yippee-ki-yay

The Tung is Confused.....

Why on earth is noone excited about the new John McClain Movie??????

He is only the baddest action hero ever!!!!!!

I'm kinda ashamed to say I have been following the hype (or lack of), but its okay, its not like this is "snakes on a plane", this is frigging Die Hard!!!!!!! This is not about Dying Hard, Dying Harder, or Dying Hard With a Vengeance, This is all about Dying Hard or living free*.

I'd put money to say that when people in Zim say "Mu Hard!", they are talking about John McClain and the Die hard Movies....

The only other action hero who is not a Super hero, who's name I actually know is John Rambo (but we heard all about that scandal), and commando (but that isn’t even a real name), I guess Dirty Harry too, but I don’t even know his last name off hand. .... Well actually now that I think about it I guess Indiana Jones is a hero who's name I know so is Han Solo**, and Jack Ryan, but that's only cus Harrison Ford is a bad ass Mofo.

People like Luke SkyWalker, Neo, Bilbo Baggins, etc do not count cus that is sci-fi fantasy**. For me after the September 11 bombings, I felt like the events sounded like a John McClain story gone bad, actually I’m lying cus same sort of thing happened in a Jack Ryan Story so I was thinking about that too.

I think I just have a thing for the character (McClane), he is not necessarily one of the good guys, he is probably the most flawed protagonist I have ever come across, well at least on the big screen. Kinda like most people.

so "yippee-ki-yay" and now that I have managed to waste a good twenty minutes of your time reading this dribble*** In McClain We trust, and I wanna see how the dude that introduced the concept of terrorists on American soil to me, does in this post 9/11 world.

I have heard people say that all the games people play and movies we watch are really just helping to condition us, so that people-crashing-planes into buildings doesn’t seem so preposterous. Maybe I am just interested because I live in a city where things that happened in these movies (terrorist threats) are a little more than just something from a writers imagination, thus the heightened interest, then again maybe its just a childhood thing.

The concepts and plots in these movies that where seemingly far fetched back in the late 80's and 90's, seem a whole lot more plausible in today's world. There are so many movies and Tv shows (like 24), in today's world, so i may yawn. When I watch this movie, but hey I grew up on John McClane!

* Tj, this is not a blog post about dying your hair blonde...

** If you are thinking Han Solo, is from a sci-fi world you are mistaken, Han Solo is just a bad ass mofo!

*** I know you guys that read this blog, read really really slow, and mouth out the words.....

hmm....

I’m kinda pissed the Brooklyn Hip Hop festival came and went and I was totally unaware…

The weekend was really really good tho. So I’m not gona complain*

I lost interest in the club scene some time ago. But it was ridiculously off the chain on Saturday Night. Maybe it’s the whole 85 thing, Or the fact that I haven’t been to the club in a while, or the fact that I haven’t been in a club with that many Zimbabweans since Zim, Or rather In a club with a gang of Zimbabweans I actually don’t mind hanging out with. Or the fact that I was in a club where they where playing a lot of songs that where hot when i was in Zim. Or the fact that I hadn’t been to the club in a while, and went there with some Zimbabweans, that I don’t mind hanging out with and had some fun listening to songs that where hot in the club back in Zim?

Or maybe the 40/40 is just my spot….

A big part of me just wants to call the whole weekend a fluke, the 6^th consecutive fluke…

Spent Sunday, with my nieces and nephews** at the New Jersey State Fair!

To sum up the weekend, I would call it “A weekend so good that I didn’t even have to steal a beer or two from fridge while the roommate was away upstate good!***”

* Not that anyone reads my blog, so who would I be complaining too?

** Its really just nephews but nieces and nephews sounds cooler.

*** Except for when I grabbed a beer or two on on Friday night, Saturday Morning, Saturday Afternoon, Early Saturday Night, Late Saturday night, early a.m Sunday morning, late a.m Sunday morning, early Sunday night, late Sunday Night, and early Monday morning!

Umm so…

Ever heard urself on Tape? Or called your celly and heard your own voice, (on voicemail*), and thought to yourself I’m sure I sound better than that!

So me and a friend decided to start a blog last year, it lasted one or two posts from me, and one or two from her. Then the whole thing just died. I’m not gona name any names, but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t me!

So my friend, restarted the blog, or rather just picked up from where we left it which was roughly a year ago...

It’s looking good! Except the bits, I wrote… I am grateful, I can claim that spellchecking, and grammar wasn’t such a big thing back in 2006**.

* Yes, yes it’s true… No one calls me so I have to call myself in order to hear my phone ring

** Or 2007 for that matter, thus all three of my current readers.

A roller skating jam called Saturday

Can’t wait until tmrw!

Well first of all I knw nothing about roller skating*, but it’s a song about Saturday!

“Five days of work, one whole day to play”

“It’s Saturdaaaaay, Its saturdaaaay”

Now if only I can figure out how to get to tha train station, without passing through some of the local stores, where I have some outstanding IOU’s

One of my Best friends Nyasha is in town, and going to meet up with my girlfriend and some other Chisi people…

Sounds good should be fun, looking forward to it!

* sorry Pinky

LQM*

Earlier someone told me that I should never tell anyone what my true ethnicity is.

Logic behind that (Apart from saving my race embarrassment)…. Is if you ever get caught doing something you shouldn’t be**, and word travels, about you behind ur back, and they refer to you as say “That Italian guy” but you are really Cuban, you can deny any wrong doing by simply saying “Baby that wasn’t me I’m Cuban, not Italian, and I couldn’t have been wearing an Orange shirt and blue tie”. I guess that’s the jist of the idea.

Initially I thought the advice was retarded considering, some might refer to me as Pitch Black. I really can’t claim or pass for anything but African***.

The whole concept intrigued me the more I thought about it. Living In a multicultural community. There are really no such things as just Black, White, Hispanic, or Asian people.

I guess its like attending one of those large classes, in college where there is no way the professor will know your name, so he will call you out to answer a question by referring to the clothes you are wearing****. He cant say hey black guy, or hey White guy, Apart from appearing racist there will more than likely be more than one black person, or one white person in class etc. So he will need something to differentiate.

I guess out here we classify ourselves by country of origin (even if it is 2 or 3 generations, deep) or in my case by continent, so now that I think about it I’m not Black, I’m African! Reading that over it sounds retarded. But in all, honestly I guess they refer to me as African not black, and likewise I see people as Dominican, Thai, Greek, Mexican, Polish or Tomatian, Etc and not by color.

So I guess I can pass for any Ethnicity, because here that means country of origin.

It’s one of those things, end of the day you can be White, Black or Malato and be Zimbabwean, English, Brazilian or from any other country, and that will be your identity (and not color of your skin) . I guess its another reason why I appreciate the multicultural cities, where you are defined by your country of origin, as opposed to skin color.

I think its good, at least that way I wont be mistaken for coming from some godforsaken place like Brooklyn.

It also means, the Purple Shirts and Orange Ties are in! And if anyone asks my name is Robert Horry, and I am Tomatian!

* Laughing Quietly to Myself

** Like wearing badly coordinated clothes to work.

*** Factor in the accent

**** And if you are smart, and coordinated, everyone will wear white t-shirts to class!

Gone Till October

Shoot,

I am happy the Spurs won the NBA finals! I’m mad the season is over, I’m glad my pick before the playoffs went all the way, I get seizures looking at pinky’s new blog colours*, I’m happy my boy Robert Horry got ring number 7 and Mike Finley got one too.

I guess the summer leagues are what it is for now, Harlem Rucker Park.

Who knows the Knicks, might even make the playoffs next year.

* Just had to throw that in there……..

Mid-Summer Crisis

I have whiskey, vodka and some wine in the house, and no mixer....

No cash in my wallet*, Three of the four corner stores closest to me have stopped accepting my IOU's and I am afraid to go to the fourth**.

Maybe it’s a sign; I am not sure what the sign is! But logic tells me, that I need to be more of a man and just Drink the damn whiskey straight.



* Or the bank either, while we are on the topic!

** Paid the guy in Zim Dollars once.

Contrary to Popular belief*,

Contrary to Popular belief*, I actually do have a girlfriend, I started going out with someone special…

I felt like writing something about that, I did, I posted it for a few minutes, and then I deleted it. I guess cus I couldn’t have something personal on the same site, as my glass stealing and super hero ambitions….

Contrary to popular belief*, for the people that don’t know me (personally), on occasion my conversations cover a little more than Starbucks, Super heroes, Oprah, Alcohol, stealing glasses, Stedman, hip hop, Gayle, Online communities (Second life, Facebook, Hi5, etc), Stedman, New York City, Urban legends and Work!

Here and there*, I feel deeply about things, political, social and the continuous bomb threats where I live***, and the struggles back in Zimbabwe!
So I write…. And I write..... But I can never just post, and contrary to popular belief*, I feel like I have something to say and have a point to bring across....

Contrary to popular belief*, there is actually a lot of fiction on my blog! I want to be able to write about something, and for it to be taken seriously. I guess I have to put THIS out there, regardless of who's fault it is, i can not write about inflation above 1 500% or something else serious and try and be nonsensical , on the same site.....

I am wondering if I should start 2 blogs? Or just keep it all on this blog????

Here is the thing, contrary to popular belief* every time you log on to see my blog, I can see it. I now know for a certain fact that not only is there more than one person reading my blog but contrary to popular belief***, there are 3!!!!!

I feel like deleting this thing, I write a lot, but only the nonsensical stuff makes it…..

I don’t want to be known as that guy…. The Ediot!

What do u think?

All three of u don’t rush to comment!!!

I want to keep this blog, but do u think I should get two blogs or just put everything on this one site?

* “Contrary to Popular Belief”: That sounds good doesn’t it???? I think a headmaster of mine used to say that a lot, “contrary to popular belief”

**New York City

** I knw I knw that one was forced

Too Big a Fundamental!!!

Lets just assume, for arguments sake, I was supporting a certain basketball team over another!

I was supporting one team over another purely because i despised the other team, because of its over hyped basketball star!!

Now lets jus say hypothetically i had a blog, where someone who i have now disowned, posted something like.....

"WOOOHOOOO!!!!
Cleveland!!!

somebody say - Detroit in seven?"


Detroit in 7, may, or may not be actual words i have said on more than one occasion. But the fact that someone would put that on this world wide interweb, to "show me" is appalling. ...

I would just like to put it out there, that since before the playoffs started (and the Knicks failed to qualify) I have been saying that San Antonio, and the "Big Fundamental" aka "Tim Duncan" are winning this year!!!! Any Detroit team that may or may not have been beaten disappointingly by a team from Cleveland, was never my choice to go all the way! But only my candidate for the most likely team to beat San Antonio from the East In the finals!

All i was saying was that if a team from Ohio, went to the finals, then the finals would be boring cus, everyone knows the "Big Fundamental" doesn't play, and they are taking the finals in 4 games!!!!

Well no, they will throw one game, and take it in 5 games!!!
Only so that they can win on their home court!