March Madness...Living up to Its Name

The title of this post says it all. This year's version of March Madness is living up to its name. The tournament's overall #1 seed is gone, higher seeds are in the Sweet Sixteen, and a team from the Ivy League not named Yale, Harvard, or Princeton(Cornell is the Ivy League school still playing) is still playing as the tourney enters week 2. Brackets have been basically shot(unless you have Northern Iowa or Saint Mary's advancing), mine was definitely. Thank goodness there's a game called Second Chance Pick'Em, tourney edition. Peace.

Community 2010 edition

I have experienced community once again. Not bad for someone who is single and in his late 30s. I went to a party prior to Who Dat? nation winning the Super Bowl and I am enjoying my church family. Whether it's the singles ministry or my LIFE group. Blessings, don't you just love them?

Community

Hello again. I'm writing to learn about living in community(no, I'm not talking about the TV show). I'm a single male in his mid, soon-to-be late 30s, struggling with maintaining relationships with other people. If anyone has some ideas, please let me know. I need all of the advice I can get.

Halloween

Happy Halloween members of the blogosphere. Hopefully you'll enjoy plenty of treats and no tricks.

Decorum, revisited

Hello again visitors of the Blogosphere. I wrote a recent blog about decorum, or the lack thereof. Well, here is a good book that you should read besides the Bible. It's called, The Power of Respect by Deborah Norville, anchor of the syndicated news magazine show, Inside Edition. It's definitely a must read.

Aggie uniformity

I know it's been a while since I've last posted a message in cyberspace; however, I've been so busy with other things, blogging has kind of taken a back seat, until now. With that being said, I wanted to give you a take on a team I don't normally talk about: Texas A&M football. I have many friends and acquaintances that are Aggies and I saw the game against Arkansas last Saturday night at Jerry's Palace(a.k.a. Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, TX). The one thing that shocked me besides the final score(Arkansas 47, A&M 19) was the uniforms that A&M wore the other night. All white with the white helmets. I'll admit, I did not like it. I know I'm not the uniform police, but surely, the Aggies would have worn their maroon pants and the helmets instead of all white. I just wasn't feeling it Saturday night. Now before you start chucking your laptops and other computer based equipment through the monitor at me, please note that the statements listed in this blog are my own. That's my take. Peace.

Decorum...Where has it gone?

Hello everyone in the blogosphere. I want to preface the following blog post by saying the views/opinions/rants expressed are my own. With that out of the way, I ask you this question? What is up with the lack of decorum in public? First, Rep. Joe Wilson(R-Ohio) interrupts the President of the U.S.A. during a speech to a joint session of Congress by calling him a liar. Next, you have Serena Williams. Great tennis player, multiple Grand Slam Singles champion, going nuclear on a line judge during a U.S. Open semifinal match causing the match to end in controversy. Then, just when you thought the etiquette police would not have to be called out, here come Kanye West. All he does is mess up a terrific moment for 19 year old music sensation Taylor Swift. What do all of these incidents that I have just mentioned have in common? Two words: poor decorum(if you want a definition, Google it). Have things gotten so heated and out of control in this country that decorum has taken a back seat? Rep. Wilson, I'm going to leave alone because he did apologize to the President. As far as Serena goes, she lost it. The match and her mind when she used some choice words to the line judge for a controversial "foot fault". If you want to see the video, check out YouTube. After the match, she did not answer the question about what was said after the incident. Stay tuned because this promises to be very interesting. Now to my man, Kanye West. Kanye opened his mouth and inserted his foot/microphone at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards(VMAs). First of all Kanye, do yourself a favor, back away from the Henessey(over 21 beverage. Do an Internet search). MTV, what were you thinking about having a bar prior to an awards show? Your show's producers should not serve alcohol of any kind prior to an awards show. Period. Next, Kanye, what were you thinking messing up a moment like that for Taylor Swift. This comes on the heals of you publicly dissing George W. Bush's handling of Katrina. There is a time and place for that and unfortunately, national television is not the time or place, nor is it the platform. Thankfully, my girl, Beyonce, showed some class and gave Taylor her moment back. Rep. Wilson, Kanye, Serena, I'm praying for you all. I'm praying that someone will show you how to practice decorum and to, in the words of the Hon. Judge Joe Brown, "conduct yourself accordingly." That's my rant. I want to hear what you think. Holla at a brother. Out.