Gas prices 2008

It's funny - it's been almost three years since I last felt the urge to post something about the high gas prices. In my old post I put a funny picture that told the story pretty well, too - but this one really speaks the truth...

New local magazine

Hey, my homie and fellow DJ has just started a new local magazine call "The Taste of Mt. Vernon". He's got a website, too. Be sure to subscribe!

10 years and counting

May 2008 marks the 10-year anniversary of the Afrikan Student Union sit-in at The Ohio StateUniversity, protesting changes to the Office of Minority Affairs. At that time, it was called the longest-running sit-in in OSU history - perhaps it still holds that record.

Anyway, I was a part of that effort. Now that the 10-year anniversary is here, I feel like we should do something to commemorate it. However, I'm busy, and everyone else I know who was involved is also busy. Being a grownup sucks. :)

Well, at least I mentioned it here. If I'm lucky, I'll find the time to blog on the experience sometime this month. Stay tuned.

King Kwali

When i'm walking Kwali thru the neighborhood, we always inevitably pass a house or yard with another dog in it. Whenever we pass by, those dogs always bark at Kwali. But every time, Kwali just quietly looks at them like they're crazy, or sometimes ignores them completely!

The other day, for example, I walk him down one of the neighborhood streets where there happens to be like 3 or 4 dogs all near each other. All of them saw Kwali, and all of them start barking. What does Kwali do? Head up, face forward. Keeps walking like he don't hear nuthin.

Then it dawns on me - Kwali must be the King Canine in the neighborhood! Those aren't barks of anger or intimidation from the other dogs - those dogs are calling out 'Big Ups!' and giving a respectful shout-out to the baddest mofo low down around this town - Kwali!

Could it be??? :)

--sent from mobile phone--

Still funny?

I just re-read the post i did about Jerry Seinfeld - his comment doesn't seem as funny to me now as it did then. Hmmm - go figure.

chillin

Kwali definitely knows how to chill. I was sitting on the couch talking on the phone and he just cozied up with me. He's probably wondering why i'm sitting on 'his' couch. :)

--sent from mobile phone--

Not funny

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Always funny

If you don't already know, I looooove the show "Seinfeld", and I think Jerry Seinfeld is hilarious.

So it was no surprise when he still made me laugh even during an article about a car accident he was recently in, in which the brakes on one of his vintage cars went out. He says,

“Because I know there are kids out there, I want to make sure they all know that driving without braking is not something I recommend, unless you have professional clown training or a comedy background, as I do,...”

LOL!

Chocolate Chip Wifey?

Had lunch with my wife today. Max & Erma's. Yes, we bought the cookies fa sho. Yes, we had some left over - boxed them bad boys up for later.

We walked back to the car holding hands. I then made a statement that made us both bust out laughing:

"...yep, that's all I need - my wife & my cookies!...."

we ain't got no sense....

Separate But Equal

Okay, I've not created two new blogs. I've decided that there are parts of Ricardo that need to have their own space - namely, DJ Ric' and Computer Geek Ric'. :)

For the most part, this is a professional move. I'm hoping the DJ Ric' site (djric.blogspot.com & djric.net) will help drum up business and get the DJ Ric' name out there a little more. And the geek site (rixbits.blogspot.com) allows me to share my technical thoughts with colleagues without having them see all my personal stuff as well.

So, all my Mac/Vista posts, for instance, will now start happening on the Bits sites. And anytime I have a thought related to music, it'll be over on DJ site. I've put links to both sites over on the right side of this page, in the Links section.

I hope this works out. :)

Kwali Videos

The latest youtube videos for that puppy we've all come to know and love:


Kwali Off Leash



Kwali and the Blizzard of 2008

Kwali in March

I had a custom calendar made for 2008 - I used pictures of my dog Kwali for every month. Here's the March photo. This is back when Kwali was a baby - the dog he's laying on is his play cousin Cassius.

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A bored boxer

I've been working at my computer all morning. Kwali has already twice this morning walked up to me and plopped his head on my arm as if to say, "I am so bored...". The 2nd time I was able to snap a pic of him with my phone. Poor puppy... :)

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Soulja vs Scott

I was in my office when my wife called me and said to come in the living room. I walked in, and she told me to turn my attention to the new video playing on BET. I looked, and there was the new ridiculous song from Soulja Boy. Can't remember the hook - it was something ignorant with some yelling involved or something.

I just shook my head, like she knew I would. She laughed. This was her little joke because she knows that I'm not fond of the little kids' music that I'm forced to play when I DJ the middle-school parties. How ironic - being a DJ and not liking the music that you play. (that's why my most favorite gigs are the 30-something crowds)

Anyway, I shook my head, went back into my office, and continued listening to Jill Scott's Live in Paris album.

Grown folks music.

Ain't gon' hurt nobody...We're just dancin' baby!

Hey! I didn't know Kid 'N Play had their own little 9-issue comic book series! Awww, ain't that cute. Makes me think about one of my all time favorite movies... House Party! (We gon' get what? Get funky!) I think I got every line in that movie memorized.

"Oooh! You're wrinkling my school clothes! Oooooh!" HAHAHAHA