10 posts tagged “vox hunt”

Show us a winter photograph.

This is my 18" ruler on my terrace in early 2005 when we had that NorEaster in Boston. There was a full three feet on the ground outside the building. It was BONKERS!

Show us a sign that Christmas is a month away.

You know the crowds are bad when kids dont want to shop in the toy store! That little girl looks like, "Daddy, let's just meet Santa back at the house!" LOL!

Audio: Share a song that evokes a powerful memory. 
Submitted by MalieKai.

Heaven by The Rascals 1969

There's a place called Heaven/ Im gonna get there yet/ wo wo yeah!

Now the internet says the song came out in 1969, but I remember it as I was four and five, which would have been 1971- 1972. Songs did stay out longer then, and my family had the forty-five. When we moved to Concourse Village they had to hide it from me because every time I heard it I would bawl. At work trying not to snot up right now.

 

I don’t think I understood all of the lyrics. But the three-quarters time, the organ, the ah ah ah oooh, and the harmony? I knew that was church music. I had been to church and understood Heaven was where you go when you die. You left and didn’t come back.

 

We moved when I was in Kindergarten. At first it was a cool adventure… then I understood that I could not go back to my old house, not even to look in it. I didn’t like that. Then I changed schools. After Kindergarten was over, I switched to the brand-new shiny school across the street from my new house and couldn’t go back. I didn’t like that. My sister was born I liked that sometime. But not when she was sleeping and my parents told me to be quiet, not to wake her, like I was chopped liver. Just one more person mommy could put ahead of me. I loved my sister, we couldn’t take her back, but I couldn’t get ever get time alone with my mother again. My parents started to fight more. I think the sexual abuse started around the same time, or a little before. My trust, my faith (not to mention my virginity) was gone, couldn’t get any of that back.

 

It was too much all at once. Moving, changing schools, new teachers, my sister born, my father using my mouth as a condom, my mother’s rejection, she didn’t even want to hug me, I even changed dancing schools. It was all mashed up together. I wanted to go back to something familiar. In my young four and a half year old mind, I equated all the trouble with the new stuff, so I wanted the old stuff back. To be safe again. To know where I was when I woke up. I knew folks were safe in Heaven, but as far as I understood, you had to die to go there.

 

Well, if there was anymore bad stuff… or new stuff… coming my way

I was willing to die to avoid it

Thirty-Five years later,

Sometimes

I feel the same way

 

PEACE AND BLESSINGS

Show us the game you're addicted to at the moment.
Submitted by Lena Katrin.  

Its called Holiday Express. Its one of those free games on Yahoo Games. Its like a Tetris/ Puzzle, but timed. Packages come in on the bottom of the screen on a conveyor belt. You have to put the packages on the train box cars filling all available spaces. When the box cars are full, the train pulls off. You must fill all the cars in that round before time is called. As you fill the boxcars, pictures of Christmas, Channukah, Kwanzaa and/or Winter appear. 

This game is great for folk with OCD.

But the best part of the game is the corny holiday elevator music they play throughout the game. As soon as you get to the game screen, the music plays and doesnt stop until you push the little red 'x' at the top right. Luuv this game. A close second is the aptly named, Addiction Solitaire also free on Yahoo Games.

Hey, Im no gamer, so Im easy to impress.

 

 

Serious Section: Peace and Blessings to the friends and family of New England Patriot MarquiseHill, 24. He passed away in a boating accident in Lake Pontchartrain this weekend. May he Rest in Peace.

 

 

Show us something you believe in. 
Submitted by Mama Tami.  

Video: Show us your TV crush.
Submitted by quornflour.

 

Well, I see him on TV (and in my dreams) all the time:

 

I enjoy watching him on TV, too:

 

 

Okay Okay! So my new TV crush has to be:

He is 6'1", 32 years old, a PuertoRican/Cuban, Native New Yorker. His current role is "Eric Delko" on CSI Miami. But he has appeared on many other TV shows and music videos. He played a cop in 50 Cent's Many Men video (along with my former TV crush Henry Simmons), and he grew his hair out to play the horny man on the internet in Jennifer Lopez'  If You Had My Love.

But he could stand and read the phone book and I would still luv him... I mean look at those lips! ((sigh))

 

 

Chocolate, Caramel and Butter Pecan all in the same post... Yum Yum!!! LOL 

Show us photos that make you cry happy tears. 
Submitted by thedharmablues. 

 

I have lots of such pictures. Im very emotional about my pictures. Well actually, Im just very emotional. But since today is my mother's birthday, Ill go with some historical pics of her:

 

This is Mommy and her friends partying in Pittsburgh on New Years when she was almost twenty. That's her third from the left. Her bestest Jackie is on the far left. I always wondered what her life was like before she met my father in 1965. She wont tell me much, but some of it must have been fun...

 

This is Mommy before she cut her afro. Tres Chic!

 

She turned sixty-four at 9pm EST today. But dont tell her. She thinks she's still twenty-six like she was in this pic above. She wont slow down. This is me and my Mom. Two sexy girls at Orchard Beach in the Bronx! 

 

This photo was a Christmas gift to my Mom. Clockwise from the top left: My Granma Helen [RIP]; Me and My Sisters, My GreatGranma Tesha [RIP] and Mommy. I dont have kids, but when I do, I know exactly what they will look like. I will never have my own face! LOL!

 

 This is us at my baby sister's graduation. Mommy is second from the right, looking younger than all of us.

Happy Birthday, Mommy!

May you have at least sixty-four more!

Show us your team! 
Submitted by Juniebird.

 

Well...

Shoulda Left Boston with Him

 

 

I Wore Some Earrings Like These at Work as a Silent Protest

 

 

 

Yes It Really Is in the South Bronx. That's Harlem in the Background. What? You Thought 'Bronx Bombers' was just a nickname?

 

 

 

I Even Like Him

 

 

 

The Empire Strikes Back...

There are No Cowboys in New York...

I Know a Few Understand What Im 'Tawking' About

 

 

Number One Bar None!

 

 

Show us the one thing that unfailingly makes you smile, no matter what. 
Submitted by Sourire.

 

 

Boston Activists

 

Men Who Create

 

Facial Hair

 

Dredlocks

 

Men Who Love Their Children

 

Men With Large Comfy Chests

 

Tats

 

Big Red

 

 

Choses Qui Me Font Le Sourire, Toujours! LOL

Vox Hunt Video: Show us a TV series you own or watched on DVD.

 

Theme Song: "Cant talk to her, cant kill'er. Here comes Bridezilla!"

 

Back Cover Excerpt: "...real-life couples about to take the plunge undergo tantrums, meltdowns and complete mental collapses on the way to the altar..." This is the best thing in Reality TV since COPS! I also have The Lucy Show, Dragnet and The Beverly Hillbillies on DVD. But Bridezilla is my favorite. A cautionary tale. When your friend asks you to be in the wedding... RUN GURL RUN!!!! LOL