Remember Michel'le....and Mokenstef?! Along with many others

Man, back in the day. I love Michel'le. I was only like 5 or 6 when I heard that song "No More Lies." She was just so funky and quirky that I was obsessed. She did hip hop soul before Mary J Blidge probably even dreamed of a record deal. Plus, she can actually SANG! Sorry Mary.

Something in My Heart...she's a true lady!



Lucy Pearl "Don't Mess With My Man"...Why did they break up?!



Tony Toni Tone "Lay Your Head on My Pillow"





Mokenstef "He's Mine"

Modern Health Problems

Here is a paper that should have been done already for my Spanish class, here is the version en ingles. I'm a queen of bullshit papers. I'll put up the Spanish version as soon as I'm done.

Health Problems

A few of the biggest health problems affecting society presently are the obesity, cancer, and AIDS epidemic. As devastating as these illnesses are, all three are very preventable. The soaring statistics are evidence of many things such as ignorance, corporate greed, and failure to take care of one’s personal health.

In the case of obesity, I feel that the people here in the United States are bombarded with advertising that appeals to the basest, most reptilian part of our anatomy. We are constantly reminded of cheap slogans by companies like McDonalds and Burger King, with words like “Have it your way” and “I’m loving it.” This tricks a lot of people into instant gratification and they don’t think about the consequence of eating this poison passing as actual food until they get an early case scourges such as obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, colon cancer. Many of these so called foods are loaded with treats such as high saturated fat and high fructose corn syrup, a sugar so intense that it causes the release of self-addicting opiates in the brain, as in the case of a heroine or morphine loser. Perhaps this is why we feel extremely exhausted and a bit dizzy after eating “Whoppers” and French fries.

This leads me into the cancer issue. The last few decades have been witness to a rise in cancer cases like never before in history. I believe it is due mainly to unhealthy health habits, the stress of modern life, and the chemicals from industrialization. When the doctor tells you to change your way of life, you usually try your best to drink more water, eat less fat and processed foods, exercise more, stop smoking. But it is not always that simple. The tap water is horrible for you and the ozone layer is depleting all the while the polar ice caps are melting as fast as ice cubes in a warm cup of tea from the global warming. Then people do incredibly dumb and vain things such as sun tanning, skin bleaching, excessive hair coloring, smoking, eating junk food, etc. And sadly, many who develop cancer have often tried their best to protect their health and still end up in chemotherapy, a process that often has a very low success rate.

AIDS is a horrifying disease. Supposedly no one knows exactly where the HIV virus that causes it came from, ,but in the third world it’s leaving millions of people dead and many more children orphaned so they can be picked up by Angelina Jolie’s and Madonna’s with guardian angel complexes. Too many people think that a condom is enough to save you from contracting HIV, and even weirder still, there have been thousands of documented cases where people lived fine with the disease until they started to take the medications, dying a slow and painful death. I only hope that more education will slow the numbers of causalities. Still, when a disease like AIDS breeds such ignorance that grown men are convinced they need to assault virgin girls in hopes of a cure, I wonder if it could get any worse.

There are a multitude of health dangers in our current ages, and I hope as a young person with my life still ahead of me to avoid them as much as possible by maintaining a proper diet, refraining from smoking, avoiding unsafe sex, and avoiding other tempting yet destructive behaviors. I also hope I can help educate other people in these matters, because ignorance is one of the best killers. Two of the most precious personal gifts in my opinion are the mind and one’s health.

Note: I seriously laugh at the thought of anyone stealing this! I know I haven't gone into all the reasons/causes for these issues, and there is much more underneath the surface, but actually, the composition only had to be 75% of a double spaced page. Yeah, that's right. Yet I was in a ranty ass mood yesterday, and that is what I churned out. Time constraints usually prevent one from making a more in-depth analysis.

Memory pt. 1

A lot of the time she tries to pretend that it's normal, that any other person in her situation would feel and act the same way, maybe worse. It was another day of procrastination, stressing, and general dreadlocks twirling when that person called.

"Hi sweet pea." The voice was very agitated, that familiar tone that for spoke of the usual trauma to come. It was the evidence that the entity had arrived.

She really hated talking on the phone, especially to this creature who used to a be a different person...or maybe the issue was, she really never changed.

"Hello, pod. How are you doing."

"Eh, okay, ah guess. Have you been eating?? Do you have food?? Have you been busy with class??" It was the nervous line of questioning that really was meant to direct her to the inquire about the next paranoid inducing pain.

"Yes, pod, I'm fine."

Some words.

Is it addictive behaviors?

Is it wavering self confidence?

Is it self aggrandizing arrogance?

A denial of passion,

Is it proclamation of defamation?

Is it past experience carried as battle scars

Is it current accomplishment as a war prize?

Impatience disguised as intensity,

A cry for attention?

Is it a longing for things that lie beyond?

Family gives Principal Contusions over grades and cell phone ban

More violence in the classroom in Italy:

This time male relatives of a young student gave a veteran Principal contusions, their ire raised by the student's poor grades and a cell phone ban.

Really, I don't know what to say about this one. I'm at a loss. I think I might be glad I didn't choose to follow the advice of my teachers and mentors in joining the classroom. It gets bloody!

George Takei is a brilliant humorist!

http://www.influks.com/post897.html

This is Takei's response to Tim Hardaway's gay comments, believe, they are not what you think! Gut busting, truly.

Sister Rosetta Thorpe and the Noisettes

I love being a black woman. One day I'm going to play guitar like that!


And here is the UK indie rock band, The Noisettes' Myspace. They have a song "Sister Rosetta", presumably dedicated to the legendary woman.