How’s this for coincidental irony: I was listening to my music on my iTunes (on my computer, don’t have an iPod yet…yet), and I had the joint on random. So, Erykah Badu was playing, and it so happens that the last things she said on that particular song was, “Just because I tell you I love you, doesn’t mean I do”. Why was Andre 3000’s “Love Hater” the next song to play as that joint faded out? Followed by Fiona Apples “Criminal” no less. Wild, no?

“You shouldn’t slap me Johhny, my mother slapped me once…once.”~ Joe Piscopo in “Johnny Dangerously”

Remember When (for local folks only): You’d see television promos all the time for Davis Deejay’s? Daaa-aaaa- vis Deeee- eeee- Jays. Hahahaha…them folks looked so corny. I would imagine them sending some poor unsuspecting rookie out to a black family reunion, and have to pick him up from the ICU because he went and didn’t have the electric slide or any Frankie Beverly and Maze. You can get cut for that in some places…

Random Thought: De La Soul’s “AOI: Bionix” and Dead Prez’s “Let’s Get Free” CD’s are great for summertime rotation.

Just heard through the wire that my old high school teacher…the same cat that pushed me to recite my poetry in the middle of class, was fired for allegedly sexually harassing one of his male students. Wow.

You May Be Ghetto If: You’ve ever made a grilled cheese sandwich with an iron and a paper bag.

For those who have been wondering why the hell I haven't been doing my jouyrnal consistantly, I am the worst. But, i'm innocent when it comes to this past week, as I was ji' out of it this entire week. In fact, I missed three days of work because of being out of it. Not fun at all...wouldn't recommend it. Anyways, still things to talk about, just can't remember what. Oh, by the way, my typos may be more frequent because my eyes are kind of jacked up. I got shampoo in my eyes last sunday, and I never fully washed them out, so I have a nice film over my left I which makes things nice and blurry. Loads of fun, try it right before you drive off to work...I did and look at me!
Oh, we can talk about my boy Droopy on 106th & Park, can't we. We won't clown our fam too hard about the fan base bubbling to a maddening degree, or that we didn't see our favorite lines because he was forced to rock a 3 minute piece in a 1/3 of the time. Nor will we mention that he actually didn't bring any pictures of Free's booty as I requested...no, indeed and verily, we shalt lift him up and rejoice in all things Droopy, and pretend we didn't see him drop a line to a pece we know as well as he does. Just clowning baby boy, you know I was charged to see you "do you". The world got a good taste of Drew, but trust, you know as well as I that there will be many returns to see Free...they ain't ready
Sidebar: don't you hate when folks talk all ambiguously around you about some shit you have know way of being up on because it doesn't quite exist, ut to them does, so they act like the world is sleeping on them and you're not cool enugh to know what's going on? Yeah, me too.
Oh, Kill Bill 2, loved it...gangsta. Problem is, my friends don't feel the same way, but, fuck 'em. Hey, if you can't say fuck ya friends, who can you say it to? Seriously though, they wanted more action, mad because people weren't loosing limbs like the first joint. Mad there was a plot. For a second there, I was thrown, too. But, I quickly realized what Quentin was doing and respected it. It was merely a simple statement, "I got yo asses to see the first one, now you'll understand why it all happened". You got to see the motivation for the entire movie, why each character responded a certain way. Shit, David Carradine and Darryl Hannah got their man with the acting, and I've never been impressed with the skills of either. I mean, I like Splash as much as the next guy, but c'mon...really.
Anywho...I have things to do, as do you I'm sure, so we'll adjourn and meet back here later, okay. Great, ecstatic, can't wait.
Peace.

Okay, let me tell you about last night @ Mango’s.
(Deep Breath)
1. Came to the spot to send the homie Victoria off, she’ll be missed as she does a 1 year tour overseas in Asia.
2. Saw Raquel (complete with slightly over done tan)
3. Saw Raquel’s ass…will try to investigate whether or not ass is tanned as well
4. Ran into King Cipher/ Kuroji
5. Saw the homie Takia
6. Saw Da Slim Poet
7. Rocked two poems and a haiku to the delight of the crowd.
8. Saw Eternal and the homie Helena
9. Dwayne B beatboxed for Raquel, and eventually got it right :o)
10. Saw the homie Drew tear it down for his feature! Son was singing on the floor, spitting on folks (not really…well, he could have, but I can’t confirm it), making up even more vocabulary terms, i.e- ridiculosity: Of or relating to the ridiculous nature of an event, sequence of events, or an individual. I was cheesing the whole time while my boy featured, seeing as thogh my MIA ass hasn’t really been around lately.

Which leads me to something I just realized last night, with all that I’ve recently thrown on my plate, the kid will most likely be MIA for another couple of months, as I want to make sure all these side projects are done thoroughly. However, I will make a conscience effort to do better with my journal for the three people that read this joint. Among other things, I’m rebuilding the entire illpoets.com site…whoah! This joint is a monster, but, it’ll be worth it. Trying to step into the future with this one, ya’ll. Also, this summer ya’ll need to be on the lookout for illpoets rocking a live show! More details later on that, but, as you can see, I’m hella busy already, would you believe I have another side project that swarfs both of the other projects combined? Well, when I does it, I does it large, y’heard me pimpin’?

Oh, figured I’d paraphrase a question I was askedthe other day @ work from a co-worker?

“Are you African enough to know(me bursting into laughter)..well, are you African enough to work…here?” I can’t quite recapture it all, but that shit was hilarious. Had it been asked by someone other than a woman of color, I’d have been fired, but she was sincere with the question…she just didn’t know how to phrase it. Y’know, I never did answer her either…

This...is quite disturbing.