If you rode behind a truck which said "Follow me to your perfect paint color" on your way out of town, what would be your first set of thoughts? Well, as I inadvertently followed this True Value tractor trailer on I-495 through the wonderful city of Wilmington, Delaware, my vivid imagination took a dark turn. Instead of perhaps some jovial gentleman being armed with paintball gear and taking you to the time of your life--which I literally thought as I began typing this intro--it's some poor soul with an axe to grind with both his company as well as his wife who he believes is cheating on him because he's always on the road. You decide to follow him without knowing his rig is actually a front for his paint bootlegging business. He leads you down a secluded alley in a sketchy neighborhood to meet a few unsavory characters. While the deal is going down, your inability to be incognito in life-or-death situations spells your demise as you are spotted by the truck driver. He thinks it's a setup, pulls out a pistol and shoots in your direction. If you didn't high tail it out of there like you were playing Need for Speed, then you would've found out the "perfect color" he was leading you to was crimson. Moral of the story (and with my DIRECTV voice-over narrator swagger): don't follow anyone to your perfect paint color. Get the Sherwin Williams app instead. Now that you're creeped out, let's fly into some safer havens...
Showing posts with label Malcolm X. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Malcolm X. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 11, 2016
RANDOM THOUGHT ALERTS (Vol. 1, No. 13)
Tuesday, June 7, 2016
Scribbler's 2-for-1 Tuesday Special: A Tribute to Muhammad Ali
As evidenced from several posts, 2016 has been a rough time of losing heroes. Unfortunately, we must now add the greatest boxer of all time and one of the most awesome human beings that ever lived and breathed, Muhammad Ali, to that list. When I got the ESPN notification on my phone on Saturday at 12:29 a.m., my immediate reaction was, "NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" I'm still in disbelief over the loss of Prince less than two months ago, so this just felt like emotional overkill. Granted, I grew up in the Mike Tyson era of heavyweight boxing when many in our naive generation swore up and down that nobody could touch Iron Mike...that is, until our parents and elders hipped us to Mr. "Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee". Suddenly, Iron Mike didn't seem as cool as a three-time heavyweight champion of the world who was one of the most skillful, tough, charismatic and confident brothers to ever perform in any sport, the blueprint for the activist and man of faith simply moonlighting as an athlete and could even push rhymes like weight. So while the typical move for someone who is as into sports as I am would be to post my favorite five fights of his, y'all should know that I'm not that predictable. Hence, this special edition of the "Rave & Favorite Five" as well as an "11th Hour Post of the Week" will capture my five favorite Muhammad Ali moments that manifest how his level of strength, courage and wisdom included but was certainly not limited to the sport of boxing...
Labels:
boxing,
Cassius Clay,
Elijah Muhammad,
George Foreman,
Hana Ali,
Malcolm X,
Muslim,
Nation of Islam,
Newcastle,
Parkinson's disease,
Reg Gutterage,
RIP Muhammad Ali,
Rumble in the Jungle,
Vietnam War,
Zaire
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