thank you pinko

nothing against reggie the-ass, but the greatest point guard of all time? magic, the big o, and j kidd might not see it that way. he was a great scorer though. by the way, i was wondering what happened to the rest of my body oil.

i was sitting on the l trane near simmons when i overheard a young woman on her (say it together everyone...) cell phone say "i got her this really nice scarf for 400 hundred dollars. 400 for a scarf? my question to you is; once you get a 400 dollar scarf, what do you do about your 50 dollar coat? isn't that a lot of pressure to live up to? so then, you start over paying for all of your clothes to match the scarf. furthermore, in a world where half the planet survives on less than 2 dollars a day, what right does anyone have to own a 400 dollar scarf? (there goes cyborg again, ruining a good gag. party pooper.)

denzel washington has reportedly donated 1 million dollars to wiley college, the black school with the debating team from the 30's that denzel's new movie is based on. the money is to be spent to "re-establish its debate team." Washington said "he'd like to get the debate team going again." i can think of a few black people that could have better used that million dollars, but as you know, i'm quite the cynic. for that matter, the tens of millions used to make the film on wiley could have been spent to house, feed, and educate poor people of all colors.

the film will once again give us that stock figure of the strong black man who doesn't let his students/followers/team/family use discrimination and poverty as an excuse for failure. he will, by the force of his will and example, lead them to a teary eyed successful conclusion to their journey. (think lean on me, coach carter, remember the titans, akeela and the bee) the character is inherently conservative. the solution, we are told, lies completely within ourselves. poverty, discrimination, hunger, police brutality, war? just excuses that hold you back. no one said life was fair. just remember, you have to be twice as good as "the white boys." this "strong" character will never question just how good the whites really are, or why we need to be in competition with each other, and will seldom if ever acknowledge the profundity of the oppression faced by those in his charge.

i've got to say it...fuck you denzel. except for john q. that was kind of ok.

and hurricane wasn't too bad.

and you were pretty good as malcolm.

ok...come on denzel, enough with this strong, no excuses, militarisic, leader shit.

just a thought; if we took all the money spent to make these feel good movies about militaristic strong men leading poor underdogs to overcome long odds to succeed, and put that money into our inner cities, we just might produce more strong leaders and poor people able to overcome long odds and succeed. but then, they would be real black people, and america doesn't want them to succeed, does it? better to keep watching movies about fake black people succeeding played by a rare black man that has succeeded, than to actually attempt to create a more just society. well, easier anyhow.

don't even get me started on the 720,000,000 spent each day in iraq. yes, that's 720 million. and their buying in bulk too. imagine how much more it would be if the army got its supplies from sal's spa.

you can bomb the world to pieces but you can't bomb it to peace.

i'll come up with more pieces later. give piece a chance. it's easier on the stomach than having the whole thing. for that matter, give pizza a chance, and remember, he who controls the pasta, controls the future.

all's well that orwell.

by george, when will this shit end.

now.