The Broke Ground Yall... (Atlantic Yards)

Well, it's on now. They broke ground for the Atlantic Yards and Brooklyn wept. What can I say that hasn't already been said. We don't need it, we never did. Affordable housing for who exactly Mr. Ratner? Jay Z should be ashamed of his face being used for such a nefarious act. I'm rambling a little bit here I know, but I'm just really frustrated.

Brooklyn is my home. I was born in Brooklyn hospital which is not too far from the Atlantic Yards site. My father spent a significant part of his teenage years living in the Atlantic Terminal projects right up the block, so you see that area is special to me. The Nets can't even buy a win right now. They should focus on winning a game and not ruining the landscape of my beloved Brooklyn. To the politicians who stood by and endorsed this mess I say, shame on you.

In the words of the great Walter Sobchak "Has The World Gone CRAZY!?!?!?"

Learning a New Language

I've been studying Japanese on and off, for years now. I went through phases of learning basic greetings and conversation starters, to days of the week and how to tell time. At this point I can read and write in two of the three alphabets (Kanji will probably take the rest of my life). However, in high school I took 4 years of Spanish. Now I'm nowhere near fluent but I do understand some basic stuff like sentence structure and some vocabulary. The problem I have is because for so long my brain was programed to view "Spanish" as THE foreign language that I speak, it was my default. So now because I've been learning Japanese and not using my Spanish my brain is fried. If someone speaks to me in Spanish I'll have a Japanese answer pop up first. This is no good. A friend of mine is currently taking a French course and he speaks both English and Spanish. Since I told him of my issues with two foreign languages he's answered questions in class using Spanish instead of French. Much to the dismay of his teacher I'm sure.

So have you ever experienced such a thing? What's your second language and what's the third one that gives you trouble.

SPEAK OUT! (c) Martin "Raw Dawg" Payne

Car Crazy

With all the things going on with Toyota I felt I had to show why German cars(VW-Audi-Porsche-Mercedes) are the best engineered cars. 

Everyone knows how much of a car junky I am well I gonna share some clips on an Engineer who built a machine of all machines. Ferrari, Lamborghini, it's not that I don't love those cars but when you can't drive your machine everyday and have the same performance. Why...

A Beautiful Day for a Stroll

I don't know much about this song or the people who made it but I am a fan of the subject matter. Plus it was illustrated/animated so beautifully I had to share it with you. Thanks to Bluster Primero for sharing this with me. You can check out his site here.

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Hump Day Humor

I had to take it back and share some of my favorite episodes of cartoons when I was a little one with no care of my own. To sit in front of the TV was great but to have a large bowl of cereal and a big spoon to accompany me was even better. So here we are with great way to keep the week moving with a few good laughs.