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Jaycee

Superbowl Sunday!

Mrs. Jaycee will kill me if I watch today's Lingerie Bowl. Hey! What? I love Football. (Wink) So, I guess I'm watching the NFL Superbowl. I'm going with Jazz City Baby! My Raiders couldn't make it this year but that's the way it goes. Commitment to Excellence Baby! Raiders Suxed the Absolute Best this year! Next Year but Today is the Saints day! Go Saints! Congrats to the Colts for getting there with class and style!

But today, Go Saints!

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Jaycee

Happy Black History Month!

Happy Black History Month! We give honor to all those who have passed before and to the future!

This post is for all the Brothers and Sisters who represent Afrikan Peoples daily without any fanfare. You work hard, raise your children, and sometimes, other folks children. No one gives you a tax break for just being an honest, decent person but you are. But you are loved and appreciated!

So while the local elementary school may never have your picture on the wall honoring you. You will be honored here. Hotep!

God Bless!

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Jaycee

7 Interesting Things About Mista Jaycee

I stopped in to read Assertive Wit's blog and she posted 7 interesting things about herself. I think it would be fun to try this. Y'all should follow suit!

http://assertivewitwithatouchofsarcasm.blogspot.com/

1. Mista Jaycee hates "Sticky" Fruit! Is that weird? I love Oranges, but hate the stickiness it leaves on my hands! Gross! This goes for lotions and that greasy feeling too. I don't know why. It just is.

2. Back in College, in my Sophomore year, I had the part of Eunuch # 1 in the Opera "Esther"! I sang..."Oh King Vashti, Live Forever! Queen Esther has come to talk with the King!" The part of Queen Esther was played by Soprano Angela Brown, who went on to become a Soprano, for the New York Metropolitan Opera.

3. I had never seen real snow until I was 18 and in college. I wore jeans, a sweat shirt, a windbreaker and an LA Kings Hat for the Winter snow! Can you say COLD?

4. If I had gone home to watch the Simpson's, instead of hanging out with my friend, I never would have met Mrs. Jaycee.

5. Mista Jaycee is allergic to Shrimp and Catfish!

6. I don't like the color green.

7. Mista Jaycee was a preemie Baby born 2 pounds, 2 ounces.

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Jaycee

Mista Jaycee is Stretchin Ouuuuuuut!

I started Yoga blog! It's called Mista Jaycee's Stretchin Ouuuuuut!

http://stretchinout.blogspot.com/

I've been practicing Kriya Yoga as taught by Yogiar S.A.A. Ramiah on and off for a year. I enjoy it and feel it would be interesting to share my Yoga practice experience with all of y'all.

http://stretchinout.blogspot.com/

So, after y'all finish reading A Choice of Weapons, you can check out how my practice is coming along.

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Jaycee

Friends???

Jake: "You just killed your Friend!"

Alonzo: " Why is he my friend Jake? Cause he knows my name?" Scene from Training Day

Years ago, an older dude, I went to college with peeped game. Jay, You have No friends! That does not exist. He then went on to explain and teach me his criteria. Big Will

Big Will's Criteria

We have no friends! In truth you have....

General

1. Associates

2. Affiliates

3. Constituents

Intimate

1. Close Associates

2. Close Affiliates

3. Close Constituents

The subject of Friends and how we label someone a Friend is subjective. Who are your "Friends"?

How did you begin to consider them worthy of that?

For example, I worked with a fella, who when I was having car trouble, gave me a ride to a bus stop in Long Beach. This shaved off about an hour of my commute time everyday until I was able to get my car running again. We had great conversations, shared jokes and we also shared music and had each others personal emails.

Friends?

Well, we could have been. But no! Co-workers! That was the correct designation. Not Friends! He'd said, more than enough things, that let me know he was not a friend. Friends, don't talk ish about you or belittle you. They don't!

For me, because we traded music, had each others personal emails and shared conversations and jokes, I thought we were friends. Those things were intimate and personal to me. Those were things that I reserved for people I valued. When I first started to perform in the Poetry/Spoken Word Scenes I met people under their Stage Names.

People know me now under my Stage Name or Pen Name. Mista Jaycee! Very few people ever get to know me under my Government name. Were we friends?

No, we were Associates, Close Associates and Affiliates. We had the building blocks for friendship though. We shared common interests. But, we were also in direct competition with one another. We are performers! All of us want to be commercially successful!

Now, back to the dude at work. For him, it didn't mean that! We didn't value the same things or have the same criteria for friendship. In that case being just Co-Workers is a proper definition.

For the sake of discussion, I think he's a bit of a A-hole! But it serves as a good illustration of what I mean.

I listen to my Daughter, and many other people, and they all complain about this very same issue. It covers the entire spectrum of people. I see it pop up on Myspace and Facebook and even, in the Bloggosphere. Friends!

The dictionary doesn't have the meaning of Friends! Whodini! 1984

I memorized Big Wills criteria for defining friendship. I look back on it, at least once, every six months. I believe that friendship is possible and does exist. I even, believe it, can exist ,beyond the Platonic status between the sexes. I even believe it can exist, after the sexes, have shared imitate moments. (Had Sex)

Of Course, it takes work, and more often than not, it doesn't work. But sometimes it does. I think it depends on what you value and why you value that person.

Why is or was this person considered your friend? Was it cause you worked together a long time? Cause they bought you lunch? That doesn't constitute friendship! It doesn't! The food they brought was a 2 for 1 deal from Jack in the Box! It didn't cost much and they gave you a taco to keep they own weight down!

You went to school together! So! Do they call you just to ask how you are doing? Maybe they send a Christmas card but do they even call enough to know you converted to being a Buddhist?

Are you friends? Did you share your conversion with them? Why? Why not? Distance? Email will shorten that! Why? or Why Not?

See, just cause you went to school together and you were friends back then does not mean that you are friends now. Sure, the commonality of having been school mates is a solid building block but TIME, facilitates CHANGE! People change over time. You were drinking buddies, but now you don't drink! You were a party animal! A freak in the Bed! Now, you a Church going Man or Woman. Are you still friends?

If you DE-Friended someone on Facebook, did they notice? Did they contact you and ask why? If not why not?

I didn't accept Will's criteria of Friendship but it does serve as an instruction to me. I would hope that in life we would have true friends. The truest being God (IAM) and Yeshua (Jesus) but life being impermanent has shown me more than enough that Will wasn't that off.

Who do you consider your friend?

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Jaycee

Clown Post Office Commercial... serious?

See, I told YOU! Clowns are just.....EVIL!

Jaycee

This is Funnie!

A girl asks her boyfriend to come over Friday night to meet, and have a dinner with her parents.

Since this is such a big event, the girl announces to her boyfriend that after dinner, she would like to go out and make love for the first time.

The boy is ecstatic, but he has never had sex before, so he takes a trip to the pharmacist to get some condoms.

He tells the pharmacist it 's his first time and the pharmacist helps the boy for about an hour. He tells the boy everything there is to know about condoms and sex.

At the register, the pharmacist asks the boy how many condoms he'd like to buy, a 3-pack, a 6-pack, or family pack. The boy insists on the family pack because he thinks he will be rather busy, it being his first time and all.

That night, the boy shows up at the girl's parents house and meets his girlfriend at the door. 'Oh, I'm so excited for you to meet my parents, come on in!' The boy goes inside and is taken to the dinner table where the girl's parents are seated.

The boy quickly offers to say grace and bows his head. A minute passes, and the boy is still deep in prayer, with his head down. 10 minutes pass, and still no movement from the boy.

Finally, after 20 minutes with his head down, the girlfriend leans over and whispers to the boyfriend, 'I had no idea you were this religious.' The boy turns, and whispers back, 'I had no idea your father was a pharmacist.'

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Jaycee

Mystery Writer Robert Parker Passes!

Spenser For Hire Novelist Robert Parker with Pearl

Spenser for Hire Novelist Robert Parker has passed after suffering a heart attack while writing at his desk. I loved the Television series starring the Late Robert Ulrich and Actor Avery Brooks and I began to read the novels that inspired the series.

Spenser, spelled like the 16th Century Poet, Edmund Spenser, will be compared to other fictional Private Detectives Philip Marlowe and the rest but this would be actuate but unfair. The "Spenser" character pioneered the "Modern" PI.

The characters of Philip K. Dick and Raymond Chandler were gritty, hard living denizens of the late 19th and Early 20th Century. Those characters resemble the Anti-Hero archetype. These were not nice guys! These dudes often ,were only a hair away, from being the criminals they pursued.

Not Spenser, he was well read, well educated, and lived well. He had a nice home, a steady Girlfriend, ate well, and had a Afrikan American Best Friend/Nemesis named "Hawk.

"Hawk" is the perfect counterpoint to Spenser. They both live by a strict moral code. Both possess high ethical standards, little patience for red tape and no tolerance for fools! Spenser has a strict Catholic faith, whereas Hawk never openly professes any faith. I personally always thought Hawk was a Muslim.

Spenser: " I thought you didn't do Christmas"

Hawk: "I Don't! But some people I love Do!"

I Love that!

To me, Parker paved the way for Novelist James Patterson, who's Dr. Alex Cross character, is an Afrikan American Homicide Detective with a Doctorate in Psychology. He too is fierce Family Man with education and high tastes. In that, he changed the landscape of Mystery literature.

Thanks Robert Parker, rest well until the last day. I will take a little more time, now to read and re-read your novels.

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Jaycee

Why Dr. King Was in Memphis?

Happy MLK Day!

Why was Dr. King in Memphis in April 1968? This question, is paramount for us, to attempt to explain his importance, and his impact, on the struggle for Civil and Human Rights; Yet, it is the least asked, most neglected, and ironically, the most important.

Why was Dr. King in Memphis in April 1968?

He was there to bring attention to Striking "Garbage" Workers! Working Men! Dr. King had been on the Poor Peoples Crusade! The March for Economic Justice! Instead of just fighting segregation in the South, he now had moved on to Low wages, lack of jobs and job opportunities and the great divide between Rich and Poor.

Since, the Status Quo remains, and the great rift separating Rich and Poor,is wider than ever Dr King's efforts were not successful and the movement has only been incrementally successful.

Striking garbage workers!

Dr. King was a Minister first! A Christian Minister who believed and practiced the tenets of Christ!

"What you do to the least of these you do also to Me!"

That's why he was there! That's why he preached the Mountain Top Sermon! He was there for the least of them! Striking Garbage Workers!

So, now as we all rally to help Haiti, and discuss Dr. King's legacy, let us remember that his true focal point was to follow Jesus Christ and to emulate Christ's example.

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Jaycee