Tag me once shame on you, tag me twice…

So I’ve been tagged once by Lakeshia at KreativeTalk.blogspot.com and again a few days later by Mz Virgo at MzVirgo.com It was a while ago but I’m just getting around to them. sorry…
So I am supposed to list 6 weird things about me. I’m running out of weird things to confess..

1.I am a tech Junkie. I’m always trying to stay up on the latest piece of gadgetry. My next purchase is the video watch (Dick Tracey style on that ass!!)

2. I’m a really shy and introverted person so I don’t do big crowds very often. So clubs are out. I feel trapped and nervous when too many people I don’t know are surrounding me.

3. I’m a major germaphobe. I go through a travel size hand sanitizer in less than a week.

4. I’m very conscious of what I say and how I appear to others. Whether it’s something I write, say or how I look. I always feel like I have to make a good representation of a young black male.

5. I’m addicted to text messaging, email and/or instant messaging. I check my email about every 5 or 6 minutes. I never use hardly any of my anytime minutes (maybe 20-30) each month but I have used as much as 7000 text messages (sent, not including received)! It’s easier for me to text than to call. at least I think so.

6. I love to read. But I have a bunch of hard copy books that I’ve started but haven’t finished. Audio books are my best friends right about now. I just load onto the Zune and I can finish a whole book while stuck in Atlanta (GA 400) traffic.

Bonus:
I am easily annoyed. It may not show but I can get annoyed or aggravated at the littlest thing.

So those were my 6 + a bonus weird things about me. I really don’t know who to tag seeing as I’m late and everybody has already been tagged so I”ll just leave it open for whomever wants to add to the list.

Peace
Sincere

The Game Season 2 Episode 6 Recap

Derwin goes to take med school some mail and they decide that they have to deal with each other and to be friends. She gives him a pep talk about being proud of being a saber and gives him a ride to the parade. Janay is still not back from Miami yet. Tasha is doing business while Malik is trying to enjoy the parade. When Derwin gets dropped off she invites Med school to come on the bus with them to celebrate but she has to go to class. As she leaves, Janay is looking all dejected in the background. I guess she got back from Miami without telling Derwin.
When the parade is over a reporter hits Jason with rumors of a trade.
Tasha is still schmoozing a client (Marlo from The Wire) so she can get the commission. Come to find out that Lev is playing both her and Rick and taking their clients away at the last moment.
Jason talks to his agents about his contract and all they want to talk about is endorsements. when he presses them they say that Philadelphia is offering an 8 figure deal and the Sabers only want to offer $2 mil for 1 year. He doesn’t take either deal and decides to retire.
While Derwin is rehabbing Med school calls and they share a good laugh. She tells him that she’s glad that they are friends again.
Tasha goes to the strip club to try and win her client back from Lev. While Her and Lev are arguing rick swoops in and steals him away from both of them.
Derwin Makes dinner for janay and has a surprise for her. He has her condo ready for her ahead of schedule but she thinks that he’s only doing it for himself. She tells him that she was Med school drop him off and asks about the teddy bear in the dresser. She tells him to look her in the eye and tell her he’s not still in love with Melanie. He can’t do it. Duh!! She then leaves him, ending this week’s episode.

Ugly Betty Season 3 Episode 1

The show begins with Betty in a dream field of flowers with Henry on a white horse drawn carriage. As they are watching the fireworks her alarms clock awakens her to reality. Daniel gave her the day off for her birthday so that she and Henry could spend the weekend together.
Wilhelmina shows up at Daniel’s door to try and warn him about her sister Renee (Gabrielle Union). Charlie thinks Renee is crazy, when she tried to light a candle she flipped out a little bit.
Betty shows up at Henry’s apartment all excited to start the weekend and pregnant Charlie answers the door. What a way to start the season..
Charlie shows up this weekend to go to some baby seminar. Of course Betty tells Henry to go with Charlie to the seminar instead of going away for the weekend.
Alex and Daniel discuss how to tell their mom that her magazine is getting out of hand and they don’t want to go forward with it.
Betty uses her magazine connections to set up a date in the city. She plans to go to dinner, the Philharmonic and fireworks in the park with Henry.
Renee confront Wilhelmina about telling Daniel about her Stony Brook past, threatening to reveal her secrets if she doesn’t stop.
Hilda takes some cupcakes to Charlie and tells her about Henry and Betty’s date plans. Charlie begins to think up something sinister.
Renee starts corrupting Marc on her path to destroy Wilhelmina.
Charlie ends up eating all the cupcakes and plays sick so that Henry can’t go out with Betty. He calls her and leaves a message. When Betty checks it her reception is too bad to understand what he is saying so she goes to the restaurant anyway to wait on him. When he can’t get a hold of her he calls the house and they start planning a party not knowing that she didn’t get the message.
Renee blackmails Wilhelmina into leaving her and Daniel alone by taping a conversation with Marc about how she stole Bradford’s sperm to have a Meade child for a portion of the inheritance.
Gio roles up in a horse drawn carriage to give Betty a ride from the restaurant once he finds out that Henry left a message with Amanda but she never got it.
Wilhelmina makes Marc break into Daniel’s apartment to steal Renee’s phone with the recording on it. When Daniel catches him sneaking around he makes up a lie about wanting to be with him, but Daniel knows it’s a lie and that Wilhelmina put him up to something.
Henry shows up at Betty’s house thinking she would be there while she and Gio try to make it to the fireworks show. Turns out nothing is wrong with Charlie. Go figure!
Renee Tells Daniel about Stony Brook, she had a breakdown a few years ago there and is still taking medication for it.
While at the spa Marc tells her that he couldn’t get the phone and shows her Renee’s meds that he stole. When they get back home He questions why they don’t get along and she tells him that even though she is evil she at least stopped short of murder.
When Betty finally gets home she finds Henry sleep on the couch while waiting on her to come, ending the first episode of the new season.

The Game Season 2 Episode 5 Recap

We start this episode with Derwin hurting his knee trying to score his 3rd touchdown in the conference championship game. while the aggravating sunbeams are planning events for the super bowl and arranging who will get what for Derwin (cupcakes, flowers etc..) Janay tells them to chill on all that because it will make him think he’s worse off than he may be.
Meanwhile Med school can’t stop thinking about him and how he’s doing yet she refuses to call and find out. Derwin comes back from rehab and tells Janay that he isn’t going to Miami for the game or at all.
Janay decides to go to Miami anyway.. She a bit trife if you ask me, all about the limelight. he’s upset because he feels like he’s the one that got them there and he can’t play. Give him a little break.
Jerome is throwing a super bowl-ish party to impress his boss and has med school running all over the place like she’s the maid or something. While she goes to the store for more salsa she runs into Derwin. After some awkward small talk they both leave and go their separate ways.
Later on Derwin get a knock at the door and guess who it is? Yep, Med school!! With Heather Headley’s ‘In My Mind’ playing in the background… They start kissing and I assume they get it popping.
A the sabres are on the bus to the airport or somewhere. Coach Roy talks to Jason because he’s feeling guilty about getting to play in the game not because Derwin got hurt but because it doesn’t bother him that he ‘s playing because Derwin got hurt. Coach tells him it’s okay to feel that way because it’s about winning and it’s not that he doesn’t care about Derwin, but he cares about winning more.
So while Med school and Derwin are kissing Jerome calls. She lies and says she’s still looking for salsa, he tells her forget the salsa just come home and watch the rest of the game with him. She’s more important to him than any of those people there. Derwin and med school start arguing because she lied to Jerome about what she was doing and Derwin wanted her to tell him the truth. They start kissing again and Janay calls crying about how she shouldn’t have left him and she should be there with him instead of Miami. She tells him she thinks she loves him! The episode ends with the Sabres celebrating their super bowl win (yes Super bowl 5 episodes into the season).

See ya next week. Same time. Same blog.

And The Winner is….

Some of you may have already seen this already but this is why he’s my dude!! Barack the vote!! Let’s get it!

Please excuse the screaming from the loud fan, but the video is the best…

You Can’t Be Serious Pt. 1

Has hip hop made us immune to the word nigger? True story. Today an older couple came into the clinic thinking they had an appointment. The appointment was scheduled over a year ago but it was cancelled. They stated that they were not informed that the appointment was cancelled and that they drove all these miles blah blah blah. Since they drove such a long way and were upset we made arrangements with another office down the street for them to have the test done. While they were in the lobby waiting for us to get the information together for their other appointment, the wife was just complaining to her husband about everything. After a while I just tuned her out. It was not my fault your doctor (that only comes to our clinic like once every 2 months)cancelled your appointment and didn’t call you. Well, when one of the other patients was called to the back they informed the nurse that they heard the lady say that ‘the problem is that there are too many niggers working here.’ She then went and told our administrator and she went and talked to the patient. I didn’t hear her say this because I tuned her out like 15 seconds after they sat down, but I wasn’t surprised when I heard this. The other patient said that she said the word 3 or 4 times. When they are leaving and the administrator is walking them out the lady yells ‘Bye niggers!’ at this point we are all in total shock! I mean it was a really awkward moment. My supervisor and my administrator were the only white people in the room at the time and they were embarrassed and apologetic. I was able to keep my cool and be professional (another patient walked in the door like 10-15 seconds after this happened)this wasn’t the first time I had heard the word nor will it be the last time I hear it from white lips. which takes me back to my question; has hip hop’s ever prevalent use of the word Nigga somehow desensitized me from the sting of the word Nigger? I mean when I heard it I went through an array of emotions.

1. disbelief: Did this lady really just call me a nigger?
2. Anger: Yeah she just called me a nigger! I should bust those dentures out of her mouth and smash them on the ground!
3. Hurt/Sad: I can’t believe in this day and age that people still think and act this way
4. Realization: No matter what I do this old lady is not going to change because she’s stuck in her ways and in that mentality

I just didn’t feel that same sting that I felt as a kid when I heard someone say it in that way. I don’t know if it’s because I’m older now or because I hear it a trillion times a day in some of the music that I listen to. I hope it’s because I’m growing up and I’m a little more mature. Then again I’m the type to just brush my shoulders off and keep it moving. Why waste energy on ignorance?
I just felt really disrespected and I felt that neither my supervisor nor my administrator had my back. All they did was talk to her doctor and he was like ‘this patient has been coming to me for 20 years blah blah’. How are you not going to have our back when 70% (7 out of the 10 people that work there are black, 2 out of the other 3 are from foreign descent)of your office is black? This may be my sign that it’s time for me to move on. I really don’t want to because it’s only like 15 minutes from home and all but if I can’t count on my superiors to have my back on issues like this than what am I to do? Not to mention the doctor is constantly insulting my intelligence on the sly… trying to use big words thinking I don’t understand. Don’t test me I probably have a bigger vocabulary than you doc! Now I am just waiting for Human resources to get back with me on what my next move is as far as filing a complaint on the patient for calling me a derogatory racist term, my doctor or insinuating that I don’t have the intelligence of a 10th grader (I’ll tell you that story in another post), and my Administrator and supervisor for not having my back.

To be continued……

Rest In Peace- Jamacia Jackson AKA Puddin (1982-2008)
You will truly be missed my dude…

Peace
Sincere

*Update*
The head of Public relations actually came over personally and talked to us today and apologized for what happened and said that the patient is being discharged and will not be allowed to be seen at the hospital or any affiliate clinic ever again… He is going to write and send out the letter himself. I feel a little better, but I’m still upset that it took me going to Human resources and that my supervisor and administrator only had my back after he contacted them to see what was going on after reading my email and talking to me. What if I never sent him an email and called? They probably would have done nothing else about it. Nonetheless it was handled, but I still feel like they don’t have my back.

Soulja Boyz II Men

The guys over at itsthereal.com have done it again! Seems like every week they come up with something to make my side hurt from laughter. Check out the latest with Soulja Boy and Boyz II Men doing a mash up. You should watch the first one to truly appreciate the second one.

Failed Ideas in Hip-Hop 2 from jeff on Vimeo.

Soulja Boyz II Men from jeff on Vimeo.

The Game Season 2 Episode 4 Recap

The episode opens with Med School and Her boyfriend Jerome going out to dinner and seeing Derwin and his girlfriend Janay at the same place. Awkward! Med School and Jerome head back to his place and start getting a little hot and heavy. She pumps her brakes because she wants them to be exclusive. She thinks… She’s not quite sure what she wants.
Kelly was told by her to do something to convince Jason that she doesn’t care about the money. All of a sudden Med School cuts off a major chunk of her hair! crazy, deranged(my Martin Lawrence fans will get the reference)! Straight pulled a Brittney! Then she starts crying and blames it on seeing Derwin and his new chick. Tasha say that they let men rule them and offended med school drops that she is no better and that every man has left her from her baby daddy to Coach T, even her own son. (Yes, she went there!) Tasha finally admits that she is bitter and a little jaded because of that and she is on them about it because she doesn’t want them to make the same mistakes that she did.
Derwin and Janay are moving her stuff in when they come across a stuffed doll thingy that Med school left when she moved out. He throws it away but when Janay leaves he picks it up and puts it away in the nightstand.
Kelly tries to make amends with Jason but he’s not buying it. She goes on about how much pain she was in by not loving him initially. Whatever… I ain’t saying she a gold digger but she ain’t messing with no broke broke… Britney comes to Jason and gives him her lunch money that she was saving all week so that they won’t get a divorce. He promises her he won’t divorce Kelly.
Med school goes to show Jerome her new cut only to catch him on a date with a pantyless chick. She storms off all hurt and stuff.
Coach Roy talks to Jason about knowing that he was on steroids. Later that day while Kelly is at therapy Jason shows up and announces that he wasn’t in love with Kelly when they got married.
Jerome catches up with Med school and tells her that he wanted to be exclusive but she was being all wishy washy about what she wanted. She makes him promise to break up with her before he cheats.
After some morning Nukki, Janay puts some condoms back in the nightstand and finds the doll that Derwin put in there earlier, ending this episode for the week.

This Week In Black History Apr 6th – 12th

April 6th:
1865 – Writing in the “Philadelphia Press” under the pen name “Rollin,” Thomas Morris Chester describes the Union Army’s triumphant entry into the city of Richmond, Virginia, during the closing days of the Civil War. Rollin is the only African American newspaperman writing for a mainstream daily. There will be no others for almost 70 years.

1869 – Ebenezer Don Carlos Bassett, the principal of the Institute for Colored Youth in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is named Minister to Haiti and becomes the first major African American diplomat and the first African American to receive a major appointment from the United States government.

1971 – “Contemporary Black Artists in America” opens at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. The exhibit includes the work of 58 master painters and sculptors such as Jacob Lawrence, Charles White, Alma Thomas, Betye Saar, David Driskell, Richard Hunt, and others.

April 7th:
1867 – Johnson C. Smith University is founded in Charlotte, North Carolina.

1940 – The first U.S. stamp ever to honor an African American is issued bearing the likeness of Booker T. Washington. His likeness is on a 10-cent stamp.

April 8th:
1974 – Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hits his 715th home run against a pitch thrown by Los Angeles Dodger Al Downing at a home game in Fulton County Stadium. Aaron’s home run breaks the long-standing home run record of Babe Ruth.

1975 – Frank Robinson, major league baseball’s first African American manager, gets off to a winning start as his team, the Cleveland Indians, defeat the New York Yankees, 5-3.

1990 – Percy Julian, who helped create drugs to combat glaucoma and methods to mass produce cortisone, and agricultural scientist George Washington Carver are the first African American inventors admitted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in the hall’s 17-year history.

April 9th:
1866 – The Civil Rights Bill of 1866 is passed over the president’s veto. The bill will confer citizenship on African Americans and give them “the same right, in every State and Territory… as is enjoyed by white citizens.”

1950 – Juanita Hall becomes the first African American to win a Tony award for her role as Bloody Mary in the musical “South Pacific.”

April 10th:
1872 – The first National Black Convention meets in New Orleans, Louisiana. Frederick Douglass will be elected president.

1968 – U.S. Congress passes a Civil Rights Bill banning racial discrimination in the sale or rental of approximately 80% of the nation’s housing. The bill also made it a crime to interfere with civil rights workers and to cross state lines to incite a riot.

1975 – Lee Elder becomes the first African American to tee off as an entrant in the Masters’ Tournament in Augusta, Georgia.

April 11th:
1881 – Spelman College is founded with $100 and eleven former slaves determined to learn to read and write. It is opened as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary. The two female founders, Sophia B. Packard and Harriet E. Giles are appalled by the lack of educational opportunities for African American women at the time. They will return to Boston determined to get support to change that and earned what will prove to be the lifelong support of John D. Rockefeller, who considers Spelman to be one of his family’s finest investments. The name Spelman is adopted later in honor of Mrs. Rockefeller’s parents.

1966 – Emmett Ashford becomes the first African American major league umpire, working in the American League. He had been the first African American professional umpire in the minor leagues in 1951.

1968 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs what will become known as the 1968 Housing Act, which outlaws discrimination in the sale, rental, or leasing of 80% of the housing in the United States. Passed by the Senate and submitted by the House to Johnson in the aftermath of the King assassination, the bill also protects civil rights workers and makes it a federal crime to cross state lines for the purpose of inciting a riot.

1979 – Idi Amin is deposed as president of Uganda. A combined force of Tanzanian and Ugandan soldiers overthrew the dictator. Amin, who attained power in 1971 after a coup against socialist-leaning President Milton Obote, oversaw the killing of at least 100,000 people. It is believed that Idi Amin left Uganda to live in Saudi Arabia.

1997 – The Museum of African American History opens in Detroit. It will become the largest of its kind in the world.

April 12th:
1861 – The Civil War begins as Confederate troops attack Fort Sumter, South Carolina.

1968 – African American students occupy the administration building at Boston University and demand Afro-American history courses and additional African American students.

1983 – The people of Chicago, Illinois elect Harold Washington as the city’s first African American mayor.

1990 – August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson” wins the Pulitzer Prize for drama. It is the second Pulitzer Prize for Wilson, who also won one for “Fences” in 1987 and was awarded the New York Drama Critics’ Award for “Fences,” “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” and “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone.”

Black Blogger Rankings Apr 08

The Villager has the new rankings out and I’m #228 out of 1046 (as of 4/1/08). Slow but steady progress! If you are interested in your rankings you can check out the list. If you don’t see your blog or you have a question just hit the Villager up here. Thanks for all the support!!! And thanks goes out to Electronicvillage.blogspot.com for coming up with and maintaining the list! If I could do more to help I would, but I’m not that technical so I’ll just show my support with link love!!

Peace and Blessings
Sincere

The Game Season 2 Episode 3 Recap

Tasha is out with her co-workers drinking and having a good time talking about different racial stereotypes when the new guy Lev pulls out his ‘schlong’ to shatter the ‘white boys have small things’ stereotype. What a way to open the show!
The next day he comes to her office to apologize.
So Malik, Derwin and Jason talk about what they can do to celebrate making the playoffs (already? it’s only 3 episodes into the season). The team decides to get matching tattoos.. Lame!
Jason and Kelly go to therapy and he’s talking all over her so that they can get out of there. Turns out the therapist is a huge Sabres and one of Jason’s biggest fans.
Kelly goes to see Tasha at her office after leaving therapy and Tasha tells her about what happened with Lev at the club and how she’s cool with it. Kelly goes all ballistic and starts spewing about therapy and such!
Derwin gets a tattoo that says “I love Coach Ross”. He thought that the entire team did it but they all got henna tattoos while he got the real thing. When he finds out he was tricked he goes off!! Saying how it was against his religion and his Grandmother’s wishes to desecrate his body. Going on about how he thought they were supposed to be like brothers and storms out.
During a meeting, Tasha gets into an argument with Lev when she feels she’s being disrespected and brings up when Lev whipped out his thing ding at the club and Irv (The boss) fires him on the spot.
The guys all go and get the same ” I Love Coach Ross” Tattoos because they feel bad for fooling Derwin.
During therapy Kelly drops another bomb that she only married Jason for his money and put up with him out of guilt. He storms out, no telling when or if he’ll forgive her.
Back at the office Tasha is being ostracized because of Lev being fired. She makes a speech about equality and all. After she leaves Irv tells one of the associates that after she gets Malik back to the firm, she’s gone. Thus ending this episode.

The Game Season 2 Episode 2 Recap

This episode starts with Malik and the crew and his house playing a game of Red light/Green light and partying it up. Kind of a whack way to open the show but hey, if they like it I love it. While watching TV Malik says he wants Serena and invites her to his house. Derwin shows up with a crazy groupie chick and Malik informs him that he has to bring girls from a list of ‘good’ girls to his parties. he then decides to hook Derwin up with a friend of his since he’s new to this ‘player’ lifestyle. Of course he almost blows it with a corny line about having kids and being potent.
Jason and Kelly argue about going to therapy. He invites Chad Johnson to spend the weekend. Kelly decides to hook Med School up with Chad.
Serena comes in and changes the party rules to make it a more upscale event along with totally taking over Malik’s life.
Tasha is still all over the place in every body’s business. Pimping out Malik to Serena show she can be her manager.
Chad inform Med School that he’s really not feeling her and that she’s on the ‘good girl’ list since she dated Derwin and Trey Wiggs. While he leaves to take her back home they drive right past Derwin and his date as she tells him that she dated Dwayne Wade, Lamar Odom and Hill Harper. I guess She’s on the ‘good girl’ list. Derwin has some issues with his girls being around and dating celebs.
The sunbeams are so played and boring! Tasha invites Serena to the sunbeams meeting and she tells them that Malik’s new charity is her and tells Tasha that she can go because she is there to rep for Malik. The two get into it and Serena throws her phone at Tasha and the sunbeams jump to kick Serena’s ass! The episode ends with Serena in serious need of some acting lessons.

The Game Season 2 Episode 1 Recap

The new season kicks off with Jason telling Kelly that he has decided to continue using steroids after the two month period that he promised. So she takes Britney and leaves.
Malik, T.T. and Derwin hit the club to party and pick up some girls when Malik straight blocks on Derwin. She wasn’t that fine anyway so it’s okay. Jason finds Kelly and Britney at a nice hotel having a “girls’ weekend”. During their argument she drops the bomb that she has been stashing money away ever since they got married (they have $53 mil in the bank? Whoa). Sounds like some Shaq ish to me. After he gets this news Jason says it’s over and drops his ring to the ground as he storms out.
When she goes to her friends Melanie (med school) and Tasha for advice all she can think of is the money and fun they can have when they get a divorce. Of course Med School is trying to be the voice of reason, calling Tasha a hater (which she is). For once Tasha is speechless.
Derwin is still at the club trying to holler at girls with some tired lines. Talking much Malik-ish game to a girl he doesn’t even have to impress. She sets him straight in a nice way.
While Jason is at home tallying up his receipts Tasha comes over to try and smooth things over between him and Kelly. He eventually goes to the hotel and tells her that he will stop taking steroids to save the marriage. She is such an ugly crier!! They have much bigger issues than steroids though. He is really controlling and cheap. Not a good combo. He leaves to go home while the girls finish their “girls’ weekend” as promised thus ending this week’s episode.

Sorry I’m late with this but I wasn’t even aware that the new season started until my lil sis Hotness told me.