MoTown hasn’t had any good news in a long azz time so I don’t think that we should take JEROME BETTIS’ SuperBowl victory lightly. Not that its going to stop the poor Black folk in the ‘D’ from killing each other. I can imagine that the ‘D’ wants the title back for America’s Most Gulliest City.
Well at least there were four hours where no one in Michigan got themselves shot the fuck up…
I sing because I’m happy,
I sing because I’m free.
For His eye is on the sparrow,
and I know He watches me.
and I have like a gazillion bucks too!
Obesity is the programmed effect of teaching kids to consume their own weight in food.
Just as an aside… it’s 10:30 a.m. on Saturday and I am drinking a screwdriver made with Level vodka and Tropicana Tropics Orange Peach Mango juice. Deeeeelish.
After reading TONY’s blog I realized that I haven’t posted anything lately relating to the civic state of affairs here in New York City. Not that any of the 6 readers of this blog outside of NYC could give a fuck, but there are 7 readers inside the city(is it bad that I include myself, BILLY, JACQUI and MASTER P in that number?) Well anyhoo…
The local news has been centered on so many of the issues that we have spoken about since last year I feel somewhat redeemed that we covered these topics, but at the same time I feel cheated too since the website’s staff doesn’t get credit for uncovering these truths. Sour grapes is prah’lee not a professional look for me so I will just “let go and let flow”.
The biggest news item that comes to my eyes right now is the wrangling over the construction of a brand new sports complex, nay, baseball stadium for the Yankees.
If it were truly a sports complex then there might be another sport played inside of it other than beisbol. How crazy are these people to spend over a billion dollars for a facility that will only be used for half of the year. Then again, what the fuck do I know? The Yankees may make all of that money back in one season by raising ticket prices and concession fees. Anybody up for an 18in, $18 weiner? No brokeback, of course
The Yanks are two steps ahead of everybody else when it comes to thinking of ways to print their own currency. One plan that is being tabled will have the Yankee front office sell bits and pieces of their former building to allay some of the construction costs for the new one. I’m sure there is no shortage of homos fans that would pony up some serious scrilla to buy DEREK JETER’s locker room chair. Since the city is essentially giving their land to the Yankees and the taxpayers are footing the bill for the demolition of the previous stadium maybe the Yankee organization will cough up some dough to the city from their memoribilia auctions. Ha! Are you laughing now?!?
As you might imagine all the local papers have trumpeted the arrival of the new ballpark as a boon to the blighted Bronx eco-system (no bitches, not ecology, ECOnomy). The dailies have been given some pretty four-color architectural renderings to publish to make the people go “oooh” and “aaah”.
Shiny things hypnotize us and make us all a bit stupid and docile. I admit that I did crack a smile when I recognized some of the faux classis architecture referenced in the design. Crappy new arhitecture that cross references classic municipal design isn’t anything new. I thank GOD that I don’t live in Cleveland, St. Louis or Kansas City because the armpit of America is like the Wal-Mart wasteland for architectural design.
And back to the forecasted economic boon that Bronx residents will enjoy… Yes, yes and yes, there will be a whole lot of Mexican day laborers that will get to eat pork loin for dinner instead of just pork rinds.
They are even creating a special hardhat for these guys to wear so that they can give homage to their country. It’s kind of like that whistle while you work thing that Mexicans love to do.
I understand that there will even be jobs for the displaced Afghans that have relo’d to the Bronx. Somebody needs to give homegirl a hardhat too.
So all in all I find myself content that the construction of the new stadium in the Bronx will not mean a goddamn thing for me unless the Yanks remove all those young whores from Hunts Point.
Now that would be a tragedy.
I know that I said I was going to give REGINALD a pass for the first quarter of his reign as svengali of the jig cultural dynamo called Black Entertainment Television. But after I checked the upcoming programming schedule I could see that it was going to be some more Black Bullshit from the mount.
The first feature film B.E.T. will run this month will be ‘State Property’. The idea I suppose is to get this month started with a bang. Watch the studio gangsters shoot up your television screen on Friday with an encore?!? broadcast on Saturday evening.
Super Bowl Sunday will be the time that you want to keep the family together for B.E.T.’s attempt at cultural educational programming. For at least an hour you can enjoy the ’25 Most @#%!* Moments in Black History’. PAUL MOONEY has been as hard up for scrilla as a Detroit crack fiend since DAVE CHAPPELLE cut off his lifeline so he will host this madness. I am mad that the jigs at B.E.T. can’t think of a printable word for ‘@#%!*’. I ain’t blaming this shiite on the white man either, this is all some Black Bullshit.
Sunday will continue with the family plan programming with an airing of the Hip-Hopera flopera – Carmen. A blonde-braided BeYONCE, MEKHI PHIFER and MOS DEF ham it up for your family viewing pleasure. The ageless 40yr old-still acting as a 21yr old DA BRAT as well as the 30+yr old teenage impersonator LIL’ BOWWIZZLE will grace the small screen also in this acting debacle.
The best show to be broadcast on B.E.T. this weekend was positioned during the Super Bowl pre-game show. ‘JoJo Dancer: Your Life is Calling’ stars the great RICHARD PRYOR in a semi-biopic of his life and struggles. This is actually a really good film and I wish it were being broadcast during the week when there is a dearth of quality programming on every network station. That is why B.E.T. gets me so mad. There is good shit out here to broadcast, but they don’t have the budget or the courage. I am tired of their original programming appearing to be shot from a webcam or worse.
By the way B.E.T., I wish that you would transfer your offices from the methadone clinic on 10th Avenue so I don’t get the impression that your staffers are stoners. I’m just sayin’…
Happy Black History Month!
