Stuff 33-year-old, quasi-literary, golden-age hip-hop loving, black people think they like

I could never shut down my comments. I just come across too much great stuff. A few choice haiku/tanka/sonnet/freestyles from the threads below:

Here's Patricktherogue doing Big L's Ebonics for the Marines

Here's Bdbd running down his pedigree:

Mid 50s overeducated white guy here, one who likes collards and other greens just fine. My dad did too, especially served with dog bread that he learned to cook growing up in east Texas during very rough times indeed. His father, my grandfather, was for a decent number of years a sharecropper in east Texas, but he was very picky about his greens, he only liked the young tender leaves. He worked land owned by an African American family. The sibling of that family who looked after things had a day job as a Pullman porter, but he'd stop by my grandparent's place from time to time to see how things were going (which often was not well).

In the late 30s my father lit out for the territories and joined the CCC putting in rail track across the Southwest -- he knew that nothing there could be any harder than the work his father would put him to if the stayed home. My father and uncle say that during WW2 (they both served in the South Pacific) it was common for soldiers to engage in "my family was so poor that...." contests, and "my family was so poor that we sharecropped land that belonged to a black man" would trump most anything else.

Ben corrects my grammar:

In the interests of journalistic integrity, I believe that his name is spelled "Al B. Sure!" That's with the exclamation point.

I just don't want anyone to be accused of New Jack bias!

Natty B calls me out:

C'mon TNC,

You're being RICK ROLLED.

This is a total drudge manufactured story.Can you even wait for the campaigns response? It was no secret that those newspapers weren't pro-Obama before their endorsements. Those reporters were only on the plane some of the time. It's the homestrech. His media people are allowed some discretion. I'm sure all sorts of newspapers don't get on the plane.

He was right.