Where's the Vote or Die song??

I'm really disappointed that Puffy hasn't made a Vote or Die song...

I would've expected nothing less than for Puffy to turn his organization into another self-promotion scheme.. oh wait, it is... but where is the song??

I think that is the only way you can get the kids to vote, approach them on their level... through the hip-hop dominated, thugs, guns, and female exploitation that exists on hip-hop radio and videos.

damn, I'm getting old. I used to love all the ass and titties in hip-hop, now looking at it now, it's just degrading to women, and it's a shame to see so many young females (and males) embrace it.

My Tuesday predictions??

Kerry in a landslide... because I have faith, but Bush and his boys will fight it so we won't know on Tuesday night.

go Obama!

~C

CD of the moment: Guns & Roses - "Greatest Hits"

I think it's all crap...

I gotta admit, I think it's all crap.

so, Osama conveniently shows up 4 days before the election?

wtf is that all about??

I swear, someone thinks the American public are idiots... oops... maybe they are..

This is almost as bad as that one about 19 guys from caves pulling off the worst terrorist attack on US soil...

I voted already, but I'm so cynical right now about the whole process that I'm not sure it even matters... we'll see what happens on Tuesday..

~C

CD of the moment: Heavy D & the Boyz - "Blue Funk"

living in Baltimore...

For the record, I think Baltimore gets a bad rap. I have friends that absolutely refuse to even visit Baltimore, but it's not all that bad. Besides the following drama wouldn't unfold in just any city...

So I'm up late working on the Renaissance architecture lecture when all of a sudden I hear the sound of a car crash, but it was much much louder, then I hear broken glass, then it just continues and gets louder and louder and louder until I hear a final smash which was so loud I really thought it was inside of the house.

I wait for all of the noise to stop, then I look outside the window and much to my disbelief, there is an 18 wheeler located where there used to be a 100 year old brick wall with this intricate iron work. In front of the truck is a mini van that was crumpled up like a piece of paper.

So I get my shoes on, grab a coat and run outside to a smoking truck and I'm trying to determine if there is anyone in the van. Luckily no one was inside. After going outside in the street I realized that I had heard this truck clip a Blazer, smash into this mini van and dragged it for about 60 feet before it went through the brick wall and ended up in the front yard.

The people who lived in the house were out on the town so they came home, walked through the front door and the first thing out of his mouth is, "Okay, I know I'm drunk... but is that an 18 wheeler in my front yard?"

Anyway, living in Baltimore made it interesting because the crackhead just show up on the scene and start antagonizing the drunk driver who is already going to jail and start getting in his face saying, "Why'd you do that man?" or "What were you thinking?" or my favorite was the one who tried to get all mad. He says, "You could've killed somebody!! Don't you have any concern for anyone else's life?? That could've been my sister in that van!!" ... c'mon dude, as if being all cracked out gives you a right to point out someone else's faults.

only in Baltimore...

~C

CD of the moment: Fertile Ground - "Black Is"

undecided?

How in the hell can you be undecided between these two??

I mean, if you were hungry and had to choose between a salad with fat free dressing or a steak dinner with baked potato smothered in butter, you would clearly be leaning in one direction...

I'm sure the candidates have a lot more in common then they would lead you to believe, but I look at it like this. If you as a person have certain values that are important to you or you feel are important for the world, then you should have a pretty good idea of where each of these candidates stand on your issues by now.

I can't understand how there can be this big jump in the polls for Kerry after the debates... If you don't know what Bush is about by now, then what have you been doing for the last four years???

Maybe this all says a lot about the complacent nature of our society. Most people would stick with what they have no matter how miserable or damning the situation rather than try to do something about it. You see this in people with the jobs they have, the relationships they are in, and so many people are reluctant to take risks in fear of failure. I suppose if everyone was proactive about the things in their lives that bother them, we would have a lot of mad employers, botched relationships, and no new entrepreneurs (sp?). So much of this world is based on control and if you empower people to stand up for what they believe, then that causes problems on the macro scale.

I can see how it's much better to allow people to be mad, let people protest, etc... because then they go home and are still mad, but nothing changes... I don't know where i'm going with this....

Where in the hell are Dean, Sharpton and the gang these days??? I at least expected Kucinich to still be out campaigning at this point.

I was trying to make a point..... oh yeah... how can all of these polls jump from day to day?? Are people that influenced by MSNBC and fox news??? If so, these people shouldn't be voting anyway. Have a damn backbone, do a little research on your own and form an opinion based on the issues dammit!! How could you still not know who you want to vote for at this point??

I have a lot on my mind concerning this shit.... First of all, all of this 'swing state' crap just goes to show you how wack the electoral college is.... that's some bullshit and you KNOW it is directly related to where all the people of the darker persuasion are... Did you know that California, New York and one other state... I forget control like 40% of the electoral college votes and the candidates aren't campaigning there at all... So you mean to tell me that the presidency is dependent upon people in the cornfields of Iowa, the mountains of Colorado / Pennsylvania, and the desert of Arizona are going to choose who are president is???

They don't even HAVE Arabs in those states!! So trying to make a case that our standing in the world is destroyed to these people is kinda pointless no???? Sure I'm generalizing, but so what, you get my point.

Then there is this whole thought I have about 'sticking with the status quo'... Our society generally speaking (again) is complacent. We stay in shitty relationships, shitty jobs, etc... and do nothing to get out of them. So maybe, if you think that most people want to elect a leader that is 'like them' there are a lot of people in this country that would rather stay with what we have rather than try something new. There a many people who are hard-headed and the idea that this president is sticking to 'his guns' rather than change the course no matter how wrong he is, is admirable to some people because he is 'like them'... hard headed and determined to prove that they are right no matter how wrong they are... So you can start to see why and how this president could be re-elected.

The masses are idiots. We already know this... just look at how popular Britney and Lil John are....

~C

CD of the moment: Jody Watley - "Midnight Lounge"

Africans save the day

So I'm all excited about going to this interview last week. Earlier in the day i was feeling good and decided to have a meal for lunch that I hadn't had since my return to DC, so I go down to my local Jamaican spot for lunch and order up some Jerk Chicken. They just don't make it in the midwest like they do on the East Coast. It was delicious.

Now at 3:30 about 6 blocks from the office I was going to, it hit me.... with nothing but a salad for dinner the night before and an apple for breakfast, my stomach couldn't take it. As I was getting closer and closer I figured I'd release a little bit on the way so that by the time I got to the interview I would be in good shape.

Even outside, the stench was so bad, that I knew if I was to let one of these out in the interview I surely wouldn't get the job. I contemplated rescheduling the interview, but knew that wouldn't be a good idea. After popping in several busy lunchtime establishments, I just couldn't find a good place to let it all out. I knew I was in trouble and didn't know what to do.

Earlier in the day, these obnoxious Africans were in front of me in the line at the Jamaican spot and I was cussing them out in my head. "fucking cocky ass Africans in their wack ass suits thinking their the shit... pissing me off, move the fuck out of the line..." Then, it all comes full circle.

I enter the office building and approach the female security guard at the front desk, an African, and calmly ask, "By any chance would you happen to have a bathroom on this floor....... please......." she must have seen it in my eye, I was serious and needed a bathroom right away.

So she leaves her post and escorts me through some back hallway, past the mailroom to the most private restroom in DC. One toilet and a sink, and uses a key to get in. It was like heaven.

I blew it up. I mean, I BLEW IT UP!!!

After dropping 5 pounds and freshening up, I go upstairs and had what I think was my best interview thus far.

~C

CD of the moment: Thievery Corporation - "Out of Babylon"