Vanessa Del Rio you ain’t….

It was Monday morning and I had just arrived at the gig for another long day on the “plantation”. I plugged my laptop in and checked some emails from the night before. It was approaching 9:30 AM which is usually the time I make my daily trek to Dunkin’ Donuts for a medium coffee, cream [...]

My Prayer…

For the ones baptized when the levees broke…
Lord we ask you for your unending comfort.

For the ones thrust into the battlefields on foreign soil…
Lord we ask you to keep them and give them everlasting courage.

For the ones thrust into the battlefields of or cities and urban jungles….
Lord we ask you to give them [...]

From the email bag…

Dear MadP – A girlfriend of mine sent me the link to your sight and as a result I’ve been an avid reader. I haven’t commented much but I have a situation that you may be equipped to help me with. I’ve been in a relationship for the past three years and I am ready [...]

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 [...]

Just a thought…

I was watching Glenn Beck on CNN last night and we all know what the topic of the evening was…..you guessed it… Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Once again he played the infamous sermon from 2003 and he had some old colored coot from the SCLC propped up there to give his take. Now as soon as [...]

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 [...]

When it all falls down…

I bumped into an old friend the other day on my lunch break. I was heading to my favorite lunch hangout (the record store) when I heard a voice. It was an ex co-worker of mine named Lisa who I hadn’t seen in ages. She escorted me to the store and we chatted a bit. [...]

Fatherhood revisited….Part I

Black fatherhood has many challenges and nuisance from the seemingly unending battles with mothers to society simply and unequivocally cheering for the demise and failure of black men. Good fathers don’t provide enough entertainment or drama and therefore are never really given the chance to shine. All the while father’s that are [...]

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 [...]

On the soapbox….again…

          Today I was reading a blog regarding the nuisances of cheating.  The blog didn’t cover any new ground concerning the topic and basically sought to re-tread all the commonalities that have already been discussed to death.  You know…the normal “once a cheater, always a cheater” nonsense.  It was written by a woman and by [...]

Condoms are our friend (a moment of levity)…

It was a brisk Tennessee night and the end of finals and I was treating myself to a victory drink with some of the homies.  Just kicking back reflecting on the end of the semester and thinking about that one  “conquest” you been trying to get at since the beginning of the year and wondering [...]

The rules of engagement…

This New Year has brought me an array of emotions and situations.  Love, so far in 2008, has showered some with favor and others with discontent. One of my favorite cousins (shout out to Bre Bre & DJ Show) got engaged on the first day of the year and I recently discovered that a couple [...]

Get it together…

I had an interesting conversation with a co-worker of mine before the holidays.  We were heading to our company Holiday Luncheon (I still refer to it as a “Christmas” Luncheon…I hate when folks take the “Christ” out of the holidays.  We changing shit around because of a hand-full of sensitive ass mu-fuckas feel it’s not [...]

Careful what you wish for…

     I was checking out the Chokklit Shop the other day and was perusing the “Watcha Like” thread on the message board.  This is a section where folks can come by and describe what they’re looking for in a mate.  Some ladies wanted the “thug-type” others wanted the “stronger, sensitive, affectionate type”.  The dudes have [...]

Nailah Franklin update…

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

The CHOKKLIT SHOP!!!!

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