Mirror Moments
Self reflection, sometimes poetry. Sometimes borrowed and shared wisdom.
Self reflection, sometimes poetry. Sometimes borrowed and shared wisdom.
Rants about the laws, the lawmakers, and the rest of us who put with those two.
Kanye West and The Assing of Black MenI'm ready for a new trend. There's just too much ass in the world. I know we had the same amount of ass but not the same degree of ass. Ass hanging out of jeans (now designed so the ass can hang out), celebrity based on ass (you know who I'm talking about), ass implants (or "butt shots"---which had a darker meaning for my generation), ass emoji (now racially selective), the prezident is an ass and he brought another ass to the White House to cover his ass, then these asses hung out together.
See? That's a lot of ass. In the 70s, I don't remember this much ass. In fact, I remember asses of a wider variety, more heft, less pump. Then, having your "ass hang out" was more a term of social disapproval since the jeans of that era "pancaked" the high-waisted best of us. They were keisters, bums, and buns, more function than fetish. The 80s birthed the muscle ass, which still at its most high kick ass Jane Fonda firm or badass Schwarzeneggar sexy was more about fitness and firmness than fatness (phatness) and fullness. Women were trying to lose their asses because breasts were the asses of the 80s. (I hope I got that right.) We called them the A in T & A, or tooshies, something to see, maybe to touch. Guys weren't the focus of ass but occasionally you'd see a guy and go "Van Damme!"I think this all dumb-ass-situde started in the 90s. I let my own wide brimmed and intentionally labeled shorts peek out of my jeans. So perhaps the kids of this generation, having watched Dad, uncle, and men on the street half-assed, decided to do the full Monte. I thought we were being mysterious since everyone wondered: are boxers or briefs covering his bon-bon, booty, butt, or onion? Butt, the 21 century is the assiest of them all.
From the early aughts that made Jackass and JLO's jell-o a mainstay to the past over-ripeness of Kimchi. The applebottoms, twerks, the "clap"(which also had a darker meaning for my generation), the bounce, the --- I'm exhausted. The badonkadonk became a ghetto booty moneymaker. We are all getting assed-out.There is no quality of ass, only quantity. How huge is it? How ridiculous is it? And all of this brings me to pain-in the-ass Kanye West, a ridiculous and huge ass with his head up his own.
I would worry but it helps him to talk out of his ass. tRump gets him. Guess it takes one to know one. Though I thought Snoop would be better. That way they blow smoke up each others...LMAO---GB2
Who knows? I might put in a second floor.