The regular weekly update and other things

Well - ya'll know how I do. I will post pictures of my favorites, because I simply cannot help myself. I love this show. I don't want to give away the plot at all, but I love this show. I will say that Omar's revenge will be sweet - hours of nonstop surveillance have to pay off. He is completely psychopathic. And Chris and Snoop - I can't figure out who is the funniest to me Snoop, with her brilliant one liners, or that adorable hopper Donut (picture above behind the wheel). Luckily I missed the scene with the cop, woulda made me furious.

In other matters, I am trying to finish up this NaNo thing with some dignity. I mean, just a little bit. So excited, I talked two other folks into doing it, and now they have surpassed me by the thousands. Just pathetic!!

I have to get some articles submitted, so I will be working like a hustler over the next two days. But I made some commitments that I really am trying to keep. Also, got the third Discover Kai collection at the end of the month and am hoping an editor can get to Life the Series before month's end.

Speaking of which, it seems impossible to finish this story. I have backed myself into a moral corner. By letting them do the deed, the future is no longer clear, which is why I wrote it in the first place. The conclusion was coming around too easily, Kwaku and Lani meet in Delaware and make up, Kenya and her mother con, oops calm, Christopher back into complacency, although things are not the same again. But for the sake of his son, his family, appearances, he will stay. He is just that type of brotha (they do exist you know).

But it was just too easy. So I threw in the wrench. Lani is in DE, but Kwaku can't catch up to her. Chris calls and goes to her. Now what? How can Lani go back. Do Lani and Chris carry guilt? Are Lani and Chris wrong (after all they still think their spouses did the deed)? What type of ending is there for Lani after all....Well I am going to have something together by tomorrow night, so stay posted.

Oh, and, just for good measure, take a few more looks at the Wire's cast, cause, why not?

Oh yeah, let me dig up another picture of JD (Bodie), for good measure. Sure wish Stringer Bell would make an appearance, as a ghost or dream or somethin...

Heartbroken

Ok - if you read any previous posts, you knew that this one was going to be about the Wire. So bare with me, Ima bit heartbroken. The four boys were still young, havin fun, middle school wildn out. Now, the show is flippin it, just like real life. Maestro's character got himself into a mess - and the same thing happened to a group of brothas in my highschool. Yep, the guard went to jail along with the rest of them. Then Julito's character is under stress - his mom's is tripping. Can't even image a mother pushin her 14 year old on the street to hustle, but it was the real. Speakin of which, she ain't much different from Avon's sista - wasn't she takin her son lunch on the corner in the first season. All over what. The hustle, the game. The idea of wealth, ghetto fabulous. How many does it use up, rape, destroy, and we just keep feeding our young black boys to it, like tic tacs. Damn.

So I won't be catching the rerun tonite. Can't take it, brought back to many memories of too many ghosts, brothas who died before we turned 18. Girls screwin, gettin played, filin rape - (not judging, just finally understand how a young girl comes to that conclusion when she gave her body and received humiliation and unexpected benchwarmers) -brothas doin time for bad decision, at best, rape at worst -once again. The hustlers, big willyin then, fiends now. A lifetime lived before 18. Just too much......

Youngsters on wire

Ya'll already know that I love The Wire. My middle school makes this one look tame - trust. I can relate with these kids so much, when your livin it, though, it doesn't seem so sad, so hopeless. Life just is. I guess I am blown away at the talent - like the black Mickey Mouse Club, all four of these boys are going to be huge. My favorite, Maestro, (plays Randy) was Simba in the Lion King. I actually saw him perform (had to check the playbill to be sure). In fact, I don't have favorites. Julito (Namond) and Tristan (Michael) are doing their thing. How much talent does a youngun have to have to play Dukie, and Jermaine Crawford carries it. Makes you forget your own problems for a minute and get lost in their world.

Comic relief is still the young hopper, Donut, who breaks into Prezbo's car. Love him.
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