5.07.06

Category: dribblings

you know, aside from being Mayor of Crazytown, i’ve always felt mostly safe at my house. it’s fenced. there’s only one door. the house itself is on the second story so people can’t break in by going through the basement. i’ve got two huge dogs. two huge, nice, sweet dogs, but at least they’re big and barky.
but last night there was a double (DOUBLE!) homicide a block away from my house. a shooting of some kind. and it was at a “good” section of walnut street, nice big duplex houses in that section.
anyway. not cool.
i realize i live in the ‘hood, but i guess i didn’t realize it was that kind of ‘hood. i thought it was just an urban ‘hood with a variety of black, mexican, and crazy white people. it’s never seemed violent.
oh sure, i’ve heard gunfire. but hell, you’re likely to hear gunfire in southside. or at my parents house in RBC. (the dude who lives behind them is a huge gun collector. when policemen need guns? they go to him. he is the Gun Dude.) so it’s not like gunfire has to be all violence and murder.
oh, excxept a couple of weeks ago when liznchris came over and there was automatic gunfire and the police came and arrested someone not 60 feet from my yard. then the kid’s momma drives up all SCRRREEEEEEECH BRAKE jumping out of her giant oldsmobile all, “officer! that’s my boy! he ain’t never done nothin’! whatchoo doing with him?!”
oh hey, you know what?
i do live in the ‘hood.

and what’s horrible is that yesterday morning? before the double homicide occurred? laura and i were driving down to the Bird Sanctuary to take Roxy Rockstar for a walk and we were discussing our houses and how their house is ‘hood adjacent because, backyard, and that mine is in the actual ‘hood but not yet ghetto. and she said something about how you’d think we’d see more police action than we do, with us being so ‘hoody and all. and i said, i actually said in my Ice Cube voice, “They either don’t know, don’t show, or don’t give a damn about what’s goin’ on in the ‘hood.”
and then? then i said how crazy is that to get to quote that movie in the context of actually talking about that exact same thing instead of just quoting the movie because of the way the line is delivered in the movie. because, hello? two white girls in a jeep quoting Boyz n the Hood? that shouldn’t even be legal.
anyway, maybe you don’t know what i mean, but i don’t care. ‘cos then hours later… two people murdered.
WTF, man?

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