She's constantly on my mind
but I'm not on hers.
I don't stalk, I don't hound, she probably doesn't think I care.
Truth is....I think about her everyday.
Someone has her that truly loves her.
He's proved that to her. He's proved that to me.
Shit hurts.
He wants her and only her.
Foolish me for not realizing I had the best match for me. The swoosh to my Nikes. The new era logo on my my fitted. The salad to my chicken. Confident and fly....DAMN, that's a good look.
Fuck it, I miss her.
Can't see her. Can't talk to her. We've both moved forward....
GOT ME THINKING IF I SHOULD MOVE BACKWARDS.
her skin, her touch, her laugh, her love.
SHE CLEANED UP BACTERIA LIKE NOBODY ELSE, lol.
It's her and him. they're happy. I'm happy for them....
so why does it feel like it shouldn't be?
Friday, November 7, 2008
Thursday, April 17, 2008
New Houses, Same Neighborhood
New Houses, Same Neighborhood
"Education is the backbone of any successful community. It matters not how much you repair a place if the people who will inhabit it have no education. They will just turn to various forms of crime and end up destroying everything that was created." - Darnell Gardner of Detroit, MI.
Highland Park is a city in Michigan, located inside of Detroit (it's borders are all completely surrounded by Detroit), making it a small city within a major city. It's spreads throughout a little less than 3 square miles. Highland Park's most proud moments were during the early 1900's, when it Henry Ford opened the Highland Park Ford Automotive Plant.
"Ford Motor Company closed the Highland Park plant in the late 1950s, and in the late decades of the 20th century the city experienced many of the same difficulties as Detroit - declines in population and tax base accompanied by an increase in street crime. White flight from the city accelerated after the 1967 Detroit 12th Street Riot. The city became heavily black and impoverished by the 1980s" (wikipedia).
If you put too many ignorant black people, aka niggas, in a good area so that the race makeup of that area becomes over 90% black, they could turn Hampton, NY into the 80's version of South Central, Los Angela's. Well, that's what happened in Highland Park.
Here we are, on a summer-like day, in mid-April 2008. Highland Park, much like it's father city, Detroit, is facing a small tax base, a decline in population (especially among middle class citizens), and high crime rates. Despite all these negative facts, investors and community groups still try to bring back forgotten areas in the city. For that, I applaud them.
Unfortunately, unless you get citizens who care about their environments in these new housing developments, the homes will become much like some of the citizens in them, hopeless. I took it upon myself to drive to one of the areas in Highland Park where public dollars were used to develop starter homes for first-time home buyers. Here's what I found:
"Education is the backbone of any successful community. It matters not how much you repair a place if the people who will inhabit it have no education. They will just turn to various forms of crime and end up destroying everything that was created." - Darnell Gardner of Detroit, MI.
Highland Park is a city in Michigan, located inside of Detroit (it's borders are all completely surrounded by Detroit), making it a small city within a major city. It's spreads throughout a little less than 3 square miles. Highland Park's most proud moments were during the early 1900's, when it Henry Ford opened the Highland Park Ford Automotive Plant.
"Ford Motor Company closed the Highland Park plant in the late 1950s, and in the late decades of the 20th century the city experienced many of the same difficulties as Detroit - declines in population and tax base accompanied by an increase in street crime. White flight from the city accelerated after the 1967 Detroit 12th Street Riot. The city became heavily black and impoverished by the 1980s" (wikipedia).
If you put too many ignorant black people, aka niggas, in a good area so that the race makeup of that area becomes over 90% black, they could turn Hampton, NY into the 80's version of South Central, Los Angela's. Well, that's what happened in Highland Park.
Here we are, on a summer-like day, in mid-April 2008. Highland Park, much like it's father city, Detroit, is facing a small tax base, a decline in population (especially among middle class citizens), and high crime rates. Despite all these negative facts, investors and community groups still try to bring back forgotten areas in the city. For that, I applaud them.
Unfortunately, unless you get citizens who care about their environments in these new housing developments, the homes will become much like some of the citizens in them, hopeless. I took it upon myself to drive to one of the areas in Highland Park where public dollars were used to develop starter homes for first-time home buyers. Here's what I found:
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
High gas? Gimme a break
I've made up my mind that the United States is full of WINERS. Yes, I said it, WINERS. People like to complain about stuff. Most of the time, it's not stuff that really affects their lives, like why the Patriots or Kwame Kilpatrick "cheated."The latest slew of complains is about high gas prices. GIMME A FREAKING BREAK.
Gas is not high. When gas is $20 per gallon, then it will be high. Gas is high if you want to compare it to what it used to be 3-4 years ago, heck, if even 6 months ago, but it's not high in the big scheme of life.
What's high? The price of a Lamborghini is high. The price of iphones are high. The price of 60" inch plasma tv's are high. Gas? Not even close.
Take a trip to your local mall and see how many CARS are in the parking lot. Cars run off gas, well most of them. If gas was SO HIGH, the parking lots would be empty. The parking lots of every bar, strip club, and regular club is full.....EVERY WEEKEND NIGHT in Detroit. GAS IS NOT HIGH!!!
The freeways are PACKED during rush hour. If gas was so high, the bus stops would be SUPER crowded, but they're not.
When the price of something is too high, you go without it. The $200,000 condos in midtown Detroit are priced too high, thus they sit EMPTY for months and months. The gas stations have not seen a lack of business since the "black out" a few years back.
So people, stop complaining about how high gas is, when you just went to go meet your secret lover at a hotel 25 miles away.
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Something Positive For Once
As I sat in my apartment working on one of my websites, I felt rumbles so deep that they began to shake my windows. I hurried to the entrance in the back to make sure we weren't under another "terrorists" attack. To my delight, a big yellow bull-dozer was the culprit. A bull-dozer that was tearing down the abandoned building that sit next to a apartment building in midtown Detroit.
My grandmother told me years ago that "suburban white folks will come back to Detroit." That was maybe back in the mid to late 90's. It's 2008 and I see it happening right before my eyes. If you take a look above, you will see a picture will a small group of people gathered around watching the bull-dozer go to work, armed with IPhone's and digital cameras. That small group of people are residents of this neighborhood, whom happen to be white. I find it rather strange that a 23-yr old black student and 6 white people, are the only ones who chose to celebrate this victory. When a car drives by with loud bass, you can see a good 40 people peaking out of their windows, but when this happens....nobody cares. Now we see who really cares about their communities.
The removal of this building is very important because bums and drug addicts used it to hang up and further decrease the value of this area. A few days ago, a neighbor, her friend, and I sat on the back deck staring at this building. While I cited the building as one of the reasons I need to hurry up and get to Royal Oak, she brought up the fact that we live in such a great location, it's almost a bad choice to move. I agreed.
The physical location, minutes away from Wayne State, any major freeway, Tiger Stadium, Ford Field, and the now permanent casinos, is a gold mind. We live minutes away from Hart Plaza and the Detroit River. It's not where you live though, it's who lives there with you. I've had my car broken into once, resulting in a loss of a thousand dollar car stereo. I've had my apartment robbed twice, resulting in the loss of over four-thousand dollars worth of goods. That alone would have made almost everyone I know move within the next week, but I chose to stay. Perhaps the great price on rent and the short commute to work and school played a role in my decision to not act quickly. To this day, I say I want to move to the suburbs, but I'm still here.
As we talked about the pros and cons of midtown Detroit, I saw a body moving about in the abandoned structure. A few seconds later, I watched as a man walked through the alley into the backyard of building. He walked up some stairs and to my surprise, sat down in the building. Then one of my neighbors pointed out that there was a man upstairs moving about. Keep in mind here that I'm talking about the same building that is in the pictures above, just 3 days ago.
Abandoned buildings are safe havens for crime. Living in the Cass Corridor for over two and a half years though, has taught me that not all homeless people are drug addicts or bad people for that matter, they're looking for somewhere to go. Unfortunately, there can not be growth in my neighborhood with the significant homeless and drug addict population. And, wherever you have drug addicts, you have drug dealers. Wherever you have drug dealers, you have crime...alot of it. Even with the police department's Central District located less than 3 minutes away, out right drug deals go on at the few liquor stores we have in this area. Funny that given the amount of alcohol white people drink, that is just my view based on the white people I know, that in predominantly white communities, there are rarely any "liquor" stores in neighborhoods. All the while, Detroit has more liquor stores and gas stations than it has working street lights.
Is this the work of Kwame Kilpatrick's neighborhood initiative? I think not. But who cares? My building manager credits Mario's Italian restaurant, that is just a block away, for pushing this building to be demolished. The building has been on the demolishing lists for a few years and several of my co-tenants say that Kilpatrick is pushing things to get done in the city due to his current legal and political image issues. Perhaps something good can come from something bad.
There are 4 or so new housing developments currently going on in my area. The town homes medium price range is around $200,000 and those are the cheaper units I've seen. I've read about several tax breaks and discounts available to people who buy property in these "empowerment zones." The Calumet community just a block away, which used to house Section 8 residents, is now turning into a regular rent based town house community. Sadly enough, when they push out the Section 8 residents is when they begin to remodel the entire community. I've seen new roofs, appliances, sinks, toilets, and windows all being brought in for what will be the new phase of tenants. Do I blame them? No. You can say that is my honest opinion that black people don't know how to take care of anything.
I don't believe in the success of a black city. I believe in the success of a diverse city. Filled with black, white, arab, mexican, and any other race or culture of residents who want to see their city shine. The type of residents who pick up trash and call the police when they see suspicious activity. The type of residents who go to city council meetings. The type of residents who pay taxes, go to their children's parent-teacher conferences, and don't create havoc in the streets. Detroit has those type of residents now, and they're black, my problem lies not with them, but their children and neighbors who embrace and celebrate the current titles Detroit holds: the most violent city in America and the lowest graduation rate in America.
Despite all of the negative stories and views I could give on Detroit, the removal of this abandoned building is a great thing...one great thing for the caring residents of the city. With every abandoned building torn down, Detroit is one step greater to become the gorgeous city it once was. I will use this as motivation for me to get off my lazy butt and go do something to make my neighborhood a cleaner place.
What are you doing?
My grandmother told me years ago that "suburban white folks will come back to Detroit." That was maybe back in the mid to late 90's. It's 2008 and I see it happening right before my eyes. If you take a look above, you will see a picture will a small group of people gathered around watching the bull-dozer go to work, armed with IPhone's and digital cameras. That small group of people are residents of this neighborhood, whom happen to be white. I find it rather strange that a 23-yr old black student and 6 white people, are the only ones who chose to celebrate this victory. When a car drives by with loud bass, you can see a good 40 people peaking out of their windows, but when this happens....nobody cares. Now we see who really cares about their communities.
The removal of this building is very important because bums and drug addicts used it to hang up and further decrease the value of this area. A few days ago, a neighbor, her friend, and I sat on the back deck staring at this building. While I cited the building as one of the reasons I need to hurry up and get to Royal Oak, she brought up the fact that we live in such a great location, it's almost a bad choice to move. I agreed.
The physical location, minutes away from Wayne State, any major freeway, Tiger Stadium, Ford Field, and the now permanent casinos, is a gold mind. We live minutes away from Hart Plaza and the Detroit River. It's not where you live though, it's who lives there with you. I've had my car broken into once, resulting in a loss of a thousand dollar car stereo. I've had my apartment robbed twice, resulting in the loss of over four-thousand dollars worth of goods. That alone would have made almost everyone I know move within the next week, but I chose to stay. Perhaps the great price on rent and the short commute to work and school played a role in my decision to not act quickly. To this day, I say I want to move to the suburbs, but I'm still here.
As we talked about the pros and cons of midtown Detroit, I saw a body moving about in the abandoned structure. A few seconds later, I watched as a man walked through the alley into the backyard of building. He walked up some stairs and to my surprise, sat down in the building. Then one of my neighbors pointed out that there was a man upstairs moving about. Keep in mind here that I'm talking about the same building that is in the pictures above, just 3 days ago.
Abandoned buildings are safe havens for crime. Living in the Cass Corridor for over two and a half years though, has taught me that not all homeless people are drug addicts or bad people for that matter, they're looking for somewhere to go. Unfortunately, there can not be growth in my neighborhood with the significant homeless and drug addict population. And, wherever you have drug addicts, you have drug dealers. Wherever you have drug dealers, you have crime...alot of it. Even with the police department's Central District located less than 3 minutes away, out right drug deals go on at the few liquor stores we have in this area. Funny that given the amount of alcohol white people drink, that is just my view based on the white people I know, that in predominantly white communities, there are rarely any "liquor" stores in neighborhoods. All the while, Detroit has more liquor stores and gas stations than it has working street lights.
Is this the work of Kwame Kilpatrick's neighborhood initiative? I think not. But who cares? My building manager credits Mario's Italian restaurant, that is just a block away, for pushing this building to be demolished. The building has been on the demolishing lists for a few years and several of my co-tenants say that Kilpatrick is pushing things to get done in the city due to his current legal and political image issues. Perhaps something good can come from something bad.
There are 4 or so new housing developments currently going on in my area. The town homes medium price range is around $200,000 and those are the cheaper units I've seen. I've read about several tax breaks and discounts available to people who buy property in these "empowerment zones." The Calumet community just a block away, which used to house Section 8 residents, is now turning into a regular rent based town house community. Sadly enough, when they push out the Section 8 residents is when they begin to remodel the entire community. I've seen new roofs, appliances, sinks, toilets, and windows all being brought in for what will be the new phase of tenants. Do I blame them? No. You can say that is my honest opinion that black people don't know how to take care of anything.
I don't believe in the success of a black city. I believe in the success of a diverse city. Filled with black, white, arab, mexican, and any other race or culture of residents who want to see their city shine. The type of residents who pick up trash and call the police when they see suspicious activity. The type of residents who go to city council meetings. The type of residents who pay taxes, go to their children's parent-teacher conferences, and don't create havoc in the streets. Detroit has those type of residents now, and they're black, my problem lies not with them, but their children and neighbors who embrace and celebrate the current titles Detroit holds: the most violent city in America and the lowest graduation rate in America.
Despite all of the negative stories and views I could give on Detroit, the removal of this abandoned building is a great thing...one great thing for the caring residents of the city. With every abandoned building torn down, Detroit is one step greater to become the gorgeous city it once was. I will use this as motivation for me to get off my lazy butt and go do something to make my neighborhood a cleaner place.
What are you doing?
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
The City...........Pt. 1
I'm a ......amateur photographer if you will, so for the past 2-3 years I've been taking pictures of everything in this city. With the Detroit's Free Press recent story about the state of the city, I'd just like to share some of the photos I've taken. Some good, some bad......but all real.
2 Stores with stolen and fake clothing.......shut down in Detroit
Undercover sting nets $300,000 in suspected stolen & counterfeit merchandise
Dearborn men allegedly fenced TVs, knock-off clothing at 2 Detroit stores
Wayne County Sheriff’s Deputies and Prosecutors, along with investigators for the Macy’s department store and other local police agencies, have shut down a major fencing operation, Sheriff Warren Evans and Prosecutor Kym Worthy announced today. They say that employees at two Detroit stores had been purchasing goods stolen from Macy’s for pennies on the dollar then reselling them along with counterfeit items at their own small independent locations in Detroit.
Last week, deputies raided “Da Hook Up” and “Good Fellas,” two clothing stores where they recovered more than $300,000 worth of stolen and counterfeit items. At the time of the raid, investigators arrested store employees Mohammed Ali Aoun, 22, and his brother, Ibrahim Abdul-Hussein Aoun, 35, both of Dearborn.
“For most people, the Holiday season is a time of unselfish giving. Unfortunately, for these two men, it is a time of selfish greed,” Evans said. “Not only were they promoting shoplifting from larger stores, they were selling their own customers knock off products at name brand prices.”
Seized in a raid at the Good Fellas store Wednesday were 11 large screen televisions the brothers had just purchased from an undercover sheriff’s deputy for $3,000 - after the officer had stated the TVs were stolen. Also seized was nearly $80,000 in suspected stolen merchandise from Macy’s, along with two semi-automatic 9mm handguns.
Seized from inside Da Hook Up was 1,792 pair of counterfeit NIKE brand shoes with a retail value of approximately $161,280.00, along with numerous boxes of counterfeit clothing with a retail value of approximately $59,000.00 and one handgun.
Investigators from a Wayne County task force that also includes the police departments of Harper Woods and the five Grosse Pointe communities and National Insurance Crime Bureau, were acting on a tip that individuals who shoplifted from Macy’s stores in the area were bringing the merchandise to the Aoun brothers. According to tipsters, the brothers would purchase the items for pennies on the dollar then sell them at a substantial markup.
After the undercover officer made his first sale to Mohammed Aoun, the officer received a call from him, providing the officer a “wish list” of additional items he wanted him to bring next time, Evans said.
Among the items stolen from Macy’s and recovered during the raid was designer clothing and cologne. Investigators are trying to determine whether the owner of the store was directly involved in the fraud.
Both brothers have been charged with Receiving and Concealing Stolen Property and Possession/Sale/Distribution of Counterfeit Merchandise and have been released on bond.
Dearborn men allegedly fenced TVs, knock-off clothing at 2 Detroit stores
Wayne County Sheriff’s Deputies and Prosecutors, along with investigators for the Macy’s department store and other local police agencies, have shut down a major fencing operation, Sheriff Warren Evans and Prosecutor Kym Worthy announced today. They say that employees at two Detroit stores had been purchasing goods stolen from Macy’s for pennies on the dollar then reselling them along with counterfeit items at their own small independent locations in Detroit.
Last week, deputies raided “Da Hook Up” and “Good Fellas,” two clothing stores where they recovered more than $300,000 worth of stolen and counterfeit items. At the time of the raid, investigators arrested store employees Mohammed Ali Aoun, 22, and his brother, Ibrahim Abdul-Hussein Aoun, 35, both of Dearborn.
“For most people, the Holiday season is a time of unselfish giving. Unfortunately, for these two men, it is a time of selfish greed,” Evans said. “Not only were they promoting shoplifting from larger stores, they were selling their own customers knock off products at name brand prices.”
Seized in a raid at the Good Fellas store Wednesday were 11 large screen televisions the brothers had just purchased from an undercover sheriff’s deputy for $3,000 - after the officer had stated the TVs were stolen. Also seized was nearly $80,000 in suspected stolen merchandise from Macy’s, along with two semi-automatic 9mm handguns.
Seized from inside Da Hook Up was 1,792 pair of counterfeit NIKE brand shoes with a retail value of approximately $161,280.00, along with numerous boxes of counterfeit clothing with a retail value of approximately $59,000.00 and one handgun.
Investigators from a Wayne County task force that also includes the police departments of Harper Woods and the five Grosse Pointe communities and National Insurance Crime Bureau, were acting on a tip that individuals who shoplifted from Macy’s stores in the area were bringing the merchandise to the Aoun brothers. According to tipsters, the brothers would purchase the items for pennies on the dollar then sell them at a substantial markup.
After the undercover officer made his first sale to Mohammed Aoun, the officer received a call from him, providing the officer a “wish list” of additional items he wanted him to bring next time, Evans said.
Among the items stolen from Macy’s and recovered during the raid was designer clothing and cologne. Investigators are trying to determine whether the owner of the store was directly involved in the fraud.
Both brothers have been charged with Receiving and Concealing Stolen Property and Possession/Sale/Distribution of Counterfeit Merchandise and have been released on bond.
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
You Don't Have To Be Gay Anymore....
| University of Illinois researchers have discovered a neurotransmitter drug therapy that, in homosexual mutant fruit flies, can change sexual orientation within hours of administration by altering how the flies perceive pheromones. Based on work on “Genderblind” (GB) fly mutants, the researchers found that BG males no longer perceive male pheromones as repulsive and would attempt to mate with other males. They reasoned that this response had a basis in neurotransmitter levels. They discovered that orientation is related to synapse strength, how strongly nerve cells respond to electrical impulses, and that by altering neurotransmitter levels in the synapses they were able to switch which gender pathway the flies would use. |
Full story at ScienceDaily.Com
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071210094541.htm
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lmao, as members at b*xden.com said, this reminds me of X-Men 3!!! Is being gay a disease? Should it be cured? There are some "gay" folks out there who wish they could be straight, should we help them out..........sure, why not?
More importantly, how the heck do you know if a fruit fly is gay? We pay people to study the sexual orientation of fruit flies? Animals aren't gay......or are they? I've never seen two male animals fuck, but maybe I should google that before I speak on it.
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