Peace peeps. If you thought my blog on my experiences observing and partaking in the November elections in Maine was provocative, my latest musings on WireTapMag.org around the Fort Hood killings, the death of DC sniper-John Allen Muhammad and the trial of alleged “mastermind” of the September 11th terrorist attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (“Who’s Afraid of the ‘Muslim Boogeyman?’”) is sure to raise those stakes.
Check out this lol-tastic video that I found over at WSHH. For some reason, I think that it goes down exactly like this.
Word to Manny Pacquiao, I hate losing. Especially when it comes to sports. No lie, when I was a kid my parents had to take me out of a bowling league because I would beat myself up if didn’t roll strikes. So as you can imagine, I have pretty much stopped paying attention to my local NBA team the Milwaukee Bucks.
I’m not like some of my fellow Wisconsinites. I don’t cry when the Packers lose, and I haven’t forgiven the Brewers for their decades long losing skid. So don’t ever expect to see me rocking a cheese-head.
But for some reason, the Bucks’ current round of absolute wackness stings a lot. After all, there was a time in recent history when the Bucks, powered by the wicked treo of Glen “Big Dog” Robinson, Ray Allen and Sam Cassell, were competing for league supremacy.
That’s why it’s so hard for me to believe that Bucks could be back on the road to hecka goodness again. I mean, I knew that their number one draft pick Brandon Jennings was a star. Did you see him in the McDonald’s High-School All Star game a couple years back? He did have the sand to cut his hair into hitop fade years before it is cool again.
But the word on the streets is that they are actually playing good team basketball. I might have to get over my fear of failure long enough to check them out.
I have a deep, dirty secret that I have to share with you. Promise not to judge me?
I am addicted to Walmart. Yes, I know that many of my friends are so anti-Walmart that they would likely disown me if they knew how much I shopped at the corporate giant. But I can’t help it. Their prices are SO ‘effin cheap, and it doesn’t help that there are nearly no major retail chains in my neighborhood. (I live in the hood.)
And yes, I know that the execs at Walmart are staunchly anti-worker. I also know that the uber-retailer drives down competitors’ prices, especially at mom and pops’ shops. But l gotta keep it real, I don’t really shop anywhere else.
Can you really blame me? In one afternoon of shopping you can cop everything from t-shirts to a jumbo pack of Pampers for damn near nothing. And it doesn’t hurt that at every hood Walmart in the world bootleggers are selling the latest movie or CD for 2 for $5 in the parking lot.
I fear that there is no cure for my addiction. I’ve tried really hard to shop local, but it just isn’t working. So please, don’t judge me if you see me coming out of a Walmart near you. I have a problem, and I am not afraid to admit it.
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