Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Listen...


Cop this NOW. Grab the first 'Pilot Talk' too, while you at it...but definitely get this, and put it into rotation, ASAP.

That is all.

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Yeah...I know...

*Note: This was actually written in September, but I got busy with things, and so...here it is*

So it's been a while, huh? I know...my brain has those little 'lulls' in activity from time to time...plus...going to school...working full-time...and having 2 active young kids kinda takes precedent. Lately, I've been plotting a plan again, and we draw closer to the time when cool things will be revealed...and that makes me happy. Also, I'm apologizing in advance, for the long-winded bullshit to follow...I know I promised to keep it to a minimum but...hey...it's a work in progress...and with that...please board the plane in an orderly manner, and get to your seats...

 This past weekend, I installed a screen door. For some unknown reason to me, or the 10 million I've asked for some guidance or clue that perhaps only I couldn't think of, it was removed, and lay haphazardly on the porch. Now...ladies and gentlemen of the court...what happens when you have a block full of kids, and a wooden screen door? SMH. I'll leave that one to your imagination. In any case, I marked off a day on the calender...bought my materials...scraped and sanded...painted, in 2 colors, with a nice design...redid the screen, re hinged, and added the little pump that keeps the door from slamming. It turned out pretty nice, if I do say so myself. It took a little longer than I had originally planned...about 8 hours...but everything fits tight, it looks good, there's no undone trim or anything. I basically saw the job, made a plan, executed the plan to completion, and enjoyed success...even in the face of an awful buzzard squawking about my ears and head (Don't ask. It will make sense in time, though I suspect some already know of what I speak), naysayers and backseat drivers...I succeeded. It's cool to know that stuff like that still happens nowadays.

Moving on...a female friend of mine sent me a new Lauren Hill song...I'm not sure how new it is, but it's the first time I heard it, so it's new. In any event, somehow we winded up discussing her rise and fall, and she remarked that she 'felt sorry for her'. I don't know why that irked me so much, but in my normal fashion, I quipped back, "Why on earth would you feel sorry for her for?". I truly didn't get it. Let me go on ahead and add this little disclaimer: I really used to love Lauren Hill. I still got love for her, and I wish her no ill will. May her days ahead be filled with sunshine and rainbows. Having said that...let's be honest...the woman was a habitual line stepper, sleeping and having babies with married men. Yeah, it's kinda effed up that she had to get sued and all, and the whole publishing issue with her album...but...it could have all been avoided if she hadn't so vigorously defended her position, and just said, hey, lemme break bread with these dudes. Same with the Wyclef thing and the Rohan thing. It all could have been AVOIDED. Listen, we all do dumb stuff. We all got things we look back and shake our heads in disgust while we ask ourselves, "Why?". Thing is...I don't recall asking for a pity party either. Nothing tragic happened to this woman that wasn't a direct result of decisions and actions she made. Peruhd. Now I'm not judging her...simply observing...she chose this...and THAT happened. It is, what it IS. Further yet, regardless of her poor decision making, and the scorn or disdain with which people probably DID judge her...for the most part, she's still well off enough to not have to work and support 5 kids...and she's generally acknowledged as one of the best to have done it, STILL. Perhaps she needs another 'creative brainstorm' to push out another plate of 'misunderstanding'...or the number to a really good baby sitter so Mommy can hit the strip and get that money up...but sympathy? Eh. She'll be fine.

What really yanks my chain is that women...yes...women...seem to have ALL the answers...all the scorn...all the 'uh huh, that knigga ain't...' any other time...but when one of their own is SQUARELY in the wrong? There's a million and one excuses...double standard? OF COURSE. But, you ain't complaining when the double standard benefits you, huh? LOL! Ladies...knock that shit off!

Even more astounding to me is, no one really stands up and calls them on it. Listen...I'm no woman hater...and I definitely don't defend the Tiger Woods' of the world...stupid is as stupid does....but don't try to tell me Leann Rimes is an angel either. This hoe broke up not one, but TWO marriages, and the REALLY sad part about it is, on that episode of MTV Cribs when they showed that pillow on their bed? The one that said 'Tonite/Not Tonite', clearly she was doing something back then, because when she tried to front and turn it over to 'Tonite', her then hubby, kept it all the way real, flipped it back over, and said, "Hey...she wants YA'LL to think some magic is happening, but as soon as ya'll leave, she's gonna be too 'tired' to do anything...". Not only was this sad and disturbing, it certainly should have been a clue to him, that his wife, was already moving on to greener pastures...yet...no 'outrage'? A silly debate about her being on a magazine cover, she cries, and says stop picking on me, and it disappears not even a week later. SMH.

Let this be a lesson to all you youngin'skniggas, and call a spade, a spade. We can do numbers and statistics and I can disprove ANY of your arguments that tries to say some shit about women not cheating as much as men, and yada yada yada. At the end of the day, all that crap is BULLSHIT. They are just as bad as us, peruhd, and to believe anything else makes you either dumb, naive, or both.

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