Xtina

December 23rd I walked into a seedy neighborhood bar called Knuckleheads adjacent to a local strip joint. I was not looking for a man, but rather a break from reality to drown my sorrows with local Xmas revellers. Earlier that evening, I had tried my two-step at a Montrose nightclub where I frequently hang out with a couple of friends. The bouncer looked me up and down and asked me which party I was with. I told bonehead I was with the owner of the spot, Amir, and waited for the raincheck. I have never seen the real Amir, but the stand-in that greeted me was a guy that I had a run in with a few months ago. Assured that it would be a party of lames, I made my way to the bar I had been drowning my selfish indulgences in beer over the several of the 12 days of Christmas. Last call for alcohol and an order of 35 cent wings infront of me, a dark skinned brother by the name of Mike walked up next to me and pulled up a bar stool. He told he was from in town. He told me that he was a real nigga and at the same time he said he thought I was pretty. I asked him to clarify that and he said it again. I had on a cashmere coat in the color of camel over my hot pink dress. His black leather jacket was zipped up over his powder blue football jersey. His jeans and tennis shoes had already exuded that this would be casual encounter. "Give me your number," he said from the side of his mouth. He did not pull out a pen. He just insisted on asking for my number. He asked me want I wanted to drink and I asked Simon the bartender for a Bud Light. Simon never served my drink that night. To quell the flames of attraction with Mike, I said lets play darts. I led him over to the left side of the bar. A game was already in progess and no darts were free. I patted him on the shoulders to soak in the stranger and told him I was leaving. Strapped up in a seatbelt of my car, Mike came back around for another request. He rapped on my window. I reluctantly rolled it down. He was driving a white Honda Accord and had Three Six Mafia's "Sipping on Some Sizzurp" playing on the factory system. He gave me his receipt to Knuckleheads and asked me for my number. I gave him something to send him on his way, an email address. When I pulled into the driveway of the house, a strike of lightning came from the sky and knocked out a regulation trash pail on the on the other street.

MAC

Since my friends have all left the pond for sunnier destinations, I just copped my own hands on a helping of MAC cosmetics. I have never been quite confident on how to draw the line straight under the lash, line my brows, or apply the correct shade of rouge. So in the past, I have begged my friends for tips and makeovers out of their makeup cases. Normally a Mary Kay inductee, I decided to make a purchase at the store in the Galleria a few days ago. Why is it so hard to pin down a MAC Rep for a spin in the chair? Maybe that is why I have always skipped that shop for Victoria's Secret. Every girl must have been featured in a Mary Kay fashion show at least one time in her career and walked down a makeshift catwalk. The last time I called a family friend Mary Kay rep, she told me that she knew Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee. In turn, I proceeded to lay it on thick with my ongoing letter writing campaign. Mary Kay is a staple however MAC has been the lingua franca for known and the bevy of unknown fashionistas. Leaving with Studio Fix powder and a lipstick in Pink Noveau Satin in a plastic sack, if I master those steps, I will come back for more.

That's What Friends Are For

Everyone loves Dionne Warwick! Her friends even decided to throw her two gala affairs during the Washington D.C. festivities for the 2009 Presidential Inauguration. Somehow, I ended up on this esteemed invite list and landed an email for the event. Still wondering who was thoughtful enough to send me the invite, I will just chalk this one up to East Orange, New Jersey.

players anthem

New Jerusalem, ho! Friend of the rap ensemble the Fugees, John Forte' pushed weight like retail, but what did it get him? It got him frequent flyer miles for a fourteen year sentence for thirty one pounds of liquid cocaine worth $1.4 million dollars uncovered at Newark Airport in 2000. A camp of women connected to Forte' were arrested by law enforcement in Harligen, Texas in July of 2000. After being searched and detained in Houston, the women were to call Forte' who he himself summoned them with a coded response to "put the ice cream in the tub." The fateful meeting was arranged for Newark International. On December 22 of this year, Forte' will be released from his cell in Fort Dix New Jersey on a pardon from President George W. Bush after serving just half of his sentence. Kemba Smith liked the fast car her drug dealer boyfriend Khalif or Peter Michael Hall, by variying aliases, drove her in. Kemba Smith was a student at Hampton University located in Hampton, Virginia when campus co-ed Peter Hall introduced her to become a consort of a drug traffiker. He showered her with gifts during their over three years courtship in return for her trust and loyalty while he was out doing his bidding. Hall humiliated her in the bedroom when het got angry. She labled herself as prostitute when questioned by prosecuters after Peter Hall was killed in Seattle out on the lam a month after Kemba was arrested. Up the river with a twenty-four and a half mandatory minimum sentence, Smith was pardoned by President William Jefferson Clinton after serving six years of her sentence in 2000.

American Gothic

Remember the days of 1990's yore, when several New York NBA players were caught with their pants around their ankles at the Gold Club. The Gold Club is the elitist Atlanta strip club that padded professional athletes' tabs with effluent bottles of expensive champagne to hide a money laundering racket and prostitution ring by convicted owner Steve Kaplan. To raise the profile of the club, the Atlanta club's Thomas "Ziggy" Cicignano told his sexy hunnies to perform sex acts on the likes of New York Knickerbocker Patrick Ewing. Did the Gold Club establishment of women offering sex to NBA high rollers travel to the Indiana Pacers' string of suites at the downtown Atlanta Swissotel in 1997? The Indiana Pacers nor the Swissotel had any lodging records that by Steve Kaplan's account he and the Pacers' Reggie Miller brought three women "entertainers" to share with the rest of the teammates. There may be a Gold Club near you with the hunnies that just take off their clothes, or if you plan on moving to Dallas a sexy club of another sort lies off the beaten path in Duncanville, Texas. The Cherry Pit is a swingers club at a local residence that charges $50.00 per person for friends to munch on chips and soda. There is no charge for participating in any hedonistic delights with the neighbors. However, Duncanville's city council is at the task of regulating the neverending private house party that advertises its For Ladies Only Pussy Pit on the 'net.

Double Jeopardy

What is the 2005 G8 Meeting.

Pentecost

“I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me will come one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not fit to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire."

- Matthew 3:11

I am still straightening out the kinks in an unraveling unspoken family history. Getting to the heart of it, belies my Catholic high school girl roots which is how I met a referral for my job after law school. When I met with her, her husband, and her in-laws at her in-laws home, her husband communicated to me in a conversation about church that his wife was of a Baptist faith by trade.

Material Girl

Well, I overheard that Madonna did not perform her song "4 Minutes" at her sold out concert at Minute Maid Park last night Sunday, even though today's paper had a photo of a duet between her and Justin Timberlake. I tried to throw a birthday party at the same hotel club that Madonna would be partying at this past weekend, but the expected outcome did not materialize either. The evite took weeks to insert the over three hundred email addresses recently amassed from renewed connections on Facebook to former classmates, alumni, and other friends. A wedding filled the veranda of the hotel with no forewarning from the hotel staff person that left a message on my cellular phone earlier in the week. No champagne bottles in tow, I ventured from the Alden Hotel to a club on Main Street playing Latin music on Saturday night, the night of my party. Still a Madonna aspirant, the next event I throw will still be a high class affair. That is unlike some relatives of mine that felt it deserving to send me a $40 gift card to Niko's Greek Restaurant last month from my high school Sunday School teacher. I am better off anyway, the restaurant is in Houston and my elderly relatives live in New Jersey.

Dish Network

If you did not think that the company Blogher Inc. was patently offensive, this email forward of this male imitator of Beyonce' Knowles sans her Dad shut down my America Online email address several times last week. There is a SNL spoof of the same video "Single Ladies" starring the calamity choreography of Justin Timberlake and the former Destiny's Child singer.

Discovery Green

On friday this past weekend I had a chance to view the 1925 silent version of Phantom of the Opera on the lawn of the newly built park in downtown Houston named Discovery Green hosted by a local radio station. The old picture show was beautiful glimpse of Paris with a disasterously tragic ending. A breakout cinema of different sorts to turn War and Peace on its head, the Russian art group Voina unveiled a laser green skull and cross bones on the Russian Parliament in Moscow. A literal and figurative coup d'etat at the same time?

Election Returns Part II

We are sure to see fresh faces again such as Sarah Palin's in People. Palin was a great newcomer and mobilizer to call-up the Republican Party, but she was unveiled to the public much too late in the election cycle. We all could care less for Democratic National Committee (DNC) President Howard Dean's mug shot or his remarks earlier today. What a dog! At a televised press conference, Howard Dean acknowledged that the DNC used data tracking the types of purchases made on credit cards to lure in Democrats. {{{tightly clutching purse}}}

Wright's Pawn Shop

"God Bless the Child"

--Billie Holiday

These $0.03 per forward emails must really work:

If you don't forward this___you don't have a heart! Dear All, Alexandra came out of a fire alive, but now has to fight for her life and a normal future. She is 14 months old and she has burnt skin all over her body, damage facial bones (as a result of very high temperature). She does not have half of her face. She is in hospital in Krakow - Poland and one of the best specialist is looking after her. However she still has to go through many surgeries and then long rehab. Unfortunately her parents do not have any more money. Therefore we are asking for your help. For each forwarded email her parents will get 3 cents. Please help them and forward that email to as many people as you can!

Election Returns

With my head hung, I am not very thrilled about the election returns. I had very high hopes for John McCain and Sarah Palin unfortunately a long winded and over-bloated two year campaign overtook the right candidate. Yesterday, I saw a voting precinct held at a church and a marquee board for Louis Vuitton bags at Wright's Pawn Shop. If thine own eyes did not already foresee it, Hell could not have come any sooner. It used to be in a hand basket.

Election 2008 Recap

On the eve of Election Day 2008, no more AP for me: Worldnetdaily has the latest press from Libertarian candidate Bob Barr. A strong defendender of the Constitution, former federal prosecutor and Congressional Representative Barr would negotiate with Mullahs over Osama Bin Laden, chose a new Supreme Court Justice in the mold of Anthony Kennedy, and put an end to Wicca practices in the military. The Green Party is touting former Georgia Congressional Representative Cynthia McKinney on its ticket. Instead of her work to criticize the 9/11 Commission and to pass a law ordering the declassification of CIA files on the rapper 2Pac, the last major headline on McKinney was her physical skirmish with the Capitol Police in 2006.

Eric B for President

In addition to getting a tune for Amy Winehouse's F-me Pumps from her debut album Frank, I have recently developed a similar penchant for Burger King save the brown paper bag. Burger King packages its French Fries in a Frypod which is a bemusing array of word play on the Mp3 player made by Apple Inc. Curious to find out why the Frypod is named after the iPod, I ran into a video on the disappearance of the Whopper. Switched with a Wendy's burger, angry patrons on hidden camera complain about the disappearance of the marquee on the menu. . .

Hell Pizza

"Jesus answered, 'It is written: ‘Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God''"

Matthew 4:4

The Hell Pizza Chain based in New Zealand released a adverstisement on its website earlier this morning, but then suppressed the ad featuring animated caricatures of the corpses of Sir Edmund Hillary, Actor Heath Ledger, and the Queen Mum. The ghouls danced to the tune of Michael Jackson's Thriller. Grotesque and disgusting, the animated spot was immediately supressed and booted off of the internet. These shocking stunts are not the first for the gormet pizza chain that features pies named by the seven deadly sins. During Hell Pizza's 2006 ad campaign for its Lust Premium Pizza, loyal patrons of the restauranteur received condoms in the mail complete with an step by step instruction booklet. Earlier this year, twenty-four year-old Walter Scott of New Zealand attempted to auction his soul to Hell Pizza. The bidding stopped when it was discovered that there were a number of phony bids for the Deed of Ownership to Walter Scott. New Zealanders were also treated to a lampoon of Nazi Germany propaganda with a billboard of an Adolf Hitler pizza salute to the sky in 2007.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Happy Halloween! I swore that I saw George W. Bush at a Halloween party in a t-shirt and a pair of jams after a game of table shuffleboard at Christian's Tailgate last night. Perhaps it was a bad impersonation of him or the one of Corey Feldman in the red t-shirt. I couldn't tell except for the uncanny facial features. $2.00 Domestics on tap were overflowing. Surfs Up!



Liberian Girl
Uploaded by moumen

Jennifer Hudson

Very dismaying to read that the former American Idol contestant and songstress lost her loved ones yesterday. As always,
a star's tradgedy has very far-reaching effects.

Ms. Jackson

If the Cake Wrecks blog does not horrify you, I really don't know what will. Blogher Inc. brings to you daily doses of awful cake creations in perfect lock step of an unknown sequence. The twenty two hundred contibutors are loathe to get their submission selected and published on the blog. The smart commentary gives you more than a clue or hint about the wicked subject matter. Straight to the toilet. Above, you see a few candles I paid for on Tuesday of this week. Above that, is the Cake Wrecks post for Monday. I don't know how it's done, but can't you see the similarities?

Will Rap for Food

I made a post on a legal blog several months ago however the post did not make it on the firm's website. Instead to my chargrin, I received a curt message from the attorney author stating that she not could grant a request for legal advice. This was late yesterday evening at approximately 10:00 pm. There should have been no equivocation about the intent of my comment on a public website. The author's comment was especially inflamatory and inciteful since the blog post in question discussed the legality of laptop searches made at the United States - Mexico Border. Has this law firm been keep up with Blue Mojito and her travails with the Houston FBI in Quote of the Day? I had to make an assertive comment to make sure that there would be no confusion for a future class of lawyer-bloggers. My uncle sent the above comic to me when I passed the bar exam.

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

New technology that can depict the inner workings of the brain such as fMRI brain imaging have not been accepted as a precedent or persuasive evidence in the past, however Stanford University's Law and Neuroscience Project funded by the MacArthur Foundation will delve into the legal principles of neurolaw.

Angolagate

Currently on trial in Paris is a 468 page criminal indictment against the creme de la creme of Parisian society for a proxy war in the African nation of Angola during the 1990's. The defendants are accused of violating a United Nations arms embargo by funneling 790 million dollars worth of arms to the embattled nation. Among the names of the accused are son of former French President Francois Mitterand Jean-Cristophe Mitterand, former French Interior Minister Charles Pasqua, French businessman Pierre Falcone, and Israeli Russian billionaire Arcady Gaydamak. As for the United States' role in Angolagate affairs, Vice President Dick Cheney's Halliburton provided a questionable loan to Angola's Import-Export Bank in 1998 before the CIA-backed guerilla leader Jonas Savimbi died at the hands of satellite technology in the Angolan bush. The cream always rises to the top. French businessman Pierre Falcone and his wife ingratiated themselves to American society to by donating to George W. Bush's 2000 campaign through the Falcone's Essante' Corporation a manufacturer of sexual enhancement products.

Social Networking

In the UK social networking sites such as Facebook will be monitored by the government and collected into a database to thwart terrorism. The proposed task has been labeled 'snooping,' and dismissed as Orwellian by opposition parties.

If you were wondering what happened to Harold Ford Jr. after he jumped the broom into the holy land of matrimony with his new wife Emily Threlkeld, you don't have to look any futher. Harold Ford Jr. wrote on a piece in the October 11th Washington Post entitled "Will McCain Do Anything to Win?" about the ad that U.S. Senator Bob Corker ran against him during his losing 2006 Senate race. Forgetting to mention that the television spot was about the pornographers that have contributed to Harold Ford Jr.'s campaigns, the article threw an unecessary barb such as the one he complains about. Ford Jr. is also featured in the October 7th Nashville daily The Tennesean op-ed opposite economist Thomas Sowell on new ideas for expanding national community service. Speaking of barbs and community service, coincidently Beyonce' has an upcomming album and a new video out called "If I Were a Boy." Beyonce' plays a female police officer who shares the locker room with the rest of the boys in the squad. No more House of Dereon and Creole cookbooks with mom? As for me personally, I just started on my own family tree. Around and around the Mayberry bush we go!

Long Shadows

I stand at about almost 5 feet and 7 inches, but my stature casts a shadow that defies the normal. Lately, my shadows might even move, multiply and grow even bigger right before my very eyes. They even wake me at night. No, it is not my mind or my sight, it is the paranormal. Schattenwesen are paranormal silhouettes without discernable features that appear in the peripheries of your eyes. I have burning lighting candles and incense and counting down to October 31st.

What's Wrong with this Picture? Part Three

When he is not moonlighting as an Abercrombie & Fitch employee, Phil Gramm is holding up the wall for the Republican Party as economic co-chairman for John McCain's presidential campaign. The former senator from Texas appears to be a karma chameleon if you take a look at the first picture from his wikipedia article and compare it to the second photo taken in March of this year at Swift Aviation in Phoenix, Arizona with Senator John McCain before a departure for a campaign run through Texas:

Hello Dolly!

Evening the tide crusade against embryonic stem cell research, researchers have been able to generate cells from other sources bodily tissues found in mice testicles and in menstrual blood that may pose individual ethical considerations of their own. The cells derived from spermazoa and menstruation are used to repair and enhance body organ function for a number of afflictions including male infertility, heart disease, spinal cord injury and diabetes. Gross!

Haiku

Tradewinds blow sternly

Feather lilts on air to me

It falls at my feet

HAARP

The High Frequency Active Auroral Reseach Program or HAARP is designed to study electromagnetic frequencies in the earth's ionosphere. Ionosphere contains free electrons and ions charged by solar ultraviolet radiation. Beginning in 1993 and located in Gakona, Alaska the data collected from the HAARP research facility's system of transmitters and antennas was designed to enhance civillian and military communications. The idea that HAARP can channel energy via the weather is still subject to much public conjecture as presented in an online video news piece by the Canada Broadcasting Centre:

Lights Out

Hurricane Ike has come and gone however in its aftermath a big part of the area is without electricity. My brother's friend suggested a trip to Louisiana, but we all stayed in town and played cards by the light of a wind up flashlight. Strange enough, life without electronics is refreshing. The humidity is down and Mom is frying up anything and everything on the stove that is thawing from her two freezers. I purchased a head lamp and plan on diving into a couple of big titles that I have been saving up for a rainy day. Right now, my brother and I type on laptops from a nearby Burger King that has a free Wi Fi Lounge with the Saturday night football game playing on a flat screen. When we return to camp, we put up enough battery powered paper lanterns to have a lights show. It could be fun but the lights won't be back on for at least another two weeks. Hopefully the ghosts and whatever that might go bump in the dark will be gone by then too.

The Front Porch Astronomer

My mother mailed away for a high powered telescope that she earned with her Coke points last year. We used it to view the heavens from our inauspicious vantage point, however I've discovered that you can view the light and shadows of celestial bodies with your very own eyes and without leaving the neighborhood. For example, walking the dog yesterday unearthed a peculiar sight. The shadow cast from an upright patio table made it look as if the object had been levitating off of the ground on its side. I took extra photographs. The shadows of the home's iron grate and nearby lamppost did not bend at the same impossible angle.




Of other strange sightings, is a single street sign that houses an enormously long stalk of grass jutting from the top of the post. Could it be a sunflower, a corn stalk, or alfalfa sprouting from the edge of the curb?



Of course when the outside world gets too chaotic, it is always nice to retreat to the confines of your home sweet home. No it's not central air conditioning, it's tin foil shingle for the roof.

Egoiste

The former first lady of France, Cecilia Sarkozy, went from the "the mayor's whore" to his confidante and "Air Traffic Controller" to Nicolas Sarkozy's second wife wading the tumultous tide of the couple's relationship with the public. After a very public affair, Cecilia has been eclipsed by Italian model Carla Bruni, a supermodel once enmeshed in a love triangle between Eric Clapton and Mick Jagger and whose nude photographs have now surfaced on the internet.

Assorted Chocolates

Tainted Inc. started out in 2001 selling chocolate truffles laced with marijuana leaves and grew to an enterprise selling the choclates to clubs in Los Angeles, Vancouver, British Columbia, and Amsterdam. In 2007 federal prosecuters charged the four owners of Tainted Inc. after they were surveilled for several months. The boss of the operation that featured choclates by the names of Mr. Buddafinga, Munchy Way, and Stoners, Michael Martin, 33, was sentenced last week to five years of probation. The business was also known to sell cocaine and ecstasy. Now what happens when you run across a pot chocolate? The supreme court outlawed through the wall thermovision in 2001 in Kyllo, but Justice Steven's off the wall test might get you a date.

Fly on the Wall

Sorry for the sporadic postings on this blog, but I have been frequenting local bars, nightclubs, and restaurants lately to drown my sorrows in wine and cake. While sipping Pinot Grigio, Candida Fontana I saw a priest walk in at a local restaurant that serves Lebanese cuisine. At a downtown Hip Hop club, a couple of guys let a friend and I quench our thirst with Grey Goose Vodka and O. J. in the VIP section. Finally, I met a friend that hails from Cambridge and all things anti-Yank over a purple Sangria at a Tex-Mex bar. He also owns several strip malls in the area and a oil well Mexico and one in Venezuela. Sipping Remy Martin VSOP last night, a guy on his way to visit his uncle in Toronto chatted with me about my love for sports. Earlier in the evening at an American restaurant that short orders cake and ice cream last night, CBS's Big Brother broadcast cut to George Bush's introduction of Sarah Palin at the Republican National Convention. So now, you, gentle reader, are one of the first to know, I am officially looking for a lawyer.

Abscam

Abscam is the name for the 1970's covert investigation of corrution in New Jersey politics. During that investigation, the FBI hired a con-man to work undercover as a Saudi Arabian sheik doling out favors and influence to congressmen and other politicians. In recent current events, the same concept of duping others by connections to Arab royalty or business has worked in the Iraq war. Black Operations or Black Op's outfits, so titled because of their sub-legal status as independent defense contractors, hired by Great Britain's Special Air Service or S.A.S. have gone undercover to identify and kill Iraqi suicide bombers. In the United States, Black Ops defense or military contractors have earned the nickname Beltway Bandits because their revolving door status with the CIA and the U.S. military. High level command officers leave government service only to sell military secrets to the highest bidders. It is a common accepted practice however corrupt and illegal it is.