There have been so many happenings in the past two years and eight months that I've been away. One thing led to another thing to another thing and so on and so on and I never could get back to this blog which I love so much. So what if no one reads it, I love reading how I felt about something or someone in the moment.
Monday, February 9, 2015
I'm Back!
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Labels: Murder trial
Monday, June 18, 2012
Rodney King, Your Name Will Always Be Remembered
<=== In this picture, Rodney looked like he had been chain-smoking Newports and blounts made with crack cocaine everyday for the last thirty years. He looked like he ate fast-food morning, noon and night and washed it down with forty-ounces or half-gallon-size soda drinks.
He looked toxic. He looked like he sweated all the time. He looked like he had gallons of tar in his lungs. He looked malnourished, rundown, unhealthy, beatdown. He looked oxygen-deprived from all the cholesterol blocking his arteries. He looked like he had hypertension. He looked like a heart-attack waiting to happen.
When I think of Rodney King, I sometimes think of Dr. Martin Luther King and the coincidence of their last name, a name meaning leadership. I think about their slight physical resemblance.
I think about how their lives and achievements were extreme opposites and yet they will be remembered for watershed moments in the civil rights history of the United States. Of course, Rodney King will not be remembered as a hero or for receiving the Nobel Peace prize or for changing the course of American history. Instead, Rodney King will be remembered as a hapless young black man who was driving while drunk, wouldn't stop when the police tried to pull him over and eventually was beaten by five LAPD, while a dozen watched. His vicious beating served as the spark that ignited riots in South Los Angeles in protest of LAPD brutality.
King got lucky because someone was taping and sent it to the news where it eventually became international. He thus became a symbol for victims who get brutalized by law enforcement everyday and no one knows about it. And he received $3.8 million dollars (he probably only got 60% of that with attorney fees and all) for his pain and suffering, from the city of Los Angeles. Again, something most beating victims never get: monetary compensation.
But then Rodney King's luck ran out. Unfortunately, he was unable to live a consistent life. He was a slave to alcohol and drugs. He got arrested for drunk driving, domestic abuse. He drove into a brick wall and someone's house. He was shot in the arm, face and back by unknown assailants when he was riding a bike. He ran red lights and stop signs and STILL would not stop for cops.
Rodney King 1965 - 2012 |
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Labels: Another Tragedy
Monday, March 19, 2012
Tiger Woods is Weird
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Saturday, February 11, 2012
Bye, Beautiful
Whitney Houston died today. Officially at 3:55 pm but she was probably dead long before that. In more ways than one. It's like she sputtered out. When she started out she was so fresh, so delectable, so young. And now that seems so long ago, so in another time and place. Whitney today is no more. Her body lies at the Los Angeles City Morgue, waiting to (or perhaps, already have) undergo(ne) an autopsy as I sit here and write this.
The greatest singer of my time has died. I don't know what drove Whitney to do what she did with her life. I have no idea why she couldn't overcome whatever she needed to overcome or what her daily environment was like. Was she hooked on pills? That seems to be the most deadly high for celebrities. Or did her heart just give out from all the years of cigarette and crack smoke? I guess it doesn't matter what made her die she is gone and it's another, new, reality without her.
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Labels: Another Tragedy
Friday, February 10, 2012
Beyonce Does Everything Right!
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Labels: Another Miracle
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Stephen Ira, Have Some Respect!
Just because you went to the Buckley School and have a superior education than most of us doesn't give you the right to talk a bunch of gibberish that only makes sense to you and your fellow school mates (and maybe not even them). How dare you at 19 years old talk down to Chaz Bono,who, at 42, a whole generation older than you, has endured ridicule, insults, mockery !! You don't know the half of what Chaz has gone through so that kids like you can be understood!
Here is that gobbly-gook you said to Chaz:
"Chaz is a misogynist...This man doesn't represent our community. He especially does not represent those of us who are non-binary, non-op, women, or feminist men. Chaz needs to do some hard thinking about what it means to appoint oneself representative of a whole group without considering the desires of all the group's members."All Chaz said was that he felt his vagina was a birth defect that he wanted corrected. Stephen got his panties in a bunch and felt that Chaz was misrepresenting this tiny sliver of a transgender subgroup - "the non-binary" [neither female or male, neither 1 or 2] that evidently wanted to be male but with vaginas. I'm not certain what he meant, I was just disturbed by the slight disrespect for a civil rights pioneer.
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Labels: Another Drama, Another Triviality
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
What Happened, Oprah!!??
or this:
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Labels: Another Life Lesson