…to be random

- my top 5 reads at the moment (and no offense to someone left off, but these people are just on point lately….can’t wait for their updates!)…yes I will be jocking them at levels not seen since Ahmad Rashad on Inside Stuff during Michael Jordan’s playing days…I am serious about my plugs though!

5) Hustleman - I am so glad he decided to start blogging way back when….his stories are just too funny man…..plus he usually throws in a Martin reference every now and again and that alone makes him great! (more on Martin later on!)

4) Carmen - Okay so she isn’t really updating much, but you GOTTA see how National Slap a Cracka Day was celebrated over there. She is SO militant. She’s like a young, new millineum Angela Davis.

3) The Brutha Code - I admit I slept on his shit for a while, but he is FUNNY as the fuck. Not only that, he takes the time to go and respond to ALL of his comments, and there’s something to be said about that in and of itself. A lazy nigga like me has tried that on occassion, and I just can’t do it. Plus he gets like 20 times more comments than me.

2) Raj - Maybe it’s because his writing is right up there with the Sports Guy and Joe From Dallas as one of my top influences, but his shit always seems to make me laugh and read well. He has a way of telling stories. Just take my word and check him out!

1) Panama - He’s officially the king ya’ll….I’m not being facietious in any way, form, or fashion…he says what I want to say in a way so completely clear and coherent, yet funny….I’m not just saying that because he’s my boy, or anything like that….his shit is just that good….*hops off his nuts*

- Speaking of Martin, Fox and HBO (which produced his show) need to get the fuck off their asses and put his show on DVD! It’s bad enough that USA and the local UPN affiliate were showing it at 4 AM. Now they’ve stopped altogether!!! I hear he’s on TVOne and that’s great for you people who live in “Black” cities or have DirectTV, but I live in Nashville and have Comcast. They will add TVOne when they get rid of BET. A DVD set is the only way I’ll be able to see Martin! I demand this DVD set like TOMORROW! I probably want this one more than A Different World, only because Oxygen shows 4 episodes of A Different World every day (they even shifted the line up so it’s no longer pre-empted by their stupid daytime, step above Lifetime movies).

- So my playlist got jacked up a few weeks ago, and I’m having to go through and reassign my 5 star rankings and thus I get caught up listening to some bullshit every now and again. Right now I’m listening to MC Hammer’s “They Put Me In The Mix”….actually, fuck what you may say, this song ain’t no bullshit!…but I bring that up to ask, whatever happened to B Angie B? Or Too Big MC? I bet they thought they were gonna make it big when Hammer put them on…..WRONG!

- The Sports Guy is having a contest to be his new intern….I wish a) I’d discovered him 5 years ago and b) I wasn’t in so much debt from Med School loans, because I’d do this in a heartbeat. Med school has me by the balls man. It’s really fucking depressing, given how poorly I’m doing.

- People always talk about the weekend after the Super Bowl being the worst ever for sports fans, but now that I’m a Nascar watcher this couldn’t be further from the truth. In all actuality, THIS weekend is the worst weekend for a sports fan. Whoever decided it was a good idea to occassionally have the week off between the Conference Championships and the Super Bowl is an idiot, plain and simple. What the hell am I supposed to watch while I drink my beer, because I am GOING to drink my beer?!!!?! I have to hear for another whole week about whether T.O. should or shouldn’t play on his hurt ankle. Just get the shit on with!

- About the actual game, I’m really torn. I’d like to see the Eagles win. I just don’t see anyone beating the Patriots. I refuse to pick against Tom Brady until he loses a playoff game. Right now I’m saying Patriots in a close game, 27-24 or something like that.

- Someone asked me if I was going to see Hide and Seek this weekend. For some reason (maybe because I’m slightly irrational and a touch insane) this pissed me off. I think I’m a movie snob. This movie looks like one of those types of movies where they tell you EVERYTHING, except who Charlie is, in the trailer for the movie. One of those movies where they bank on people going to see it because Robert De Niro is in it and then it turns out to be TERRIBLE. I can’t understand how people can’t see the “I’m getting paid for this right” look in his eyes in the trailer! He’s going to mail this one in. Just because an A list actor is in a movie doesn’t mean it’s going to be good!!! Now I’m not saying that women get suckered into/sucker men into going to see these kinds of movies. I’m just not going to say that!! But if that’s what you infer from what I wrote, then that’s on you….if I can catch this movie in a 2 for 1 or something I might sit through it, but I’ll wait for the HBO release more than likely, I’m not going to spend my money on that…not when I haven’t seen Sideways or the Aviator yet. Don’t get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with seeing the occasional bullshit movie. I have a few guilty pleasures, but I’m not going to pay to see this or make it my SOLE reason to go to the theater…..also here’s a bit of free advice from an experienced moviegoer….don’t go see a movie that’s not getting positive buzz (Oscar or otherwise) that’s released in late January/early February unless you just NEED to waste your money get out of the house and see a movie….there is a reason that movie is coming out then…do movies like Kangaroo Jack and National Security ring a bell?? These are movies that have been shelved for whatever reason and are only be released to keep the studio for losing money….

- sorry about that rant….I was temporarily possessed by the ghost of Gene Siskel….

- what’s up with the weekend Killa? Good question, Inner Monologue!! I’m going to do what my drinks tell me to do this weekend. Well not just yet. Just yet, I’m going to babysit my Godson PJ this afternoon, then after that it’s the return of Drunken Bad Behavior Cal.