The Fat Dilemma

The fat dilemma

Now, this type of shyt drives me crazy!

I hate it when people go on diets, just so they can say they’re on diets and then proceed to eat diet food!! Will someone wake these people the hell up!! I don’t mind those who are actually trying to live healthier, so they diet with a sense of true purpose and attempt to change their lives….but these damn people who diet every three months only to find their way back to Ben & Jerry’s and 25 additional pounds between diets!!
C’mon, how can you be on a diet and go to McDonalds and place this order:

““Welcome to McDonalds, how can I help you”

Well, I’m on a diet so, I’ll take a #9, super-sized with a diet coke! Hey, I gotta do my part for the diet gods!!

“Would you like a “You’re a dumb-ass” sticker with that?

No, thanks! I got my own!!”…

WTF, give me a break! If you are serious about losing weight then try working out…that doesn’t include lifting up any utensil to stuff you damn face!!! Greedy bastards. Hey, we all can stand to lose a few pounds, but don’t go camouflaging your weight problems as merely eating problems or family genes!! Get your lazy ass off the couch! Stop watching Sex in the City and Desperate Housewives, and start hitting the gym! Take a walk at lunchtime! Pick up an aerobics class! Hell, take a dancing lesson!! Do something other than quick simple shyt that does not work!

Sure the advertisement said,

“Take this pill and we’ll guarantee you lose thirty pounds in thirty days……you may experience unexpected bowel control, lack of sex drive, shriveled up breasts, and frequent flatuation!!!”””

Oh yeah, don’t worry about the small print, because we want you to try our other pills for an additional thirty days…you idiot!!

Get off the couch and do something that doesn’t include purchasing food or moving to consume food!!



Ten Things that are not considered exercise!

1. Finger pull-ups ( commonly referred to as playing with the remote)

2. Home sprints (or shall I say, walking to the fridge while the TV is on commercials)

3. Push ups - you know the ice cream treat!!!

4. Wrestling- fighting with family members over the last piece of food at the table

5. Note: Hydration generally does not include any carbonated drinks: Diet Cokes or Pepsi.

6. Weight lifting – nope placing the food in the oven does not qualify and taking the food out isn’t considered the cool down

7. Food contest—who can eat the most chili cheese fries from your local Coney Island restaurant isn’t a sport, professionally or amateur. Doesn’t matter if there’s a league for it or not

8. Sex –that’s considering your fat ass is getting any….It doesn’t count!! Okay, yeah, you might get a nice work out…but you’ve probably ingested some form of food in the process to gain those loss calories right back…i.e.…whip cream, or any other flavored cream…it just doesn’t count okay!!

9. Dreams --- if you dream about doing any activity, which you can’t do in reality…doesn’t count! If you dream about swimming and you can’t swim doesn’t count, hell you probably was swimming in a pool filled with gravy any damn way. If you dream it, you will lose the weight…sorry ya gotta do it too

10. Fitness Center—registering for a Bally’s, US Fitness, Fitness USA, Gold’s Gym, or any other place like that doesn’t count if you don’t actually go to the gym more than six times a month!! You have to do work at the gym, and looking at others doesn’t count either!


You can be an Average Joe! Just don’t be disillusioned by your so-called diet and then turn around and wonder why it never works!!! Hey, I’m no body of perfection either, but I’ve accepted reality!! Don’t do diets, just play ball and walk to places that aren’t food related, so hopefully I won’t have to worry about lying to myself about the reasons I would be obese…fucking fat!!! I said that with love!!!

Diets, ya gotta love’em…not really

Change ya life…and watch your body change as well!!

Until Next time…

The Bird's the Word

Okay, so Turkey Day has come and gone, but that damn bird is still in the fridge! So, what ways have you come up with to eliminate the remainder of your bird?

So far, I have only had a few slices, excluding Thanksgiving Day! I don't even think I'm going to make it to a turkey sandwich this year! Heck, our bird was kind of dry! The Turkey cooks refuse to believe that they cooked a dry ass bird...hello, it's Turkey and unless you do something totally amazing with it....it's going to be dry!

Note: There are three jars of Miracle Whip in the fridge!!! If the bird wasn't that damn dry...what's the purpose of the mayo!!! Hello, is this thing on!!??


So, how have you used your left-over bird so far:

My brother's trying turkey pot-pie! I told him just to leave it alone, but I think he thinks he has something rather special on his hand! Other than a headache, I don't see it!

As for myself, it's back to the regular, get that Thanksgiving day crap out of here! As interesting as it is, people tend to call it a thanksgiving day meal, but I'm pretty sure I've eaten this same meal on different holidays, hell, on different family functions that were not holidays!! I guess the only true difference is that we only do turkey on Thanksgiving!! I guess their boycott works most of there year!

Until next time...

RENT Review

Yeaaahhhh boooyyyeeee!!!

Okay, so I finally got a chance to catch Rent on Saturday, so here are my thoughts!

The movie started off with the song that they play in the Previews (Seasons of Love)Movie Clip, so that had me really excited about the rest of the movie! However, after such a good opening scene, it became rather slow, and I had the feeling that it was going to be another poor adaptation of something wonderful gong wrong! Much to my delight, the movie picked up tremendously! The movie which had most of the original musical cast, stayed true to the play! The movie even clarified a lot of things that I didn't pick up on from the play! For anyone who plans on going to see this movie, I can only hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Actually, I plan on going to see it again!

Overall I felt the movie did justice to the play, so I have to give it a 4.3 out of 5! Why the weird number you ask??? The first couple of minutes that started off rather slow must be accounted for somehow! Other than that it may have gotten a 4.5...couldn't give it a 5, because I think it might be slightly bias!!! I would have to say "See the play first" but for those who can't make it to NYC to check it out, the movie may seem like crib notes!! Anyway, go check it out...and then tell me if I'm wrong!!!

Until next time....

RENT - IT'S TIME

Yep, today is the day that RENT- the movie opens! Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know I've talked about it before, but hey, I've been patiently waiting to see this movie!! So, if any of you out there get a chance to catch it, let me know what you think. If it sucks, say so, but if you find yourself pleasantly surprised, say so as well!

The play was cool, and I'm hoping the movie does it justice!

Here is a list of Reviews from "Experts" around the country on RENT!!

NY Times

Detroit News

USA Today

LA Times

Roger Ebert-Chicago Sun Times


Until next time...

Top Ten Things To Be Thankful For!!

Thanks a lot!


10. I'm thankful that the local newspapers have to admit that there are other stories that affect this area, other than those of Detroit Politicians.

Oakland County

Computech

Drug Bust

09. I'm thankful that we finally get to hear Michael Jackson get angry. I knew he had it in him!

08. I'm thankful that not all music shootings involve hip-hop artist!
Shots Fired at Singer's Tour Bus

07. I'm thankful that an American gaming system has finally stirred a buzz!

06. I'm thankful that the Government is finally bringing some of our troops home.

05. I'm thankful that there are a million ways to cook turkey, seeing how we will need them since that turkey will still be in the fridge until almost Christmas!!

04. I'm thankful that at least one bird got pardoned. Now if we can just figure out how to get it out of the White House.

03. I'm thankful for a large family, so I don't have to do dishes! Hey, what else are the younger kids for!

02. I'm thankful that the gas prices are going down, so I can pay more on my home heating bill!!

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01. I'm thankful that I get to spend time with family members that live within ten minutes of me, that I probably won't see until next Thanksgiving...or when someone dies!!

At least we get days off of work!!! Thanksgiving ya gotta love it!!

Love and Loving Again

Love and Loving again

Okay so I have a couple of questions:

How long does it takes to fall in love again?

Can you ever really fall in love with someone else after releasing that one true love?

What does new love feel like?

When should you give up on finding that special someone?

NBOBA INC Event

Okay, I attended this event last Friday on Nov. 18th! It was held at Wayne State University and sponsored by National Black Operational Business Association!

The keynote speaker of the event was Afeni Shakur (Tupac's Mom)!

Anyhow, I thought the event was pretty good overall. Each speaker addressed a different issue, mostly pertaining to the youth, particularly black youth.

Here is a list of the speakers and a title of what they were to discuss:

1. Judge Debbie Thomas - Black Youth and the Law
   
   
2. Brother Samsadeen - Fortifying The Spiritual & Moral Fiber of Black Youth
   
   
3. Judge Wade McCree - Racial Disparities @ 36th District Court
   
   
4. Dennis Thompson - Effects of The Willie Lynch Doctrine
   
   
5. Mohammed Luwemba - ORR
   
   
6. Afeni Shakur - General
   

The speakers for the most part were well informed on the subjects that that spoke, which only seemed reasonable!! The evening was filled with emotional and interesting moments! Judge Wade McCree gave the best presentation of the evening. His ability to hold the attention of the audience with his content and delivery was extremely effective. While emotions were sent extremely high by the founder of the NBOBA, Afeni Shakur managed to bring everything into perspective. Ms. Shakur, formerly a Black Panther pretty much delivered a message of peace, and she instructed us that her passion was the uplifting of the youth! She also stated that despite some of the things that we may have heard through the course of the evening, her message was once of peace and love! She stated that blacks did not have to die for the cause, but instead live for the cause in order to be more effective. The Civil Rights Movement had tried the Non-Violent approach. The Black Panthers had focused on the militant and more aggressive approach. Regardless to which method that was tried the results were startling the same in some instances; our leaders of those movements were killed. Her message went against the saying "If you can't find something to live for, then find something to die for,” she stated that as a people we have done enough dying and it was time for us to live for a cause. It was time that the youth aspired to those political positions. It was time that we strived to get those corporate positions. In these ways we could be just as effective as the other movements!

Overall the event was pretty informative and it even had some heart felt moments.

Until next time...

A Cause United

Okay, so it's one of those rare weekends in the state of Michigan where Michigan State football fans should be rooting for Michigan! No, I haven't slipped and bumped my head either! I mean, c'mon! What else does State actually have to play for??

Here are the facts:

1. Michigan State started the season off great!
   
2. The beat Notre Damn, who's ranked in the top ten now!
   
3. They loss to Ohio State!
   
4. They get to ruin Penn State's chance at the Big Ten title!
   
5. Their slim hopes of a bowl game appearance depends on a win against Penn State! Okay, so maybe hope is all ready gone for a bowl game, but damn it have some pride about yourselves!! (so that last line was a rather opinionated rant...but, come on Spartans, win one for the...just win)
   

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Yeah, I'm a Michigan fan first, but I don't root against the Spartans, not even in the head to head game, unless the Wolverines are the underdog. Hey, I just like to see a good game between the two teams!


So, if you Spartans do your job and beat Penn State, and you Wolverines kick the crap out of Ohio State, at least the state of Michigan can save face in this crazy college football world.

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The end result:
Michigan State heads into next season with a win streak.
Michigan wins a share of the Big Ten Championship Title.
The Spartans can also boast how they beat two teams ranked in the top ten!
The Spartans can boast on how they beat the Champion of the Big Ten...okay, so they loss to two of the other Co-Champions...but that's just a mere technicality!!

Oh yeah, Ohio State sucks!!! Go Wolverines. and Spartans!!!! I really mean it!

College Football, ya gotta love it!!

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Until next time...

D-DAY

Okay, so yeah it's been a minute!! Almost a week, but I'm back like retired rappers!

I took that damn test yesterday, but I didn't do as well as I wanted to. The questions were not as difficult as the ones that I had been studying for, but for some reason...I just didn't get my targeted goal. If you're asking yourself..."okay, so what did you get" I'm not even going to tell ya, so stop thinking about it! It was this one guy you had only studied for a day...I can only imagine his score. Heck he had been out of school six years, so that put him at a serious disadvantage..unless he was a genius or something.

Anyway, the test is done and now it's time to apply to some B-Schools, okay, so I won't be applying to as many as I would have liked to, but I still have a few on the radar! Friends were asking me if I planned on taking it again...no, hell to the nawwww!! I'm not kicking out another $250 for a weird as test....heck I can find those online for free....ya gotta love the system though!!

Until next time...

They Got Me

Oh yeah! You're probably wondering who are "They", if not then you should be! On Tuesday, some idiots broke into my car! My car is a 1990 Mercury Sable! I figured the rust spots on the door would have made for a wonderful disguise against thieves!! Damn it, I was wrong!! What did they take you ask? Well, they broke the front passenger window, stole the radio, my cd's and a bag that I left in the car! I guess, a brother just can't have shyt!

When I realized my car was burglarized, I called the police to see if someone would come out! Well nearly an hour later they did come out! It was only one officer and she told me, well we are close to Detroit! What the f#@# kind of comment is that! The one obvious thing that she failed to mention, is that we weren't in Detroit...we are in Dearborn, you dumb a$$!! See it's stupid comments like that from people that are in positions of authority and politics that keep our Metro Detroit area from truly being better than it is! The officer could have just given me the report number and been on her merry way!!




Anyway, it cost me $87 to get the window fixed! yeah, I have insurance on it but it really wasn't worth making the claim!

Can't we all just get along, or at least find a better car to break into you idiots!

note: I don't encourage theft!!

Detroit Election

Okay, well I'm a little behind, but I'm back...bastards.

The election was held on Tuesday, November 8th and by now I'm sure all have heard the results...that is those that care!

The incumbent, Mayor Kilpatrick or as some sarcastically or affectionately tend to call him "Kwame" pulled out the victory, which some deemed an upset! My boy told me I just wasted my vote by selecting the eventual loser!! I told him to kiss...okay, I'm not going there!! However, my feelings were really indifferent on the matter, because I felt that whom ever was in charge had a full plate and there could be no knocking the heels of Dorothy's shoes together to magically fix the problem. This city has just as many cultural faces as OZ, but like the little weird girl said "Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore", hopefully Detroit will not be under the control of a fake Wizard!

Also, the City Clerk, Jackie Currie, was sent packing! She was replaced by Janice Winfrey, whom I think few even knew who she was, but felt it was time to let Jackie ease off into the pastures!!!! Ironically, Janice Winfrey's husband has been elected to the School Board!!! Things that make ya say....what the 'f#@k'!!!

As far as our tired ass City Council goes we have some new blood in there, but unfortunately, most of the problem is structural! I feel there should be a representative for each determined district in the city, that way citizens can actually hold council members accountable for the way they are handling their jobs. Understanding politics, so it's no wonder people are elected on name recognition alone, unless your name is mud, then you're a shoe in!!! Hey, now we have a Motown Legend on the council...go Martha Reeves! Hopefully she can perform better with this group then she did with the Supremes oops, I meant Vandella's !!! Detroit....ya gotta love it

I do find it kind of amusing after Mayor Kilpatrick won, how the media folks that had dogged him out was looking for ways to seem unbias...aint that a 'b#$#h!! My vote didn't go to him, but hey everyone is entitled. It did make me proud to see the citizens of Detroit actually get out and vote! To each his own!!!

Now we shall see what the next four years hold for this wonderful city that I call home...okay, so I'm living in the suburbs right now...but my address says Detroit!!!

So just in case ya missed it check out all of the results below....A Hip-Hop Mayor and a Motown City Council....I can just see the beef now...New School vs Old School!

Detroit we have to move forward and work together! Okay that's the old being supportive phrase, but when it's true it's true!!!

Election Results...if you care!!!

What Suburbia had to say about the Results

Movie Lines

The Movies and the lines that we've turned into classics::

Movie__________________ Favorite Lines

Coming to America:::::::"Ah, that aint shyt but an Ultra Perm"

The Color Purple :::::::"You told Harpo to beat me"; " You sho is ugly"

Friday:::::"You Got knocked the fu#@ out"

The Five Heartbeats::::

Lean on Me:: "They use to call me crazy Joe, now they can call me Batman!" "You smoke crack son?"

New Jack City:: "It be calling my name!", "I use to be prom queen. Yeah, but now you aint shyt but the prom feen"

Training Day:::"I'm the police, King Kong...aint got nothing, on me!!!!

Dang...I know I missed a ton of good ones!!

Rosa Parks Funereal

Okay, so a lot of us out there saw the Funeral Program for Mrs. Parks. Please feel free to voice your thoughts on how you viewed the program! Example, too long, too short, etc.!!!

Free Write

By Dizzy
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Yesterday doesn’t seem as good now looking back
In fact
I don’t believe it was

Love, that’s what I called it
And I still hold it as the same
Just, looking back
Seeing the differences, and knowing the change
I guess that’s what today’s do for pain
So maybe tomorrow, the past won’t be in vain

Today feels a lot different than before
Actually, I’m sure
This is quite different for me

Loneliness, nah, that’s not it
Cuz I can feel my soul
Just, looking inside
Knowing the difference and not needing to hide
I’m certain I’m progressing
With assured pride
So today I build my tomorrow by being alive

Tomorrow’s pictures have changed for the better
Whether others know it or not
This canvas is a welcoming texture

Life, is what is growing
And I feel it so
Just, looking around
And witnessing new things flow
No, television scripts
No Basic Instinct ice picks
No little white whale lies
Just good old faith, minus the cries

Grains of sands
From ageless dunes
And evaporated rain
From timeless pain
And In the blink of an eye,
I’d do it again,
Just to say, I gave it my all to win!
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Top Ten Lists

Top Ten Dumb Guy Tips For Avoiding The Bird Flu

Feel Free to Comment!

10. "Before eating chicken, soak it in Lysol"
9. "Don't lick unfamiliar pigeons"
8. "Frighten birds by constantly meowing"
7. "Stay away from basketball great Larry Bird"
6. "Anti-bacterial smoothies"
5. "Move to a place where there are no birds, like the moon"
4. "Avoid birds that look like they're up to something"
3. "Go back to the old Y2K bunker, start drinking"
2. "Fill birdfeeder with Sucrets"

1. "If you have a chicken, check for swelling in the McNuggets"

Top Ten Signs Sylvester Stallone Is Too Old To Play Rocky



10. "Instead of triumphantly bounding into the arena, rides in on a Rascal"
9. "Constantly saying, 'Yo, Adrian, get my Lipitor'"
8. "Love interest played by Carol Channing"
7. "The only thing 'Rocky' about him are his kidney stones"
6. "Instead of getting knocked out, Rocky keeps lying down for a nap"
5. "His stunt double: Wilford Brimley"
4. "Constantly complaining 'Rocky' theme is too loud"
3. "After tapping hands with other fighter, says, 'Not so hard!'"
2. "Opponent in 'Rocky VI' is a guy with a cloak and a scythe"

1. "Keeps getting asked out by Anna Nicole Smith"

Getting There

Okay, so yesterday I was at it again! That's right, the good ole GMAT studying! Gotta Love it! Anyhow, I took a Practice Exam and I scored a 500, roughly!!! That's not good! Although it's good enough to get into a B-School, but I know I can do a lot better than that! The math portion was a killer! Out of 37 questions, I got 17 right!! 17!!!




So, today I'll review they answers with the explanations, and hopefully, I won't repeat those mistakes on the actual test! The other parts of the exam was pretty easy, but there are some traps that I need to look out for, but I think I got that part pretty good!! Only two weeks left for the test...the countdown continues!