MadLib

label me what you will
your insults sound shrill
while my rhymes is ill
i'll label you a jacker
a frail biscuit cracker
masquerading as a rapper
everybody wear a mask
grab the mic? you better ask
but first complete this task
alliterate ill incantations
inspring inconceivable masses

if you feel froggy just jump
to next dive bar and bump
jukebox favs as you dump
like 10 brews down in one gulp
your juice fiction like the pulp
strayed off topic my bad, mia culp

like haley's roots gotta stay plamted
in the wake of my tail like the comet
gimme a break chance that I wanted
be alright till clue drop a bomb on it
one day someone will copy my flo
prolly not but it's nice to think so

info flows straight from
my brain to my tongue
spit knowledge to the young
sneeze on you-with an achoo
good bless you-here's a tissue
rhymes extinct nobody will miss you

Lbo wrote something the other day called Mad Libs. It was for my birthday. In that spirit I asked one of my coworkers to suggest some words for me. She came up with Label, Jump, Plant, Information, Tissue. Most of it was written on Friday but apparently I am not supposed to by doing blog entries at work. Who would have known? Anyway. That's All I got. OOOOO anyone wanna use the words and do their own?

Boo Club

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0627/p01s01-usju.html

Book Club?

"Noodle Incident"...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0627/p01s01-usju.html

Everyone knows I am an avid reader of the greatest work in literary history; From "Hop on Pop" which had a surprising ending to the funny pages which tend to be pretty darn funny. I will never forget the "Noodle Incident"... boy o boy. It seems that everyone is doing this reading thing now. Everywhere I go I see someone with a book or a newspaper. Most people are reading the daily rags like the Metro or AMNY; others read trash like the NY post and still there are all these books on a range of topics like getting fit for the summer and eating for the winter.

Oprah can do it...

Now that I have reached a ripe old age of 25 I've decided that I have studied enough to be able to make recommendations to people. That's right people, it's a book club. I mean Oprah can do it why can't I? Completely rhetorical. Such a good word. Anyone else know any good words? I actually think I prefer rhetoric over rhetorical but that really isn't the point. It's not such much a book club but just that I was introduced to a wonderful book and would like to sing it's praises. I suppose it becomes a club if I do this often.

I was recently given "Race Matters" and I must say it has left an impression on me. It wasn't that anything in there was particulary new or earth shattering but more so that everything was linked so nicely. Some people would think that i do not understand that race matters as I have a group of friends from highschool which is basically equivalent to the United Nations. (Though the only person who isn't an original American is me.)

Group Picture of my HS People

So I get distracted easily...

Really I do. Which is why it is quite important that this book is a fast read. Sadly there are no pictures but he tackles issues in a manner which is accessible and can be understood by everyone. It's not a book that focuses on the negative aspects but more so the history from all points of view. He offers solutions to every identified problem as he hopes one day after working through all of these issues race will no longer matter. Take a seat in your favorite book store and thumb trhough it. Tell me what you think.

Rhymes for no Reason

Untitled

Desire...
to be what you are not
to have what you cannot-leads down the road of unhappiness
to be better than what you are
to make the world better-leads to great things

I Want...
to be anywhere but here
to be strong
to be right but often am wrong

I want to be with you

I Wish...
to be a better man some day
to be an engineer
to be influential enough to change the course of this world
to be a great dad some day-leading little ones to unselfish things

I wish you were the one.

Untitled

who Am I?
how do I identify myself?
is it through your eyes that I judge?
through the looking glass I see
but is that really me?
distorted funhouse vision
obtuse and oblong, i can't fit in my own skin
insecure and unsure but what for
surely do not fit in your mold
this is what i know for sure

am I a black man?
"more LIKE white with a heavy tan"
"YOU talk white, yet say aight"
"you are not AUTHENTIC or afrocentric"
"show more LOVE for the sistas"
"be WITH your kind not mine"
"you have NO rep on the street"
"no CHANCE of being gangsta"

CondoMinimum

Good Morning Brooknah!

It's amazing how things change in 3 weeks. Remember how I whined and complained about housing ? Well I guess I have to take it all back. I found a place and I've been running around trying to take care of business. Banks, Lawyers, Real Estate agents, Brokers have all been pretending to be my friend over this period. Praising me at times and at times shunning me. It seems that everyone has their hands in my pockets. Maybe I don't want this place afterall, that was an obvious lie. hmmm I had pictures of the place up for about an hour last week but it seemed wrong to me to post pictures of somebody else's place. I mean it is practically mine now but something seemed wrong. So I've also spent time in the cyberville fabricating a house I can show off. I've even made some modifications on the place.















I am sure I had more important things to say and will post them later.