I don’t really have an angle for this post so I’ll just jump all over the place, bear with me. I just feel like putting something up here since the last post ended on a negative note. I really don’t want to make anyones life difficult but some people won’t let you live……I’m going to liveI am living.
Side note:Guess who was just taught how to strike a word out on html? haha I’m about to OD with it. I am OD’ing with it.
I feel bad about my performance during this inauguration weekend. I should have been way more active and more involved.
*Excuses For Not Partying As Much:Parties were too crowded, lines were extra long when we can’t skip the line, we skip the party.
*Excuses For Leaving The Inauguration Early: I was sleepy. Went straight from a party to a breakfast spot to THE breakfast spot, props to Jabari for putting a dude on to “Steak N Eggs”. From there I get in a line that stretched probably 10-20 miles. Imagine being surrounded by 3 million tourists who don’t understand the act of NOT stepping on your shoes. Imagine 15 degree temperature with no gloves and no scarf (props to the lady who kept giving me her tissues for my nose and the girl who helped me zip my hands inside my coat…2 much black+2 much love=4ever). Imagine taking pictures of monuments that you can see from your house, and then realizing that it makes no sense. Imagine being told that you can see more from the TV set than the people there in person….imagine no cell phone service. Imagine leaving with your frost bitten toes and fingers.
Props to everyone who stayed and thugged it out. I fully understand why. “It’s nobody fault I made the decisions I made, that’s why I’m still paranoid till this day..”-Jay-Z
Speaking of the Jigga man. Man that was too real to see him performing “History” on that stage. Like that’s the stuff movies are made out of. Shout out to Beyonce, Kanye, Usher, Garth Brooks, Sheryl Crow, Rihanna and everyone else who pumped life into this town this past weekend. Especially you, Ms.Rosario Dawson who I ran into stalked twice. What a woman.
Mr.Obama I know I’m not saying anything new here but you deserve to be commended a million times. You and you’re family exemplify all that’s good with the world. Struggle, perseverance, faith, hard/smart work and knowing how to handle success. You’re teaching showing men how to be naturally cool again as opposed to forcing. Your wife is showing women how to be strong, determined and beautiful without being bitchy and condescending a tad bit snotty. Your daughters are already serving as role models for their age group as well. Keep it up sir and good luck with the Presidency. 1600 Pennsylvania Ave is a stones throw from where I live. Hit me up for basketball one of these days.
Back to politics as usual now.
Yo thank you for painting that picture of inaugration for me kid, because I was viewing a few albums on facebook and I was really regretting not coming down from Philly. I had friends who came from NC, NY, and one who DROVE from Indianapolis and back just for the occasion and I was having serious regrets about not coming home. I was like seriously down about it, thinking that I had a place to stay (still own a crib in DC and MD)and I really screwed up.
The moral of this long comment is, your synopsis is the reason why I stayed in Philly in the first place and didn’t take the trip down(besides my fiancee who is ready to have this baby at any moment!!). All the crowds, cold, and traffic congestion.
Oh and Sidebar: I saw Rosario on MTV at that Youth Inaugral Ball and she is officially back in top 5. Ever since I saw Seven Pounds its rekindled my appreciaton for her which started back when He Got Game dropped.
Yea man you made the best decision of your life. 85% of the folks that went said they would stay home if they could do it again. It’s 2009, you can see and experience so much more from your TV than with 300,000 people blocking your view in the ICY COLD,
And yes, Rosario popped back up in my mind during Seven Pounds. Her attitude and the story of how she got here is what I appreciate the most about her.