RDM Random Remarks

White powder still alive and well

rdms — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 16:05:47 +0000

That would be of the snow variety, thank you very much. It’s lovely to see such timely weather in time for Christmas.

Merry Christmas to you and yours.

BB, please….

rdms — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:15:11 +0000

Sounds like ordering at Gates BBQ, right? Wrong.

The Blackberry world was down again on last night and into the morning. They said it was the 2nd such outage in the past week. Funny thing is, I didn’t even notice it.

I went out and bought one of those digital frames to hold some old pictures. I think I spent more time scanning and laughing at old pictures, that I lost track of the BB world.

Hope they get it stablilized. I will need the phone this weekend…

Via

The high price of coochie

rdms — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:55:31 +0000

: Chris Henry, Tiger Woods, and Steve McNair have all paid dearly in the name of coochie.

This post isn’t going to say that it’s only the brothas who are falling prey to cutty, because we know about the Lettermans, the Sanfords, and countless others who have chopped down some extra bushes and paid for it royally.

I have had to shake my head at the fact that it’s costing people their very lives in the whole pursuit of coochieness. Chris Henry died on yesterday as a result of a domestic incident. It was a senseless way to go, but the reports are that the conflict could have been about wedding planning that was getting too expensive for the millionaire’s taste.

We know Tiger Woods’ situation. He had his clubs in so many roughs that a new bush stands up everyday saying that he swung his club in their thicket. He’s not dead, but he probably feels as if the life he lived has died.

Steve McNair died on July 4. He got a bullet put into his head and chest by a young tender (supposedly). He was married with children, but not at home with them.

There is a groundswell in the black community that these brothas who chop down white women are dying as a result of it. It isn’t true in every case, but you hardly hear of interracial couples who have celebrated 15 years of marriage or 20 years. No. That’s not news.

What is news is when a “seemingly perfect” golfer has his life turned upside down in a matter of minutes on a Black Friday morning in his neighbor’s yard. What is noteworthy is when your Independence Day festivities are interrupted by the reports that a former NFL quarterback has died due to a domestic incident. Headlines are generated when a 26 year-old football player in the prime of his life ends up dead due to problems with his woman.

The price these guys are paying is too deep. At some point, these guys need to get a dose of reality before it’s everlasting too late. Tiger Woods will get that dose. Henry and McNair will not get it (on this side).

As far as Mark is from the rest

rdms — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 07:28:23 +0000

The KU Jayhawks are linked to a report stating they are going to hire Buffalo’s Turner Gill to be their next head coach. This comes less than 24 hours after the same people linked the job to Stanford’s Jim Harbaugh.

I couldn’t see Harbaugh taking the job, even though his wife is from Belton. I just couldn’t see it. At best, it was a lateral move. How do you go from being rumored to be in the hunt for the Notre Dame job and then you somehow find KU as the next best thing? Get real.

What the Gill hiring shows me is this:

The Jayhawks weren’t so concerned with hiring an African American head coach as they were preoccupied with getting someone who was the anti-Mangino. Meaning, they wanted someone who was the polar opposite of the ex-coach.

That man is Turner Gill.

One solution: Stay out of cars in midtown

rdms — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 12:33:37 +0000

Another day, another sad soul loses their life to a bullet while sitting in a vehicle. It’s nearing the middle of December and the low-life criminals in Kansas City still haven’t caught on to the calendar change. Crime is supposed to take a mild dip for the next couple of months. Most crimes committed in the winter months are to occur inside and are to really only involve the use of knives.

Give the guns a break.

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Is it that deep, people?

rdms — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 12:20:44 +0000

I was “informed” on last evening that when I picked up a Gingerbread house kit, that I had “blowed up” a previously planned outing that involved picking up the same kit. I think that outing was to take place today and would also take in the new Disney movie that’s out. Well, you know my response was from the tried-and-true book of comebacks, so I just stuck to script.

I spent a few minutes after that conversation doing some light research on the movie. Wow. I am not that up on movies and I rarely catch them until they hit DVD. So the Princess and the Frog has caused quite a firestorm in the eyes of some people. From what they are saying, this is the first time that Disney has ever featured an African-American princess.

Really?

Apparently so. So, in the eyes of some (mainly black) parents, this is a long overdue step towards progress. These parents go on record and say that their daughters need to see positive images on the big screen. You know not all white muthas are feeling this. Some of them have decided to sit this one out.

That’s where they lose me. What are you teaching your kids by doing that?

I’ll wait…

Ain’t that some spit!!!

rdms — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:09:57 +0000

What can you say about 15 minutes of fame and some cache to go along with it? The past 8 days have been an example of how low some people will go in order to get some greenbacks for doing tricks on their back.

Yes, I am talking about the flood of women who have come out of the woodwork who didn’t say, “I am Tiger Woods”, but instead said, “I am Tiger Woods because I’ve got Tiger Woods in me!”

We all know that this is a week that Tiger will never forget and he’s paying royally for it. Sure, Kobe Bryant got caught with his pants down in Colorado. He had to pay his wife because the fool has no prenuptial anywhere upwards of $4 million for a ring just to keep her from filing deeeevorce on him. California isn’t the place to get deeevorced.

Shoot over to Tiger’s situation and you’ll see an athlete with much more money than Kobe Bryant and who is arguably the best athlete in all of sports. No one disputes that. We give the man his props. But, now he will pay much more than what KB24 did.

It could be related to the sports they play. In the NBA, cheating is not something you do, it’s something you perfect. Most NBA players are chopping down women in each city they visit. These women know the rules. They show up and serve up these players in exchange for cache, gifts, and a good time. No, they’re not the most upstanding women, but it is what it is.

Golf, which is predominately a sport where old rich white guys have ruled for years, a caucasian/black/asian dude has taken the sport by storm. Most golfers’ families travel to some of the big tournaments. They don’t make it to all of them, however. That gap is what causes many of these people to stray. You play your 18 holes and then have a bunch of time to dwell at the 19th hole. Nothing good comes out of elongated stays at 19.

We heard Tiger’s voicemail message (which was the most hilarious thing I’ve heard all year), in which he told one of his choppees to remove her name from her greeting. Fat chance dude.

These women have saved those messages and text messages as well. They know that when the sheets get pulled, someone will pay them for that information. It is what it is.

Let’s take it to Kansas City. Tom Watson has had his share of drama with women, so I won’t bag on him right now. I want to bag on the woman who all of you have taken up for. Yep, the woman on the other end of ex-Chief Larry Johnson’s spit. Remember her?

She has seen what a real party girl can get for her troubles. In order to get paid, you don’t resist the rich players advance, you suck them in (pardon the pun) and take them for all they’re worth later. Now, LJ isn’t married (thankfully) and he’s just like most dumb athletes..he’s predisposed to screwing up. So, as a rich-woman-in-waiting, you just wait for the right time to spring up for the cache.

Per TMZ, Ashley Stewart (the woman who LJ allegedly spit on) is suing the Blonde Nightclub for failing to protect her from LJ, who was obviously up to no good that night.

You’ve got to be freaking kidding me.

That is all I got to say to that. Once the spit dries, you can see people for who they really are.

That’s the moral of the story. Long live LJ.

Mark Mangino GONE!!!

rdms — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:55:07 +0000

In case you hadn’t heard, the worst kept secret in Lawrence is now official.

Mark Mangino won’t be coaching the Jayhawks next season.

Well, he has a fat chance of coaching them.

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He can run, but he can’t hide

rdms — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:45:56 +0000

Welcome to a new day, and more Tiger Woods drama.

It was back to work today and the water cooler conversations started on Woods before 6 am.

The consensus is that he’ll be fine. The only negative for him is that the cops are going to make an example out of him (or at least try) for his dissing them and their quests for interviews.

From all indications, this story’s legs are growing by the minute.

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Mangino throwing his weight around

rdms — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:20:47 +0000

Mark Mangino lost a tough game against Missouri on Saturday, and he sauntered into the press conference and threw his weight around as he told reporters that he plans on doing what he normally does, which is to prepare for next season.

Huh?

Next season? Really? Yeah, that’s what he said.

I don’t know if I can put my weight on Mangino’s words. They’re liable to break up on tomorrow.