What I Took From The Cookie Jar

As I have mentioned before, I am a packrat, whether of emotions or actual things. In the process of straightening up, I rediscovered some fortunes from some fortune cookies I had eaten the other day. Now I save my fortunes because once upon a time I had the creative idea to make like a collage of all the saved fortunes. My own little piece of kitschy homemade art to take with me wherever I roamed. I even thought it could be like a series of periods in my life. Needless to say, there are a bunch on my dresser in addition to the empty blank CD case that's half full of them as well.

These three fortunes were pretty special though because the message taken together could be very interesting. The night I read them I was kind of spooked but I threw them off to the side away from all the other fortunes.

Now first one said, "Soon life will become more interesting." Okaaaaay. I'm going to be optimistic about that. But the next one said, "Enjoy yourself while you can." Yeah not so settled down now. Remember this is late at night and I am kinda sleepy. Then finally, the coup de grace, "School is a building which has four walls with tomorrow inside."

Just eerie. Eerie.

Do You See A Fist Shaped Cloud In The Sky?

Sunday night was the 60th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's breakage of the color line in American professional baseball. As players jockeyed to wear his #42 to pay homage to a significant moment in American history, the rest of the world seemed to have no recollection that the whole race thing was overrated.

All week Don Imus dominated headlines due to the fallout over his use of the term "nappy-headed ho" in reference to the Rutgers women's basketball team, which happens to be predominantly African-American and also coached by an African-American woman. Of course Jesse & Al were on the case along with the new black crusaders Tom Joyner, Tavis Smiley, and Stephen A. Smith (Sidebar: Is this really what we're left with in Black culture? We got more problems than racial epithets). And what was once a suspension eventually became termination for Mr. Imus.

Over in Germany, it seems that training officers in the military like to teach their charges to aim machine guns by imagining that they were shooting black people in the Bronx. I'm not sure what aspect of this story I should be most shocked about. The statement is shocking eneough in its ignorance and disregard for human life. But on a whole other level, what's up with the specificity? Fine, you hate black people, but who the hell fucked with you in the Bronx? You're in Germany. Germany. Was it one too many Terror Squad songs pumping through the iPod?

Finally, some lunatic went buckwild and opened fire on campus at Virginia Tech yesterday and over 30 people have already passed away due to the injuries he incurred.

Oh yeah I woke up to snow today. It's April 17th. Snow. April. Got that? Good.

What the hell is going on?