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i have slight ocd, i make lists.

eleventeen random thoughts.001.

won. my mets are off to a great start and i am excited. now if only the knicks could get it together. no playoffs for them and maybe a shot at the #1 pick .. but wait! the pick was traded away!

lord this franchise is a mess. i miss the days of ewing, starks, oakley. sure, they didn't win a title. sure, the bulls handed us our asses over and over again. but at least they were contending. at least there was an excitement in the air. nowadays, i can barely sit thru an entire game.

tube. entourage, which is one of my favorite shows, is back and it is now time to turn sundays nights into a couch potato night. but this new season of entourage also revealed a secret about me. entourage is coupled with the last episodes of the sopranos and Bella is a fan of the sopranos. so we're watching both back to back and i had to admit to her that i'm not well versed in the show at all.

this is how it happened, i missed the first season of the show. this was before on demand so i had no way of going back and catching up. add that to the fact that i used to be very bad at catching a show on a weekly basis, and you have me missing the better part of the first two seasons. after that, i just never had the desire to watch a show that i was so out of the loop on. so when sopranos would come up in conversations i would just get kinda quiet and nod and let the other person do most of the talking.

but now that hbo's sunday night is a part of my schedule i had to come clean. i don't know much about the show, but i'm gonna have to go pick up the dvds because after catching a few episodes on a&e and after watching the season premier i have to admit .. this show is pretty damn good.

tree. can we really go FULLY green? the new york times ran an article back on march 22nd, titled "the year without toilet paper." its about colin beavan and his family and how they've gone green.

to quote his website "For one year, my wife, my 2-year-old daughter, my dog and I, while living in the middle of New York City, are attempting to live without making any net impact on the environment. In other words, no trash, no carbon emissions, no toxins in the water, no elevators, no subway, no products in packaging, no plastics, no air conditioning, no TV, no toilets…"

it reads like a great idea, but can we really give up all our luxuries? i dunno .. i can't see myself doing my laundry by hand (too time consuming) or giving up the toilet (i like my toilet, thank you very much). that's just me tho. but i must admit that there are a few things that i can see myself doing. i'm just going to have to research it further.

foe. is don imus in the middle of a "witch hunt"? i can't applaud the comments made by don imus, i'm not justifying them at all but we should ask a few questions before we throw him, or anyone who's made similar comments (isiah washington, mel gibson, michael richards), into the fire. where does freedom of speech fall in all of this? where does freedom of the press come into play? when does an ignorant comment become spreading hate? are major companies going to start pulling away from unfavorable programming across the board?

i think his comments were irresponsible, ignorant and racist but i just hate when things like this happen and the person is "punished" and 2 months later we all move on and forget about it. if we're going to talk the talk on the don imus subject then we should walk the walk all the time. if we don't then we're nothing but finger pointers who want to have someone to blame but don't want to work towards a real solution.

phife. i went to the st. juste, j*davey, marsha ambrosius show at SOBs last night. i really can't remember much about st. juste's set and i left after the j*davey set (which i won't comment on cause i definitely have a bias). but what really stuck out in my head was that SOBs promoted this event as "the neo-soul event of the month" .. word? people still use the term neo-soul? it made me cringe when i first heard the term and it still makes me cringe today. do better.

sex. last night i was told that filthy gomez is actually the cousin of the dirty sanchez. initially i thought "well shit, maybe i should change my name," but then i figured i could continue using the name and front like i knew the meaning all along, come up with some clever play on it all to make my name sound funny, interesting and fresh.

oops, just gave that one away. 

anyway, search on urban dictionary and you'll find quite a few "filthy" definitions.

lucky. the wellington boot. is it culturally acceptable for an urban living american man to rock 'em? men will wear them while hunting and you see them quite often overseas, but very rarely do you see an american man walking down the streets of metro city, usa with a pair of wellingtons.

personally, i dig em. and nothing keeps your feet as dry as these do. but please, miss me with the "fashion" wellingtons that come in ridiculous colors and patterns.

ate. believe it or not, i'd never had an onion ring. but thanks to Bella, i had a couple last night and i'm craving them BAD right now. i'm wondering how much of a difference there is between beer batter onion rings and regular onion rings.

i think i'm gonna have to jump into the kitchen and find out. anybody have any good recipes or know of any good spots in nyc to get some onion rings?

nova. are you a "sneaker head"? i love kicks. i've loved kicks since childhood. i've been into sneaker culture for as long as i can remember. but over the last couple of years it's gotten annoying. plain and simple, i hate "sneaker heads". not the real heads, like bobbito, who approach it with knowledge and a history. and i definitely don't hate the kids who, like my younger cousin frankie, buy a pair of kicks simply because they love them.

i hate the cats that sit in line for hours, sometimes overnight, just to buy a damn pair of sneakers that are over the top and ugly simply because (enter hip designer here) designed them or because "they've gotta be dope" since nike is pricing them at $500. i'm not about being pure to the "art" of collecting sneakers. i'm just about having some fun with what i do and i cannot see the fun in sleeping outside of a store to buy a pair of kicks that i'll wear twice but drop half a grand on. every pair of kicks i own, i own for a reason. because i actually love them, because they're comfortable or for nostalgia. but i won't buy into the hype of buying kicks for the sake of "coolness."

tin. can obama and hillary really win? maybe i'm just being negative. maybe i've just been conditioned to believe that a black man and a woman could never actually compete for the presidency AND win. maybe seeing that this nation is full of bigotry (see: foe) makes me doubt that there are enough forward thinking people in it to vote for the best PERSON for the job and not the best white man for the job. 

eleventeen. RIP Kurt Vonnegut.

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