This one's for Patch

See the Rants and Raves section of KC craigslist sometime. What you may find could be amusing. Check out these posts (in chronological order):

Strait thuggin' in the O.P.

Strait Thuggin' in the O.P.
In my parents SUV
It's tuff to be a gangsta
Among all the wanna-bes

I have a ruff life
Livin' lower upper-class
Ain't nobody been what I've been through
I've got a F***ed up past

So, when I'm in Wesport with the ladies
Don't be hatin' me
Cuz if my parents wern't so cheap
We'd be eating Plaza 3

Thuggin' in the OP.....now that's a concept !

When you be thuggin'
Out in Overland Park
I'm suprised you mom will let you
Go drivn' after dark

I know you've had a tuff life
You never learned to dance
But we'd be more impressed now
If you'd just pull up your pants

Next time you go thuggin'
Come down to Truman and Main
We'll give you a fast example
When we inflict some pain

For now just stay in JOCO
And eat you cheerios
If you come in the city
we'll flatten out your nose!

Thuggin' in OP

I'm reppin' the Joco,
One day at a time,
I see you tellin' us don't go,
but that's just a line,
Everyone's doggin'on the south side op,
Stereotypin' the lives that we lead,
Truman and Main,
big fuckin' deal,
I'll go downtown if I wanna,
hit up quindaro for a meal,
We don't listen to your talkin,
Just laughin' out loud,
So keep on crip walkin',
Make yo baby's momma proud,
I know we have houses,
worth more than your life,
Three story mansions,
and a fine trophy wife,
Puttin 24's on escalades,
not rims on a caprice,
our shit's paid off in no time,
you got a rent a center lease,
Come at me with something wortwhile,
Not some shit about how you'll kill,
Cuz you're postin' the equivalent,
of a lyrical landfill.

Thuggin in the O.P.

I've got my pink shirt
crome kicks
and the new 50 Cent
I'm a JoCo Gangsta
frontin hard as flint
I'm represntin
all suberbia
with my breakneck rhymes
Metcalf is my boulevard
Scorpio's my sign
All you other fools
don't have anything on this
I don't have a job
and I'll never have to, bitch
Say anything you want
come spit in my face
because I'll be laughing when
I inherit the estate

Well, hello again!

So much to tell! I had to reformat my computer in December, thus losing all my Firefox passwords/cookies. So I couldn't remember my Blogger password. Actually it turns out what I forgot was my username not my password.

Anyway...here's some news. I'll try to make it short and sweet.

• Christmas season went well, with a pulled-out-of-posterior spectacular performance by the choir, and a loss of sleep for me that I didn't recover from for days.
• January has slipped by somehow... just like every month. I think it's just a consequence of getting older.
• I got a new job! I start work on Wednesday (2/1). It's a contract job through TEK Systems who I've done work for throughout the fall. It'll be a web development position, primarily, with Kansas City Kansas Community College. The official title is E-Portfolio Educational Specialist. So not only will I be involved with programming and administration and whatnot, I'll be involved with training and assisting students with the system.
• The choir concert is rescheduled for April 30. I'm not sure if we can even make that date, but it's MUCH more realistic than February 26.
• Elizabeth and I thought about moving, but had to decide too quickly, and in the end, it was probably best to decide to stay. But in the process, I got intimately familiar with KC craigslist.
  
• Elizabeth gave me a new car stereo for Christmas (or rather offered to pay for one I would pick out). In the words of Ericus, it is SO NICE.