I have to keep it one hundred with y’all and tell you that I wasn’t really feeling this Black Weblog Awards joint when it popped off. I was like, “Mayne, fuck a BLACK weblog. My shit is universally futuristic. I’m like the thirteenth planet up in this biatch. I’m like that DWIGHT GOODEN white pudding bubbling up in a Pyrex crockpot.” The truth is that I have a severe inferiority complex that I mask with a rambunctious superiority complex.
I have a lot of fun working with everybody that comes to this website. This Black Weblog Awards shit had me a little anxious because I don’t know the weblog world that well. I fucks with a few cats out there… BOL, FRESH, ANGEL.LA, ZILLA, ESKAY, TONY, RAFI, ROBBIE, GLAM, TAM, SOUP, AMADEO… a few of y’all, but mostly I sit here typing away in my parents’ basement, while in my drawls and I sip on PathMark raspberry ice tea from my favorite cup with my crazy straw. It’s vain and narcissistic for me to imagine that anyone would really give a fuck what I think.
When I was writing for that shitty Hip-Hop mag and hitting my friends up with my bi-monthly e-mail blast everything was real simple. I knew the folks that responded to me and more importantly they knew me. They knew everything that I had been through to get to this point and they knew I loved to tell the story. I prah’lee did half the dumb shit that I have told y’all about just so that I would have a story to tell someone later on. If there was one thing that I was born to do it would be to tell my story. I just didn’t think that anyone would really want to hear my story. I am deeply grateful that you have said that you want to hear the story.
I don’t need to win any Black Weblog Award at this point. Just being nominated by y’all is the greatest validation that I could ever ask for. The best part of my story is yet to come. We have discussed my family and my foilbles in New York City. It’s time to continue the journey with me as I take my car thief game O.T. and I even travel up and down the East coast as a drug mule. There were two instances where GOD could have called me back to the essence, but instead I was granted more time here on the planet. I returned to my father and mother like the prodigal son. I saw my parents for who they really were. I was transformed again.
Please make sure that you place a vote for CRUNK & Disorderly, Concrete Loop, Nah’Right and Zilla Says on the 2006 Black Weblog Awards ballot. They have all been tremendous friends to this site and have contributed to the programming that we feature on a daily basis. I don’t need your votes at this point. I am thoroughly satisfied with my nomination. You folks wouldn’t want me to get a swelled head and trade my octaroon girlfriend in for an actual white broad.
yaaay boy!
ain’t nothing like black love and don’t you ever ever ever forget it!
LMAO at the cartoon….
Dallas, I am obsessed with your site…Since I got on, not a day goes by that I don’t check it out!!!
I’ve never been to New York but you make me feel as though I have. I read your stories and I can actual visualize everything…
Every morning, I await the adventures of Dallas!!! Keep telling the stories and sharing the love!!!!
I agree man, your shit is universal!
Congrats on the nod dude. Let’s bring home the Oscar, 3’6 style!!!
You got my vote mang.
I didn’t even bother with most of the other cat.’s though, since the only three nominees I’ve ever read are DP, eskay & Fresh’s…
Man… you got jerked at the black weblog awards. Next year 200 niggaz coming with swords!
you got my vote dunny…i grew up in manhattan and lived there my whole life – i had to move to western massachusetts for my job two years ago and your blog is my main conduit for a daily sense of connection to my home. Thanks!
Dallas progress is a beautiful thing, congrats – but on the real the stories, hit me off with some of those red cap stories.
I will say one thing about this site: I linked into it from Nah Right, and quickly dug the style. It initially didn’t seem like you updated with new stories frequently enough, but over the past several weeks, you really got on ya grizzly…. Regardless, this site is on point, with real talk from another aspect, with a bit of irreverence thrown in… As commented in a previous post, “Dallas Penn is NEVER safe for work!”
would that be a photo of Langston Hughes?
[…] I can honestly say that I didn’t even consider myself a serious contender for Blog To Watch, so that win was a nice surprise. Congratulations to all the other winners and finalists, especially Dallaspenn.com who should’ve won Best Writing in a Blog, whether they wanted the award or not. […]
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