Going Back Down Memory Lane ...
I stumbled on this photograph it kinda made me laugh sent me way back ...

This picture reminds of the good times I had being young gifted and black. I had hair and my sister Aimee was little. Now 30 years later I'm still still quite the flashy dresser and though Aimee finally figured out something to do with her hair the child bearing period in her life has left her less than tiny...

Better yet this is when the world and all it's wonders were free to me .. of course it cost my parents loot to keep my belly full , this smile on our faces and those fine clothes on our backs.

Da 70's
The Good Old Days !!!

Back when I had a afro
and a black power pick and begged my mom to get the stay soft fro blow out kit so I could look like The Jackson Five.


When we were kids we believed like all others that there was an Easter Bunny , Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus

Don't laugh I'm not the only one that believed those lies our parents told us .
I remember believing in Santa until I was well into my third year of school ... Which is where most of us decided that we must be pretty dumb to believe that anyone would be coming to our house with gifts instead of bills . All cause some idiot kid who's parents were atheist told them that there was no reason to celebrate just life one day but to celebrate it all days ( which really ain't a bad idea ) . So when I decided it was time to stop being a kid at 8 still had hard time believing that there wasn't a fat white man shimmering down my chimney in my all black neighborhood ( use to think Santa better hurry with delivering them gifts before he get got ) . So I decided through the advice of heathen boy that I should look for these gifts to dispel all notions that there was no ole St Nick. I incorporated my lil Sister who ain't so lil anymore now that she has had three kids into the scheme ... THE UNRAVELING OF THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT.... Aime and I put on some Xmas music ( Donny Hathaway ( this Christmas) and began to looked in every closet underneath each bed .. behind all the couches and what did we find .. nada .. nathan Zilch ... Dammit maybe there was a santa claus after all and heathen boy in school didn't know squat ... I knew as soon as Christmas break was over I was going to tell him to go to Hell but wouldn't have phased him seeing him and his parents didn't believe in either .. so I decided I would curse them to Buffalo in the dead of winter atheist or not his ass would no he didn't want to be there .. it's colder than a witch's titty in Buffalo in Winter ( they film comtrex commercials there ). As I was trying to figure out how I was rub a mojo on the Addams Family .. I thought I better clean up this mess that Aimee and I had made looking to disclaim Santa. Just when I moved the vacuum in the closet I noticed that behind it was big box covered by a blanket I don't remember being there . I unfolded the blanket and tadowwwwwwww it was all of our christmas gifts and some shit for our cousins that we couldn't stand too. Knowing I had been begging for the hot toy of the year Evil Kneviel with the wind up motorcycle , don't sleep that was the bomb .. can't believe kids are going crazy over the Furby doll it can't jump over a creek ... well neither could the Evil Kneviel With motorcycle but it looked good crashing into the creek... Aimee unwrapped her Easy bake over and she baked a cake . Ok ok we did more than bake a cake we baked everything that we could find now laters all types of stuff . We played with that stuff so long we didn't need a christmas ...

Did I say we didn't need a christmas .. well we didn't have one after my mom found out we had gone through the stuff . The only reason we did was because Aimee was a slob... me when I pulled out Evil I keep the box intact and when I put him back I twisty tied him down.. much to my dismay I found out Aimee had put the oven pans back in the box filthy she didn't try to clean them out of nothing . So there I had been good all year long the victim of a lazy ass sister not paying close attention to the rule above all rules when doing bad shit put things back the way you found them.

Not only did we not have Christmas I got an ass whuppin on top of that and everyone knows it's hard to get a whuppin on that day .. that day falls under the no beating day rule ( no whuppin on Xmas , your birthday their birthday or mother's day .. now you could get a whuppin on father's day especially if your parents were divorced and you look like him... )