I was clicking through the channels the other day and came to rest on Tatiana Ali's face on BET. For those who don't remember her name she was the youngest daughter on “The Fresh Prince of Bel Air”.
The video had her sitting up on a examining table in a white hospital type robe and so I watched wondering what it was about.
Two minutes later I am sitting, rather surprised, with the video I ended up watching.
“Can I Live?” by Nick Cannon featuring Anthony Hamilton was quite out of the norm for what I would expect to see on BET.
The video dealt with abortion, “straight up” as they say.
But it also really went into what the mother goes through and the decision process. Children singing wearing “Can I Live” tee shirts give you the feeling, or at least it gave me the feeling, that they were the ones who were allowed to live. Maybe they lived and remained with the mother, quite possibly they were allowed to live and were given up for a better, hopefully, life with a family who wanted them.
A couple of days later I was talking to my friend Michael on the phone in Texas and he told me he had just read about the video in USA Today. I like to know I am just that much ahead of the media.
Check it out or at least do a search for it.
Including the lyrics if you want to take a look.
Wednesday, August 03, 2005
Reality Shows That Have Caught Me of Late.
Very sad this guilty pleasure. I watch them alone with a tub of Breyer's Vanilla Bean ice cream
I have been watching at least half of some of these shows when I see them:
Amazing Race (always at the top of my list)
Surreal Life 5
Real World: Austin
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (love Edward the English carpenter)
Celebrity Fit Club
Date My Mom (embarrassing, but I did see the one gay episode, made us all look like sluts)
Real World/Road Rules Challenges (whatever happened to Road Rules anyway?)
Kept
Strip Search
So You Think You Can Dance (just for the dancing, not really the judging, the judges are weak.)
I have been watching at least half of some of these shows when I see them:
Amazing Race (always at the top of my list)
Surreal Life 5
Real World: Austin
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (love Edward the English carpenter)
Celebrity Fit Club
Date My Mom (embarrassing, but I did see the one gay episode, made us all look like sluts)
Real World/Road Rules Challenges (whatever happened to Road Rules anyway?)
Kept
Strip Search
So You Think You Can Dance (just for the dancing, not really the judging, the judges are weak.)
New York's New Security Precautions
I would just like to think that as a New Yorker that if someone was really out to get me that they would be smart enough to change up their plans once the police tell you they will be searching bags and packages.
I have to say I can think of many ways to get around those searches and I am sure they have too.
As someone who usually carries a bag with a computer, gym clothes and assorted papers i have yet to be stopped. Actually I have only seen them in the subway at 86th street once. Never at 77th.
I did however see two police officers slowing down a bus line tremendously by having people open bags as they boarded the bus. There should be some way to do that quicker. If people are waiting check them as they stand in line, don't wait until the bus pulls up, that is when schedules get thrown off.
I feel no safer or secure by the fact that they are violating anyone's and everyone's rights by illegally searching bags.
Be honest, do you feel safer? Isn't there more they should be doing than this? These are issues that really make me want to be more political. I have been reading what different groups have been saying and most say it is a waste of time. It is just cosmetic and sad to say it isn't even a very good brand of makeup; more Target brand than MAC.
But don't get me wrong, I do love me some Target.
I have to say I can think of many ways to get around those searches and I am sure they have too.
As someone who usually carries a bag with a computer, gym clothes and assorted papers i have yet to be stopped. Actually I have only seen them in the subway at 86th street once. Never at 77th.
I did however see two police officers slowing down a bus line tremendously by having people open bags as they boarded the bus. There should be some way to do that quicker. If people are waiting check them as they stand in line, don't wait until the bus pulls up, that is when schedules get thrown off.
I feel no safer or secure by the fact that they are violating anyone's and everyone's rights by illegally searching bags.
Be honest, do you feel safer? Isn't there more they should be doing than this? These are issues that really make me want to be more political. I have been reading what different groups have been saying and most say it is a waste of time. It is just cosmetic and sad to say it isn't even a very good brand of makeup; more Target brand than MAC.
But don't get me wrong, I do love me some Target.
Monday, August 01, 2005
It's Coming.
I am sitting here with posts that I have to write that go back a couple of weeks. They will be coming soon. Actually taking the morning tomorrow as I go to walk my friend's dog to sit and write what I have been thinking. Look back late tomorrow afternoon for a good couple of reads.
Chris Out.
Chris Out.
Hypocrisy Runs Rampant.
"I have never intentionally used steroids. Never. Ever. Period.". Those were the words spoken by Rafael Palmeiro, seated in the middle, back in March before the Congressional Hearings into Steroid Use in professional baseball/sports.
Palmeiro is also quite vocal as part of Major League Baseball's Zero Tolerance board.
Today Rafael Palmeiro was suspended for 10 days for testing positive for steroid use.
Too funny. Too sad.
New Addition to My Blog
I have decided to incorporate my photoblog and my "blog" into one fine-tuned creature.
Viewable flash link is now featured in the left hand column for reference to certain pictures about my life; from just my roaming eye around NYC, from the park to the street to trying to get that perfect picture of myself that will become the picture I send out to any prospective dates.
Not really doing that last part right now, that much, but we shall see what happens.
Viewable flash link is now featured in the left hand column for reference to certain pictures about my life; from just my roaming eye around NYC, from the park to the street to trying to get that perfect picture of myself that will become the picture I send out to any prospective dates.
Not really doing that last part right now, that much, but we shall see what happens.
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