Saturday, October 31, 2009
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Why I Respect Some Professors and Loathe Others...
ANTH 2010: This has become my surprise class of the semester... I just knew I was going to HATE this class but it's actually kinda dope... my professor is kinda weird (but what anthropology professor is all the way normal?) Well we had a test today... I know I failed... like, literally, I failed... I just don't know how bad... I was sick all last week so I missed two classes which was pretty much 40% of the test... it's my own fault... I wasn't dedicated to getting the missed notes... no biggie... but I had one of those times where you don't remember something until you leave... like "ARRGH!! I remember the answer to number three now! Fuck!" But of course at that point it's too late... and I thought we had another test before the final but we don't... which means, there will only be three grades... the 'C' I got on the first exam, this 'F' and the final... which sucks because I'll basically have to ace that shit... but it is what it is... I gotta do whatever it takes to pass these classes...
SPAN 1004: This is by far my least favorite class... because there was a point in time where I really wanted to learn Spanish and become fluent in it... so I studied, made sure that I really worked hard to verb tenses down and whatnot... so when it came down to the test, it wasn't that big a deal because I was already devoted to learning the language anyway... I've gotten to the point now where I just really don't care though... and since I don't care, I really loathe this class... and the professor doesn't make it any easier... usually, I spend time writing poems or just random bullshit... anything to make the time pass... so today, I actually wanted to be a part of class... I paid attention... followed along in the book and was actively trying to do the work... so when she called on me, I actually surprised her by knowing the answer because usually I'm on some "damn, why she just call on me...? I ain't payin' attention" type shit... so the second time she called on me, I was still paying attention but I just didn't know the answer... I had been doing everything on my laptop and I asked the girl next to me what a word meant and she called me out like I wasn't paying attention... talkin' about "Greg, you need to put that laptop up if it doesn't have anything to do with Spanish..." so now, couple the fact that I don't know the answer, it looks like I'm talking in class and I got my laptop open and you got a moment that's making me look stupid... and I don't like to look stupid... it just made me feel wack... like I know I'm not doing a good job at setting the scene but she just made me feel like an ass even though I was genuinely trying to do my work... but it's all gravy... trust and believe, next Tuesday, I'll be on my slacker shit and then I won't have to worry about feeling offended...
ANTH 3002: This class is almost always boring... LOL... I mean, there's just too much reading and too much of these same repeated information over and over... today wasn't too terrible... in fact, it was kinda dope... I turned in some work online on Tuesday but the professor said she didn't have a grade for me... now where the average professor would've been on some "well, I don't believe you... just get it to me... I'll take some points off but at least I'll take it..." this professor was cool about it... I just resubmitted it and she said she wouldn't take points off...
ENGL 3830: This is my play-writing class... I've tried just about every type of genre of writing and this was the only one I hadn't really explored... I didn't think I was all that great at it but today my professor (who's had plays and screenplays published) was like "I love your writing... if you need a letter of recommendation then just let me know... I'd be happy to do it..." HOW DOPE IS THAT? I mean, I know people get LOR's like it's nothing but I've never had a professor just straight come out to me like that like "if you need something, I got you..."
But anyway, that was my day... and I wish I could say I don't have to think about school again until next Tuesday but I have a Spanish test, three essays to work out, lots of homework and a bunch of other things to take care of... until next time, blogfam...
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Double-You-Tee-Eff #101
Eric Williamson was making coffee in his kitchen Monday morning and didn’t thing anything of the fact that he was nude since he was alone in the house, according to WTTG-TV.
But a woman and her 7-year-old son happened to be strolling through his front yard and saw the 29-year-old having breakfast in the buff through his window.
They called the cops on Williamson and he was arrested for indecent exposure, according to the Fox station.
The man argued that he had no idea he could be seen, but cops believe he wanted people to see him like that.
“If I stood and seemed comfortable in my kitchen, it’s natural. It’s my kitchen,” Williamson told the station.
He faces a year in jail and a $2,000 fine, but plans to fight the charge.
People kill me... it's my fucking house? How you gonna charge ME for being naked in my own place? If I can't be naked in my own house, where am I supposed to be naked at? Why is it a crime to be naked anyway? I mean it's one thing if I'm walking around forcibly imposing my nakedness on others who don't want to partake of it, chasing hoes down the street with my balls flapping and shit... but if I'm just sitting outside naked getting some sun and chillin', drinking Henny Punch and wings and people watching, let me be... and if I'm eating some Crunch Berries INSIDE my house, I don't wanna hear a motherfucking thing... I pay the bills in this bitch... come in here and MAKE me put some clothes on... silly ass fucks... I'm just sayin'...
Monday, October 26, 2009
"This Too Shall Pass..."
"One day Solomon decided to humble Benaiah Ben Yehoyada, his most trusted minister. He said to him, "Benaiah, there is a certain ring that I want you to bring to me. I wish to wear it for Sukkot which gives you six months to find it." "If it exists anywhere on earth, your majesty," replied Benaiah, "I will find it and bring it to you, but what makes the ring so special?" "It has magic powers," answered the king. "If a happy man looks at it, he becomes sad, and if a sad man looks at it, he becomes happy." Solomon knew that no such ring existed in the world, but he wished to give his minister a little taste of humility. Spring passed and then summer, and still Benaiah had no idea where he could find the ring. On the night before Sukkot, he decided to take a walk in one of the poorest quarters of Jerusalem. He passed by a merchant who had begun to set out the day's wares on a shabby carpet. "Have you by any chance heard of a magic ring that makes the happy wearer forget his joy and the broken-hearted wearer forget his sorrows?" asked Benaiah. He watched the grandfather take a plain gold ring from his carpet and engrave something on it. When Benaiah read the words on the ring, his face broke out in a wide smile. That night the entire city welcomed in the holiday of Sukkot with great festivity. "Well, my friend," said Solomon, "have you found what I sent you after?" All the ministers laughed and Solomon himself smiled. To everyone's surprise, Benaiah held up a small gold ring and declared, "Here it is, your majesty!" As soon as Solomon read the inscription, the smile vanished from his face. The jeweler had written three Hebrew letters on the gold band: gimel, zayin, yud, which began the words "Gam zeh ya'avor" -- "This too shall pass." At that moment Solomon realized that all his wisdom and fabulous wealth and tremendous power were but fleeting things, for one day he would be nothing but dust."
So keep that in mind people... whether things are going good right now, don't forget it could all be taken away in a flash... and if things are going badly, don't dwell on it... find peace in the fact that it'll be over before you know it... inspirational words from your boy...
Be easy!
Being Sick Fucking Sucks...
Whenever I see ads on television that say, "These are not paid actors," my first thought is, "these are some paid fucking actors..." LOL I mean, they kill me with that whole "I've been using this product for twenty years and it's great!" How the fuck you been using it for twenty years when the commercials just started hittin' in August? They just been shipping you this shit for free before they figured "hey, we can make a profit off this stuff!" Fuck outta here...
Why is Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup so fucking gross?The noodles are terrible and I'm still not convinced that's fucking chicken... I've had chicken about as many ways as a person can have it and I ain't never seen anything that looks like this supposed chicken in this incredibly wack soup... (that cheese, broccoli and potato is where it's at anyway... yessur)
My Panthers lost again today... to the fucking Buffalo Bills... I hope we keep losing at this point because playoffs aren't going to happen and I'd much rather us get a high-quality QB in the draft...
I broke my phone today... I'll spare you all the details but let's just say I got kinda heated and threw it down some steps... also... if anybody knows how to fix a fist-sized hole in the wall can you help a brotha out? I really gotta get that taken care of...
I really want to be a massage therapist... well, I want to take the classes but I don't plan on really massaging anybody but I think it's cool to have that on your resume...
Has anybody seen that commercial about the two hillbillies bathing together outside in a "hot tub"? Shit's mad disturbing...
I think I'm going to go back to drinking a gallon of water a day again... this dehydration is not the biz and I don't wanna go through this again...
53 days until graduation, B... it's LITERALLY been a long time coming... just can't wait for the day (plus it's my mom's birthday... what better gift than that?)
Speaking of moms, we had the best conversation we've had in a really long time... it was about 40 minutes and wasn't about anything in particular... just chopped it up, laughed and had a good talk... it was cool... hopefully it can be like that from now on...
Did anybody else realize that Thanksgiving is like 3-4 weeks away? That's bananas...
I don't know how many people watch The Next Iron Chef but there's dude on there with tattoo sleeves and a white G-Shock and I'm hoping he wins for no other purpose other than that... LOL... plus duke lies to the judges just to build up his dish a little more... how can you not like a dude that does that? (Pause)
Nick at Nite has until January to drop this Nanny bullshit or I'm done with the entire channel... period...
I'm not sure how this is gonna make me sound... but I'm really hoping BET picks The Game (the tv show) back up and keeps the original cast... any other variation is gonna be wack...
I want some breakfast... ya'll be easy...
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
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Sunday, October 18, 2009
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Friday, October 16, 2009
Double-You-Tee-Eff #100
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A woman being driven around in a rented limousine pulled up at a coat store and announced she’d won the lottery and would pay for everyone’s purchases, police said, but she ended up causing a riot when customers realized it was a hoax.
Angry customers threw merchandise around and looted, leaving the store looking as though a hurricane had passed through it, police said.
Linda Brown was arrested Tuesday after an hours-long shopping spree that began when she hired a stretch Hummer limousine to drop her off at a Burlington Coat Factory store, police Sgt. Lt. Michael Deakins said. Brown walked to a cash register and loudly announced she had won the lottery and would pay for each person’s merchandise up to $500, he said.
“Well, of course, people like to hear that,” Deakins said. “Apparently they were in line calling relatives who were not at the store and told them to come.”
People flooded the registers as cashiers began ringing up purchase after purchase, but Brown had not yet paid the bill, Deakins said. At least 500 people filled the aisles and another 1,000 were outside trying to get in, he said.
“She was telling people she won $1.5 million,” Deakins said. “But it ends up she didn’t win anything. She had no money to pay for anything.”
About an hour later, Brown had the limousine driver take her to a bank to withdraw money, but she returned empty-handed, police Detective Steven Nace said. By then, store employees had called in two dozen police officers to handle the crowds.
Shopper Candace Jordan said she told Brown she didn’t need clothes, she needed help paying her rent.
“And she said, ‘How much is it?”‘ Jordan told WBNS-TV. “And she promptly wrote out a check.”
By the time employees realized Brown didn’t have any cash to pay, police said, she already had taken off in the limo.
That’s when angry customers, realizing they weren’t getting free coats, began throwing merchandise on the floor and grabbing clothes without paying for them, Nace said.
“Everybody was like, ‘I still want my free stuff,’ and that started the riot,” he said. “It looks like (Hurricane) Katrina went through the store.”
Police said they have no way of tracking down the customers who stole items and fled, but they’re reviewing surveillance video.
When the limousine driver realized he wasn’t going to be paid the $900 Brown owed him for the day’s rental, he turned her in to police, Deakins said.
Brown, 44, was arrested on three outstanding warrants for aggravated menacing, misuse of a 911 system and causing false alarms. She was jailed late Wednesday, but no charges had been filed against her related to the coat store chaos pending a mental health evaluation.
Police said they didn’t know if Brown had a lawyer. No telephone number was listed under her name, and no one answered repeated phone calls at the Franklin County Jail.
I'm sorry but that's funny as hell to me... LMAO!
Let's Take a Trip Down Memory Lane...
“I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some people out there in our nation don’t have maps, and, uh, I believe that our education, like such as in South Africa and The Iraq — everywhere like such as — and I believe that they should, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., or should help South Africa, and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future, for us…”
Awesomeness...
Random Thoughts...
So for the longest time, Nicole's ringtone for me has been "Smoking Gun" by Jadakiss... it was just the part with Jazmine Sullivan singing so I always thought it was a love song... I heard the whole song a week ago and it's a terrible song... LOL... it's about this girl's dad raping her and shit... LOL... just think it's abizarre ringtone to have for your boyfriend...
I'm trying to get my waves back... as a 24-year-old male, I understand how this makes me look (vain) but I can't help it... my waves weren't even all that dope when I had them but I just liked the way I looked with them... hopefully, this time around, I'll stick with them... *CURRENTLY WOLFING*
It's homecoming around ECU and it really doesn't feel like it... like when I was living in Greensboro, A&T's homecoming shut down the motherfucking city... LITERALLY... LOL... if you wanted to get into a party, you could find one in ten seconds... here in Greenville, though, it's just a wack atmosphere... there's no excitement in the air... the few parties I have heard about don't sound all that exciting... I mean, I know it's because I'm at a PWI (Predominantly White Institution) but still... you would think Homecoming would be more than an afterthought...
Why do people always hit you with crazy discounts when you have NO money? In the past week, I've gotten discount codes from Eastbay, Capcity and Karmaloop for 25, 15 and 50% off respectively... how wack is that? When I had gwap everything was full-price... how unfair is the universe?
"Get at Me Dog" STILL goes hard!
So every weekend I've gone out of town to visit Mrs. Hard Work, my good friend Lela will call/text wanting to hang out... but when I'm in town, she's NOWHERE to be found... I've already sent her the text telling her I'll be in town this weekend... let's see if she shows up... (I'm not holding my breath)
Double steak and double provolone cheese is the ONLY way to do sandwiches at Subway... trust me...
I bought this 5-hour Energy like three weeks ago but I'm scared to take it because I feel like I'm going to go into cardiac arrest or some shit...
If you can't afford to take a girl out on a date, why are you asking? Why not just wait until your money's right? Chances are she's not going anywhere by the time you get paid... quit stressing and going broke just because she wants to go to Red Lobster...
I don't understand the point of videos on YouTube having "embedding disabled by user" It's just fucking dumb... if I can watch it on YouTube, why can't I just watch it somewhere else... it's not like ya'll getting paid by me watching it (because Lord knows I'm not clicking on those silly ass ads ya'll put up)
Soulja Boy and Rosa Acosta are getting married? WTF?
I need a dope metaphor for fellatio... I've been thinking about one for weeks but I can't come up with anything without it being too abstract... and to me, it's really no point in a metaphor for fellatio if nobody knows what you're talking about...
I think it's interesting that a woman will always call me (obviously a man) to complain about men... doesn't that seem a bit ass-backwards?
I'm out of soap...
I seriously can't wait to graduate just so I can spend weekends walking around in my boxers... wearing sweats and/or basketball shorts is becoming slightly annoying to me for some reason...
When it comes to the lottery, who's in charge of all that money? Like who's the dude that's dispersing the checks? I bet homie is always "magically" coming up with winning tickets... Lord knows I would... every Friday like clockwork... "Oh shit, another $40,000 winner for your boy!"
What is the male equivalent to "who gonna check me, boo?" I need to know...
Speaking of Nene, am I the only one who thinks she's bad? I mean the other ones are just too skinny for me... Nene is stacked, B!
I've found an alternative to cleaning my room: I just move the mess from place to place until it's in a position that I don't have to continuously look at it... it saves me a lot of time...
Did Foxy Brown get titty implants? I swear she was looking breastfully-enhanced in the latest pics I've seen of her...
I have no winter clothes... hopefully it doesn't get REALLY cold for a few more months...
After Twitter dies out, what's going to be the next dope social network?
I didn't think Dom Kennedy was all that dope when I first heard him, but dude has really grown on me (or maybe he's just gotten better? *shrugs*) I'm ready for some more videos...
Am I the only one who misses Ja Rule? (Pause) Dude made dope music regardless of what niggas think of him... and where's Redman for that matter?
Thursday, October 15, 2009
New Name and New Piece
veRBoSe
That's dope right? For my vocabulary-challenged folk verbose means "using or containing a great and usually excessive number of words..." and that is me to a T... the first poem I ever spit went WAAAAAAAAAY over the 3-minute time limit... and I find that most of my poems are usually about that same length so I think it fits me perfect... if you're wondering why the R, B and S are capitalized it's because it stands for "Real Brothas Spit" so I think I'm SETTLED finally... I don't plan on making any more changes to the stage name...
Now that we got that out the way, I've been writing like CRAZY since the poetry slam back in September and I've written about eight or nine different pieces with another twenty (yes, twenty LOL) in the works... but here's a piece I spit tonight at the W.o.M. meeting... to my surprise it was well received (I am TRULY my own worst critic) but I'm still not completely finished with it... just wanted to throw it up for my poetry fans out there... I always welcome feedback... I am by no means, a professional poet... I'm barely an amateur so I want to get better any way I can... ok, enough talking... here's the piece...
It's a response to a few videos and events, most directly this one:
“I am Not a Righteous Man”
I am not a righteous man
I drink whole bottles of 151 on random Wednesday afternoons, smoke a lot of weed and watch entirely too much pornography
Like I said, I’m not a righteous man, but
When I see something I need to speak on, I speak on it...
Derrion Albert was killed in broad daylight on September 24 with dozens of witnesses in Chicago and it was caught on videotape
Let me repeat that:
A sixteen year old was MURDERED in broad FUCKING daylight with DOZENS of witnesses catching the footage on VIDEOTAPE…
It’s an amazing irony when you consider that my first reaction to violence IS violence
The rage that builds inside my ribcage overflows like volcanoes
Putting pen to page is not helping quell this anger but to do anything other than this would be a
Sad misjudgment of character on my part… but
Lord knows had it been my brother, sister, cousin, or best friend
These assholes wouldn’t have the pleasure of a life sentence in prison…
There would be hearts ripped out, crushed windpipes, nose bones pushed into brain stems, eye sockets filled with heated battery acid
I would grant them the one opportunity they’d been searching for: to prove how hard they were
There would be wrath inflicted beyond comprehension that no video game or movie would dare showand
As an act of fairness between good and evil, I’d go medieval on these motherfuckers…
But I digress…
I’m tired of news stories that begin with murdered elementary students walking home from school and raped 19-year-old nursing majors who deal with mental anguish by lacerating wrists
It’s the world’s fault for mass-creating this obsession with all things ugly and hateful
I’m tired of news bulletins full of useless suspect descriptions
“Looking for a black male, 16 to 35, 5-6 to 6-5, light-skinned or dark-skinned wearing a t-shirt and jeans…” That’s every male in this fucking room! And
Now there is mass hysteria and all that does is cause us all to be disrespected and hemmed up for being black and walking down the street and
I’m so sick of mothers excusing their children’s actions
Acting like he’s not a bad kid even though he just killed somebody with his bare hands
If taking someone’s life doesn’t make you bad, then what the hell does?
My mind grows weary
Hearing about neglected 12-year-olds by way of 12-hour work shifts
I understand that it’s necessary sometimes but
You are doing your child a disastrous disservice if you work three jobs to keep lights on but don’t use that same illumination to illuminate your child’s mind by reading to them
We’re now in a state of emergency where women are afraid to have sons because they don’t want to raise gangsters
The dreams of Martin and Langston have imploded upon themselves and now the world has convinced us to choke hope like ropes around the throats of Tuscaloosa slave descendants
Black people, get your shit together!
Let me know what you think...
Peace and blessings,
Your boy veRBoSe
Worst. Twist. Ever.
So today, I'm over at IMDb and I got a chance to read the synopsis...
You mean to tell me this 9-year-old is really a 33-year-old psychotic woman with hypopituitarism?! You gotta be fucking kidding me... that was the best ending they could come up with? It would have been so much better if she had been like an alien or a ghost or something... LOL... why would a 33-year-old want to be adopted by a family just so she can kill them? It doesn't make any sense... And to all you people who wouldn't tell me, expect to be Rock-Bottomed the next time I see you by making me wait all this time instead of just telling me about this silly ass twist... ridiculousness...
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
My Dude Went IN!!!
Ok, so he didn't... lol... but I still thought it was funny (not because they were calling him a homo) just because of his reactions... he reminds me of this dude from elementary school that I knew named Joel... dude would always react like this... like, he's mad but you just really can't take him seriously... LOL... except Joel was crazy... I think he killed a dude... non-fiction...
Updates, Updates, Updates...
As you all probably know, it's been like two weeks since I last threw up a blog so allow me to update you all:
I haven't really been doing anything in particular... ummmmmm... writing and class of course, but nothing that's necessarily kept me from blogging... sometimes, you just gotta take a break...
I've really been digging this Kings of Leon CD I got the other day... they're a rock group from Tennessee and I don't know if I'm late or early on them, but their music is incredibly dope and I'm not even a rock music type dude...
I won two games of Madden yesterday with the Titans so I think they might be my new go-to team... anybody who wants the biz can hit me up on XBL: hardwork919 (I'm only mentioning this because lately I've been on a bit of a losing streak... LOL)
I saw this Capricorn thing on Facebook and I think it fits me (except the "sassy" part... can a dude be sassy? LOL... isn't that kinda like being called "zesty"?) Love to bust. Nice. Sassy. Intelligent. Sexy. Predict future. Irrestible, awesome kisser. Loves being in long relationships. Great talker. Always gets what he or she wants. BY FAR the BEST in BED. Very sexy. Coolest. Loves to own Gemini's in sports. Extremely fun. Loves to joke. Loves to be your first so you'll never forget. Smart.
Been writing crazy since the poetry slam (I got 5th place) and I'm determined to do my thing the next time we have one... I think I took a step in the right direction last week when I won the haiku battle... I got a crazy reaction from the group on a few so it lets me know that my writing has really developed... (just gotta work on the performance part and I should be golden... LOL) I really want to try and do poetry as a career if I can... or at least in the creative realm... I don't want to be one of those people who had a chance to do something but passed on it because they didn't think it was something they could make a living doing... but we'll see...
I'm working on something HUGE for the blog that should debut early next year... I'm really excited about it and as it comes closer to fruitiion, I'll drop all the details... I told Lela and Christina and a few others that I still want to make it to 1500 blogs this year and I'm still well within that goal so don't be surprised if there's a huge influx of blogs the next few days...
Until next time, ya'll be easy...