Excuse me but can i just dish

 

A homage to miserable times and Joan Rivers

yes i have loved Joan rivers from afar for ages

i know i am complex.

but i am sorry she still makes me laugh like hell

so when i am feeling blue

i seek out people who make me laugh

and after shopping i needed a laugh

 

I just got back from shopping

i should say from trying to shop

and it got me raving mad

I mean

This election is driving us all to  distraction

it really is

and

have you noticed the listless look of peoples faces on the street.

Every one i talk too feels and looks stuck

stuck in a dead in job,

or stuck with no job

and their are more fat kids than i have even seen

I was walking to the store

and each day i pass this group

of kids ..........boys about 12 years old

they all out weight me by at least 30 pounds

and yes

i am ten inches taller and 40 years older

ok so what

if i am just jealous that they are eating and i am not

exercise you  little piglets

i did when i was young

but as Joan Rivers says

I don't exercise. If God wanted me to bend over, he'd have put diamonds on the floor.
and

Young people are confused

even the ones that are doing well

aren't sure that they are

Young men particularly minority men are having the worst of it

it seems like every other young man

that i speak too

is depressed 

not doing any thing

or just drugging their lives away

And even those who are going to college

seem as though

they are lacking in every thing from dates to self esteem.

I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

Joan Rivers

and in the meantime the country just keeps on blowing up

we spent the last eight years in a fog

The Bush administration effectively silenced their critics

just long enough for it to destroy our standing in the world

to start several wars

and I include the wars that the Bush administration would like to fight but doesn't have the manpower

to do so at this time

because every thing we own is in Damn Iraq

but maybe that is a blessing in diskies

Yea Georgie kept us silent

Just Long enough for us to become

economically  and emotionally

bankrupt

listless

and confused

i sense a big desperation out there

have you been out shopping

anywhere

On broad st in Newark

it is relatively vacant

a ghost town

even the crack heads are in hiding

no one has money for any thing extra

i just came back from the dollar store

their isn't

a dollar store any more

nothing is a dollar

but a cheap can of beer

rice has gone up so much that i brought a small bag

instead of my usual sack

bread is silly having gone up 30 cents in two months

mayo was so expensive

that ill be beating up some oil later

to make my own

And when all was said and done

i gave thanks to my ancestors

for making soul food

yep.........I brought me some neck bones

and some beans

and ill call it a day

no i am just trying to find out

what's going on

Duh

their isn't any money

their aren't any jobs

the stores in my hood are really suffering

gone are the long lines every where

except  at the unemployment agency

have you ever stood in a line

in Newark New Jersey

for four hours

trying to deal with colored people

colored people behind counters

with a inflated sense of self importance

lord lord

what could be worst

ok

i just had to rant

i just watched another interview with Sarah Palin

i watched her

with horrific fascination

she is stunning in her silliness

this is what the country has come too

She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven.
Joan Rivers

people like Obama because they so desperately want

to believe

that some one

anyone can save them

from the economy

and from themselves

I don't think he is the Savior

no not at all just

a boy called hope

thanks President Bush

you whole legacy to the country

will center around

one word

depression..................

you turned this country into a bunch of Bi polar

depressants

with no health care to even pay for any of the med's

so this whole country is turning

into a hive of people

who are self medicating themselves

with drugs

with food

with work if they can find it

and with stupid television shows

like American idol

go figure

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.
Joan Rivers