Archive for July 19th, 2006

Worker Man (Pt. II)

I call this one part II because I want to say that like a year ago, I wrote another entry that will be just like the one I’m finna write.

So let’s begin.

So a brotha has been strapped down by his employment status for something like two weeks now. Not that this is necessarily a bad thing but I’ll be damned if my job doesn’t go something like this:

Slow Time: Twiddle thumbs and spend all day debating whether or not space travel would actually be possible if you had two paper clips and a bottle of Ajax

Fast Time: Can’t breathe, work pretty much around the clock to include weekends, holidays, and all cultural observation days, lose track of days because working on weekends tends to throw your day-time-equilibrium meter

There is no middle ground involved here.

Speaking of your days being thrown out of balance, that is a very real phenomenon. For instance, I worked both Saturday and Sunday this past weekend. On Monday night, going into Tuesday morning, I had a dream that it was actually Thursday, woke up and thought it was Friday…AND…came about this close to thinking it was actually Saturday and staying in bed.

This same thing happens to me when I take a nap during the day. Apparently I have time dyslexia because I’ve taken a nap before in the day, woke up like 4 hours later and assumed it was the next day and got ready for work. Nevermind it was dark outside and in the summer nobody goes to work when its still dark outside. And nevermind that I learned how to read when I was 3 and knew my numbers as well so I could easily just look at the clock. And nevermind that I could have easily just, I don’t know, turned on the television for further clarity depending on what was on.

Nope. Time dyslexia. It’s a real thing.

All this to say, I’ve been getting straight mollywopped at work.

Hold. Me.

And I have like 3 jobs right now. Which would be 2 outside of my standard employment. I have about one free night a week.

And even that is being used for sleep…kind of.

Add to the fact that I have a damn project I’m working on that needs to be done like 3 weeks ago with a friend of mine that will make household names out of the both of us.

Add to the fact that I actually have a whole lot of shit on my mind right now that I’d like to get out but don’t have the time to do it. Hell, at this point I’ve only been typing for 3 minutes and I feel like I’m wasting time right now.

I’ll probably talk about this a little more one of these days, but I have to give a special shout out to one of my oldest friends in life from Alabama. Some people talk big shit about making things happen. Some people actually make shit happen.

My friend got my ass played on the radio in Birmingham, Alabama. As in yours truly has now gotten official radio burn on a big time radio station. Just thought I’d share since, as we all know…

…sharing is caring.

So…well…umm…err….ah yes.

The main point of this post today was to inform you of the open mic occuring tonight at Bohemian Caverns in Washington, DC on 11th and U Streets.

Clearly this is for anybody in the DC area.

Not people in the Cincinnati area.

Stricly for live men.

Not for freshmen.

Tonight is gonna be heavy on the comedy I presume. We’re thinking of changing up the format to have something like a comedy open mic one night a month. So tonight is looking like it’s gonna be that night. A special guest comedian who’s been in quite a few ghetto movies is slated to perform.

Red Grant

I’m hosting as usual so feel free to come on down and get some laughs in.

Oh…and there is free food from 6-730pm.

I didn’t make that up. FREE FOOD from 6-730pm. I’ve heard that the food there is actually pretty good. I’ve never had it before. I bet I will tonight.

That ninja said FREE!

So if you need something to do on this hot, steamy ass Wednesday evening in your Nation’s capital…come on down to Bohemian Caverns and kick it with yours truly, Panama Jackson.

And yes, I linked myself again.

RSVP ON THE HOME PAGE (WWW.STOCK13.NET) FOR WEDNESDAY, JULY 19TH FOR FREE ADMISSION TO AFTER PARTY BEFORE 10:45 PM BEFORE 5PM. DOORS OPEN AT 6PM. COMEDY AND BAND FROM 6-10PM. AFTERPARTY WITH DJ SOURCE ON THE 1′S AND 2′S FROM 10PM-2AM.