NEW ISH!!

It’s 1 am in the morning as I write this blog entry on my ibook and I am listening to the first Alicia Keys song that I am feeling – “You Don’t Know My Name”. Plus the video is so sweet. Too bad I doubt someone would be so bold to holla at me like that. NY women, ha! LOL

Message to SRW: I know u read this so please don’t be surprised if I may seem snippy, but I am not big on people I know popping in and out with their interactions. Like if I don’t hear from someone in months, I am not proned to acting like no time has passed, and babbling on. Only certain folks get that privilege and it was earned. But I am not mad; just have certain principles that I have been trying to stick to. Darn it it’s a pet peeve.

But grad school, what a cruel joke. The US and its concern for education is such a farce. Shoot Columbia EDU wants 31,200 this year for two semesters of grad school, and barely has any fellowships and scholarships to cover ur ass. And that the tuition will go up. Well I have Brooklyn college and Columbia College in Chicago to get my carp to too.

I finally printed pictures from one of my portfolio subjects – my most recent. 8-month pregnant TL who has a four-week old daughter. Her belly fascinated and a freaked me out a little at the same time. Even women who saw the contact sheets were a little _____ by the line going down the middle of her belly, which is natural.

Songs: ”Over and Over and “Familiar Feelings - Moloko, “Thinking of You” – Lenny Kravitz, “Windmills of Your Mind” – Esthero (rare remake)

the irony of her. And she's not bad

a couple of random things

in regards to music and "our" possessive attitude towards it . My thoughts: once an artist creates and puts it out there it becomes whatever it supposed to for the person who listens to it. So while I understand folks playing guardian to "Black music" (look at what happened to jazz), let the music do what it's supposed to do.

I guess this is one way to show u've been beaten down. This is funny but sad.

I went job hunting applying at several Barnes and Nobles, Virgin Megastore, and Tower Records. These bills need to be paid: IBook, car insurance

And Marc Baptiste has a new book of nudes out
Called Intimate
check it otu then buy it here for a really big discount.

MJ after paying his $3 million bail

Lovely

Source gets at Eminem in another manner, which still makes them look like the desperate publishers that they are, but Em is looking really iffy to the portions of the black "communbity" right about now.

MJ is in molestation trouble again.

I think the one woman who makes me a mix CD will have me so open.

This thought popped into my head while i sat in the train heading to "work".

LOL



http://tv.zap2it.com/tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,271|84554|1|,00.html

'Simpsons'-Inspired Tomacco Grows in Oregon
(Friday, November 07 03:00 PM)

LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - To the best of our knowledge, no confectioner has yet tried to market Nuts and Gum, as seen in a 1994 episode of "The Simpsons."

Someone has, however, successfully crossed a tomato plant and a tobacco plant. It's true: Tomacco isn't just for Homer anymore.

Rob Baur, an operations analyst for a wastewater-treatment plant who lives in Lake Oswego, Ore., says he grafted a tomato plant onto tobacco roots to produce the tomacco plant. In the 1999 episode of "The Simpsons" on which his experiment was based, Homer, fleeing a duel with a Southern gentleman, creates the foul-tasting but addictive plant by irradiating a field with plutonium.
Baur says he got his tomacco plant to bear fruit, but he thinks it probably contained a lethal amount of nicotine, so he didn't taste it.

"I've got this one plant growing, and it's blooming again," he tells Wired News. "I accidentally left the tomacco on the kitchen table, and my wife yelled at me, 'Get that thing out of the kitchen, you knucklehead!' ... It looks like a regular tomato."

Tomato and tobacco plants are genetically related, which allows them to be cross-bred. Baur took the plant to a lab to see if it was, in fact, a hybrid, and tests showed its leaves contained nicotine. The fruit wasn't tested.

Baur's experiment didn't go over too big with his family, but he's confident he'll be vindicated.

"We'll see who's saying 'D'oh!' when I'm on the cover of TV Guide and Scientific American the same week," he says.

This sit down interview with Ja Rule and Minister Farrakhan proves to me how this grown rappers are such manchilds. And i emphasize the child part.

And hence is the problem of my generation, the one before, and the future generations of people of color. My generalization

Diddy Ran the City today
and P. Diddy is marketing genius. This was confirmed further after watching part of his documentary chronicling his last minute training for the NY Marathon.

4 hrs 14 minutes
Turns out he finished the 26.2 miles in that time wit honly 8 weeks of training. That's a determined little bugger.

Anyhow, back to my broke life.

Saw the Halloween parade for the first time in the city. I was coerced since i never step out on Oct. 31.
Then ended up at a "boho" affair in Brooklyn where Common showed up, chilling.
Plus i bought the Spike Jonze DVD.

I think i'm about to bite a bullet and take up a retail job to pick the slack on my bills.
Thsi week apoinments with admissions at Columbia and Brooklyn College.
Am i ready to go back to school...