I need to start picking a theme or something.
Anyways, just making my FFAF blog rounds and wanted to stop by and say hello. :)
And I hope you all have a great weekend!
So like, my name is Karsh, but you plebeians can call me the Black Gay Blogger. Here's a little poem I'd like to share with you good people by my favorite poet Etheridge Knight.
And, yeah brothers
while white America sings about the unsinkable molly brown
(who was hustling the titanic
when it went down)
I sing to thee of Shine
the stoker who was hip enough to flee the fucking ship
and let the white folks drown
with screams on their lips
(jumped his black ass into the dark sea, Shine did,
broke free from the straining steel).
Yeah, I sing to thee of Shine
and how the millionaire banker stood on the deck
and pulled from his pockets a million dollar check
saying Shine Shine save poor me
and I'll give you all the money a black boy needs�
how Shine looked at the money and then at the sea
and said jump in muthafucka and swim like me�
and Shine swam on�Shine swam on�
and how the banker's daughter ran naked on the deck
with her pink tits trembling and her pants roun her neck
screaming Shine Shine save poor me
and I'll give you all the pussy a black boy needs�
how Shine said now pussy is good and that's no jive
but you got to swim not fuck to stay alive�
And Shine swam on Shine Swam on�
How Shine swam past a preacher afloating on a board
crying save me nigger Shine in the name of the Lord�
and how the preacher grabbed Shine's arm and broke his stroke�
how Shine pulled his shank and cut the preacher's throat�
And Shine swam on�Shine swam on�
And when news hit shore that the titanic had sunk
Shine was up in Harlem damn near drunk�
Peace, love, and soy negro y'all. I'm out.
P.S.: Don't confuse Shine with Shyne. Something tells me he's treaded more than his fair share of water anyway. Outlaw.
l _ _ | | | | | |_ _| | ____ _ | | | | | |/ / _` | | | |_| | < (_| | |_|\__,_|_|\_\__,_|was here. seriously. that's all I've got. I am so wiped. but my site's open for FFAF too. :)
Karin here. Posted one last time this happened, so here's another:
Since I managed to stumble here via the Free for All Friday page to see if anyone else actually decided to participate... I figured I'd post.
Favorite Sanrio character, eh?
Hello Kitty. I fanatically collect Hello Kitty things. I have 2 polar fleese blankets, 1 set of bed sheets, 4 shirts, 2 pairs of pajama pants, TONS of stationary, a dream pillow, 2 keychains, 2 figurines, 2 tins, 3 puppets, a wallet, a backpack, a purse, and probably a whole lot more. :D
Anyway, I'm Nikkiana, and I'm signing off. Happy Free For All Friday!
Anyway, got about 15 minutes before I have to go to work, and I wanted to share the fact that job hunting sucks everywhere. In fact, TN guvner Phil Bredesen said something to the effect of he didn't know what Bush saw in the economy that was so positive and that he needed to visit Middle Tennessee. :) My fiance is still looking for a job and we're both geting kinda discouraged.
Anywho, hope y'all have a better day than I undoubtedly will.
by Sammie
Beej here, just saying hi and sorry for my late-a$$ entry...looks like a great blog here...too bad it's so late (2am in Minnesota) and I've got to get going to beddy-bye.
Will be checking out this blog again, very soon-ly. Not every day I run into one that is conserv/libert. (kinda like me) & a big slice o' fun....how refreshing, yay!
Night night
PS - My FFA is running for 24 hours so have at it, time's a-wastin'!
I'm doing unto others rule in hopes that others will do unto me (baby).
Well. It's Friday. We are buying nothing, but are consuming lunch at IHOP with my best friend and going to see Elf (I'd rather see Bad Santa but there are small children who still believe involved) -- I don't know if that counts as buying something, but I spent eight straight hours cooking yesterday and you couldn't pay me enough to set foot in the kitchen today, not that you would, since you're not buying anything, either.
I'm also thinking about December's lay-out, which will probably be red ribbon themed, as Monday's World AIDS Day.
And I'm still basking in a tryptophan glow. I made my first turkey yesterday, it came out surprisingly well and while it was a lot more work than I'd thought, it was also much easier. I might do it again, though not any time soon.
Finally, I'm still wondering if this is the Aaron whose birthday was Monday; I just noticed it on my calendar, but I know half a dozen Aarons on- and off-line and there's no last name, just 'aaron' written in black Sharpie. If it is, hope it was great; if it's not, happy early birthday anyway.
-Gwen
Prometheus 6. P6. Earl.
My blog was started this year. It was formless, and turned under my hand to become what it is. It's a personal blog, I just like politics, sociology, psychology, shit like that.
Still there's a big bag of stuff I don't feel like I'll get to over there. This ain't gonna be 100 things about me. Just a couple, for context.
I'm something of a gnostic, but more Tao than Christian, more Zen than Buddhist. I am 46 years old. This means I've been reading comic books for 42 years. I'm not an asshole because I didn't know I was considered one of the cool guys in high school. Wentto college when I was 16, dropped out when I was 17 to join the army, got an honorable discharge six months later because i was (and I quote) unfit for military duty--something about being consitutionally incapable of taking orders from people I don't respect.
I have a 24 year old daughter whose birth turned me from selling drugs for a living because I realized anything I got could be taken from me if it was drug funded--and that would be taking it from her.
I have been in love three times and will not be in love again.
I've worked in a warehouse, I've been a painter, done a little day labor here and there, been a bank teller, a messenger, a clerk, supervisor, assistant manager, manager, assistant treasurer, assistant vice president, web programmer in Pascal and Javascript.
The "E" in Earl stands for eclectic. You don't want me to start listing the personal interests and skills you can cram into 46 years of obsession.
And the Fire.
Titans are Chaos gods, and the Fire of Prometheus is a chaos force. It warms, it enlightens, but is destroys when unchecked. It disrupted the order of animal instinct and is NOT an unmixed gift. But it's here, and the arrow of time points in one direction only, so it's not going to go away unless we do.
Oh, yeah. Happy Rhodes is da bomb.
From the Guardian, since at least they have a different set of biases from the US media:
Guardian Unlimited | World Latest | Lawyer Seeks Conviction OverturnNEW YORK (AP) - A lawyer for three young men convicted in the notorious rape of a Central Park jogger more than a decade ago said he will seek to overturn their guilty verdicts.
The lawyer, Michael Warren, is expected to argue at a hearing on Monday that new DNA evidence and a confession by another man could exonerate the three, who have served their sentences in the 1989 attack that left a young investment banker near death.
Warren said in a motion filed in state court last week that no physical evidence linked his clients to the crime.
In the motion, first reported in Wednesday in the Daily News, Warren said [Matias Reyes,] a 31-year-old convicted murderer and rapist confessed to stalking and raping the woman as she ran across Central Park.
Reyes' name, not mentioned in the Guardian, appears in the CBS News/AP story on this. Both maintain the polite fiction about not knowing who Patricia Meili is, but whatever.
The CBS story also notes:
The New York Daily News reported that lab tests have shown that genetic material in the rape matches Reyes' DNA.In a jailhouse confession, Reyes claimed that he alone stalked and raped the jogger, raising questions about the guilt of five Harlem teens who were convicted of assaulting her.
[. . . Attorney Michael] Warren said in a motion filed in Manhattan State Supreme Court last week that no physical evidence linked his clients to the crime and that confessions they made to police were obtained through "the most abhorrent form of physical duress."
[. . .] The News also reported Thursday that the victim, who has remained anonymous all these years, will identify herself in a memoir to be published next spring by Charles Scribner's Sons.
You can see the Daily News story itself too, if you're interested. It tosses out this little fact, which I hadn't noticed in the previous two articles:
Reyes cannot be prosecuted for the attack because the statute of limitations has expired.
Which is fine. The others can't get back the years they spent in prison for a crime they, apparently, did not commit. Everybody wins.
Ok, two people might get that reference. . .
The Rolling Thunder tour arrives today in Minnesota -- Harriet Island in St. Paul, to be precise. Admission as in free, entertainment as in:Fishbone
"Combining equal parts of deep funk, high-energy punk, and frantic ska, the Los Angeles-based Fishbone was one of the most distinctive and eclectic alternative rock bands of the late '80s. With their hyperactive, self-conscious diversity, goofy sense of humor, and sharp social commentary, the group gained a sizable cult following."- Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
Medusa
Widely heralded as the Queen of Underground Hip Hop, MEDUSA'S innovative style of blending old school funk with profound lyricism has given rise to comparisons with such artists as: Lauryn Hill, Gil-Scott Heron, MeShell NdegeOcello, Chuck-D, and Erykah Badu. Winner of the Rap Sheet Emcee World Championship - if Aretha is the "Queen of Soul", MEDUSA is the "High Priestess" of Hip Hop.
There's also a group called the Audrey Hornes. You may now groan and throw beer bottles at the band; the chicken wire should catch most of 'em.
There's also politics, as in workshops and:
National Speakers
Jim Hightower, Barbara Ehrenreich, Cornel West, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney, Tom Hayden & Granny D, US Senator Paul Wellstone and US Rep. Betty McCollum.
Am very, very tempted, even if my Congressperson, Jesse Jackson, Jr., ain't appearing at this stop. We'll see.
Going would involve public transportation. The State Fair is still going on. Plus, progressive Minnesotans are still, ultimately, Minnesotans. So I'd probably end the day in custody. . .