Archive for June, 2007

U.N. Predicts Urban Population Explosion

(June 30) — By next year, more than half the world’s population, 3.3 billion people, will for the first time live in towns and cities, and the number is expected to swell to almost five billion by 2030, according to a United Nations Population Fund report released yesterday.
A United Nations study predicts that the bulk [...]

Summer In NYC

Loud screams, crowds of people, the heat is on. It’s a fight. Everyone appears to be wet or about to be. No, no blood in sight but there is a gun involved. No one is getting hurt, unless it’s their ego.
It’s a water fight and the gun is actually a super soaker.
This is one fight [...]

Meme: Eight Things About Me

I got tagged by The Junky’s Wife with a meme, my first (I’m no longer a virgin). This is going to be tough but lets see what I come up with. Here is how it works:
1. Each player must post these rules first.
2. Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
3. People who are [...]

Finding Love in the Big City I

So in a city of 8 million possible love connections (well maybe 4 million as that eliminates women and children) I am starting to wonder if I’m just too picky to find love. So what does love look like – that last embrace or googly-eye thing as your subway pulls off or grasping your partner’s [...]

Renter’s Cant Catch A Break

New York renters squeezed by the lowest vacancy rates in three years are unlikely to get any relief next week when rent-stabilized guidelines come up for a vote.
The Rent Guidelines Board recommended increases between 2 and 4.5 percent for one-year leases and between 4 and 7.5 percent for two-year leases at a preliminary vote last [...]

Bottled Water… Is it bad for your teeth?

If it isn’t one thing, it’s another. Bottled water may be bad for your teeth according to a news report, I listened to last night on CBS2NewYork.
As summer hits we all look to stay hydrated. Water has always been the healthiest substance for your body. But leave it to some scientist to tell you that [...]

Happy Father’s Day 2007

I know being a father is a hard task sometimes. But why would you ever put your baby on the ground and then turn your back to him/her?

Free Writing: Rain

While exploring the Blogosphere, I’ve come across Greg’s Writing Blog. I find the site interesting as I attempt to improve my writing (I’m not a writer at all. I take better pictures than write). Here is my attempt at what Greg calls ‘Free Writing.’
The rule is simple (see details): Get a timer and set it [...]

Living in the Hood: Safe Sex

Living in the hood, you’ll find many things which shouldn’t be found in respectable living places. I’m not sure what respectable living entirely consists of however, after living with white folks for three years out of my life some things I see in the hood, throughout my building, and outside for that matter, I know [...]

Knock Knock: Go Away!

I’m not sure if Jehovah’s witnesses in my neighborhood actually work. Maybe they get paid for knocking on my door. Who knows what the deal is? At any rate, I wish they wouldn’t step foot near my residence. I want to put a sign on my door that says, “Don’t Knock Here. I don’t want [...]

R. Kelly: Double Up

Double Up, the new CD from that dude we hate to love, R. Kelly, has been released and its flirted its way to the top of the charts. I finally got a copy of the CD. It has 20 Tracks on it, I’ll be here for a while.
Process: Put the CD in the player and [...]

2012 Olympics – HIP HOP Does It Again

With Hip Hop under attack for misogynistic lyrics and content, artists that seem to be “faking the funk” and a seemly lost generation of kids whose apathy only matches the amount of platinum teeth they have in their grillz or their success equaling how many BM’s or BD’s (Baby’s Mommas/Daddies) you got, [...]

• Tat Tat Tatted Up
• "Read A Book" Music Video Creators on CNN
• R. Kelly: Double Up
• Vivica Fox Arrested, DUI
• Social Networks: What's Your Drug of Choice?