A poem:

I try
to draw you out
the way
you draw out situations --

just a little at a time

through change of heart
or sudden circumstance
or something you remembered
too late

I learned your rules
and forgot
how to play my game.

That's the kind of stuff that's gonna be up in the new poetry section. Anticipating it? Let me know or write a comment.

So while I'm eating some generic HT Spaghetti O's, not reading my second Mike Tyson book (A Savage Business: The Comeback and Comedown of MT) for Friday's Ethics in Sports Comm paper, I figured I'd get at you crazy kids (who I know are out there - I've got 27 hits since the counter went up Thursday. Yay me? Yea, I'm allowed. Woo hoo!)

I promised a recap of the party Saturday. Well, the party involved drinking multiple glasses of the birthday champagne, a tequila shot (or two or three) and many a jello shot. This all added up to, surprisingly, not much. I wasn't even really buzzing or sick. Very anticlimactic. I was a little worried about the combination to tell the truth.

The party itself was fittingly blah... never more than 15 people, nobody over the top. Everyone ended up ditching to go to a club, which turned into a sideshow of indecisiveness. I seriously made three different decisions in the time it took people to make one. The New Yorker in me was appalled.

We ended up chillin at Goldie's and I had a very nice lil (big, really) convo with my girl Lauren Rauch (rhymes with Couch). She's a good listener (meaning it shows when she's talking, not that she doesn't talk). And really interesting. I'm a big fan of those kinds of people, I must say - it's quite the winning combination.

Oh, and I wanted to shout out C Squrred a/k/a Mini-Me a/k/a Couch V2.0 for hooking up the first real comment in Backtalk history. That's right, slackers, I'm calling you out. Think Starsky & Hutch. Do it.

PS
Read View From the Couch tomorrow - pick up a paper and check page 7 or hit up dthonline.com.

Yo... quickie update. I've been working on reorganizing the site (yea, again, I know) so it's easier for me to update. The payoff for you guys? Uhmm... none really, but I'm adding a poetry section to the buzzes. Yea, I know the slam stuff is poetry, too, but this is the non-slam poetry. I'll be sure to let y'all know when it's up.

I'm hitting a ridiculous crunch, but I'm not really feeling it yet. Get back to me on Thursday next week and we'll see what's up.

Any case, party tonight, highlighted by authentic mexican tequila and birthday champagne that's finally going to good use. If I make it to tomorrow, I'll give you crazy kids a recap.

Can I say again how much I fucking LOVE New York City? I know you guys all give me hell for this, but the one's who didn't grow up there (and in Brooklyn specifically) just aren't gonna get it. Even doing nothing in the city feels more productive than it does down on the Hill. There's always stuff going on and I'm aware of it and that makes all the difference. I'ma miss it for a while after graduation, so I'm gonna be soaking it up and y'all are gonna like it.

In a random note, I'm going on Birthright Israel. I've always wanted to, but the timing's right. There's going to be a whole bus of UNC kids, so it should be good times.

Other news? I'm good at having conversations in my head. I'm going to find the right moment eventually. Or rather, just do something at the wrong moment instead of waiting. Because maybe those right moments never come. That four letter "L" word's a bitch, even platonically.

random note... if you hang out with a friend, and can only think about ways you'd ravish them if given the opportunity, maybe it's not in your best interests to be friends.

just a thought

Yea... in an inexplicable development Cormega has released a song, "How We Ride" with 2pac. Yeah, I know you're thinking, "Another 'Pac song? This? This is inexplicable? He's released eight ALBUMS since he died, for cyring out loud!" And I would concur.

The unfathomable part of this combination is that Mega Montana and the West Coast's resident spectre are rapping over a sample from the "Overture/Work Theme" of Les Miserables! Les Mis!

I've got nothin.

Check out the song by visiting Cormegasite.com and checking the "Forum." The song is currently available for free download in the "Cormega" section.

Be easy, and hopefully less confused than I am