Archive for the 'Family' Category

The Internets Stay Watching by Amadeo

Written by: on Apr 14 | Family, Just thinking... | 4 Comments »

A series of tubes

“The World Web Internets is a series of tubes (not a big truck which you just dump something into), used to transfer important information (porn) worldwide. It has, in recent years, evolved into the greatest MMORPG of all time, where players choose one of two factions and compete for either lulz or anti-lulz respectively. This of course divides into many smaller classes and such, each with their own culture, ideas, and often language. In fact, the internets is basically an electronic version of Earth–who woulda thunk it?”

Encyclopedia Dramatica
Read more »

Man by Amadeo

Written by: on Mar 31 | Relationships, Family | 6 Comments »

“In the past quarter century, we exposed biases against other races and called it racism, and we exposed biases against women and called it sexism. Biases against men we call humor.”

Warren Farrell, Women Can’t Hear What Men Don’t Say
Read more »

The Holocaust of an American Nuclear Family by Reggie Legend

Written by: on Feb 15 | Family | 1 Comment »

Dedicated to my wife and newborn son - Josiah Jadon Kee born on 2/8/08:

With promiscuous boys and girls running rabid in clubs today, is anyone else curious about what exactly happens the day after these people meet and go their separate ways?  Other than the reality of lifestyle threatening diseases, is anyone else giving thought to what else is damaged by such reckless mentalities?  I’m speaking specifically about its effect on the building block of humanity and a major element in the establishment of the modern day Church:  the family.  For all of its importance, its core is being overlooked in an era/error of instant gratification and avoidance of adult responsibility. 

On Joy (Quality), Talib Kweli aptly sums up the trend that is permeating the American culture:  “…And you wonder, why we called baby-daddy’s and baby-momma’s when we grow up, we can’t act like adult mothers and fathers.”  This baby-daddy/momma drama is readily playing out on the stage of life with too many willing to act their way through these roles as inept understudies.   

When such roles are not properly filled, the destruction of nuclear families is a precursor to the annihilation of humanity.  Breached and divided, the resulting damage of split nuclear families is deadlier than any atomic bomb that mankind can manufacture.  This is America’s soul we’re fighting for people, yours and mines… and within the heart of our nation, the devil’s winning far too many battles. 

“Split Personalities” 

Men that hit and quit a person phallically
Exhibit split personalities.
They sniff about worse than allergies when spring comes around.
Those that only act noble and chivalrous
Until they’ve groaned slow from pitiful thrusts
Will only pivot and lust for the nextbest thing that comes into town. 

Adam splitting far from his seeds,
Is like when an atom’sjarred and split like a pea –
The family’s ripped apart as the seams bust through and decimate.
Like Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
Ground zero’s clean up falls on a faulted lobby…
Though he may sweep up his daunting hobby,
its impact still mushrooms and resonates. 

As the dust looms to investigate the destruction,
Folks only rush to it like the levee gates after they busted.
It goes unregulated ‘cause no one’s proactive enough to prevent it.
But what happens after is just as devastating.
The disaster’s a tad worse when it affects the babies…
When left with the ladies,their purpose gets skirted worse
than when prophylactics were invented. 

Aside from defiling man’s varnished image with such tactlessness,
These clowns tarnish families depicted with such passiveness.
Such acid events eat away at the mother and child unit.
So as split molecules evolve
After dad’s dipped his miss’ hips and abdominal walls…
If pop’s an anomaly nominally involved, that brother’s child is ruined. 

When dads don’t visit and kids don’t know him from Adam –
Forget about the cataclysmic damage of splitting atoms.
Splitting nuclear families is a tragedy of epic proportions.
The long term effects of splitting heirs has more devastation
Than any amount of secondhand radiation…
As such desolation detonates from warheads of tepid distortion. 

Such repercussions eventually damage both chromosomes.
In both the male and female,the whole home is blown.
When overexposed to woes, people mutate from these deadly outcomes.
In males – replicas are cloned.
In females – retinas are closed…
Deader on the inside than sepulchre domes –
their dead zones aren’t readily outdone. 

Worse than abortion, lukewarm attitudes towards a father’s responsibility
Creates nuked swarmsof despondent energy.
This constant synergy seeps into the genes of father-son isotopes.
Though not quite the same as his tawdry father,
Without a role model to follow, he too will hardly bother…
Awkwardly fostered, his aftermath’spatterned after a dad from an idol’s ghost. 

This effect can ripple downto farther generations
As it rips down trust in a little girl’s fatherly veneration.
Armed with timid hatred,the damage begins to materialize.
Either she’ll corrode through sexual self-deprecation,
Or explode on every male who gets close with hellish detonation…
As she shelters desperation by hiding behind the guise of ethereal eyes. 

Even with man’s greatest personal achievements,
Such damage is anirreversible grievance.
It takes a virtual geniusto reform the missing core.
And I know one such Nuclear Physicist Who matches the role
With tuned features that fix havoc’s toll to damaged souls…
Filling dad’s dynamic role is oneof the molds that the Lord is fitted for.

‘Father of the fatherless, defender of widows, is God in His holy habitation.’

– Psalm 68:5 NKJV

Pass The Phone: A Novel by Jason Reynolds

Written by: on Feb 05 | Family, writing showcase | 1 Comment »

I moved to New York a while ago in hopes to become a writer. I’m not exactly sure how this career is going to pan out, or even if it’s going to, but I’m happy about the relocation. Not that I disliked my family. I mean, they’ve got all of the functions and dysfunctions of every family. An over protective mother, a testosterone laden father, a whiny sister, a strange brother, a senile grandmother and a dog that everyone seems to treat like a relative, who ironically is the normal one of the family.
Read more »

Suffer the Parents by Amadeo

Written by: on Oct 16 | Word On The Street, Youth, Family, Radio, Just thinking... | 3 Comments »

You'll be o.k.

“A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.”
Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)

So, there’s always some issue in the news for people to be concerned over…well most people.  I rarely see anything and think it’s going to be a big issue for me.  What I have begun to notice is how slow parents (the groups they belong to), politicians and the media are.  The more I check out things that are held up as “serious issues” the older I realize they are. 
Read more »

Sunday at Sam’s by Jason Reynolds

Written by: on Sep 26 | My Response To, Tribute, Family, Just thinking... | 1 Comment »

Sunday, I had the opportunity to spend a little time with my dear friend, and favorite hangout buddy, my mother. So we go where every middle aged woman goes after church, Sam’s Club.
Read more »

a dream of mother: a poem by myisha cherry

Written by: on Jul 06 | Family, writing showcase | 3 Comments »

I saw her in my dream last night

Read more »

In the playground near the swings: by Chris Slaughter

Written by: on Jun 29 | Family | 1 Comment »

As I walk passed the playground on Fulton Street, something looked different. Monkey bars still there, sliding board there. Then I looked in the section where the swings swung back and forth. The second swing from the right held an ebony bundle of laughter, and pushing her… THE FATHER.
Read more »

No Place Like Home by Jason Reynolds

Written by: on Jun 25 | Tribute, Family, writing showcase | 1 Comment »

I went to visit my grandfather the other day. He’s in one of those “homes”. You know, the “homes”. The ones that seem more like the marriage of college dormitory and penitentiary cell. The farthest thing from a home.
Read more »

How to Raise Children: for dummies by David Ross

Written by: on Jun 13 | Family | 2 Comments »

Welcome to my chamber, this is my international gift for father’s day–cuz i’m broke. Enjoy:
Read more »