The Monday Morning Get-Up
Posted: July 20, 2009 Filed under: Pitts Indeed, Things Y'all Need To Know, Thought Food | Tags: ambulances, blunts, BX, chester french, chirp, dominican republic, fat joe, health insurance, jon pitts-wiley, lean back remix, lindsey graham, new york, nextel, omar al-bashir, puerto rico, q-tip, sonia sotomayor, supreme court, tego calderon, terror squad, twitter Leave a comment »
- Theory: NY fruit stand prices haven’t run the grocery stores out of the produce business because, by and large, people are afraid to trust the product safety of anything being sold on the street by a brown person who doesn’t speak English unless it’s delivered at a temperature hot enough to stave off infection.
- If a club isn’t playing music that you enjoy dancing to, if there are other clubs that are more likely to get your butt shaking in a way that you are comfortable and accustomed, feel free to go to that club and undulate there, rather than come to that other club and clog up the middle of the dance floor while you kind of sort of dance. Team Dominican Republic, I’m talking to you.
- Q-Tip: Thank you for putting on a great live show Saturday. Chester French, you weren’t too shabby either. This trend back toward having to actually be able to perform live in order to make a living is refreshing.
- Expenses + Loans + Possible Health Insurance = Yeah the Fuck Right
- The other day, a friend lamented the fact that there wasn’t a harder verb for Twitter than “tweeting.” I could only shake my head and feel sorry that “chirp” was wasted on Nextel’s Negro Horn.
- Two mirth smirks to the lady smoking a blunt the size of my index finger at the Q-Tip concert on Saturday. Twenty FAIL thumbs down for doing so while pushing a stroller.
- If anyone cared about what happens in Africa, Omar al-Bashir would be in some real trouble.
- I find ambulances doing the speed limit with their lights on peculiar. If the lights are on, shouldn’t it by flying by? Is the semi-casual speed supposed to tell other motorists “Listen, this is kind of an emergency, but this alleged heart attack is actually just indigestion, so we totally understand if you don’t want to move over”? I don’t get it.
- I bought three dvds from the bargain rack the other day. The only one that was good was the one I had already seen.
- As Sonia Sotomayor was wrapping up her participation in her Supreme Court confirmation hearings, I was hoping she would end by busting out a Puerto Rican flag, shout “Viva El BX!” and rockawaying out of the room to the ‘Lean Back’ remix featuring Tego Calderon. I’m holding out hope that this took place during the closed door portion of the proceedings.
- This week’s Ho Sit Down! award winner…Lindsey Graham!
- You have to make your love in the heart of the city.
