These Are The Fact of Life

Every Monday at 7 pm if I am home chilling I will go to On-Demand (Comcast customers) and watch the Different Strokes and The Facts of Life old reruns, and I thoroughly enjoy them, I mean I don't answer the phone (although I could just rewind), I don't acknowledge people when they come over (they should have called first), so I basically do not like to be disturb during this time.

So as I watch the shows last night, I wondered to myself why do I enjoy them so much? Is it because watching these shows take me back to a wonderful time in my life. My mom and grandma were still here with us, my mom was the best cook this side of the Mississippi and our family in Georgia came for regular visits around this time. Yeah all that really makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside (I have been describing myself this way alot lately - warm and fuzzy, wtf).

Then I realized I watch these shows because........they are fucin funny. Man, I will be in my bedroom cracking the fuc up off of Willis and Arnold. That little mofo was funny as hell back in the day. So the FOL show was when Mrs. Garrett just started working at the Eastland (the all girls school), so Mr. Drummond brought the family to see Mrs. Garret, in walks Drummond, Willis and Kimberly, everyone ask where Arnold was, he had sent them in first to make sure the coast was clear of girls, so he comes in sees the girls, and just when they are about to leave, Blair comes to Arnold and makes kissy noises and faces to him, that mofo looked at her and said.

"Stay right there, I wanna forget you just the way you are." Classic.

I Tell You....

It's something about watching two crackheads on TV that give me the warm and fuzzies on the inside. Bobby and Whitney are two of the funniest crack addicts I have ever seen. I grew up in the hood, seen some shyt that would make the people on The Wire go "gotdamn that shyt wasn't right".

But you have to admit for all of us closet Nick and Jessica show watchers this is a refreshing change, almost borderline sadistic, but a nice change none the less. Man have you seen how Bobbi Kristina relates to her Dad, she don't like that dude. When she see him coming she is like "Oh hell to the nah","who let this nicca out of jail". Seriously, I don't know what that chick has seen or been through with them two crackies, but its very obvious she don't like him. I am not sure if Whitney likes him, when he is around she don't want him around, when he is gone, she is following behind him like a love sick crackie.

That's good wholesome television!

In My Own Mind...

The other night as I sat out in my living room, drinking Malibu rum straight from the bottle, while listening to a CD I mixed, I was overcome with emotion from a recent situation that I have be going through..

First I listen to Brian McKnight tell me that he would Always Love Me (You), and I thought that may be true, because people normally don't stop loving someone, even when they let you down and leave you there, they will still have love for you, then Tamia told me that there was a Stranger In Her House, and she couldn't figure it out, clothes were the same, pictures remained in the frames, but there was a stranger living there, so then she asked herself, was it she that was the stranger.

Dave Hollister said I'm Wrong, and expressed that how sorry he was and that he thought I would never leave him, regardless of the lies and the stories, and now he knows he was wrong, so when R.Kelly stopped by and told me the story of A Woman's Threat, we all took notice, because we have heard the threats before, but now they speak a little more loudly and clearly.

So when Maxwell came by to speak on A Woman's Work, he told me that there were things he should have said but he never said, and things that he should have been done, but were never did, and if I knew of a way to make the pain go away.

After a while Beyonce and nem' told me how good it feels to be Free, when your mind is made up and your heart is in the right place. I said to myself, these heffas might be on to something, because I once knew what it felt like to be free, and if only I could get back to that place.