Spring eternal

Spring is abreast!

Speaking of a breast, today (or yesterday, or the day before that) I heard a popular talk radio host mention something about the Power of the P. Is there really such a thing? I think the potential for wielding that sword has more potential to backfire than grand dad's '79 Dodge. Really, the lack of the P can really frustrate and can encourage retribution. My opinion.

Today I'm feeling:

Sore

Now, discuss (openly, by clicking the comment link and typing up some provocative, pathos evoking, thoughts on the power of the p or anything for that matter).

February, we bid thee adieu

A week ago I baked this lovely King Cake all by my lonesome! Of course, that's as far as Mardi Gras went at my homestead, but I just figured I should share this much with you.

It wasn't too delicious, but it sure was pretty!

Obviously, my world is pretty uneventful.

I saw the Departed and agree that it is better than Babel. It's certainly better than last year's Academy Award winning picture, Crash. No complaints here. I must say, I saw a lot of movies in 2006 and none were too good. Let's consider the Departed the lesser evil.

Today I'm feeling:

Disgusting

As usual, I strongly encourage comments. Probably because no one has, as yet, commented.

Ceci n'est pas une "blog"

The False Mirror by René Magritte: painting on exhibition at the MoMA

You know the saying about aiming for the moon and not worrying about missing because you'll still be among the stars? Ever wondered what would happen if you actually hit the moon? I mean, who wants to be on the moon?

I'm not trying to be perverse here. I'm just saying. Sometimes you crave something, then when you get your mitts on it, it turns out to not be all that hot.

I've also heard that life without love is just surviving.

Today I'm Feeling:

Horny

Don't have much to say? Then say little. Comment!

There's no justice, just us.

An OJ Simpson trial exhibit at the MoMA.

Check out O.J. and friends!! It's hard to imagine that two of them are "home."

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights movement

"I remember being the invisible nincompoop/
whom no one listened to, so pitiful, miserable, feeling blue for ridicule/
'cause kids with two parents with loot, little G's spiffin' new fishin' shoes stick to crews/
would get in groups and pick in school with shit to do but pick at who? me/
him the stupid, skinny, dark skin niggle with the missin' tooth who wouldn't do shit to you/
'he just sit into the back of the class, write raps in his pad/
his pencil to his tablet listening to little music, instrumental tracks' as they laughed/
wished he'd lose, he practiced and practiced with no clue it would happen this fast/
paid his presence, he quickly grew/
rapidly fast, sold packs for the cash, hoes passing they ass/
like they didn't see me, now I'm rich they do/
went from moving more 50's than Shady and Dre/
to coming up like masturbating on planes/
gotta' save for the rain/
but taking Shawn first to a Jill Scott concert/
so he could hear the fat lady sing!"

Chevy P from the Field Mob on It's Over

I don't know what's with the civil rights theme today... maybe it's because it's Black History Month?

Today I'm feeling:

Infirm

Still, I'd like to hear what YOU have to say... feel free to comment.

No one can change the world

A mural in the staircase of the uptown bound C/E train station at Spring St. NYC.

"This is a tear jerker:

...Yo, I heard it said the revolution won't be televised/
but in the land of milk and honey, there's a date you got to sell it by/
otherwise it just expires and spoils/
and these folks jump out the pot when the water's too hot/
'cause the fire boils, inside/
you go to church to find some religion/
and all you hear is conniving and gossiping and contradiction and/
you try to vote and participate in the government/
and the motherfucking democrats is acting like republicans/
you join an organization that know black history/
but ask them how they plan to make money and it's a mystery/
looking for the remedy but you can't see what's hurting you/
the revolution is here, the revolution is personal/
they call me the political rapper even after I tell them I don't fuck with politics/
I don't even follow it/
I'm on some KRS, Ice Cube, Chris Wallace shit/
Main Source, De La Soul pumping 2pacalypse, now!

The Revolution's here, no one can lead you off your path
you try to change the world, so please excuse me while I laugh...

Yo, I speak in schools a lot cause they say I'm intelligent/
no, it's 'cause I'm dope, if I was wack I'd be irrelevant/
I'm like the dope in your tracks until your high is settled in/
you leaning to the left and laughter is the best medicine/
but the trouble you have today, you just can't laugh away/
stay optimistic thinking change is going to come like Donnie Hathaway/
you have to pray and on top of that act today/
'cause opportunities shrivel away like Tom Hanks in Castaway/
everybody passed away, the pastor pray, the family mourning/
everybody act according to the season that they're born in/
we fight in the street and start bleeding 'till the blood is pouring/
in the gutter mothers cry to the lord we living by the sword and/
all the folks want is safety, they going gun crazy/
same reason Reagan was playing war games in the eighties/
same reason I always rock dog chains of my babies/
the struggle is beautiful, I'm too strong for your slavery!"

Talib Kweli, the Beautiful Struggle

Today I'm Feeling:

Inspired

What's on my mind? Comments?

By the time you read this, I'd have already jumped!

From the scaffolding outside the Puma store at Union Square, NYC.

Ladies and gents, the following has nothing to do with the preceding:

"Love many, trust few, and always paddle your own canoe."
Quoted from Travels in a Thin Country by Sara Wheeler.

Today I'm Feeling:

Bitter

Feel free to comment, it keeps me from being lonely.