Posted by De'Wayne Simpson on Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Life is soooooooo not set-up to for starting over. Sure, it may have been that way in the past, but it surely isn’t that way anymore. Banks, businesses, everything is set up to have you trapped as long as they possibly can. I’m at a point in my professional life where I am no longer fulfilled by what I do. It’s no secret. My co-workers, supervisors, friends… everyone knows it. It’s as easy to see when you look at me as the tattoos on my arms and the clothes on my back. I don... Continue reading...
Posted by De'Wayne Simpson on Tuesday, April 21, 2009
I was so close... so close to finishing my current book (Urban Lullabies, Volume 2). I often think to myself, "how can you pause a project that's so close to being complete?" Well, the answer is simple - personal preference and priority.
I became a sports addict at a very young age. Aside from Brylon, sports are probably the most important thing in the world to me. I love to compete. I love the feeling of knowing that someone looks at you and immediately becomes intimidated. Even m... Continue reading...
Posted by De'Wayne Simpson on Monday, April 20, 2009
While ridin around the city tonight, I saw something that caught my eye in a wonderful way. I saw six young boys on a basketball court in southeast DC. I also saw two uniformed police officers at the same park. I watched from the front of a line at a red light. After a couple of seconds, I realized that they were playing four-on-four. It was a cop and three kids on each team.
I remember when I was young, my friend's mom used to talk about how she didn't feel safe anymore, even though she ... Continue reading...
Posted by De'Wayne Simpson on Saturday, April 18, 2009
Married people always questionin' why they got married Single folk, they wallow in the fact that they alone People stuck in life try to figure where they goin' Vagrants wander wishin that they had their own home The rich try to fig ure why their souls are so empty The broke sit and think the same thing 'bout their accounts It seems like nobody can ever find a median Suffering from nothing or sufferin' from large amounts The police supposed to make a brotha feel safe If that's really the case, then the... Continue reading...
Posted by De'Wayne Simpson on Monday, March 2, 2009
Lately, I find myself frequently pondering the dark side of entertainers. It all began with Phil Hartman. Then Sam Kinison. Then Chris Farley. Then several others after research came into play. All of these entertainers died early deaths. All of them were said to be the opposite of their on-air persona. These were people who made millions laugh to the point of tears. But the jokes all began as tears of their own. What is the correllation between these dreadfully sad, angry, and depre... Continue reading...
Posted by De'Wayne Simpson on Friday, February 27, 2009
...I wonder what in the hell goes on in the minds of kids these days. I mean, I see at least one thing everyday that makes me think about that. In a typical day at my school, I will get less than eight homework assignments turned in per class. My smallest class has 28 kids in it. Baseball players wouldn't even be happy with that percentage!!! Not to mention, usually, 3 or more of those 8 appear to have been done in the hallway or at lunch. I feel like I've been broken. If I get three k... Continue reading...
Posted by Brian Ulf on Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Just read your post and it reminded my of something I think about a lot: the fact that we give our selves too much credit as an advanced civilization. Just because we've made amazing progress in areas like science and technology and we have all kinds of fancy new shit that our grandparents never had people fail to realize how we're failing to evolve culturally/spiritually as we advance technologically. In fact ala Idiocracy it appears we're regressing. We spend all this time worrying about ge... Continue reading...
Posted by De'Wayne Simpson on Tuesday, February 24, 2009
The other night, someone got killed in my neighborhood because he made a u-turn and accidentally cut off another car. Not only was there no accident, but the man who made the u-turn paused to apologize to the guy that he cut off. The man who got cut off saw fit to draw a weapon to conclude this situation. Even though he apologized, he was still shot and killed in the driver's seat of his car, which at the time was also occupied by his wife and his daughter. This makes no sense at all. Th... Continue reading...
Posted by De'Wayne Simpson on Friday, February 6, 2009
You know how people are always saying, "where do you see yourself in X years?" We have all answered that question, probably more times than we can even remember. For some strange reason, I found myself pondering this question a few moments ago.
There I was, sitting at my desk, turned to the side, watching Menace II Society. There was a time, when those images painted portions of the picture I called, My Future. But yet and still, there I was, sitting alongside my desk, in a room illuminatedd o... Continue reading...
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