OJ sends his regards

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When you drive your car off of a cliff into the Grand Canyon, the car explodes and you walk away from it without a scratch, then you’re supposed to ride off into the sunset. Orenthal didn’t do that. His ignant azz wanted to sell Direct TV cards, gloat in folks faces by playing golf ere’day, make pornos and write books talkin’ bout “If I Had Done It”.

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I have no sympathy for this dude. As skilled as he was on the football field in his Hall of Fame career, he’s just as stupid for his antics over the past few years. Good riddance…

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*goes to watch the Naked Gun and old Hertz commercials on YouTube*

Peace & Love…

G. Mo

Let’s Set The Record Straight

G. Mo aint no bandwagon Cowboys fan!!!

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I reached in the crates for my yearbook from ’85 when I was in the 8th grade. If you look closely at the picture, you’ll notice that I’m rockin’ a Dallas Cowboys t-shirt while in class. That’s right, a DALLAS COWBOYS t-shirt. Now, there are those who will speculate that that shirt was worn for one reason or another and that is had nothing to do with me being a fan. That would not be a correct assessment however.

Let me explain the origin of me becoming a Cowboys fan. When playing football in kindergarten and scoring TD’s, I’d always do the Butch Johnson dance.

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Only old school cats know about the gunslinger dance he used to do when he scored TD’s. According to a number of sources on the internet, Johnson’s touchdown celebration was know as the “California Quake”. He would simulate pulling guns out of holsters and proceed to shoot them and shake. Let me tell you, I used to do it and do it daily. That’s how often I got into the endzone from receptions or interceptions returned to TD’s. I was a baller back then. But also, I just always liked the Cowboys from when I was young. I hated burgundy & gold colors. Thus, I hated the Redskins. I never understood why anyone wanted to wear an ugly indian on their clothes. Then when we played Cowboys and Indians in school, who wanted a bow and arrow? Give me the gun!!!

I liked a rack of Cowboys players aside from Butch Johnson. Some of the guys I remember ‘being’ when I played with my friends were Tony Hill, Drew Pearson, Ron Springs, Everson Walls, Danny White Robert Newhouse, Michael Downs, Ed “Too Tall” Jones, Randy White, Dexter Clinkscales, Doug Cosbie, Rafael Septien, & Tony Dorsett.

So I’m True Blue baby!! If anyone ever questions me again, I’m sending them a link to this entry. And to Butch Johnson wherever you are out there… thanks man. You are the reason that I’m a Dallas Cowboys fan today.

Oh yeah, if you look back at the pic you’ll notice that I’m sitting kinda funny with one leg extended and the other leg bent and cuffed under me. I still do that today as well. LOL.

Peace & Love…

G. Mo

Exhilarating!!!

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Yessir!!! My squad pulled it out. I told those Redskins jokers that redemption was coming after that debacle in Dallas. I’ll be back later with a recap and more pics. I just needed to send a quick message to all those who’ve been blowing up my phone with calls and text msg and my email. I had a rack of those clowns hit me when the Redskins were up 7-0. Ask me have I heard from anymore of them since the game was over. You already know that answer. It’s a beautiful, quiet day in DC. You have a great one as I will. DC stands for Dallas Cowboys baby!!!

Peace & Love…

G. Mo

G.Mo’s Ghetto Grilled Cheese

State of the US economy got you down? Finding it difficult to enjoy the pleasures of life as you previously had? Need an quick pick me up meal on those days when you have less than $20 in your pocket? No problem. I bring you…

G. Mo’s Ghetto Grilled Cheese

Wonder Bread $2
Blue Bonnet Margarine $2
Kraft Cheese Singles $3
Iron $10

– Heat iron to medium high or Wool setting. Make sure Steam setting if off.
– Butter bread evenly to the edges on both the inside & outside layers.
– Place a cheese single (or two) in between slices of bread & place on cutting board
– (Optional) Cover bread with aluminum foil or brown paper lunch bag.
– Hold iron in place. Move around slightly to get to the edges as if you were ironing.
– Flip over & repeat above sequence until cheese is melted & bread is golden brown in color.
– Enjoy eating your freshly iron toasted grilled cheese sammich.

Disclaimer: This post was purely for entertainment purposes. I have not made a sammich like this in over 20 years and only did so after watching an episode of Good Times. Feel free to substitute with your favorite type of bread, butter or low cholesterol choice of spread or a thick slice off that block of good Gubment cheese.

Peace & Love…

G. Mo

The Verdict On My Knee Is…

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Chondromalacia… which is basically the softening and degeneration of the tissue (cartilage) underneath the kneecap (patella). That’s what’s been causing my knee pain the past number of weeks. Trust that my kneecap has been shifting and causing me great amounts of pain. Hell, I can reach down now and move it around. It aint suppose to do that.

Feel free to read more about the condition at these links

Chondromalacia patella – MayoClinic.com

Medical Encyclopedia – Chondromalacia of the patella

I’ve known for a few weeks now and have been rehabbing in therapy 3 times a week for about 2 hours each session. But if the 6 weeks of rehab doesn’t help the condition, arthroscopic surgery will be necessary to repair the damage. I don’t really want that. My ortho doc is good and all, but… naw, I’ve had enough surgeries in my lifetime to this point. In fact, I have the same condition in both knees. It’s sort of an arthritic condition. I’m rehabbing the right knee and trying to prevent the left knee from becoming worse. Don’t ask me how that occurred, cuz I can’t tell ya. I get pains in the right knee daily, whereas the left knee only gives me pain a few times a year. But both the doc and the physical therapists tell me that it’s the same. MRI didn’t show anything torn, just minor deterioration.

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PT is cool. The folks there are real chill and they’re very helpful in assisting me in regiments of exercise. Some of the stuff they’ve got me doing seems really weird, but I know that it’s done to help me strengthen my legs. The tell me that I’ve got tight hamstrings and that might’ve aided in my knees compensating for my legs not stretching all the way out. So you know they be havin’ a brotha all stretched out now right? But after the exercises they always hook me up with the electrical stimulation and the ice. Now that feels good!!! I need one of those machines at home.My spirits are good though. The pain has subsided greatly since the therapy sessions began. Main thing is that I need to stay off the stairs. I have a habit of bypassing the elevators in the office and taking the stairs a lot. I’ve got to curtail that somewhat. Here I was thinking I was doing well but not being lazy and catching the elevators all the time. Anyway, hopefully things will continue to look up and I won’t need to go under ‘the knife’. Wish me luck…

Peace & Love…

G. Mo

Mementos For The Occasion

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They didn’t come easy though. Bruh man was out here grindin’ fa real. I did a good amount of standing in lines, driving at various locations and all that. But it was well worth it. I got a ‘few’ Washington Post Special Editions, 2 copies each of the NY Times, The Chicago Sun-Times and USA Today, a single copy of Time Magazine and a few other magazines with Barack Obama on the cover that will go in the treasure chest. This is history and I needed a piece or pieces as you may see. A lot of those are going to family and friends who weren’t as lucky to get them however.

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Hell, I’ve got a ton of sports memorabilia dating back to ’78. I’m talkin’ autographs for days, magazines with Bird and Magic on them, the issue of SI when Len Bias died, an Inside Sports with Sugar Ray and Tommy Hearns, a SI when the UMD Terps won the NCAA title and a rack of other stuff I’d have to do an inventory of. There’s even a few Ebony, Jet or Source magazines scattered in there for artists who passed or special events. Those were the only things worth having in the archives until now for the most part. But now, we got Barack Obama coming to the White House. That’s something you want to have newspapers and magazines for to look at later on in life. Now, I’ve just got to buy a vacuum sealer, so I can preserve them all.

EDIT: 10:33PM Friday night… while doing some grocery shopping at my local Safeway , I heard some folks in the next aisle talking about how shocked they were that they had found them… when I walked over to the aisle, I discovered that ‘them’ pertained to special issues of People, Newsweek and Time… so I figured “what the hell” and bought some more…

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Peace & Love…

G. Mo

Change

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This is a beautiful moment. I can’t front, I’ve got tears in my eyes. This is so amazing. I never imagined the possibility of this day. God Bless America.

Time to celebrate!!!

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Peace & Love…

G. Mo

iVoted

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Got up at 4:45am. Was in line with the wife by 5:30am when it was pitch black outside the municipal center. We were like 30th in line or so. By the time 6am rolled around there had to have been close to 200 people. By 6:45, I’d say the number was closer to 500. When the doors opened at 7am, we were in and out in 15 minutes. I feel good about this day. It’s time for a change and I believe we’re going to get change with Barack Obama.

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Make sure you get out there and vote today folks. It is very important.

Peace & Love…

G. Mo

Uncle G. Mo Solves Math Problems

Started out with the wife and I stopping by the house for a short time. As usual, I check to see what the girls were doing. The 5 yr old was running around doing something. The 6yr old was getting her hair done by my sister and the 7yr old was doing her homework. So a good uncle always asks if everything is good in school and if the girls have been behaving themselves. Well, my 7 yr old niece asked me if I could assist her with her vocabulary and her math problems. So of course, I obliged.

Vocabulary was easy. I was the spelling bee champion all through junior high and I love writing. Helping her put the 5 chosen words into sentences was easy. We did that and it might’ve taken 5 minutes. So that left the math problems. Let me be staight up here, math was my worst subject. I looked at the paper and shook my head. It was easy for me… now. But back then I struggled. It asked the child to count the coins pictured on the left and then write the correct amount in the column on the right. She had them all right and was down to the past problem.

There were two stacks of coins shown.The problem was asking her to take one single coin from one stack shown and give it to the other stack, so that both would be equal. As I was looking at it trying to figure it out in my head she hollered out “I got it”. She drew an arrow from the dime and moved it to the other stack. I looked at it and she was correct. She smiled, thanked me for helping her and gave me a big hug and kiss. I did help with the vocabulary words, but the math was all her.

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Moments like the one I had the other day make me smile. I’ve been working some long days the past few weeks and just seeing the bright faces on those 3 lil’ girls brings me joy and makes me forget about long days in the office. I’m glad my wife is good at math though, cuz when we have kids that’ll be her job. In fact, I wasn’t good at history, science or math. I’ll just teach the kids English, school them on playing sports and how to hustle. Yep, that sounds like a plan.

Peace & Love…

G. Mo

Overcoming The Spirit Of Weariness

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I can’t front. The past 6 weeks or has been real trying for me. I’m exhausted. I feel like I’ve aged 20 years in the past 2 months. I’m starting to get flare ups in my neck and back from the car accident in January and the insurance company is not being very cooperative. Thus me giving my attorney’s the green light to file suit. No amount of money will make the pain away, but the offer the insurance company gave me was ridiculous!!! I went to a lotta therapy just to try and get right ya know? Then for some reason my right knee has been swelling and aching the past couple of weeks. It was painful enough for me end up at the doc getting x-rays last week and a subsequent MRI on it earlier this week. When you endure physical pain, it tends to affect the mental as well. I’ve been quite frustrated with how my body is feeling. With the aches and pains, I’ve not been able to exercise as I would like to. Thus, significant weight gain that I don’t like at all. Let me not neglect the fact that I’ve been working 12+hr days the month of October in handling a number of essential meetings, webcasts and video conferences and haven’t had a day off in 2 weeks. Yeah, the weekends have been a killer. It’s like whenever I get home, I immediately crash. I have little to no energy at all.

However I’ve been encouraged by attending Bible study with my wife the past few weeks. I’ve been fortunate that on those Wednesday’s I’ve been able to get out of the office early enough to make the 7:30pm sessions. This past Wednesday was the first day of the Music & Worship Conference at Reid Temple, thus the usual Bible study was not held. However we were blessed by the music of our usual praise team and female gospel soloist LaRue Howard who came from Orlando, FL.

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According to the church bulletin, the sermon was scheduled to be delivered by Tye Tribbett. Now, I’ll be honest. I didn’t know much about Tye Tribbett. I was aware that the brother was a gospel music singer and that was about it. When I had heard the previous week that he would be in the house, I assumed that he was going to be performing with his group Greater Anointing. To be totally honest, I was somewhat intrigued. Not in a negative aspect, but just wondering how what kind of sermon he would be delivering.

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Let me say this… the brother was very inspirational in his sermon. I mean, I was really digging everything he said. Not only that, but the man has crazy energy. It’s easy to jump and run across the stage when you’re singing, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone preach with such excitement and expression. There was one topic he discussed that really hit home for me. He discussed how sin isn’t necessarily the primary thing affecting us these days. The spirit of weariness is affecting us just as much. That spirit of weariness is working its way into our lives through all the pressure and bad news that surrounds us. It’s working to get our eyes off the Word of God by bombarding us with negative forces. It’s trying to get us to look down at defeat instead of up at Jesus. Now I’m not one of those radical or ‘churchy’ type folks. Lord knows I struggle with life challenges like everyone else. We won’t get into specifics on those things alright. I do however believe in God and the growth in my own life over the past 3 years since returning to church regularly.

Looking at life in terms of a sporting event, I always knew my opponent was no longer dangerous when I saw his head down. He was easily defeated when all his confidence was lost. Lately, I’ve been my own worst enemy. I’ve allowed a lot of factors to get me down. Yes, I’m dealing with some issues but I’m still blessed to be where I am. I’m grateful to have a loving wife, wonderful family, a good job, a roof over my head, a luxury ride, etc. I’m doing my best to wake-up smiling. It’s not easy when times are rough though. But I’m certain of one thing, I’m going to overcome this spirit of weariness. I’m going to focus more on positive things more than the negative. I’m going to be more disciplined in following goals I have set forth and I’m going to “snap out of it” as Tye Tribbett said the other night. I had originally written this entry and saved it as a draft earlier in the week. The title at the time was Aches & Pains. The Lord showed me Wednesday night through that powerful message that I gotta get up and stop complaining about everything.

The other thing that occurred that has awakened me, has been the health of my grandma is NY. Grandma is not only back home after being in the hospital in August, but she’s doing well. Let me correct that, in her words “I’m doing great!!!”. I’m greatly encouraged at the fact that her health has improved and she’s back home. This is another thing that says to me to stop wallowing in the sadness and depression.

My favorite Bible verse since I was a kid has always been Proverbs 3:5,6Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Continue to pray for a brotha.

Peace & Love…

G. Mo