided federal officials [...]
I walked outside earlier and my neighbor’s car had four flat tires and a busted back window. So Micki knocks on his door while I chase a little red bird around (I’m a city boy, shit like this amuses me) and the guy says yeah he knows. So we all know what the obvious question [...]
I walked by Mt. Vernon Park in Baltimore the other day and I saw this construction site: For all of you not in the know, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney was the judge who presided over the infamous Dred Scott case, yes Justice Taney made the “Dred Scott Decision”. As much as I despise Ronald [...]
In the wake of domestic insurgency police have been shooting several people in New Orleans. The Baltimore Sun as well as every newspaper in the nation are covering these stories: NATIONAL Rescue teams scour New Orleans Rescue teams searched house to house yesterday for those still living in New Orleans, as the U.S. Health and [...]
I may make this a blog cateogory but this is the three reasons why I hate people today: Random Headlines 1.Bush on Katrina response: ‘I take responsibility’ Tue Sep 13, 2005 12:42 PM ET WASHINGTON, Sept 13 (Reuters) – President George W. Bush took responsibility on Tuesday for any failures in the federal government’s response [...]
I swear if someone brings this up during election time I’m going to smack somebody. Despite legal limit, Russia weighs 3rd term for Putin To run, he would need change in constitution By Erika Niedowski Sun Foreign Staff Originally published September 12, 2005 MOSCOW – The governor of Russia’s Novgorod region, northwest of Moscow, cites [...]
So the guy on the tape threatening to blow up Austrailia and California is a white dude from California? Okie Dokie Opie Australia, L.A. targeted on videotape Suspected al-Qaida figure from U.S. issues threats Associated Press Originally published September 12, 2005 NEW YORK — A tape delivered to ABC News in Pakistan over the weekend [...]
Although I don’t condone any criminal act, I do believe in the Bill of Rights, namingly the right against illegal search and seizure and the right to arm and keep bears (that would be fun). From The Baltimore Sun Story didn’t add up A week earlier, Circuit Judge Thomas E. Noel made a similar decision [...]
this police report found on thesmokinggun.com says three times while he boasts 9. I’m not saying it’s inaccurate, the man should know how many holes he has in his ass, I just know you can never get an accurate count of how many times someone was shot in the hood, remember my first blog.
I’ve been blessed in life despite the few bad episodes you may have read here, blessed in that I’ve avoided death and prison whilst flirting with it for over 20 years. When I was first invited to start this blog, I boldly said “If i start a blog I will be locked up within a [...]
So we’re apartment hunting. We were house shopping but my credit wasn’t good enough then my credit to debt ratio was, then it wasn’t, in the end it was but I said fuck it, I’ll buy when I’m good and ready and when I learn to save money, stay home and not blow hundreds of [...]
The Gospel, a contemporary drama about love and redemption set in the world of gospel music and the African-American church. Live it; as Boris Kodjoe, Idris Elba, Nona Gaye, Tamyra, Clifton Powell, Omar Gooding, Keisha Knight Pulliam, Donnie McClurkin, Hezekiah Walker, Kirk Franklin, Yolanda Adams, Martha Munizzi and Mom Winans light up the screen. Got [...]
COURT DOCUMENTS: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Vowed to “KILL” Google News Published: September 2, 2005, 1:07 PM PDT Reprinted From CNET News.com – Written by Ina Fried —– —- — — – – Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer vowed to “kill” Google in an expletitive-laced, chair-throwing tirade when a senior engineer told him he was leaving [...]
I don’t even want to speak on this, shit I’m Muslim and that entire treason, Patriot Act shit, I’m just gonna repost. From the Humanity Critic The other day, as Barbara Bush, mother of George W. Bush, visited Houston where many evacuees are in the Superdome, she said the following: “Everyone is so overwhelmed by [...]
Manager: I need a full years data pull from the [prehistoric] database! me: I’m the Windows guy remember? Manager: I have a meeting with the VP of Marketing & Advertising and I need the data now! I scramble to get the report remembering code I learned in the 80′s Manager: thanks this is what I [...]
From: DirectNIC’s blog The Real News The following is the result of an interview I just conducted via cell phone with a New Orleans citizen stranded at the Convention Center. I don’t know what you’re hearing in the mainstream media or in the press conferences from the city and state officials, but here is the [...]
“I call it the beautiful struggle. Even though we didn’t have the best family environment, we were loved people. Being on welfare with a parent on drugs, growing up in Little Haiti taught me independence.” Rapper Smitty on his childhood in Miami.
I got this at the Doan Mind Me blog and I have to share his sentiment. “Well I think we’re all going to hell in a handbasket now.” http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/2250831734 Students Allowed To Curse At Their Teachers August 30, 2005 12:00 p.m. EST Hector Duarte Jr. – All Headline News Staff Reporter London, England (AHN) – [...]