Thursday, August 28, 2008

STEPHEN L. CARTER

I love to read. Reading books are my favorite pasttime. Even when I was playing basketball everyday I always read a book. My love for books is live an addiction. My favorite new author for now is Stephen L. Carter. He is a Law Professor at Yale University who happens to write fascinating literature. He has great character development and his stories get stronger as the book continues. I have bought all three of his book, Emperor of Ocean Park, New England White, and Palace Council. They are all suspense thrillers based on the elite black upper class. They are outstandingly written and draw you in instantly. My favorite is the Emperor of Ocean Park. This book is about a law school professor, Talcott Garland who is a successful law professor and a devoted family man. When his father, a disgraced former Supreme Court nominee and former federal judge, is found dead under suspicious circumstances. Talcott Garland suspects foul play. Guided by the elements of a mysterious puzzle that his father left, Talcott must risk his marriage his career, and even his life in his quest for justice. The use of law, puzzles, and chess makes this book a must have.

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

THE DYNAMIC DUO

Words can't express the power in the words Michelle Obama spoke monday night. She took the world by storm with her speech and announced on the biggest stage that win or lose the Obama's are a force to reckon with. I'm a basketball fan and I can tie everything to basketball. Michelle and Barack are the new Kobe and Shaq, the Jordan and Pippen for the new millenium. They are a Dynasty in the making. I'm glad I was able to witness it



THE FRANCHISE

I was talking with someone the other day and we were talking about the perfect woman. I feel that the perfect woman is like the perfect basketball player. She must be physically compatible with me and my ideals. She has to be able to walk into a room either with me or alone and make everybody turn their heads. She should make the men say "who the fuck is she with" and the woman say "who the hell is she". It's with the combination of power and grace that she can command respect amongst all those she encounters. She is essentially the baddest chick in a room filled with other bad chicks. The perfect woman should be able to instill confidence in her man by showing complete confidence in him and his abilities. This is similar to how the perfect ball player will pass the game winning shot to an open teammate because they have the better shot and in order to instill in them the confidence to take an important shot to win a game. The perfect female is everything you could want in a companion. She likes and is knowledgeable about sports to the point she is an asset in your fantasy football league. If you like to blaze the perfect companion not only blazes but can tell you where to get the best shit without the seeds and the hassle. Shit she might roll up better than you do. The ultimate ball player is pretty much unstoppable when he wants to be. Amongst a collection of the best players in the world he is the best. In my eyes the ultimate ball player is Lebron James. He has shown that he is slowing taking the title of the best player in the world away from Kobe Bryant. He is 6ft 8in and 270 lbs but he runs like a man smaller than him and jumps so easily that he makes it look effortless. So fellas from now on when you get a girl who you believe is a perfect combination of all the things you are looking for you can call her a Lebron or King James. She is the franchise player we all want to build our teams around. So ladies step your game up dudes are looking for Lebron James not Jared Jeffries



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Saturday, August 23, 2008

Family Affairs

I'm chilling in Canarsie Park with my family for my cousins son's birthday. Hopefully this week a fight doesn't break out like it did last week. Can't have black people, liquor, and weed in the same event.

Sunday, August 17, 2008

Eight for Eight

Michael Phelps has done what many felt was impossible, won 8 Gold Medals in a single Olympics. He is a bad man not only did he win 8 Gold's he also set 7 world records in doing so. This feat is astonishing. I can't swim a lick but I have an appreciation for someone doing something inspiring. So to Michael Phelps you are the best athlete on the planet right now

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

DOCTOR'S OFFICE

Today I went to have my MRI done. I already know that I have a torn meniscus I am just trying to determine how bad a tear I have. I have been sitting in the doctor's office for over two hour's now and I'm getting pissed. I have no patience whatsoever. When I finally do get my MRI the procedure is 25 minutes and I am not supposed to move which is difficult to do. They give you a tight ass robe to wear. Mines was so damn tight and short I had to put on two. After I get the procedure I look on the computer screen and I see my knee and the tear in it. I have to wait five business days to speak with my doctor and see what my options are. I really don't want to get knee surgery but if I have to I will.

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Pound for Pound

It is 8:40 in the morning and I'm watching the Olympics and Team USA play Angola. I'm also watching history in the making Lebron James is taking the mythical title as the Pound for Pound best basketball player in the world.He's on his Jordan shit. He's thugging out everybody he goes against so they will be no dispute as to who is the best player in the world. I expected Kobe Bryant, Carmelo Anthony, and / or Jason Kidd to step up but Lebron has taken the torch and run with it literally. He has me feening to see what he does this NBA season. I see an MVP season coming. I better take my butt to bed I have to go to work in a few hours.

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

THE BLACK PIPE COMMANDMENTS

This is an excerpt from my book The Miseducation Of Black Pipe

The Black Pipe Commandments

“I have been in this game for years, it made me an animal. There’s rules to this shit I wrote me a manual, a step by step booklet to get your game on track not your wig push back” The Notorious B.I.G. dropped a jewel when he dropped the ten crack commandments it was both informative and humorous. Brothers have got the game twisted. Everybody wants to be a player but do not know how to play the game. I felt that I needed to drop some rules for the brothers out there; they are messing up what others have laid down. I feel that rules are like commandments. They should always be followed and never should be bended. If they are followed correctly a brother should have no problem maintaining his status. The First Black Pipe Commandment is that Brothers should tell the truth from the beginning when they meet a girl. I live by the motto “It is what it is”. This means that you are not my girl and I am not your man, we are two adults having consensual sex. Brothers lie to girls to have sex with them not thinking that maybe the girl only wanted to have sex also. The most important part of this rule is that the boundaries have already been set. The girl knows that you are only interested in sex and nothing else. Brothers complicate things when they lie to a girl and tell her they want a relationship when they only want sex. The female will believe you want to be her man and will start believing you two are together. Everything will be going smooth until your wife finds out about the other woman. When your wife confronts the other girl the first thing the other woman will say to her is “he told me he didn’t have a girlfriend”. Every man is guilty of having done this one time or another. There should be no need to lie to a girl, she can only say no and you cannot miss what you never had.
The Second Black Pipe Commandment is that Brothers need to stop treating the one that they are in a relationship with like the girl they are only sleeping with. The way most guys get caught cheating is they change the way they treat their girlfriends. They become more hostile and become very defensive when they are asked a question. They snap at her when she asks him a question. Gentleman this is a sure fire way for your girlfriend to get suspicious and start playing detective. I had a friend name Tony who was creeping on his wife. Tony would start talking to his wife like she was a girl he just met. They would get in arguments and he would call her disrespectful names. He began doing things to her that he did not do before he got a side girl. It was not long before he started to slip up at home and talk to his wife about things he did with his girlfriend that he thought he did with her, needless to say his wife started to put two and two together and she left him.
The Third Black Pipe Commandment is that Brother’s need to stop bragging to their boys about what their sexual escapades did to them. Brothers are envious of each other when it comes to sexual conquest. When Brothers meet a girl that turns them out sexually we want to brag about it to the world, so we tell our boy who is both envious and scheming. Your boy is scheming on how he can get this girl away from you and in his arms. I had a friend name Fred who told all his friends about this girl he had that was bisexual and had a girlfriend who was down for threesomes. Fred’s friend Wayne was envious of him and plotted on how to get the girl from him. Wayne would always try to play Wayne out in front of the girl and talk bad about him to the girl. The girl would ignore Wayne and tell Fred that Wayne was hating on him but Fred would just laugh it off. When Wayne told the girl that Fred was talking about her sexuality to everybody she dumped Fred and got with him. Brothers should know to not brag to their friends about any woman they meet.
The Fourth Black Pipe Commandment is that brothers need to stop using easy passwords for their Voicemail code on their cell phone. The most incriminating evidence is the message on your voice mail that your girl has heard. I remember a time when my girlfriend took my voice mail code off of her work phone and went on the computer and pulled up my phone records for the last six months. She then proceeded too call all the numbers that she did not recognize and questioned every girl who answered about the nature of our relationship. A few girls held me down because I told them beforehand that I had an inquisitive girlfriend, but one of them wanted to mess my situation up and told my girl all types of lies. I was upset but that is one of the consequences of the game. I was busted and I had no one to blame but myself because I let my girlfriend find my code. I got out of the sticky situation but I still hear about it every time we have an argument.
The Fifth Black Pipe Commandment is very controversial and may backfire on you. I do not suggest you try to apply it if you are not a master in your craft. The Fifth Black Pipe Commandment is that if your girl’s friend acts like she does not like you chances are she is really feeling you and is jealous of your girl. Many men meet their girl when she is out with her friends. Sometimes all the girls will be feeling you, so you will choose the one that you are attracted to. The other girls maybe bitter and have harsh feelings towards you because you chose some one else. As the relationship progresses between your girl and you, she will brag to her friends about all the things that you do for. There will be the one girl who will stay bitter towards you for no other reason but the fact that you did not chose her. She will tell your girl every time that she bumps into you in the club. Every place that you and her run into each other she will tell your girl everything you do. She will be in your girl’s ear telling her that you are a dog and up to no good. The only way you can get this girl off your back is to push up on the girl and see if she takes the bait. A man who is smooth and has his game down tight can pull this off; but I suggest that anybody who is a freshman in this game should not attempt this. A true player can push up on the friend, sleep with her so she can back up off you and give your relationship some space. She can no longer hold over your head what you do because she slept with you. This makes her an unfaithful friend and a betrayer of your girls trust. If she was truly your girl’s friend she will be feeling guilty and keep your affair a secret, if she is a vindictive person you and your relationship is in trouble. The best part of this Commandment is that if you are able to pull it off you get to kill two birds with one stone, you get too knock down two friends and you have dirt on the friend so she can’t tell.
The Sixth Black Pipe Commandment is that Brothers need to explain clearly about what role they want the other woman to play. I believe that all relationships are similar to Basketball teams. I consider my team the Lakers and I am Shaquille O’Neal, my girl is Kobe Bryant. I do not need another star on my team I need a role player like Devan George or Robert Horry. I do not have enough shot attempts or minutes for Tracey McGrady. Tracey and Kobe play the same position there is not enough minutes or shot attempts for me to keep them both, one has to go. I always tell my girl that the team runs through me she can get her shots off after I get my shots, but I am the focal point of the team. A team with Shaq, Kobe, and Tracey will look good on paper but it will destroy the chemistry of my team. I need role players on my team not another star.
The Seventh Black Pipe Commandment is that brothers need to stop fronting. We Brothers have a nasty habit of saying something and not really meaning it. We may be saying it out of anger and not clearly thinking but the words still leave our mouths. I had a friend named Darius who had a habit of doing this. He would argue with his girl when we were around and tell her that she was just his jump off and not his girl. We would always tell him that he did not have to front for us. He would tell her that she was free to do what ever she wanted to do. If this was true there was nothing wrong with telling her that, it is important to let a girl know where she stands. The problem was the words would leave his mouth but his actions would be saying something totally different. He was talking out his ass. Darius’s girl got tired of hearing him say this and started to do her thing like he instructed her to do. She would go on dates with other dudes and he would be getting upset and be ready to fight. She would throw in his face “You told me to do me”, so I am doing me. Darius would be in a funk, but he only had himself to blame. Talking out his ass and not really meaning it had him looking stupid. So I suggest to brothers if you do not mean it you should not say it because you might look stupid. The Eight Black Pipe Commandment is Brothers need to stop telling their girls about the things their friends do. If your friend has several women that he is seeing at the same time and your wife or girlfriend knows about it chances are she doesn’t want you to hang with him. I have a friend named D.J. who is married but has women all over the city. We would hang out occasionally and when my girl found out I was hanging with him she would have an immediate attitude. No matter what we were doing she always assumed that D.J. was hooking me up with women. It was my fault because I would tell her the things that D.J. would do with different women. Whenever we hung out at a club she would see D.J. with different women that weren’t his wife. When she would question me about it I would tell her that the girl was somebody he was messing with. I was at fault because I didn’t tell him not to bring different women around my wife but as a participant in the Game with both should have known better. I however broke what is the Third Black Pipe Commandment but in its regards to my wife. I spoke about what D.J. does to my wife when I should have known better. My friendship with D.J. caused friction in my household. I was made to choose between hanging with my friend and maintaining my relationship. The Ninth Black Pipe Commandment is that Brothers need to respect the Game, “Do unto others as you will have others do unto you”. Brothers are willing to cheat and creep on their girlfriends with no remorse but when the shoes are reversed they become angry and lose control. If you are able to do it expect that your girl can and will do the same thing also. I do not suggest for anyone to follow my Commandments if they are not ready for a life of constant maneuvering and lying, unfortunately that is the true life of a player. I am only laying down Commandments that should be followed if you are serious about laying your game down.

Sunday, August 3, 2008

MICHAEL JACKSON IS THE GOAT

Michael Jackson is the man we arre dissapointed in what he has changed into but his music was the shit for many years. The Thriller album has never been topped Purple Rain comes close but it doesn't match up. This is my favorite MJ song ever. Enjoy

Friday, August 1, 2008

AIR OBAMA

I was over at http://williamyan.com/ and I saw he had a link to the Air Obama TShirts from Robust Flavor http://www.robustflavor.com/product_p/rob001.htm. I got hyped but then once I went to the site I didn't see any XXX T Shirts. Can the big dudes get some love. I can't squeeze into a XX and be representing. Come on Robust Flavor step up and show the big people some love. Your shirts are fly we want to rock them too.

THINGS HAVEN'T CHANGED

As a man I'm angry but am I angry because of the manner in which they beat this man or am I angry because the man being beaten is black and being manhandled by another black man. This is uncalled for and something needs to be done to stop these random acts of violence. Give us some respect that's all I'm asking for. You can keep everything else just repsect me as a man.

Thursday, July 31, 2008

I USE TO LOVE HER

Hey Boo

What’s good baby girl? This is probably the hardest shit I had to say in my life but I’m got to say it. I’m writing this letter because I can’t face you in person, I’m a coward. I know you are saying that this is a punk ass move breaking up with you via a letter on MySpace for the entire world to see but I couldn’t look into your eyes and go back on what I need to do. The time comes in every one’s life when they have to leave someone that they care for deeply and this is my time. We have been together and known each other for almost thirty years. You have been with me through everything from when I was a shy awkward little boy with the braces on my feet because I was so pigeon-toed to the bow legged man I am today. However the time has come for me to leave you and it is hurting me to even type these words. Damn why must this love affair between us have to end. I love you with all my heart I don’t want it to be over but I can’t risk what I have for you anymore. I have kids to take care of and I can’t lose that because of you. You understand but it’s going to be difficult for you to face. I know we haven’t been together the entire time but you are special to me and I owe you my life. You got me through high school, college, and half of my adult life, shit you made me a motherf-cking man because you didn’t accept anything but my best. The last four and a half years have been hard for me to watch you with the next Nigga. All I could say to myself is that motherf-cker don’t know how to sport that. Shit he’s lucky I ain’t in the game anymore or I’ll come back and claim my chick. That’s always gonna be mine I would say to myself. Who would have known that this Monday that we would hook back up and you and I would get it on like we never broke up. But with anything as emotional and hard as our love is people only get hurt which is what happened to me. So here I am limping around with my aches and bruises and I’m fucked up for real. I can’t even walk baby girl. I know it’s time for us to end what we have and there is no coming back. I’m too much of a punk to face you so I have to take the punk way out and tell you that I will no longer be playing basketball anymore. I hate to give up the game I love but my body can’t do it anymore. I’m sitting here with a possible torn knee ligament and this shit isn’t pretty. So baby it’s over. I love you but I know we can’t no longer be together.

Love Always

Nomad 33




Wednesday, July 23, 2008

AWW NIGGA YOU GAY

I remember when this group came out Ten City, it was the 1990's and Club Music was starting to get popular. My brother played this song and I loved it instantly. Many people loved it even though the lead singer was gay. Byron Stingily used to do his thing.

THE DARK KNIGHT IS YOU AND ME

Well I finally got the opportunity to see the Dark Knight yesterday after two attempts of going to two separate theaters and it being sold out. I thought it was a good movie but not the best movie I seen so far this summer. I rank it third behind The Incredible Hulk and Wanted. Now don’t get me wrong I liked the movie tremendously I felt that Heath Ledger played an outstanding villain. No one else except for John Malkovich could have played the Joker as well as him. He put Jack Nicholson’s version to shame and Jack played an excellent Joker. I’m writing this not to compare who played a better Joker but to talk about the hidden meanings and metaphors behind the concept of the Dark Knight. I spoke with my brother Dre early Sunday morning and he said that after I saw the Dark Knight I would have a lot to write about and he’s right I got a whole lot of shit to say. Now when I go to the movies I usually get mad and stop watching a movie for entertainment after a few minutes because I catch some subliminally jab at black people but while watching the Dark Knight I never did so. Maybe it’s because I have always identified Batman as metaphorically being a Black Man. Every one reading this is probably saying to themselves here he goes with this Black Man shit again; yep you’re right here I go again. As the Batman saga has gone Billionaire Bruce Wayne is orphaned and becomes Batman to avenge his parents and fight evil. He cannot do this as his playboy image can’t be tarnished. It is when he dons a Black suit and mask is he able to freely do what he wants to do. Once he dons his costume he is an outcast as Batman he is able to freely move around and combat crime and evil at night. If you remember in my Rebirth of the Sith Series I stated that it is at night when Melatonin is released into the brain that man reaches his higher level of understanding. It has always been convenient that Batman comes out primarily at night when he is experiencing memories of the ancestor’s or more fittingly his parent’s death. It is the emotion of vengeance that drives Batman and why he fights against villains some vehemently. In this current rendition of Batman he is not like our parents Batman or the early 1990’s version either. He is much darker, sinister, and violent characteristics that are eerily similar and associated with a Black Man henceforth the name of the franchise is changed to the Dark Knight. I’m writing in between writing my two final papers so I won’t go through the entire melanin, pineal gland, serotonin, and neuromelanin saga. I will however say that you can’t have a Dark Knight without melanin which is the basis for human life.
No let’s get back to the movie the Dark Knight. Batman who has given hope and courage to Gotham City meets up with his nemesis the Joker who takes on the task that countless criminals and gangsters have tried and failed to do, kill Batman. His plan is to turn the city of Gotham against the caped crusader by killing innocent civilians until Batman takes off his mask. After five civilians are killed the city turns against Batman with ease. They completely forget about all the years that he selflessly fought to protect Gotham they want his head and blood. It sounds so familiar to me with the way they treat so called Black Celebrities when they go against the grain of white society; look at how they treated Oprah when she endorsed Barack Obama, look at how fast they turned against OJ Simpson, Michael Jackson, Michael Tyson, and even Michael Jordan. Once they were no longer different than the rest of them in their eyes they threw them to the wolves. Harvey Dent the District Attorney of Gotham City steps up and saves the day. He is willing to sacrifice himself for the greater good of man. If I didn’t know any better I would think they were referencing the story of Jesus Christ. In the movie you heard Batman himself refer to Harvey Dent as the White Knight. I understand the metaphorical and historical significance behind calling him the White Knight during the Dark Ages King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table fought the barbaric menace of the Black Muslims to keep Christianity alive and White Blood pure from interracial mixing. The White Knight is the symbol of pure Christian Blue Blood that’s why many racist organizations like the Klu Klux Klan refer to themselves as the White Knights of the Christian Right. So you can see the potential battle brewing between the Dark Knight and the White Knight. However Hollywood is too smart for the obvious so they throw twist and turns to confuse people. As you remember Bruce Wayne is in love with his childhood friend Rachel but she won’t dare date him while he is the Dark Knight so he secretly lusts after the White Knights lady. The Joker intercedes in this romantic threesome by kidnapping both Rachael and the White Knight. He offers the Dark Knight the chance to save one of them by giving him the location to their whereabouts which are rigged with explosives and making the Dark Knight choose which one the save. By switching the addresses the Joker forces the Dark Knight to save the White Knight which was not what he wanted to do. (Side Note: If by saving the person who is symbolically viewed as Jesus Christ is the Dark Knight saving his soul and giving himself to the Lord). During the rescue the White Knight is burned on the right side of the body where he now is no longer the White Knight but Two-Face. Two-Face with the prodding of the Joker places the blame of Rachel’s death on the establishment and society. Gone is the symbolic hero but in his place is an individual who sees the world through jaded eyes. This metamorphosis I believe is what many of society’s lighter skinned citizens (White People) go through when they realize that the American Dream doesn’t include them. When they place the blame for all their problems on other races and nationalities than on other factors, this is how so many separatist movements are founded in my eyes.

Saturday, July 19, 2008

THIS IS BITCHASSNESS

http://ny.metro.us/metro/local/article/Obama_slave_shirt_sparks_lawsuit_threat/13001.html

I hate to even promote this or give this punk motherfucker any type of free publicity but I have to speak my mind. This bitch ass motherfucker has decided to print up shirts and sell them stating that Obama is My Slave. The p-ssy is selling them for $69. An incident occured where this 25 year old white female graduate student was approached and accosted by a group of four African-American females because she was wearing the shirt. She was pushed and the yanked the earplugs out of her ear. I'm not a fan of bullying and group violence but those young ladies should have stomped the living shit out of her stupid ass for wearing that shirt. She is in New York City where there are over 55% of the population are African-American or people of color. That shit isn't gonna wash here. You can do that shit in Idaho or Iowa but not here. After she was roughed up the dumb chick wants to sue the dumb ass who designed the shirt. He is protected by the constitution but he needs his ass beat for even making a shirt like this. His arguement is that he doesn't like Obama because he is a muslim, a claim that he has refuted several times already. I believe in freedom of speech 100% because I even say some outlandish stuff. but on the real he needs his ass beat and anybody caught wearing one of these shirts need their ass beat too. We allow motherfuckers to get away with shit too much. We need to start cracking motherfuckers in their mouth when they speak out of turn. "Don't start no shit won't be no shit". Where the fuck is Puffy at now. Do a video blog about this bitchass behavior. Jesse why don't you cut off the designers nut's. Sharpton this shit is going down in your city why you not boycotting his ass. Maybe I'm overreacting or maybe I'm not.

Peace

Aww Nigga You Gay

I was walking down the street listening to my Ipod and I came across one of my guilty pleasure songs Sylvester's You Make me Feel. Man that song is hot as hell for a disco song. The thing that most people may not like or have issues with is Sylvester is in Drag. He was the precusor for RuPaul and every one who came behind him. No to many men would sat that they like this song because of that aspect but shit i love it and bump it in my Ipod hard.

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

HI HATER

I'm a Hater. Terence from 106 and Park had my baby momma Keri Hilson on television and he was making goggly eyes and pitching woo. I'm heated. I am at a lost for words. I'm about to lose my girl to a corny VJ lol. What has the world come to.


ENERGY


THE WAY I ARE


HERO

Monday, July 14, 2008

QUOTE OF THE DAY

"For every glance behind us, we have to look twice to the future".

Saturday, July 12, 2008

DOWN WITH THE KING

It's a nice summer day and I'm at work. I haven't been to a summerleague game yet and it's already July. This is my dedication piece to the basketball fans courtesy of YouTube.



SPORTSCENTER HIGHLIGHT

http://sports.espn.go.com/broadband/video/video?id=3484160