The Responsibility.
Is Heavy.
It Might Not.
Be An Uzi.
But.
It Weighs A Ton.
Stop.
And Ponder That.
For A Moment.
You Spit Those Words.
With.
The Reckless Aim.
That An Uzi.
Would Do.
With Hollow Points.
You Toss Them.
And.
Hope They Hit.
Each And Everyone.
Of Us.
And.
They Always Do.
And.
Always Have.
Then Pen.
Has Always.
Been Mightier.
Then Your Overused.
Metaphors.
That Flow Forth.
From The Cannon.
You Call Free Speech.
The Destruction.
Might Not.
Be Visible.
From The Distance.
You Launch Your Cannon.
But.
Know Just This.
The Brains.
Are More Desecrated.
Then.
Afghanistan.
And.
Our Financial System.
More Over.
Our Faith.
In Ourselves.
Is Lost.
You No Longer.
Know What Your Value Is.
For You.
It Might Be A Benz.
But For Others.
It Might Be.
Rent Or A Sandwich.
To Say.
The Things You Have.
Y'all Should All Get Lynched.
N.Y.Oil was right.
And.
So Is Jay..
Y'all Idiots Is Targets.
Garages For Bullets.
Please Don't Make Me.
Park It In Your Upper Level.
Valet A Couple Strays.
From A 38 Special.
Idiot God Bless You.
And.
Thats.
Why I Am Here.
Shoot You.
With Knowledge.
And.
Hope You Die.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Sincere Ignorance
This was an issue that i had with 7-11 just right before i moved and closed on my house. so here you go, this is the email i sent 7-11 corporation, and they have not responded to me, to let me know what was done. i even invited the guy in charge of the case to my house after he responded to me the first time to show him the neighborhood. so here you go.......and that was the title of my complaint was Sincere Ignorance.
Both of these two employees displayed what i fear most and
what Dr. King said is the destroying our lives. "nothing in this world
is more dangerous then sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
It was nice that the middle aged lady recognized us from the night
before. he have been coming to this location frequently enough for over
last year, and we told her we weren't sure how much we would be back
after this week and she asked why. we told her we were buying a house in
South Pullman.
She immediately had a look of horror on her face, and told us that
people get shot over there all the time. My wife and i kept explaining
to her that this is the good part of the Pullman area, she kept
insisting that drive-bys happen in my neighborhood and i told her that
it was impossible for that to happen right where i lived, she continued
to display an obscene amount of ignorance.
She kept on saying it as though were certain truth, when i asked her to
name the specific area, she could not. She was going off of what the
Police officers have told her that patronize this particular location. I
kept explaining to her that happens literally on the other side of the
tracks, and also happens in Beverly, Morgan Park and even Evergreen
Park. She insisted in her sincere ignorance.
The only reason why she felt comfortable telling us these things is
because we are White. My father-in-law grew up in that area many years
ago and also likes the neighborhood we are moving to. Nothing is ever
perfect and nothing is ever certain, except one thing at the exact
moment.
I will never be back to this location ever again, and i will make sure
that every last person i meet, i tell them not to go to this location.
I let both of the ladies on duty tonight know this after I stepped
outside to get in my car, I kept telling the middle aged lady that I
could not continue this conversation with her.
I step outside of the store to get into the car with my wife, and then i
went back into the store to let them know that i would not ever be back.
The older lady proceeded in her own self righteous sincere ignorance to
tell me, "that's okay you are only one customer." i then told her "i may
be only one, but my influence is many." she continued to say that is
okay.
Well here i am as only one customer, about to post this on the internet
to let those know about this store. So, i just thought i would share it
with you folks first and if nothing is done to rectify this situation, i
will post this on my blog and link it to a lot of different sites.
Marginalization means that none of us are equal.
Sincerely,
Michael P. Bliss
Both of these two employees displayed what i fear most and
what Dr. King said is the destroying our lives. "nothing in this world
is more dangerous then sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
It was nice that the middle aged lady recognized us from the night
before. he have been coming to this location frequently enough for over
last year, and we told her we weren't sure how much we would be back
after this week and she asked why. we told her we were buying a house in
South Pullman.
She immediately had a look of horror on her face, and told us that
people get shot over there all the time. My wife and i kept explaining
to her that this is the good part of the Pullman area, she kept
insisting that drive-bys happen in my neighborhood and i told her that
it was impossible for that to happen right where i lived, she continued
to display an obscene amount of ignorance.
She kept on saying it as though were certain truth, when i asked her to
name the specific area, she could not. She was going off of what the
Police officers have told her that patronize this particular location. I
kept explaining to her that happens literally on the other side of the
tracks, and also happens in Beverly, Morgan Park and even Evergreen
Park. She insisted in her sincere ignorance.
The only reason why she felt comfortable telling us these things is
because we are White. My father-in-law grew up in that area many years
ago and also likes the neighborhood we are moving to. Nothing is ever
perfect and nothing is ever certain, except one thing at the exact
moment.
I will never be back to this location ever again, and i will make sure
that every last person i meet, i tell them not to go to this location.
I let both of the ladies on duty tonight know this after I stepped
outside to get in my car, I kept telling the middle aged lady that I
could not continue this conversation with her.
I step outside of the store to get into the car with my wife, and then i
went back into the store to let them know that i would not ever be back.
The older lady proceeded in her own self righteous sincere ignorance to
tell me, "that's okay you are only one customer." i then told her "i may
be only one, but my influence is many." she continued to say that is
okay.
Well here i am as only one customer, about to post this on the internet
to let those know about this store. So, i just thought i would share it
with you folks first and if nothing is done to rectify this situation, i
will post this on my blog and link it to a lot of different sites.
Marginalization means that none of us are equal.
Sincerely,
Michael P. Bliss
Monday, August 17, 2009
Poem for my Wife
Accepting Mortality.
Scary.
That it is to be.
Sacred to know such truth.
Honoring all of those that passed.
Bee's face the fate of all.
God calls us his.
His we are.
His we will be.
One Day.
Not this Day.
Perhaps.
I Live.
I Love.
Often Over Extrapolated.
I think therefore I am.
Simple.
Life calls.
God Calls.
I Am.
As are you.
Me.
We.
Us.
Eternal.
Scary.
That it is to be.
Sacred to know such truth.
Honoring all of those that passed.
Bee's face the fate of all.
God calls us his.
His we are.
His we will be.
One Day.
Not this Day.
Perhaps.
I Live.
I Love.
Often Over Extrapolated.
I think therefore I am.
Simple.
Life calls.
God Calls.
I Am.
As are you.
Me.
We.
Us.
Eternal.
Saturday, August 15, 2009
I remember 9-11
The day of terror was alive and horrible.
I remember feeling sad and confused.
As to why anyone would want to hurt the innocent.
So horribly and with great efficiency.
I was much younger then.
I knew very little of the horrors that we did.
19 years before my time was not my forte.
8 years i grew and began to know.
News began to surface, movies told the stories.
The mighty US began to feel vulnerable.
Suffering from not being well liked.
We did our best to buy happiness and force feed democracy.
All to no gain.
We like to help a touch too late.
We like to help in way that is not just.
Sanctions hurt those, that we mean not.
Powerful corruption hurts those that are destitute.
Inequality breeds the hatred to do evil.
The wealthy exploit to do the deed they never would.
We in turn reciprocate.
In a pompous fashion.
Jesus is mentioned.
To the victor go the spoils.
On our own turf it may be.
Tis a cycle we must end.
At all cost.
The differences are not there.
Just what minds eye perceives.
We Wake.
We Break Fast.
We Drink.
We Laugh.
We Live.
We Love.
We Parish.
C'est la vie.
I remember feeling sad and confused.
As to why anyone would want to hurt the innocent.
So horribly and with great efficiency.
I was much younger then.
I knew very little of the horrors that we did.
19 years before my time was not my forte.
8 years i grew and began to know.
News began to surface, movies told the stories.
The mighty US began to feel vulnerable.
Suffering from not being well liked.
We did our best to buy happiness and force feed democracy.
All to no gain.
We like to help a touch too late.
We like to help in way that is not just.
Sanctions hurt those, that we mean not.
Powerful corruption hurts those that are destitute.
Inequality breeds the hatred to do evil.
The wealthy exploit to do the deed they never would.
We in turn reciprocate.
In a pompous fashion.
Jesus is mentioned.
To the victor go the spoils.
On our own turf it may be.
Tis a cycle we must end.
At all cost.
The differences are not there.
Just what minds eye perceives.
We Wake.
We Break Fast.
We Drink.
We Laugh.
We Live.
We Love.
We Parish.
C'est la vie.
Single Payer.
Health, Wealth and Love.
Wall Street health care.
Wealth, Greed and Die.
All costs point to no.
All costs point to yes.
Extreme polarization.
Inequality breeds contempt.
Even those that have and do not.
Government acting on the rules of the Lobbyist.
Lies.
Health, Wealth and Love.
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.
Wall Street health care.
Decisions for you.
You may not.
Uneducated Rhetoric.
Flows from the mouths.
Fools are they.
Health Care.
Privilege.
Given Right.
Life.
Pursuit of Happiness.
Fallacies remain.
Worlds best Treatment Centers.
Lacking.
Prevention Centers.
Answers remain.
All in a pill.
Wall street run health care.
No Mas.
Single Payer.
I will be.
Wall Street health care.
Wealth, Greed and Die.
All costs point to no.
All costs point to yes.
Extreme polarization.
Inequality breeds contempt.
Even those that have and do not.
Government acting on the rules of the Lobbyist.
Lies.
Health, Wealth and Love.
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.
Wall Street health care.
Decisions for you.
You may not.
Uneducated Rhetoric.
Flows from the mouths.
Fools are they.
Health Care.
Privilege.
Given Right.
Life.
Pursuit of Happiness.
Fallacies remain.
Worlds best Treatment Centers.
Lacking.
Prevention Centers.
Answers remain.
All in a pill.
Wall street run health care.
No Mas.
Single Payer.
I will be.
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
I Am Home.
In case you were wondering how Daralyn and I's trip went to the Dominican Republic, absolutely amazing to say the least, and not enough words to describe the joy that was this trip. if you want to find out everything, you really need to come visit Daralyn and I to explain all the complexities and awesomeness that was this trip, but i will leave with something i wrote on the Airplane before i landed into Miami from Santo Domingo, and it goes a little something like this.....
Everywhere, folks of all walks of life think that the grass is greener on the other side.
We all believe that truly, to a certain extent.
But, one thing for me, I like to stay planted and rooted in my imperfect yard.
My yard has dandelions, thistles, bare burnt patches, over walked and trampled areas.
Even the occasional bits of refuse that find it's way there.
It's important to get away and experience some else's green grass and the glistening dew.
Admire it's luster.
For a time.
And, think of the blades of grass as an amazing and lush lawn.
For a time.
But.
I love my burnt yard covered in weeds and burnt patches.
Rats and Possums that eat from my garbage can.
All the pollution and silly luxuries that i fill in my life.
But, one thing that remains.
Time spent with loved ones is the greatest gift of all.
Louie Armstrong said it best.
I see friends shaking hands saying "How do you do? They're really saying, I Love You."
Dorthy from Wizard of Oz says "There's no place like home."
Other might say "Home is where the heart is."
And, all three are right.
My heart belongs to God, Me and Daralyn.
So, no matter where I end up as long as God is above, I am alive and Daralyn is by my side.
I Am Home.
Everywhere, folks of all walks of life think that the grass is greener on the other side.
We all believe that truly, to a certain extent.
But, one thing for me, I like to stay planted and rooted in my imperfect yard.
My yard has dandelions, thistles, bare burnt patches, over walked and trampled areas.
Even the occasional bits of refuse that find it's way there.
It's important to get away and experience some else's green grass and the glistening dew.
Admire it's luster.
For a time.
And, think of the blades of grass as an amazing and lush lawn.
For a time.
But.
I love my burnt yard covered in weeds and burnt patches.
Rats and Possums that eat from my garbage can.
All the pollution and silly luxuries that i fill in my life.
But, one thing that remains.
Time spent with loved ones is the greatest gift of all.
Louie Armstrong said it best.
I see friends shaking hands saying "How do you do? They're really saying, I Love You."
Dorthy from Wizard of Oz says "There's no place like home."
Other might say "Home is where the heart is."
And, all three are right.
My heart belongs to God, Me and Daralyn.
So, no matter where I end up as long as God is above, I am alive and Daralyn is by my side.
I Am Home.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Wall Street run Health Insurance has failed....
Yep, and you know it. If you have health Insurance you know it has. if you would like to test this, go into the emergency room at a hospital right now and see how much you pay with out contacting your Insurance first, or go in, in an ambulance and notice the different level treatment received. I've been serviced both ways, and the one in the Ambulance was only slightly better.
I mean, with all of this talk about a government bureaucrat standing in my way of being treated by a doctor, i am scared. I'm scared that my existing Blue Cross Blue Shield bureaucrat won't be able to process my billing correctly the first time and then it will go to collections and continue to mar my credit score. I love the fact that if i can't pay a medical bill it messes up my credit, let me tell you how lucky i am to be an american with this health care system.
I've gone with out Insurance most of my adult life. since i was 20 i have had contiguous coverage for no more than one year at a time and that has only happened one time. I love the fact that i pay a premium every month and then get raped when i go to the doctor with co-pays, meds, deductibles and all other kinds of stupid shit.
I haven't understood how people can even act like our Health Care system is even remotely acceptable. I haven't been to a dentist since 2002, and it's not because i am afraid of the dentist it's the fact that i can't afford to go to one. why do i have to pay for an insurance premium and then in turn have to pay a co-pay or even worse a percentage.
People in this country have been duped. yes, yes you have. For some reason there are people out there who are screaming that people are abusing the system, but cannot name one person that they know who does that, that they know. I'm really saddened by peoples disinterest and apathy towards others and there plight, i'm not even a save a cause type of guy, i just know how much it sucks to wage whether or not to go the doctors, shit, i had shingles and debated about going to the doctor, because i didn't have health insurance, and there was the fact that I was working at Nordstrom at that time.
Why does Health Care in this country have to be treated like it is a Luxury to go to the doctors? all of my friends that don't have health care, work there asses off and still have no coverage. I've been there and if you think getting a job with good benefits will help you, wait until you get seriously ill. THEY HAVE MONETARY MAXIMUMS ON YOUR ASS, LOOK UP YOUR TOTAL LIFETIME MAXIMUM AND YOU WILL KNOW THAT YOU ARE FOR PROFIT.
I usually don't mind companies looking at me as walking dollar signs, but do have a big problem when it comes to my health. That seems like a total lack of propriety on there part, and for some reason we have been facing this problem since Nixon first introduced all of this bullshit with HMO's and PPO's that's right thank his ass for this crap.
The whole system of health care for profit is very very fucked up for lack of a better term. People shouldn't have to make life and death decisions when it comes to there health, and getting treatment and worry about there PPO canceling there policy. People always say the same shit when it comes to this fucking crap, but you know what, its usually dum dums that haven't had to with out Insurance as long as i have and have worked there ass off for as long as i have. now that i have insurance i hate them all the more.
I pay a premium, then i have co-pays, then i have deductibles, then i have medication co-pays, then i have percentages, i mean seriously, how much money am i going to shell out to these assholes? it was only recently that i was able to stop taking meds everyday, and my prescription drug habit has cost me at least close to 5K minimum since i started paying for my pills.
I was thinking of another incident that happened right around 4 years ago and it was one where i had food poisoning and passed out in someones front yard on my way walking to a friends house to help me out. An ambulance came by to help me out and i got in the ambulance and told them i didn't have insurance and had no way to pay for anything, i asked them could drop me off at my friends house and they obliged.
The really messed up part about that was the fact that i actually needed to be hooked up to an I.V. to be hydrated, because of how sick i was. i vomited all over the back of the ambulance in the two block ride to my friends place. the really fucked up part was the fact that they didn't take me to the hospital because they new they wouldn't get paid, and neither would the hospital, and that the hospital would come after me for money that i didn't have.
I asked a psychiatrist why the pills were so expensive, and they were very honest with me, they told me the real reason is that they wine and dine the shit out of them and they get percentages of the amount of scripts they sell to people. they fly docs all over the country to resorts give them a lil slap and tickle and they push the newest shit.
This sounds so incredible let me tell you, I'm glad that i am treated as a profit margin and i am not treated as a human being. The most unfortunate thing about this whole health care fiasco is the fact that some how people think we have THE BEST HEALTH CARE IN THE WORLD and they really do drink from the piss of the insurance giant, glad to get scraps of shit coverage so they don't get fucked.
We as a collective nation need to stand up and say no more to Wall Street Run Health Care, because it has failed us completely. don't believe me, ask a War Vet, or any one who has been in an auto accident or had a serious illness.
Wall Street Health Care has left us in the wake of becoming drug addicts awaiting our next fix of instant gratification, just like the idiots on Wall Street, coked out douches awaiting there next ponzi scheme to fuck a lot people and leave them for dead.
I wish this could be more cheerful and happy, but hey, some of ya'll like being lied to, and i ain't that man. I HATE WALL STREET HEALTH CARE. won't more proof......read this shit and tell me how it feels.......http://web.mit.edu/cre/education/pini_blue-cross_blue-shield.html
I mean, with all of this talk about a government bureaucrat standing in my way of being treated by a doctor, i am scared. I'm scared that my existing Blue Cross Blue Shield bureaucrat won't be able to process my billing correctly the first time and then it will go to collections and continue to mar my credit score. I love the fact that if i can't pay a medical bill it messes up my credit, let me tell you how lucky i am to be an american with this health care system.
I've gone with out Insurance most of my adult life. since i was 20 i have had contiguous coverage for no more than one year at a time and that has only happened one time. I love the fact that i pay a premium every month and then get raped when i go to the doctor with co-pays, meds, deductibles and all other kinds of stupid shit.
I haven't understood how people can even act like our Health Care system is even remotely acceptable. I haven't been to a dentist since 2002, and it's not because i am afraid of the dentist it's the fact that i can't afford to go to one. why do i have to pay for an insurance premium and then in turn have to pay a co-pay or even worse a percentage.
People in this country have been duped. yes, yes you have. For some reason there are people out there who are screaming that people are abusing the system, but cannot name one person that they know who does that, that they know. I'm really saddened by peoples disinterest and apathy towards others and there plight, i'm not even a save a cause type of guy, i just know how much it sucks to wage whether or not to go the doctors, shit, i had shingles and debated about going to the doctor, because i didn't have health insurance, and there was the fact that I was working at Nordstrom at that time.
Why does Health Care in this country have to be treated like it is a Luxury to go to the doctors? all of my friends that don't have health care, work there asses off and still have no coverage. I've been there and if you think getting a job with good benefits will help you, wait until you get seriously ill. THEY HAVE MONETARY MAXIMUMS ON YOUR ASS, LOOK UP YOUR TOTAL LIFETIME MAXIMUM AND YOU WILL KNOW THAT YOU ARE FOR PROFIT.
I usually don't mind companies looking at me as walking dollar signs, but do have a big problem when it comes to my health. That seems like a total lack of propriety on there part, and for some reason we have been facing this problem since Nixon first introduced all of this bullshit with HMO's and PPO's that's right thank his ass for this crap.
The whole system of health care for profit is very very fucked up for lack of a better term. People shouldn't have to make life and death decisions when it comes to there health, and getting treatment and worry about there PPO canceling there policy. People always say the same shit when it comes to this fucking crap, but you know what, its usually dum dums that haven't had to with out Insurance as long as i have and have worked there ass off for as long as i have. now that i have insurance i hate them all the more.
I pay a premium, then i have co-pays, then i have deductibles, then i have medication co-pays, then i have percentages, i mean seriously, how much money am i going to shell out to these assholes? it was only recently that i was able to stop taking meds everyday, and my prescription drug habit has cost me at least close to 5K minimum since i started paying for my pills.
I was thinking of another incident that happened right around 4 years ago and it was one where i had food poisoning and passed out in someones front yard on my way walking to a friends house to help me out. An ambulance came by to help me out and i got in the ambulance and told them i didn't have insurance and had no way to pay for anything, i asked them could drop me off at my friends house and they obliged.
The really messed up part about that was the fact that i actually needed to be hooked up to an I.V. to be hydrated, because of how sick i was. i vomited all over the back of the ambulance in the two block ride to my friends place. the really fucked up part was the fact that they didn't take me to the hospital because they new they wouldn't get paid, and neither would the hospital, and that the hospital would come after me for money that i didn't have.
I asked a psychiatrist why the pills were so expensive, and they were very honest with me, they told me the real reason is that they wine and dine the shit out of them and they get percentages of the amount of scripts they sell to people. they fly docs all over the country to resorts give them a lil slap and tickle and they push the newest shit.
This sounds so incredible let me tell you, I'm glad that i am treated as a profit margin and i am not treated as a human being. The most unfortunate thing about this whole health care fiasco is the fact that some how people think we have THE BEST HEALTH CARE IN THE WORLD and they really do drink from the piss of the insurance giant, glad to get scraps of shit coverage so they don't get fucked.
We as a collective nation need to stand up and say no more to Wall Street Run Health Care, because it has failed us completely. don't believe me, ask a War Vet, or any one who has been in an auto accident or had a serious illness.
Wall Street Health Care has left us in the wake of becoming drug addicts awaiting our next fix of instant gratification, just like the idiots on Wall Street, coked out douches awaiting there next ponzi scheme to fuck a lot people and leave them for dead.
I wish this could be more cheerful and happy, but hey, some of ya'll like being lied to, and i ain't that man. I HATE WALL STREET HEALTH CARE. won't more proof......read this shit and tell me how it feels.......http://web.mit.edu/cre/education/pini_blue-cross_blue-shield.html
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
it's the end of the world.....
well, not exactly but for some they really think so, even in this whole financial meltdown where did that money go? i sure as hell have no idea. Unemployment is on the rise but not for much longer. i'm 27 and they keep saying 26 year high, as if our attention spans only span only go that far back, although for some its even shorter. e.i. the Clinton years were the best this nation has seen, in which that is a lie, because as a home owner the GWB years were the best for you, as long as you didn't get caught buying a home in 2005, 2006, 2007 now if you did and you put no money down and an A.R.M. then you are feeling the pinch.
I really don't think it can be called a depression in the least. 10% is a lot, but 90% is much larger number, and out of that the average unemployment is about 5% throughout our history. to say that we are in a depression is disingenuous to folks that lived and survived the depression, we won't have any of those characteristics that they endured. The dust bowl for one. but, one thing i am seeing that happened then, they are fixing streets like crazy and i couldn't be happier.
the other part of this is the fact that Money is not real. There is nothing tangible to back money, no gold standard, no anything, we could go back to using sea shells and it would be the same. Money is a perceived value anymore, actually that is all it has ever been. If gold was the standard, why didn't we trade in gold? It's just interesting that they keep saying 26 year high in unemployment, but the highest we have seen in the past 65 years was in 1982 with 10.2% unemployment. that is a higher figure, but we are already starting to see some corrections.
Its a real interesting thing to ponder how they even figure out our growth as a nation. our nations growth is based on how much we spend, i don't think that is a logical tool to even try to say that our nation is doing well. Do you really need that many flat screen TV's? is it really that big of a deal that Circuit City went out of business, or more i should say a surprise? I like to spend money and do it often, its just what do you spend it on.
Daralyn and i won't have a TV in our new house, we will have our laptops, but we will not have a big TV taking up space and what not. for the money you spend on a nice plasma screen TV, you can go to Puerto Rico, and learn first hand about the nation instead of just watching about it on TV. It's interesting what people put stock in, do you value possessions or do you value time spent with friends and family? I hope that more people in these times will make an effort to spend it with family, vs buying that 70" plasma.
sincerely,
Icy.
I really don't think it can be called a depression in the least. 10% is a lot, but 90% is much larger number, and out of that the average unemployment is about 5% throughout our history. to say that we are in a depression is disingenuous to folks that lived and survived the depression, we won't have any of those characteristics that they endured. The dust bowl for one. but, one thing i am seeing that happened then, they are fixing streets like crazy and i couldn't be happier.
the other part of this is the fact that Money is not real. There is nothing tangible to back money, no gold standard, no anything, we could go back to using sea shells and it would be the same. Money is a perceived value anymore, actually that is all it has ever been. If gold was the standard, why didn't we trade in gold? It's just interesting that they keep saying 26 year high in unemployment, but the highest we have seen in the past 65 years was in 1982 with 10.2% unemployment. that is a higher figure, but we are already starting to see some corrections.
Its a real interesting thing to ponder how they even figure out our growth as a nation. our nations growth is based on how much we spend, i don't think that is a logical tool to even try to say that our nation is doing well. Do you really need that many flat screen TV's? is it really that big of a deal that Circuit City went out of business, or more i should say a surprise? I like to spend money and do it often, its just what do you spend it on.
Daralyn and i won't have a TV in our new house, we will have our laptops, but we will not have a big TV taking up space and what not. for the money you spend on a nice plasma screen TV, you can go to Puerto Rico, and learn first hand about the nation instead of just watching about it on TV. It's interesting what people put stock in, do you value possessions or do you value time spent with friends and family? I hope that more people in these times will make an effort to spend it with family, vs buying that 70" plasma.
sincerely,
Icy.
Sunday, June 28, 2009
2 out of 3 agree that they stink.....
This is something that i have sitting on for a good while, it's my critique of the whole meltdown of 2 out of the 3 detroit auto companies. I remember thinking back to when i was about 12 years old looking at all of these new car lots and all of these fantastic new cars that came out year after year after year and began to wonder, who the hell is buying a new car every three years and why don't they slow don't production, i mean there really aren't that many NEW car buyers every year are there? and this is where i discovered they were all making bad decisions at the expense of EVERYONE.
Only ONE out of three makes smart decisions, and maybe that is the odds of what it comes down to with people in life anymore making good quality decisions. sad to think that it may be that way, but educators break there class rooms into thirds. 1/3 that really want to learn, 1/3 that kind of want to learn and lastly the 1/3 that just doesn't care.
those thirds break down simply. the first third is Ford Motor Company. that's right, the company that didn't invent anything great to the auto except total worker exploitation is on top....of the massive pile of shit that is the Detroit auto industry. Ford has been re-tooling for a good while dropping a lot of weight a long the way to make it's self more lean and a better company. Ford used to own part of Mazda, Aston Martin, Land Rover and Jaguar now they have no real stake in any of them.
the second 1/3 is GM, can't get it together and they also offer like also offer way too many of the same damn product across the board. why they kept Buick, Olds, Saturn, GMC, Saab, blah blah blah shit product for so long is beyond me. I stopped taking GM seriously when they did away with the Camero back in 2000. thats when i knew they didn't have me as a potential customer in mind in any way shape or form. they got addicted to making lost of product with NO REAL FEATURES.
the last of em is Chrysler. in the words of jay-z..WHAT MORE CAN I SAY!?!?!?!? damn, THE FIRST REAL AUTOMOBILE COMPANY EVER USED TO OWN A PORTION OF YOU. YOU MADE THEM LOSE LOTS AND LOTS OF MONEY TO WHERE THEY DUMPED YOU OFF ON MICHIGAN AND TRUMBLE OUTSIDE A PARTIALLY TORN DOWN TIGER STADIUM. how the hell you couldn't make that work was incredible. first off, you folks at Chrysler should have gone down in the early 80's if i remember, but somehow you got government financing to secure your habit of making crap vehicles. congrats on lasting this long, because you should no longer.
Any on to the meat of the subject. it's sad actually, because i really don't know too many people that really, really, really like the cars that the "3" make. i know most of my mom's family drive Toyota's. i know my sister drives one, so does my brother and my wife and i drive VW's, my father in-law drives a Toyota and i think this might be his 2nd or third. Most of the folks i know personally that drive auto's don't drive "American"(what ever that means. my car is serviced in the good ole US of A every time it needs a fixin.).
i gave up on GM a good while ago, when they decided to cancel the camero. i used to drive a Dodge Neon, and it was cool, but it was missing somethings like cruise control and ABS. somethings i would never even look at a car if it did not have it.
It's funny that people talk a lot of mess about all the crazy things that German's do to cars and how advanced they make there products. but, it wasn't that long ago that you didn't need to have seat belts in cars. it was not too long ago that airbags came standard in cars. now, ABS is the soon to be new standard as with ESP/ASR(electronic stability program and acceleration slip regulation) ALL of this stuff is STANDARD on German cars. All of those things i have mentioned are brought to you by the helpful folks in Deutchland.
If it wasn't for them you would still be driving a Pinto that might explode on a rear end collision. or the fact that you might still be wanting that big ole OLD's 454 in a car that doesn't have the suspension for it, or the the new ford excursion that is now 9" longer than the suburban!!!!!! it's those types of mistakes that bring in a lot of excess of bigger is better. i mean the bigger the house the better it's got to be right? the bigger the vehicle the better the quality of life you will be living right? if i can tow a C-141 it means that i have got to be living the American dream right?
exactly, welcome to the world of self delusion, instant gratification and confusing necessity with luxury. next chapter, why the cell phone industry will die off see you in 4 years for that one.
Only ONE out of three makes smart decisions, and maybe that is the odds of what it comes down to with people in life anymore making good quality decisions. sad to think that it may be that way, but educators break there class rooms into thirds. 1/3 that really want to learn, 1/3 that kind of want to learn and lastly the 1/3 that just doesn't care.
those thirds break down simply. the first third is Ford Motor Company. that's right, the company that didn't invent anything great to the auto except total worker exploitation is on top....of the massive pile of shit that is the Detroit auto industry. Ford has been re-tooling for a good while dropping a lot of weight a long the way to make it's self more lean and a better company. Ford used to own part of Mazda, Aston Martin, Land Rover and Jaguar now they have no real stake in any of them.
the second 1/3 is GM, can't get it together and they also offer like also offer way too many of the same damn product across the board. why they kept Buick, Olds, Saturn, GMC, Saab, blah blah blah shit product for so long is beyond me. I stopped taking GM seriously when they did away with the Camero back in 2000. thats when i knew they didn't have me as a potential customer in mind in any way shape or form. they got addicted to making lost of product with NO REAL FEATURES.
the last of em is Chrysler. in the words of jay-z..WHAT MORE CAN I SAY!?!?!?!? damn, THE FIRST REAL AUTOMOBILE COMPANY EVER USED TO OWN A PORTION OF YOU. YOU MADE THEM LOSE LOTS AND LOTS OF MONEY TO WHERE THEY DUMPED YOU OFF ON MICHIGAN AND TRUMBLE OUTSIDE A PARTIALLY TORN DOWN TIGER STADIUM. how the hell you couldn't make that work was incredible. first off, you folks at Chrysler should have gone down in the early 80's if i remember, but somehow you got government financing to secure your habit of making crap vehicles. congrats on lasting this long, because you should no longer.
Any on to the meat of the subject. it's sad actually, because i really don't know too many people that really, really, really like the cars that the "3" make. i know most of my mom's family drive Toyota's. i know my sister drives one, so does my brother and my wife and i drive VW's, my father in-law drives a Toyota and i think this might be his 2nd or third. Most of the folks i know personally that drive auto's don't drive "American"(what ever that means. my car is serviced in the good ole US of A every time it needs a fixin.).
i gave up on GM a good while ago, when they decided to cancel the camero. i used to drive a Dodge Neon, and it was cool, but it was missing somethings like cruise control and ABS. somethings i would never even look at a car if it did not have it.
It's funny that people talk a lot of mess about all the crazy things that German's do to cars and how advanced they make there products. but, it wasn't that long ago that you didn't need to have seat belts in cars. it was not too long ago that airbags came standard in cars. now, ABS is the soon to be new standard as with ESP/ASR(electronic stability program and acceleration slip regulation) ALL of this stuff is STANDARD on German cars. All of those things i have mentioned are brought to you by the helpful folks in Deutchland.
If it wasn't for them you would still be driving a Pinto that might explode on a rear end collision. or the fact that you might still be wanting that big ole OLD's 454 in a car that doesn't have the suspension for it, or the the new ford excursion that is now 9" longer than the suburban!!!!!! it's those types of mistakes that bring in a lot of excess of bigger is better. i mean the bigger the house the better it's got to be right? the bigger the vehicle the better the quality of life you will be living right? if i can tow a C-141 it means that i have got to be living the American dream right?
exactly, welcome to the world of self delusion, instant gratification and confusing necessity with luxury. next chapter, why the cell phone industry will die off see you in 4 years for that one.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
RIP Michael Jackson 1958-1995
you know, i have a lot of emotions when thinking about MJ, but the one thing that remains constant with me is Michael until 1995. Michael until 1995 was amazing, i never idolized him but i sure as hell did admire him. he could sing, command a song and really really entertain. I remember listening to The Jackson 5 as a kid and remember wearing my bothers Bad jacket as it got passed down to me. Mike was the man until 95.
Mike anytime after that got really strange it was horrible to see him become a caricature of the man he used to be, but maybe never was. I didn't know mike personally, and I'm not sure how many of you did. None of us know for sure whether or not that he actually did or did not molest those kids. I don't know him personally, but there was a lot of weird behavior exuded from him post 95.
I watched a man i admired to become this white ghoulish like creature and my thoughts on him began to change. Mike also stopped doing the thing that would win over anyone, making music. It's sad but if Mike continued to make music during that time he more than likely wouldn't have had any problems with the kids.
I digress. That is not what i want to focus on at all. what i do want to focus on is what do we really want to remember him or even ourselves when we die. I don't think I know anyone that actually knows MJ personally, and i mean personally. I don't know much accept what the media puts out there, and also put a few pieces of the puzzle together to draw my own conclusion.
It was just sad in the last almost 15 years that MJ became a sad story, but pretty much to his own demise to be perfectly honest. some of his public behavior was erratic and just blatantly disturbing, it was sad that you did not get to see the other half of the man, what ever that may have been post 95 MJ.
I think there are a lot of people saddened not by the fact that he is dead, but more the fact that they are part of the reason he was driven to seclusion and living in Bahrain for a few years. I don't think there are many people that can defend a good portion of his actions, because i would not even want to try. Is he a flawed character, yes, but did his music do good, more then he would have ever realized, and more than fans would have ever realized had he not died today.
It is sad that MJ sang a song that is so fitting for so many in our lives. one of the most powerful songs that changed many lives(including mine). I think it is sad that MJ could not pull it together and sing that song to him self. "I'm starting with the man in the mirror. I'm asking him to change his ways. No message could have been any clearer. If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and make the CHANGE."
RIP Michael Jackson. you will live on in infamy. Peace and thank you for all of your amazing art.
sincerely and respectively,
Icy Mike.
Mike anytime after that got really strange it was horrible to see him become a caricature of the man he used to be, but maybe never was. I didn't know mike personally, and I'm not sure how many of you did. None of us know for sure whether or not that he actually did or did not molest those kids. I don't know him personally, but there was a lot of weird behavior exuded from him post 95.
I watched a man i admired to become this white ghoulish like creature and my thoughts on him began to change. Mike also stopped doing the thing that would win over anyone, making music. It's sad but if Mike continued to make music during that time he more than likely wouldn't have had any problems with the kids.
I digress. That is not what i want to focus on at all. what i do want to focus on is what do we really want to remember him or even ourselves when we die. I don't think I know anyone that actually knows MJ personally, and i mean personally. I don't know much accept what the media puts out there, and also put a few pieces of the puzzle together to draw my own conclusion.
It was just sad in the last almost 15 years that MJ became a sad story, but pretty much to his own demise to be perfectly honest. some of his public behavior was erratic and just blatantly disturbing, it was sad that you did not get to see the other half of the man, what ever that may have been post 95 MJ.
I think there are a lot of people saddened not by the fact that he is dead, but more the fact that they are part of the reason he was driven to seclusion and living in Bahrain for a few years. I don't think there are many people that can defend a good portion of his actions, because i would not even want to try. Is he a flawed character, yes, but did his music do good, more then he would have ever realized, and more than fans would have ever realized had he not died today.
It is sad that MJ sang a song that is so fitting for so many in our lives. one of the most powerful songs that changed many lives(including mine). I think it is sad that MJ could not pull it together and sing that song to him self. "I'm starting with the man in the mirror. I'm asking him to change his ways. No message could have been any clearer. If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and make the CHANGE."
RIP Michael Jackson. you will live on in infamy. Peace and thank you for all of your amazing art.
sincerely and respectively,
Icy Mike.
Monday, June 22, 2009
God and YOU................
This is something i have been battling with for a good while now. it's the whole belief in a higher power, a supreme being, God if you will. I've thought long and hard, and thought about why people believe and then sat and picked apart the scabs that people show from there flaws with there direct connection with Christianity. i almost found my self in a spot to where i was so unhappy i almost convinced myself i was athiest(stupid i know). while getting to that point i found myself the ugliest and least like myself.
I just want to share a few things with you i have discovered about myself. most of my favorite memories involve the Concept of God pretty directly. I love classic Church Hymns, part of the reason i love classical music and part of the reason why i was in band and love to sing, it's also part of the reason why i love ALL music, was being in church all the time and hear the different keys, time signatures and all other sorts of stuff.
I love the outdoors. I love being out side i can thank Camp Mowana so much for that. being in nature, joining in song, comradeship and meeting some of the dopest people i have ever known to walk the earth...you know who you are, RIP Hippy Longstockings, you are an amazing soul. I love the feeling of being out in the open and getting away from the so called things we need, in which we don't need most of them.
I love my Wife. I owe a huge amount of gratitude to a lot of people and Daralyn is one of them. if it wasn't for her and i meeting, i wouldn't be writing this right now, seriously. Life just happens very strangely and you just need to be open to new experiences and not shut your brain down. take your headphones off and talk to the person next to you on the bus it might change your life, or you might laugh your ass off, which is just as good.
I love my family. I wouldn't be anywhere without them. seriously. to know me is to know a good portion of me, and to know my history. we all come from dysfunctional families it's time to grow up and move beyond the shit that happened when you were 3,4,5,6,13, etc...and start paving your own way.
I know most of this seems pretty vague but its not to convert, just to convey how happy the concept of God/Allah/Jesus has been in my life. while the complete and total REAL factor that so many people are after these days might be void, the same could be said for Lincoln, Gandhi, Harold(from harold and the purple crayon), the mouse from if you give a mouse a cookie. if those people can have a large effect on you with out them being physically present ever in your life, can you seriously debate the importance that they hold in your life. My Grandma Mick (pbuh) might not mean much to you, but she was amazing and you never got to meet her, but she is with me all the time.
the same could be said for God. I don't know him/directly but it has seemed to pave a pretty solid path for me. i hope that you can be as genuinely happy as i am, because to know that something as abstract as God can bring me so many amazing people in my life is awesome. i just hope you can get to the point where you stop picking other peoples scabs and start healing your own.
sincerely,
Icy Mike.
I just want to share a few things with you i have discovered about myself. most of my favorite memories involve the Concept of God pretty directly. I love classic Church Hymns, part of the reason i love classical music and part of the reason why i was in band and love to sing, it's also part of the reason why i love ALL music, was being in church all the time and hear the different keys, time signatures and all other sorts of stuff.
I love the outdoors. I love being out side i can thank Camp Mowana so much for that. being in nature, joining in song, comradeship and meeting some of the dopest people i have ever known to walk the earth...you know who you are, RIP Hippy Longstockings, you are an amazing soul. I love the feeling of being out in the open and getting away from the so called things we need, in which we don't need most of them.
I love my Wife. I owe a huge amount of gratitude to a lot of people and Daralyn is one of them. if it wasn't for her and i meeting, i wouldn't be writing this right now, seriously. Life just happens very strangely and you just need to be open to new experiences and not shut your brain down. take your headphones off and talk to the person next to you on the bus it might change your life, or you might laugh your ass off, which is just as good.
I love my family. I wouldn't be anywhere without them. seriously. to know me is to know a good portion of me, and to know my history. we all come from dysfunctional families it's time to grow up and move beyond the shit that happened when you were 3,4,5,6,13, etc...and start paving your own way.
I know most of this seems pretty vague but its not to convert, just to convey how happy the concept of God/Allah/Jesus has been in my life. while the complete and total REAL factor that so many people are after these days might be void, the same could be said for Lincoln, Gandhi, Harold(from harold and the purple crayon), the mouse from if you give a mouse a cookie. if those people can have a large effect on you with out them being physically present ever in your life, can you seriously debate the importance that they hold in your life. My Grandma Mick (pbuh) might not mean much to you, but she was amazing and you never got to meet her, but she is with me all the time.
the same could be said for God. I don't know him/directly but it has seemed to pave a pretty solid path for me. i hope that you can be as genuinely happy as i am, because to know that something as abstract as God can bring me so many amazing people in my life is awesome. i just hope you can get to the point where you stop picking other peoples scabs and start healing your own.
sincerely,
Icy Mike.
Sunday, June 7, 2009
People with ADD suck at life......
well, technically not exactly because we all suffer from it from time to time. listening to people who never have anything remotely interesting to say, or people who you are dating that talk about shit you don't care about, so we all have it in doses. what i am talking about is twitter and things akin to that which facebook seems to be suffering from at the moment.
For some reason it seems like more and more people like getting all of there news in short twitter segments or youtube clips or something to where they don't have to think or come up with anything interesting to say other then...Sitting in my chair now!....that type of stuff just seems so mundane and disconnected from anything that would otherwise interest me. i don't care if you just shampooed your hair and it not greasy anymore. i really don't care.
It's great that i have wifi service on my phone and can look certain things up but it's even more sad when a luxury service such as facebook is 110 times better on my mobile phone browser then on my laptop. does anyone at Facebook talk to it's users about what are great features and what should not change? i really don't think they do. i would be happy to pay $10 a month to facebook to go back to the format that made me fall in love with it back in october of 08. since then we have had way to many changes and it has become a crap product.
in order to innovate you need to make sure you target your customer. Myspace is for finding people to fuck. Twitter is for slow teens and adults a like that really think that we need to know all of your mundane details of your life and with no substance. Blogspot is for substance and being fully self adsorbed that you really think that people really care that much to read whole fragmented thoughts put into paragraph form. I like substance, but i also like quick quips about things that are on others minds at the moment it gives it a freshness and uniqueness.
when i fell in love with facebook it was somewhere a mix between all three of those, but now, it is leaning toward the slow teen/twitter category vs. a mix of all things that make us and it unique. facebook used to seem more realistic, but now i notice people not using real names switching them all the time, and that is frustrating. People are fine without writing Notes/Blogs now because apparently you can say all you need to say in a status update, and to that i say snap out of your ADD and learn to craft a thought.
Sincerely,
Icy Mike
For some reason it seems like more and more people like getting all of there news in short twitter segments or youtube clips or something to where they don't have to think or come up with anything interesting to say other then...Sitting in my chair now!....that type of stuff just seems so mundane and disconnected from anything that would otherwise interest me. i don't care if you just shampooed your hair and it not greasy anymore. i really don't care.
It's great that i have wifi service on my phone and can look certain things up but it's even more sad when a luxury service such as facebook is 110 times better on my mobile phone browser then on my laptop. does anyone at Facebook talk to it's users about what are great features and what should not change? i really don't think they do. i would be happy to pay $10 a month to facebook to go back to the format that made me fall in love with it back in october of 08. since then we have had way to many changes and it has become a crap product.
in order to innovate you need to make sure you target your customer. Myspace is for finding people to fuck. Twitter is for slow teens and adults a like that really think that we need to know all of your mundane details of your life and with no substance. Blogspot is for substance and being fully self adsorbed that you really think that people really care that much to read whole fragmented thoughts put into paragraph form. I like substance, but i also like quick quips about things that are on others minds at the moment it gives it a freshness and uniqueness.
when i fell in love with facebook it was somewhere a mix between all three of those, but now, it is leaning toward the slow teen/twitter category vs. a mix of all things that make us and it unique. facebook used to seem more realistic, but now i notice people not using real names switching them all the time, and that is frustrating. People are fine without writing Notes/Blogs now because apparently you can say all you need to say in a status update, and to that i say snap out of your ADD and learn to craft a thought.
Sincerely,
Icy Mike
Monday, March 23, 2009
Hi, I'm Michael and i am a drug addict.
Well, not anymore. yep, i am finally done with anti-depressants. My 17 year addiction to prescription drugs is over. I'm no longer an insomniac. i no longer sleep in until 1pm like a piece of shit. I actually feel pretty good. i finally feel like i am in control and that i am not addicted to drugs. i don't know how many of you have taken anti-depressants but they seem to loose there effect after about 3 or 4 years which is ironic because that is about how long it takes for a generic to come out. Then you go to your psychiatrist he talks to you asks you how you are doing and then you say "i don't feel like my self anymore, i feel like the pills aren't working.." in which he replies "you know i got this great new prescription for you, you should try it out." then you become a zombie for the next fucking two or three months, and so continues the cycle.
the strange thing is, is that i have been on this cycle with all different types of meds. at one point i was diagnosed ADHD given Ritalin i went from being a normal size kid to pretty much going to looking like i was a Somali refugee seriously i looked bad. i started taking this when i was in fourth grade and it made me a fucking zombie. then i switched to Adderall when i was like 13 i took that for 2 years and i had headaches pretty much 5 times a week and would have two to three migraines a month, and all of this to keep me mellow. i also believe this a large reason why i didn't hit puberty until much later then i should have.
then sometime in when i was like 15 i switched to Prozac and that wiped me out for the next several months. then when i was like 17 i was put on another med in addition to this one and it has been the fucking course of me and has taken me 10 years to get off of this shit. Risperadal. that was the wurst shit of my life. I was seriously wiped the fuck out for like 2 years no lie. i gained a lot of weight back. But, this shit was horrible if i missed a morning dose i would seriously shake and my hands would tremor. all of this so i could be level. then as the years went on i started to develop muscle twitches and slight spasms in the hand and shit like that.
I definitely had a lot of shit happen to me in my early life before i turned five that i don't care to share, mainly because that would make this much longer...LMAO! I will say that the AD's served there purpose they numbed me from actually every having to deal with any of my problems.
That's all they ever really do is mask the real issues. I had a lot of issues that i needed to resolve and i still have a bunch, but you can't mask them with drugs of any kind. Everyone comes from a dysfunctional home. Everyone has a lot of shit wrong in there lives. Most everyone is looking for a way out of there lives in some form....reading, music, movies, dancing, writing, art, drinking, drugs that are legal and illegal and everyone does NEED some sort of escape from reality every now and then.
escaping from your lives is a great thing. i do it a lot when i listen to music. real talk...music and art have always been my real escape, i'm not that great at either but they are my real escape. The problem with AD's is that they become a sometimes permanent escape from your real issues. you really get to a point where you are high all the time especially in times when you shouldn't be. there times where you are so dazed on these pills that you honestly lose a part of you.
I feel like the AD's did help it's just that they should never be pitched to you like a long term solution to shit that is pretty much all mental and has to do with some experiences way back in your childhood in early life and your teens. AD's can be a great supplement to some SERIOUS THERAPY, not someone who is going to use you as a guinea pig of the latest hottest shit that he gets from phyzer.
I know that therapy can be great and necessary and a lot more people could use it. THERAPY is the answer and being self reflective and questioning yourself for all of the stupid things you do can be great. acknowledge that you have fucked up and that it is YOUR fault that XYZ happened and you have not taken control of your life. if you get fired from a job it is YOUR fault that you were late 5 days in a row shut the fuck up and keep it moving. Life isn't easy and never will be. If you want proof that life isn't easy listen to the Charlie Rose Interview with Warren Buffet, Warrens kids hate him...seriously. No one has it easy..no one, but the real message is....
don't numb yourself to life.
the strange thing is, is that i have been on this cycle with all different types of meds. at one point i was diagnosed ADHD given Ritalin i went from being a normal size kid to pretty much going to looking like i was a Somali refugee seriously i looked bad. i started taking this when i was in fourth grade and it made me a fucking zombie. then i switched to Adderall when i was like 13 i took that for 2 years and i had headaches pretty much 5 times a week and would have two to three migraines a month, and all of this to keep me mellow. i also believe this a large reason why i didn't hit puberty until much later then i should have.
then sometime in when i was like 15 i switched to Prozac and that wiped me out for the next several months. then when i was like 17 i was put on another med in addition to this one and it has been the fucking course of me and has taken me 10 years to get off of this shit. Risperadal. that was the wurst shit of my life. I was seriously wiped the fuck out for like 2 years no lie. i gained a lot of weight back. But, this shit was horrible if i missed a morning dose i would seriously shake and my hands would tremor. all of this so i could be level. then as the years went on i started to develop muscle twitches and slight spasms in the hand and shit like that.
I definitely had a lot of shit happen to me in my early life before i turned five that i don't care to share, mainly because that would make this much longer...LMAO! I will say that the AD's served there purpose they numbed me from actually every having to deal with any of my problems.
That's all they ever really do is mask the real issues. I had a lot of issues that i needed to resolve and i still have a bunch, but you can't mask them with drugs of any kind. Everyone comes from a dysfunctional home. Everyone has a lot of shit wrong in there lives. Most everyone is looking for a way out of there lives in some form....reading, music, movies, dancing, writing, art, drinking, drugs that are legal and illegal and everyone does NEED some sort of escape from reality every now and then.
escaping from your lives is a great thing. i do it a lot when i listen to music. real talk...music and art have always been my real escape, i'm not that great at either but they are my real escape. The problem with AD's is that they become a sometimes permanent escape from your real issues. you really get to a point where you are high all the time especially in times when you shouldn't be. there times where you are so dazed on these pills that you honestly lose a part of you.
I feel like the AD's did help it's just that they should never be pitched to you like a long term solution to shit that is pretty much all mental and has to do with some experiences way back in your childhood in early life and your teens. AD's can be a great supplement to some SERIOUS THERAPY, not someone who is going to use you as a guinea pig of the latest hottest shit that he gets from phyzer.
I know that therapy can be great and necessary and a lot more people could use it. THERAPY is the answer and being self reflective and questioning yourself for all of the stupid things you do can be great. acknowledge that you have fucked up and that it is YOUR fault that XYZ happened and you have not taken control of your life. if you get fired from a job it is YOUR fault that you were late 5 days in a row shut the fuck up and keep it moving. Life isn't easy and never will be. If you want proof that life isn't easy listen to the Charlie Rose Interview with Warren Buffet, Warrens kids hate him...seriously. No one has it easy..no one, but the real message is....
don't numb yourself to life.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
the ides of March.............
i've been really wondering what to write about for sometime. i just really haven't had much motivation to write about anything lately. i've been enjoying my photography and just really been in good spirits. I was actually having a really good day today as almost everyday. i went and measured some kids for tuxedos for there high school fashion shows. i got the kids very excited to be a part of the fashion show and letting them know what we would do for them.
then i thought....29 students in CPS (Chicago Public Schools for those of you who might not know) have been murdered this School year alone, and since September 2007 to December 2008 a total of 500+ students have been shot. I just wonder where are our heads at as a human race? a friend of mine here on facebook her father was shot multiple times for nonsense(as are all shootings). Please pray for her family, and i ask that you pray for the children and students of CPS so that they might live to go to school another year and graduate.
I sit here with a heavy heart wondering if me being critical of certain things of our youth is far less important then anything that they face on a daily basis. One of my young friends was a freshman at a high school here in CPS 4 years ago and was beaten so severely that he ended up in the hospital for a week, and there was no warrant for it either they just wanted to beat him up. he is a good kid that is in JROTC and third ranking in his unit. He graduates this year and will attend an army academy for schooling.
I think one thing that gets over looked is that there is far more going on in these kids lives then maybe i will ever understand. I can only sympathize with what they go through. it's just very sad that more IS NOT done about getting guns out of the City. More strict gun laws won't do shit, all of these weapons used in the streets are unregistered or are stolen. I begin to wonder if anything CAN be done.
In a conversation with one of my friends he said talking does nothing and i agree. Malcolm and Martin spoke of peace and were both both murdered with guns. He said SOMETHINGS got done but not enough. So, what can we do? I think the era of talking and trying to listen are over. I really feel like a new era of some Vigilante Comic Book hero shit might be the only answer anymore. I think some Boondock Saints approach to shit might be more beneficial, but prolly not.
i'm just at a loss of what to think of what can be done, and i am at a loss to think that the youth might just be lost.......
then i thought....29 students in CPS (Chicago Public Schools for those of you who might not know) have been murdered this School year alone, and since September 2007 to December 2008 a total of 500+ students have been shot. I just wonder where are our heads at as a human race? a friend of mine here on facebook her father was shot multiple times for nonsense(as are all shootings). Please pray for her family, and i ask that you pray for the children and students of CPS so that they might live to go to school another year and graduate.
I sit here with a heavy heart wondering if me being critical of certain things of our youth is far less important then anything that they face on a daily basis. One of my young friends was a freshman at a high school here in CPS 4 years ago and was beaten so severely that he ended up in the hospital for a week, and there was no warrant for it either they just wanted to beat him up. he is a good kid that is in JROTC and third ranking in his unit. He graduates this year and will attend an army academy for schooling.
I think one thing that gets over looked is that there is far more going on in these kids lives then maybe i will ever understand. I can only sympathize with what they go through. it's just very sad that more IS NOT done about getting guns out of the City. More strict gun laws won't do shit, all of these weapons used in the streets are unregistered or are stolen. I begin to wonder if anything CAN be done.
In a conversation with one of my friends he said talking does nothing and i agree. Malcolm and Martin spoke of peace and were both both murdered with guns. He said SOMETHINGS got done but not enough. So, what can we do? I think the era of talking and trying to listen are over. I really feel like a new era of some Vigilante Comic Book hero shit might be the only answer anymore. I think some Boondock Saints approach to shit might be more beneficial, but prolly not.
i'm just at a loss of what to think of what can be done, and i am at a loss to think that the youth might just be lost.......
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Chill the Fuck out all ready the NY Post is garbage........................................
you know i have really tried to dissect this whole political cartoon
and i still can't say anything good about it. I understand what they
are trying to say but it is completely moot do to the fact that they
used a chimp. Even if you take away the word caption on it, it is still
offensive for all of the police brutality that is going on towards
Blacks.
They could have very easily drew a picture of a Donkey and accomplished
the same thing in a much more comedic light. I get using the Chimp as
some form of relevant reference of the shooting of the chimp that
brutally maimed that woman, and the parallel the fact that the
Politicians are a bunch of crazed Chimps destroying our country. But,
it is all moot and done in extreme poor taste.
Also consider the source. The NY Post is not known for great
journalism, in fact i align them more with the US Weekly of the
Newspaper world. right now on there front "page" on line they mention a
Cosmetic Dr. that is being sued for removing a Breast Implant with out
being asked to. I think this pretty much is the overall theme to this
particular news paper. this is how reputable this news organization is
and they are amazing. they also have a gossip section of the news
paper. WTF? A gossip section? for a news paper? sounds like some
bullshit to me, so it seems to me that they are not known for quality
anything, at all.
So what am i saying you might ask yourself. I am saying calm the fuck
down. This is not the Wall Street Journal or the New York Times or the
The Times out of London or shit even Chicago Sun Times. it's the
fucking NY Post. So, if you folks are not familiar with NY Post go to
there website right now and read something called "page 6" it is filled
with bullshit, like most of you who have not considered the source.
This gave one my favorite people in the world to become the media whore
that he is and try to act like he cares about anyone but himself and
money. He is an opportunistic fuck just like the NY Post. So go get em
Al Sharpton and act like you care about the black community for the
next 2 months like you did after the whole Don Imus thing three years
ago. Official you are as not creditable as NY Post. So you get an Icy
Mike FUCK YOU award and are a 2009 finalist. so, congrats.
and i still can't say anything good about it. I understand what they
are trying to say but it is completely moot do to the fact that they
used a chimp. Even if you take away the word caption on it, it is still
offensive for all of the police brutality that is going on towards
Blacks.
They could have very easily drew a picture of a Donkey and accomplished
the same thing in a much more comedic light. I get using the Chimp as
some form of relevant reference of the shooting of the chimp that
brutally maimed that woman, and the parallel the fact that the
Politicians are a bunch of crazed Chimps destroying our country. But,
it is all moot and done in extreme poor taste.
Also consider the source. The NY Post is not known for great
journalism, in fact i align them more with the US Weekly of the
Newspaper world. right now on there front "page" on line they mention a
Cosmetic Dr. that is being sued for removing a Breast Implant with out
being asked to. I think this pretty much is the overall theme to this
particular news paper. this is how reputable this news organization is
and they are amazing. they also have a gossip section of the news
paper. WTF? A gossip section? for a news paper? sounds like some
bullshit to me, so it seems to me that they are not known for quality
anything, at all.
So what am i saying you might ask yourself. I am saying calm the fuck
down. This is not the Wall Street Journal or the New York Times or the
The Times out of London or shit even Chicago Sun Times. it's the
fucking NY Post. So, if you folks are not familiar with NY Post go to
there website right now and read something called "page 6" it is filled
with bullshit, like most of you who have not considered the source.
This gave one my favorite people in the world to become the media whore
that he is and try to act like he cares about anyone but himself and
money. He is an opportunistic fuck just like the NY Post. So go get em
Al Sharpton and act like you care about the black community for the
next 2 months like you did after the whole Don Imus thing three years
ago. Official you are as not creditable as NY Post. So you get an Icy
Mike FUCK YOU award and are a 2009 finalist. so, congrats.
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Your Horoscope!
Your Birthday Today:
Your crude sense of humor will offend many this week, while the amount you supposedly charge for a standard mustache ride will offend the rest.
Sagittarius: Although many wrestle with latent homosexual urges, you're the only one the stars know who likes to oil up beforehand.
Scorpio: You'll struggle to find a sympathetic ear this week when the FDA lowers its recommended daily intake of your goddamn bullshit.
Gemini: Your tryst with a married woman will come to an end this week when she finally asks you for a divorce.
Capricorn: Avoid confrontation at work today. Sneak up behind your boss and slowly strangle him to death.
Cancer: Everything will go according to plan, except for the injured hostages, the brief shoot-out with police, and the fact that you were just making toast.
Virgo: Your plan to commit the perfect crime is flawed in one important aspect: Sitting on the couch watching football all weekend is not illegal.
Taurus: Enlightenment and confusion will both be yours this week, when a tree falls in the woods only to make the sound of one hand clapping.
Aries: It seems that for every step forward, you take two to the side, three back, and then trip and fall off the side of a building, hitting the fire escape several times on the way down.
Pisces: Satan will take the form of Excel spreadsheet cell G-14 this week and refuse to assume the proper formatting.
Aquarius: You'll soon be struck by a painful realization concerning the relative force and speed of ordinary city buses.
Libra: They say that you're going blind, that your vision is rapidly deteriorating, but don't worry: They are just a coat rack and hat.
Leo: Some things just go together perfectly, but no one would've believed it was true about cocaine and rhinos until you came along.
thanks onion!
Your crude sense of humor will offend many this week, while the amount you supposedly charge for a standard mustache ride will offend the rest.
Sagittarius: Although many wrestle with latent homosexual urges, you're the only one the stars know who likes to oil up beforehand.
Scorpio: You'll struggle to find a sympathetic ear this week when the FDA lowers its recommended daily intake of your goddamn bullshit.
Gemini: Your tryst with a married woman will come to an end this week when she finally asks you for a divorce.
Capricorn: Avoid confrontation at work today. Sneak up behind your boss and slowly strangle him to death.
Cancer: Everything will go according to plan, except for the injured hostages, the brief shoot-out with police, and the fact that you were just making toast.
Virgo: Your plan to commit the perfect crime is flawed in one important aspect: Sitting on the couch watching football all weekend is not illegal.
Taurus: Enlightenment and confusion will both be yours this week, when a tree falls in the woods only to make the sound of one hand clapping.
Aries: It seems that for every step forward, you take two to the side, three back, and then trip and fall off the side of a building, hitting the fire escape several times on the way down.
Pisces: Satan will take the form of Excel spreadsheet cell G-14 this week and refuse to assume the proper formatting.
Aquarius: You'll soon be struck by a painful realization concerning the relative force and speed of ordinary city buses.
Libra: They say that you're going blind, that your vision is rapidly deteriorating, but don't worry: They are just a coat rack and hat.
Leo: Some things just go together perfectly, but no one would've believed it was true about cocaine and rhinos until you came along.
thanks onion!
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
My President is Black.......God & Mr. Cox are too.
Today has been one of those days that you need every now and then to renew your faith in mankind and yourself. I watched Barack Hussein Obama become our 44th President and in the beginning of watching all of this unfold I shed a tear. I cried because I was thinking of all the hardships that Civil Rights Pioneers had endured in order to see a day like this take place when Love Wins and we as a collective nation said yes we can to change and stop being so indifferent to everything in life.
I was at work today and later on in the evening when I was working alone and a gentleman (whose name is Mr. Cox) came in and was looking for a bow tie and a dress shirt for a black tie affair. (I work in a predominately black mall at tuxedo shop if you didn’t know) He was an older gentleman probably somewhere in his early 70 (he told me he was 73). I told him I was watching the parade in the back on my laptop and told me he was excited about the whole day and he was happy that I was too. So, I asked him point blank, “sir, did you ever think this would happen?” his reply was, “no, I never thought a day like today was possible.”
He said “I grew up in Mississippi and was born in 1936 and moved to Chicago when I was 19” “When I was growing up we couldn’t get a table at a restaurant and when we wanted food from them they would pass the food through a window in the back of the building.” also “There were no public restrooms for us when we went places. If we needed to go to the bathroom we would go on the side of the road or in some woods.”
“One thing my father taught me at a young age was not to let all the words and things people say about you get into your head. He said don’t listen to what others say about you if you are something in God’s eyes then that is all that matters.” “My Father was a very strong man and was of sound character. He also told me that if you have hate in your heart you are only hurting yourself, because that person cannot feel the hate that you are putting on them.”
Another story that he shared with me was deep and really just awe inspiring it went something like this. “I remember one night when I was 9 years old our house got surrounded by the KKK, and they were yelling for my father to come out. My father said the front door is open you can come in but I’m going to take out a bunch of you before you kill me and my family. Dad had a hand pump shotgun on his lap and pistol in his hand down to the side.”
He also shared with me that he served in the Korean War. He was very active in the Civil Rights movement, and now he is involved in street ministry dealing with gangs in Chicago. When this man mentioned God to me it was only in passing, but it was one of those moments when you knew that his actions spoke more to me then T.D. Jakes could ever say in a sermon. It was one of those moments when your cynicism parts and you open your mind and listen with your heart.
Mr. Cox wasn’t really talking about being a follower of God; he was walking in full living action everyday of his life to be living the Gospel. It was incredible. This is man who truly believes that Love Wins, and if you know anything about MLK or Jesus those are two men who truly and whole heartedly believed that Love Wins.
Today was living proof. We have Barack Hussein Obama as our 44th President, and did so, on a platform of change and peace. I am a true believer that Love Wins, I just need to do so in action more so then just speech and print. Mr. Cox summed up how he dealt with racism in a very short and profound statement “Don’t listen to what others say about you. If you are something in God’s eyes then that is all that matters….. If you have hate in your heart you are only hurting yourself, because that person cannot feel the hate that you are putting on them.”
To Mr. Cox I owe a debt of gratitude and I am glad that we were able to share our joy and passion for the day together. Even though I do not understand all that he has been through, his stories and wisdom have touched me in a profound way, to where we both can unite together and pronounce……..LOVE WINS.
Sincerely,
Icy Mike.
I was at work today and later on in the evening when I was working alone and a gentleman (whose name is Mr. Cox) came in and was looking for a bow tie and a dress shirt for a black tie affair. (I work in a predominately black mall at tuxedo shop if you didn’t know) He was an older gentleman probably somewhere in his early 70 (he told me he was 73). I told him I was watching the parade in the back on my laptop and told me he was excited about the whole day and he was happy that I was too. So, I asked him point blank, “sir, did you ever think this would happen?” his reply was, “no, I never thought a day like today was possible.”
He said “I grew up in Mississippi and was born in 1936 and moved to Chicago when I was 19” “When I was growing up we couldn’t get a table at a restaurant and when we wanted food from them they would pass the food through a window in the back of the building.” also “There were no public restrooms for us when we went places. If we needed to go to the bathroom we would go on the side of the road or in some woods.”
“One thing my father taught me at a young age was not to let all the words and things people say about you get into your head. He said don’t listen to what others say about you if you are something in God’s eyes then that is all that matters.” “My Father was a very strong man and was of sound character. He also told me that if you have hate in your heart you are only hurting yourself, because that person cannot feel the hate that you are putting on them.”
Another story that he shared with me was deep and really just awe inspiring it went something like this. “I remember one night when I was 9 years old our house got surrounded by the KKK, and they were yelling for my father to come out. My father said the front door is open you can come in but I’m going to take out a bunch of you before you kill me and my family. Dad had a hand pump shotgun on his lap and pistol in his hand down to the side.”
He also shared with me that he served in the Korean War. He was very active in the Civil Rights movement, and now he is involved in street ministry dealing with gangs in Chicago. When this man mentioned God to me it was only in passing, but it was one of those moments when you knew that his actions spoke more to me then T.D. Jakes could ever say in a sermon. It was one of those moments when your cynicism parts and you open your mind and listen with your heart.
Mr. Cox wasn’t really talking about being a follower of God; he was walking in full living action everyday of his life to be living the Gospel. It was incredible. This is man who truly believes that Love Wins, and if you know anything about MLK or Jesus those are two men who truly and whole heartedly believed that Love Wins.
Today was living proof. We have Barack Hussein Obama as our 44th President, and did so, on a platform of change and peace. I am a true believer that Love Wins, I just need to do so in action more so then just speech and print. Mr. Cox summed up how he dealt with racism in a very short and profound statement “Don’t listen to what others say about you. If you are something in God’s eyes then that is all that matters….. If you have hate in your heart you are only hurting yourself, because that person cannot feel the hate that you are putting on them.”
To Mr. Cox I owe a debt of gratitude and I am glad that we were able to share our joy and passion for the day together. Even though I do not understand all that he has been through, his stories and wisdom have touched me in a profound way, to where we both can unite together and pronounce……..LOVE WINS.
Sincerely,
Icy Mike.
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Obama is my Ace, but seriously get off the mans dick.
This a monumental occasion for everyone, and by everyone i mean EVERYONE. the guy at 87th and the Dan Ryan selling Obama airbrushed T-shirts, Obama Socks, Obama Condoms(its a new world out there rap it up!lmao.), Obama Buttons and Obama Stocking Caps(it is chicago). it gets better i turn on the T.V. and what do my eyes see, Barack Obama selling me some un-minted limited addition 100% silver plated coin with my man painted on the back, and if you call in the next 5 mins, get an Obama Dinner plate with Obama Hot Pads.
I mean this is all fine and dandy, but this needs to stop at some point. To whore out a mans image and name to this degree is absurd. Also like Van Said on www.superill.net some people don't need to rep for obama. if you have a fucked up attitude don't rep for the man, i don't think he would appreciate it much. certain rappers who mention "i've got a black president" and in the same line talk about guns and trafficking drugs in the same song should just kill them selves.
I am excited that we have such an amazing person who is going to be our president for the next 4 year(hopefully 8). we finally have someone who can speak and act presidential to represent all of us as a collective nation. I just don't want my president to be treated like Super Bowl XLIII champion the Arizona Cardinals where all of this merchandise is pumped out. It is fine for a football club, but don't continue to make a coin off of a mans name, because if someone did that to me, i would punch them in the balls.
I mean this is all fine and dandy, but this needs to stop at some point. To whore out a mans image and name to this degree is absurd. Also like Van Said on www.superill.net some people don't need to rep for obama. if you have a fucked up attitude don't rep for the man, i don't think he would appreciate it much. certain rappers who mention "i've got a black president" and in the same line talk about guns and trafficking drugs in the same song should just kill them selves.
I am excited that we have such an amazing person who is going to be our president for the next 4 year(hopefully 8). we finally have someone who can speak and act presidential to represent all of us as a collective nation. I just don't want my president to be treated like Super Bowl XLIII champion the Arizona Cardinals where all of this merchandise is pumped out. It is fine for a football club, but don't continue to make a coin off of a mans name, because if someone did that to me, i would punch them in the balls.
Sunday, January 11, 2009
I don’t have my shit together and neither do you!!!!!!
I feel like no matter where you are at in life I don't think you ever really have IT TOGETHER. I mean in some aspects of life yes, but as I whole I don't think you do. Because if you really have it all together what aspects of your life do you need to improve on or learn new things?
there have been points in my life where I thought I had it together and then I was shook to the core and realized that I didn't, and I think it's in those moments that you realize how delicate life really is, and it is in those moments you can become grateful what you do have.
Recently in July I was given my own store to run and I knew I wasn't completely ready, but I didn't want to say no to a nice new promotion and I wanted to show that I was all that my District Manger said I was. Well, my DM got fired in October and I realized that I might be up for the chopping block.
November comes and my Assistant Manger is temporarily transferred to another store and I am given the AM from hell. It was horrible and I hated working in the store so I asked to step down as store manager and they happily obliged. I was very angry that they did the demotion so fast, but I was happy because I knew I wouldn’t have the same pressures and responsibilities.
It wasn't a matter of that I didn't believe in myself it was more a matter of I didn't know enough about managing to be in that position. I'm glad I got the experience to be a store manager, but I am happier being in a backup role then a star position. I'm more a Scotty Pippin to someone else’s Michael Jordan and I am happy with that role. I am the SP to my wife’s MJ role. Real talk. It’s always very important that you know what your role is in life. I can make the playoffs, but I’m not gonna get anymore rings without the help of my ace.
I think part of what I do is I don't really look toward the sunny side of life, because that is crazy. Life doesn't always have a silver lining to its dreary 21 day overcast. Life can be so weird and strange that there is no logical explanation or rationalizing what is taking place at that moment. Having a great sense of humor will carry you through the rough times in life. Laughing at your mistakes and pain is healthy.
Being grateful for a shit sandwich can be tough, but sometimes you just need to laugh at the size of the shit sandwich and move along. If you mope about all the shit that life hands to you, you might as well just end it. Because, life is too damn funny to let stupid things bog you down.
Being grateful is one of those oddities that you might not always have the foresight to do, because hindsight is 20/20. lol. I can always look back on past experiences with a type of clear vision that I understand why I went through it.
I meet people very easily its part of who I am. I have friends that I keep in contact with regularly that I met 12 years ago for one week at a church camp. I got married to my wife someone I me at a church weekend over 7 years ago. I have friends that I consider some of my favorite people ever that I met through a BBQ get together here in Chicago a little more than 1 year ago. My Saint Louis family has introduced me to some of the illest people ever! Thank you Bobby, Eddie, Van, Rhashad.
I owe all of that to not having my shit together. If I had all of my shit together I wouldn’t be able to a lot for new experiences. I wouldn’t have room for more personal growth and I certainly wouldn’t have room for more friends. I will never have my shit together and I wish the very same thing for you.
Sincerely,
ICY MIKE
there have been points in my life where I thought I had it together and then I was shook to the core and realized that I didn't, and I think it's in those moments that you realize how delicate life really is, and it is in those moments you can become grateful what you do have.
Recently in July I was given my own store to run and I knew I wasn't completely ready, but I didn't want to say no to a nice new promotion and I wanted to show that I was all that my District Manger said I was. Well, my DM got fired in October and I realized that I might be up for the chopping block.
November comes and my Assistant Manger is temporarily transferred to another store and I am given the AM from hell. It was horrible and I hated working in the store so I asked to step down as store manager and they happily obliged. I was very angry that they did the demotion so fast, but I was happy because I knew I wouldn’t have the same pressures and responsibilities.
It wasn't a matter of that I didn't believe in myself it was more a matter of I didn't know enough about managing to be in that position. I'm glad I got the experience to be a store manager, but I am happier being in a backup role then a star position. I'm more a Scotty Pippin to someone else’s Michael Jordan and I am happy with that role. I am the SP to my wife’s MJ role. Real talk. It’s always very important that you know what your role is in life. I can make the playoffs, but I’m not gonna get anymore rings without the help of my ace.
I think part of what I do is I don't really look toward the sunny side of life, because that is crazy. Life doesn't always have a silver lining to its dreary 21 day overcast. Life can be so weird and strange that there is no logical explanation or rationalizing what is taking place at that moment. Having a great sense of humor will carry you through the rough times in life. Laughing at your mistakes and pain is healthy.
Being grateful for a shit sandwich can be tough, but sometimes you just need to laugh at the size of the shit sandwich and move along. If you mope about all the shit that life hands to you, you might as well just end it. Because, life is too damn funny to let stupid things bog you down.
Being grateful is one of those oddities that you might not always have the foresight to do, because hindsight is 20/20. lol. I can always look back on past experiences with a type of clear vision that I understand why I went through it.
I meet people very easily its part of who I am. I have friends that I keep in contact with regularly that I met 12 years ago for one week at a church camp. I got married to my wife someone I me at a church weekend over 7 years ago. I have friends that I consider some of my favorite people ever that I met through a BBQ get together here in Chicago a little more than 1 year ago. My Saint Louis family has introduced me to some of the illest people ever! Thank you Bobby, Eddie, Van, Rhashad.
I owe all of that to not having my shit together. If I had all of my shit together I wouldn’t be able to a lot for new experiences. I wouldn’t have room for more personal growth and I certainly wouldn’t have room for more friends. I will never have my shit together and I wish the very same thing for you.
Sincerely,
ICY MIKE
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Why Soulja Boy is good for music...and why you should shut up.lol
why do you hate this young man so much? is he really that bad for what he does? he makes music for teens simple and plain. He is not an abomination of hip-hop at all. look at Rappers Delight by Sugar Hill Gang and tell me what that song was about? Money, cars, women and flossin. those lyrics are classic to recite but talk about absolutely nothing. some of my favorite songs are about ABSOLUTELY nothing and are just fun to listen to. I.E. Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey by Paul McCartney.
A lot of people hate on this lil dude and they need to shut up and realize that you are getting old. I did not like Crank Dat, but it's only because that song was played 10 trillion times back to back. it is what anyone could want from a pop song, catchy and a nice lil dance to go with it. Do i listen to his music ever? no. it is not my style, but just because i don't like doesn't mean that other can't enjoy it for what it is. shit i love Haddaway and that has got to be one of the dumber songs out, same with Right Said Fred.
He is not destroying hip-hop, it's not his fault that his music sells to teens. teens usually have bad taste in everything(sagging pants, night gowns for t-shirts, tight ass pants, douchey looking hair cuts, douchey 80's throw back clothing) but that is because i am getting older. the fat boys, dana dane, dougie fresh, skee-lo, the rapping duke, kurtis blow pretty much didn't rap about anything, but they made hot singles for the club (because most radio stations didn't play this stuff at the time) and it was all about fun. nothing really socially conscious came out till "the Message" by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. everything before that was pretty much dance singles like Soulja Boy.
so in other words, don't hate on an 18 year old for making money in this pure crap driven commercial music business. it's not his fault that crappy music sells to slow MTV teens. at least he doesn't fake being a gangsta like Lil Wayne, Rick Ross or any of the other bullshit down south rappers. Lil Man get your MC Hammer on and make money. just don't fully live out like MC Hammer where you try to go gangsta, go bankrupt, become a pastor and then try to rap again. be you lil homie and cater to your audience. thats why LL has lasted 24 years in the game, because he makes records for the ladies and makes dance singles.
Not everyone can be a J Dilla or a Black Thought. J Dilla is one of (if not THEE) the illest producers EVER and my personal FAVORITE period. Black Thought is one of dopest emcee's ever to be constantly slept on as one of the Greatest, and he is in my top 10. His style is like no other, same with Dilla. Always original often imitated never duplicated. Originality and pure Art don't always appeal to the masses, that's why you have Thomas Kincaid bullshit compared to someone like Marcel Duchamp. pure highly mass marketed shit to someone who is a Genius when it comes to innovation. draw the parallel.
sincerely,
Icy Mike.
A lot of people hate on this lil dude and they need to shut up and realize that you are getting old. I did not like Crank Dat, but it's only because that song was played 10 trillion times back to back. it is what anyone could want from a pop song, catchy and a nice lil dance to go with it. Do i listen to his music ever? no. it is not my style, but just because i don't like doesn't mean that other can't enjoy it for what it is. shit i love Haddaway and that has got to be one of the dumber songs out, same with Right Said Fred.
He is not destroying hip-hop, it's not his fault that his music sells to teens. teens usually have bad taste in everything(sagging pants, night gowns for t-shirts, tight ass pants, douchey looking hair cuts, douchey 80's throw back clothing) but that is because i am getting older. the fat boys, dana dane, dougie fresh, skee-lo, the rapping duke, kurtis blow pretty much didn't rap about anything, but they made hot singles for the club (because most radio stations didn't play this stuff at the time) and it was all about fun. nothing really socially conscious came out till "the Message" by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. everything before that was pretty much dance singles like Soulja Boy.
so in other words, don't hate on an 18 year old for making money in this pure crap driven commercial music business. it's not his fault that crappy music sells to slow MTV teens. at least he doesn't fake being a gangsta like Lil Wayne, Rick Ross or any of the other bullshit down south rappers. Lil Man get your MC Hammer on and make money. just don't fully live out like MC Hammer where you try to go gangsta, go bankrupt, become a pastor and then try to rap again. be you lil homie and cater to your audience. thats why LL has lasted 24 years in the game, because he makes records for the ladies and makes dance singles.
Not everyone can be a J Dilla or a Black Thought. J Dilla is one of (if not THEE) the illest producers EVER and my personal FAVORITE period. Black Thought is one of dopest emcee's ever to be constantly slept on as one of the Greatest, and he is in my top 10. His style is like no other, same with Dilla. Always original often imitated never duplicated. Originality and pure Art don't always appeal to the masses, that's why you have Thomas Kincaid bullshit compared to someone like Marcel Duchamp. pure highly mass marketed shit to someone who is a Genius when it comes to innovation. draw the parallel.
sincerely,
Icy Mike.
Friday, January 9, 2009
Fuck Impeachment, I'm running for a third term!
Everyone and their mother is talking about my Illinois Governor Roddy Blogo, and i for one am really impressed by this man. Roddy was Impeached early today a narrow margin of one vote for him to not be Impeached and i am impressed that this man did not punk out on me. He made it very clear with his speech about how amazing he is that he will run for a third term and win.
He is my new hero, i haven't seen this much ball power since Cheney shot his friend in the face with a shotgun. I love in the video where he talks about that they wanted to impeach him in the summer of 2007(finally got the chance and did) even though he is doing such amazing things in the state.
One of his projects was standing on stage and he forgot which disease his Gubernatorial Power told to get the fuck out of his body. Then he talks about a lady that got screened at a Pink Pot Luck and found out that she had stage 4 brest cancer (i'm going to go ahead and assume that she died, for the fact he didn't talk about her recovery and only talked about that she was diagnosed for free, so then she could know what killed her.) and was able to recieve free screening and treatment.
He also put a special spin on how special intrest goups and lobbyist have hurt the state from moving forward with some of his plans(one of the reasons he was under investigation in the first place.) i.e. how he contracted out the Illinois Tollway construction, and getting health care for people.
In this whole 10 minutes about nothing he doesn't address the reason why he is being impeached and tells people he will get to there questions in a minute. so not only does the Bush Administration deflect and have a total disengagement from reality, so does my Governor. He goes for a jog in the snow while he is being impeached, and doesn't realize that you can't sell the Senate seat which the President-Elect comes from, and that is why he is my favorite person of the moment. Thanks Roddy Blogo, for absolutely nothing.
sincerely,
Icy Mike.
Sunday, January 4, 2009
our sex life is boring......lets choke eachother!
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Saturday, January 3, 2009
Fuck Israel..........
yeah i said it. what are you going to do about? I'm so tired of this shit it is insane. Anytime a Palestinian fires a rocket into a building and kills an Israeli, Israel retaliates and kills 100 Palestinians per. This shit has got to stop. seriously. It brings me to tears that people think that Israel is doing good by KILLING ITS OWN PEOPLE. Everyone will agree that the country of Palestine does not exist. So, by geographic land marking BOTH the Gaza Strip and the West Bank happen to be in what country?????????? thats fucking right, ISRAEL. So, if you support Israels quest to exterminate Palestine you are an advocate for ETHNIC CLEANSING and i don't want to hear shit out of your mouth about how bad of a dictator Sadam Hussein was, or Robert Mugabe, Idi Amin, or Omar Al-Bashir. Israel has been killing it's own people for damn near 60 years, and something like 500,000 Israelis have been murdered by Israelis. So, congrats to you fucktards that don't know the history of the region and are pro-Zionist, ethnic cleansing, apartheid loving dumb fucks. do us all a favor and kill yourselves real hard.
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