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I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire
To make things easier for people in Ohio I tell them I'm from DC, since whenever I mention Rockville--even if I say it's a DC suburb--they assume it's in the shadows of Baltimore. Idiots. While I like the city well enough, I only spent the first six years of my life there. I like going back but I don't get to do it too often because my friends here rarely seem up for adventuring in the big bad city. I will concede to them though, it's a strange city. Political jokes aside (really Joe?), any city that has fried chicken stores with barbed wire lining the roof is not your typical residential area.
Another odd thing about DC is who the people there like, and I can think of no case better than former Mayor and current City Councilman Marion Barry. If the name sounds familiar, it should. Marion was first the Mayor of DC from the glorious years of 1979 to 1991, and just before that final year he was caught on camera in an FBI sting smoking crack with an ex-girlfriend/informant. When the feds burst into the room and arrested the Mayor, he offered the hidden camera the classic line "Bitch set me up." After spending 6 months in jail, the people elected him to a 4th term as mayor. Currently he's on probation for tax evasion. And as a personal sticking point, Marion was also the sole dissenting vote on the city council regarding a bill recognizing same-sex marriages performed elsewhere. Why? "All hell is going to break loose...we may have a civil war. The black community is just adamant against this." If that weren't enough, yesterday he was arrested for stalking a woman. How many steps back is it this time?
Barry's people insist the accuser is full of shit, claiming she's accused him of stalking several times. You know how hoodrats get when their friends are threatened; it's always everybody's fault but the actual perpetrator. Just like little children. People love him in parts of the city but I never hear anything about what he did to benefit the community, whether it be black people, Ward 8 (most of comically-downtrodden Southeast), or the city as a whole. He's just a pretty cool guy, and doesn't afraid of anything apparently. Gliding through life sharply-dressed with a tongue that kills. Of course it seems typical that the residents of southeast, of all parts of the city, would fall for this time and time again. Like his 1992 council campaign slogan said, "He May Not Be Perfect, But He's Perfect For D.C.!" Idiots.
35 Manifestos:
What you describe with hizzonner the ex mayor may be a little like the Stockholm Syndrome in reverse.
Or maybe they don't want to see a real good customer go up the federal river, or any one of a number of other idiotic reasons.
Glad to see that yo are hanging in there.
I gotsta say - You negras just don't know how to vote. First a crack-head mayor, now a...well...guess you ain't doin' so bad after all...in spite of Crackzilla.
The guy is 73 and still in the game!?
Of course, the game's run to scads of extra innings and a shitload of rain delays... but jeebus, the man's not a quitter.
The mind boggles.
sociopath geezers of the world unite! you have nothin to lose but the remnants of your shame and a small decayed world of fresh hole to win.
i hate that dumb ass mutherfukkr and i'm not sorry about it
So you're from the shadows of Baltimore? ^^
obtw u gon have some splainin to do if you bring bad boiz to rockville n october for the "meeting on the mall" eeeh hee hee
People vote the same old 'idiots' again and again.... either till they retire (or die) I think it's something to do with 'better the known devil, than an unknown angel' thing... Happens everywhere, I guess...
Comically downtrodden areas have a high ratio of screw-ups and druggies who think it's perfectly normal to go to jail occasionally. They also place way too much trust in people whose only positive trait is that they dress well. I see it all the time here in Vegas. Yes, they're idiots and they don't even know it.
He also explained his opposition to same-sex marriage by describing himself a politician who's moral.
What a maroon.
I just love that the DC slogan is "No taxation without representation"
That is just too perfect
I wonder if Mayor Barry has any tips on ridding your marijuana of Spider Mites?
(I'm asking for a friend)
Stop smoking weed. You are going to be seriously hard to deal with in another 13 years. Apologies, but I cannot reveal how I know this.
You may or may not be surprised to learn that I haven't smoked any weed since about February. We had a little, um, disruption to our intra-provincial delivery system. Thankfully no one was injured. Anyway, it's why I'm farming again.
ER: It's just The Man keeping him down. Goddamn bitch set him up again, you know?!
Carlos: I don't think Marion is enough of a physically imposing figure to deserve a -zilla suffix. But then again, Crackzilla is catchy.
Doc: Don't stop 'til you get enough.
Uno: I think when a black mayor of a major city gets caught on camera smoking crack in a hotel room, they really don't have any shame left. That's about the bottom of the barrel, unless it comes out that he's another Josef Fritzl.
Nashe: I'm gonna murder you in the face.
Uno: That would require me to be in Rockville this summer, and praise Allah that's not part of the plan.
TS: But that's the thing, he's not any flavor of devil! He's their Angel!
Anne: That's exactly what my mother said actually, "they must like the familiar company." Maybe he'll run for Mayor of Las Vegas?
Josh: He was also surrounded by his fellow hoodrats, including those bombastic preachers who, like him, only have a sharp sense of style to their name.
Gadfly: ?
Omar: I'll answer for a friend (he can't be seen talking about illegal drugs).
I can't believe you haven't seen this, Omar.
Woozie:
I wanna meet that bitch, I could use a double shot of keepin down about now!
Regards,
ER
That's exactly what my mother said actually.
I think your mom and I must be the same kind of awesome. ;)
it's true, Anne is somewhat awesome
Pleasantly surprised.
Are we ok with this new venture in
selling out?
Sure. Why not? Ray's got to eat. Besides, isn't it really just another way for someone to purchase a piece of his artwork and display it? Walls are so passe.
The greatest moment in Magic Johnson's life was sitting on the floor eating a bucket of KFC with Michael Jackson?
Hahaha...thanks for that Magic. I'm sure Black America applauds that visual.
Did he really say that?
yep.
In just the past hour, Google search hits on 'Michael Jackson' have gone from 137,000,000 results to 213,000,000. Is that possible?
"michael jackson memorial service televised" just returned 4,655,524,190 results for me. I got a screencap of it.
Unbelievable.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Elvis!
If someone had shoved me in front of a mic to speak at either of my parents' funerals I would've curled up and died.
That was hideous. One final act of child exploitation as a send-off for Michael. Well done, Jackson Family and AEG. Can't wait for the DVD release.
That seemed just a tad scripted to me. A real "Tell the world Daddy was wonderful, baby" moment. Just moments before while (I think) Marlon was speaking, she was standing there looking rather bored and disinterested playing with the snaps on her purse. It was a crummy ending to what I thought was otherwise a quite well done memorial to MJ.
Scripted for real.
And they nearly crushed young Blanket in their stampede to get in the camera frame to console Paris.
ecce stella!
and bobbeh, i sed [i]october[/i], buddeh. depending on the magnitude of the "meeting" and the political awareness of yer buds, you may find yourself engaged in a haj like january's.
I always felt like that "Bitch set me up" was a classic line. Should be embroidered on a pillow.
so may things to say about this.
The election of Marion in DC is similar, in some ways, to what happened nationwide in the 2000 n 04 election nationwide, with the nationwide white majority.
The one thing I really have to say about this, is that the contrast is hilarious and some smart politician should take advantage of it by moving into the slums of DC, actually LIVING there with the poor. He'll find it, and I figure most people scared of slums, not as scary as he thinks, and it will let him see how a large group americans live.
If you gotta call him bos' (Mr. President) you might as well see how his people live.
You damn strait he doesn't afraid of anything.
dave chappelle doesn't afraid of anything either
lol?
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