a word on shake and bake...

Let's talk about short people...

In particular, let's talk about this short person...

People Who know me know that I'm a huge Knick fan, live and die, me oh my. I was born two weeks after the last time the team won a championship, you'd think I'd get the hint by now, but I haven't. I love the Knicks, even when I hated the players, I loved the team.

This kid, though, here to the left, this kid is for real...

Its been a long time since any New York team had a national-polarizing figure that they liked. Farve—bad idea, Marbury—worse idea, Messier—sure, but its hockey and nobody watches hockey, Mookie, Reggie—again, sure but you have to be a fan of the team, A-Rod—fuck him. 

But Nate the Great—KryptoNate, now this kid has a shot...

Firstly, for those who are unaware, Nate Robinson is a 5'-9" basketball shooting guard for the New York Knicks, spelled out for you. Now, knowing what I know about basketball, if they are listing a player at 5'-9" he's probably 5'-7". Go check youtube and take a look at number of his dunks and highlight reel dribble-drives, go check him on youtube blocking 7'-6" Yao Ming's shot—the dude is a torso smaller than Ming, but he found a way to block his shot...WITH TWO HANDS!!...

Point is, get your #4 jersey, New York. Get into this kid, because as for personality, style, and talent you're not going to get any better. He will be the king of the city, if he isn't already. He along with a nice young core of players including David Lee, Wilson Chandler and Chris Duhon, this team doesn't need Lebron in a year and half, and he ain't coming anyway. This core along with some crafty draft picks and well place low level free agency signings will win an NBA title in the course of the next 2-4 years. Sure, that's still a bit away, but really, if I can wait 35 years, I can wait another 2-4 years, and so can you...

I know, I know, 'I don't like basketball, tw,'...

Well, do like Will Ferrell?, because Will Ferrell likes basketball, and in particular he likes Nate Robinson. Ipso facto if you like Will Ferrell then you like Nate Robinson, and there you go. You love the Knicks and you love #4, get up on in this bandwagon, we got a star up in here...

The Knicks lost last night, they lost to one of the top 5 teams in the NBA. That's going to happen, and when you have a guy like Dwight Howard, a 7'-0 wonderkind, you tend to win a lot of games. Go check out youtube and watch Nate the Great dunk over the same Dwight Howard...

Shake and bake, SHAKE AND BAKE!...

are you listening?...

In between thoughts and actions today, thought I'd let you in on the days soundtrack...

In Ghost Colours—Cut///Copy

The Kink Kronikles—The Kinks

Superstar Car Wash—Goo Goo Dolls

Evil Urges—My Morning Jacket

Street Lady—Donald Byrd

Kids Original Motion Picture Soundtrack...

What are you listening to? Oh, I forgot, you're probably at work...

Suckers...

statement of fact...

I want to get something straight so everybody understands...

If you are not an American citizen you do not get constitutional rights. I mean, I'm not a fan of Bush foreign policy, but this is what it is. Its a hard world out there, maybe you should have went for something other than despot...

We got that?...

Good...

another one bites the dust...

Laid off today, what are you going to do except thank a few people...

George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. You cut taxes and spent, and cut taxes and spent and cut taxes and spent, now we are spent. I was working in the construction industry for a large contractor that employs, not counting union labor, somewhere upwards of 100 people, that was before they started laying people off three months ago. I among another 20% of the company's ADM payroll was cut today. You cut taxes for big business in 2002 and said it would stimulate the economy. You gave big business even more of a break three years later singing the same tune. You cut 'em some more slack not 6 months ago and kept on crooning. Well, your silver-spooned cokehead, you fucked us real good, as I have said numerous times to numerous people, including a VP at UBS Paine Webber, that when you mess with the law of supply and demand, you skew the free market and make it chaotic, causing the kind of 'adjustments' we've seen over the past few months. Your father called it "Voodoo Economics" for a reason. And Cheney, you're a cocksucker because you propagated a war without end, spending billions that could have went to help and educate you're fellow Americans. Shame on you. 

I'd also like to thank Wall Street, who found it necessary to push the agenda of the free market until it bit them in the ass, then they cried poor and asked for welfare. Well, fellas, that's socialism, and we don't believe in socialism do we? I'll make it my mission, you will all get yours.

Am I bitter, right now yes, but this isn't going to kill me in the short run. I got some severance, I have some money to stay afloat, and I several work options like bartending, writing spam and electrical side work to provide stop gaps. I can clean this new apartment the way I want to, I can write a whole lot more. I have unemployment coming to me and the Local looking out for me on the job front if I really want to get back in that. They are also keeping me on the medical plan for six months so I can't complain. Some people are fucked because of the above mentioned...

There are others to blame of course, Congress sat on it hands, the SEC was feckless and Clinton signed deregulating policy back in the mid 90's. Eisenhower played golf while his boys laid out a plan, JFK could have changed things but he got a bullet back and to the left. LBJ and Nixon cut our balls off in Vietnam and left a mess for Carter. Reagan came in like the Calvary and left like the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse, bodies behind...

So, i guess it goes without saying that you'll be seeing me here a whole lot more. I plan on digging into my notes from the past few months and putting together some short story fiction that I'll post from time to time, I'll get political, philosophical and try to rise a little hell, but don't cry for me Argentina, March Madness is coming, coupled with the World Baseball Classic, a possible payoff birth for the Knicks and the Rangers and Mets Baseball. The weather will get warmer and I'm going to enjoy it. I'm going to take advantage of this opportunity rather then fret about it. This ain't my first trip to the zoo, I've seen the animals, I know how they act. Guerrilla finance, I've been here before...

I'm the king of this rodeo...

I call bullshit on that, vol 2...

MTA?...Bullshit...

Yeah, I'm calling bullshit twice in two days, but let me ask you a question...

Why should inconsistency from a corporation be rewarded when the same inconsistency, when found in everyday Joes gets Joe fired...

I get to the subway station at roughly the same time every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings, between the F the E and the #7 I have had a different type of trip. They don't seem to follow a schedule and if they are supposed to they aren't acting like it...

Bullshit. They raised the fares and the service plummeted. Bullshit...

I know I'm speaking to the largest choir in the history of gospel, but truth be told, the MTA is a privately owned corporation, they have a deal akin to the old Brooklyn Union Gas (at the time the only legal monopoly in the country). Maybe its time to send this thing out for bid and start over, I mean, the MTA conducts business like they are just getting to know the system, a system that is running like its 1964...

I'm calling bullshit and that's that.

I call bullshit on that, vol 1...

trader joes? bullshit...

don't believe the hype...

give me the local any day of the week and twice on Sunday, literally!

enjoy the game you freaks...