Michigan meets S.C.

God Bless the Men and Women who fought for it!!!!

I know I will.  Lookout Little River and Southport.

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I was reading, or thumbing actually, through a weekly entertainment periodical at the beach recently and ran across an ad for one of the night clubs introducing it’s entertainment lineup.  Obviously you’d expect some band or group and the club of course would make it sound like if you missed this event you just suck!  Don’t remember the club name, not that it’s important here, but I guess times change and so do we because for the life of me the headliner was some guy the locals know and follow around to some extent.  Normally this would be no big deal a talented musician can’t help but draw a following, however this guy was a, are you ready, a DJ.  Really a DJ was the entertainment we should go see at this club.  I’m going to pay a cover charge to see the guy who puts the disc’s in the player and plays them.  Of course now a days this idiot usually spins a few real records and with the needle still in place moves the record back and forth, rather than letting it play the real music as it was intended, so the scratchy music is kind of zip zippy so to speak.  And the crowd goes wild.  I cannot figure out what this guy would do to entertain a club full of beautiful drunks for 5 or 6 hours.  After all how many ways can you push a compact disc player button and make a real record go zip zippy?  I did see a DJ not long ago trying to download songs from the Internet and play them on his laptop.  He had a great sound system but he had trouble from the get go.  Half songs were coming out, they would start and stop on their own, they’d would repeat over and over.  It was entertaining just to watch him struggle.  My wife thought he just wanted to have trouble so he could sing karaoke.  Maybe so because he seemed pretty comfortable doing that.  I wonder if I’ll see him in the entertainment periodical?

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In the world of thugdom there are many true thugs and a lot of wannabe thugs.  I’m no expert but I think one of the main signs of a wannabe thug is the the guy who forever walks around the hood with a dog, usually a pit bull, on a leash, rope, or whatever and does his best bad imitation.  Now the leash is all important.  I have seen some with just some ratty rope, to cheap to buy something better for his beloved pet.  Chains now, are all the rage with the thug, and the bigger the better.  I guess a big chain gives the impression of a big bad-ass dog, or so in their minds anyway.  A few days back I spotted the ultimate leash.  This fellow was using a logging chain as a leash.  Have you ever seen a logging chain?  A real logging chain?  Look it up.  These chains are used for everything that’s near impossible to do.  Hell they hook them to the backs of bulldozers and pull up stumps.  Yes these are bad mam-ma jamma’s.  Their size a weight alone is something to be in awe at.  Anyway this dude found a short length and was using it for a leash.  The weight on his arm and the dog I imagine would be pretty taxing after even a short while, I’m telling you these chains are heavy duty.  Based on the leash alone I’d say this dog was probably indestructible if he could walk with that attached to his neck.  So I got to thinking, if that dog truly needs a chain of that magnitude let’s examine this closer.  Now bear with me.  Let’s say for the sake of saying the dog needs a chain like that, being he would break anything smaller.  And let’s say the thug could possibly hold onto it with the dog in full pull and be strong enough to hold his position so that the dog could not pull him around.  That said I truly believe the thug’s arm would be ripped from his body well before the chain would ever come close to breaking.  How the hell is he going to keep a job with one arm?  Yeah right, now that’s funny.  Anyway stranger things have happened, but if Fido goes in front of a truck and is being dragged down the street so is the thug, if Fido falls down a hole down goes the thug, if Fido runs down stairs the thug is taking a tumble, remember the leash isn’t breaking.  Do you think the thug wannabe has figured out this logic?  Chances are it’s not going to happen, but do you think he has come to the realization that where the dog goes he going, regardless of if he wants to or not?  Think about that next time you see a one armed thug.

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Come to papa!

I can’t believe Michigan made it to the Final Four.  They had a good team this year and I figured them for maybe a Sweet Sixteen team, but no farther.  One incredible comeback later and there we have it.  Truth is I forgot all about the game that night and had about a hundred people ask me about it the next day.  I just smiled like I saw the whole thing.  Cool weekend coming up.  You don’t get there often (been since 1994) need to just enjoy it!

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Remember this?

Way back in 1981, might have been 1980, I could look it up but I won’t, the first Music Television Video channel or MTV as it was popularly called was born.  When first introduced it was a huge success with the younger people and why shouldn’t it, it was pretty cool.  I dug it.  Music videos were all the rage at the time.  One thing I do remember is the first video aired because it is a great memorabilia question, the video was “Video Killed the Radio Star”.  By who I can’t say.  Hope that’s not part of the question when I’m asked.  Anyway when I stroll around the dial at night I frequently go past MTV and honestly I can’t remember the last time I saw a video playing, I don’t think they play them anymore.  A music video channel and no music video’s.  Go figure!  Anyway what I do see is usually some young people with tattoos up the butt sitting around some house, apartment, bar, or wherever, bitching about someone, what someone did or said to them or someone they know, and in general they look pretty miserable while doing it.  The house or apartment their sitting around in is usually pretty nice, but messy, so someone gave them some pretty nice digs to do their bitching in.  Sitting around is an understatement here.  If any of them went to school I’m sure they majored in sitting around.  One thing I never hear them bitch about is anything related to school, work or working, a job, or really any kind of responsible thing a young person would normally bitch about.  No they bitch about Johnny because he danced with Mary last night at the club while Joey was doing shots with Billy at the bar?!? Or some lame crap such as that.  Duh!  The good thing in all of this is that if a parent wanted to use MTV as a learning tool and teach their children all they needed to know about succeeding in life in all situations MTV is the place.  They could sit them down in front of the TV for 4-5 hours with MTV playing, and tell them not to ever do any of the things they see.  I once knew a girl who used to watch a show similar to what I described above called “Real World” and I told her that show in no way represented the real world.  The video channel is killing our young folks!

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