Author: harold

One is the drug.

The next one is a hot black woman in a popular show.

The last one is a 70+ year old white woman who I’ve known for years now. It had been a while but I saw her this week. A very sweet lady.

It amuses me that this first name conveys a sense of lust and hotness while my reality with Molly is really, really quite far away from that.

I have a neighbor, she’s always working. Seven days a week, she’s just home to sleep.

She doesn’t do anything else. She has everything automated with people doing it for her: driving to work, delivering fresh laundry, food or anything.

So it dawned on me that she’s slaving at work to make others slave for her.

There’s no joy of a walk in the sun, a drive down a boulevard, saying hi to neighbors or having a friend over. There’s nothing but transactions.

It’s pretty sad.

I wrote my last post and decided to check the definition of baddest, just in case. Sometimes I make mistakes with words in my second language so, I verify them randomly to refresh my memory. It sent me to Urban Dictionary which gave me the correct answer.

And then I see the example, Harold being the baddest one out here. Ha! I click on the definition of Harold, amused. What could the definition of a name be?

YOOOOOOOOO

Two things: my first name was given to me by my biological mom who I have never met, never seen, never heard. This Urban Dictionary entry might, or might not be extremely accurate.

I don’t know Tashanette but I think she’s a great, trustworthy person.

I love women in jumpsuits. Especially the unisex ones.

It mutters “idgaf” with a smile to everyone and everything.

It’s sexy. It’s not sexy. It’s comfortable. PUH-CKETS.

It’s classy. It’s casual. It’s convenient (jump in!). It’s not convenient (gotta pee!).

But good ones are rare. I had to curate 500 scrolls to find four that are not completely lame.

I have decided that light grey or dark green linen, mechanic ones are the baddest.

mmhmm.

I used Twitter every single day of my life from 2007 to May 2021.

Quit cold turkey.

Still haven’t used it.

I’m feeling better. I’m trying to write the feelings down, but it’s hard to describe. The consequences of social media. The consequences of social media being the default, being main for a few generations.

w h e e w.

Yes, a new variant dropped. Just read about a NBA player —who has access to the best medical care in the world and is in the best physical shape you can be in— who got COVID-19 and thought he was not going to make it.

Keep staying safe. I know it’s exhausting but it is still better than lifelong sequels or death.

Okay, that one lane-only for cars on large boulevards? Two thumbs down *yeets away*. Cities are on some authoritarian shit and it’s awful. Everything takes twice as long now, basically. You will get the 9 lights instead of flowing through them. It’s infuriating, someone is going to shoot someone else on a road rage incident I swear.

Culver City looks like a Stormtrooper shopping mall and I’m not into it. It used to be so laid back.

The Doesn’t Give A Damn blog is back. This is what I love to read online, short essays on everything and anything.

Dishwashers are lame

Thought process of a black kid with a black dad being a black cop

Things You Can’t Do in the Metaverse

The movie Ma and its significance for Black Women

Most People Shouldn’t Speak Aloud Until They Are 30

So on that last one. I think it’s true these days but not because of the internet itself, but because of its culture (and size): everything done on the internet today is done to kind of go viral. That’s the goal. So we exaggerate, make jokes all the time etc. And say stupid shit with millions of views in 2 hours. Oops. Back in the old days of 2005 you were not getting clout from cheap sarcasm, but from 4,000 words analysis. You might not even get clout at all, just page views and sadistic comments.

The point is, writing helps your thought process and at first you suck at both and then you get better. I think it’s good to start in your 20s. Start a private (or not) blog. Analyze what’s going on around you. Connect the dots. Write it down. It is a brain/memory workout and it is good for you.

Edit: Comment on the internet: And writing/editing helps to serialize your thought process.

Very much indeed. I have gotten sharper at analyzing things thanks to writing here. 100%.