Serve & Protect…

I remember in my small days bouncing through the city of wind in my ’85 Chevy Monte Carlo. It was grey with duals and I had the chrome shoes on it. I was just a youngster at the precipice of life with my future ahead of me. I recall one Saturday morning…I was leaving my [...]

The Randomness Part. III…

The problem with the disenfranchised folk of this country is that they feel some sense of entitlement or that America owes them something. They somehow got it in their heads that the folks that went to school, made sound decisions and obtained employment to feed there families, pay taxes, mortgages and tuition to educated there [...]

The randomness…

Anybody that thinks Rev. Jeremiah Wrights’ sermon was out of line ain’t never been to a black church.  It seems like when black folk buck the “happy slave” ideology white folk label it as anti-American [...]

1/26/08 - Live to tell…(cont.)

If you ask what hit me…your guess is as good as mine.  I’m told it was a freight truck but I couldn’t begin to tell you any real details.  I recall it being hard for me to breath and a sharp pain in my back.  I noticed all the broken glass, airbags, more glass, smoke [...]

1/26/08 - Live to tell…

The evening started out innocent enough.  I left the gig, walked to the parking garage, got in the Isuzu and jetted off to meet the misses.  She begrudgingly gave her okay for a brotha to hang out that night and we meet to exchange vehicles so that she could pick up our son from aftercare [...]

Time to heal…

Ya boy MadP is taking some time off to heal. Had an up close and personal experience with a truck and a concrete median. Broke my wrist, rib and four bones in my back. Say a prayer for a brotha while I just continue to be thankful for each painful breath. [...]

The thirsty traveler…

My Dad gave me my first swig of alcohol when I was 7.  It was from a can of Pabst Blue Ribbon…it was nasty but I was intrigued.  Crown Royal was his drink of choice and as far as beers his brands included: Mickey’s Big Mouth, Schlitz, Old Style and Miller High Life.  He would [...]

Winter in Chicago…


Nailah Franklin update…

Reggie Potts has been arrested in connection with the death of Nailah Franklin.  Here’s the link

Got my drank and my 2 step…

Got my drank & my 2 stepOriginally uploaded by MadPOetic
I was out at the Twilight Zone on 79th checkin’ out my boy David’s band…Smooth Equations.

Gentrification

SouthsideOriginally uploaded by soulfulnoyze
This is a picture of the former Ida B. Wells projects on Chicago’s Southside.  The projects are being converted into $250,000.00 condos’…go figure.

Nailah Franklin update…

Check out this piece from Mary Mitchell of the Chicago Sun-Times.  She did an exclusive interview with Reggie Potts, the former lover of Nailah who was thought to be the one who sent her some supposedly threatening emails before her dissappearance.

Chrisette Michele