The High Energy Service Workout, one year later
Ah, it’s the end of another month. Despite my best efforts, it appears as though I am falling into the pattern of being too tired to write everything on my mind in a timely matter. While that was acceptable the last seven years when I was writing the MADDSKILLZ Update, I’m not trying to let that fly these days! The NU is still going undetected by too many relevant people (RE: I still have more spam to delete than I have legitimate human commentary), and I know that it starts with me.
Before I get going with an update of sorts, I would like to give a shoutout to my CY team that served at Overbrook last year! Our community meeting skit last year was around this time of the year: the High Energy Service Workout! Basically, an infomercial set in the 1980s featuring a workout guru (Willie Simon, played by 1SKILLZ) who had things go progressively wrong as the workout went on (The Thriller dance, constant interruptions, etc.). In an otherwise desultory month marked by Snowpacalypse, it was easily a highlight of our team and possibly the entire site.
This time around? Service in the United States of America is under a bit of attack. The House of Representatives basically voted to cut several programs, including AmeriCorps. Now, you can check the disclaimer page (I’m not representing AmeriCorps), but know that this is extreme level wackness. I’m going to just post this link (http://www.saveservice.org/pages/action-center/) and start the update:
-That’s incredibly obnoxious of the NBA to approve all of those trades AFTER my pre-All-Star Game megapost. 20 teams changed at least part of their roster, and now I’ll have to spend some time in March telling you how each team is doing heading in to the final stretch? Madness.
-My CY teammate and roommate M. McKoy has his own words up (Easily Difficult), so go and check him out! Also wanted to post up for Swagriculture since I used to write for them… I feel honored to have had a role in other people’s inspirations.
-Shoutout to Jay Polykoff and the Friends’ Central boys basketball team, getting back-to-back Friends Schools League championships as well as three straight state championships!
This might as well be The Secret
-I was suggested by the host of Paperclip Explosion to get the book The Secret; I bought it but haven’t been able to focus on it enough to read it. In addition to that, I’m still a satirist and that has not allowed me to take this book seriously!!! But, I have looked at it enough to determine that Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth is the only “Secret” I’ll need…
-So, is every African country just going to have an uprising before the year’s out? Is that what is going on here?
–(Dead) Presidents Day.
Jadakiss: "What's a Juggalo? *cough-ha!-cough*"
-If you know Jadakiss, then you know that he has, 1) a terrible cough, and, 2) a penchant for asking too many damn questions. Well, can you imagine what would happen if he joined the Insane Clown Posse?! They would host an entire morning of investigative discovery.
"Baby I got a plan, runaway fast as you can!"
-I recently saw Delirious, Eddie Murphy’s 1983 special. Actually, I saw it right after the NBA All-Star Game. Did anyone see Kanye West during halftime of the NBA All-Star Game or the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards and wonder if he was sent to us to continue Eddie Murphy’s musical career in ways Eddie couldn’t?!
Please return all carts when production ends.
-So it turns out that February is also American Heart Month, Library Lovers Month, Youth Leadership Month, and Return Shopping Carts to the Supermarket Month. So if I told youth that they should lead a project that started with painting a heart mural in American colors in a library and ended with a game of Supermarket Sweep, I would have properly celebrated February…
-In an effort to break up the ridiculous inactivity outside of my weeks of service, I’ve started to do some new things (learned some elementary salsa) and some old things (filling up the statsheet on the basketball court). They’re still with the people I work with, but that’s probably a good thing. Now if only I can start winning some games (1-6 in two weeks at LaFayette Park!) …
Green Eggs, and Hard As a...
-And finally, a Picture of Childhood: “Mommy asked me what kind of sandwich I wanted for lunch, and I told her I’m going to go H•A•M…”
–1SKILLZ
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