One of my favorite classes that I took at Purdue was called critique of U.S. popular culture.
I had to do the equivalent of a master's thesis on a celebrity of my choice, I chose Madonna.
I actually did see her perform in 1993 in Melbourne Australia but was not too crazy about the show, none the less she was one of my favorite performers in the early 1990s and late 80s.
Two sueable accidents/falls in 16 months . The first the fault of my complex, (I fell in hole,no lights at complex)
Yesterday, driver slammed rear bus door shut on me, knocking me to my feet. Yup, hurting even more than usual today.
I screamed out, the drunk behind me screamed /mocking me instead of being a real man and showing concerN.
I'm so absolutely disgusted dealing with all of the drunks everyday in Flagstaff. This is the fault of the bus drivers they're not supposed to let drunks on but there are always multiple drunks on the buses...
This drunk man followed me off the bus and continued mocking me at the transfer center.
Nothing is broken but it's definitely traumatic to have something like this happen and I wish I could avoid this driver spots but it's going to be impossible, I will no longer exit in the rear out of fear that this could happen again
Iyanla had Syleena and her nom write song verses to heal their relationship.
Was incredible to hear the verses and have Syleena sing them to her mom!. I still have tears...
Iyanla: "when you don't have you're daddy's love, you look for it in all the wrong places."
I have a lot in common with Christopher and Florence. I strongly recommend these two biographies listed in the labels
Did I tell you? After 2 years of homelessness in Indiana from 03 to 05 I was forced to return to Baltimore on Memorial day (2005)
In my first 3 hours back in Baltimore city I was the victim of a misdemeanor crime.
If he had been caught, He would have been forced to register as a sex offender!
"3 Publishers want your memoir s" the prince
"What's a memoir?" Buzz
Little girl: "you know! All the girls in your life!"
To say that I get no joy out of life, would be the understatement of the millennium.
This life, this society, sickens me to the CORE.
I spent close to 10 years living in places exactly like the place described on tonight's new series called horror at the Cecil Hotel
The only difference is that I did indeed barely get out with my life
I talked about some of those horrific experiences or shall I say I mentioned some of those horrific places in the labels but there have been so many that there's no way that I could list all of them
These places are run by some combination of the above moron employees:
Rude
Gross incompetence
Sewer rats
Brainless bumbling fools
Constant turnover
You're better off seriously I'll than with these places that excel at ruining your life and giving you heart attack stress!
"I was homeless half f my childhood. You can't hang onto much!
I'd stick that scrapbook under my arm and run!" Sammy Hagar
I've had many deep conversations with our bus drivers over the years.
I've witnessed a major decline in service on many levels.
According to one driver , one driver worked 95 hours last week due to mandatory overtime!
All driver's were told no more lunch breaks!
11 driver's recently quit.
About half of driver's speed and constantly slam on brakes.
Non service dogs allowed on.
Even when there is screaming and even physical abuse on busses drivers do nothing.
I dread riding busses for many reasons.
I could strongly relate to Ice Cube in so many ways.
It's funny his favorite song is also my favorite song of his the song called it was a good day
One of my favorite quotes from one of his movies that was mentioned during his interview with Dan Rather is a quote that of course deeply resonates with me.
He said to the journalist in one of his movies:
"I'm a journalist just like you but I report from the hood!"
I don't ever talk about it in any detail but it is really frightening to live in a body that is wracked with such severe pain and weakness. Live in a body that is wracked with numerous diseases one of the latest of which are liver and gallbladder disease symptoms.
I can barely walk without such excruciating back pain that I have to get into bed and stay there for a day or two before I can go back out again, I can't run more than one errand or two errands in a day now that I'm on foot because there is so much walking and it's so painful
I'm still awake around the clock and I've had a chronic cough for a few months now it's painful to cough painful on my chest. The lack of sleep is really hurting my immune system and I'm having to piece together visits at the Urgent Care since I don't have any decent Medical Care out in the community
The peripheral neuropathy is the feeling that your arms and hands feet and legs are being held in a fiery cauldron while at the same time I feel pins and needles and electricity and like somebody is using knives all over my limbs, that's symptoms started around 2003-2004 when the Lyme disease started really taking its effect
My tinnitus is worsening and so is my vision. For the last few years I've had eye pain that is so severe that it is not uncommon for it to take me a few hours before I can even open my eyes
Every single system is affected, I can't think of the system in my body that isn't affected as I watch this gradual and terrifying breakdown
Her name s Tawny and sadly she s still in hospital. I may or may not recognize her as I do like the restaurant she works at.
Tragically she's undergoing reconstructive surgery...
When I first arrived in Flagstaff , the manager of one of the slum hotels that I was homeless in told me that people come to Flagstaff on vacation but they leave on probation! (That manager also was a criminal and a cruel human)
Other things that I've learned since I've been here are that o. G. Means Original Gangster
My neighbor at the Relax Inn her daughter is a coyote my neighbor told me that her daughter is a really mean person. One day she told me see that van out there there are 20 Mexicans in the back of that van. I asked her what a coyote is and she told me that it's a person who illegally transports aliens to America from places like Mexico
I learned that P. O.is a probation officer.
And Pedro described his "tats" telling me he belongs to the Mexican Mafia!
One of the first long-term homeless mentally ill people that I met here will call him Nick.
I told him the things I was willing to do to help him make his life better, break the cycle of homelessness and clean up from addiction.
I'll tell you that there are certain things that I offered to do but ONLY if the homeless people meet me halfway and agree to doing XY and Z on their own.
It was clear that Nick had no intention of doing his part therefore I refused to do anything else to try to help him..
He had a really sweet spirit with a bachelor's degree and even spent some time as a Mormon. I came to care about him. My heart was broken when I opened the newspaper shortly after the 2013 Prescott fire that killed about 30 fireman; I read that Nick set seven fires around Flagstaff! I had no idea he was an arsonist!
In the six and a half years I've been here I can only think of one single man that I've met that didn't have a long criminal history!
The education I never asked for!
Really fun new documentary! This flower child gives her stamp of approval!
www.axstv.com
My heart is moved to know that Carol ( the Facebook friend that I have the most in common with) is on the scene right now helping out at the scene of the Vegas massacre.
Thank you Carol! (She lives walking distance away)
Bare with me on the grammar I am using my voice recognition on my smartphone
I could strongly relate to this movie on so many levels and I highly recommend it. What a history lesson!
I could strongly relate to Edna gladney because she care so much about social justice, children's rights ,children's advocacy and like me had loved hundreds if children.
I could also strongly relate to her because she had a lot of personal loss; her husband, a baby, a best friend to suicide upon finding out her adoptive mother wasn't her biological mother.
I could strongly relate to the babies in the movie because of being adopted and in my case I don't know my story I don't know if I was in foster care I don't know if my birth mother was with my biological father more than one time, there is so much that I don't know
Even though the phrase illegitimate is no longer on birth certificates I could strongly relate to how being lost to adoption and/or lost to children's homes affects you deeply for the rest of your life.
This movie the true story of mover and shaker Edna Gladney in the turn of the century.
