random question of the day

oh, dear readers, i have to ask you something: doesn't "nazi pope" sound like a captain america villain

or a skin head death metal band?

then why do we have one?

souls of misconduct

i have a confession to make: i don't have any important message to deliver. sorry i mislead you. my conduct has been unbecoming of a masked avenger, which i am. in fact i must drop character for a moment to speak to you as the man behind the mask. as recently as yesterday, i was the guy you all know and love, or at least a good bit of you knew and loved, but on the ride back from where i was, i had what alcoholics refer to as a moment of clarity. i realized just how unsatisfied i was with living this way. i don't have my own space, i don't have any friends nearby and i neglect the one true friend that is accessible to me. and, as it turns out, she hasn't been honest with me, but that's neither here nor there. the truth is i am terrified about what lies ahead for me. i still, STILL don't know where or even if i'm going to be in school in the next few months. how wild is that? i STILL don't know the most important bit of info about my future. and ladies and gentleman, that pretty much sums things up right now. that cold bitter fear of the unknown has crept back into my life.

it reminds me of my childhood, see back then i was afraid of the dark. in fact i wouldn't move, speak, or even open my eyes in a dark room for fear that the imaginary 'it' would be waiting just ahead of me to do something unspeakable if i moved or made a noise. and that 'it' has become 'life', and that 'life' has been stripped down to it's most notorious components: I-F. and, no, snoopy ain't flying down to save me from this red baron. i realized during that car ride that the 'it' of my childhood follies had become the 'if' that life throws at us all. while many of my friends and associates have taken that if by the neck and wrestled it back to life, i just haven't been able to. hell, i'm scared to. if i fail to bring if back to life, then i have a bachelors degree and am, to quote a younger me, "d0omed to the cubicle to feed my legacy". if i succeed then i'm on my way to law school in durham, LA, or NYC, and then i'm a lawyer, and i'm fucking trapped by my title and my practices location. i'm an angelino, new yorker, or carolinian, period, pencils down, pass in the test. THIS IS AN IRRATIONAL FEAR! success is the 'it' lurking in the dark, and i can't move, can't even open my eyes to behold it!

so during this moment of clarity, a query was about me. i asked myself "drew, what do you love?" and the answer was clear. i love the college atmosphere, and no sooner had the thought completed itself than i realized i was wrong. i'm not afraid of the fail/succeed conundrum, the bogeyman is boredom! i feel like i'm leaving the best years behind me without having fully realized them, and now it's work and taxes. even once i get into law school, 3 years and it's work and taxes. sorry but, that won't fly with me.

shocked at the notion

The Man of Every Hour doesn't like to hype events he's not apart of. unfortunately this culture shock thing is is being put on by friends of drew, so he's kinda forced to. that being said... well, look at the damn picture! it says, "DREW SAYS SEE IT" and i do. so see it!


april 5-6: 5th at NCCU new school of education and 6th outdoors festival style, brant street in durham.

be there, bitches!!!!

Tracy, let me ease your fearful heart

now, tracy, i don't know you, so i won't judge you. on the contrary, i want to help you. you see, we rational's (that's what i am. liberal, yes, but i base my views on rationality, not my political bent) do. we help people trapped in the poltical spectrum ease their minds about things they don't agree with, admittedly to limited success. and exactly what body WOULD you like controlling your freedoms, hmmm? Amana? Blue Cross? Metlife? ya see, or maybe you don't see, this is where this particular argument falls apart. it's the illusion of socialism and communism that has been created by right wing talking heads that has people spooked, not health care reform. it's sad, really, because alot of very intelligent people have been conned into opposing the first initiative since civil rights that will actually improve the quality of life of the american citizen. and that's what it is: a mass con perpetrated by your republican representatives and the conservative media. they conned you all by framing the debate in imaginary fantasy nightmare monsters like death panels, nazis, socialists, and black men with power. they dreamt up scary numbers with suffixes like "trillion" to sway you. they organized and gave themselves edgy names like "tea bagger" and "sarah palin".

i could go into the time not a decade ago when a president and his administration actually DID infringe upon our constitutional freedoms, but let's stick to the subject at hand.

alright, so you're frightened right now. i understand. change is scary, for sure, but so is surgery, and that can save your life. so let's ease your mind right now. this new law is not a socialist plot. there are no death wagons coming for grandma. there aren't any black suits monitoring your doctor visits. there are no government checkpoints that you have to carry papers for. now answer me this: at what point in this bill is a government run health care system proposed? i'll wait... oh, that's right, it isn't proposed in this bill! this is an INSURANCE reform bill, not a "government takeover of the health care system". all it does is tell Amana, and BCBS, and Metlife what they can't do to us, and what they must do for us.

you cannot do things without paying for them. it's funny, and i'm just observing here, how so few people from a certain side of the political spectrum were critical of the reckless way the previous administration spent money. it's even a bit shocking that nobody from a certain side of the political spectrum, and again this is just an observation, seemed to be outraged with the anti-regulatory policies enacted by the previous administration that led to the mess that the current regime had to clean up. you can't blame the current owner for the way the previous owner left the house. had the country not been bleeding money over the past decade due to poor balance of trade's, bubble economics, and a seeming aversion to creating new revenue streams, maybe we wouldn't have felt the need to pass that ghastly bailout. if the past decade hadn't been spent in a collection of wars that proved to be money pit's, not to mention where victory is an improbability, perhaps our deficit wouldn't be in the trillions.

Tracy, my dear, change is scary for all of us. i must admit that even I am not 100% sold on what has passed, but i know one thing for sure: i'd rather have an imperfect reform bill than a for profit health baron deciding my fate. give it time, my dear, give it time.

YOU ARE THE PROTOTYPE

it's the most luxurious trip on earth, luscious, with another slickified literary love ball for your hoop of passion. sitting here in my love train on my plush periwinkle couch, sipping on a mango echinacea smoothie i came across a trailer for a movie film called "the losers". in this trailor there was a sexy little love pot named aisha kicking booty and taking names. i was intrigued. my juicy fruit ripened under her sol-full glow. i just had to know who this ingenue that so had my genue on? one word: zoe saldana. we at DIUU are butt crazy in lust with her. why doesn't everyone look like zoe? oh, yeah, my trailor review the movie also has idris elba (the wire, daddy's little girls, rock n' rolla), jeffery dean morgan (watchmen, grey's anatomy), jason patric (in the valley of ellah, narc) and columbus short (cadillac records, stomp the yard) and likes like quite the romp. i know drew and DARK are gonna see it. me too, but only for zoe saldana...

... for i have sinned

i don't know if i ever told you guys this, but in my many adventures, i became acquainted with one of the members of the raleigh, nc sleeper cell. fret not, oh faithful followers. my contact with the individual (then known as dylan boyd, though he has reportedly adopted an islamic name) ended long before (or at least that's what i assume) he became involved with any guerilla organizations. though i make no judgments against him or defenses of his character, i'll let the justice system decide his innocence or guilt, i did find proof positive of our acquaintanceship: an email from 2004, the year we met:

sup homie?
...
Mon, August 16, 2004 5:31:23 PM
From:
Dylan Alexander Boyd
...
Add to Contacts
To: gcodeco05@yahoo.com
hey dude. Its Dylan...Holla at cha boy if u can!

though i shutter to think that a man i once called friend could be involved in any plot to kill innocent people, i will not deny prior contact with him. whatever choices he made in his life are his and his alone. he knew the risks involved and no must face the consequences. as far as i know nobody's ever put a gun to his head and made him do anything. and if he was somehow coerced into joining such a misguided cause, then here's hoping the US penal system sorts it out.

this is for your own good

ummm... not sure how to blog about this. let's just say that the next time you find yourself on the short end of a situation, or that last match goes out before you can light that fire on a cold night, or the resistance blows up your space station of evil, or you fall to your doom in that ravine over there (you know the one), or she kisses him instead of you, or your mom makes you eat her smelly slime ballesque brussels sprouts, click here. oh, and be sure to do what the little chinese girl in "rush hour" says

"the wire" comes true in va

normally i myself would bless y'all w/ my take on crazy ass shit in the world. but for this occasion i thought it would be nice to let y'all hear a more seasoned writers take. this is rare, me doing deference and that, so pay the hell attention to what ms. jameson has to say!

Shooting At Church
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Post by tonyajameson in National on Feb 15, 2010 at 2:36 pm

VIA ABC News

A brazen shooting inside a Richmond, California churches got me to thinking about my favorite TV show ever, “The Wire.” If you haven’t heard the story, it’s unimaginable. Police are still looking for the men who stormed into a church Sunday and opened fire. Two teens were injured during the attack.

When I heard about it, I immediately thought about the episode of “The Wire,” when the Barksdale crew tried to kill Omar. He was taking his grandmother to church when gunmen opened fire and shot the hat off his grandmother’s head.

Omar was stunned, telling his crew:
“…For as long as I been grown, once a month I been with her on a church Sunday, telling myself ain’t no need to worry, ’cause ain’t nobody in this city that lowdown to disrespect a Sunday morning!”

oh, and here's that scene, you know, if you ain't up on your "the wire" lore...


and this is the aftermath...


street law: don't fuck with a n-word on a sunday morning. that's just foul.

snow = cold. cold = AL GORE'S A BIG FAT STUPID!!!

even if you've been living under a rock for the past week, you are surely aware of two things: 1) you need to upgrade your living arrangements, and 2) it's F'N COLD! there is a record blizzard everywhere! i mean, where is the liberal premier, his scienciness al gore, and his global warming when we need it, am i right?! am i right?!?!

it's like right now. you see it's dark out. so therefore i must conclude that the sun will never again come out. i know that that's true because the sun isn't out right now. i also know that this means that there is not a place on this planet where the sun is it. if the sun is indeed out somewhere than why can't i see it? huh? HUH? riddle me THAT, batman!!!

it's like today, you know, before the sun left us forever i didn't see any birds or bees so i am certain, and i do mean doubtless that birds and bees have gone extinct. right now my nose itches, therefore non itchy noses are a myth. the phone is off, so the theory of telecommunication is false. i'm laying flat, therefore the world is flat. i see a red headed lady, so all ladies must have red hair, thus disproving blond and brunette. i can't see my sister, therefore i don't have a sister.
it's cold but it's not snowing here, so there must be no such thing as snow. but it is cold, so global warming? false, am i right?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

well, kemosabe, i hate to break it to you but you're wrong. cold dead, under a rock, and wrong to top it off. also, before i continue, good luck President Goodluck Johnathon of Nigeria (more to come later. now back to your regularly scheduled blog rant)

this, friends, is a logical flaw. the exact flaw present in this group of arguments is the same of that asserted by our conservative blab-o-nauts ® about global warming. the word is that because they are all snowed in their conserv-o-lairs® (i can only assume some reagan shaped cave-lab, sponsored by big corporate, in the middle of one of the great lakes) that al gore is a big stupid head who lied about global warming. let me repeat: they said "BECAUSE MY TUSHY IS COLD, GLOBAL WARMING IS A LIE!"

there are two names for this flaw. name one (what we'll be using) is the proof by example fallacy. also known as an inappropriate generalization, the proof by example fallacy says that because x is true and x is apart of set A than what's true of x is true of A. i know it sounds reasonable, but here's an example of this fallacy: it rains in the sahara desert, deserts are dry, so the sahara is not a desert. here's another one: gravity, if it exists, holds things down. birds fly. birds are things, therefore gravity doesn't exist. oh you need one more? a red delicious is red, a red delicious is an apple, therefore all apples are red.

what do we know? we know that the sahara is a desert with a dry climate, we know that gravity exists, and we know that apples come in many different colors. the mistake is made when you mistake the characteristics of part of a whole for the whole, saying silly things like the sahara isn't a desert because it rained occur.

the same can be said for climate change. when you mistakenly attribute a weather event in a small part of the planet as the barometer for the climactic trends of the whole planet you get republiphiles like limbaugh and becky saying "i'm cold, so global warming is a lie". saying a blizzard in the northeastern US disproves global warming is like saying that a lady smacking you proves that all women are violent. it doesn't correlate that way. people like faux, erm , fox news and limbaugh will take any opportunity to swipe at so called liberal ideals, despite facts. here are the facts:

FACT global warming is a global climactic process that is taking place over years and decades, and has occured before.

FACT the 2000's were the hottest decade on record, causing unparralled melting of the ice caps, record breaking storms, and (yes) record snowfall.

FACT the right has a history of politicizing the non-political

in conclusion, don't you fall for the bull chucking and mud slinging coming out of the right in the wake of this blizzard. after all, we know that since you're not in washington that means it doesn't exist. unless you are, in which case i don't exist because you can't see me. either way you're probably right. you can crawl back under your rock now.

because i'm bored....

... here are a few of the responses i've made to posts on creative loafing :)... :(

RE: A Night To Dismember

Posted by DARK on 07.29.08 @ 12:17 PM

i agree whole heartedly. this movie was by far shyamalan's worse (which is saying a lot in the post "village" world) it went beyond fantasy. it went beyond suspending disbelief. it went beyond the absurd. it even went beyond the "i'm-dreaming-and-now-realize-it-so-i-will-shape-the-subsequent-events"thing. "lady" had the nerve to make up the rules as it went. from the fact that story couldn't tell you anything until she COULD tell you anything, to the fact that the eatlon conveniently could make two trips if it missed her on the first,to the fact that the scrunts couldn't come inside until they could inside or that the always delightful franklin boy could read their plan on cereal boxes, this movie was one big crap fest and no "lady" i'd ever want to associate with. done.

RE: Who the hell is Pat McCrory?

Posted by DARK on 02.20.08 @ 08:54 PM

i dont know if Pat is the right man for the job. i mean under his regime in charlotte we saw the rise of gang culture, the death of our NBA franchise, and the almost complete defunding of the arts in public schools. he did do a lot of good too, like bringing the light rail and the NFL to the city, but, i dont know. besides, do you really think a "moderate" republican can win a GOP primary who isn't named John McCain? i dont.