Happy Labor Day!

Labor Day was instituted by United States President Grover Cleveland in the aftermath of the Pullman Strike and the Haymarket Massacre. As we enjoy Labor Day take time to reflect that blood has been shed so that we can enjoy fair treatment and wages. Don't take this for granted!

Weekends and the Eight Hour work Day brought to you by Organized Labor!

Overtime and vacation benefits brought to you by Organized Labor!

Sick Time and Workers Comp! You guess it! Organized Labor!

So, as you don those Dickies and work boots tomorrow or you slip into those Dockers and that White Collared button down and lace that blue tie around your neck. Remember..Labor Day and they way we work brought to you by Organized Labor!

BE Prayerful!BE Mindful! BE Careful!
Jaycee

Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and Joyce Yang

Pianist Joyce Yang

My buddy Patrick from Project Ensemble, Projens@aol.com, once again came through and blessed me with tickets to Classical Thursdays at the Hollywood Bowl. For all y'all non LA Folks, let me just let you know that Carnegie Hall in New York, The Royal Albert Hall in London, England and The Hollywood Bowl are the Holy Trinity of Performance Venues.

I love the Bowl because of the eclectic mix of people that attend the shows. It's where the ARTSY and the FARTSY meet! That's cool! It means that some kid into "Fishbone" and a really affluent couple from LA's Westside can get together and enjoy the same thing.

So last night Mrs. Jaycee and my buddy Ty (DJ Phantom) and Mrs. Ty all made the trek from the LB to Hollywood. Thank God Mrs. Jaycee drove cause if I had to drive the 101, well let's just say that the Letters F and U would have been in constant rotation! Moving right along! 8-)

We were running a lil late but it was worth it cause Mrs. Jaycee looked lovely and Mrs. Ty was well dressed as well. Hey, I looking too hard another dude's Wife! I already got enough enemies. Clowns, Smoove Jazz Lovers and makers of Tight Binding underwear!

Dig, when we arrived 23 year old pianist Joyce Yang was already playing with the Phil. The combination of Piano and Orchestra is just divine. We had tickets to sit in the bench sections which are cool if you bring your own food and wine which we did but we were escorted to section J which had a better view of the stage. Now, there are no bad seats in the bowl!

But Mrs. Ty brought out some chicken tenders and Mrs. Jaycee opened a Muscat Cannelli and doled out a Spinach Farfelle with Chicken and a Cesar Salad. And to give props were they are due, Mrs. Jaycee stopped at Torotelli Limonelli and got some great bread. (I'll be reviewing this restaurant later)

For the record, Mrs. Jaycee was Super GRUMPY after working all day and we didn't talk much to each other during the night. I have a bad cold and wasn't feeling all that good but excuses, excuses.

MRS. JAYCEE LOOKED GOOD! Real GOOD! Just saying it now cause I don't want her to write TECH SUPPORT ON MY AZZ!

Anyway, with good food, good wine, good company and good music make for a spectacular evening!

BE Prayerful! BE Careful! BE Mindful!

Jaycee

Dear Tech Support! Part 2

Dear Playa in Distress,

Ha! I passed this around tech support and we couldn't stop laughing! Almost got us fired! I showed the Boss and she laughed so hard that her water broke!

She was laughing after fourteen hours of labor. By the way, she told me to tell you Hi!

Now, on to your letter. You have got a serious dilemma. You see the Sexual operating matrix is not for pleasure. It's a benefit but not the purpose.

The main purpose is population growth! Pleasure, arobic exercise and all around good fun is just a fringe benefit! A great fringe benefit! You know it! Playa Playa!

In the words of Spiderman's uncle. Great power comes great responsibilty. Let's talk about your situation. You got greedy! Pure and simple! Sex is addictive and those "feelings" are built into the package. No way around that Playa!

We here at Tech Support understand your problem. We laughing our collective azzes off but we understand!

First! You can not run the Girlfriend program without knowing the rules. Any Girl raised even half right ain't gonna want to date indefinately. She's gonna want to see progress. She wants to gauge that progress towards, hold on........

Engagement! Then.........hold on............wait for it! MARRIAGE! House! Babies! Growing Old with YOU!

Well....maybe not YOU! But some Dude! You must not want that....yet! So that's why you got Sidepiece!

Now, Sidepiece is where you get what Girlfriend does not provide and/or she let's you be less responsible than Girlfriend does. That's what you get! Now, Sidepiece does not wanna be a Sidepiece! No Girl does!

See, a Girl, Lady, Woman's EGO demands that SHE BE FIRST! So even if she is the Sidepiece she's looking to move up! Her EGO will NOT let her remain anything but # ONE even if it's not with YOU!

Now, Your Eff Buddy! She's got Feelings! HA! HA! HA! "FEELINGS!"

Did you really think she could let you in the HOLY OF HOLIES repeatedly and have NO FEELINGS?

Oh Playa! That's not how it works. Women are not built like that! Her body and her spirit have memorized YOU and guess what??? You have memorized all your Women tooooo! So, now thier programming is doing what it is designed to do. Oh wait! Their programming is doing what it is designed to do for Their HUSBAND!

So now what to do. We are gonna solve your technical problem. Do you have a LIFE INSURANCE POLICY?

May I interest you in TERM LIFE perhaps? Well come back to that!

Do Any of your Women know martial arts? Have a permit to carry a Firearm? Have the Burning Bed, Fatal Attraction or Any Madea Movies in they collections? If so YOU IN TROUBLE!

Dig? You gonna have to change YOUR PROGRAM! And possibly your ADDRESS! You have to DELETE YOUR PLAYA PROGRAM. You will have to GROW UP! GROW A PAIR! REINFORCE YOUR BACKBONE and CHOOSE ONE or NONE!

DO YOU EVEN KNOW F BUDDIES REAL NAME? DOES SIDEPIECE REALLY HAVE A CHANCE WITH YOU? ARE YOU BEING REAL WITH "GIRLFRIEND" ?

HEY! I'm trying to save your life! Girlfriend, Sidepiece and F Buddy are programs you added when you installed PLAYA's CLUB PRESIDENT 5.0. You are infected with INFIDELITY and GREED! Ya cheatin Bastard! (Boss Lady threw that in)

I suggest you check our catalog and order FIDELITY 10.0, INTEGRITY 9.7, TEMPERANCE AND SELF CONTROL 2.5 and BABY Please DON'T KILL ME! Please Don't Leave Me! 3.0 and FOOT RUB AND FLOWERS 10.0

You gon need em Playa!

Now, by not reading the fine print you neglected the possible side effects! STD Dujour! Unwanted Pregnancy Times THREE! Not to mention the Broken hearts and possible Broken Nose you could receive!

Here's a thought! Who else is samplin a slice of SIDE PIECE? Oh, programs like this are not EXCLUSIVE! Who does your good ole EFF BUDDY Go HOME to? Hummmmmmmm? Better head to the Doctor and get your ish checked!

Stop Running the Playa President Program immediately! We take no responsibility as we informed you at the outset that THIS IS NOT INTENDED FOR USE IN REAL LIFE BUT FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY! CLUB NOT RESPONSIBLE!

THE PLAYA PRESIDENT/PLAYA's CLUB Program is only for PROFESSIONALS!

Don't Try this at HOME!

I hope y'all found this hilarious!

BE Mindful! BE Prayerful! BE Careful!
Jaycee

Dear Tech Support!

Dear Tech Support,

I am a Big fan of your Girlfriend program series. I have Girlfriend 2.5 have added the Steady 1.0 application but initially balked at the Exclusivity and Monogamy upgrades 3.5.

Hell Naw! I'm still running Playa's Club 5.0. I confess that I may have to remove this program. At first, it was a fun program running alongside Girlfriend 2.5. Sidepiece 6.1 is the BOMB! And F*UCK Buddies 2.0 is Incredible! Before you ask, Sidepiece is unaware of Girlfriend! There I said it! And F*CK Buddy! She thinks I'm being a piece of shit but she doesn't care cause I ain't her MAN!

But Girlfriend 2.5 constantly tries to add Exclusivity and Monogamous 3.5 to my system without my permission. It snuck this in alongside the Cleaning the Apartment, Kicking in on Groceries and Gas and HUMMER 3.0! I've noticed that HUMMER 3.0 is not a regular part of the maintenance but that's ok cause that requires I add Reciprocity 3.0 and Oh! HELL NAW! I Ain't doin that!


I've tried to find ways around this obvious programming glitch but to no avail. I can't run Girlfriend 2.5 without adding Exclusivity and Monogamy to the program. Damn! The System will shutdown if Girlfriend 2.5 detects Sidepiece and F*CK Buddy deducing they are VIRUSES and going into SAFE MODE QUARANTINE and Force me to DELETE Side piece and well.. you see where I'm going with this?

Am I the only one who's noticed that Sidepiece wants to upgrade and become Girlfriend complete with Exclusivity? And My F Buddy well....this was a great avatar cause it did not require any INTIMACY or COMMITMENT But now it programming has changed and it's displaying FEELINGS!

HELP!

PLAYA IN DISTRESS!

Careful Obama! "White Folks" is Angry!

I watched this You Tube Preacher this past weekend that Rippa posted over at the Intersection of Madness and Reality. Check Rippa's Site out!

The "Good Doctor" James David Manning, the Pastor of Harlem's Atlan Ministries. He posted this "Sermon" basically saying that if President Obama continues with his agenda then of course "White Folks" were gonna get "Scared"! He continued on saying that "White Folks" were gonna get "Angry"! and "Rise UP!" Of course he prefaced it with "White Folks" from certain States.

This Con Man, the "Good Doctor" (Manning holds a Doctorate from his own unaccredited school) is the epitomie of "House Niggrity!"

See both the "House Nigga" and "Field Nigga" have the very real understanding that they are both "Slaves!" Both of them deal with that burden the best way they can. So, I don't judge him for that! Instead I would like to use this example as a teachable moment.

Quote, unquote "White Folks" have always been angry and scared. The Slave, The Negro, The Colored, The Black, Quadroon, Octoroon, Mulatto has always been the bane of existence in America.

You don't have to be a Genius Historian to know this. But "White Folks" elected Obama! "White Folks knew what the Agenda that would be implemented when Obama took office. The Democrats won the majority from "White Folks!"

You see "White Folks" these so called White, Anglo Saxon, Christian, Protestants peoples along with European Jews, Black Folks and other American Minorities elected Obama. So the idea that "White Folks" are scared and Angry in this light is just bull shit!

That's Right! Bullshit!

White Folks elected a Black Dude cause they were Angry and scared! The whole country lost jobs, bank accounts and houses! The entire system was on the verge of collapse!

So White Folks did, what they, had never done and elected a Black Dude! Of course he was smart, well spoken, elegant, easy on the eyes, Heterosexual, married, Christian but more than anything, he was, and is, a Capitalist!

"White Folks" get Angry alright when their jobs are lost! When their bank accounts and savings are lost! When their tax money is spent willy nilly on things they didn't benefit from. In every other War, defense jobs were plentiful! Funnie, I don't see any rise in Defense Jobs!

Shouldn't we be getting some Oil out of Iraq? Funnie, Gas prices are $3 a gallon again! "White Folks" are losing their health insurance cause they lost their jobs! Their credit cards are maxxxed out!

What Angry White Folks is the "Good Doctor" Manning speaking of? Obama, made History cause of "Angry White Folks!"

But what about the rest of us? You know us "Angry Niggas!" Oppps! Did I say Niggas?

I mean, "Black Folks" (This includes other Racial and ethnic groups) See, pundits like Manning and Lou Dobbs don't take account of "Our Collective Anger"!

CSPAN showed the "White Folks" in Alaska screaming about the Health Care Reform plan. Hint! Go to Compton, California and visit King Drew Medical Center. See, the figuratively boarded remains of what was arguably one of the Nations Best Trauma Centers! Go to St. Francis Medical Center in Lynwood, California on any Friday Night and see the Emergency Room filled to the brim with folks who have No insurance, or some insurance that they can't use when they need it!

Ask them! Gauge thier Anger! Go to St. Mary's, or Long Beach Memorial Hospital and wait for two hours in the URGENT CARE! Goooooo!

Ask All the people in California who work for the Department of Motor Vehicles or the County Libraries who have been Furloughed three days a month if "They are Angry"? Ask any poor person if they have any understanding at the Local Police Forces who prowl poor neighborhoods writing Ticket after ticket to fill the Cities dwindling coffers!

Ever had to use your credit or debit card so you could park at a parking Meter?

What Manning means when he says "Angry White Folks" is those who still want to talk about Abortion when the rest of us are worried about how we gonna support the ones who we already Got! He's talking bout those who are worried if Obama is gonna tell them they can only have 1 AK -47 Rifle, while regular folks are being gunned down every other day! He's talking bout them folks that want to talk about if the world was created in six days when the rest of us is trying to balance how much MONTH we have against the MONEY we don't!

Naw! Eff that! Time for us to stop listening to the House Nigga mentality which is "Better stop cause the "White Folks" is gonna get Angry and come and kill us!" Stop demanding Freedom! Education! Equality! White Folks don't like to be "Forced" to do Anything!

Name me one time in American History when the So Called "Angry White Folks" didn't harrass those "Good" Niggas?

I'll wait!

I guess us Niggas don't mind being "Forced" to live without proper health care facilities, Educational institutions and the so called "American Dream"!

There ain't never been a time when Black Folks were good enough to not be the blame for something else for the so called "Angry White Folks" to get mad at. If a Black Person got into a good college then it had to be cause of a Quota or a Ball scholarship. Dig?

No! Time to realize that we are all ANGRY! Now, we need to hold the Democrats and the Republicans accountable for making sure they are looking out for the best interests of the people! Problem is neither side has really shown they care that you are Angry!

So if you are jobless, home in foreclosure, rent sky high, credit card maxxxed and you've coughed a red colored substance from deep inside your chest but feel like a shot of Jack and Coke and some Vicks Vapor rub is a better option than going to the Doctor and paying that high azz Co-Pay!

Chime in!

BE Prayerful! BE Mindful! BE Careful!

Jaycee

Ted Kennedy Passes!

Ted Kennedy has passed on. He may have been the youngest of his Brothers and expected to rise above their achievements. Some would say that was unfair to expect anyone to surpass John and Robert. Instead he forged his own path and a great one at that!

Rest well until the Resurrection!
Jaycee

Happy Ramadan!

To all my Muslim Friends and Family may the blessings of the Lord of the Worlds be bestowed upon you during and after your season of Fasting.

BE Prayerful! BE Mindful! BE Careful!

I Miss Napster!

"Money ain't got no owners! Only Spenders!" Omar Little- The Wire

Do you remember the Original Napster? I think that was one of the most revolutionary inventions of the last half of the 20th Century. It was easy to use, you just downloaded the program and you could upload your music and share it with anyone who shared the peer to peer network.

You could share music! It got all eff'ed up because the recording industry raised questions of copyright infringement, licensing and ultimately ownership.

On one hand you had groups like Metallica (Mista Jaycee bangin his head) crying foul as their entire catalog was uploaded to the site and fans worldwide traded and downloaded it. They wanted to get paid for each download.

On the other hand you had artists like Prince who openly challenged digitally selling music. Prince actually proposed selling "The Crystal Ball Album" online years before the whole Napster debate came to the floor only to have Warner Brothers refuse to allow it!

I weighed on the side of the people not cause I don't believe in trademarks and copyrights cause I do! But cause Napster really was just people trading music.

Say for example if Stefanie from over at Curvaceous Cuban uploaded the new LEDISI album, I can now listen to it and decide if I want to buy it! I can download it and burn a copy.

"But that's taking money out of LEDISI'S Pocket Mista Jaycee!"

Possibly! Sometimes, yeah! But it also introduces her to a new person who may be interested but wary of buying the album. For the record, Albums that I really end up liking I go and buy.

What if it only has one good song on it? What if it sux?

$17.50 is alot of money to spend on a compact disc for it to only have 2 good songs on it!

The other thing was that if LEDISI put out an independent or several years before she was on a major label and some guy in Sweden had it then he posted it and I got to hear her before she blew up! You see that's a benefit for her and the record company because now they can re-release the material they have that might not have sold then as well as things that were in the vault!

Metallica for example was a fringe, speed metal band in the 1980's! They had a cult following but speed metal in the 80's was obscure! You really had to like speed metal to find them! So bands like Slayer, Metallica and Megadeath could have used the exposure from a Napster! A dedicated fan would have posted his collection and traded it!

Metallica might have seen an upswing in ticket sales at their club dates! Just think Albums like "Ride the Lightning!" and "Justice for All!" might have actually sold THEN instead of after they got really, really, really famous!

What would have happened if Prince "Black Album" never got released as a bootleg? As the legend goes Prince chucked the master recordings cause he didn't like them and someone released them.

Personally, I hated the "Black Album!" Still, do! but tons of Prince fans loved it!

Side note! I don't believe Prince has ever thrown out anything! Naw, that was a shrewd plan that worked!

Now, I am a huge Donnie Hathaway fan! It pissed me off that the record companies have been sitting on material and recordings for years! I'm sure some bean counter and a few lawyers haggled over the rights and the quality of the recordings. I'm sure the recording were quality, it's Donnie Hathaway for Goodness Sakes! But what they really mean when they say that is commercial viability!

Last year they release some previous unreleased live recordings they said themselves that they went through thousands of hours of live concerts and found Donnie doing an incredible version of Stevie Wonder's "SuperWoman" Where were you when I needed you? Donnie Hathaway recorded that gem at UCLA in 1972 while opening for Roberta Flack! Donnie's been gone since 1980!

Ok, so a record company doesn't think this recording is commercially viable and they don't release it but is that right? These are the same people who thought Marvin Gaye's career would be over when he released an album of Protest songs called "What's going on?"

I don't think any company should have right to say we are not going to release something and then let it rot in a closet or vault!

A record company should have the opportunity to get paid from an investment but not to horde material for infinity!

So back to Napster! I might have an out of print copy of "Miles Davis Sings!"

Commercially Viable? Well........ No, I don't have Miles Davis sings!

But so what! William Hung and William Shatner released musical albums! Who's to say that you shouldn't be able to hear Miles Davis singing "I've got you under my Skin Dammit! ??????

It's like Omar said "Money ain't got no owners! Only spenders! same with Art!"

What Y'all think?

BE Mindful! BE Prayerful! BE Careful!

Jaycee

Richard Pryor -- Star Wars Bar

Serious Laughs! Thank You George Lucas for allowing this!

Brian Blade Fellowship

I think this one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard.
Jaycee