there’s a new thurgood jenkins in town!

about a week ago, i had a birthday and oddly enough, i feel older all of a sudden. i’m almost in my, dare i say it, mid 20′s now and what do i have to show for it? sure, i have a great job, friends, family, cell phone plan, and all of that stuff but my life hasn’t really changed in the past two years.

so, in honor of the new year, i’ve decided it’s time to make the following changes and start getting my grown man on:

• work out
  • last time i worked out regularly was freshmen year of college, and to be honest, the fly honeys from the U of AZ had a lot to do with it i’m still a spring chicken and my metabolism hasn’t caught up to me yet but still, some exercise never hurt anyone.
• iron
  • due to certain inconveniences in my current living situation, i haven’t ironed anything in almost a year. when i really need something ironed, i just visit my neighborhood drycleaners and let them do my dirty work..aah, the joys of living next to chinatown.
• read
  • i read blogs, traffic signs, and the occasional magazine but i haven’t read a good book in a minute. for someone that worked in a library for three years, i haven’t appreciated literature nearly enough.
• volunteer
  • “trick love the kids” and i do too. it’s time the youth of today got some real direction in their lives. plus it’s a good way to give back to the community after taking so much.
• increase my social circle
  • if only to say “check it, tell your friends to get with my friends, and we can be friends…shit, we can do this every weekend. aight? is that aight with you? yeah…keep bangin”

drink, fool!

i’d like to think i’m a pretty calm person in general and don’t get riled up about too much. sure we all have our issues at work now and then, the 30/45 can put a damper on your morning, and bush isn’t really paying attention to the ISG report – but none of those really get me into a ‘jeez luiz sweet cheddar cheese!’ type of mood.

one thing that does though is when people play drinking games WITH WATER!! i don’t get why they think that’s kosher, it’s completely defeating the purpose of playing a drinking game. if you’re playing king’s cup for instance and you can assign any person to take a drink, would you ever think it’s cool/funny/essential to hooking up to assign some lame to drink water?? ayayay. it’s one of the most aggravating things in the world. i wish those lames would just gracefully bow out.

that said, if you’re playing a drinking game with me and someone is using water as their drink, i may just spontaneously combust (sorry sheena…had to say it)

question: do you watch law & order?

i only started watching this show like a month ago but man, i am so addicted.  it’s been on the air since 1990 (damn!) and has spun off a couple shows…my favorite of which is ‘special victims unit’.  the best part is that it’s on all the time on tnt or tbs, so anytime you’re home and have an hour, you can enjoy some good ole’ law & order

do any of you watch law & order?  which one?  any favorite detectives or lawyers?  do you get as amped as i do when the opening credits play or when the gavel bangs between scenes?

introduction to “hyphy”

for all my readers not in the yay area, and for those here that are blissfully unaware, i wanted to give a brief introduction to the “hyphy movement”. this is what all the youngstas are talkin about…

hyphy – general state of mind where you’re gettin crazy, crunk, wildin out…from the root words “hyped” and “fly”

goin dumb, stupid, ignorant, retarded, riding the yellow bus – essentially means going hyphy. if you go dumb or go stupid, that’s a good thing.

ghostriding the whip – when you put your ride into drive at a low speed, open the doors, get out of the car and dance, possibly on the roof. this is best done listening to something hyphy like e-40 or mistah fab

scrapin – when you’re driving and you keep braking every few seconds so your car jerks back & forth. can be done before or after ghostriding but preferably not at the same time.

stunna shades – sunglasses you can wear to the club. can be worn at night too.

question: muni cable car operaters vs muni bus drivers

(note: this will be the first in a series of questions that i’d like your thoughts on…so feel free to comment)

question: what sort of relationship do muni cable car operators have with muni bus drivers?

it seems like the cable car operators are higher up on the muni ladder so i’d imagine there’s some tension between the two but then again, maybe they bond over retarded tourists & annoying san franciscans (hipsters and those folks who clog up the 30 & 45…grrr) and forget their differences. thoughts?

side note – i was talkin to a cable car guy earlier this evening and found out that one person every three months usually falls off the cars. also, most car-cable car accidents involve taxis and are at bush & powell. i guess now that a certain clay st resident wasn’t with me on the cable car, the operators finally decided to talk to me

return of the mack!

Oh, oo-o-oh, come on, ooh, yeah
Well I tried to tell you so (yes, I did)
But I guess you didn’t know, as I said the story goes
Baby, now I got the flow
‘Cos I knew it from the start
Baby, when you broke my heart
That I had to come again, and show you that I’m real

dear readers, you have spoken, and i have listened. i will be a better blogger going forward. i won’t leave you starving for weeks again, searching for an oasis of knowledge. my bad. with that said, i’m back baby!

i’ve been pretty wrapped up in studying for the gmat & working on b-school essays recently, but poked my head out of my cocoon the other night and caught the election coverage. three cheers for 51% of the american people…hip hip hooray! i just hope the democrats will push forward a solid agenda and plan for getting us out of iraq now.

my main worry is what’ll happen if bush blocks our exit out of iraq within his term just so the next republican presidential candidate can somehow squirm his way into office. my guess is it’ll be either mccain or guiliani, both men with pretty broad appeal. let’s hope the dems  reach into the dirty souf for a candidate and definitely, for the love of god, not nominate another kerry :O

it’s official…i’m an elitist *sigh*

i usually shun elitism and think of myself as a man of the people, but as sheena brought to my attention today – i am a borat elitist.

i can’t help it…material that used to be fresh & irreverent now just seems played out. his latest appearance on conan o’brien would have once had me rolling, but now i just roll my eyes. maybe it’s because i recognize all the jokes and gags from ‘da ali g show’ or maybe it’s that i don’t want to like the same thing that danity kane fans like, i don’t know. when i dressed up as borat (and vonage as bruno) two Halloween’s ago, i thought it was hip…if i see any borat’s this year, i’ll tag them unoriginal.

i think the tipping point was when i went to the premiere of ‘borat: cultural learnings of america for make benefit glorious nation of kazakhstan’ with vanni. to start with, there were more high schoolers there than an r kelly home video. (oh, and the hipsters…don’t get me started on them, that’s a separate post) hearing the 15 year olds behind us yell ‘we love you borat!!!’ 10 times in a row when borat came on stage made me realize borat was not ‘cool’ anymore now.

now, i’m all for pimping the game and such, but i think i will have to return my ‘early adopter’ card and pick up my shiny black ‘elitist’ card now.

ps – i’m sure some of my uk readers are saying, ‘piss off mate, we were watching borat before you even had colour tv in the states’. to them, i say ‘WE LOVE YOU BORAT!!!”

buckets of fish-heads, 2 for $10, get em while they’re hot!

i guess h g wells was onto something real when he wrote ‘the time machine’…according to an article on the BBC, there’s an evolutionary theorist at the LSE who predicts that the human race will split into two sub-species in 100,000 years, an upper & under class.

the upper class will be more attractive, intelligent, and healthy in general with larger khrams for the men & jamba juice stock for the ladies. the under class however gets the short end of the stick and will evolve into “dim-witted, ugly, squat-like goblin creatures”, who i imagine will be pretty fond of fish heads (think bart from the halloween simpsons episode, where he has an evil twin living in the attic).

she get it from her mamma!

man…am i relieved that flav sent new york’s crazy ass home. for those of you that missed out, your & my boy, flava flav, took delishis & new york down to belize for the final elimination on vh1′s ‘flavor of love’. if you’ve watched this show at all, you know that new york is just straight insane. when she brought her mom on the show, i started thinkin of what good ole juvie once said, ‘she get it from her mamma!’ i hope flav finds real love with delishis and doesn’t have to take out a restraining order against ms. new york, or family new york for that matter.

i also caught the classic ‘friday’ on tv this weekend (forget which channel) which was edited for tv. certain scenes of that movie crack me up every time i watch them but with the curses edited out, they were almost funnier. examples are when smokey (chris tucker) goes ‘god daaag’ instead of ‘god dayumm’ and when he says ‘i don’t give a booot’ instead of ‘i don’t give a fuuuck’. another good one that they didn’t use in ‘friday’ but i’ve seen on tv before is replacing ‘motherfucker’ with the far worse insult, ‘melon farmer’

in movies like ‘friday’, there are always those little parts that you don’t really notice at first as being particularly humorous but later on you’re rollin whenever you see them. like when deebo rolls up on smokey & craig and tries to hit them up for some money. when they say they’re broke, deebo goes ‘yall some ballers and you’re broke?’…c’mon now, these two guys are sitting on the porch, gettin high, and one of them just got fired and he calls them ‘ballers’…hahaha…great fuckin movie

“what are we becoming?”

i don’t wax political too often but there is just waaay too much shit goin on these days for a brotha to just look the other way. let me start by saying i think there are plenty of issues that i feel we should be aware of so i don’t feel this is more important than say darfur or iraq, but tonight i just want to bring to everyone’s attention, the military detainee bill.

from what i understand, this bill (which is merely a political move…more on that later) allows the US to detain and imprison anyone from anywhere in the world for an indefinite period of time, torture them as much as we please, coerce information from torture, deny them any sort of trial, allow bush to apply & interpret the geneva conventions at will (we all know he’s a master of making judgement calls), and here’s the kicker – give the bush administration immunity from any war crimes dating from 9/11 onward. nice, huh? all this in the name of protecting us from terrorism.

i know that when my parents moved to america and when my dad joined the military 20 years ago, these were not the ideals & values they were excited about. i know that we are dealing with terrorism, but that does not mean we should put aside the values this country has always had in order to pursue this “war on terror”, especially when a bill like this that will affect real people. please also remember that this bill is just a sly political (and ass-covering) tactic the republicans are using to make themselves seem like the party more concerned with “protecting” the country. they’ve done whatever they could just to pass this before congress breaks for midterm elections, when i hope they will finally lose the majority *sigh*

in the words of jack cafferty from cnn, “what are we becoming?”

ps – if any of you can vote in an election where a seat is up for grabs, please do so!