Ever hear any version of that song? I’m sure you have either didn’t know the name of it, or weren’t paying attention. The version I’m listening to is the one with Luther Vandross and Martha Wash, there are about 3 or four different versions though, including one with Donny Hathaway and Roberta Flack.

This doesn’t have anything to do with anything by the way, just some useless knowledge passed on from me to you.

So yesterday was a very, very productive day thanks to Heather. I got a new camera phone, the Motorola v400. So now people will stop laughing at my old phone which has been called everything from a “house phone” to a “Zach Morris phone”.

I did other things, but the best part was meeting up with Doris and Jeralyn at the Melting Pot (TaTa came shortly afterward) then going back to Heathers and drinking, then going to the Flying Saucer. Of course I’m paying the price now in the form of G.I. upet induced by alcohol.

Oh yeah…the answers to the Movie Trivia thingamabob that no one really cared about:

1) Paperback books
2) Pussy wagon
3) Flight of the Valkyries
4) Unstable Creatures
5) Kindergarten teacher
6) Construction
7) Pizza Delivery Guy Throws a baseball that he caught at the Cubs game at it
9) Her forearm
10) Dolemite
11) Gave Mia Wallace a foot massage
12) Shoplifting
13) Baseball
14) “I SMOKED the TV mama!”
15) A Ralph’s (a grocery store) card
16) A clown
17) Puts it in the bedpan
18) How to drive
19) Skokie, Illinois
20) Stomach Cancer

Thanks to those who played. I won’t be doing another one for awhile based on the response to that one.

That’s enough for now!

I remember around May of 1997, we had about a month left at Westlake High School. We had just gotten our yearbooks and people were going around getting them signed. I had about 6 or 7 full pages of notes, from people expressing their unending friendship to people saying they wished they had gotten to know me better. I wrote many of those types of entries. Even then I was on my own “d”, thinking to myself as I penned something poignant to someone I considered a true friend, “This is probably the note they are going to look back on years from now and feel the fondest about.” I have to laugh at my own arrogance sometimes, especially in light of my outward actions.

At any rate, now some seven years removed, it’s amazing how few of those people I actually keep in touch with, especially considering how much of a nostalgia-head I am.

Now usually I have a policy of not using the whole legal name of people in this blogger, for privacy’s sake, but in this case I actually HOPE that some of the people I’m going to mention do a google search or something and pull up their names.

Sometimes I wonder what happened to a few of the people I used to hang out with and stuff. People like Elenda Stanley and Christal Webb. I made mention of them before in this journal somewhere. Back in High School they were inseperable, wherever you saw one you saw the other. We took Latin together in my Sophomore year and that’s when we got really cool.

The last time I saw Elenda was probably one of the FAMU vs. TSU games in Atlanta. She was down at Florida A&M and I don’t even really know what her major was. Even when I saw her, it was in passing and we didn’t really talk for very long.

Christal was one of my best friends for real, but I REALLY fell off. She became a victim of my laziness. We played e-mail tag all the way through college and when she finished school she joined the military to pay off her school debt or something. She wrote letters and such, but I never really maintained contact.

I also wonder about my boy Anthony Turner. There were actually two dudes in my graduating class with that name. They were always being confused for one another, and no doubt, if this page is ever turned up on a net search it’ll probably happen again. Typically they were differentiated by their skin-tone (I mean we are talking about a 99.9% Black Suburban high school…that was the easiest way). Anyway I’m talking about the one I took most of my classes with “dark-skinned” Anthony. I “kept-up” with him through other people, and I heard he finished Xavier University of New Orleans early and went to med school, which would mean he probably graduated this year.

Who else is there in the Killa Cal missing in action files? There is James Fletcher and Chris Speed. There’s Heather Varner and Ricci Wright and Towanda Smith and Nikia Hopkins. I haven’t heard from most of them since 1998 at the very latest.

I wonder what happened to these folks. Did they go across the country like my boy Brandon Smallwood and get married and start a family? Are they somewhere working a 9-to-5 just trying to make it? Are they moving up the corporate ladder? Are they happy with their life? Do they ever think about other people from Westlake (including me) and wonder what they are up to?

I hope this didn’t come off as obsessive or whatever, I just have a memory like that (I mean look at the past two entries with the movie and tv trivia).

Speaking of the movie trivia, I’ll post the answers tomorrow. There was much less participation this time, I think that’s a sign I need to wait awhile before doing it again.

However last night I had a few rounds of “Stump the Killa” starting with movies, then television over at Julian and TaTa’s (yes I was on my own “d” very hard flexing my vast stores of useless knowledge, even though I was stumped quite a few times). TaTa made some OUTSTANDING lasagna also. Oh and we played men versus women in Taboo and absolutely OWNED THE WOMEN.

I hear that Julian is now in trouble, but it’s probably my fault. I made some EXTREMELY sexist comments in the aftermath of our 99 to 67 drubbing of the women. I will not repeat those comments here, because I don’t want to lose any more readers than I already have, but it had to do with my antiquated views on gender roles. Of course I was half joking, but in light of the whipping we laid on the ladies I probably would have been better served not saying it at all.

At any rate, that’s all for now folks, I’m trying to catch a late breakfast!

Thanks to all those who participated in the TV Challenge, Max and Caishe both got all 20 of them. Unbelievable! Even my couch potato sister Che didn’t get that many!

Here are the answers for those who are interested.

1)When The Funk Hits the Fan
2)Republican
3)The Boner (Richie Stabone was his “real” name)
4)They played professional football together
5)Myrtle Urkel
6)Kenny Bania
7)Vinnie
8)Lou Smith
9)Pray for Mojo
10)Miss Westlake
11)The (Lanford) Lunch Box
12)Jesse And The Rippers
13)Duke (this was one of my favorite skits!!!)
14)Alderman/woman (I also accepted city council)
15)Jaleesa’s Breast Milk
16)Stan
17)Mayday
18)Penguins
19)14 (this was the toughest question, because when the show actually started he was 16, but in the newspaper clips they show at the beginning they say he actually finished med school at age 14…I accepted both though)
20)She’s shot by her father’s hitmen at an intersection when they mistake her for him (poor Noxeema girl!!!!)

So anyway I was challenged on Soul City to do a movie challenge since “real men” watch movies. You may remember the last movie challenge, which got me REALLY angry when someone posted the answers in the comments after I went through great pains to request that the answers be e-mailed!

At any rate, the same rules as yesterday apply! I switched the format up from the last time, instead of telling me who said the quote you have to answer some question about the plot/details of the movie. Bon Chance! (some of these questions contain spoilers if you haven’t seen the movies, be warned)

1) In Jackie Brown, what does Jackie put under the beach towels in lieu of money in the bag intended for Ordell?
2) In Kill Bill, Vol. 1 what is the name of the car that the Bride obtained from “Buck who likes to fuck”?
3) In Apocolypse Now what song is played over the loud speakers of the helicopters when Kilgore’s (Robert Duvall) troop flies overhead in a raid?
4) In Baby Boy what does Sweetpea say he’s going to start referring to women as instead of bitches?
5) In Halfbaked, what does Kenny do for a living before he’s thrown in jail for feeding Buttercup (Butterstuff…Butternuts) the diabetic horse and killing him?
6) In Goodfellas, what field does Henry tell Karyn that he’s in when they first start dating?
7) In There’s Something About Mary, what does Tucker (the dude with the crutches) really do for a living? In Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, how does Ferris turn off the stereo playing the loud sleeping noises at the end of the movie when his parents are about to come into his room?
9) In A Nightmare on Elm Street, what part of Nancy’s body is burned when she falls asleep in class?
10) In House Party, what movie does Pops rent for he and Kid to watch?
11) In Pulp Fiction, what did Antoine “Tony Rocky Horror” Rocamora supposedly do according to Jules to warrant being thrown out of a window?
12) In Boyz In The Hood, what crime is young Doughboy arrested for at the beginning of the movie?
13) In Mo’ Better Blues, what sport does Giant like betting on that gets him (and Bleek) beat up?
14) In Jungle Fever, what does Gator tell his mother when she asks what happened to the TV?
15) In The Big Lebowski, what is The Dude’s only form of identification when he’s at the Malibu precinct (and presumably throughout the movie)?
16) In Halloween, what is Michael Myers dressed as for Halloween when he kills his sister?
17) In Forrest Gump, what does Lt. Dan do with the ice cream cone that Forrest give him while they are in the military hospital?
18) In The Godfather, what is Michael teaching Apollonia to do before she is killed?
19) In The Usual Suspects, where is the bulletin board in the office Agent Kujan interviewed Verbal Kint made?
20) In The Royal Tenenbaums, what kind of cancer does Royal claim to have?

I fully expect Geoff to get every single one of these. They are actually too easy! At any rate, mail the answers to me at calvin@killacal.net!

Answers tomorrow, and bonus points if you can tell me what the subtitle (electric boogaloo) is a reference to!

By the way check out the new link on the side, Bomani Jones. He’s a writer who was at CAU at the same time as I was attending Morehouse. His quiz bowl team bested us the first year I played Honda and went on to win the national title.

Yes good people, I’ve really been studying. I realize that leaving like that has probably caused me to lose a few readers, I need to consider having a mailing list or something so that people can know when I update, since I’m no longer the model for consistency I once was.

Anyway, remember way back in the yesteryear when I did a TV Trivia Challenge? Yeah, it was very hard!

Well guess what, I’m about to do a new one! This one is probably just as hard as the other one, but hey, someone out there will probably know all of the answers!

As usual the following rules apply:
A) Don’t post the answers in the comments, I will delete them! Instead e-mail them to me.
B) There may actually be a “prize” involved this time, depending on a few real life factors coming into play.
C) This is a hard quiz, so google if you must, but I gotta tell you, most of these aren’t gonna be found on Google.

1) On The Steve Harvey Show, what hit of his old group, Steve Hightower and the Hi Tops, did P. Diddy want to sample?
2) On Family Ties, what political party was Alex P. Keaton a fervent supporter of?
3) On Growing Pains, what was Mike Seaver’s best friend’s nickname?
4) On Webster, how did George Papadapolis know Webster’s dad Travis?
5) On Family Matters, what was the name of Steve Urkel’s female cousin (also played by Jaleel White)?
6) On Seinfeld, what was the name of Jerry’s comedian protege who insisted that soup was not a full meal (first and last name)?
7) On Blossom, what is the name of her boyfriend who she runs away with and wants to have sex with until she finds out he’s on a coma (in a series of “very special episodes”)? On The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, what is Will’s long lost father’s (played by Ben Vereen) name?
9) On The Simpsons, what words does a fat, bloated Mojo the Helper Monkey type into the talking computer at the end of the episode he appeared on?
10) On The Cosby Show, what is the name of Theo’s high school math teacher who was nicknamed, “The Dragon Lady”?
11) On Roseanne, what was the name of the restuarant she opened in season 5?
12) On Full House, what is the name of Uncle Jesse’s band?
13) On In Living Color, what was the name of the dead dog that one of Jamie Foxx’s characters (Cornbread Turner) used to drag along with him?
14) On Living Single, what political position did Maxine Shaw run for?
15) On A Different World, what was the secret (and not so great) ingredient did Ron inadvertantly use to make the Pina COL-lattas for Senator Byron Douglas’s bachelor party?
16) On Golden Girls what is the name of Dorothy’s ex-husband?
17) On Cheers what was Sam Malone’s nickname when he played for the Boston Red Sox?
18) On Hanging With Mr. Cooper, what is the mascot for Oakland Prep High School?
19) On Doogie Howser, M.D., how old is Doogie when he becomes an M.D. (yeah right!!)?
20) On Beverly Hills 90210, what happens to Dylan McKay’s new wife Toni Marchette shortly after their wedding?

Man these are so hard! I’d be surprised if someone got more than 10 right.

This should keep ya’ll busy enough though!

Yep, I’ve published 499 entries before this one.

I had written something that I planned on publishing on Wednesday, but ultimately scrapped it for whatever reason. It was something saying how 500 isn’t what it used to be. I made a baseball analogy (500 home runs probably won’t be an automatic Hall of Fame bid if Fred McGriff gets it, but back in the day 500 Home Runs was the stuff of legends). I also mentioned how back in the day $500 bucks would last you alot longer than it would now (I’d still owe on my rent!).

But as far as websites and bloggers go, 500 entries might just be a big deal.

Before I wrote the piece that will never see the light of day on Wednesday I was going to do this thing that I had planned to run on a forum I was a member of before I got banned the first time (The Black Peoples Awards….), but I wasn’t feeling that either.

But none of this is what you want to know. I know what you want to know. Where have you been? I’ve been studying. My boys James and Eman have gotten me into a pretty good routine of studying. I should be studying now actually.

As I’ve stated before (it seems like I have mentioned it at least 30 times), I am taking my Medical Licensure exam (first of 3) in August. Frankily I just haven’t had the time to sit down and put forth the effort of writing an entry here.

I gave some serious, serious, serious thought to quitting blogging all together, and who knows what will happen when my domain rights are expired in December. For now I know that I will be taking an extended break. Longer than a week, maybe longer than a month. I might not make another entry until I finish my exam. I may decide to come back sooner. I really don’t know at this point.

I guess at this point I should thank the people who are in my life for giving me things (good and bad) to write about. I’ve been through alot (some I wrote about others I didn’t) since I purchased this domain. Thanks once again to OJ for hooking up the design, it’s dope, I love opening up this page (it’s my homepage!). Thanks to my early inspirations like Kelly, Huny, Crystal, and a bunch of others who were blogging in 2002. Thanks to the people who read here, whether you comment or not.

If I’ve insulted you, you probably deserved it, but it’s out there now. If I’ve helped you, I’m glad I could. If I made you laugh, that was my intention. If I taught you something, pass it on.

It’s all water under the bridge after all.

I’m out for awhile!

It feels good to get shit off your chest. Even if it’s on my “little webpage”. I guess it’s better than not getting it out there at all and being a fake ass person about it. Now I don’t have to go through the charade of acknowledgment and all of that bullshit. We can shed all of the pretense. And you can stop coming to my “little webpage”, because ain’t shit here for you to see.

I only regret that I didn’t say what I said to you sooner (that and having met you in the first place). You are duplicitious, shady, and faker than monopoly money. Say what you will about me and my immaturity but at least with people I consider friends (and even people who AREN’T my friends) I treat them as such. I don’t abuse their trust and I don’t front.

I fooled myself into thinking that you were someone who you weren’t. That was MY bad. As one does with people they consider to be a friend, I overlooked shit that I probably should have made note of at the time. Now that I know and can recognize it, I’m better off. I hope that other people soon come to see who you really are (some of them already do).

…and that’s that.

At any rate, yesterday after the rain we had a BBQ. I cooked, I drank lots of beer, I got into an argument, and I smoked a cuban cigar. To be honest, most of yesterday was a haze, I don’t remember too many details. I had on a pink shirt and hat. I don’t know WHY I did that, but I did it. I ate a watermelon that had soaked in vodka, I don’t think I’ll do that again. Sometime later I’ll post some pictures. For now I’m going back to sleep.

Sup ya’ll…

- So the Jen and Liz are kicking it in Philly this weekend eh? That should be interesting.

- I woke up this morning and “the new and improved Anna K.” Maria Sharapova had beaten Serena in the Wimbledon finals!! I’ll be John Brown!!

- remember that game M.A.S.H. that you used to play as a kid? The one I still play as an adult once per summer just for fun? Well it’s online!! My results are as follows: You will live in Apartment. You will drive a ghetto color change Mazarati of any model. You will marry Gabrielle Union and have 3 kids. You will be a bum in Miami. Sounds about right to me.

- my little sister is in Los Angeles for the summer doing research at UCLA (she has written about it on her blog, but apparently ya’ll don’t read her!!!). She was supposed to go hang out with OJ last night, I wonder how that went.

- One of the big things I was worried about actually turned out okay for me!! Now if 12 or 13 other things can work out in my favor!

- The 4th might be kinda great. There could be fireworks and I’m not talking about the kind you watch in the sky!! I need to work on this bad temper I have, combined with my grudge holding.

- The Freshmen are about to start! They are getting things going early this year. Time is flying.

- Something big is coming and ya’ll don’t even know it.

- I probably shouldn’t have said anything, cuz certain readers of mine are known for being obnoxious about surprises, just wait and see for once!

- I went and saw Spider Man 2 and Fahrenheit 9/11 on Wednesday night, they are both EXCELLENT. Fahrenheit made me angry and I don’t think I could sit through it again but it’s well worth seeing at least once! I’ll see Spider Man 2 again and again and again!

- What the hell is wrong with black folks? Just in general. We are fucking up so badly we’re turning Bill Cosby into Rosa Parks! Or maybe if we are all lucky enough to get old, we’ll all be crotchety and hate anything younger than half our age.

- The Braves might just salvage this season, and if they do, Bobby Cox deserves every award for a manager there is. It would seal the deal on his Hall of Fame status.

- It’s hard being a Hawks fan sometimes.

- It’s not so hard being a Falcons fan lately. In the name of David Archer I hope they make a deep playoff run!

- Coach K needs to stay his ass at Duke if he knows what’s good for him!

- Just a hunch, Shaq will be a Laker for longer than he wants to.

- I need to hop in the shower right fast! Later!