Wasting time with Jet

Just some stuff to throw on the wall at ya...

*Temp Agencies SUCK! They're toying with me like a dead mouse on a string. I have been getting so many "Are you intrested in...?" calls for SWEET positions with NO follow ups! Examples....

1) Document Scanning for a Law Firm, TEMP assignment for over 6 month
12.00 an hour with hours 10am-7pm

2) Bank of New York (Joe's Job!) is looking for Data Entry Clerks to
work part-time with various shifts (9pm-2am, 10pm-3am, or 11pm-4am)

3) Medical Records Clerk position somewhere in Upper Manhattan,
Light Computer work, but lots of Record Keeping Duties, Hours
4pm-Midnight, Salary 30k (30,000 a year...The most I've ever SEEN!)

I actually got an interview with Bank of New York finally, I'm going tomorrow. And if that don't beat all...I got a call from Secacus! The OHIO project is about to start, BUT they don't need me over there, yet. Instead, they're asking if I would be willing to go to, Get this...WASHINGTON DC! It would be for at least a month and I would have to go soon (in a couple of weeks?)...DC, I hear it's just as much a hood as up here, ha! I'd feel right at home!

But seriously, those 2nd shift hours would be SWEET, I've been staying up late and dozing during the day as it is...

* I got my ticket to see MOBY at Central Park!!! It's gonna be GREAT!

* After my JOB interview, I'm goin over to the seaport to finally see that BODIES exhibit.

* Yo, HOW great have these first 3 episodes of WEEDS been so far?!?!?

* Man, I hope SPIKE renews BLADE for another season.

* The MTV Music Video Awards suck this year! Remember last year? "Feel Good, Inc." by the Gorillaz, Missy telling everyone to "LOSE CONTROL!", the Ying Yang Twins talking about seeing their Dick, and even "Helena" by that damn Chemical group. All we had this year is "Dani Californa", and hysterical efforts by Paris Hilton and Kevin "Call me K-FED, Damnit" Federline, where's the damn music, man?

*I have a NEW MP3 Player!, yes, i'm retiring the ol' RIO CALI (She will be revered and remembered...) for MORE power, more storage!, and tiny, physical appearence.

*There's a new Sudoku game for the PSP hosted by Carol Vorderman (Whoever she is...) I'm still on a fix for number as well as crossword puzzles with new PSP games that I ACTUALLY Brought instead of downloaded. I have to look for the European version of "GO SUDOKU" due to the fact that the American version was fucked up by UBISOFT. Those bastards messed up the game with a glitch and have refused to fix it causing people to waste their money! I'm boycotting UBISOFT and all their games for here on...

Well, that about wraps things up for what's goin on in my world, have a nice safe Labor Day holiday, ya'll...DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUSTANCES DRINK AND DRIVE!!...leave it to hollywood to GLORIFY alcahol consuption with a stupid-ass movie called "BEERFEST".

I'm out!

Well, this summer if finally coming to an end, and as someone who barely worked, it sucked!

WHY?!?!?

Because I stayed at home waiting for a call from nobody to go out an DO SOMETHING!

Because I hung on to these sorry online friends I met on AdultFriendFinder thinking that they would eventually get away from their 2 1/2 kids and actually WANT to have a nice time with someone!

Because I let my gullable ass sit at home and watched the world go round when there was NOTHING GOOD ON TV to keep me prisoner!

Well, NO MORE, the next few days on the of this bullshit summer, I'm making the most of it!

I'm doing everything I wanted to do with someone who DIDN'T WANT TO DO IT WITH ME IN THE FIRST DAMN PLACE!

1) I'm going to this damn BODIES exhibit, finally!

2) I'm going to the GODDAMN Madam Tussad's WAX MUSEAM

3) I'm going to watch the first AND EVERY damn football game sunday this season AT A SPORTS BAR!

4) I'm going to go to the Newport Mall and buy 3 Blazers and I'm start wearing them with any type shirt like Don Johnson in "Nash Bridges"

and I'm going back to the Blue Note at 2am in the morning, to hear the amature jazz players like I used to do when I was in college...

and Finally...

I'm removing my profile from AFF!! That's right, I stop paying for membership, but kept my profile on the free standard list, now I'm taking it off for good, NO more! Will I let these sorry ass women PLAY with affections...I'm sick of playing the listening friend, I don't WANT to listen any more...

IN the immortals words of Spider Man: "I'm just looking out for #1, ME!"

(True, right after that statment Uncle Ben got shot by that mugger spidey should of stopped, but that's not going to happen to me, cuz like the tagline in CLERKS 2 said..."With NO power comes NO responsibility!")

It's time to switch to EMPEROR KUZCO mode, because it's all about ME, now...BOOM baby!

Cue my theme music!

Sexy Magic Freak - video powered by Metacafe

The latest Quiz I stole from some other blog, why?, Cuz I like talking about myself...

1) if you could have dinner with any three people (except Mohammed, Jesus, Martin Luther King Jr, Ghandi) then who would they be? (don't say Mother Teresa either)

Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino, and Michael Mann

1a) what would you eat? I'd have an order of French Fries
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1b) what restaurant would it be? The restaruant they had scene in the movie "HEAT".

2) if you could force everyone in the world to read one book (except for the Quran or the Bible) what would it be?

"Devil in a Blue Dress" by Walter Mosley.

3) is there a tv show you'd cancel dinner with your best friend for if you knew that a new episode was going to be airing once only? what is it?

LOST, no doubt.

4) if someone told you that you could only have one hobby/favorite pass time for the rest of your life, what would you pick?

Reading, I couldn't live my life without books.

5) which song is on the soundtrack of your life?

I wanna know what Love Is (Foreigner)
Smile (Tamia) VERY DEEP song.
Asshole (Dennis Leary) I couldn't resist
Joga (Bjork)

6) how old were you when you had your first crush? who was it?

13. Opal Robinson, my babysitter's granddaughter. Ya'll know the story, ran away from home at 14, never saw her again...would be terrified it I saw her now.

7) if you could read the thoughts of any one person, who would it be?

My sister, so I could really know what the FUCK is wrong with her!

8) if you could block your thoughts from only one person, who would it be?

My mom, she doesn't need to know how FUCKED up I AM!

9) if you could choose between life on earth forever or going to heaven, which would you choose?

Life on Earth, even though I miss everyone I've lost so far, I'm still afraid to die.

10) when you die, what will your contribution to the world be?

Hopefully, a memorial Television Series.

Okay, that was a bad impersonation of Desmond. BUT LOST IS COMING, damnit! Let the hype and specluation begin!...BUT FIRST, a couple announcements from ABC...

1)No repeats! ABC is putting the show on a VERY tight schedule with a HUGE gap a quarter into the season. Meaning, First 6 Episodes Straight Thru, then POOF the show disappears for 13 WEEEKS (To give a midseason replacement a shot...) then comes back for 17 STRAIGHT episodes from March to May. They say that, but you know they'll sneak some episodes on a few Saturdays so people can catch up, it just suck we have to go 3 months (November-January) with NOTHING! Damn that sucks.

2)The first 3 episodes with Deal with Jack, Kate and Sawyer being prisoners of The Others, don't expect anything about the hatch being blown, Eko, Locke or Even Desmond and those people in the North (or was it the South) Pole that are supposely looking for him.

Now, with this keen image courtesy of FIRE5, lets see what we can see...

Hmmmm, no Michael and Walt, eh? Five bucks says we never see them again, OR they finally come back with the calvary on the SERIES FINALE around 5 years from now...

Rumors have it they're be a lot of new faces popping up, eye candy for the guys and ladies...

More coinecidences between Sawyer and Jack's Dad will be revealed...

Sun will have a dream about her "9 Year Old Daughter"? Futuristic!

We'll also find out how Locke ends up in the Wheelchair (Hopefully it wasn't because of a battle with the Shadow King...heh, heh, that's some X-Men humor there...)

The Smoke Monster will be Back as well as the Polar Bear (What about Kate's Horse?)

and...

The hatch may have IMPLODED or whatever, but they're saying there's another one...UNDERWATER!! COOOOOOL!

Moby's coming to Central Park! And around my Birthday, too...September 22nd.

I dunno If imma go, a lotta DJ's listed on that set (I've heard of Digweed, but don't know any of his songs or remixes...). It's nice to see the MOBster (Not Mobster like John Gotti, the MOBster, long "O") getting back to his DJing roots. Lotta people don't consider him a DJ/Producer anymore since he began singing to his own songs. In hip-hop it's understandable (Kayne, Puffy, Pharell, Timberland even...), but Dance and Techno, once you step from behind those turntables, there's usually no goin' back.

I had just missed an Opportunity-of-a-Lifetime this past week! On the 24th, MOBY & THE ROOTS were doing a event at The Crowbar for the release of a Book about the Katrina Victums, There was a special reading by Actress Julia Stiles as well as performances, that would have been nice.

The ROOTS were even on THE MORNING SHOW in CBS this morining...BUT, I had nodded off before seeing them perform! (DAMN!)

Psycho-Sis is heading down to Richmond, VA to pick up Baby Girl from her summer vacation down in North Carolina, the lil pain in the butt will be turing EIGHT tuesday. My god, I can't believe it's been 8 years already, I'm getting so old, it's scary....

I was watching an old episode of "NYPD Blue" at 4am (I know what hell am I still doing up at that hour...) and there was a side story of a famous Adult Films Star reciving harassing phone calls. The woman in question was played by real-life porno star VANESSA DEL RIO (actually she was playing herself as the one getting the calls...). At 4am seeing this woman drove me insane! Does anybody remember her from the 70's and 80's? Gaddamn! She was like the hispanic Pamela Anderson! JEEEZ, she had a RACK!

I can't get her outta my mind, now, I've been trying to get pictures of her, and stuff, and back then she was BUILT! Like some crazy amazon, Red Sonya or Sheena!

I heard she's retired but still tours around the country to see her fans. It's so weird seeing her pop up in this episode, I sorta remember it, but didn't pay it any attention back then.



Do you see what I'm saying? This woman puts Pam to shame!



A pic of her back in the day...

Damn...

I was browsing around for new PSP ISO's (Still having fun with Tekken, don't worry...) when someone posted a PSP movie file (MP4) version of "Clerks 2" for download, it even had some shots of the movie so you could judge the quality. One of the shots was one of the best scenes from the beginning, you don't even need to know what it was all about, it just cracks you up!

Finally saw "Clerks II" this weekend, it was a real good pick me up that gave me a few great laughs, but it also reminded me of JOE. Dante was ready to leave Jersey and move to Florida to marry the popular chick from High School and live a dull, yet secured existance. His buddy Randall didn't want him to go because he'd be all alone. It was deep and I felt everything he said.

"I don't wanna try and make NEW friends at this age!"

Which is true, when you hit 30, you think, "That's it, just live the live how your living now for the rest of your life..." You don't do nothing new, you don't try to make New Friends, you don't hit the nightclub scene if you didn't do it when you were younger, you don't go BACK TO SCHOOL! Because what it boils down to is, you don't want to be that OLD PERSON trying to act young STICKING OUT. It's one of the most embrassing feelings in the world, worst than going to the prom alone, or having no date on Valentine's Day...it sucks.

The movie also made me embrassed to be a fan of Lord of the Rings and Star Wars...as well as the upcoming Transformers movie. Still, I'm smart enough not to show my geekyness in public (Except at work, I work with the same bunch of people, it comes out, I can't help it.). I'll admit, I waiting with baited breath for 7.4.7. (July 4th, 2007). Lot of stuff is coming out about it there's even a blog here on Blogger...


Transformers Live

In other news, the PC my cousin asked me to fix is beyond my help. The hard drive's not registering due to it being inactive for so long the CMOS(?) battery probably died and I have no expirence with opening up PC's and working the motherboards and stuff. Imma make one last ditch effort and take it to a place around here and get a quote to see if it's worth saving.

nothing that much on the horizon, this week coming is yet another somber anniversary for me personally, (That's another story...)

*sighs*

It's gonna get worst before it gets better...think I'm done for the summer movies, I may see "Invincible" with Mark Walberg cause it's an Eagles Football movie (A bit before my time, thou...).

Laters!

It's been a typical hollywood mariage (two months) since I've last worked and things are starting to get TIGHT around here (well for me, anyway, mom's living the life like a Cash-Money Rapper with a new Advance check!). So me being the thinking type, it was time for me to do what I've done in the past when funds were low...sell stuff!

This case in point, MY MASSIVE COMICS COLLECTION!

8 years ago I made around 300 dollars selling my non-essential comics on ebay. Mostly Disney Comics, Roger Rabbit, Rescue Rangers, C.O.P.S., New Warriors, Deadpool (Man, I miss his comics, Deadpool was the man!).

I basically did it for the space, I had around 12 SOLID boxes of stuff I collected from the 90's.

I'm still holding PRIMO stuff for later that's gonna make me THOUSANDS! (Can you say Transformers #1??? I have 3 of those, and think how much they're be worth when the movie come out next year...Ch-CHING!)

I got tons of X-MEN titles, X-MEN, X-FORCE, etc, some early IMAGE Comics stuff like Youngblood, WILD C.A.T.s, Shadowhawk, and of course, SPAWN...I have "The Death of Superman" issues and when he came back, the Batman "Knightfall" storyline when Bane breaks his Back, I even have the "Carnage" and "Cosmic Spider-Man" issues of the ol' Web Head (That cosmic one was ridiculous, they gave him TOO much power then.) I also have my treasured "DEEP SPACE 9" comics as well as various Movie Adaptions comics.

The 12 boxes have dwindled down to 8, with a secret "Stash" box of my most Valuables, so, I figured I'd try to unload some the X-Men's, at least my 3rd set (I brought 2 or 3 of the same book back in the day so I have doubles.). I have so many I could start a store of my own or wallpaper my whole room with them (That actually would be kinda too geeky...).

There was a time, I'd take one box on a dolly and go around town with a list to all the comic book stores, but eBay makes things easier.

BUT...ebay scares me.

You see, once you start selling stuff on ebay, you get this dumb idea to BUY shit on ebay...all the time!.

No joke, I was addicted to ebay like uncooked crack! They very first thing I won was a Green Nintendo 64 Controller for 5.00. Next thing you know, I was buying games, then I started to buy books, then CD's, DVD's, Computer Stuff, Clothes! My first Laptop was an IBM 760XL Thinkpad, I won it for 350.00 I think. I had the damn thing shipped to my JOB rather at home and then the Towers went down. My package was STUCK at a UPS center on 23rd street and 10th Avenue for 2 weeks and I couldn't get it because the area was closed off. I brought crazy stuff, I brought advance copies of books just so I could be the first person to read em!...I brought a GOLD plated GAME BOY LIGHT, not a Game Boy Color, Advance or a SP, a rare Black & White (Well, Black and Grey) Nintendo GAME BOY with a back-lit screen like a cell phone that was never released in the USA, it only played the orginal games, not even the color or those small SP carts. I brought my Digital Camera on ebay, one of the early sony discman's with the remote (Now almost all CD Players have remote-ear plugs), I went nuts.

Eventually I went cold turkey and discovered Craigslist (Which is 100% Better than eBay!) and I've been able to keep control of my impulses. But going back to ebay...it scares me man...

Selling comics is also tricky, there's still not a mass market for them, yet. I almost wish they go out of print or move on to a different type of media (Comic CDRoms?, Comic Podcasts?, maybe) that way people would appricate their value more.

I've been on the hunt for new blogs to read and I came along this witty little number...

All about ME! (on this blog anyway...)

Very crude drawings, but well written wit that would crack up a gargoyle. Check it out, you'll be repulsed or entertained, either way what bliss!

This was kinda funny so I swiped it from LLF...


GRUB-OLOGY

*What is your salad dressing of choice? Ummmm, don't really eat salad like that...
*What is your favorite fast food restaurant? McDonnald's!
*What is your favorite sit down restaurant? Uno's, the pizza sucks, but I like the decor.
*On average, what size tip do you leave at a restaurant? 5.00 no more or less.
*What food could you eat every day for two weeks and not get sick of? PIZZA!!!! Immma Ninja Turtle, dude! COWABUNGA!!!
*Name three foods you detest above all others? Chicken, Meat, and Pork.
*What is your favorite dish to order in a Chinese restaurant? Um, French Fries?
*What are your pizza toppings of choice? No Toppings, just plain Cheese, dude!
*What do you like to put on your toast? I ain't had toast since I was 13!! and even then I didn't butter it!
*What is your favorite type of gum? That blue one from Wrigley's "COOL Something"


TECH-OLOGY

*Number of contacts in your cell phone? 28
*Number of contacts in your email address book? 8
*What is your wallpaper on your computer? Garfield napping with his food dish on the left side of his face (Aprrently he tried to Eat and Sleep at the same time!)
*What is your screensaver on your computer? It goes to power save if I don't hit a key after 5 hours.
*Are there naked pictures saved on your computer? Ummmm, maybe.
*How many land line phones do you have in your house? Just one
*How many televisions are in your house? 3
*What kitchen appliance do you use the least? The can opener
*What is the format of the radio station you listen to the most? Hip Hop and R&B, although I don't really LISTEN to the radio that much anymore.
*How many sex toys do you own that require batteries? NO SEX TOYS!, mercy!


BI-OLOGY

*What do you consider to be your best physical attribute? My Soft Hands
*Are you right handed or left handed? Imma Righty, Southpaws are Weird, LOL, J/K!
*Do you like your smile? NO, too much gum, buck teeth, and don't get me started on my lower half!
*Have you ever had anything removed from your body? I had my Tongue clipped because it was too long for my small mouth (It's still long, though, ladies *WINK*)
*Would you like to? Yeah, I have some imperfections I'd like gone.
*Do you prefer to read when you go to the bathroom? No, I DO have crazy habits when I'm in there, I practice random Dialogue from my TV Scripts, If I'm wearing a shirt, I take it off (Just like George in "Seinfeld", and sometimes I play video games (Game Boy or PSP) in there, I just know I'm going to be one of those people that died in a bathroom!
*Which of your five senses do you think is keenest? Hearing, I can hear a fly sneeze.
*When was the last time you had a cavity? OKAY!, Next Question!
*What is the heaviest item you lift regularly? A box of damn documents at work! I'm not talking regular 10x12x15 boxes, I mean LONG, Legal sized paper, the size of a child's coffin boxes! Those 10x15x24 MuthaF*ckers! Filled with 7,000 papers to be scanned! We're talking 40-50, maybe even 60 pounds EASY!
Have you ever been knocked unconscious? No. Someone punches me, I punch back, HARD.


MISC-OLOGY

*If it were possible, would you want to know the day you were going to die? Yeah, sure, that way I could make amends, eliminate enemies, etc, etc...
*If you could change your first name, what would you change it to? It's not my First name I would change, it's my Last...it's not technically mine to begin with.
*How do you express your artistic side? Huh?
*How long do you think you could last in a medium security prison? I think Jaret Leto said it best in "Panic Room"..."I can't GO to prison, man...I'm not built for that shit!", Maximum, Minimum, even the Camp Cupcake, I couldn't do it.
*Have you ever swallowed a non-food item by mistake? I swallowed a penny once.
*If we weren’t bound by society’s conventions, do you have a relative you would make a pass at? Uhhhhhhh, NO!
*How often do you go to church? I was ONCE a god-fearing christian that went every sunday, but...ya'll know the rest.
*Have you ever saved someone’s life? Wow, um, No, I don't think so.
*Has someone ever saved yours? Um, no, my life to my knowledge has never been in peril.


DARE-OLOGY
For this last section, if you would do it for less or more money, indicate how much.

Would you walk naked for a half mile down a public street for $100,000? No money in the world, sorry, I am not proud enough of my body to display it in public.

Would you kiss a member of the same sex for $100? I'd kiss a dude on the cheek like Mafioso style, but not on the lips.

Would you have sex with a member of the same sex for $10,000? HELL F*CKING NO!

Would you allow one of your little fingers to be cut off for $200,000? for Half a Mil (500,000), I'd lose my left pinky.

Would you never blog again for $50,000? Ever?, damn, I couldn't do that, I need to write!

Would you pose naked in a magazine for $250,000? Now, that I could do, if there was a sick fan base for Chubby Chasers, LOL!!

Would you drink an entire bottle of hot sauce for $1000? Dude, I wouldn't put a dab of Ketchup on my fries for 20g's (20,000), no way.

Would you, without fear of punishment, take a human life for $1,000,000? Pass the glock, baby, then find the priest to forgive me so I could still go to heaven.

Would you shave your head and get your entire body waxed for $5,000? I just went through my LEX LUTHOR period thanks to those damn Bedbugs, but I wouldn't do that "40 Year Old Virgin" waxing, no way. ARRRRRRGGGG, KELLY CLARKSON!...nah.

Would you give up watching television for a year for $25,000? Nah, it would have to be like 5 Mil, man...a whole year without TV, I could read, or surf and listen to music, but I would need SERIOUS money to go without TV.

Mother Dearest is so pround of her son that she offen exaggerates of his abilities when it comes to computers, and every so often, one of her friends calls in a marker and I'm Drafted into service. I usually don't mind helping the helpless (as are most of MOM's senile friends...) but it really kills me when I see a fly PC system being WASTED on a someone who probably uses it as a damn table ornament!

Anyway...this old friend of MOM's (Who apprently used to BABY-sit ME when I was little...) had TWO computers with problems and lived all the way up in Mount Vernon, Westchester. It was a journey to meet her halfway on the last stop of the 5 Train at DYRE avenue.

We left at 12pm and made it to the place in question by 2, where I soon got to work.

PC # 1 Was a Dell Dimention 8300, fully equipted with XP and all the trimmings 92GB Disk Space, 2.8 P4 Processor with a 512MB Ram and nice lil baby 14in Flat Screen. If I had a PC like this, I'd could conquer the friggin planet! I don't know how long she had the damn thing, but apparently her 13 year old daughter had set up a GUEST account and had accidently "locked" the admistrative account with a password she couldn't figure out (My Mom's friend, not the daughter who's at camp somwehere, who knows, shit, I'm still jealous of the system!).

SO, the one way I know how bypass passwords and accounts for XP is go into "Safe Mode". So, I press F8 on startup and go in and check the registration info in System Settings...and long story short, THERE WAS NO PASSWORD!!!! You logged in as GUEST with no password, it lets you in, you change "Guest" to the original login (Which was the woman's first name) and click "OK" with NO password, and her original configuation came up. I wanted to cry...this woman was locked out from her PC for who knows how long over some DUMB SHIT!.

Okay, so once I was in as the administator, I took off that "guest" bullshit and made logging in with a password a thing of the past. The friend then took her time to check her Yahoo mail for a bit since she hadn't been online in her house (She reads her mail on the job, I guess) in a...ah, who cares. Her second problem on "Souped Up PC #1" was her printer wasn't idenitfied by the PC. Damn, even the printer was nice...Copier, Fax, and Printer all in one, I was biting my knuckles...

I turned the machine on, printed a test page, then tried to print one through windows. When the Windows one didn't come out, I deleted the printer and re-installed it again and the connection was finally made. The second test page came out and we tested the photo scanning capabilities on a picture my mom brought up from some neighborhood reunion she went to a couple of weekends back (This friend of her's is from the old place where she grew up, she's been meeting all her old neighbors and friends from "Da Block" lately). The picture came out nice and I was good to go on that PC.

PC #2 was a bit older "Bucket-of-Bolts" PC that still had Windows 2000 on it. This one the woman just got from her office (who was ready to throw away) as a side PC for the daughter (I guess), she brought a new printer to go with the PC, but it's a USB Port and the PC's so old it doesn't have one. She thought the computer had one but it turned out to be a mangled phone jack with some of the pins bent arwy. So, she was smart enough to get a Parallel Plug, however the printer only has a USB B type plug and the Parallel wire has an A opening, so we needed an "in-betweener" sorta speak.

Once I figured THAT mystery out, I figured my work was done. We were gonna drive to Best Buy, find the piece and "BOOM" head back home. But then something else came up. The lady wanted the 2nd, older PC to share her Broadband Cable connection the other "Fly" PC had. She brought a router (Wow, for someone dense, she was lucky enough to find THAT particular component) and a Cable long enough to connect the two. Damn, dealing with spliting connections is always tricky...it was a real BITCH to do it in mom's house when WE got Road Runner. There's installing the driver for the router on each PC, re-wiring the modem and hoping the signal works it way through and still reaches the PC's...it was a bit of a headache. I did the wiring the best I could, but had trouble getting the internet up.

I did all the tricks, unplugging the cable modem, unplugging the router, adusting various settings. at 5pm, we decided to take a break, find the "in-betweener" and get some food. We went to STAPLES and BEST BUY, and came up empty...it's a rare piece, and it's so hard to explain to these sales guys this crazy situation, so I told her that I was going to have to find it on my own in the city. We then went to KFC and Mc Donald's respective Drive-Thru's and then went back.

It was occuring to me that the cable signal may have had to be resent so we called her cable service operator and asked them to do so...it still didn't work. I knew I could have figured it eventually, but it was getting late. Worst case scenario, she calls the cable company and they cofigure the router and the modem. SO, I decided to put the connection back to the way it originally was. When I did, the "Fly" PC wouldn't connect either. MOM was getting frantic now, with her faith in my abilities wavering...but another HOUR later I discovered her "Road Runner Medic" program on the PC which finally fixed the connection (Which also made me wonder if the MEDIC program could of helped with the Router installed?).

It was going on 8pm and with the whole day spent, we figured I helped enough (She was locked out of her PC by a password that didn't exist for christsake!), I told her I'd find the other piece and said my good byes as we went back on our long ass journey.

Helping all these people, I still had my Cousin's PC to fix, and I was making NO progress there, it may be too far gone. Coming home and seeing my little eMachine C1641 tin can, I couldn't help but sigh to myself..."What a waste, that woman will never use that computer to it's full capabilities...what a waste."

In the meantime, I'll be on a quest, to look for USB FEMALE to FEMALE ADAPTER...



I should order the bloddy thing online and be done with it, But I love a challenge!

On August 11th, 1973 at his sister's birthday party in 1520 Sedgwick Avenue of the Bronx, DJ COOL HERC gave brith to hip hop. Herc would purchase two copies of the same record and play them on separate turntables next to each other. He would play the break beat on one record then throw it over to the other turntable and play the same part. He knew which records would keep the crowd moving, but he was more interested in the break section of the song. At this point in a song, the vocals would stop and the beat would just ride for short period. His desire to capture this moment for a longer period of time would be a very important one for hip hop.

It's so unbelieveable that ONE man can affect the world in such a way, look have far it has come, LA, the South, even Texas, St. Louis and the rest of the Midwest have made stars for this music. AND it's not even just the US, up north in CANADA, across to AFRICA, even as far as JAPAN there are rappers and Hip Hop fanboys that have taken their languages and made Hip Hop WORLDWIDE.

Last night, I attended a concert at the Hammerstein Ballroom that was sponsored by the relaunch of the website allhiphop.com.

Featured artists that performed included: Paul Wall, Remy Ma (aka Remy Martin), The Clipise, Papoose, Joe Budden, Juelez Santana, and Lloyd Banks. There were suprise guest apparences by Chamilionaire, Tony Yayo, and show-stopper BUSTA RHYMES!

On paper the line up sounds tight, but there sound problems, issues with entorages staying on the stage or taking forever to get off...the concert was trying to be informative and giving tribute to the pioneers (Cool HERC made an apperance an accepted an award, as well as The Sugar Hill Gang who made Hip Hop's first Hit Track "Rapper's Delight") and the photgraphers trying to record the moment in history too forever to get off the stage also. The concert started late, ended late. I thanked my lucky stars my friend from Westchester brought upper-tier general seating, because if I had to stand and be crushed in the floor crowd, I was gonna freak!

The friend had sprung this on me as a thank you for the Hip Hop Karaoke cruise thing, I was VERY exhausted but stayed a trooper and enjoyed the show.

So, Hip Hop at 33...not bad...we gotta find a way to bring it back to where it started though...gotta squash this G-Unit/Diplomats beef, and all this other hater crap going on...like busta said, "Make it all about the FUN!"

The Lineup so Far for Season 3...



Emmitt Smith

Keeping with the Athlete Angle, we have Running Back Legend Emmitt Smith! He seems just as Charming as Jerry Rice, but will he have what it takes to get farther? We'll See!




Vivica A. Fox

WOW, TWO black contenders this year? They're really trying to get "us" to watch this show finally, huh?...and it just might work, unless they both get eliminated early...STILL FOXY's good eye-candy to bring in the viewers, with just as great legs as last year's Stacy Keebler!



Harry Hamlin

I know, every one 30 and under are saying "WHO?", but a long, long, time ago, there was this show called "LA LAW"? remember it? It had Jimmy Smits in it, some blond haired chick, and that Adminstrative Assistant that was "Special", yeah, yeah, it's all coming back now...Well, Harry's good in that "Wrinkled, Yet Defined" category that J. Peterman and that Toasted dude with The Tan represented in the last two seasons.



Joey Lawrence

Damn, did I say Joey Lawrence or Justin Timberlake 15 YEARS FROM NOW!...Yeesh, father time really took a Bat to the lil kid I saw on "Gimme a Break". But makeup'll fix him up a bit come showtime. To see this guy Dance SWING I'd walk barefoot on hot coals, this is gonna be good.

I think there's two more spots left, and they both have to be female (Vivica's the only woman, so far...) so who will they be?

They need an unconventional female athlete in there just like Danica or Stacie, perhaps ANNA KORNAKOVA?

And maybe a Reality-TV Show BITCH...how bout "PUMPKIN" from Flavor of Love, she can try and spit and Vivica and get the $hit kicked out of her!

Now, that'll be be PRIME TIME TELEVISION!!!

You know what?, HOLLYWOOD doesn't care. They never do. They're in it for themselves. Whether it's suing parents and children for downloading "Mary Had a Little Lamb", or trying to humanize this tragedy by making it a story of survival and hope to save TWO people. This movie shouldn't even be called "World Trade Center", it should be "Ground Zero" or even just "9/11". I really don't think it's about money, or awards, I believe they do want to tell the story, but it's not the time. There are still so many questions unanswered, the first being...WHY? No one has explained that yet, all we've heard is spin. Was it who we think it was?, and if so, WHY? Why us? What did we have that was so Fuckin' special?

People say we Americans take our freedoms for granted and shit while the rest of the world is fucked up. Female Circumcisions, Idealic Beliefs, Genocide, Civil War, Hunger, the endless struggle for power...It's all every day shit! That's how they live, fuck it, WHO ARE WE to JUDGE?!?! Who are to say "Ewww, that's nasty, that's wrong." Niggas is raised the way they gonna be raised so let it BE! AND DON'T TAKE SIDES! What makes one side right and the other side wrong? Things are so fucked up in this world due to MISREPRESENTATION!

You what the sad part of this is...the one thing that gets me when I think of 9/11...

To this day, I have yet to discover...A friend, a relative, a school mate, a former co-worker, or any acquaintance whatsoever that died in that tragedy.

And when I say that to people they think "You must be so relieved..." and I reply, "No, I'm not." Some may call it Survior Guilt, but I think of it as a Measure of Who I am...to be unaffected by this event, is in my opinion, to not exist.

Finally saw Miami Vice this weekend, looking forward to seeing "Pulse" on the first day ALONE...maybe I see a nice early show...I REALLY Wanted to see that movie with someone, it looks like it's gonna be a great scary movie to have some chick grab your arm with fright. Got a couple of calls and went to an Agency monday...

The agency expirence was really something...

The paperwork was minimal (Thank goodness), but I went through 2 software tests and took a typing test THEN took a Problem Solving exam and a Spelling Test that felt right out of High School!

But here's the kicker, right after my "EVALUATIONS" I was led into the main room where about 16 people on phones and computers worked. I was formerly introduced...

"This is Leslie, He's a Type 2 in Microsoft Word, a Type 1 in Excel, he's looking for Document Scanning or Data Entry..."

I FELT like I was at a Slave Auction in Battery Park in the year 1621!!!

I took some questions from a few people that were considering me for a job they had and that was it.

They'll keep it touch...I never felt so...to be paraded in...like a damn circus elephant!

That one, stung, ya'll they better find me something.

I also got a call from a familar company..."The Bank of New York"!!! They're looking for a scanner in some part of New Jersey (That was a bit out of my reach...) AND looking for encoders to work at 101 Barclay, That's where JOE used to work! Imagine, me at his ol' stomping grounds, he would be proud.

In other things, MOM has me seaching through Orbitz, Priceline, and Greyhound trying to find her accomodations for her trip to VA to pick up my Niece. She was trying to head down to Virginia Beach, to also spend time with Auntee Tina, but MOM got the impression that her sister didn't nothing to do with her due to her weird part time working schedule. *Sigh*, those two...I think my Auntee's kinda weird, yeah but we family...I love my cousins and I think this thing between those two is silly. How does mom expect me to be nice to MY sister when she can't lead by example?

So, that's that...This summer offically sucked BIG time! Even with the trip to Miami. No Job, No Best Friend, No Girlfriends or even potentals, WTF?

Imma walking Diaster Zone.

I need to lie down and listen to MOBY. (They used some of music in Miami Vice, BTW, it was AWESOME!!!)

A long time ago, when I was faithfull to Nintendo...JOE showed me this unique fighting game on the Playstation that had amazing scenmatic scenes for intros and endings. Every time he played the game, he used some Hong Kong dude that would scream out his name when doing a killer move...JOE yelled it so much it became a catch phrase..."LEI WULONG!!!!". The game was nothing I had ever seen before, I mean, it totally blew away Mortal Kombat or Killer Instinct. JOE played it for hours with different chrarcters just to see their endings (Well, he'd work his way to the final boss with LEI, then switch at the last fight). Something about that game stuck in my mind, made a good impression. Since then the game has ONLY been available on a Playstation console (With the exception of one title for the Game Boy Advance...), that game was TEKKEN and now all these years later, it has been released for the PSP.

First off, lemme say this..."I am NOT a Video Game Fighter expert." I'm sorta good at Mortal Kombat 1 and 2 (3 SUCKED!), I think the best fighting game I'm a master a is Ninja Turtles:Tournament Fighters for the SUPER NINTENDO!

Back to TEKKEN, this game...it doesn't matter. They have pratice modes, tutorals, DoJo's (Schools), the works. It's 3D fighting with easy side-steping mechanisims rather that ol' school 2D Street Fighter/Marvel CAPCOM clones with crazy ass combos, jumping 75 feet in the air doing 16 air combos and other wrist breaking physics defying bullshit. There are various levels of play, so you can boost your ego a little by playing on easy then work your way up a bit. There are SO many extras to discover as you play you can never get tired of it! There's a money system (Rather than points) so you can buy extras after fights. The mini-games are fun (They Have Bowling!) and can teach you to fight better. When you get better, you can challenege other online (And probably get your ass kicked by a 10 year old.)

This is probably the hottest game to come out for the PSP since SOCOM. I was hoping to get Def Jam's Fight for NY Hip Hop fighting game before even considering Tekken, but it kept getting pushed back (I wonder if it's gonna come out at all, now!). The only other anticipated game coming for the PSP, now is probably "Grand Theft Auto:Vice City Stories". I tried Liberty City, and really got pissed with the Driving Mission (Tailing someone, or Making the Getaway from the Cops). They never appealed to me much.

This Tekken, this here's the Cat's Pajama's, man...They got this Brazillian Hip-Hop dude, Eddy Gordo that can do Windmills, Handstands, and Helicopter Kicks like Chun-Li! These characters may be old news to the Tekken fans that have played the last 4 games, they're new to me. I gotta call JOE and let him know, and then figure out a player I can chose that can beat LEI WULONG!!!!!!

PM Dawn at Maxwell's was a bust. I mean, true they played a nice long set, but the damn venue (club) was a Restarant / Bar. Fuckin' people were more busy eating, drinking and conversating rather than listening to the live entertainment! It was the fucking "B.B. King's Bar and Grill" incident all over again! At least the place was AC'd, but I had to walk 13 blocks back and forth from the damn PATH train station!...Meh, you get what you pay for, man...10 bucks. I rather pay 45-70 dollars and see them in a REAL music hall, you think people talk shit and munch on their food while they're looking at someone perform in Madison Square Garden? No!, you sit, you watch, you clap when the song ends and you keep your mouth shut! (Unless you're screaming in delight). Well, that expirence leaving a bad taste in my mouth, at 2am, I was browsing around youtube.com (I found that theme song to the Alf Cartoon BTW!!) and came across the unique music video for one of MOBY's best known songs...just figured I'd share it with ya and expose you to the genius that I worship so much...



You know, I put these things up and they barely get any attention from you guys...

Ah, well

PEACE!!

Man I wish I had a scanner (You'd think with what I do for a living I'd have one at home, right?), I could always go to a kinko's but it's friggin HOT!

Anyway, lil baby girl has been down in North Carolina with her father (the sumbitch) since school let out. She's been calling every other week or so to say hi, then yesterday we get this letter in the mail...

"I Miss you Nana and Uncle Leslie. I wanna kiss you I love you Nana and Leslie!"

Then in real big letters it says "PLEASE WRITE BACK!"

It has a few hearts around it and then she drew pictures of her, Nana (Mom), and me...along with the two cats, Indiana & Peanut. For some bizarre reason she made Indy look fatter than Peanut!

Just hits ya right there, don't it? The lil pain in the neck.

Well, the party'll be over soon, Mom and Psycho-Sis are heading down to meet the other family halfway at Virgina Beach to pick her up. They should be heading down around the 20th. It's up in the air if I'll join 'em considering I went down there myself last year on my 30th Birthday. Let them have some fun with Auntee and the fam, I'll stay up here and enjoy the peace for one last time.

How many lines have I used from "Dead Man's Chest" already as Post Titles?, LOL!

Seriously, man...It's friggin' HOT!! I hate when it gets like this man! Changing my sheets every day cause they're sweaty (For all the damn wrong reasons!), Making 3 pitchers of Kool-Aid a day, feeling EVERY trickle of sweat move throughout my...my...glistening nekkid body. Well not true, I keep changing my socks. I know to be naked and wearing socks probably looks silly (Specially if you'd STREAK!) AND it IS probably why I feel so damn hot, but I like to wear them so sue me!

The PM Dawn concert is tomorrow.

They say it may actually Break 100 degrees tomorrow, JEEESUS CHRIST on a bicycle!

I can't take this. I need to go to Alaska. Find a nice remote blizzard wasteland like Vin Diesel in "Chronocles of Riddick". Let my beard and hair grow wild, be isolated from everyone for a couple of years...that'll be cool.

Just one more month, till things cool down in september, then everything'll be all good. Just hang in there, buddy boy, you can do it, you've been through worst scrapes than this.