Thoughts of a black man in Washington DC

Spray and Wash aint no joke

2006-05-27T08:45:00.000-07:00

Went down to Essencefest 2005 and had another great time last year (Pazoo is the spot!!)

Got back from one of my wild nights out and realized that I had a terrible stain from sitting on the stage, on the street, etc down at essencefest last year on the back of my white NFL jersey. So for the past year I have been washing, soaking, scrubbing and doing everything possible to get this stain out. It probably was a mix of cola and brown liquor that someone had spilled on the stage and then a homegirl was grinding up on me so it grinded it in even more. I tried SHOUT, some kind of OXY junk made from lemons that was supposed to take everything out and bleach nothing worked. Today I happened to see some Spray and Wash sitting on the washing machine so I spread the stick on

and I went back down to hang my jersey back up again and the stain was gone!!!! I have washed it over 25 times in the past year and it never ever dissappeared and now finally it is gone!!!

Thank you Spray and Wash. I am a believer and now I can go wear my shirt this weekend. :-)

SoulTiger2@yahoo.com

Music Genome Project

2006-05-27T05:35:00.000-07:00

This place is a good start for anyone who is serious about their music. Apparently you can put as few as one song in to it and it will store your preferences and go find other songs like it. Its dynamically, constantly updating based on your feedback like if there's a song playing that you dont like, you tell it and it will adjust your preferences.

I started off with Chuck Brown because I am from DC and it found other songs it says features funky grooves, busy horn section, minor key tonality and call and response. So far out of every 10 songs it plays it gets about 6 of them right. About the same probably had I just listened to a 70's funk station, but this is far more interesting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Brown

Ten most feared people in sports

2005-10-30T11:46:00.000-08:00

Peter Schager of Foxsports apparently spent a significant amount of time recently coming up with his list of the top 10 most feared people in sports. http://msn.foxsports.com/other/story/5013876?CMP=OTC-K9B140813162&ATT=230

I will spend a lot less time dissecting his list and showing how laughable it is.
Here is his list.

#10 Phil Ivey - Poker
#9 Roger Federer - Tennis
#8 Reggie Bush - College Football
#7 Rafer Alston - Basketball
#6 Takeru Kobayashi - Eating
#5 Jeanette Lee aka "The Black Widow - Pool
#4 Ed Hochuli - Football Referee
#3 Inzaman-ul-Haq - Cricket
#2 Johnathan Wendel, aka "Fatal1ty" - Video Games
#1 Mike Tyson - Boxing

Ok, first off there are some glaring problems with this list.

Lets start at #10. Poker? Fucking Poker?!?!?!?! There is no one at home fearful of competing against a damn Poker player. Especially Texas Holdem Poker where you are only dealt 2 cards. Is Poker even a sport? There is a lot less skill involved in Poker than most card games real people play. You cant put no cards back in poker, you cant bid on your hand in poker, you cant draw from the deck. You just get dealt 2 cards and sit there with a stoic look on your face. Spades, tonk, bidwhist, pitty pat. If Phil Ivey is such a feared competitor he should come to my grandmas kitchen on a Saturday night and compete against my Uncle Junebug in some tonk. Now you want a feared competitor Uncle Junebug is the fiercest competitor there is. He can play a game of cards, drink cans of Milwaukee Best, have his belly sweat through his tshirt, cuss and piss all at the same time. Little do you notice that your pile of nickels is slowly leaving and his is increasing. By the time he finishes beating you, you wont be able to find a nickel in your pile, in your pants, or in the floor of your car.

#9 has a tennis player. Once again a sport, but not exactly the most manliest. With that said Roger Federer is a beast. The beating he put on Agassi was inhumane. This is a legitimate entry.

#8 Reggie Bush fumbled yesterday inside the 10 yard line and a linesman recovered in the end zone. Nothing to fear there. Scratch him off the list.

#7 Rafer Alston a.k.a. Skip to my Lou. Now this was a surprising entry considering I didnt know white people knew about And1 mixtapes. With that being said we need to include everyone who has ever played on a And1 team. As a basketball player myself I can tell you that 99% of pickup basketball players in this country would fall for those same moves. These guys are quick, they are fast, and they can jump out the gym. Include the whole And1 family on the list and move them up to #1 of most feared. No one wants to show up for the Sunday pickup game and get 360 dunked on by a 5 foot two, 14 year old kid.

#6 Takeru Kobayashi - Eating

Not really a sport, but he has won money and it is more a skill than being dealt 2 random cards. His world record of eating 53 hot dogs in 12 minutes is simply remarkable. That being said, I cant see how no one can get closer to him than what they have. He wins by like 10 or 15 hot dogs. The boy aint but 130 pounds. Obviously he's had a lot of experience dating black women. They will give you everything else, but they dont feed you. I had a couple of dates whereby by the end of the night I couldve gone toe to toe with the worlds champ. One time I even had a Elmer Fudd moment where everything in the room was starting to look like food.

#5 Jeanette Lee aka "The Black Widow" Ok I admit I really didnt know much about this girl. I went to find out who she was, and the black widow aint even black. I think the top black girl in the sport is named "The Asian Bride". Seriously though, whats there to fear in pool? The game only lasts 20 minutes and someone can get luckier here than in most other sports. The thing that impressed me most about this Asian lady is when I went to her site http://www.jeanettelee.com/jlpersn.htm her favorite foods in order were Watermelon, Mango, Honeydew, and Chinese Food. Ladies and gentlemen, we have found out why she is called the black widow. Thats my same list. She obviously been hanging around with some of us. Maybe I need to examine her for one of my other lists. ;-)

#4 A referee??? Come on people. I dont even need to comment on this one. Ridiculous.

#3 Cricket? Is it a sport or something in my walls that keeps me awake all damn night. I cant seem to be able to find mine. They say that noise is a mating call, well mine must not be getting no ass, cause he been trying to find some booty every night since April. Anybody know the number of a lady cricket? email me. This has to stop soon.

#2 The video game dude. Ok, I have been the recipient of a few butt whoopings by kids who are still teething, so I know how competitive this one is.

#1 Mike Tyson. This one belongs on the list and Peter finally got one right. You talking fear? Here are some of Mike Tyosns quotes.

“[He] called me a ‘rapist’ and a ‘recluse.’ I’m not a recluse.”

"Lennox Lewis, I'm coming for you man. My style is impetuous. My defense is impregnable, and I'm just ferocious. I want your heart. I want to eat his children. Praise be to Allah!"

"My main objective is to be professional but to kill him."

"I want to rip out his heart and feed it to him [Lennox Lewis]. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children."
On Razor Ruddock

"You're sweet. I'm going to make sure you kiss me good with those big lips. I'm gonna make you my girlfriend."

"I try to catch him right on the tip of the nose, because I try to push the bone into the brain."

"I just want them to keep bringing guys on and I'm going to strip them of their health. I bring pain, a lot of pain."

"I'm on the Zoloft [an antidepressant] to keep from killing y'all."

Mike Tyson can smack my mom on the ass in the middle of 11 am church service on Easter Sunday and I wouldnt say shit to him. This man is not one you want to play with. I would take a dive against Tyson in a game of checkers. He'd be jumping all across the board and I'd just be sitting there. Can you imagine playing a game of hide and seek with Tyson? He'd turn his back to count to ten and I would be jumping into my car dukes of hazzards style trying to get the hell up out of there.

Ok gang, Til next time.

SoulTiger2@yahoo.com

Janet Jackson naked video is kind of ummm...bizarre

2005-10-28T16:20:00.000-07:00

OK. You got me. After reading the article about Miss Jackson (if ya nastee). I kind of wanted to see it, then after I saw that it was being banned, I really wanted to see it.

I saw it.

All I can say is....ODD.

The paparazzi definitely shouldve recorded it. Seeing Janet Jackson naked was nice, but it was definitely an invasion of privacy. I am glad they recorded it though. Her body is nice. Not great, not perfect, but nice especially for a 40 year old mother with a 20 year old daughter. Would I give her some? Before I saw this video, maybe a little bit. But after seeing it I think I would have to get up in there a little deeper.

Its definitely her, its crystal clear and no, there are not any nipple piercings from what I can see. Her body is soft, yet toned, no muscular abs as there were in years past, but nice none the less.

There is drumming in the video. I dont know why, but there is drumming. She lays on her back nude with her legs straight in front of her and hands by her side. Then she starts patting her hands, slow at first and then faster. Then she flips over pulls her hands behind her back and pats her ass in rhythm. Then she puts her hands by her side and drums some more. End of video. Obviously she was bored, or anxiously waiting the gremlin Jermaine Dupri or all of the above. Either way, thank God for the internet because some of this stuff we would never see. SoulTiger2@yahoo.com

Where's the beef?

2005-10-27T19:53:00.000-07:00

Whats up with black women these days? They've been dating since they were teenagers, yet they never change their game. They act as if they are still dating teenage boys. Why does every girl want to go out to eat for the first date, or invite you over yet doesnt have any food in the house?

Lots of things change with age. For instance that great black female 18 year old video vixen sexier than serena body turns into a round saucer shaped stomach from too many evenings with the girls at the Cheesecake Factory. The hair turns to weave and the attitude after being single and basically rejected for over a decade turns into open hostility towards black men at worse and "here we go again lets just see how long he stays around" at best. It should then come as no surprise to anyone how such a dish attracts no spoons.

However when presented the opportunity to make a great first impression when meeting new men, the chance is wasted. Us men frequently find the same thing as we find at our own houses. Empty cupboards, take out cartons and soda. The needs of a 30 year old man are much different from the needs of a 18 year old college boyfriend. An 18 year old college man can starve to death as long as he thinks intercourse is around the corner. He will miss class, miss breakfast, miss hanging with the guys and miss washing his ass. A packet of oodles of noodles does him just fine for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Then back to trying to stick it in. However a grown man needs more than a neck to put a hickey on and a pb&j. We need food or at least an attempt at food. A Steak, a slice of bread, a can of vegetables, a slice of turkey, a pack of skittles, something. Women these days who alledgedly are auditioning you as a husband in turn are letting it slip out that they dont care nothing for you or for the family budget down the road because they aint cooking. They aint trying to cook and you better make a lot of money so that you can order takeout everynight.

Any woman who has slept with more men than she has cooked for ought not be asking God why she cant keep a man, she can just ask me. The truth has nothing to do with her education, her house, her cars, her looks, her job. As Cedric the Entertainer would say....I'm a grown ass man, pass me a plate! SoulTiger2@yahoo.com

2005-10-27T17:45:00.000-07:00

Today the original "sick and tired of being sick and tired" posterchild died today. This woman had balls bigger than any man of her time. Even though thousands of black men often did much more physically demanding work in the south at that time none of them dared to stand up (no pun intended) and take a seat to make a stand. I'm sure they were equally tired, equally pissed off and equally fed up, however they complied with the customs and laws of the day. It took an angry black woman to finally put an end to the insanity of racial superiority. An end to premium fare for inferior seating. An end to the status quo.

It seems to me though that if greed were eliminated and simple economics were allowed to take place, then the segregated/separated bus seating could have gone on. At this very moment I am thinking I would take a seat way way in the back of the bus if my fare was half of what it costs to sit up front. I dont need a premium bus seat. Hell I dont need to see out the front window or sit up close to upper class bus riders. That shit is not worth me paying a premium for. Perhaps in the 2thousands we can bring back separated bus seating. Do like the airlines and trains have always done. Put leather seating in, perhaps provide a snack or some music for the good seats and charge a higher fare for providing that to those people. For the rest of us, we can go to the back. I am sure it can make a lot of people feel good, and increase bus ridership greatly in this country at a time of record high gas prices. Unlike Rosa Parks though, I'll be riding in the back of the bus. Thats where all the fun people normally are anyway.

SoulTiger2@yahoo.com