How I'm Feelin Right Now.....

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TV Talk: Lie To Me

If you haven't seen Lie To Me yet I suggest you start, its the hottest new show on TV. I've been watching since they aired the pilot and I've been hooked ever since. The show focuses on a team of investigators that specialize in reading peoples body language and facial expressions to determine whether they are lying on not and more importantly why. But what really makes the show so interesting is the variety of scenarios and situations these investigators find themselves in combined the multi-faceted characters that drive the show (having sexy ass red bone Monica Raymund on the show doesn't hurt either!) In some instances the investigators are more screwed up and damaged than the people theyre investigating, which makes for great television. The show is still in the 1st season and the characters are still developing so nows a good a time as any to jump on board. It airs Wednesday Nights on Fox.

Blackberry App Addiction: Qik

Qik is slowly becoming my favorite blackberry app, next Viigo (RSS Reader). Qik allows you to record videos on your blackberry and stream them to the internet with just the click of a button. Just download the app and press record and as its recording on your phone its uploading directly to internet with about a half a second to 2 second delay. Once the videos are uploaded you can view them, send them and embed the videos just like youtube videos. It's a pretty revolutionary app in my opinion and worth checking out.

Zac Farro Is The Coldest On The Drums Right Now

And dude is only 18! I'm shocked so many people are sleeping on his drum work. His drum stylings take on a life of their own in the track always changing, swinging, rolling. They are as unpredictable as the wind. He's a magician on the drums.

Twitter = Addiction

If you read my blog then you might as well follow me on Twitter. At this current time I am absolutely addicted to twitter, I was getting stopped by the police and twittering about it right after it happened on the drive home. I'm an addict what can I say?

Twitter.com/MindOfMikeDre

Californication

Let me try to make a long story short (if that's even possible). I met this chick a few weeks ago, we started kicking and shit. I told her when I met her that I’m not here to play games and that some (almost all) of the women in the past I have dealt with have had issues telling the truth and that honesty is one of the most important things to me in a woman. As time went on she started to get more personal with me asking me to be her valentine (in not so many words), talking about taking me out and doing something special for me and what not. Telling me how she was really feeling all things Michael (and rightfully so), from that point the situation escalated as you can imagine.

Then out of the blue one day she tells me she kinda has a boyfriend. “You kinda have a boyfriend?” was my immediate response. Turns out they had been kinda together for a year. She then tells me he hasn’t been doing the things he used to do when they first started dating and how I do all the things he doesn’t and blah blah blah. Now she’s confused on what direction to go in and she’s been acting all weird and shit. And my whole thing is why not be honest from the start? I gave her plenty of opportunities to be honest and she chose not to and now we’re where we’re at now. She's confused and behaving strangely and I'm just like "Damn, it was all good just a week ago".

Since I live in LA, I have to put it like this, “Why do women in LA have such a problem being honest?” Is Los Angeles itself to blame? Does being surrounded by fake superficial people and smoke and mirrors systematically prevent women in Los Angeles from being honest with anyone? Does this fake town create fake people? Or is it something much deeper?

My question is why not just be honest? Or at least be honest when someone requests you to? If she said she had a dude in the beginning then she wouldn’t be all confused right now and acting weird.

This isn’t an aberration by any stretch of the word; the number one problem I have with women that I’ve dated out in Los Angeles is that they refuse, refuse, refuse to be honest (not only with me but with themselves as well). It happens every time, it’s like I’m dating the same woman over and over again, and it’s just too predictable. The bodies, the faces, the lies change but the story remains the same and ends the same every single time. And I’m honestly supposed to take any of these relationships seriously??

I can only take women as seriously as they take themselves, and for many of them it’s just In-N-Out like a drive-thru. But I do that and I run the risk of being classified as a playa or dog. What’s brother to do? You do you and they’re calling you a dog, a playa, leaving angry voice mails but you do the right thing like a Spike Lee flick and you get lies and games, what would you do?

It’s so easy to sit back and criticize men and our sometimes deplorable behavior and say fuck men, they’re all "dogs" but it’s much harder for a "bitch" to look at herself in the mirror and recognize her own part in this "doggy dog world".

CHUUCH.

But I guess it’s like Ja Rule Said:

I'm talkin bout straight figures if you here, you wit us
If not Boo, you know what....I still fucked you

My Vantage Point For "Friday The 13th"

Overall I give Friday The 13th a "B". Its an updated version of a classic film that delivers its fair share of screams, tits, weed references and predictable dialog. The movies main blemish is the fact that it brings nothing new to the table to seperate itself from the pack, making it just another horror film. Even still Friday The 13th is a fun watch and great date movie.

Craigslist.

Welcome to the bizarre world of craigslist. I've been trying to sell my second car, a 1993 Chevy Cavalier for about a week now on craigslist; and the weird people and odd low ball offers I've been getting have been ridiculous.

I'm selling it for $650 but I've gotten soooo many weird low ball offers that I’m just at the point where I'm fuckin with people now, making bizarre requests and shit. For example I posted my number on the ad and said call or text me. So some dude texted me this:

Some dude: Offer 300 Cash

Mike.Dre : 500 cash, Tropic Thunder on DVD and a bag of Flaming Hot Fritos and you have yourself a deal!!!

(at this point I didn’t expect to hear from him again, then he texted me back)

Some dude: I will consider it.

The next mutha fucka that lowballs me is going to get an even more ridiculous stipulation. Like “500 Cash, an Oreo cheese cake and a bottle of Cambodian breast milk.”

Becasue when times get rough a bottle of Cambodian Leche can be invaluable.

Proof Black Dont Crack!

Scary Spice looks better at 33 than she did at 23 (and she had a baby). WTF?

1996-98

2007-Present

For more proof see Halle Berry (42), Jennifer Beals (45), Lisa Raye (41) Sally Richardson!!! (40) and the great Stacy Dash (43) the ageless wonder.

The Black Nerd: The Silent Gate Keepers Of Black Society

I want my daughters to be nerds! I mean really nerdy ass geeky smart black girls because cool kids get into too much trouble. I want my daughters to be a bunch of no perm having, ugly dress wearing, overbite but I don’t give a fuck little Michelle Obama’s. I don’t want to have to be chasing their fast asses around trying to make sure they are out getting into mischief with these knuckle head niggas in the streets. I don’t want them watching MTV and BET and feeling like that’s what they are suppose to measure up to and that that’s how they are suppose to walk, talk, dress and think like my little nimrod sister does.

One of my sisters is bizarre introvert klepto nerd with an obsessive whining disorder but at least she’s not a runner, and most likely her socially changed bizarre superman ass will end up being a lawyer or something successful along those lines.

While my other sister is a halfway emo skinny jean wearing weed smoking Rihanna clone (even down to the hair cut) with the figure of a 12-year old boy and she’s quite fast. She may very well be a runner for all I know and I ain’t talking about like Jackie Joyner-Kersee. She lives her life based on how MTV, BET & Lil Weezy show her how to behave and lets that influence and ultimately determine her priorities in life. She dates these knuckle head played out thug-type niggas that think they are Game or some other equivalent gang-affiliated rapper. She lets these pea brains who can’t see the forest from the trees be the guiding light in her life and none of us (her family) really know what she’s going to turn out to be. Is she going to get over this faze and become a functioning member of society or is she going to be another confused bitter black woman 25 with 3 kids, low self worth trying to hit the club at get impregnated by a rich nigga or ball player? Only time will tell.

For this reason I want my daughters to be nerds especially now that the Obama’s put the black nerd on the map, a traditionally underrepresented group. The black nerd never get their just do, never get a shout out on a T.I song, never get their own reality show like Real Chance At Nerd or I Love Nerd-York. You never see the nerds in the music videos balancing puffy’s balance sheet why he’s poppin’ bottles and pouring champagne on strippers asses. The black nerd has been the rock of the black community for longer that you would imagine yet they have been underrepresented in the media for sure and often shunned as being unauthentic. But the fact remains that though all this they have held the black community together (literally) through our many ups and downs.

The black nerd is all around you. They’re the brother of the cool kid (that he never talked about) that grows up to an accountant and takes care of the family while the cool brother knocks up 3 or 4 chicks and can’t keep a steady job at 30 and finally settles down with an Asian woman and moves to Glendale. The black nerds are the lawyers and businessmen and women in those high rises downtown doing all the work while their white bosses take all the credit (I Think I Love My Wife for more info). They’re the community organizers that actually get shit done in the inner city while the popular niggas is still spending their days scheming on how to get money without actually getting a job or holding on to their NBA pipe dreams. The black nerd's running for city council because he’s tired of the dismal conditions in his neighborhood while the cool are spending what little money they do have fixing up their 64 so they can cruise up and down the shaw (Crenshaw Blvd for my slang impaired readers) living out their rap music video fantasies in their head. While so many of these niggas is on MySpace wearing rags on their face throwing up gang signs or doing their best little Wayne impressions, the black nerd is hitting the books hard on his way to medical school. The doctors, nurses, lawyers, accountants, administrators, councilmen, community organizers, business owners, CEO’s and Teachers these are the black people that keep us a float but you won’t see them on the cover of Vibe or even being fairly represented on TV or in movies. They’re not doing glamorous thing or in search of the spotlight they’re not in their moms basement with fruity loops missing work trying to write the next “Ay Bay Bay” or “Lean Wit It Rock Wit It”. They’re at work “on time” getting it done, talking care of the business so that the rest of these knuckle can fuck around till they’re 30 trying to act like the mutha fuckas they see on TV and listen to on the radio before they get serious about life. They’re holding it down while you’re fuckin’ around.

The black nerd is nothing like the black people you see on TV and for good reason. If our entire races was as one dimensional as we are represented in the media then we would collapsed as a society a long time ago. Black people are far more than rappers, actors and ball players though those are our only representatives on TV. And with the death of the Black sitcom what are the young generation who are essentially raised by TV to think of themselves and their place in society? Can’t be much when TV shows like the Cosby’s and Fresh prince have been replaced by shows like Keyshia Cole: The Way It Is (that ghetto mess) and Doggy Fizzle Televizle further limiting the spectrum of diverse black images in the media. Common said it best as he talked about his daughter after the Obama’s was elected "2 years ago, my daughter wanted to be a dancer. Now she says she can be the next president.” Rise black nerds rise!!!!!

And personally I’m excited to see the black nerd charging to the forefront of black society, because it’s about damn time that black societies silent gatekeepers finally have a voice, even if it is boring and non-threatening.

More articles on the black nerd from the black blogosphere (an underground hub for black nerds as of late):

http://www.zimbio.com/member/blacksnob/articles/1174242/Barack+Obama+Ride+Die+Black+Nerd

Black Nerd List
http://camille-flauntit.blogspot.com/2008/07/black-nerd.html

or just type in Black Nerd into Google and you’ll see where they all be hiding…On blogs and at comic book conventions all across the nation.

Every Black Person Should Be Reading This Blog!

Every black person should be reading this blog:

www.StuffWhitePeopleLike.com

It will make your interactions with white people much more interesting and entertaining. During your interactions with whites they will trigger some to several of the topics mention on the site from their love for ugly sweater parties to their undying passion for proper grammar. You can also bedazzle the occasional white girl with your in-depth knowledge of the white race and have a good chuckle in the cut with the rest of your black coworkers about how your boss loves Stuff White People Like # 116, #101 and #11!!! Trust me this will ensure hours of laughs at the work place and make your encounters with whiteness that much more enjoyable.

I can honestly say that every white person I have encountered at work has exhibit some to multiple behaviors outlined on the site from their obsession with Halloween, open refusal to let out-dated black music go to driving Toyota Prius’s the author of the site has white people pegged and its hilarious!

Here's a Full List Of Stuff White People Like explored by the author of the site so far

• #118 Ugly Sweater Parties
• #117 Political Prisoners
  
• #116 Black Music that Black People Don’t Listen to Anymore
• #115 Promising to Learn a New Language
• #114 America
• #113 Halloween
• #112 Hummus
• #111 Pea Coats
• #110 Frisbee Sports
• #109 The Onion
• #108 Appearing to Enjoy Classical Music
• #107 Self Aware Hip Hop References
• #106 Facebook
• #105 Unpaid Internships
• #104 Girls with Bangs
• #103 Sweaters
• #102 Children’s Games as Adults
• #101 Being Offended
• #100 Bumper Stickers
• #99 Grammar
• #98 The Ivy League
• #97 Scarves
• #96 New Balance Shoes
• #95 Rugby
• #94 Free Healthcare
• #93 Music Piracy
• #92 Book Deals
• #91 San Francisco
• #90 Dinner Parties
• #89 St. Patrick’s Day
• #88 Having Gay Friends
• #87 Outdoor Performance Clothes
• #86 Shorts
• #85 The Wire
• #84 T-Shirts
• #83 Bad Memories of High School
• #82 Hating Corporations
• #81 Graduate School
  
• #80 The Idea of Soccer
• #79 Modern Furniture
• #78 Multilingual Children
• #77 Musical Comedy
• #76 Bottles of Water
• #75 Threatening to Move to Canada
• #74 Oscar Parties
• #73 Gentrification
• #72 Study Abroad
• #71 Being the only white person around
• #70 Difficult Breakups
• #69 Mos Def
• #68 Michel Gondry
• #67 Standing Still at Concerts
• #66 Divorce
• #65 Co-Ed Sports
• #64 Recycling
• #63 Expensive Sandwiches
• #62 Knowing What’s Best for Poor People
• #61 Bicycles
• #60 Toyota Prius
• #59 Natural Medicine
• #58 Japan
• #57 Juno
• #56 Lawyers
• #55 Apologies
• #54 Kitchen Gadgets
• #53 Dogs
• #52 Sarah Silverman
• #51 Living by the Water
• #50 Irony
• #49 Vintage
• #48 Whole Foods and Grocery Co-ops
• #47 Arts Degrees
• #46 The Sunday New York Times
• #45 Asian Fusion Food
• #44 Public Radio
• #43 Plays
• #42 Sushi
• #41 Indie Music
• #40 Apple Products
• #39 Netflix
• #38 Arrested Development
• #37 Renovations
• #36 Breakfast Places
• #35 The Daily Show/Colbert Report
• #34 Architecture
• #33 Marijuana
• #32 Vegan/Vegetarianism
• #31 Snowboarding
• #30 Wrigley Field
• #29 80s Night
• #28 Not having a TV
• #27 Marathons
• #26 Manhattan (now Brooklyn too!)
• #25 David Sedaris
• #24 Wine
• #23 Microbreweries
• #22 Having Two Last Names
• #21 Writers Workshops
• #20 Being an expert on YOUR culture
• #19 Traveling
• #18 Awareness
• #17 Hating their Parents
• #16 Gifted Children
• #15 Yoga
• #14 Having Black Friends
• #13 Tea
• #12 Non-Profit Organizations
• #11 Asian Girls
• #10 Wes Anderson Movies
• #9 Making you feel bad about not going outside
• #8 Barack Obama
• #7 Diversity
• #6 Organic Food
• #5 Farmer’s Markets
• #4 Assists
• #3 Film Festivals
• #2 Religions their parents don’t belong to
• #1 Coffee

We Wear The Mask

Some muthafuckas at the job were hating on me today, going at my boss about some stupid petty shit without ever addressing the issue with me. So my boss has to pull me away from my desk and have a one-on-one with me in our conference over this bullshit. I was so frustrated that I said what I had to say about it and walked out.

I was talkin' to my partna at work about it and he encouraged me to be cool, while reminding me of fact that unemployment is up 6% and that he and I both know when we (african-americans) are at work we must Wear the Mask and wear it tight.

Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)

We Wear The Mask

We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,
And mouth with myriad subtleties.

Why should the world be over-wise,
In counting all our tears and sighs?
Nay, let them only see us, while
We wear the mask.

We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries
To thee from tortured souls arise.
We sing, but oh the clay is vile
Beneath our feet, and long the mile;
But let the world dream otherwise,
We wear the mask!

Paul Laurence Dunbar was the first African-American to gain national eminence as a poet. Born in 1872 in Dayton, Ohio, he was the son of ex-slaves and classmate to Orville Wright of aviation fame.

Although he lived to be only 33 years old, Dunbar was prolific, writing short stories, novels, librettos, plays, songs and essays as well as the poetry for which he became well known. He was popular with black and white readers of his day, and his works are celebrated today by scholars and school children alike.

His style encompasses two distinct voices -- the standard English of the classical poet and the evocative dialect of the turn-of-the-century black community in America. He was gifted in poetry -- the way that Mark Twain was in prose -- in using dialect to convey character.

What Happened To The Black Sitcom?

I was watching TV on my 55" Sony High Def TV (Yeah Boi!!!) the other day and my nigga Robnigga asked me why the fuck do I watch so many white sitcoms. And my response was what the fuck else am I going to watch??? There aren't any worthwhile black sitcoms on TV are there? After about 5 minutes of hard pondering we came to the realization that we couldn't name a single black sitcom on TV right now. WTF?

So my question is What Happened To The Black Sitcom?

How did the black sitcom get phased out of TV and get replaced by shows like Flavor of Love and Hell Date?

I remember growing up watching tons of black sitcoms. Shit thats all I used to watch growin' up black sitcoms and cartoons.

We used to have:

The Steve Harvey Show
Martin Family Matters
A Different World
The Fresh Prince of Bel Air
The Wayans Bros.
The Parent ‘Hood.
In The House
Moesha
Living Single
The Jamie Foxx Show
Hangin With Mr.Cooper

Now what do we have???

What we need is some new Black sitcoms in HD!!!! I need my blackness in High Definition!

SCATTERED THOUGHTS ABOUT OBAMA’S PRESIDENTIAL VICTORY

This is what I wrote in my blackberry curve as I watched CNN announce Barack Obama as the President-Elect:

Hope.

Yes this is proof If I ever seen it. I always felt like this country was too racist to vote for black man no matter how much more qualified he was than his white counterpart. Today I am wrong and have never felt happier about being wrong ever.

I feel hope for America for all those people who could have voted the same way they have for last 220 years, “if it aint white, it aint right” but instead chose to put their prejudice and fear of the unknown behind them to vote for Barack Obama and the change he represents. This gives me hope for America, a hope I never would have imagined I'd have. I mean, dude won in a land slide! How could one candidate represent so much and he never slipped up, never lose focus, never deviated from his message. This man is not only historic but heroic!!!!

I don't know about you but he is "My Hero"!

Class act all the way!

And when he said “I'm your president too, even for all those whose votes I did not earn!” that shit was just another statement to cement the fact that dude is on another level.

He stood in the face of death threats, racism from so many different directions, people questioning his heritage, his religion, his very name and through all that this man never flinched, never lost his focus, never hit back. He just continued to run his flawless campaign. HERO.

He never alienated anyone, and always praised the candidates running against him, many times at the beginning of his own speeches. The whole way he conducted himself set a new standard politically and socially and for that he has my respect.

Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

This is how I see it today:

My last blog about America I wrote about how disappointed I am in America, but this blog I write about how proud I am of America. A nation that has a long and storied history of racial oppression and bigotry has taking its first step in healing one of many wounds by looking past the policies of the past, by looking past the color of a man’s skin and electing the first Black President of the United States of America. I know so many Americas were tempted to fall back on the old customs and old ways. But on Nov. 4th many Americas put aside their prejudices and proclivity to sameness and took a chance, a chance on Change. And to be honest I did not believe America had grown up enough to take that chance, just 50 years removed from the Jim Crowe laws, from the open Lynching of Blacks, from the Civil Right Movement I just didn’t believe that this nation had moved far enough away from its racist roots. Up until 8pm on Nov.4th I felt like somehow some way racist white America was going to find away to steal this moment from us just as they have stolen everything else from us. But when CNN projected that Obama was the president-elect just as the polls on the west coast were closing (8pm) all that hostility all the disappointment and distrust was released and replace by a feeling of joy, pride and Hope.

This was a defining moment for me as black man for the first time I looked at this nation and said “maybe there’s hope for us all after all”. This is a moment where hope, optimism and equality overtook Racism, and it’s about fuckin’ time! Even if this moment only last 24 hours, I’m going to revel in my naive belief that things are going to be different now but that’s only until reality sinks in I hear a few gun shots from around the corner as the police continue to murder unarmed black men like cattle. This moment will not end racism but this is a shining example that America is not as racist as I thought it was and that’s all the Hope I need. I mean I was just sure that racist white America could not look past their racism to the side once they stepped in the voting booth, boy was I wrong.

No one would have believed America would have voted for a black man in a landslide for President, even one such as Obama who was so qualified, so educated and so dignified. The perception that America was just too over ran with racism and prejudice to vote in a black president has long been America’s calling card and today that perception has changed. Being black in America it’s like you’ve always had to work twice as hard and had to be twice as good as your white counterpart just to get the “chance” to compete and Obama’s campaign was exactly that. Twice as good as good as McCain’s campaign from top to bottom. Obama’s political campaign was near perfect as MSNBC described it, and it had to be.

Condoleezza Rice was absolutely correct when she said: “There was a threshold that we crossed as a nation yesterday”

The social implications of Barack Obama’s presidency as a well educated, dignified, classy black man are endless. He broke a glass ceiling today and raised the bar for all of us, not only people of color but for whites as well. The dignity and respect he exhibited for himself, for the nation’s people and even for his opposing candidates during his campaign should be a lesson to us all and a blue print for a new kind of politics.

What was the most astonishing thing about Obama’s message is that he continues to use the words we, us, ours not me and I when delivering his speeches, attaching a certain degree of accountability to Americans for the fate of this nation.

He established a new template for politics putting the issues above his race, he ran as an American candidate who happens to be black not a black president. He created the template for all future people of color who run for president.

His HUMILITY and strength through all this is to be admired.

I look at all these people who put their prejudice to the side , put their stereotypes to the side, put their fear of the black man and blackness to the side and judge this man off the strength of his own merits and voted for him, within that act I see hope. Hope that people will put their prejudice and stereotypes against me because of the color of my skin to the side and judge me truly off the merit of my character. Hope for all those who would face potential discrimination, this gives us all hope that Americans as a whole can look past their prejudices, judge us my the strength of our character and treat us equality.

The Funniest Prop Commercial Ever!!!

Whats so funny about this commercial is the way that Gavin Newsom is gloating about the gay marriage initiative being passed, almost like he is throwing it in everyones face. Hilarious. Like a gay super-villian trying to take over Gotham City "It's gonna happen! Whether You Like It Or Not!!"

Fundamental Rights My Ass........Yes On Prop 8!

These No on Prop 8 commercial are pissing me the fuck off because they are feeding people misinformation and half truths, if they were really so proud of same sex marriage then why are they so afraid to say it? Why are they using such deceitful tactics for their commercials? In the commercials they never EVER EVER talk about the act of gay marriage, what they do instead in an attempt to deceive votes is use the word fundamental right

(repeatedly!) in place of the word gay marriage while trying to cry discrimination. That shit is not discrimination what so ever because men and men / women and women don’t get married and have NEVER been getting fucking married in this country. So how is it a fundamental right??? Do they even know what a fundamental right is??

They need to be fuckin’ beaten for such propaganda laces bullshit. Americans receive enough deliberate lies and misinformation from the government and mainstream news media already, now this? Personally I wouldn’t be so mad if they were just being real in the commercials but the way they trying to turn this into a battle over fundamental rights is a huge slap in the face to Civil Rights Activists who are actually fighting for “real” fundamental rights like fair wages, proper sanitation in their neighborhoods and equal opportunity in the workplace. I just want to strangle all these deceitful mutha fuckers…..

C’mon people see through this bullshit and

VOTE YES ON PROP 8!

As a democrat I just hate being on the same side as these conservative wacko’s but I have no choice because I am morally obligated to stand for what’s right. So though we agree on this one topic, I still say FUCK YOU CONSERVATIVE BASTARDS.

Multi-Tasking

So its Monday morning....back to reality I suppose. Lately I've trying to juggling a lot more things than usual. I’m in the middle of looking for a new apartment, trying to buy a new (used) car, a new HDTV, and researching the prospect of a second job; while at the same trying to appear that I’m not completely asleep at the wheel at work (though heavily distracted). The whole search for the new (used) car has been by far the most stressfull of things on my plate. With my current car on life support I’m feeling the pressure to make some things happen and fast. But with my past financial short comings (credit) coming back to bite me in the ass, on top of the fact that the current financial crisis has banks very hesitant to lend, it’s been increasing difficult to make something happen with this car situation without getting accepting a bad deal. Almost every car dealership that I've encountered has had tried to give me their own variation of greasy, underhanded, high interest rate, hidden charges, everything but the sticker price bullshit. But withstanding all of that I’m determined to get back on the horse until I can get a reasonable deal.

As far as the apartment is concerned I say things are going pretty well. I found one place that I liked at the right price but as soon as I put the application in the manager calls my roommate and informs us that the apartment we were looking at is actually going for a thousand more than what it was advertised online for. So with my budget already about to reach critical mass it looks like I’m going to have to keep looking. But it’s early in the apartment search so I’m not worried. As long I can get in to my new apartment before the 1^st black president is elected everything will be fine. Black President party here I come!

With the economy taking a hit and my new apartment potentially costing 30 percent more than my last one I’m starting to feel more and more that robnigga may be right about it being a 2 job market out here in L.A. Now when it comes to my second job I’m pretty clueless as to what I want to or more so what I’m willing to do as a second job. But I do know this, I don’t want my second job to be more stressful than my first one; and my first job is surprisingly stress-free.

Sick & Tired Of This Fuckin' Election (It Can't End Soon Enough!)

I can’t wait for this election to be over. I am growing so tired of McCain supporters making racist comments and ludicrous accusations about Obama. I understand that so many people in this country’s very survival is based on racism and inequality. And it’s those Americans that fear that a black president will somehow loosen their strong hold on their position in society. But the fact of the matter is a black president isn’t going to destroy the mechanism of white privilege, so racist and bigots have no fear!

With or without a black president white privilege is sown deep into the fabric of the very foundation of America and its going to take a lot more than 1 black president to uproot that. Whites in America will continue to get first crack at jobs over their obviously more qualified non-white counterparts. Whites will continue to get slaps on the wrist for crimes that non-whites would get 5-10 for. White celebrities will continue to be caught with illegal drugs and then sentences to community service while over crowded jails around the nation are full of non-whites convicted on non-violent drug offenses. Whites in America will continue to get the benefit of the doubt in every given situation regardless of how red handed they're caught, while non-whites are inevitably guilty until proven innocent. With all that said I am disgusted at the blatant and outright racism I have seen displayed by some Americans over these last few months, disgusted! This election cannot end soon enough for me. And I PRAY that when this election is over the voices of these racist McCain supporters will fade into the background.

I can’t stress enough how disappointed I am that Americans are not above this sort of primitive behavior. We have the nerve to call our self the greatest and most civilized nation (while turning up our nose at the rest of the world) but in reality many of us are not very civilized at all. Everyone who has stepped up to voice their racist opinion and hate driven lies about Obama should be ashamed of themselves. And again I just cannot wait till this fucking election is over; this election though historic has put a huge spotlight on some of the ugliest parts, people and ideas in this nation. And I’m ready for that spotlight to cut off, indefinitely. If I had my way I’d turn everyone the same color (golden brown) and teach some of these mutha fuckas a lesson, how you gone be racist when we all look the same?

Obama 08. Change.

Chris Rock: Kill The Messenger

This is Chris Rock's fifth stand up special Kill The Messenger and as with all his previous works this shit is CLASSIC. Rock delivers this brilliant special just months before the most significant election of my lifetime and hits every issues right on the head. Now I know that Chris isn't exactly as big with the female fan base as say Jamie Foxx or Martin Lawrence but withstanding all of that Chris Rock is the King of Kings in stand -up comedy right now and an All-Time Great.

To be so smart, funny, honest and insightful all at the same time is a rare combination in any comedian and Rock has proven he can deliver all that and more. He is truly a comedian ahead of his time. You want proof? Listen to Chris Rock's most famous and controversial segment "Niggas vs Black People" from his Award-Winning Stand Up Special Bring The Pain (1996) and then listen to Barak Obama's fatherhood speech (2008), and you'll see that many of the topics that Obama touched on (such as low expectations and the self-destructive anti-education/intellectualism ideology within the black community). Chris Rock did as well, only Rock did it 12 year earlier.

In a 60 Minutes interview Chris Rock later said this about the controversial segment:

"I've never done that joke again, ever, and I probably never will. 'Cause some people that were racist thought they had license to say nigger. So, I'm done with that routine."

Now for our FEATURE PRESENTATION:

Watch: CHRIS ROCK: KILL THE MESSENGER (VIDEO)

Sexdrive...Yet Another Ode to Teenage Virginity Loss

Alloy Entertainment is about to drop yet another Movie about a “horny young virgin” trying to get a nut off, Sexdrive. The plots pretty basic, dude meets girl over the internet, feeds her a bunch of lies about himself and next thing he knows she wants to meet up. Now the sex deprived and inexperienced horny virgin goes to extreme lengths (driving across the country) with his wing man by his side in an attempt to lose his virginty with the internet hottie. The “horny virgin desperate to get laid movie" well seems to be the well that keeps on giving. No matter how many times they go back to it, it seems like it never gets old to Americans, especially as of late.

Most recently the movie industry gave us College (2008), I had the displeasure of watching this movie earlier this year on opening weekend in a jam-packed theatre of about 7 other movie goers in Culver City (no lie). Last year Producer Judd Apatow gave us Superbad and 40 Year Old Virgin in 2005, both Classics. Other notable movies exploring the same topic include The Wood (1999), Can't Hardly Wait (1998) and American Pie (1999)

It shouldn't come as news that virginity loss is an experience widely perceived as one of the most important turning points in a person's life especially for men, and it’s no coincidence that it's also one of the most common themes in media depictions of teenage sexuality. Every time I watch one of these movies I am reminded of the day I lost my virginity. I remember it as vividy as any day in my life. Prior to that day I never would have guessed I'd lose my virginity on my sister’s birthday ironically enough. What a day it was, got some cakes in the afternoon and birthday cake in the evening. The funny thing is when I walked in the door my dad took one look at me, and instantly he knew...he knew I was a different man. I couldn’t believe it, I guess it was written all over my face or maybe it was the fact that my young swagger was at an all-time high, regardless of however he figured it out, at that moment pops knew his boy had become a man.

And for the record I will be checking this film out opening day.