The P Is Free - Wait Til You See My..

...degree.

She jumped on my bike, I said "Huh, what's your stop?"
She said "Right around the corner to the crack spot
If you buy me a crack I'll know how to act
But if you don't, you might as well step back"
-Boogie Down Productions, "The P Is Free"

Crack kills and bullshT sells, but we gotta keep shining that light on the muthafuqas that really need to be highlighted, nahmean. Big shout to the National Black College Alliance for the event they are hosting on Tuesday.

So anyways, Pimp C was relased recently. He is half of the UGK duo and go paroled after four years in the bing. If you watch music videos, you may have peeped shirts and heard verses calling for his release. Yadda, yadda, yadda. He's out now. Yippee. No, I am not trying to link to that bullshT. Can we now refocus our attention on muthafuqas who be graduating and not getting love or be doing big things and not getting highlighted with press relaeases and guest appearances. This cat FELL BEHIND on doing his community service after pleading no contest to an assaut charge. On top of that, he pulled out a gun at a fuqing mall. Hmmm...I wonder what his first rhyme will sound like? Same ole bullshT probably. But maybe I'm being too hard on son. Nah fuq that. New year. New vices.

on some techie shT

online tools for teachers



Points and Pixels: An introduction to visual design

Alex Haines: As much as Mobb Deep has troubled me lately with their 50 fellatio, you can't front on this techie's ill 3-D rendering of Queensbridge with its fitting background music.

Ejovi Nuwere: A brother in the tech realm doing big things while seemingly still grounded in reality and in possession of a sense of social consciousness. I can dig it.

TechFinder: a resource to connect nonprofits with technology providers

Hip-Hop Therapy Project: a Milwaukee-based org similar in programming scope to Project Hip-Hop. Definitely some interesting perspective.

Dysfunction's Beauty

Some things get clear real quick while others take time to blossom. We realize how shT connects in retrospect without going back piecing the puzzle pieces together.

I'm about a third of the way through the Rich Dad, poor Dad book already and I've also been doing a lot of reading online with all of my recent free time. Some sht really is apparent only when you have time to reflect, reassess, and redo with hindsight. I've read a couple of things online that struck a nerve.

Being true. My man HC lays it heavy in response to an anonnymous commenter. Basically, the premise of of his retort is why should you have to shed your exoskeleton to blend in? Why woudl you sacrifice you who are and what you rep to fit a certain mold or avoid being typecast. As a matter of fact, fitting the stereotype in theory, but shattering it in reality is the ultimate come-up, no?

But then my man conscious decides to regain his consciuusness and become re-inspired. His op-ed letter to the editor is brillaint in its sublte kick to the gut way of articulating the angst of peoples without hood sensibilities sans the criminality. Then, upon learning of the death of one of the The Wire's guest stars, I had the chance to read more about writer and producer Ed Burns. Truly some real talk going on right here. The thought process that I've observed throughout the show's run has been simply engaging for someone like me who can identify with many of the character's and the many interrelated plotlines that exist. I'm going to have to give teaching some serious thought. Although my preparation pales in comparison to those who truly have it in their heart to be a teacher and go through all of the formal training and certification and test-taking, it still sits in the back of my mind.

But this shT really has me thinking now. I'm trying to piece my life's puzzle piece together one by one and while being careful not to make the wrong decisions, sometimes taking to long to make a decision could be the wrong decision. Feel me? So with all of this career talk and education talk and financial talk swirling through my head, I'm trying to make sense of it all and figure out my course of action. It's a seemingly continusous uphill battle of balancing priorities, fears, desires, lusts, wants, needs, and happiness. Which side will prevail is anyone's guess. Here's to hoping I figure some of this shT out in less than 364 days.

I heard you got the fever for the flavor

Inspired by recent posts by people whose blogs i read, i felt the need to squeeze this in before these last two hours disappear.

Hate no one but love only a few
Franklin, Grant and yeah mom too
-Dres of Black Sheep, "Flavor of the Month"

• get more of my family & childhood friends up here to visit and enjoy the city and the midget in our environs.
• make more of an effort to reach out to my pops and his children.
• grow the record (LP) collection a keep that childhood dream alive. think Q before Bishop lost his fuqing mind.
• come up with some measurable resolutions that i can track.

• organize all of my pictures better.
• become a certified PMP.
• get that family tree built. well at least five branches/generations worth.
• write a living will.

• do more side consulting work.
• volunteer at least once a month.
• save enough to try and cop a new crib.
• redesign my business site.

• be a better mentor.
• craft a vision for my high school's alumni association and pass the torch to someone local.
• research new child care options.
• get rid of the mazda.

• take a trip to Atlanta to visit little sis.
• be nicer to local lil sis.
• be a better father, son, friend, companion.
• keep better track of my tax liabilities.

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