You all know that I have a love.hate.love.love. relationship with Oakland.

I read last week that the A’s were moving to Fremont.

That. Wasn’t THAT bad.

You see the A’s for me is like McDonalds to other people. For example many people eat at McDonalds because they have an emotional connection to it. It reminds them of fun times they had w/ their mommas or daddies when they were younger.

Thats what the A’s represents to me. Fun times. Youthfulness. A Wide Blue Oakland Sky.

Not only are they moving, but they may but they may be changing their name.

Nothing is sacred.

***Inner voice comes on in my head***
Inner voice: Mdot.!!
What? Don’t you see I am typing in my blog.
Yes I see you are, but you know this about economics and not about sentimental value. You know better than to mix emotions with real estate transations girl!?!?!?!! I know, I know. But I frequently talk about the Town on my blog and I just wanted to let people know what was going down.
You know that the A’s were not going to stay in Oakland. Besides. The Giants play in Jersey and the Jets play in Queens and they are both NY teams.
But the A’s represent something for people to rally around and feel united about. NY has hella different teams and sports for people to rally around. There you go being sentimental again. It is an economic issue.
I know its economic. You are a VOICE IN MY HEAD. This sometimes needs removal of the whole sex gland discount brand viagra (orchiectomy). Symptoms like online viagra recommended stress, performance anxiety or depression could improve results. Albumin is tadalafil tablets india a plasma protein formed due to thickening of glomerulus. At present, there are lots of remedies available for curing lack of interest in levitra buy sex among females. I clearly created you.
Smart @ss!
I know you are just trying to get me to see the big picture, I feels you. Its just deep that they can move and change they name and become a whole new team in front of our eyes.
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I never really knew why people tripped so hard off the Dodgers leaving BK.

Now I understand. As a lil kid going to school in East Oakland, we were rewarded with a trip to the see the A’s for earning good grades on our report cards.

It not just the A’s thats flipping the script.

Many of our cultural institutions are changing.

1. CBGB’s is closed largely because all real estate is a potential condo in Millionaire City.(Manhattan)
2. Tower Records Closed. Tower was not apart of a larger conglomerate. Only corporations that are subsidiaries are larger companies are equipped to survive in 21st century New Media economy. Tower was important to Indie cats b/c they would stock JUST about anything and would stay open latee. In fact, Tower is largely responsible for my B-Girl-dom as I would visit the store on Durant in Berkely on the late night after having some LaVals pizza (which is closed too). Just perusing the HH section. Reading the latest Rap Sheet or Source. Just chilling.
   
3. Robert Christgau got fired from the Village Voice. How are you gonna take one the freshest white dudes that teaches me sh*t out hip hop out the game.
   

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It is up to us to invest in our insitutions. No one else will do it for us. And if we don’t. We cannot blame anyone else but ourselves for their demise.

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I saw Borat last night.

The over the top humor was different.

The fact that he opened it up with jokes about his sister being the town ho’ made me think,” I’m progressive, but I may end up walking outta this one.”

• He goes into the deep south and exposes Classic Americana Racism. In fact he did such a good job of it that he is being sued for misprepresenting himself to the folks that he interviewed for the mockumentary.
• The comedic timing of the jokes was on point.
• I don’t know how to feel about the Jewish Jokes in the begining. Apparently he has been given a pass in Big Media, because he, Sasha Cohen, is Jewish. So implicity he is allowed to make fun of Jewish folks.
• I guess that’s like black people and the word n*gga. If you are OF it, then you can use it. At least that is one theory.

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We Fligh High by Jim Jones sounds is like a Harlem Zombie song. It is so hypnotic. I hear it in my head when I doing the most average sh*t
I became obsessed w/ finding out the name of the song sampled at the begining.

I found it and that ish is hot.

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Beat Street Records is ’bout to close.

Peep this vid on YouTube.

That whole Fulton Mall area bout to be a Spring Street. Please believe.

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Houston Gunshop owner tells fools to get gats and buck at “The Katrinians”. I.Have.Nothing.Else.To.Say.About.That.

GIBSON: Jim, look at this. We’ve got some facts and figures about Katrina evacuees. They are suspects or victims in over 20 percent of Houston crimes this year. The number of people applying for gun permits has risen 25 percent and of the 250,000 evacuees who came to Houston, about 120,000 remain. Jim, is there something specific about the Katrina evacuees that makes you so worried or is it just crime in general and they are getting stuck with the blame?

PRUETT: It’s another rock in the pond, John. What’s happening is we had a criminal problem before there were other people preying on us and now this is just even more and so it’s not specifically about the evacuees. I think about 15 percent of our population here in Houston is made up of law-abiding citizens who came here with their kids, their families, who wanted to rebuild their life. They settled in Houston, Texas, and they remain here. They are Houstonians now. It’s a beautiful thing because it’s a wonderful city and we welcome them. However, whenever they get on TV and they are quoted as saying when the FEMA money runs out, then we’re going to turn to crime, then this is something we got to pay attention to. And the best way to do it is to be armed.

GIBSON: Jim, what kind of gun do you carry?

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Jay Z the Brand.

This article affirms the fact that ‘ol boy is ’bout to give the winter some.

Carter is a curious figure. A former drug dealer from New York, he has a mercurial talent for rhymes (which he never writes down, but carries in his head) – even being described as “America’s urban Shakespeare”. Some of his best linguistic play refers back to events in his own life, with his signature languid delivery making even the most complicated rhymes seem easy. In “Kingdom Come”, the title track from the new album, he makes a neat, knowing nod to his return to rap after life in the Def Jam boardroom, likening the switch to Superman’s telephone-box transformation – “I take off the blazer, loosen up the tie, step inside the booth, Superman is alive.”

As a wordsmith, Jay-Z elicits such high regard that in a Rolling Stone profile published last year, even British novelist Zadie Smith got in on the act, praising his ability to produce “‘ecstatic’ hip-hop, the kind of urban-lifestyle fantasies that are so joyful they feel like gospel”. She went on: “But the greater part of him, for me, is his strong streak of Tupac-like truth- telling” – referring to rap’s most famous fallen hero, Tupac Shakur – “[with] raps that aren’t about the dream life of urban African- Americans but concern their real, lived experiences.”

Grim made the cover of the Voice.
I ain’t know he was heavy in the streets like that. Peep the details.

If you got family in the pen. Vote.

Prince is in Vegas. I almost er, Oh’d.