Smoking Aces is an awesomely violent comic book!!!

I just saw the movie and I left the movie with a big ass smile in my face. The movie is VERy violent. awesome comic book like characters. Surly bails bondmen, nutso killers. And I mean Crazy!!! I loved it all. the plot was deceptively simple and allowed u to enjoy the finale which I involved enuf guns to outfit a small nation. Hyperbole aside.. Smoking Aces was awesome.

Common didn't play as big a role as I thot but he was great. He has great screen presence for a gangsta. Alicia Keys was pretty good but her colleague was a scene stealer.

Reading an article in the Salon.com

www.salon.com

 Read this article concerning a 39 woman complaining about she hasn't found the one for her yet. She is educated, speaks mulitples lanuguages, nice personality and all that jazz. Has house andnice car yet no man. She laments that other lesser  women seem to find the good men and get married while she can't seem to get past the 2nd date.

She hasn't had a single long term relationship in her life and wonders why men don't approach her for anything other than sex…. Here is the link in case u wanna read more.

I'm a babe, a total catch -- so why am I alone at 39?

One of the comments was very telling.. I will quote it..

"I meet women who have a perfect life all the time. They have a house, a great career, a tribe, pets and know what they want to do on vacation. One of my first thoughts is "How would I fit in here?" Sometimes I do not see how I would. That will keep me from pursuing. One the other hand if I meet a woman who does not have her life all pieced together, is still working on it, and there seems to be a way we can come together and make a life, I am much more interested. The last thing I want to do is to move into somebody's finished house and become another accessory." --gttim

I really  like what he wrote. I think it hits the nail on the head onw aht might be causing this woman distress. 
Another comment reminded her to date interacially which I heartily agree. I don't see why black women feel that white/lation men are any less a viable mate. Such misplaced loyalty is stupid IMHO.

What do u think?
 

This gay persecution equating to slavery is B.S

 Why do people compare Gays to African Americans?? It isn't the same!!!!!

Firstly you can be black and gay!! Gay is an addendum to an ethnity. White ghay , black gay , italian gay.  Race> gay.   When 2 black men walk into a room, EVERYBODY knows that they are black. Not everyone knows that one might be gay. I have no response or excuse for the flamboyantly gay men. Those fags are weird.

I say fag in the nicest possible way cuz what else do you call that dude in "I love New York" show. He is beyond gay..

Until the gay community can recall generations of forced slavery, oppression, rape and destruction of family like the African American community have suffered in this country, there isn't a true comparison.

Notice that they don't compare themselves to the Jews. Of course NO ONE suffered like they did in the Holocaust.

If Michael Richards and Mel Gibson aren't out of jobs right now the Isaiah Washington should keep acting in the best show in TV right now.

A black gay man faces discrimination for 2 fronts. Only one of them can he truly hide from. Screw the choice vs nature gay argument. At least a gay person can CHOOSE to disclose his sexuality.

Need for community

I was driving on my way from the gym recently. My car is my refuge. The place where my thots can be collated and categorized. I find that I need quiet and solace to reconcile the floating thots in my mind.

As I drove, I realized something. I have my wife, my companion, my homie et all. I still need community. I still need to belong to something that is inherently male.

It has taken me a long while to realize this. The need to recreate my old school friendships. Toona, Biobele at FGC Warri, My guys at Texas A&M.

One needs community. We need to have something that gets u out of your shell and meet new people. We are grown folks now. We have left almost all institutions that allow us to mingle with our age mates.

I have used different things to substitute for community for a while now. Online forums. Other things that haven’t worked properly. I have thot that it would come naturally or they will gravitate to me. I dunno what I was thinking but it was wrong. I realized that I need to seek it. I need to create it.

I need to create a community of people that I can interact with. They don’t need to fully understand or appreciate me. There could be a better reason to gather like a volunteer group or church group. I dunno what it is but I think I know what I need to do.

Being a couple is not a enuf. If that is all the companionship we need, it will get stale and unappreciated. We need to meet other people and interact, build relationships with them.

I don’t think I am crazy.

am mad and i dunno why

pissing me off.

The Iphone- HAWT!!!!

I saw the future yesterday and it was good. Sweet jesus what a sweet looking phone. U got to give Apple credit cuz the Iphone is HOT. Str8t up sexy. banging form factor. I think this can shake the world.

Firstly, if you don't know what I am talking about after looking at the picture, then go to Apple.com/iphone and prepare to drool. Ok, I will ease up on the fan boy hysteria. Let look at the pro and cons of the Iphone.

Pros-

Sexy form factor- Looks polished from the get go. No clunky space to dissuade customers, ALready sleek and ready to go.
Screen- the screen is f**king gorgeous. Looks beautiful. No more tiny phone screen to peer at.

UI- THIS is the Killer app right here. If APple is able to make making and taking calls as good as the initial Ipod experience then they have a winner. The UI will sweep away about any cons I can think of Provided it is as nice as I expect.
From what I see, tapping does one thing. U can use your fingers to move the screen and enlarge and reduce images. I need to see how this works.
4-8gig HD- **Gets on KNees and THANks God** Finally!!! Just sync with music or files and GO! Awesome!! Although not the first phone to market a hd but the first one to be openly marketed in US in recent history.

OSX- I am interested on how this will work. A full blooded Safari browser on this things?? Tabbed browsing? WOW. No more WAP? I will be interested to see how that works. Maybe the WIfi on THIS phone will ork better than my DAsh.

Visual Voicemail- I thot that was huge. checking ur voice mail like mail is awesome.I have my VOIP line email me when a voicemail comes thru. Being able to choose whose VM u listen to is simple yet powerful. More control to the customer. Lord knows I want to be able to know who left a message first on my phone.
This just shows how powerful APple is. I bet they had to change somethng in their systems to let Apple do that.

GSM- Simple. it can be unlocked. if it can be unlocked. Folks complaining about price will be shocked on how expensive these suckers will go on Ebay. Can't wait.

CONS-

Price- It is freaking expensive but it is the price u pay for being a first adapter. If you look at other new phones, a lot of phones cost $399 or $499 to begin with. I dunno why folks are complaining for a phone. I know folks at work that paid $559 for a Pocketpc phone. Folks WILL buy this phone.

Carrier- Cingular. I put this as a con since I have T-mobile contract and I was considering Cingular for a while. Crap!! I guess. Though, if anyone should switch for a phone, it is the Iphone. Cingular wins big on this one though...

Battery- Non removable. WAT?? So if the battery dies, where do I put my data? I hope there is a data backup feature that one can use to backup the content sof the Iphone so when you get a replacement, u just resync and move on. I will say that most people keep their phones for a year or so. Then they switch out for the next one. So maybe the battery issue will not be a bad as I think it will be.

Conclusion: this phone gives me a geek boner just looking at it. I hope the actual device is just as good. This might be a paradigm shift that we will see the effects til 2009 when the Cingular Multiyear agreement ends.

PVP knows what i feel!!: http://www.pvponline.com/article/3075/tue-jan-09

Freedom.

 Something happened yesterday. Something huge. I got emancipated. Freed. My mind shackles were removed. It was a quiet explosion. I don't think I have fully understood where or what has happened til I do something about it.

Imagine if u could now walk again. U would want to walk but u are comfortable on that chair that you have been using to wheel ur self around.

I am free and I want to run. I want to find a better piece of cheese to nibble on. I want to flaunt my freedom. I want to see soemtihng new and spectacular.

I feel free. Now I need to knw what I am going to do with my freedom. I need to write a freedom manifesto.

Thank God for his mercies. I think I have lived a charmed life. Despite all that I have gone thru, I seem to find a way to come out on top in a strange way. I dunno how to explain it but it has really worked out for me.

Thank u God for everything and everyone.

Preachers and fancy cars.

I need to talk to a very rich man. I mean filty rich. The buy a car worth half million kinda rich. I want to know why you would spend THAT much money on a car. I mean there has to be a point where the cost of the car isn't true value but more of the intrinsic value of the car. The name. The prestige.

Granted, one can make the argument that the price of the name doesn't have to start in the Bently , Maybach level. It could very well start at the BMW, Mercedes level. I do agree but there is a world of difference with $100 000 and $250 000 for a car.

The Continental Spur. A beautiful car in every which way of the word. Is it that much better than the Mercedes S class S65??  I mean, is it really that better??

I decided to price out the Mercedes S65 and the BMW 7.60i with all the sweet additions. I was able to get it to $200k for the Mercedes. What else do u need? Why does one spend more?

Can anyone give me insight on this?