Relaxation....

Randomness...

Through my headphones Erykah Badu is massaging my shoulders with her strong, rapsy melody. ... Maxwell guides my thoughts into tranquility. ... Sade provides the haze of smoky incense. .... I gotta get up, Jill Scott says. "Sometimes I feel like I'm working for nothing, trying to get something. Everywhere I turn I'm faced with another bill." .... But I gotta get up, she said. .... That's what I say. I gotta get up. Complacency is an endless path to nowhere. Spinning wheels. ..... Who do the strong turn to? Damn that's a good question. .... Sometimes sharing really is caring. .... I look in the mirror and I don't always see me. ... I see the me that I used to be sometimes. Other times I see the person I think I am. But whoever that person is, he's beginning to feel like a stranger. ... Being trapped inside yourself is pretty weird. .... Who has the key to that dungeon? .... Oh right. That would be me. ... Common just came through on Pandora. Good timing. .... Seven presidents tried to reform health care. More presidents than I've been alive for. Now Obama wants to wrap "Change" in a box with a red bow and have this bill signed before Friday. Merry Christmas America. ... Funny that no matter how much I read about it and listen to people talk about it, I still don't really understand how it's going to change my life personally. Maybe less cash getting jacked from my check. Shit, Merry Christmas to me. ... Cincinnati Bengals wideout Chris Henry died during a domestic dispute with his fiancee after falling off the back of the pick up truck she was driving. Don't know if she killed him on purpose but I do know that he jumped onto the rear of the car shirtless with his arm in a sling. ... They both clearly did something stupid. But it's amazing to me that people make jokes when men are injured and even killed in domestic arguments. Steve McNair. Arturo Gatti. Chris Henry. Tiger Woods is the only one not dead although he's being killed by the media outlets across the country. ... Then some broad named "Snookie" on MTV's Jersey Shore get clocked in the face and then there's all kinda of domestic violence conversations and information on hotlines being aired. .... It's all fun and games until someone gets hurt. Unless it's a man. Then it's still fun and games. ... Knicks are 6-2 in their last eight games and I got to take my nephew to his first Knick game about 10 rows back from the visitor's basket at the Garden. I think I would have pissed myself in excitement if I did that when I was 12. .... He may not have truly appreciated the experience. But he will one day. And I'm grateful for that. ... I'm really fighting the urge to hate Christmas this year. I almost went ape shit in Green Acres last night. And it wasn't even packed. I was just tried of roaming around looking for stuff to buy with money that I didn't have. So I left before I planted a bomb by the Haagen Dazs stand. ... Last night I talked to God. He didn't answer. But I hope He heard me.

C