does the boondocks finale make u have a feel good moment?

Oh this is some bullish!!!!



no further comments.

ima definitely be a hooksta tonight!

see ya there!

oh, and since its an away week, I'll be seeing YOU tomorrow huh? hey cuz, u wanna go see venus and serena tuesday?

a bad note, ain't no bad note, if it's a good note

The blogger "MAN" keeps trynna make me switch to beta blogger...change...eh. maybe for the new year.

So hurricane season is officially over!!!! and the temp. dropped bout 30 degrees over 3 hours last night. It's New Orleans cold outside brrrrrrrrr. I ain't goin nowhere this weekend...well to church. but i'm chillin. cleaning the crib. finishing my schedule. blog a lil. catch up with some peeps on my lil space and read a book...well at least start on one. the ratio of how many books i buy to the ones i actually read and finish are disappointing at the very least.

I done effed up and saw the finale for the wire. i won't ruin it for ya'll, but in two weeks let's have a convo. okay?!!?!

so what's really going on?

WORLD AIDS Day. As Bush highly promotes abstanance in 3rd world countries where people live on less than a dollar a day, Peter Piot sums it up for me "Twenty-five years into AIDS, nations rich and poor still think about the pandemic from an emergency perspective of quick fixes and short-term goals"


Apologies are having the Best Week Ever

I think Ima enroll in a pottery class...oh no, no link for this. I'm serious.

Killa Sham gets no time


"now sleep on it, that's why God give us night" (c) Lupe Fiasco

her favorite colors be platinum and gold. she only loves in stereo

"The things we'll do
will make you feel
like a woman
falling in love
with a man
she doesn't even know" (c) The Tony Rich Project

I forgot how much I loved his first cd.

So what up fam? You had a good Thanksgiving? I did and since you're here ima hold u hostage and tell u all about it.

Well I drove many many miles on Thanksgiving morning to make it to Houston by mid-afternoon, after that I ate a bit much and found myself catchin the itis.

friday began at 5 am at Macy's and ended somewhere after a relaxing pedicure.

wait, I must pause this j. depps version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, this joint is hilarious! I watched the first one for the first time about 2 weeks ago, but I'm loving this one. sorry, cause i know ima get some ish about this.

awww what the heck, i really only wanted to tell ya'll bout the concert, oh and melting pot...
the concert was dope. john legend and robin thicke! whoooooo "my hands up. my hands up. they want me with my hands up...shooter!"

here are some pics







concert was dope but it my feet were killing me by begging of robin thicke's set so I took my chances and removed the killer shoes. I thought I was gonna be the only pair of deerrty feet in the house but I was wrong, I went to grab for my shoes at one point in the night but had to search for them amongst all of the people who were standing around me shoes.

Oh yeah, this one girl fainted. I hope she's alrite, they were between sets at the time. You know we were all plottin to faint once john legend came on so that we could've been rushed backstage only to be greeted by johnny once his set was over...what???

eh

oh The Melting Pot. dope. great date place. though i went with my favorite cuzins. we stayed there for like 3 hrs. omg, the dessert. here are some pics


why won't the rest of my pics post???? Huh???? HUH????? oh well i should be finishing my schedule for next semester anyway. gotta hurry, i missed the wire last night i gotta catch up tonite.

Happy Early Thanksgiving Day ya'll!!!

i gotta hustla's spirit. period.

after I listen to this

"Gravity is working against me
And gravity wants to bring me down

Oh I'll never know what makes this man
With all the love that his heart can stand
Dream of ways to throw it all away"

(c) John Mayer

I always listen to this

"Are we gonna let de-elevator
Bring us down
Oh, no Let's Go!"

(c) don't evenmuch play, u know who

I'm sick ya'll. I feel horrible. I'm trying to get over this by Thursday cause I'm not trying to do my cross-south-country if i'm sick

Oh, go see Deja Vu. dope. saw it last week but forgot to blog about it

Paula Patton reminds me of Halle Berry in some scenes from the movie.

Nelly furtado reminds me of Madonna, idunno why. but I'm watchin the american music awards and she just does

I thought this was the best source of KKKramer news

damn, and i was such a Seinfeld show fan. I was flippin channels last night and I saw Seinfeld was on Davie Letterman so I tuned in only to see KKKramer there via satellite. He caught me off guard by saying "I'm not a racist, yet I found myself saying racist remarks" This is where I insert the spade calling quote.

Why is this always the first thing people who use or are about to use racist remarks say "I'm not a racist but..." But nothing.

That's the same foolishness we all say "I'm not trying to be messy but..." That's B.S. Yes you are the biggest ____________ that you are claiming not to be.

that's all ima say bout that

I could sure go for some homemade gumbo right about now. Let's play "who's moved back to new orleans and has a fully working kitchen" damn. some of ya'll don't know the half. It's during the holidays that I fully notice the long lasting effects of Katrina. Of course I pass devastated areas EVERYday, neighborhoods without electricity, more than half of the schools in Orleans parish failing to reopen, sky high rent, electricity bills, price gouging at its best in the grocery store, fights with the insurance company, nails in my tires from the construction or lack of within the entire city (and let me remind u how expensive suv tires are...i'm ride dem thangs til the wheels fall off), sky high non moving vehicle violation fees, later hours of parking meters so that they can give you a ticket resulting in you having to pay the previous mentioned ticket fees.

but i miss my family being five minutes away, instead of the 5 hr ride to houston, i miss my family being in a comfortable house, instead of cramped up in a small apt or a fema trailer, I miss the smell of gumbo, stuffed bell peppers, shrimp and crabmeat dressing, sweet potato pies, pecan pies, red beans on Monday, greens on Wednesday, catfish on Fridays with a lil potato salad on the side. I just miss the lil things u know

I can't believe the day for givin thanks is this week! plus the 5 hr drive to h-town that morning. ughhhhhhh

I'm watchin this jay z diary special now on mtv "we claim we from the hood. we're not from the hood. this is the hood"

h2O

is memphis bleek still rappin? just askin. i think i just saw his signature wavecap and oversized cap. i wasn't a real makin eazy money pimpin hoes in style fan

ehhh. what more can i say?

I went to support my neighborhood community big/smalltime broadway play

those kids were ridiculous, if ya'll get a chance to peep it on BET, please do, but don't leave it on that channel once the show is over. thanks

I promise PSA is my fav song on Black Album, everytime I hear that joint I wild out.
ridiculous

Just in case ya'll keeping count, I ended up getting season 3 of The Wire, so all I'm missing is season 2.


this my fav. scene from this season:



Omar is a fool. so gangsta. i think? lol

"everything that happens
happens for a reason
and one man's forever
might be God's season"
(c) Common

I've probably quoted this at least 3 times in my blog alone, but, how do you know when the season has past? God's will is a strange thing. Not strange in weird or abnormal but strange in the way that it will be what it is, but it's on us to accept it.

I've been dealing with some issues of "am i staying in this one place to long" It was decent when it started and I've reaped tremendous benefits from it, but I think it's time. But here's where God's will comes in. Release from one situation to another won't always be mutually agreed upon. Trust. Sometimes you do have to go through that valley to get to the other side.

I guess I just need to reassure myself that it's gonna be alright.

I just get disappointed in how low people actually stoop for self gratification, and the means in which they justify their actions.

To you I say, "Dig a hole, go head & bury yourself!"

i mean that.

i still got some growing to do. i didn't say i was perfect!

U think the bet h.h. awards are rigged?

i do

were u not like "Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
when lupe, papoose and styles p were freestylin

i was

i got stuff to do. i shouldn't be watchin this.

but my tivo broke

i'm really cryin. ugly cryin

Finally....the breeze of below 60 degrees has returned south!

Happy B-day Sol

Doesn't direct tv have the best concerts...john legend, corinne bailey rae & john mayer....but they don't have in demand...damn damn damn james

arite i'm bout to be out like a repubilcan majority...


I'm a hookStar tonight!!!!! puff puff give nicca!

advice

best advice i ever got was
live
best advice i ever gave was
give
best advice i ever gave
to the one
who got between my livin and givin

get the fuck on

and gimme ur lunch money

hahahahahaha



someone told me i had plenty of time to change
into the person i wanted to be

i was on my way to a funeral

i wonder if the celebrated followed the same advice?

i hope not.




don't worry. I won't quit my day job. :-P

3 little birds sat on my window, and they told me i don't need to worry

as soon as i Really learn how to use photoshop, ima be a beast

nothing much to blog about

got some estimates...~$800

i promise, i experienced mini katrina today. where did that wind and rain come from...hey, hey, hey, that was a rhetorical question

i love chicago in the winter time...i wanna go...i might go...any volunteers?

that might've been a rhetorical question tambien

i got absolutely NO work done today...at work

i absolutely loathe arrogant people

absolutely

if they stone people in other countries. do they consider throwing pebbles at someone’s door a drive by???

i brought a cd today!!!

oh, u wanted to know which one. corinne bailey rae. i saw her concert on direct tv yesterday morning. i heard her name mentioned here and there. she's dope
thanks

does everyone hate chris now?

i don't

i tell lame jokes that people think are funny

"it smells like up dog in here" "what's up dog?" "nothing, what's up with u?"

LMAO hahahhahaahah

Some people just don't get it, so pick your battles

im out like nagin after the election

no for real, dude is like car 54

a friday nite and i'm...bloggin??? whatupwitdat???

So after remembering I forgot to pay my car note online I left work and headed to Kinko’s to get a job done. When I finished there I strolled over to Blockbuster to view the selection. I rented MI3 and Thank You for Not Smoking. I then headed a few steps over to Stein Mart to see about exploiting my feet in some bronze pumps. I actually found 3 pairs of shoes, all for under $100!!!!!!!!

So let me formally introduce you to my new favorite pair of shoes:



Beauts.

So, I'm on cloud 9.5 walking back to my car when I notice the big ass flyer on my windshield. As I approach my car I notice that my front bumper is all scratched up...Oh, Hell ta da no!!!!

To make a long story short, the guy wants to settle w/out insurance companies involved. Cool son, but Ima need you to mosey on back in Kinko’s and make me copies of two sets of identification, and hold on...let me call this phone just to make sure this is your number...oh it is...cool. Now, I'm not upset. No use in crying over some lactose that has hit the floor, but Ima tell u what ima do:

Ima go home, cause it's been a hell of a week and my boss has already assumed I was putting in a couple of hours this weekend.

Take a nice hot shower.

Pay my car note and sign up for automatic bill pay.

Watch an episode or two of The Office

Try on my new shoes

Eat a chocolate puddin cup

tivo the best week ever

read the remaining pages of my book

get a lil shut eye

find two places around the city that will give me some estimates

and call you with my decision

Peace.

Hurt me soul (c) Lupe

"Somehow my light ya'll became my rain" (c) Common

I've been in this place too long.

I have to switch up my wardrobe, for my season is about to change.

So we got a little cool front in the area; I wonder how long this will last. Feels good though. I even took one of my scarves out of retirement. :-p (I learned this today)

OMG, oh sorry, I thought I wasn't tivo'n The Office

I over read someone’s blog discussing the ways in which we sell ourselves. It went on saying; the only reason we enroll in college, and put ourselves through unnecessary scrutiny and drama is to have an end result of more cash in da bank.

I chuckled cause I think she's young, and finds ways to justify why she's got undeniable talent and smarts but is now 19, married and pregnant. She's awesome but doesn't know her capabilities. Doesn't know that the world still rests in the palm of her hand that she's stuck in her back pocket.

Yeah, some people do equate success with wealth and hey, who doesn't want a nice salary to compensate for the hard work you've put in school over the years? And yeah, I do agree that you are selling yourself in interviews, internships, etc. but, is that where the buck stops? No, it isn't as simple as the cash transaction would like to believe...and trust, if it was about the money, I would've steered clear and far from a degree in the Liberal Arts field. No need to get on the nerd track but, school is fulfilling to me as a person. It enables me to grasp and understand theories, techniques, methods, and the history to understand the world around me. A degree in this field helps me to enable those around me...if I allow it. As we all know Cash Rules Everything Around Me, get the CREAM (c) Wu. Nothing's free, so in that mind, I have to pay to get ahead, but once I'm up there, what can I do to level the playing field for others? What are you doing? And again, what is your definition of success?

and i'm out.

i gotta book to finish and an office to watch.

holla

I heart my adidas

that's all.

my pequeno post

Omg, fall weather is taking a hiatus from New Orleans.

I know, I know. So here's what I've been up to lately:

I got into grad school!!!!! I wish I could insert that Vonage jingle that was in Kill Bill I...let me see if I can find it...I could only find it on youtube and I thought they were pretty lame.

I hate everything apple except for the ipod...oh, and itunes. What in the hell is the deal with no right and left click buttons? I feel like this should be on an episode of Seinfeld. Today’s score:
Apple - 0, PC -1

Oh, and is The Office, not one of the funniest shows on television? I've been having Dwight call all of my friends. lol, this dude is hilarious!!!!!

I've been called to finish something I've started...I got cha

dang, somewhere between the beginning of this blog and now, I’ve developed a the need to lie down and rest

my

eye

s

gnite

All I want for christmas

Just in case you were thinking, "what do i get (insert my name here) for christmas?

Well here's an early start. Plus, you get FREE SHIPPING!!!!!

naw, I'm just joking though...unless you want to get it for me. Smiles!

lovesmile

Somedays I find it difficult to watch the news. Sometimes I find it difficult to realize what people are actually capable of doing. My condolences to the families affected by this tradegy.

I comprehend yet, I understand nothing at all.

::sighs::

Well tonight I spent some time at the Beatriz Ball, Ball. lol. As if I needed to spend anymore time with my co-workers. I feel like my job can so have our very own version of The Office. Dang, I can't believe I've been working there over a year. Eff the cliches and all, but it does feel like just yesterday I began. It's cool, I bitch, but I actually enjoy my job more than I'll allow them to know. Shhhh and you don't tell em either.

I was involved in a conversation between two older married women. Woman B says to Lady A "Look at your husband. Isn't he the most handsome thing in the room?" I laughed because Lady A's husband was talking to Woman B's husband. But then Lady A says to us, "You know, I just don't even see that anymore. I only see the things that bothers me about him"...Wow. Reality check huh?

That disturbs me on so many levels that a wife is unable to look at her husband and feel the fire that began the journey of "til death do us part." I don't know. Sometimes I really feel that I have this fairy tale vision of love and marriage that aren't felt by the masses. I know right now I'm in my "naw, I'm cool, I just wanna be alone" rut, but i put that on katrina. I finally have an apartment to myself again, I'm having "private parties" ((c) india arie) everyday! ya heard!

But shit, I've experienced relationships. The best relationship advice I ever received was, "That 50%/50% stuff is just bullshit. See, sometimes you gotta be 80% when that other person can only be 20, and vice versa. But if you constantly find yourself in the same equation...you need to remove yourself from that problem"

No one's saying that its gonna be all good all of the time, or even most of the time. But dang, If I can't look at you, and know why we're still together, maybe we should begin that conversation that starts with, "we need to talk" and ends with "well, eff you then, I never liked your..." hahhahaha I'm just playin lmao.

So, future husband. I want to wake up in the morning, not really in your arms...cause i like my space when i sleep (well, maybe you'll change that, lol) but to turn over and look at you and lovesmile. I want to be at work and hear a word, that sounds like your name (but really doesn't) and lovesmile. I want to be in the grocery store and pass an ingrediant that's in your favorite food and lovesmile. I want to read an installation guide to my new computer program and play 7 degrees of seperation until it involves you and lovesmile. I want to come home and have a converstation with you about everything and absolutly nothing at all and lovesmile. I want to go back and read this blog after we've found each other, take a picture and post so you can see what the lovesmile truly is.

Another Again

"then we flashback to the first time you put your spell on me
you envelop me
you feel good
as hell
to me" (c) j. legend

whew. no sophmore slup for j. legend...well at least not in my opinion

so what ^? it's the end of the week already. my days seemed to have become labeled as: days I work and: that day I don't. I'm thinking of treating myself to a two day weekend this week! We'll see.

Is ticketmaster not the Biggest ripoff Ever? Why do the additional costs add up to the price of another ticket?

LMAO, I felt like I was in one of those Apple commercials where it's mac vs pc today. Lo siento...I need a left and right button on my mouse lmao

And a BIG WTF goes to Project Runway. Jeffery??@?@?!??!?!? WTF. Now, everyone who knows me knows I was pulling for Michael, but I must admit...dude didn't excute in the end. But even Uli was on point and you give it to Jeffery????? Nothing more to say. Ya hear that Nicasol???? lol

Speaking of, you're really gonna miss out tomorrow.

Props to da boss

Really...just half????

I'm out like the freedom of speech during the bush admin.

and everybody say "i remember way back when"

remember when Nia Long used to be in all of Chico Debarge's videos? and he and Joe were a duo...well it seemed like it

just remembering

I fell like that Superwoman Stevie was singing about

very well

but the fact is...

I need You

'member when the cosby's visited stevie at the studio "j-j-jammin on the one...robert...r-r-robert" lol, simpler times

I must admit, I've been living in the past for the last week, sorta having my own version of "I luv the 80s (and early 90s edition)

it started off with me having to work late last week. I needed to vibe to something but the regulars on the ipod weren't hittin it

so i started with a little pop rock in the Goo Goo Dolls "and i don't want the world to see me, cause i don't think they'd understand. when everything’s made to be broken, i just want you to know who I am"

don't ask me why, but that lead me to bump the celine dion "let's talk about love" cd. classic. i remember being in a hotel for one of those hurricanes driving my moms and my aunt crazy with that joint "tell him that the sun and moon rise in his eyes, reach out to him. and whisper, tender words so soft and sweet. i'll hold him close to feel his heart beat. love will be the gift u give yourself"

yeah and by that time my g.m. was raggin on me, so u know i had to go to the r&b vault...well not really vault...let's say r&b piggy bank

"Now it may be cold on the east coast, but on the other side of town...it never rains" now i think i heard Al Roker challenge this on the Today show this morning

Then i had to bring it back to the days long before the ipods and cds and even purchasing cassette tapes...yes pirating at its best...taping joints straight from the radio. waiting for that special song to be on your "hot 8 at 8" or whatever it was in your city and pressing that pause button to let your song record.....AHHHhhhhh Shit naw

"And I'll be thinking bout you
Every night and everyday
Cause in my heart I know
That I never should've let you go
And my love for you is stronger than I ever knew
But I couldn't tell you so
That I never should've let you go

Is there someone else,
standing where I stood
Giving you the love you never got from me
Girl I would give you the world
if I only could
Girl you will see
Will you come back to me
Won't you come back to me"

but u know what...naw ima let them tell u why...

here u go sol

what up??!?!?!?

random thoughts usually come to an end when i start to blog but let's see if i can think of anything....

well even though i know puffy sucks as a rapper i kinda want his cd...well, i just want it for the featured artists

i really don't think puff and mary j blige's relationship is as close as he makes it seems. no disrespect to mary...but puff, get off her jock!!!! please

i'm heading out on a lil road trip to the atl this wknd

in my search of wanting to move to nyc i started looking at schools in the area who offer ma or phd programs in sociology...no for real...i think i really wanna live there. maybe i can get an intern there or something. i really do heart ny!

i was just reading a recommendation letter from one of my former professors and that was a real confidence booster

oh, did i mention how much the roots/jean grae/soul rebel concert went off???? well it did. and u should've been there. best concert of this year hands down...o my bad. well it's up there with the dave chapelle block party with mz e badu, kweli and mos def w/ a special appearances by tavis smiley and my "nelly" cornell west

i think my boss is being a lil mean to me cause everyone is saying i'm her favorite...do i care...yeah! fuck ya'll for saying that, cause now she is pissy with me...but oh, it won't last long...not long at all!!!!

why is it that everytime i take a mini vacation i still feel like i'm at work???? I promise..I am NOT answering my phone this time!!!

i'm not as excited as i was about john legends new joint. i mean ima buy it and all but...idontknow. well, i wasn't actually too fond of "i used to love u" when that came out either so we'll see

somebody around my house is hating on me cause i can't pick up not 1 wireless signal...mean people eat spinach and suck

do u watch the best week ever??? i feel like that is the funniest show. last week arugla (sp?) had the best week. lmao

why does the color purple come on almost every day "is God trying to tell me something?"

i'm reading another country by james baldwin and the book is pretty dope so far, i'm halfway done...i'll let u know how i feel when i complete it.

when will the cool weather reach new orleans??? i am ready to expose the world to my fall wardrobe

has this year gone by way too fast??? wow, hopefully school will be starting in january!

oh, i tivo'd the tyra banks show with beyonce on it...now i know why i don't watch the tyra banks show...that's all.

well blog fam, those were a couple of elis@'s random thoughts...hope this will hold ya'll off for a while