Seminole Lifestyle…

April 18th, 2012

Freed and escaped Blacks relocated to Florida and blended with Choctaw peoples to form the Seminole tribe. The natives and the Africans defended each other and also taught each other their respective agricultural skills.

I found this knit in Marshall’s at the Coral Ridge Plaza and it reminded me of a native American blanket. Possibly Seminole since it also looks West African in its coloration?

My favorite detail is the invisible horsey.

Can’t Get Blood From A Stone…

April 18th, 2012

Chocolate Snowflake and I are in Florida on my parent’s coattails. They were the ones who bought into the timeshare scam many years ago. My mother has rarely used the timeshares after my dad’s passing. Part of the reason is because this shit can be so damn inconvenient. My folks bought their timeshare from a resort in South Carolina and like most people they didn’t want to visit the same place every year.

The way these timeshares are supposed to be set up you can ‘exchange’ your resort space for a similar one within the resort company’s network. Yeah, that sounds all well and good except there be hell’a blackouts and unavailability as you try to make your exchanges. Now planning a vacation becomes a full time fuxin’ chore. And all you wanted was to put your feet in some white sand for a week.

Timeshares are operated like scams that you sign up for in perpetuity. You can’t sell them either because they aren’t property that was paid for but a week during the year. A SPECIFIC week at that. So in some cases when you can’t afford to take your vacation during that exact week you have to pay a fee to have the chance to use the timeshare during another week of the year.

I wasn’t even supposed to be in Florida with C.S. but everyone she invited didn’t feel like going with her. I don’t know why because C.S. is the perfect roadie. We do these timeshares to a tee with groceries from the local supermarket and hell’a maps that feature all the attractions of the place we are visiting. C.S. even signed us up for a timeshare pitch at the resort we were staying in (for an AmEx giftcard and a 3day/2nite stay at a Wyndham hotel).

The new pitch isn’t for timeshares any longer since the jig is prA’li up on these scams. The new pitch is for ‘Vacation Ownership‘. Same scam animal, different name. The salespeople try and coerce you to pay $15,000 so that you can accrue annual points to use towards visits to resorts in their network. Do these niggas know I can’t even pay my cellphone bill regularly? What the fux makes them think I might could afford to take a week away from my grizzly like that? Oh, yeah, maybe because I told them I go to St. Ma’arten or Barbados annually.

I’m already in hellified debt with just my clothing, toy and sneaker collections without assuming some scam from these two-bit soulless prostitutes. These scam niggas is only half a step above the niggas who work for financial companies who create sexy names for the instruments which rob people’s retirement accounts. They are all vultures and a blight on the Earth. All I want to do is put my feet in some white sand with my ladybug. Keep your timeshare scams.

NOVAKALYPSE!!!

April 18th, 2012

Steve Novak gave his fellow Knickerbockers some of his downtown magic for the win lastnite over the Celts. ‘Melo had a triple double and mercurial shooter J.R. Smith poured in 25pts without requiring 25 shots to do it.

Yeah, these Celts are old as shit, but this is the move the Knicks need to make for their playoff run. Who is gonna support ‘Melo on the scoring ledger? I elect Steve Novak to get those shots.

SNEAKER FIENDS UNITE!

April 17th, 2012

You must prQA’li think I’m pretty didactic when it comes to talking about footwear and specifically boots. Well I am. I live for this shit. And I live for the hybrid boot – trail runner – sneakers which come from the Nike All Conditions Gear brandway.

Peep these Air Talaria boots I come up on for $34.99 thanks to my friends at Cork Clothing. Cork posts Nike outlet deals on the daily. Make sure you subscribe to their e-mail feed so that you stay plugged in.

Gliffics: Call Me Crazy

April 17th, 2012

Call me crazy, but this video is dope.

Gliffics banger produced by !llMind