The Roots annual picnic has replaced the Greek picnic in Fairmont Park as my yearly pilgrimage to the city of brotherly love [ll]. This years concert is absolutely ricky retardo. Just like last year’s Public Enemy set I am going to go apeshit over the Method Man-Raekwon-Ghostface Killah performance scheduled for this year.
As to be expected, Philadelphia is rolling out the red, white and blue carpet with pre-events and afterparties.
The week began with awesomeness because it was a holy day, or holiday as you may call it. Since it was my homey T.C.’s bornday I’ll call it a holy day. I had an invite to hang with my folks from Desedo Films for their bornday/BBQ celebration. That was dope. I appreciated the love that my homey MHB has for what I am doing. He chopped it up with me about his recent sneaker acquisitions and how he came up on four (4) pairs for a little over $30 per. That is Sneaker Fiends Unite! status so I saluted him for that.
The following day found Chocolate Snowflake and I doing some grocery shopping in the PathMark on Atlantic Terminal when the Google alerts started letting folks know there was feature in the New York Times about the Internets Celebrities.
This was some kind of awesome considering the fact that the ICs were hosting a film screening for our bestest friends (read: anyone who cared to show up) at the Brooklyn Central Public Library at Grand Army Plaza. If things couldn’t look any better MSNBC called us up and wanted to know if we could do their show the following day before we went public with our latest video.
Governor Eliot Spitzer was going to be the guest anchor for the Dylan Ratigan show. Yes, THAT Governor Spitzer.
At the end of the interview the lights in the studio go dim to sign off the show and lead-in to the Chris Matthews show ‘Hardball’. This is when I struck. I asked the governor, “What does it smell like?”
DP: Excuse me governor, not to offend you sir, but what does it smell like?
Governor Spitzer: Excuse me, what did you say?
DP: What does it SMELL like?
At this point, Rafi and Cas are like stunned that I would ask the governor WDISL? and rightfully so since we just met the dude so we obviously don’t rock like that. For a millisecond there was an uncomfortable silence as the governor waited for me to explain to him the smell I wanted him to recollect.
DP: What does POWER smell like?
Governor Spitzer: It can be beautifully intoxicating, but at a certain point you realize that you would rather be with your family, spending time with your kids going to a baseball game…
Well played governor and well said.. There was definitely a reason I voted for him the first time. Eliot Spitzer is an internets.
ThunderCracker’s born day was yesterday. He is still a big presence in my mind as are all the people that I miss dearly, Megatron, Kenny, Herb Shalat, my dad. All soldiers. Some are veterans of foreign wars and others are casualties of a silent, subtle domestic war that continues to this minute.
I feel like spending some time reminiscing on where I have come from. Without the people that have come thru my life in one way or another I’m sure I would not have become the person I am today. As long as I breathe their memory lives thru me…
