They Hate Me Because I Ask The Hard Questions: Recent Episodes
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It's been a while since I last wrote. A lot has happened, I've changed too. I would like to think for the better and its evolution.
A while back but after Nisha was born, I said to my wife, Kesh, I wanted to keep a journal for Nisha. If or when I'm gone, she'll have my thoughts and wisdom I couldn't share in person.
For my birthday and Father's Day, she bought me a beautiful notebook and a journal as gifts to get me started.
I still love the idea, but getting started is harder then you think, especially of you are not a writer and don't have any time. Right now for me to type this post, uneditted, unproof read is a lot for me. I'm typing it on my little iphone on the toilet.
Anyway the first step in a journey is always the hardest, and this post is intended to be my first step in writing down my thoughts into a space that can later be recieved years later, like a science fiction movie.
What’s on my mind? Covid vaccines. One Montgomery County, the richest and one of the largest counties in the state don’t have a mass vaccination site yet. Still waiting because phase 2 & 3 are going to be a battle royal is MC residents have to keep “take up appointments” across the state. Two, the truth about America. Hard work is an ideal and stepping stone for how America really work. Connections and influence. Best things in America comes from access. It’s the best kept secret. How do you really get a good deal? A hook up. How do so many people get scholarships for school while so many others have student loans? Knowledge yea but how do one person know about stuff one hundred others don’t? Covid vaccinations are stepping in line with the truth about America. Look at who is getting quickly vaccinated. There are people along the people that is supposed to be line for them also getting it. I’m not mad at that at, this how America works. I am mad at people to try to discourage others from getting there’s. Don’t knock the hustler on this one. From my observations, this one of those rare times when black and brown are singling ourselves out because of well earned mistrust of out society and shouldn’t be. The way I see it being in a Western Country right now is blessing. In Africa and other places they are begging for vaccines to save lives and our countries have the lion share while the rest of the world fights for scraps. This is not like Tuskegee or secret birth control programs. They are not trying to give the vaccine only to black people, almost the opposite. Like your voting rights, it’s not made easy for black and brown people in general. Computer based appointments, limited sites, and uneven distribution To all my woke brother and sisters, if you see white people from the richest county in the state strolling in to the blackest county in the state to get all the vaccine appointments and left over shots, wake up, there is something to it. This is America, they found out how to get something that’s valuable. Black and brown people we should be sharing tips on how to each other appointments and left over shots instead of discouraging each other. Please excuse any misspellings and grammar, I just want to get this thought down before I move on with my life. Love, Peace, and hair grease. ✊🏾
Today, I was truly honored to find out someone liked one of my photos enough to have it professionally printed. I am so moved by it. We all appreciate approval in different fashions.
I been asked many times, is computer programming hard? My answer is always no, anyone can learn. I taught myself my first programming language in early in the 9th grade after randomly finding this BASIC Games Book in the used bookstore in Downtown Wheaton, Maryland. On the family old 286 PC, I would sit there an type out programs and run them on the MS-DOS BASIC Interpreter. I never learn how to save the files so I would have to retype the programs every time I got on. It wasn't just about playing the games, it was the correlation of what I typed and how it translated in to actions on the computer. And with further understanding, I would be able to write programs that do what I want them to do, like those in the book.
At night, I would lay in the bed and study the programs...relating what one line might mean to another. And that's how I learned BASIC. I didn't have anyone to teach me or any idea of what it was I was looking at, but I liked it. I was able to figure out what the keywords meant through mostly trial and error and relational analyst. Now that I'm older, I don't think it was a process too different from someone learning another speaking language through immersion. Learning is learning no matter what the subject is. You can learn the laws of physics by using and observing them.
Today, I know several more programming language and have a Computer Science degree. Also, I am doing what I learned to love years ago for a living. It feels good. But the bottom line, it wasn't hard to learn; it only took one book, and it wasn't even a how to book.
Disclaimer Learning a computer language is not difficult at all but being good at writing computer software is mainly the reason why you paid what you are paid. Just like a writer, knowing how to put words together will only get you so far, the talent is how well you put the words together to achieve your goal.
Years ago, I was given an SLR camera as a birthday gift and since then I have taken thousands of pictures. That camera has long been put to rest but the hobby has continued. For a couple years now, I toyed around with the idea of creating an online website to showcase some of my pictures in a portfolio style. But not really to generate business, only because photography is still a hobby for me. I just want to simply to have a calling card for opening future doors. Last week, I took a couples hours to collect some pictures and throw together a website.
I present William Washington Photography. Feel free to check it out.
http://photography.willwash.com
The Will Wash Podcast - Video Test. Special Guest Joey
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This Spring there was a guy's trip to Vegas and it was EPIC!!!! Lol drug, sex, and drum and bass. What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas but I can give a peek at the fun and test out this blogger app for the iPhone at the same time. The following is the pictures from my iPhone. On the plane I was seated next to a heavy set couple. However, the stewardess had compassion for me and gave me a row by myself. Winning. Over Big Bear, California. I had a layover in LAX. Followed the sun to the ocean. I love Los Angeles. I always promise to come back.
After a long flight I got pizza at the airport. Wood fire grilled pizza.
Goat Cheese Veggie Pizza. Las Vegas. My hotel, The Cosmopolitan
. Vegas days & nights!
It was a great amazing trip!
This is a repost from Tumblr, clarify the instant classic hip hop album by Kendrick Lamar:
Good Kid, M.A.A.D City: A Short Film by Kendrick Lamar
Setting: Compton
Characters:
Kendrick Lamar (present Kendrick)
K.Dot (young Kendrick)
Sherane
Kendrick’s Mother
Kendrick’s Father
Dave
Dave’s brother
Keisha’s sister
Demetrius (Sherane’s favourite cousin)
The Two Brothers (Sherane’s younger brothers)
Granny (Sherane’s Granny who she lives with)
Sherane’s Mother (a crack addict)
Uncle Tony (Kendrick’s Uncle who was killed)
Joey (either childhood friend of Kendrick or cousin)
L, Boog, Yaya, Lucky (friends/family members of Kendrick when he was 9)
Unknown Woman (who gets the boys to pray)The Story:
Sherane aka Master Splinter’s Daughter
The story opens as a flash-forward. K.Dot has known Sherane for a number of months by this point. He met her at a party where they flirted and exchanged numbers. They kept in contact with each other over the summer and got to know each other pretty well, he talks about her family’s history of gang-banging that made him wary but didn’t stop him from hooking up with her.
At the end of this song K.Dot is driving to Sherane’s house in his Mother’s van, he has sex on the brain. But when he turns up Sherane is outside waiting with two dudes in black hoodies (possibly her two younger brothers, or her cousins, one of which could be Demetrius).
Skit #1 - as K.Dot pulls up at Sherane’s house his Mother tries to call him but instead gets his voice-mail. We learn from his Mother that K.Dot said he was borrowing her van for just 15 minutes. She warns him not to mess with “them hoodrats” especially “Sherane”.
**, Don’t Kill My Vibe
The content of this song doesn’t actually follow the Sherane narrative. It is a song told from the perspective of Kendrick Lamar the rapper and how as he gradually gets more recognition as an artist he sees people around him changing, “I can feel the new people around me just want to be famous.” He also talks about trying to maintain his credibility while becoming a more mainstream artist, “I’m trying to keep it alive and not compromise the feeling we love/You trying to keep it deprived and only co-sign what radio does.”
Skit #2 – The narrative begins. K.Dot’s homies pick him up in their white Toyota with a pack of blacks and a beat CD.
Backseat Freestyle
The most self-explantory song on the album. Young K.Dot cruising around town with his homies, getting high and dropping freestyles in the backseat. This is a life is good moment, living free, no troubles. The calm before the storm.
The Art of Peer Pressure
The narrative begins to build. The pressures of hanging with the homies becomes more than simply having a laugh and freestyling. The usually drug free and sober K.Dot is brought in to a world of drinking, smoking, and violence when with “the homies”. Cruising around in a white Toyota, hitting up girls, jumping dudes wearing rival colours, and bragging about what they just did.
The stakes are upped when K.Dot and his homies rob a house that they had been stalking for two months. Cops pursue them but lose them.
Skit #3 - K.Dot is “faded” because he “hit the wrong blunt”, this a true story of young Kendrick hitting a blunt laced with angel dust. The homies talk about dropping K.Dot off back at home, so he can take his Mother’s van and go hit up Sherane – and then they can all meet back up later on the block.
Money Trees
K.Dot recaps the story so far.
He talks about robbing the house, “Home invasion was persuasive/From 9 to 5 I know its vacant.”
He mentions *ing Sherane and bragging about it to his homies, “I *ed Sherane then went to tell my bros.”
He references Backseat Freestyle when he talks about rhyming to beats, “Parked the car and then we started rhyming, ya bish/The only thing we had to free our mind.”
And he talks about jumping dudes who looked like they had more money than them, “Then freeze that verse when we see dollar signs/You looking like an easy come up ya bish/A silver spoon I know you come from ya bish.”
The line in the chorus “Everybody gon’ respect the shooter/But the one in front of the gun lives forever.” is deeply important, not just as a life motto, but in regards to the events that later take place in this story regarding Dave and his brother. It’s also a reference to Kendrick’s Uncle Tony, who was shot and killed at Louie’s Burgers; this event is a snap back to reality from the “dreams of living life like rappers do.”
Skit #4– K.Dot’s Mother leaves another voice-mail. She wants her car back.
Poetic Justice
K.Dot has been dropped off back at home by his homies and is about to go see Sherane. He’s probably driving on the way there in his Mother’s van. He talks about her and their relationship so far - it appears they may have had some arguments, he talks about her meeting up with her girlfriends to curse him, and going out partying rather than talking with him.
Skit #5 – this is when we catch up with Sherane aka Master Splinter’s Daughter. It starts where Sherane ended, and you can tell because that haunting female vocal (used in the beat to Sherane) comes back in this skit. The two dudes with Sherane approach K.Dot and ask him where he and his family are from (trying to work out what gang he is affiliated with). They force K.Dot out of the van and jump him.
Good Kid
This really sets off the theme of the second half of the album and it is all to do with - realisation.
K.Dot talks about getting jumped, “For the record I recognize that I’m easy prey/I got ate alive yesterday.”
He discusses the negative effects of gang-culture, and being unable to escape the pressure of people wanting to know what gang he represents, “But what am I supposed to do/When the topic is red or blue/And you understand that I ain’t/But know I’m accustomed to.” Red or Blue obviously refers to the LA gangs of Bloods and Crips.
The red and the blue in the second verse become police sirens. K.Dot talks about getting no sympathy from the cops because they stereotype him as a gang-banger, making him lift up his shirt in order to look for a gang affiliated tattoo, “I heard them chatter: “He’s probably young but I know that he’s down”/Step on his neck as hard as your bullet proof vest.”
K.Dot is trapped in a violent culture and can’t get a reprieve from the gangs or the police.
M.A.A.D City
More self-awareness and realisation of the corrupt city that K.Dot lives in.
K.Dot’s recent beat-down brings back early memories of similar situations, witnessing someone with their brains blown out at a burger stand back when he was 9 (I’m not sure if he is talking about his Uncle Tony again, or someone else), he thinks he knows the person who did it but he censors his name. He also talks about how his cousin was killed back in 94.
He talks about his Father telling him to get a job but he got fired after his friends pressured him in to staging a robbery.
In the final verse he tries to let the good shine through and offer respite for the youth and how they don’t have to succumb to the temptations and pressures of the street. He hopes that his experience and intelligence can do good for the youth living in similar situations. “Compton, USA Made me an Angel on Angel Dust.”
Skit #6 – K.Dot’s homies meet back up with him later as planned. They try to boost him back up after his beat-down, and they offer him alcohol to take his mind off it.
Swimming Pools
An anti-alcohol song, that again plays in to the second half of the album’s realisation about the vices previously holding Kendrick back. Kedrick talks about growing up around alcohol both within his family and group of friends.
Skit #7 – this is the big impact moment of the narrative. The plan is to take revenge on the dudes that jumped K.Dot. One of K.Dot’s homies (possibly Dave) talks about maybe dropping K.Dot back off at home, but this idea is turned down, and K.Dot stays. The homies see the dudes that jumped K.Dot and a shoot-out begins. During the battle K.Dot’s friend Dave gets shot. The dudes that shot Dave drive off and K.Dot is left holding Dave as he dies in his arms.
Sing About Me
Verse 1 – from the perspective of Dave’s brother. He says the blood is on Kendrick’s hands because the whole situation happened out of revenge for something that happened to Kendrick. But he says he appreciates that Kendrick was there for his brother and held him while he was dying. Dave’s brother wonders if he will ever discover a passion like Kendrick to get him out of the hood – he says he hopes Kendrick will remember him and sing about him when he makes it big, and if he dies before the album drops…pop, pop, pop – he gets killed.
Verse 2 – from the perspective of Keisha’s sister. She is mad at Kendrick for putting her sister on blast (on Section 80) without even knowing her properly. She talks about how she is living the same life as her sister, as a prostitute, and is proud of her living and what she does. She claims not to be just another woman lost in the system. She says her sister died in vein. Unlike Dave’s brother she doesn’t want to be sang about on the album. She feels great and says she’ll never fade away….but then she does, her vocals slowly fade out in to obscurity…perhaps she died or just became another nameless “hoodrat”.
Verse 3 – from Kendrick’s perspective. Looking in the mirror. His fear of death. He speaks to Dave’s brother, agreeing that Dave was like a brother to him. He speaks to Keisha’s sister saying that Keisha’s story was the one that drove him to write something that powerful and real – he didn’t mean to offend. He talks of how music saved him and pulled him away from the drugs, money and guns.
Skit #8 – K.Dot’s homies talking after Dave has been killed. Some of them want to go back and get revenge. K.Dot finally snaps and says he is tired of this ****.
I’m Dying of Thirst
Kendrick talks about been tired of running and gunning people down. It’s just a circle of death. The perpetual struggle.
Skit #9 –(EDITED) K.Dot is still angry and upset over Dave’s death. An unknown woman (perhaps a passer-by/shop-keeper) approaches the boys, she sees that one of them has a gun “That better not be what I think it is.” She tells them that they are dying of thirst and that they need to take a new path and let Jesus in to their lives. She makes them prayer. From here on K.Dot begins to live a new life as Kendrick Lamar.
Real
This is Kendrick disregarding the street life and turning his back on gang-banging, drugs, alcohol, violence etc. The different meanings of being “real”. Are you real because you represent your hood and shoot people? Are you real because you try to escape that life and make something of yourself?
Verse 1 – about certain girls (but could be Sherane). She loves handbags, French Tip, bank slips. But what love got to do with it when you don’t love yourself?
Verse 2 – about certain homies (but could be Dave’s brother). He loves fast cars, fast women, beef, streets, ducking police, hood-life. But what love got to do with it when you don’t love yourself?
Verse 3 – about Kendrick. He explains the previous two verses - “I love first verse cos your the girl I attract.” and “I love second verse cos your the homie that packed burner.” “I love what the both of you have to offer.”
He wonders if he should hate her for what happened or should he hate his homies for convincing him to seek revenge. Or should he hate the fact that none of that **** makes him real.
Skit #10 – voice-mail from his Father. He tells Kendrick not to make the same mistakes he did, and that none of this stuff makes him real and that he should get out and make something of himself. His Mother tells him that Top Dawg called and wants him in the studio – she tells him to take his music career seriously – that it is his chance to get out and tell his story to the kids of Compton so that they have hope. This is technically the end of the story in a narrative sense - the tape is ejected and then rewound.
Compton
The narrative is over. This song is after Kendrick has made it and is now giving back just like his Mother told him too. It’s a positive outlook of a city that is often full of darkness and violence.
Skit #11 - the narrative starts over again when K.Dot borrows his Mother’s van.
I found this here: http://www.kanyetothe.com/forum/index.php?topic=313845.0
I only feel one difference, The last skit of this album is the start of this entire “movie” that’s why you hear it rewund at the end of Real. It’s also a symbolism of how life keeps repeating itself.
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2011 was a great year in Will Wash history. God truly favors me and my friends and family.
- The homey and my brother both gave birth to baby girls. I love them both.
- Celebrated my birthday and my little cousins turning 21 in Las Vegas.
- Got to sit on the edge of the Grand Canyon.
- Cousin Lisa from Germany came to visit and I got to show her the east coast.
- Me and the boys put on great fireworks show on the 4th of July
- Niece Sydney, godson CJ, and Lil Nigel have grown exponentially.
- I got to travel to Ireland again, and Jamaica for the first time and have grand adventures.
- I bought another Mac.
- I started learning to play the bass guitar.
- Changed my tags.
Michelle O reminded me that I haven't blogged in a while. So last night I learned a lot and ate good. I feel like sharing an interesting fact I learned.
Zora Neale Hurston is an African American author during the time of the Harlem Renaissance. Her most famous work is Their Eyes Were Watching God. You may remember reading it in high school. Anyway, she responsible for spread jerk throughout Jamaica and the rest of the world. Jerk is a style of cooking native to Jamaica in which meats are dry-rubbed or wet marinated with a very hot spice mixture called Jamaican jerk spice. Originally the technique was kept a secret by the mountain people of Jamaica. Even the other Jamaica near the beach didn't know it. Zora Neale Hurston was in Jamaica and she was so determine to see those people. She spent some time there and it's chronicled in her book, Tell My Horse. In the book, she writes how they jerked in the mountain regions of Jamaica and from there other Jamaicans learned it and popularized it.
Caribbean Cuisine is the first modern fusion food. Think about all the influences- Spanish, African, Native American, French, English, Chinese, and Indian. All had significant populations that interacted and shared food on those small islands.
Last nights Food and Folklore. The guest chef Culinary Artist Chef Oji Ashebre Jaja of Kingston, Jamaica was amazing. He is the blob about the chef:
Nominated for the coveted 2010 Chef of the Year award and heralded by the Jamaica Observer as "the next great Jamaican chef", Chef Oji honed his skills at one of the world's foremost luxury hotel chains, The Ritz Carlton, in both Jamaica and the United States. His earlier training began at the Runaway Bay HEART Academy in Jamaica and then later at Johnson & Wales in Florida. Oji's parents gave him the West African name Ashebre, which means "The Artist." This name graces Oji's culinary services company in Jamaica. Besides passion for his craft, Oji's vision is to further diversify the Caribbean dining landscape by introducing his interpretation of Modern Caribbean Cuisine to all corners of the globe.
- First Course - Jerk Chicken Salad over pan-seared polenta with cho-cho cabbage slaw.
- Main Course - Caribbean Grilled Salmon on coconut and roast garlic sweet potato mash with Scotch bonnet spinach and mango-pineapple relish.
- Dessert Course - Orange Coconut Bread Pudding with sorrel reduction and coffee-rum cream
One hoe said, "Big, why you so hard on us? Why you swear all bitches are so scandalous?" Thug nigga 'til the end, tell a friend bitch 'cause when I like ya, then ya go and fuck my friend bitch (And you know that ain't right)
This a picture of my cousin's daughter, Keyani. This was taken on a point and shoot I bought for my mother years go in my grandmother's backyard in Greenville, North Carolina during Uncle Jerry's trip home from Germany cook out. It is one of my favorite personal pictures. I love the composition and how serious she looks in her pretty dress. I really, really love this picture.
Last week of the year, and I've decided to go through the past year of marked favorite tweets from Twitter. It's too hard to rank them but let me try to sort them.
"Area" Tweets: Tweets dealing with yo city!
EWebb_PYT:
You live in DC. Merely waking up is cultural. Lol! “@supascotty: I want to do something cultural”
Dope Hey Seuss:
I ain't never heard someone say, "All I want is a nice Baltimore girl"
lil duval:
This might come as a surprise to y'all but we having a city in America that look just as bad as Haiti it's called DETROIT
Carried Tweets. Tweets that can hurt feelings.
MightyMoeYoung:
Come one son, why it gotta be like that. RT @WillWash: #newyorkis a place where the people are the cockroaches
Jordan Pornhub Chick:
Montana Fishburne Music Video and SEXTAPE .....10 points if you can tell me what the spots all over her ass are!! http://bit.ly/axK2hH
@ihateKatStacks, Kat Stacks:
RT @CallMeDre3k @ihatekatstacks Why is Your Voice So Fucking Annoying? «« WHY YOU TWEETING FROM A SIDEKICK?
lil duval:
bitch u look STUPID! RT @LALASWEETNESSS: Costume of the yearrrr. Show me ur avatar http://plixi.com/p/54012982
@TheNakedHustler, Lola Fuckin' Foxx:
You're not Batman. Batman lives in the TV. RT @BATMAN7795 @TheNakedHustler What it do? I am Batman. I am offically following you, beautiful.
Lola Fuckin' Foxx:
They should've never given you niggas comic books.
TheNewMissHuxtable:
RT @WillWash: young with an old face just tweeted again! Your profile pic betrays you!!!!! « Rofl! Evil
Your resident evil:
pulls tweet from favorites RT @girlllstop fyi...your sub-tweets don't show up in my mentions.
Wins, the witty, good, and evil! Let's go!
TheNewMissHuxtable:
- When Mr. Sketchy sits next to you scoot over, even if he isn't touching u. Then look at him and scoot over again. He'll get up.
Damien Dante Wayans:
Arrogance is the cousin 2 Annoying... 'I don't wanna b in that family'...
Based Goddess:
How you trying to school me when I grew up with your teachers? #LupeQuotes
The Bosha:
Out on the back deck having a big yawn and a lightening bug flies right down my throat. I better totally get a superpower out of this.
she rise:
“your ass needs a timeout @FromDCtoATL: Lebron goes to Miami.. Michael Beasley will be fuckin his momma by October! SHE goes IN!”
Jamie Johnson:
To a brave man good and bad luck are like his left and right hand, he uses both - st. Chaterine of siena
TheNewMissHuxtable:
Uh oh Maury...at home DNA tests are available...hmmm, may be time to look into alternative career options O_o
slim thug:
To me stripping is the female version of trapping #cantknockthehustle
TheNewMissHuxtable:
RT @DSTBlaze: WOW ==» RT @DaddyBawsten: Mashonda: Alicia Keys Told My Son to Call Her Mommy! http://is.gd/f1bw8 « see? I'd drag that hoe!
Gork:
Every region/tribe/era of female warrior apparently dressed like a slut. Or at least this is what the internet is leading me to believe.
Kat Stacks:
Everybody makes mistakes 1 abortion is okay ... but 2 or 3 ?? #Unforgiven #StrapUp
Alicia Keys:
Read this amazing quote today! "Don't Tell me Sky is the limit when there are footprints on the moon" MEAN QUOTE!!! GO get your dreams!! ;-)
Queen LaChiefah:
Emotion is the enemy of rational argument.
Queen LaChiefah:
"@AYEyoWILL: If women aren't made to cook then why do they have milk and eggs inside them?????"
Queen LaChiefah:
The ocean is too big and unknown for ppl to be in that joint all willy nilly!
she rise:
this wind is raping EVERYBODY!!!
Dope Hey Seuss:
They done stole your dreams and you don't even know who did it.
Neal Brennan:
Now that stem cells cure HIV, get ready for even more Republican opposition!
Michelle O:
Disclaimer #FF @WillWash shares privileged and sometimes explicit material and insights follow at your own risk (or something like that)
Kat Stacks:
when i leave im gonna give out pieces of my weave to my jail mates #SharingIsCaring LOL
lil duval:
howtopissyogirloff put her in the full nelson and make her look at herself in the mirror
There are a ton more. Happy Twitter New Year!
Father God I've Been Betrayed (They turned on me)
Feel Like They Beat Me Like a SlaveBut I Learned From My Mistakes We Living in the Last Days, Pray For Me & Make Me Cold Hearted
The Will Wash Podcast - Episode 8 Part 1. Special Guests Omid, Joey, and Team Ari.
Talking about Ari's mom, Halloween costumes, Omid moving to San Fran, the Jon Stewart Rally, Strip Clubs, and Lesbians.
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The Will Wash Podcast - Episode 8 Part 2. Special Guests Omid, Joey, and Team Ari.
Talking about Joey's birthday, Mardi Gras rules, who I want on the podcast, Ari's match making skills, Omid running into his ex on the train, Sabertooth vs Wolverine, and who in our circle is who on the Jersey Shore.
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You have reached a stage in your life, now you have the Big Boy life. Big Boy clothes, Big Boy job, and Big Boy problems. You have come up in life. So with this Big Boy life, you need a reliable car to travel it work to and while keeping and succeeding in that Big Boy career. You could get a new Big Boy car, but you came across the car you have always dreamed of. It's one of them cars that's one of a kind special but it's used. And you can only afford one car. You are faced with the choice of your dream car or going out and looking for a new car to settle on to get you to work and your future. But it's your dream car and it's the car you always wanted so you go with that despite it being older and having 100,000 miles already. You are happy, you are living your dream. The moments you have it you are loving it and can't imagine how you was getting by without it before. Then suddenly, the problems become greater and more frequent. Your future is in jeopardy, it's not reliable. After the fact, you check the Carfax report and see it had several previous owners that didn't take care of it. Internal problems, accidents, failed maintenance, just a lack of regard for taking care of. After seeing the report it's hard to view the car the same way, you start noticing problem and flaws you didn't see before. It's your dream car so you still hold on hope even against the odds. You pay for maintenance and repairs. You take care of the car like it should. But still the car turns on you and dies. So now you are stuck having to go out and find another car because you need one. Odds are after feeling burned, you won't go used again but after spending all the time and money it will be hard to afford the brand new car that you would want. So you are faced with either settling with a new reliable car that you really don't love that much but it does what you need it to do with no problems or going used again and rolling the dice on the damages that it may have.
The Hard Question is: Was that brief joy of owning your dream car worth all the later hardships and setbacks?
The Will Wash Podcast - Episode 7. Special Guests Bhaarat, Pat, and Sapan of
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Talking about dating, marriage, work, their new blog, and whatever else came up like this picture of Bhaarat.
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American Samoa is US territory (think like Puerto Rico, but less independent). The population is about the size of Washington, DC. And they have a larger than average percentage of people in the NFL and in US military service. Basically, good people. They live under the poverty line and in 2007 laws were passed giving the islands minimum wage. It's would grow slowly every year until it reached the same as here on the mainland. The main provider of the economy of American Samoa is tuna, everyone there worked for one of the 2-3 tuna companies. Well Chicken of Sea packed up ship and moved from there because they didn't want to pay minimum wages and moved closer to home, Georgia. So StarKist is the only company left to employ the citizens there and have started laying off people. I am no longer buying Chicken of Sea tuna, I'm going strictly StarKist tuna. I believe in minimum wage and fair employment so I will support them being able to employ them even at additional cost. Especially if it mean helping out poor people by providing them with the same equal benefits that I enjoy and not necessary hand outs. Basically I rather give a dollar to the homeless guy that washes my windows or pumps my gas than the guy the just sits there with a cup. One is trying to normal. Hopefully, StarKist doesn't pack up and leave the islands jobless.
Sidebar it's still FUCK WALMART! My beef with them ain't no where near over!
On a day of bitching and a Stock Market crash, the CB3 (Cambridge Hall, Third Floor) homie Loco, aka Damon send me this youtube gem. I remember my folks saying they saw me on TV but I didn’t think much of it, this is before DVRs.
0:41 seconds in... a skinny young Will Wash with the bush and huge sweatshirt and again at 0:51
Being one of the mascots was the greatest experience of my youth. Shout to my partner Ian Murphy and The University of Maryland Cheerleaders. LET’S GO TERPS!!!
Fun Fact: FEAR THE TURTLE was started by Ian.
There are times in your life where everything looks good on paper, but your gut is telling you something is not right. The hard question is what do you do? Even though everything seems great you have a strong feeling it’s not going to last.
Personally, I am feeling a disturbance in the Force, like in the Star Wars movies. The world is not inline. Not just on a global level but more so on a personal level. I am blessed to have a healthy family, a good job, a good girl, and a wonderful set of friends but yet something is not quite right and it didn’t always feel like this. I still do the same things everyday but they don’t feel the same. Almost like the loneliness in a crowded room feeling… Don’t worry I’m not suicidal or nothing haha, my life is good. I just thought I would share the feelings of being on autopilot. I’m sure it will pass or there will be the epic movie climax that follows a disturbance in the Force to signal the end of something.
The Will Wash Podcast - Episode 6. Special Guest Ari of Explore In Couture
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Shout out to Damelia for this one. There is a website that is collecting and giving away your personal information like age with pictures, home info with pictures, location, and how many people living in it, your credit score, profession, social networks you belong to and hosts of other info like how much you make. Spokeo.com is a partially free online phonebook and reverse info look up site…great for bounty hunters and STALKERS!!
I know we live in the modern times with your information is everywhere but we all should be careful. Thankfully, I have a very common name so finding me will require some effort. But to remove yourself from the free searches, look yourself up and copy the URL, then click the privacy link at the bottom and paste your URL. Note This only removes that page from the free searches and only on that particular site…they still got ya!
The Will Wash Podcast - Episode 5. Special Guest Dom.
Talking about my car, sex as an old person, Dom would be on TMZ, breaking the ice and opening up, can't we be friends, the female mind is mysterious, dating vs hooking up.
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