in particular the line of...Waiting for cities to become affordable is like waiting fora rich Mississippi slave owner to turn into a Boston abolitionist. It ain’t gonna happen. Two articles reminded me of this issue. The first article is about how the middle class in New Yorkis secretly happy about the implosion of Bear Stearns,because now they may have [...]
Archive for March, 2008
Carrie Bradshaw Gets Evicted
Monday, March 31st, 2008Thoughts on Men, Emotions and the Feedback Loop
Saturday, March 29th, 2008It wasn’t until December that I learned the extent to which SJ was looking at the front door. We were talking, something that we did 2 or 3 times a day,and he casually mentioned “This is the best conversationthat we have had in like 6 weeks”. I was like errrrrk record scratch. I knew the [...]
Sex Sells, But No One Wants to Talk About Buying It.
Thursday, March 27th, 2008I have been thinking about Spitzergate.The Duke Rape Case. Karrine Stepans, her books and the reflexive venomshe elicits from those in the online hip hop world. I have been thinking about my voice in theblogosphere. Been thinking about Akon and his assault case with the 16 teenagerthat looked older than 16. I remember, when we [...]
The Hot Tubs, an Oakland Institution
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008I came across THIS hilarious video. Hot tubs are a very Bay Areaphenomena. It wasn’t until a visit to The Bay a few years ago,when a historical homie offered to “take me to the ‘tubs” thatI remembered that was something that as a junior highschool student fast girls/bad boys did. Looking back, I probably should [...]
The Beautiful Struggle, Ta-Nehisi Coates
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008Full disclosure. I wrote about Ta-Nehisi in this blog about a two years ago after reading an essay he had written in “O Magazine”. In the post, I encouraged him to write a book.Imagine my surprise a month ago, when I received an e-mail from himasking me to write a review, a request I gladly [...]
Dear Black People, Your Anger is Killing Us, It Turns to Rage and Poisons the Babies. I Love you. You are Mine – Senator Obama
Thursday, March 20th, 2008Apparently, I can’t catch Bronchitis in an election year. I went to sleep with a 101 fever on Tuesday, and woke up a daylater and Obama apparently went TRUTH and RECONCILIATIONCOMMISSION on us. I STILL CAN’T BELIEVE, THAT THIS MAN used the term WHITE RACISMand addressed the divisiveness of Affirmative Action in an electionyear speech. [...]
Thomas Jefferson, The Original American Gangster
Thursday, March 20th, 2008My fascination with Thomas Jefferson crystallized recently.I have been checking for him since last fall. I was researchingthe subprime crisis and I came across the following quote, I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their [...]
Some Thoughts on the Police, Accountability and the Internet
Saturday, March 15th, 2008I noticed a little piece on Wired’s site about Go Daddy.comremoving a police watchdog/ rating website from its server. The rationale they used was, “This may endanger thepolice officers”. Kevin Poulsen of Wired writes, A new web service that lets users rate and comment on the uniformed police officers in their community is scrambling to [...]
Buckshot /9th Video was Made for This Blog. Sorta.
Saturday, March 15th, 2008I just had to feeling that this video was made for this blog. Buckshot being the epitome of boom-bap, and all. Is it me or is Buck getting more mature and startingto favor Rakim? No wonder I have always flirted with his grimey @ss when I’veseen him. ======== New Living Legends. I am so glad [...]
Birkhold Sonned Me on Spitzergate: The Hillary-Spitzer Connection
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008Yesterday, I mentioned to Birkhold that I felt bad for Elliott’s wife,Silda Spitzer. He asked why? M.dot: Because, its embarrassing.B: F-ck that. She has agency (an ability to act on her own behalf. In thisthis case, acting would have meant leaving Elliott).M.dot: Yeah, but still.B: Listen M. A man who is married and getting prostitutesis [...]
