I m doing this on the low, head phones on, can you believe its been three days, still no power in most of my neighborhood.
By someone’s grace, I have full power in my room, a.c works, TV works, computer works, rest of the apartment, has limited power.
So I got the lights off, dont want dudes knowing, I have electricity! My philosophy, is Europe and North America, had electrify mad b4 we did. So fuck em all. Let em sit in the dark. And im gna keep my door locked, and head phones on, listening to my beats.
One of my roommates came at me in the morning; He looked like he was going to kill me! Dude was like he wanted condoms, (apparently really Bad). He was knocking on my Door and he got no response. (I really didnt hear him)
I felt bad for him, a part of me feels like saying "yeah cus I had my headphones on! Was listening to some Music!, ..... sorry guy, and oh yeah i was probably writing my new blog at the time! While you had no electricty.
The other part (the rationale bit)
Was like am I gna tell my roommate ex-marine that I have had electrity in my room? for the last three days while yaal been getting punished by the heat??
So just like Abe Lincoln (Or was that Washington?) I chose not to tell a lie, told my roommate, that I didn’t hear him, and more than likely I was asleep and didnt hear him banging desperatley for condoms!!
Get it? banging? Condoms? Get it????
Dammit, why am i ina long dist relationship?
I think the power is still down in the hood, http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/23/nyregion/23blackout.html
This is getting ridiculous; this is New York City, and ihave no electricity??????
(Well at least my roommates have no electricity I feel their pain).
I hear the arguments like why are the elected city councils officials the only people visible??? Where the hell is con-ed? For those of you not from NY orhavenever been, here, Con Ed does not mean, CONvicted felon EDucation.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/21/nyregion/21astoria.html
Why the hell haven’t I figured out how to add pictures on this page???? Or hyperlinks, with pictures? Anyway let’s keep it ghetto. You knw the kind (lets not tell our roommates we have electricity type of grimy)!!
Hey at least I care that people in this predominantly racist neighborhood don’t have electricity.*
Moving on……………
I work on quota…………
I hit my Qouta!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes that means im in sales……….. Still another whole week to go this month… yes this means im Nice like that! and we are looking at some nice bonuses people!
I’m wondering, why my homey. Bolger in crime hasntposted yet.
Hmm……
Could she be, im Prison? Too busy writing a book?
Or just not taking this project seriously? (Like she worked for Con Ed???)
Anyway
Im ghost like Swayze
* Not my roommates they would just beat me up, they are not racist just exmarines that could beat me up!
+ Financial constraints
Saturday, July 22, 2006
Friday, July 21, 2006
LabcabinNewYork
I swear I should get a video camera, and get sum1 to follow me around all day. Im African, 23, Live in a predominately Greek neighborhood, in Queens in New York (Astoria), I swear I make up the black population in the neighborhood!
I think they don't mind seeing black people in the neighborhood during daylight, I guess they kind freak out, when they see me, buying food and groceries. Esp the older women, its like,I can see the expression on their faces, "I don't believe he lives somewhere around here", noone says anything they never do! But u can see it in their faces, In the way they treat you, Its like they want to make it clear that I am not welcome. Even in the people that own all the little mom and pop stores (who I give business too) Its like they are afraid of helping the black kid out. I swear it took 3 months for me to build some kind of repair in the stores I go to most.
This matters, a lot to me cus I see other people getting better service, served faster, etc, I don't knw if any1 can relate. To what I am saying.......
I am one of those Africans that can speak "good English" they ask me if I'm from England! They ask me how long I've been in the country cus "you're English is so good". I can not blame them cus they don't know! Point is I built some repoir, mostly cus I think they think, this one nigga aint so bad, he wears a suit to work and he doesnt really bother any1! My girlfriend thinks that its all in my head! So things are a lil better now than when I first moved in. They let me buy chips, and soap without frowning......
I learnt recently that there was zone segragation in New york City, similar to Zimbabwe (where im from!). its not there anymore,In Zimbabwe or here in New York. But its the same thing! The majority of African Americans in Queens Live in Jamaica, The Asians, in Flushing, etc, I knw its all diffrent right now. But im pretty positive if I didnt have roomates, I wouldnt be living where I am living right now. I dont knw if my anger should be directed at the people who own the infrastructre or at the stereotype (of black people), or both.....
...... did that make sense?.....
Im not attacking any1, cus truth be told, I love N.Y,well at least most things its about! Maybe even more than my home city (Harare), To live in a place like this,I had to understand its not all butter. As multi cultural and multinational as it is there is still segregation. Segregation between the many communities, Italians,Koreans,cubans,Russians,Chinese, Puerto Ricans, Greeks, Japenese. Dominicans, Africans, etc,not to mentionthenatives who think the foreigners should get the f$%k out. Somehow it just works! The City Just works.
In my mind this is as good as it gets. New york City! Birthplace of hip hop, media capital of the world. Got two roomates, one hispanic, one white, if one of us gets a Chinese girlfriend that would be the united nations right there (okay not really- but u gotta admit its pretty diverse!)
Right now the power in my hood has been kinda Nasty, feels like im still in Zim, been having power cuts back and forth or very lil power, http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/22/nyregion/22cope.html?_r=1&ei=5094&en=b44a17ae33fe0658&hp=&ex=1153540800&adxnnl=1&partner=homepage&adxnnlx=1153548096-6Ins5e4j7UCqYj0hKMakFA&oref=slogin ... so much for as good as it gets ! At least plumbing still works..
Im loving it, I cant quite claim New York, But its an amazing place, not cus of the buildings, music or pizza , but the many diffrent kinds of people, you can meet, and speak to, the longer im here, the more I evolve, accpet more, and understand the many diffrences, between, me and people from other backgrounds, I am around .... Or maybe its just called growing up.....!
I think they don't mind seeing black people in the neighborhood during daylight, I guess they kind freak out, when they see me, buying food and groceries. Esp the older women, its like,I can see the expression on their faces, "I don't believe he lives somewhere around here", noone says anything they never do! But u can see it in their faces, In the way they treat you, Its like they want to make it clear that I am not welcome. Even in the people that own all the little mom and pop stores (who I give business too) Its like they are afraid of helping the black kid out. I swear it took 3 months for me to build some kind of repair in the stores I go to most.
This matters, a lot to me cus I see other people getting better service, served faster, etc, I don't knw if any1 can relate. To what I am saying.......
I am one of those Africans that can speak "good English" they ask me if I'm from England! They ask me how long I've been in the country cus "you're English is so good". I can not blame them cus they don't know! Point is I built some repoir, mostly cus I think they think, this one nigga aint so bad, he wears a suit to work and he doesnt really bother any1! My girlfriend thinks that its all in my head! So things are a lil better now than when I first moved in. They let me buy chips, and soap without frowning......
I learnt recently that there was zone segragation in New york City, similar to Zimbabwe (where im from!). its not there anymore,In Zimbabwe or here in New York. But its the same thing! The majority of African Americans in Queens Live in Jamaica, The Asians, in Flushing, etc, I knw its all diffrent right now. But im pretty positive if I didnt have roomates, I wouldnt be living where I am living right now. I dont knw if my anger should be directed at the people who own the infrastructre or at the stereotype (of black people), or both.....
...... did that make sense?.....
Im not attacking any1, cus truth be told, I love N.Y,well at least most things its about! Maybe even more than my home city (Harare), To live in a place like this,I had to understand its not all butter. As multi cultural and multinational as it is there is still segregation. Segregation between the many communities, Italians,Koreans,cubans,Russians,Chinese, Puerto Ricans, Greeks, Japenese. Dominicans, Africans, etc,not to mentionthenatives who think the foreigners should get the f$%k out. Somehow it just works! The City Just works.
In my mind this is as good as it gets. New york City! Birthplace of hip hop, media capital of the world. Got two roomates, one hispanic, one white, if one of us gets a Chinese girlfriend that would be the united nations right there (okay not really- but u gotta admit its pretty diverse!)
Right now the power in my hood has been kinda Nasty, feels like im still in Zim, been having power cuts back and forth or very lil power, http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/22/nyregion/22cope.html?_r=1&ei=5094&en=b44a17ae33fe0658&hp=&ex=1153540800&adxnnl=1&partner=homepage&adxnnlx=1153548096-6Ins5e4j7UCqYj0hKMakFA&oref=slogin ... so much for as good as it gets ! At least plumbing still works..
Im loving it, I cant quite claim New York, But its an amazing place, not cus of the buildings, music or pizza , but the many diffrent kinds of people, you can meet, and speak to, the longer im here, the more I evolve, accpet more, and understand the many diffrences, between, me and people from other backgrounds, I am around .... Or maybe its just called growing up.....!
Basics
I'm Hoping my Girl gone Do basics part 2.
I'm listening to Kanye West, I have no idea where this song is from but its called "Home" , I think its one of those, songs that came out on a mix tape, b4 his mix album came out.
anyway.....
The song has nothing to really do with what I'm feeling, or anything that, but I get the concept. Its about home... Duh!
Support, friends, homies, buddies, comrades, boys, girls, peoples, family, ex's, familiarity, fast food, high school, family, church, Sunday dinner, neighborhood grocer, neighborhood butcher, family, ex's, neighborhood scandals, grandparents, neighborhood wana-be-thugs, neighborhood wana be mc's, cousins, cousins whow are wana-be-thugs and mc's, family, neighbour hood chill out spots, make out spots, neighbourhood ballcourts, family, neighbourhood parties, weddings, gossip, family, and a million and one other things, oh yeah and family!
Some things i dont miss,a lot i do, point is we are both not at home, not that this is a blog about bieng home sick, more about the difrences, and similarities between two people, from the same place, living in the country but two very diffrent parts of the same country. But then again not even about that, cus comparing NY to anything or anywhere downsouth wouldbe trivialising things.
its about two friends, starting a blog. Can sum1 tell me what the pointof starting a blog is???
I met Afrochic (Me home girl/co blogger/ down south resident) b4 I could speak, or talk, our parents where friends, so my grandmother used to baby sit the both of us. We moved away (out of the country), they moved, etc....
It gets a lil more complicated, but in short we became friends, independently later on in life (High school).
We Both moved states side, im In NY, she is In Mississipi!
So here goes!
I'm listening to Kanye West, I have no idea where this song is from but its called "Home" , I think its one of those, songs that came out on a mix tape, b4 his mix album came out.
anyway.....
The song has nothing to really do with what I'm feeling, or anything that, but I get the concept. Its about home... Duh!
Support, friends, homies, buddies, comrades, boys, girls, peoples, family, ex's, familiarity, fast food, high school, family, church, Sunday dinner, neighborhood grocer, neighborhood butcher, family, ex's, neighborhood scandals, grandparents, neighborhood wana-be-thugs, neighborhood wana be mc's, cousins, cousins whow are wana-be-thugs and mc's, family, neighbour hood chill out spots, make out spots, neighbourhood ballcourts, family, neighbourhood parties, weddings, gossip, family, and a million and one other things, oh yeah and family!
Some things i dont miss,a lot i do, point is we are both not at home, not that this is a blog about bieng home sick, more about the difrences, and similarities between two people, from the same place, living in the country but two very diffrent parts of the same country. But then again not even about that, cus comparing NY to anything or anywhere downsouth wouldbe trivialising things.
its about two friends, starting a blog. Can sum1 tell me what the pointof starting a blog is???
I met Afrochic (Me home girl/co blogger/ down south resident) b4 I could speak, or talk, our parents where friends, so my grandmother used to baby sit the both of us. We moved away (out of the country), they moved, etc....
It gets a lil more complicated, but in short we became friends, independently later on in life (High school).
We Both moved states side, im In NY, she is In Mississipi!
So here goes!
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