a new definition of "lost"

b1-67er: It's so weird people gamble to win money but dont care what the odds are. It's like orienteering without a compass.

blazing crosses

b1-66er: who's the world's most famous jew?  jesus?

special K: It ain't Mel Brooks.

what's behind that badge?

the 'grid: No justice no booty.
No booty no peace.

put it on the floor!

b1-66er: I nearly created a riot in my barber shop just now.  they didn't quite get all my neck hair off, so I went back...

a different -but friendly- barber-ess took me.  I said, "i was just here, my neck hair didn't quite get trimmed"....

the girlie started asking questions, I said, "look, i don't care how ratchet you make it.  I just need the hair off so it doesn't look like a weed field"...

the barber says, "EXCUSE ME!?" 

I said, "you heard me." 

she screamed, "I'LL MAKE IT TOE UP FROM THE FLO' UP!"

and the place ERUPTS in absolute chaos.  the woman screams, "DID YOU HEAR WHAT HE SAID!?"

I said, "i almost wish I just had wild hair on me."

and the woman leans in real real close, whispering in my ear, almost nibbling on it, and says in a very very sultry and quiet voice...

"I'm funnier than you."

... nice tie, though ...

the 'grid: No justice no peace.

b1-66er: there's no peace at home.  my housemate's lying down in a DEEP funk (and I don't mean the ohio players kind).  we watched the verdict.  I thought she was going to throw up.

'g: It is an unfortunate decision but to see the ass whores tear up the city is worse in my opinion. It is like the two riots in Los Angeles revisited.

b1: yes.  I've never understood rioting.  (including winning/losing chapionships.)  it seems like it "punishes" unnecessary targets ...
... and fundamentally doesn't help the cause.  having said that, it's not completely clear to me what good the gandhi/king approach is either ...
... not unless you REALLY get on it.  TOTAL black-folk walk-out would be interesting.

'g: I like how Jackson plays the King role but is a race baiter. He perpetuates more shit within the desperate and underserved black communities than does any good.

b1: so right.  he's such a strange man.  being on the same balcony as MLK when he caught a bullet doesn't make you a great man by default...
...it absolutely DOES make you a "near miss."

'g: Yes. He should continue to count his blessings and stop being an ass.

any colour tim likes

special K: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-10-30/tim-cook-im-proud-to-be-gay
b1-66er: yeah, I don't understand that (or why it's news).  as my friend the 'grid said, "gay is the new black."
K: It's news because it's novel, lurid, and Apple.
b1: I've never said I'm proud to be heterosexual. or white. or theist.
I'm NOT proud to be american. I'm actually ashamed of it.  I don't like our overbearing presence on the rest of the world.
K: Go for it.
b1: "go for it" to what end?  to show that all people are different?  to promote disharmony?
to me, I don't consider this to be news ... in the same way I don't consider a rash of break-ins in rock springs, WY to be news.
tim and I have an uneven and predatory relationship.  he tries to sell me an item.  I try to sell him nothing.
K: It's not news to me.
b1: then why are we talking about it?  if he has a horn sticking out of his head, I don't care. 
(and he'll still try to sell me something.)

meme me up

pickles: My friend just texted me an abbreviated version of, "I know, right?!"