bird?
The Curious Project
If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.
Heraclitus (540 BC - 480 BC)
There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.
Robert Byrne
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
31.8.08
20.8.08
18.8.08
9.8.08
SOOOO DEEP IS THE WELL.
THIS FOR THE PERSON WHO ASKED ME IF I KNEW MY FATHER AND WAS SHOCKED THAT NOT ONLY DO I KNOW HIM, BUT WE ARE VERY CLOSE, I EVEN KNEW HIS FATHER AND THE FATHERS BEFORE HIM ARE LEGEND.
THIS SAME PERSON ALSO WANTED TO APOLOGIZE FOR WHAT HER PEOPLE, (I THINK SHE WAS JEWISH) DID TO MY PEOPLE.
(IDIOTS ABOUND)
P.S.
I HAVE A DIFFERENT LAST NAME BECAUSE MY MOM IS DEMANDING, (AS A WOMAN OF HER CALIBER SHOULD BE.)AND WILL FIRE A HUSBAND WITHOUT HESITATING, MY DAD WAS NOT FIRED BUT HE AS OFTEN HAPPENS WITH YOUNG LOVERS, THINGS DON'T WORK OUT. VIETNAM DIDNT HELP, SO HE REMARRIED AND MY MOM REMARRIED, THUS MY LAST NAME.
MEET LIEUTENANT A. LONG III AND THE LATE GREAT A. "BUDDY" LONG JR.
I WAS ABOUT 12 WHEN THIS WAS TAKEN.
Im thinking right now, as i write of a to sink into this post.
why dont i just post some photos, i cant seem to put words together to convey what i feel. I will say this, WHEN YOU HERE ON THE NEWS THAT YET ANOTHER HUMAN BEING HAS BEEN KILLED BY POLICE, HELL ONE CASE WHERE IT WAS THE KILLING COPS SECOND MURDER IN 15 MONTHS! AND NOT ONE VALD SHOUT OF FOUL, WHEN YOU HEAR THIS AND THEN HEAR A STORY OF BRAVE, CARING , LOVING, PEACEFUL HUMANS RISKING THEIR LIVES AND FREEDOM TO SAVE TREES, T MAKES YOU QUESTION HUMAN NATURE. I HAVE NOT YET HEARD ANYONE RISKING LIFE AND LIMB, CHAINING THEMSELVES TO THE DOOR OF THE POLICE PRECIENT TO DEMAND ANSWERS FOR THESE DEATHS OF OTHER HUMAN BEINGS. I DO NOT HEAR CRIES OF PROTESET ABOUT THE CONDITION OF SCHOOLS IN THE POORER AND NON-WHITE COMMUNITIES IN AMERICA. I DO NOT SEE CROWDS GATHERING OUTSIDE THE EMBASSIES OF COUNTRIES INVOLVED IN ALL SORTS OF MAYHAM AGAINST HUMAN BEINGS. I DO NOT SEE ANYONE CHAINING THEMELVES TO A HOMELESS PERSON DEMANDING
THEY BE FEED AND HOUSED..I CAN GO ON BUT I WANT OFFER PICTURES. LOOK AT THEM AND THINK.
ONE CONCLUSION THAT SEEMS OBVIOUS IS,THE WORLD IS FULL OF PEOPLE WHO ARE FULL OF SHIT, AND PEOPLE WHO DONT GIVE A DAMN ABOUT SAVING ANYONE BUT "THEMSELVES" OR A TREE.
WHICH ONE ARE YOU?
I CAN RESPECT SOMEONE MORE WHO SAYS OUT RIGHT: "I DONT CARE ABOUT THE PLIGHT OF ANYONE BUT A CHOOSEN FEW" THATS BEING HONEST, AND THAT DESERVES MORE RESPECT THAN SOMEONE HANGING UPSIDE DOWN TO SAVE A TREE, BUT QUICKLY RETREATING FROM REAL BRUTALITY AGAINST HUMAN BEINGS" FUCK YOU AND YOUR TREE!
(PROTESTNG IS COOL DUDE!)
(PROTESTING IS A GOOD WAY TO GET LAID!)
(PROTESTING IS FUN!)
(PROTESTING IS WASTE OF TIME UNLESS IT IS TIME NOT WASTED.)
OR COULD IT BE:
KEEP THE POOR, POOR UNDER-EDUCATED, OPPRESSED AND BRUTALIZED BY THE CRIMINAL
IN- JUSTICE SYSTEM, PRETEND YOU CARE UNLESS IT MAKES LIFE FAIR FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO EAT THE SAME GOOD FOOD YOU DO, DRIVE THE NICE CARS YOU DO, LIVE IN SAFE COMMUNITIES, LIKE YOU DO, HAVE HAPPY STABLE FAMILIES LIKE YOU DO, COMPETE, YOU KNOW SURVIVE...
THE COST TO THE TAX PAYERS (AS YOU READ THIS THINK ABOUT THOSE KIDS IN NEARBY OAKLAND WHO HAVE NO ART PROGRAMS OR SCHOOL BOOKS, OR TEACHERS LIVING IN SQAULOR)
UC Berkeley-ites take to the trees, protest campus connections to British Petroleum - others are in the trees re saving the historic oak trees , still others have diffrent reasons. How come no one ever sits in trees over the border issue? This is the kind of thing that should appear on that “Stuff White People Like” that I linked to last month. Or is protesting in trees about “Things White People Dislike” ? I emailed this to some less ‘privileged’ at a state school, who have bigger, more awful things to protest about- they laughed.
UC Berkeley officials say the tree-sitters have cost the school $367,000 since the protest began one year ago:
$100,000
Police staffing
$125,000
Private security
$37,000
First fence around protest site
$80,000
Second fence around protest site
$25,000
Equipment, cleanup and other costs
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/12/02/BAONTM4SC.DTL
why dont i just post some photos, i cant seem to put words together to convey what i feel. I will say this, WHEN YOU HERE ON THE NEWS THAT YET ANOTHER HUMAN BEING HAS BEEN KILLED BY POLICE, HELL ONE CASE WHERE IT WAS THE KILLING COPS SECOND MURDER IN 15 MONTHS! AND NOT ONE VALD SHOUT OF FOUL, WHEN YOU HEAR THIS AND THEN HEAR A STORY OF BRAVE, CARING , LOVING, PEACEFUL HUMANS RISKING THEIR LIVES AND FREEDOM TO SAVE TREES, T MAKES YOU QUESTION HUMAN NATURE. I HAVE NOT YET HEARD ANYONE RISKING LIFE AND LIMB, CHAINING THEMSELVES TO THE DOOR OF THE POLICE PRECIENT TO DEMAND ANSWERS FOR THESE DEATHS OF OTHER HUMAN BEINGS. I DO NOT HEAR CRIES OF PROTESET ABOUT THE CONDITION OF SCHOOLS IN THE POORER AND NON-WHITE COMMUNITIES IN AMERICA. I DO NOT SEE CROWDS GATHERING OUTSIDE THE EMBASSIES OF COUNTRIES INVOLVED IN ALL SORTS OF MAYHAM AGAINST HUMAN BEINGS. I DO NOT SEE ANYONE CHAINING THEMELVES TO A HOMELESS PERSON DEMANDING
THEY BE FEED AND HOUSED..I CAN GO ON BUT I WANT OFFER PICTURES. LOOK AT THEM AND THINK.
ONE CONCLUSION THAT SEEMS OBVIOUS IS,THE WORLD IS FULL OF PEOPLE WHO ARE FULL OF SHIT, AND PEOPLE WHO DONT GIVE A DAMN ABOUT SAVING ANYONE BUT "THEMSELVES" OR A TREE.
WHICH ONE ARE YOU?
I CAN RESPECT SOMEONE MORE WHO SAYS OUT RIGHT: "I DONT CARE ABOUT THE PLIGHT OF ANYONE BUT A CHOOSEN FEW" THATS BEING HONEST, AND THAT DESERVES MORE RESPECT THAN SOMEONE HANGING UPSIDE DOWN TO SAVE A TREE, BUT QUICKLY RETREATING FROM REAL BRUTALITY AGAINST HUMAN BEINGS" FUCK YOU AND YOUR TREE!
(PROTESTNG IS COOL DUDE!)
(PROTESTING IS A GOOD WAY TO GET LAID!)
(PROTESTING IS FUN!)
(PROTESTING IS WASTE OF TIME UNLESS IT IS TIME NOT WASTED.)
OR COULD IT BE:
KEEP THE POOR, POOR UNDER-EDUCATED, OPPRESSED AND BRUTALIZED BY THE CRIMINAL
IN- JUSTICE SYSTEM, PRETEND YOU CARE UNLESS IT MAKES LIFE FAIR FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO EAT THE SAME GOOD FOOD YOU DO, DRIVE THE NICE CARS YOU DO, LIVE IN SAFE COMMUNITIES, LIKE YOU DO, HAVE HAPPY STABLE FAMILIES LIKE YOU DO, COMPETE, YOU KNOW SURVIVE...
THE COST TO THE TAX PAYERS (AS YOU READ THIS THINK ABOUT THOSE KIDS IN NEARBY OAKLAND WHO HAVE NO ART PROGRAMS OR SCHOOL BOOKS, OR TEACHERS LIVING IN SQAULOR)
UC Berkeley-ites take to the trees, protest campus connections to British Petroleum - others are in the trees re saving the historic oak trees , still others have diffrent reasons. How come no one ever sits in trees over the border issue? This is the kind of thing that should appear on that “Stuff White People Like” that I linked to last month. Or is protesting in trees about “Things White People Dislike” ? I emailed this to some less ‘privileged’ at a state school, who have bigger, more awful things to protest about- they laughed.
UC Berkeley officials say the tree-sitters have cost the school $367,000 since the protest began one year ago:
$100,000
Police staffing
$125,000
Private security
$37,000
First fence around protest site
$80,000
Second fence around protest site
$25,000
Equipment, cleanup and other costs
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/12/02/BAONTM4SC.DTL
8.8.08
CAN SOMEONE TELL ME WHY?
Number 10
Life is sexually transmitted.
Number 9
Good health is merely the
slowest possible rate at
which one can die.
Number 8 (love this one!)
Men have two emotions:
Hungry & Horny. If you see him
without an erection, make him
a sandwich.
Number 7
Give a person a fish & you feed
them for a day; teach a person
to use the Internet & they
won't bother you
for weeks.
Number 6
Some people are like a Slinky..........
not really good for anything, but
you still can't help but smile
when you shove them
down the stairs.
Number 5
Health nuts are going to feel
stupid someday, lying in
hospitals dying of
nothing.
Number 4
All of us could take a lesson from
the weather. It pays no attention
to criticism.
Number 3
Why does a slight tax increase cost
you two hundred dollars and a
substantial tax cut saves
you thirty cents?
Number 2
In the 60s, people took acid to make
the world weird. Now The world is
weird and people take Prozac
to make it normal.
AND THE NUMBER 1
THOUGHT FOR 2007:
We know exactly where one cow with
Mad-cow-disease is located among
the millions of cows in America, but
we haven't got a clue as to where
thousands of illegal immigrants
& terrorists are located.
Maybe we should put the
Department of Agriculture
in charge of immigration.....?
tAKEN FROM SCRUVZ (I WISH I HAD COME UP WITH THESE JEWELS)
5.8.08
AFFIRMATION ABOUT AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
TODAY WE HAD STRANGERS COME INTO OUR HOME. IT WAS FOR AN INSPECTION FOR CONDO-CONVERSION. IF YOU LIVE IN THE BAY AREA YOU KNOW WHAT HELL THIS CAN BE. SO HERE WE ARE HOUSE IN UTTER CHAOS, ME WITH DAY THREE OF 2 HOURS OF UNSOUND SLEEP. FOUR GUYS WITH NOTEPADS AND CLIPBOARDS INVADED MY MY MORNING. AS I PROCEEDED TO INTRODUCE MYSELF TO THE STRANGERS IN GET THIS OUR HOUSE...I NOTICED A COUPLE OF THEM SEEMED TO HAVE MISTAKEN ME FOR THE HELP,OR MAYBE THEY WERE AS OVER THIS HIDEOUS DAYLIGHT THING AS I WAS,(LONG HARD NIGHT) OR MAYBE THEY WERE SOME CLOSET BIGOT ASSHOLES, OR MAYBE THEY WERE JUST ASSHOLES WHO KNOWS? (BEING AF-AMER WE HAVE A HARD TIME TELLING SOMETIMES, WE GET IT FROM SO MANY DIRECTIONS IN THIS WAY, YOU KNOW POST JIM CROW TRAUMA)
THE POINT BEING EXACTLY THAT, AS THE BIG GORGEOUS BROWN HUNK OF MAN MEAT THAT I AM ITS HARD TO DISTINGUISH DISDAIN FROM APATHY FROM BIGOTRY FROM LACK OF SLEEP FROM A GENERAL SHITTY DISPOSITION.
HOW DO I KNOW IF SOMEONE IS BEING RUDE AND CALLOUS BECAUSE SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY ARE PRONE TO BE A DICK, OR MAYBE THEY HAD TO REFER TO THE HAND ONCE TO OFTEN OR THEY ARE CONCERNED ABOUT BILLS, OR HAVE A HEMORRHOID THAT IS A MONSTER...WHO CAN TELL.
WELL WHEN YOU COME INTO SOME ONES HOME...FOR WHAT EVER REASON, GENERALLY SAYING HELLO IS A GOOD IDEA, LEAST YOU BE MISTAKEN FOR A THIEF, JEHOVAH'S WITNESS, INSURANCE SALESPERSON,OR THE MOST FRIGHTENING OF ALL AN IN LAW (MY PARTNER IS A WHITE CHICK)
SO THIS ONE GUY GIVES ME THIS
"HEY BOY" KIND OF LOOK. I KNOW THIS LOOK I'M FROM THE SOUTH AND IVE SEEN ROOTS AT LEAST 20 TIMES..
I'M LIKE HI, WELCOME! HI, WELCOME! I HAD TO SAY IT A COUPLE TIMES...FINALLY HE REACHED OUT WITH HIS LIMP HAND SHAKE TO MEET MY MEAT HOOKS. WOW THE NERVE I THOUGHT, THEN I SAID TO MYSELF, SELF REMEMBER ALL WHITE PEOPLE ARE NOT CLOSET KLANSMAN, RELAX...SO I MOVE THE CHIP FROM MY SHOULDER TO MY BELLY ( I WAS HUNGRY). AS THE CHATTER WENT ON ABOUT THIS CODE AND THAT CODE...PRIMARILY REFERRING TO MY PARTNER, THE WHITE CHICK,
AS I'M STRUGGLING WITH A LADDER TO REACH THE CEILING WHICH HAPPENS TO BE 20 FEET ABOVE, HE CREEPS BEHIND ME AND SAYS..."I NEED TO GET THROUGH HERE BOY!" OKAY HE DID NT SAY BOY BUT HIS TONE SURE DID. NOW WHERE I'M FROM, YOU FIRST OF ALL SAY HELLO WHEN ENTERING SOMEONES HOME, YOU LOOK THEM IN THE EYE INTRODUCE YOURSELF, YOU SAY EXCUSE ME IF YOU WANT TO PASS THEM..ESP. IF THEY ARE 3 FEET TALLER THAN YOU AND 40 LBS HEAVIER AND YOU NEVER KNOW...(IT COULD BE ANGRY BLACK MAN OVER REACT AND FREAK OUT DAY)
WELL I LOOKED THIS JERK IN THE EYE AND SAID, YEAH IN A SECOND...
(REALIZING THIS WAS AN OFFICIAL WHOSE REPORT DEALT WITH OUR CONDO CONVERSION)
HE DECLINED TO WAIT , I DECLINED TO PUT MY FOOT IN HIS YOU KNOW WHAT( YEAH, THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN HELPFUL) BUT I AT LAST HAD ENOUGH. I TOLD THE WHITE CHICK, WHITE CHICK LOVE, I'M GOING FOR A FAG BEFORE I IMPLODE.SO I HOP IN THE CAR AND HEAD TO WHERE I GO TO SMOKE FAGS AND RELAX...THE CAR WASH STALL TWO BLOCKS AWAY.
AS I'M LISTENING TO THE RADIO SOME GUY, THE HEAD OF THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY IS RANTING ABOUT AFFIRMATIVE ACTION. HERE I AM IN A STATE OF BLACK ANGER AND HUMILIATED CONFUSION, AND THIS GUY IS CRYING ABOUT AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, WELL I WAS STEAMING NOW.
FOLKS WE HAVE SO MUCH HEALING TO DO IN THIS COUNTRY. I WILL ADMIT TO HAVING A CHIP ON MY SHOULDER TO HAVE BIGOTED,CHUAVANISTIC, TENDENCIES, TO BE HOMOPHOBIC, XENOPHOBIC,HATE SMALL ANIMALS, AND CRYING BABIES,$20 CARS WITH $2000 RIMS,CHURCH, SOGGY SANDWICHES, HELL SOMETIMES I SIMPLY HATE EVERYTHING AND EVERYBODY, BUT I AM AWARE THAT THIS IS NOT HOW I WANT TO BE. BUT OH BOY, SOME TIMES ...LIFE JUST HANDS YOU HATE ON A SILVER PLATTER.
LISTEN I HAVE MORE TO SAY ABOUT THIS I WANT TO CLARIFY IT. FOR ME AND ANYONE WHO GOT SUFFERED THE BAD GRAMMAR AND SPELLING TO GET THIS FAR (EMAIL I HAVE A PRIZE FOR YOU, REALLY!)
BASICALLY I WANT TO OFFER THIS AS A THOUGHT: RESPECT WORKS TWO WAYS.
AND AFFIRMATIVE ACTION?
WELL LOOK AT THE FOLLOWING PICTURES AND THINK ABOUT IT. IT AIN'T NEW ITS JUST SHIFTING ITS FOCUS...WHAT DO YOU THINK?
(PS MY WHITE CHICK POWER FRAU PARTNER LOVER, FRIEND, NEMESIS TRENCH-PAL ROCKS SO HARD SHE IS TRANSLUCENT.)
P.S
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS RACE!!!
4.8.08
1.8.08
BUSY ISNT BUSY ENOUGH. TAKE A PICTURE SWEETIE I AINT GOT TIME TO WASTE.
THIS IS SOMETHING I AM ALSO PASSIONATE ABOUT, RECYCLING OLD FURNITURE, AND OTHER FUNCTIONAL OBJECTS. I ACTUALLY WANTED TO OPEN A SHOP WHERE I SOLD THINGS I RESCUED FROM THE REALM OF THE UNWANTED. GIVEN SOME IMAGINATION AND SWEET EFFORT..THESE THINGS COULD COME BACK FROM THE THRIFT STORE DEATH POOL. WELL HERE IS SOMETHING , NOT QUITE THRIFTY IT WAS A COMMISSION FROM A JOINT IN THE MISSION CALLED EL RINCON.
THIS PLACE IS GREAT, RUN BY MIKE A NIGERIAN WHO IS A MASTER FRENCH/INDIAN CHEF WHO RUN A CUBAN/MEXICAN RESTAURANT BY DAY, BUT WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN YOU CAN FIND ANYTHING THERE FROM JAPANESE GOTH ROCK TO VOODOO CABARET TO RUMBA, SAMBA, SALSA, TRANCE, DRUM AND BASS HOUSE, GANGSTA RAP, OLD SCHOOL PUNK OR ANYTHING YOU CANT IMAGINE, ITS AMAZING.
THE GREEN ROOM..THE GREEN ROOM.
THERE ARE ALSO SOME SHOTS OF A MURAL I DID THERE, THE ENTIRE ENTRANCE WAY..EXCUSE ME, ves·ti·bule OH, AND THE FOOT TALL WOODEN ANGEL CUTOUT WITH THE 7 FOOT WINGSPAN.
(I WILL HAVE BETTER DOCUMENTATION OF THIS ON MY WEBSITE SOON.)
JUST FOR SHITS AND GIGGLES
History of the Dozens
The term "the Dozens" is believed to refer to the devaluing on the auction block of slaves who were past their prime, who were deformed, aged or who, after years of back-breaking toil, no longer were capable of hard labor. These enslaved human beings often were sold by the dozen. In "Still Laughing to Keep from Crying: Black Humor," African-American author and professor Mona Lisa Saloy writes:
The dozens has its origins in the slave trade of New Orleans where deformed slaves--generally slaves punished with dismemberment for disobedience--were grouped in lots of a 'cheap dozen' for sale to slave owners. For a Black to be sold as part of the 'dozens' was the lowest blow possible.".[1]
HEE.HEE.
SIDE SPLITING AINT IT?
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