Blogging has become my therapy!
I've had this blog for a little over a month now and its become quite therapeutic for me. Maybe its got something to do with typing and thinking off the top of my head. Whatever it is, I enjoy doing it and honestly, I know for sure that there's at least one other person reading it too. And thats cool with me. I just like putting thought to paper.
Last week me and hubby had a HUGE MAJOR blowout arguement. Didn't speak for 3 days and then made up, which is the norm. The only thing I will say about it is this: disagreements will happen in any relationship (if they don't, something is seriously wrong!), how far you take it is up to you. Now, me...I'm the ODQ...Original Drama Queen. I'll go toe to toe with yo ass! But hubby knows that...
Changing lanes...this season I have been completely infatuated with The Wire. That show is highly entertaining to me. Maybe cuz I went to school in Baltimore. Maybe because I know people who ARE these characters. Who knows? The writing on that show is amazing and has a story line so realistic, its scary. So here are my thoughts on this season and the finale that aired on Sunday.
Okay - the concept that revolves around the middle school kids is working for me. In real life, thats about the age these impressionable kids get roped into "the life". If you think its high school, you're being naive. By high school they done this and done that. It might be too late. Michael is the big youngin. His moms is an addict and he takes care of a little brother, Bug, who might be 6 or so. He asked the drug kingpin's hitmen to take care of Bug's dad who just got home from jail. And they did, but it came at a cost. Any guesses? Right, Chris and Snoop take Michael under their murderous wing and teach him the game. In the finale, Michael and Bug got their own little crib, Michael's having sex, robbing folks and then catching his first body. It's probably a thousand kids that got started in the game the same way Michael did. If reality tells us anything, Michael probably won't make it through the next season without getting killed or locked up. And yet, I like the character of Michael. Here's a young man that has been thrust into an adult life because of his moms addiction. You can tell he cares for his little brother and since the writing on the show is so good, you can almost see the changes in him from when he's first shown, as a young, kinda quiet kid to this kingpin-in-training that is capable of murder. Hooked yet? One of the other kids is Dookie or DuQuan...like Michael, his mother/folks are addicts and they're so scandalous, they steal his school uniforms and anything else that ain't bolted down. If you ever been to Baltimore and seen this side of the city, you know thats the truth right there! Dookie is endearing as well and you want to stand up and applaud the former cop-turned-teacher, Prez, that washes Dookie's uniform and offers him the gym showers before school. Dookie has nothing and in the finale, his folks have been evicted from the rowhouse and Michael tells him he can crash with him and Bug. So he does and flashes of him hustlin on the corner tell us that he gets turned on to the life too. This makes me a little sad but, again, since I know reality, I know that there are Dookie's in this world. Randy is another child coming up in the hood with Michael and DuQuan. He gets into trouble by simply being someone's mouthpiece. And when people think that he's snitching to the police, his life becomes one big mess: the boys at school try to go at him and then they toss a Molotov cocktail into his and his foster mothers home. You know this won't be good. The mother is in ICU at the hospital and its back to group home for Randy, where they promptly steal his money and beat him down. The lesson in this one is obvious: don't even look like you've been talking to the police. And finally, Naymond. Naymond is the son of a gangsta from seasons 1-3, Wee-Bey. All season long, Nay's mom has been pressing him to be the gangsta that Wee-Bey was. She even steps to the cats on the corner and makes them give Naymond a "package". The kicker here is, Naymond is NOT his father. You can tell the boy is soft in that area. He talks big trash, but when it comes to throwin down, Naymond gets ghost. There are two problems here: Naymond's mother and the expectations that Naymond is supposed to live up to. First off, Naymond's mother is holding on to the glory years long gone. Wee-Bey is now locked up for life and she's still trying to maintain the lifestyle that she became accustomed to when Wee-Bey was the man, running shit. Second, both Naymond and his mother have these ideas that Naymond is supposed to be Wee-Bey, because he carries his fathers name. In the finale, Wee-Bey & Naymond's mother (after getting put in her place by Wee-Bey) allow Naymond to go live with Mr. Colvin (another cop turned teacher). The last shot of the season finale is of Naymond on the porch of Mr. Colvin's house, getting ready for school when he sees one of his old crew in a stolen car. You can almost feel Nay's emotions: is he glad he's not on a corner anymore? or is he missing the lifestyle? Stay tuned.
If you ain't watching the wire...hop on it! Its really the best thing on HBO or regualar TV for that matter.
I've had this blog for a little over a month now and its become quite therapeutic for me. Maybe its got something to do with typing and thinking off the top of my head. Whatever it is, I enjoy doing it and honestly, I know for sure that there's at least one other person reading it too. And thats cool with me. I just like putting thought to paper.
Last week me and hubby had a HUGE MAJOR blowout arguement. Didn't speak for 3 days and then made up, which is the norm. The only thing I will say about it is this: disagreements will happen in any relationship (if they don't, something is seriously wrong!), how far you take it is up to you. Now, me...I'm the ODQ...Original Drama Queen. I'll go toe to toe with yo ass! But hubby knows that...
Changing lanes...this season I have been completely infatuated with The Wire. That show is highly entertaining to me. Maybe cuz I went to school in Baltimore. Maybe because I know people who ARE these characters. Who knows? The writing on that show is amazing and has a story line so realistic, its scary. So here are my thoughts on this season and the finale that aired on Sunday.
Okay - the concept that revolves around the middle school kids is working for me. In real life, thats about the age these impressionable kids get roped into "the life". If you think its high school, you're being naive. By high school they done this and done that. It might be too late. Michael is the big youngin. His moms is an addict and he takes care of a little brother, Bug, who might be 6 or so. He asked the drug kingpin's hitmen to take care of Bug's dad who just got home from jail. And they did, but it came at a cost. Any guesses? Right, Chris and Snoop take Michael under their murderous wing and teach him the game. In the finale, Michael and Bug got their own little crib, Michael's having sex, robbing folks and then catching his first body. It's probably a thousand kids that got started in the game the same way Michael did. If reality tells us anything, Michael probably won't make it through the next season without getting killed or locked up. And yet, I like the character of Michael. Here's a young man that has been thrust into an adult life because of his moms addiction. You can tell he cares for his little brother and since the writing on the show is so good, you can almost see the changes in him from when he's first shown, as a young, kinda quiet kid to this kingpin-in-training that is capable of murder. Hooked yet? One of the other kids is Dookie or DuQuan...like Michael, his mother/folks are addicts and they're so scandalous, they steal his school uniforms and anything else that ain't bolted down. If you ever been to Baltimore and seen this side of the city, you know thats the truth right there! Dookie is endearing as well and you want to stand up and applaud the former cop-turned-teacher, Prez, that washes Dookie's uniform and offers him the gym showers before school. Dookie has nothing and in the finale, his folks have been evicted from the rowhouse and Michael tells him he can crash with him and Bug. So he does and flashes of him hustlin on the corner tell us that he gets turned on to the life too. This makes me a little sad but, again, since I know reality, I know that there are Dookie's in this world. Randy is another child coming up in the hood with Michael and DuQuan. He gets into trouble by simply being someone's mouthpiece. And when people think that he's snitching to the police, his life becomes one big mess: the boys at school try to go at him and then they toss a Molotov cocktail into his and his foster mothers home. You know this won't be good. The mother is in ICU at the hospital and its back to group home for Randy, where they promptly steal his money and beat him down. The lesson in this one is obvious: don't even look like you've been talking to the police. And finally, Naymond. Naymond is the son of a gangsta from seasons 1-3, Wee-Bey. All season long, Nay's mom has been pressing him to be the gangsta that Wee-Bey was. She even steps to the cats on the corner and makes them give Naymond a "package". The kicker here is, Naymond is NOT his father. You can tell the boy is soft in that area. He talks big trash, but when it comes to throwin down, Naymond gets ghost. There are two problems here: Naymond's mother and the expectations that Naymond is supposed to live up to. First off, Naymond's mother is holding on to the glory years long gone. Wee-Bey is now locked up for life and she's still trying to maintain the lifestyle that she became accustomed to when Wee-Bey was the man, running shit. Second, both Naymond and his mother have these ideas that Naymond is supposed to be Wee-Bey, because he carries his fathers name. In the finale, Wee-Bey & Naymond's mother (after getting put in her place by Wee-Bey) allow Naymond to go live with Mr. Colvin (another cop turned teacher). The last shot of the season finale is of Naymond on the porch of Mr. Colvin's house, getting ready for school when he sees one of his old crew in a stolen car. You can almost feel Nay's emotions: is he glad he's not on a corner anymore? or is he missing the lifestyle? Stay tuned.
If you ain't watching the wire...hop on it! Its really the best thing on HBO or regualar TV for that matter.
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