-Boy, it seems the south side of chicago is becoming an acceptable place for black on black DEATH. I mean how many people have to be shot and killed before it becomes something that needs to be addressed. As a black african USA dude I find it funny how folks who call each other 'brotha's n sistas' can lay rounds of bullets in each other like it's nothing. What they are killed over? Mostly drugs. That bothers me too. Why drugs have not been legalized is beyond me. We're suppose to be FREE right? Well why aren't we free to put what we want into our bodies. Why are alcohol and tobacco legal and weed and cocaine not? We know these substances are harmful to you so we'll tax the hell out of them and pretend they aren't.  You can even advertise if your want.  I mean seems silly to me. Taken in high enough quantities can kill ya over time. People are going to get high no matter what. Your never going to stop that. Keeping drugs illegal keeps places like the south side of Chicago the south side of Chicago.  The Tribune Metro section is pretty much a tragic dead 'black of the day' front pager.  So sad, so senseless. Click on THIS from time to time and I betcha you'll read about a shooting on the SOuth side of Chicago. It's freaky how much it happens and how much it seems to be accepted.

-Well it looks like Moonlight is done.  What a shame.  Great show, great cast.  I’m surprised it lasted this long on cbs, the murder channel.  I hope they move to a different network, like fox, sci-fi or the cw.  Fighting to get a second season on CBS is a waste of time.  They’ll just reduce the season to 12 episodes and eventually cancel it cuz people who watch numbers, cold case & csi are not going to get Moonlight.

-Interesting stuff these well known bands are doing with this ‘take the music for free’ campaigns.  A lot of musicians feel like Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead are devaluing music.  I think music is beyond being devalued.  Until they figure out how to make a NEW music industry I think most bands who don’t have mortage payments anymore are going to just sit back and create.  Both Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead’s albums were the best I’ve heard from them in awhile, so as a fan of music I’m happy I was able to get my hands o them for nothing.  Yeah it sucks for the music industry, but I think the problems with the music industry go beyond Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead.  Some serious shit needs to be fixed if it wants to remain relevant as a form on profitable entertainment.  These 1 hit wonder groups are great for quick sales and short attention spans, but in the long run you are going to have to offer quality product. 

-Was Speed Racer really that bad?  $38 million world wide opening weekend?  Good lordy.   The W brothers won’t see a big budget or creative control like they had again I bet.  Too bad, I loved Speed Racer as a kid.  The Mammoth Car dude.  The Mammath car.   

-I know a talked about it before, but I Still get a kick out of NY Yankees Alex Rodriquez’s salary vs the Flordia Marlons entire roster.  They are in first place as I write and its hard to believe Alex could pay the whole Flordia teams roster and still have money left over.  Wow.  Whats in your paypal account?

-Saw War Inc.  I liked it but good luck trying to open this at $20 million.  It ain’t Gross Point Blanke pt 2 like a lot of people were hoping, and it’s a choppy affair.

-Requiem For An Assassin by my favorite author Barry Eisler.  Great book, lookingforward to the next one.  Hope the upcoming  movie is good too!

-I was watching Smallville’s season finale, I stopped keeping up with it for a couple years (Supernatural is the real deal).  I can’t believe you have a 7 season arc based on a) clark and lana being together & b) Lex Luthor discovering Clark’s ‘secret’.  7 seasons of this tripe.  From what I’m told he gets regular visitors from the people of Krypton, including Supergirl.  Yeah.  Seems that since it’s ultimately going to be Clark and Lois you could have done that in 3 seasons at the most.  They way the show is done hell (everyone walks into Lex’s crib), Clark could have walked in Lex’s office and said here’s the deal…..I’m a badass,  I move so fast that I have to wait for bullets to catch up to me,  f#$k with me and they will never never ever find you…..then cut to “somebody sAAAAAAAVe meeeeeeeeee”.   Really though, I don’t know, fans deserve better.  I can’t imagine the fans of long running shows I respect (Farscape, CSI, Doctor Who, Angel, Buffy) continuing to support poor writing like this.  The main producers are gone now so maybe you’ll get that 1 fantastic season of Smallville you’ve been hoping for all these years.  Hope so, they had one helluva cast when they started out minus my boy Pete lol.  That was a token choking’.

-Spike Lee has been giving Clint Eastwood a lot of shit for not having any blacks in his recent world war 2 films. I know what most people think of Spike Lee. In fact I think he's been on of the biggest disappointments in the film world considering his potential (She’s gotta have it, Do the right thing, Summer of Sam, Bamboozled, classics….but too many message movies and closed minded race flicks). That being said I remember watching Flags of our Fathers and saying to myself "where are the black folks?" Clint’s stance is that history reflects the things he was filming did not have blacks in it. Of course that's ridiculous, but then again Clint Eastwood has never been all about equality (watch some of those dirty harry movies lol). I mean c'mon Clint, I not talking about placing black people in just for the sake of it; I was simply looking for at least one 'brotha' in the background somewhere, maybe carrying water rations, pushing a tire. Something dude, because we were there. It’s a reflection of sad times when such a effort goes towards keeping projects that clearly have a history of being multi racial and multi cultural a bright and white as you can get it. I don’t know this is still done.  Most white people in the modern day and age could care less about color.  It takes a major effort as a director and casting agent to do something like this these days, and you can bet it’s deliberate.  So sad.  Young people need to see what America was really like, and if you’re going to do historical stories it’s even more important to accurately reflect what actually happened. While Spike isn't the best person to speak up on something like this I do have to agree with his sentiment. You don't have to plant a black man in the famous flag placement scene, but have us in the picture somewhere. We fought for freedom too! Considering Clint’s age you can kind of see how his generation views things like this.  Clint, you’re a gifted director and actor, but you’re also full of shit.  And making a jazz flick doesn’t pardon you.

-I was listening to wls am890, a chest thumping republican radio station (I find the whole democrat republican left wing right wing thang so silly),  they had a guest on the Bill Cunningham show speaking about how hip hop is destroying America, especially black America. What a joke. I'll tell you what's doing the ultimate damage. The highway robbery cost of higher education. I know people who are paying for 50k of school debt cuz you see, a regular bachelor's degree doesn't cut it. You have to rack up 8 to 10 years of higher education schooling to get that high 5 figure salary now. What many people are discovering is that the money isn't adding up fast enough to pay off the ridiculous amounts of debt you incur during you school tenure. Many people have to work a career type job while going to school. You can work part time living on your own unless you live in a cheap town, which usually doesn't = to the best schools. It's insane how much education costs. Doesn't this country want its citizens to be smart? Brilliant minds are going to waste because after high school that's it. Only a scanty few will be able to get scholarships because in many ways today's high school do not teach young people how to study the correct way. So many young minds who might want to go to school are slapped in the face with not only the ridiculous costs, but also the realization that the 4 years of high school they went thru had more to do with atheltic scholarships than it did shaping young minds. When people learn life lessons from entertainment on any level, you have a general failing of the educational system. Robert Deniro plays mob bosses in movies, but when he's at home he's a normal taxpaying citizen. While it's true some kids do have a serious problem separating art from real life, you have ti realize that if you continue to make everything unobtainable in life, what do you expect. Kids aren’t' as stupid as you think. They see their parents and how they struggle to get by, taking 30 years to pay for a house, 5 years to pay for a car that in the end you end up putting an additional 40% into the total cost of owning. Medical that is just as ridiculous as higher education in cost.  Jobs disappearing into the myst of greed. Apartment rent payments that are higher than most home mortgages (how the hell this that happen?). Kids ain't stupid, they see the world for what it really is. Take away everything that is suppose to make life good, well your going to get repercussions. Studies show there is a serious lack of qualified Americans to do tech work. Gee, wow, what a shock. That kid on the south side of chicago with the semi automatic pistol with G-Killer playing on his Ipod would probably be a great Lawyer or CEO if given the chance, but where he lives, in his eye's, it's game over anyway.  There isn’t a college out there that’s going to give him an opportunity at a price he can afford (why do you have to pay to learn anyway, and where does all that college sports money go to eh?), and the neighborhood he lives in hasn't changed in 30 years, you do or die.  I think given the right climate the majority of people in this country would love to go to a good school and work a decent job.  It’s getting hard as hell to do that now. 

Amazing how times have got.  Everyone is feeling the pinch.  No one has money to do much, and those that do are cutting back severely.  What I don’t get is that you have this Democrat Republican 2 party system for like decades now.  They work in tandem.  They have too.  So in reality your going to continue to have decades more of poorly run government spanking your ass while they switch hit with brand new taxes whenever there is another damn that busted needs to be patched.  I think its sad that this is the government we are stuck with.  Much of this is due to the new direction we have gone in with education.  People are just not able to reach their potential.  Have you seen the cost of college?  Yeah, I know you have, your probably allocating a large part of your month income to it.  It’s ridiculous.  Its like this country wants most of its citizens to below average, with just enough education to be a cashier as a career.  Education should be free.  The human race cannot survive unless it makes an everyday effort to reach its full potential.  Those guys pulling the triggers on the south side of Chicago?  Given the right education you could have the finest in mathematicians, chemists, logic experts, doctors…the possibilities are endless.  Keep pricing them out of a proper education and you see those numbers double by next year, and more random shootings will rain all over Chicago (which is one of the most comically ridiculous cities I’ve ever seen…..those taxes…..the corruption…goodness) and more young people will have dreams of a decent life squashed.  I haven’t heard candidate the first mention anything about lowering the cost of higher education.  Helping to deal with high crime areas.  Reducing the taxes people pay instead of keeping them current or raising them.  Raising the average income of maericans so they can afford to pay the dozens of expenses they have to pay now per month.  I mean in the last 30 years the price of everything has gone up a great deal, but the money people make in relation to that just doesn’t pan out.  Now your average 2 bedroom apartment costs as much or more as a home mortage, which means simply people cannot save money anymore.   When you have a CEO earning $18 million a year vs the mail room guy earning $24,000 a year, your going to have problems.  Serious problems (in the last 2 years I know 11 people who have lost jobs).  And then they think that mail room guy is earning too much, believe me they will have some outsourcing thang in place before you finish your next blink.  The solutions I hear from both candidates sound like the same garbage we’ve been getting for the past 30 years.  We need some really radical changes and I don’t think either party candidates (who are both shiny happy multi millionaires by the way) are going to offer anything in the means of radical changes that must be implemented.  I’m not sayin’, I’m just sayin’.

I'm a black man, but big gigantic cellulite female bootys just don't do anything for me. I can almost hear the diabetes forming. I'll take em petite :-)

I really get tired of political discussions.  It’s like trying to discuss religion rationally.  You really can’t.  It’s personal.  Say something disagreeable and the gloves come off.  It’s the same way with politics.  My views on politics are a little lazy now.  I really could care less about it.  The more you look into how the world really works, the more you realize just how screwed we are as a species.  Government serves itself, and whats scary about is that it isn’t self aware yet.  Democrats and Republicans, there’s no sucj thing really.  It’s all relative.  They work together, each one setting policy that the other couldn’t with the desired result being something that serves Government.  Raised tax after raised tax and where does it go?  Government.  It’s suppose to be there to serve you but it really seems more interested in having you cover ill conceived concepts and costs.  Government itself has no idea it really exists.  It collects and collects.  Everyone ultimately serves it, but for what?  It doesn’t need our permission as the people for anything.  Government sets policy overnight.   In fact it will set policy and make sure to keep it out of your homes, out of your line of sight.  While doing so it will continue to reinforce the concept that you like in the greatest country in the 7 known galaxies.  Education is geared towards this.  The rest of the world does not exist, you only need to know one language because the rest of the world will speak it.  You don’t even need to know where Austria is on a globe.  You let government take care of that.  Strange stuff.  Take the wonderful concept of ‘Freedom’.  Keep in mind when the constitution and all those other wonderful documents were being written, they were created by slave owning sexist outcasts.  They may have meant well but in reality what they were is at the center of the very documents and principles this nation adapts as gospel.  Freedom, in reality in the United States of America, is simple the ability to live out your life as best you can with minimal interference from Government as long as you provide the bare minimum government expects.  In other words pay your taxes and obey laws.  Do this and you are rewarded with…well…freedom.  Nothing really changes.  Your success in life is usually directly influenced by the level of education you have received.  Anyone can reproduce, anywhere, anytime, doesn’t matter if your level of success will support your new family.  You work, come home, watch tv, sleep and do the whole thing all over again.  Variables like family or partnership can disrupt the normal pattern, but not for long.  As an American who has done some traveling I can say in most civilized countries you can do what we do here in the USA anywhere, which suggests that things are more the same than people tend to think when it comes to USA vs. the world.  It’s just that the rest of the world is taught to believe the USA is the greatest thing to come along since sliced bread.