Walk With Me...

As it happens every March we get that early preview of Spring w/ a nice jump up in the temperature reading. We tapped 70 yesterday and I decided to enjoy a rare walk through New Ro to knock out a few errands and clear my head. I need to do this more often......

Strength in Numbers?

I've had this discussion with my group in prepping the release of the Omega Nexus. I'm someone that believe in legit strong numbers through grass roots marketing, personal interaction with my base face and slowly building a following that supports the brand. On the flip side I have partners that more concerned with getting largers in bulk maybe via group and corporate sponsors.

Maybe it differs depending on what your doing. If you're just flipping stuff for profit then yeah its really just a numbers game. But if what you do is what you love and you are more attached to your brand, I think you want to be able to have legit community of support behind your movement.

In the end is it really just a numbers game more then anything?

Rambling on Hump Day

Sometimes I just have to sit and think. I wonder why I do the things I do. I many times wonder just how my actions are perceived. Few people get me and how I move. Others question why I don’t take more advantage of certain positions I’m in. There are those that I honestly feel just tolerate me in a cordial manner but could really care less if I’m around or not. Not mad at that, its reality. It’s weird how I find myself double guessing, doubting, and at times going against my natural instincts. It’s said that it’s easier to be cold, mean and uncaring but I think I’ve grown past that stage. I see negativity as being so much harder to deal with and so oppressive to your environment. I just don’t see why I’d elect to dwell in that. So, I’m Mr Nice guy but that’s nothing new, my actions are done 1^st from the heart because I try to treat folk how I’d like to be treated. Yes, how I’d like to be treated which alludes to the fact that I’m not really treated like that. So while I don’t seek a specific reaction from the things I do. I ALWAYS am aware of what the response is. Again not due to expectation but as to better monitor who I give and direct energy too. Are you someone that says “Good Morning” to people? Do you randomly check on your peoples to make sure their ok? Yeah? That’s nice……you ever stop and see how many do the same towards you? Is the number relatively even? No? It drops off a bit? Yeah I hate when that happens too. 

Anyway, is it just assumed that communication with the opposite HAS to have a sexual side meaning? Perhaps I need to befriend some flat chested mid western white women so my every move doesn’t have a suspicious eye on it. But the eyes have been watching for years, no reason to think they’ll stop now. I honestly feel that I keep a pretty diverse group of friends. I surround myself and populate my inner circle with powerful respective people, many who are females. They know what it is so that’s all that matters. If I’m seen chatting with anyone who’s pretty, curves are too on point, chest too large, hair too curly or I’m being "too nice" it’s gotta be something....right?. Sometimes I have to remind myself that many people overlook or are oblivious to my background and just how accustomed I am to female's physically. Counting and collecting money in a stripper locker room or office will do that to you……among other things.  I can truthfully say I’m a social guy and have no issue speaking with and being around attractive folk. I control my actions at the end of the day. 

I was an ugly duckling (as were most people) so I can appreciate both sides of things. I’m cool with models and mothers, singers and strippers, artists and asshole, that’s life. In the end it’s all funny to me. I don’t ever fight or argue over it. I’ll let you think I’m trying to do something while I’m in my home alone reading comic books. The general population should be thankful that my "less female sensitive side" was short lived yrs ago. Someone of my intelligence could cause a lot of damage without restraints in place. Lord believe me that it’s not always easy to NOT do something but that’s the battle you wage daily. It’s what enables me to be “real”. Not in the “I’m keeping it real” sense but in the “I don’t want to be a hypocrite” sense. 

I begin working with my church's Sunday School this Sunday. Easter Sunday, the biblical importance is evident but for me it’s a giving back. While talking this over with people I said that I wasn’t getting my self up and extra 3-4 hrs earlier on Sunday just to recite old bible stories to these kids. I need to connect real life, our reality to a faith based on a time extreme and foreign to us. These young adults I’ll be dealing with, Middle School/High School students I believe are in the cross hairs of a lot of things. You have young boys thinking their men…..young girls thinking their women and I throw myself into the mix to attempt to effect change. NO ONE knows the full extent to things I’ve been involved in. Various people know some, NOBODY knows all. And to make the needed points with these kids I may need to share some of the darker corners of me just so they can connect and see how it all relates. There is always a bigger picture. My moves are never singular or random. Pieces to the puzzle, chess moves, turns to solve the rubics cube. But, y’all just assume I’m a 6ft 5in 225lbs flirt. Ok I can live with that. Lol. People always understand after the fact , that is how it works with me. So you don’t need to get it right now….

The Consistently Inconsistent or “Trigger Words”

It’s no secret that I am a man who is big on communication in its varying styles and forms. I feel that people say so much more about themselves then what the actual words they say and type mean. In addition to that we are also creatures of habit who act in patterns if given enough of an opportunity.

So what happens to me is that I have people that always seem intrigued and show interest in things I do. So when I present the opportunity to act on the interest they flake. The follow up never happens and the no action takes place. This happens to me a lot and I’m only fortunate that he occurs online versus me wasting time and physical energy to met and converse with a person. I’ve learned to handle this is a few ways.

1)It allows me to know who to take serious.

2)In avoiding the “talkers” I’ve come to figure the “trigger words” for many people.

“Trigger Words” are words or sayings that a specific person says that represents their level of commitment to an action. (This can be positive or negative)

Yes, believe it or not many of us give away our true intentions in our speech. So it’s knowing that even though he/she said they would call back the odds and past history say its not going to happen so have a plan B. It’s the person you ask for help that replies affirmatively but you know that you better ask someone else as well as back up. It happens so much it’s actually funny now. Especially when I reveal my lack of faith in a person and it’s the classic. “Nooo that’s not true.”

It’s true…it’s damned true.

Whats so Precious?

I don't really listen much to peoples views on movies outside on my own friends and family. I saw the precious trailer and for some reason something didn't seem right too me.Maybe it seems to over the top, maybe I need to read the book first? I don't know so I'm undecided on if I'll go see it. This gentleman though clearly expresses his view on Precious.

SHAME ON TYLER PERRY and Oprah Winfrey for signing on as air-quote executive producers of Precious. After this post-hip-hop freak show wowed Sundance last January, it now slouches toward Oscar ratification thanks to its powerful friends.Winfrey and Perry had no hand in the actual production of Precious, yet the movie must have touched some sore spot in their demagogue psyches. They’ve piggybacked their reps as black success stories hoping to camouflage Precious’ con job—even though it’s more scandalous than their own upliftment trade. Perry and Winfrey naively treat Precious’ exhibition of ghetto tragedy and female disempowerment as if it were raw truth. It helps contrast and highlight their achievements as black American paradigms—self-respect be damned.

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