How backed up on various projects am I? Well I’m just getting to my Mother’s Day piece-and my mother’s birthday is in a 3 days, so you can look for a piece on that in about 8 months at the rate I’m going. But yeah, me and mom went to a steakhouse. I asked her where she wanted to go, and they’re a place in Ford City that’s kind of a Chinese buffet about the size of a department store (so it’s really all kinds of food). But I also suggested Outback Steakhouse in the nearby outskirt town of Calumet City . The difference being that since we’re on the South Side of Chicago, Ford City means driving west all the way to Cicero and Calumet City is just driving about 5 miles further south. In other words 10 minutes away, but of course it’s’ like night and day once you leave Chicago. Now this may not seem like a big deal, this choice, but it kinda is. And the reason is that my mom and I are sort of a team (I’m her only son, and my father died when I was 2-and I only found his other kids a few years ago).

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I was going to post a bunch of pictures FROM the sex R. Kelly Sex video . But I thought that might be too much. But who knows, as the trial goes on, I may put in the DVD and take a few still shots. So let’s get down to business. R. Kelly is finally going on trial for his “alleged” sexual misconduct with a minor. Including of course the urination thing, although truth be told, I don’t think the urine thing is actually illegal. Huh! How about that? No doubt if you’re reading this blog you’ve seen the Dave Chapelle video “I Wanna Pee on you .” I didn’t embed that either, but as you can see I’ve instead grabbed some stills off the TV news just MOMENTS ago. So folks this stuff is hot. Today Juror number 3 was chosen. Hurray! Only 9 more plus all the alternatives, which will probably be 2 per juror, so we’re looking at a total of 36 people. Hahahahaha. 36 people with no prior standing opinions about R. Kelly, sex with minors, and willing to give up possibly months or YEARS of their life-in Chicago. Hahahahaha. Good luck!

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If you watched The Daily Show this week, aside from President Jimmy Carter making a visit, maybe you saw the montage of Reverend Jeremiah Wright “clarifying” his various statements. I cringed and cringed and cringed. As a Black man, to see an adult, ex-military, presumably educated black man go into multiple media venues and express himself with seemingly no regard for the impact it would have was mind blowing . And I’m not even running for President! God almighty, what must life be like for Barack Obama these days? Watching Wright do a Stepin Fetchit routine in particular was so upsetting I had to just turn the volume down. I couldn’t take it. Well of course, Obama came right out there and said what he was supposed to say “I denounce his actions…”

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I haven’t traveled anywhere in a WHILE. Once the end of August gets here I will have been here in Chicago a full THREE YEARS, man. I mean wow. Three years ago I got here by DRIVING. And I didn’t just anything, I drove my LA car (see below). The ironic thing is that before I left I had a car break down, so I went to these VW specialist and I remember there was some welding, there was some dismantling of another VW, but I forget the exact nature of the problem. They told me the car wouldn’t make the 200 miles. But once I to Chicago I sent them a picture of me standing in front of a giant sign in the heart of downtown. But you can get all the details of WHY I’m here in my About me page. But I’m not gonna lie to you; that type of travel, long distance driving alone, is Tough As Hell. I stopped in cheap hotels about 3 or 4 times, but essentially it was 500 miles a day for 4 days and a half. I made to Chicago via Indiana at RUSH HOUR. So even the arrival was rugged because that area isn’t just commuters, it’s a shipping lane for truckers. Nothing like driving a VW surrounded by trucks.

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So I’m hungry tonight. Why am I hungry? Because my mom has got my car. Why does my mom have me car? Well first of all I can tell you don’t know anything. It’s not a car it’s a 2 door pick-up truck. And it’s been so long since I’ve seen it I can’t even remember what model it is. I know it’s a Ford. But she’s driving my car/truck around because I gave it to her for the winter. Why? Because some jackass ran his car into hers and totaled it. Now she doesn’t have an automobile at ALL. And she’s hasn’t had one for since July of last year because she got a low quality lawyer. And if YOU get a good quality lawyer for your accident or injuries because of your accident maybe you wont have to borrow somebody else’s car for a year.

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