Just flew over the Grand Canyon…

on our way to Portland.

I’ve made this flight before, so already, I’m developing a pattern or routine of sorts. Finding a groove. Developing a rhythm.

I learned something this morning: Not all Black folks run on CPT. A brutha flew us from KCMO to PHX this morning and we arrived 5 min earlier than schedule, LOL!!!

Last night I had a pretty fantastic meal and of course I had to have beer. After beer. After beer. And I’m pretty sure I snored on the first leg of my flight. And I do NOT snore lightly, LOL!!! I’m thinking about trying to put together a little online scrapbook of all of the microbreweries that I have visited over the last few years. Pics, descriptions of the beers, summaries of the experiences, recommendations and such. Maybe I’ll call it “Microbrew Memories.”

I can plug my favorite breweries. Shout them out. Maybe I will list a couple right now, while I have time!

1.) Magnolia Gastropub – San Francisco, CA (Haight at Masonic) was the very first microbrewery I ever visited and the first beer that I ever had there was the Honey Wheat Weather Report beer. The food is AMAZING, the beer is VERY good. This place can get busy and is very, VERY noisy. Popular with the young locals who live on the Haight & kinda pricey. But OOOOOOOOOOH SO WORTH IT!!! Must have: a chicken breast that melts in your mouth (I know, right!?!?!) and their beer ice cream, cookie, thingy… Expect to pay around $80 for two.

2.) Great Lakes Brewery – Cleveland, OH. THIS place!!! On the first visit there, a few years back… Known for pizza. Their pizza oven was down. Ordered some other dish. They were out of some key ingredients. “Fuuuuuuuuuuuck, you’re killin’ me, Smalls!” So me & my friend had the sampler while we figured out what we wanted. GOOD MOVE!!!!! Got to try ALL of their beers, got hammered in the process. Went with a growler of one of the tastiest pumpkin ales out there. Ate something. Can’t remember what it was ’cause we were pretty friggin’ drunk, LOL!!! Best time to visit: During the week. During the day. Unless you love crowds that rival mobs 😉 And enjoy circling the block for an hour, trying to find parking. I’ve been back many times and STRONGLY recommend the Edmund Fitzgerald. They do bottle, too! Check out their gift shop, as well 🙂

That’s two to start you off. I will try to organize and post some pics. Dogfish Head in Rehoboth Beach *probably* should have been the first one I plugged but I never go for the obvious choice & wanted to give it up for my first. That tiny little brewery located in hippie heaven, on the 1st floor (and in the basement) of an old victorian. They are so small and DO NOT BOTTLE so if you try them once, be prepared to make many more trips to San Fran just for Magnolia. (And Amoeba Music, one of *the* most awesome record stores on the planet!)

This one was a long one and I may be posting the rest in the food section, if I can figure out how to do it. (And yes, I’m still posting from my BlackBerry, LMAO!!!)

Have a wonderful day and SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BREWER!!!!!

🙂

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Yo! Yo! Yo!

Two blog postings in a row!!!

Some funny sh*t: I’m in an isle seat and nodding off, big time, for a while, because as you know, it takes a loooooooooooot of caffeine to keep me going.

Apparently, it took forever for the captain to turn the seat belt light off & let the flight attendants service the cabin. Wellllllllll, the lady next to me (of course) has to use the bathroom & as soon as she saw me awake, asked me to let her out. “SURE!!!” (We’ve all been there before, haven’t we???) The light attendants were way up near rows 6, maybe 7. We’re row 14. I let her up. I sit down. I don’t buckle up because I know she’s coming back soon. I sit for a while before turning around to see if we should send a search party. She’s there at the back of the cabin, smiling. Oh! Here she comes, I’m thinking! I jump up.

Buuuuuuuuuuut, she motions to the door and shrugs. Oh. There’s someone in there. Okay. I sit back *but* didn’t quite turn all the way forward, so I have my foot *partially* in the isle. Well, by this time? The flight attendants are right up on my row with the food/beverage cart when the one closest to me suddenly truns around to bolt to the rear of the cabin, tripping over my foot!

YIKES!!! “I’m sorry!” She recovered as if nothing happened and ran to the back of the cabin. Understand that she was on her way dooooooooooown but didn’t hit the deck, recovering like Catwoman or Neo, in the Matrix. I wouldn’t had even had time to catch her because it happened so fast. Face-plant averted, LOL!!! Needless to say, I tucked my foot all the way under. And faced forward.

Well. After jostling the cart back and forth to let the lady who was hogging up the toilet by, the flight attendant who I pulled a Bruce Bowen on leans in and smiles at me: “Here she comes.”

Well, the other flight attendant told me that row 9 was completely free because it is next to the emergency exit and if I didn’t mind assisting in case of an emergency, blah, blah, SURE!!! Extra leg room??? Hook it up, sista gurl! Heeeeeey-yaaaaay!!! LOL!!! She said with a smile: “I know you speak perfect English & read English, so you should do well there.”

So here I am 🙂

On a *somewhat* related note: I took an old-ass 737-400 from Tampa to Charlotte and the friggin’ knobs and buttons to work the air and lighting looked like they were from the 1970’s. As did the carpet. I’m like Oooooooookaaaaaaaaaayyyy……. It’s a one hour & change flight, so I’m not going to worry about it.

LOL!!!

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I’m not really sure…

if I have anything exciting to tell you. Not going to complain. How can *I* complain? Well… Maybe I *can* complain, every now and then. I might. On occasion. But this is not one of those occasions.

I’m westward bound, once again, proving that I really am “all over the map!”

My heart goes out to all of the Packers fans out there in Packersland, the Cheesy Kingdom, the great state of Wisconsin and beyond. I have not heard from my friend Amanda this morning on twitter and I do hope that she is all right. We gave her some good-natured clowning last night & she pointed out that Green Bay was a 2nd half team & lo and behold, they made a comeback. But, enter the sh*tty replacement refs and “BAM!!!” An anvil dropped right on the top of the head, like an old Looney Tunes cartoon.

Long story short: Give the refs what they want! It’s the right thing to do!

That’s really it, on my end. Have a wonderful and productive day, everyone 🙂

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It feels GREAT to be out of Miami!

I HATE to say anything bad about anyone (or any city) but me and Miami have really never gotten along. Even back in the 1980’s, as a teen, the oppressive humidity coupled with giant, flying cockroaches always hit me WRONG. I think it’s a “bad energy” thing and I know that it is not me. It’s Miami.

In 2010, I spent a whooooooooooole month in Florida (as many of you know) and I bounced around from Miami to Key West back to Miami to Tampa to Orlando back to Tampa to Vero Beach, wash, rinse, repeat and even spent the night in Gainesville on my way BACK to Tampa from Atlanta! (Random, I know! It seems that way but there is a reason behind every one of my rhymes.)

I LOVED the Everglades, South Beach was all right, the sushi in Cutler Ridge was pretty f*cking good, the weather in Key West was crappy (cold, grey & windy) and the Cuban food was SO yummy!!! But the city. *smh* The city. Yea… Give me NYC, Chicago, Milwaukee, Houston, KCMO, St. Louis, Boston, Seattle, LA, Portland or even PHOENIX any day over the eye candy, flashy cars, abandoned luxury high-rises and the sounds of latin jazz that makes me boogie my ass all the way OFF! (I ***LOVE*** Cuban radio, btw. Love, Love, LOVE!!!) The drive to Key West is one of the most spectacular sites you will ever see. My long-time followers have heard that (probably a couple of times) but you newcomers have not. If you go to Key West on an island jumper or any flight, you are missing out on one of the most breathtaking drives you will ever take in your lifetime. Up there….no, wait… SURPASSES Pacific Coast Highway. (And I’m not just saying that because I’ve traveled PCH more than anyone who doesn’t live along the Cali coastal highway. I really mean it!)

Now, I’m not going into the specifics of why I don’t like Miami. But the fact that I went into Wal-Mart and couldn’t find a Yankees shirt smaller than a XXXXL didn’t help any! I will say this: I was told by my cabbie today that real estate in S. Florida is on the rebound thanks to Hugo Chavez driving all of the Venezuelans with the means to get out and they’re all heading to Miami. Yup. Just like the Canadians are buying up houses in AZ like you and me buy a new HDTV. And it’s juuuuuuuuuust what the doctor ordered: More beautiful Latinos for a city that HAS to be one of the best-looking cities on the planet! LOL!!!

Nope. Specifics on why Miami rubs me wrong stays with me & those in my VERY small inner circle. I will say this, though: Regardless of what has transpired in Miami/Ft. Lauderdale, Bad Boys II will *always* be one of my favorite movies!!!

🙂

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Bueno!!!

It’s a brand new day!!! I had a “Uh-Oh! I think I fu*ked up” moment a few minutes ago.

I’m looking out the window at the hot guy loading the bags onto the plane & I think I see my bag. “Oh, there it is!” I thought, as I checked out his finely sculpted calves & his ankle weights. ANYWAY. It wasn’t my bag. He finishes the whole cart & I didn’t see my bag. Then he goes to start on the *next* cart and I see my bag!!! Yay!!! BUT WAIT… The guy on the plane says something & he *doesn’t* grab my bag, they pack it up and drive off. What the……….

I’m confused.

The pilot says: “Flight blah, blah, blah to Philly, approximate flight time 49 minutes.” HUH?!?!? One of the flight attendants is in the rear galley, making friggin’ pizzas or whatever and I’m like “Ummmmm, this may sound cray, as we say in the LBC, but I think I *might* be on the wrong plane. I’m trying to go to Miami.” She asks to see my ticket and checks it on the list. She hands me the ticket back: “You’re in right place.” She smiles and the couple sitting across the isle laughed. We all laughed. My laughter was a little uneasy but I was SO relieved as the man says “That sinking feeling as you start to break out in a cold sweat!” Ain’t THAT the truth!!!

I never did find out where they took my bag to.

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It takes discipline…

not to $pend all of my money on tasty cocktails, LOL!!!

Every time I come back east, I get all nostalgic. NYC just does it for me. Like Chicago does it for me. Like Tokyo did it for me. I’m in CT this evening. Should have done laundry but I blew it off. Oh to da wizzell, LOL!!!

So, City Limits Diner is celebrating it’s 10th anniversary this month. (YAY!!!) One of *the* premier eateries in the NYC area. They’ll be around for a bit 😉

Just jammin’ out, returning some emails and thinking of a good ole fashioned 121st & Adam Clayton Powell Uptown haircut, right about now. Yes, I am! And some Jamaican food! I haven’t had Jamaican food in a *minute*.

I’ve never noticed how much 7th Wonder reminds me of Instant Funk. Hmmmmmm…. Daisy Lady is mah jam, playa!!! LOL!!! Reminds me of the early days of hip-hop. The Celebrity Club, Harlem World, The Dixie, Soundview, Hunt’s Point, 125th Street back when it had flava. *Sigh* I don’t listen to too much hip-hop these days. It just doesn’t do it for me. What is *good* rap music, you ask? Wu Tang Clan’s ‘Heaterz’ or Public Enemy’s ‘Sophisticated Bitch.’

Damn, I’m old! LOL!!!

It amazes me how it all keeps evolving, though. I see the young rappers pushin’ their CD’s on tourists strolling through Times Square & I wonder: “Do any of these cats have any skills?” My inquiring mind would really like to know. Maybe I should put it all to rest and pick up a couple of CD’s. Who knows? One of those bruthas might be the next 50 Cent or Jay-Z.

The sista that works at the Time Square told me that people in New York are “hype” that the Nets are back in the 5 boros. Brooklyn Nets gear, all over the place. But you know me: Yanks over Mets. Knicks over Mets. I’m old school. I like the ORIGINALS! Dublin Dr. Pepper over Dr. Pepper/Snapple Inc. Dr. Pepper. Cane sugar over high fructose corn syrup. Etc. Etc. And so on. And so on.

Good night from Stamford.

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Someone is sayin’ bad stuff about you…

and person’s name is Sh*tt Romney!!! I just read an article that there is a secret video of Romney saying that 47% of you are broke-asses that will vote for PRESIDENT Obama because you’re addicted to government cheesy poofs, LOL!!!

Even Fox “News” has the prez up 49-44%, so….. LOL!!! It looks like I may not have to flee the US after all 🙂

I’m really starting to believe that Ron-ME’$ advisers are really working for da boss, Señor Applesauce. But who knows? Maybe he really IS that stoopid, LOL!!! (Stoopid is much more stupido than stupid, btw.)

As much as I know that you don’t tune in to hear me talk politics,I can’t help but flap my yap about Flip Romney flappin’ *his* yap. The fact is, if you’re not sittin’ on top of 7 figures, you might as well dig a six foot hole and hop in. Get all warm & snuggly with the other broke-asses *oops* average Americans.

That’s it. For now.

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I’m starting my day…

with a Bloody Mary, a drink that I haven’t had in a very, VERY long time.

Maybe I’m feeling a little reflective today. Maybe it’s because I haven’t blogged in a while and wanted to check to make sure that you’re still aboard for what has become an increasingly interesting ride.

I am actually taking a ride now. On a plane. Again. And I’m thinking “I miss Jet Blue.” The guy next to me starting dozing *immediately* and his legs are super friggin’ long because he is very tall and that made me think about Jet Blue’s ‘every seat is first class’ thing. And HBO. Because they have Direct TV. Why did I fly them so much? Were airline tickets really that cheap? Or did I not really have concerns about money back then, like I do now. Yup. K-Square has money concerns. Don’t get me wrong, I’m far from broke, but I got my eye on my pennies, LOL!!! (Don’t get it twisted. I have fun but I HAVE to take care of business. Empire building ain’t easy!)

Sometimes I feel like the evil Empire in Star Wars. Not the first one, but The Empire Strikes Back, where they are building the super deluxe Death Star. LOL!!! Some say porn is evil and if I aspire to build a pornographic empire, well… 2+2, baby! It all ads up 😉 When I worked in NYC, back in the day??? I had several coworkers that called me evil, LOL!!! Lovingly, of course. As in they loved me but thought I was evil at the same time.

I’m going to stay on the subject of porn as I thank ALL of my Tumblr followers! There a quite a few of you now and the purpose of the page, so you know if so you can keep track of what I look like naked between photo shoots! It has been a while since the gym & my last photo shoot and it’s important for everybody to know that I am NOT retired. Yes, it is getting further and further, the time between movies and all but that is only because I’m in full-on concentration mode, lining up my first shoots and trying to make sure I get to where I need to be, on time, each and every time.

I know that a lot of people use these platforms to answer questions that are asked to/of them by their fans and admirers, but *I* am going to ask all of *you* a serious question. But not now, later.

😉

Until… Have a nice day 🙂 And by the time you read this, I will be at my layover spot: Chicago, baby! MY city! The WINDY city! Chi town!

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Generating eXXXcitement, NOW!!!

I don’t know if I can even *be* more excited. I went to bed at… I don’t know… 11 o’clock, maybe. (I can’t remember. Hmm… I wonder if those melon sangrias at Applebee’s had anything to do with that, LOL!?!?!)

As you probably know, I am back in Milwaukee (one of my FAVORITE cities, aka Mini-Chicago, bka Brew City) and I’m going from here to Vegas. And who DOESN’T get excited for a Vegas trip. I swear I’ve done Vegas a dozen times, this year! Or maybe over the last year.

And coming up is Miami & Seattle, which I’m REALLY jazzed!!! I’m going to begin shooting FINALLY with some really AMAZING talent!!! Yes, I know! I use the word amazing a lot, LOL!!! But those of you who know what my career was *before* I worked in banking know where I picked that word up from, LMAO!!! Yes!!!

*yawn*

I’m tired but I can’t go back to sleep. I’m way too excited. Ha Ha!

Last night Peyton Manning made a mockery of some team. I forget who. But it wasn’t pretty. Well, if was pretty fucking cool, though. I thought Peyton was through and laughed when Denver let Tebow go, choosing Manning over him. Now it looks like Peyton is having the last laugh. Of course I was telling someone last night that I’m still sore over the Falcons loss to the Broncos in Super Bowl XXXIII, so many years ago. And I’m still PISSED that the Yankees blew that friggin’ 3-0 series lead to the Red Sox in the AL Championship back in 2004. I do believe I shed tears that night as well, as I was leaving work in my favorite Yankees hat that I don’t even fucking have anymore probably because it was a very unlucky hat and CAUSED the Yankees to lose but I digress…

My first run-on sentence of the month. Yea, I’m emotional. And don’t even get me STARTED on the Knicks!

Yes, I’m excited. BIG things are happening! Most of them I can talk about because… well… I just can’t (or won’t) talk about. You all know that I’m more about doing than talking. My travels may seem a bit erratic & spontaneous at times but *most* times my destinations are well thought out ahead of time. (I already know that I’ll be in Denver Oct 21 thru Oct 23, for instance.) And now that I think about it, I have a hotel reservation to make!

Have a MAGNIFICENT Monday and a wonderful week to come!

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Sometimes I need a score card…

to keep up with my own whereabouts, LOL!!!

I’m seriously thinking about getting a place in Chicago. It’s the city right now that keeps calling my name and every time I think about Chi, I get the warm-n-fuzzies. Very reminiscent of the feeling that I used to get when I thought of Tucson. (GO, WILDCATS!!! LOL!!!)

If you’ve never been to Chicago, you don’t have any idea what you are missing. It really is one of America’s great cities! And in recent years, they have been steady making moves towards being a world class city! (Some may say that Chitown has already arrived, although the skyrocketing crime rate leads me to believe that they need Rudi to go in there and shake things up a bit. I was raised in NJ and can tell you that NYC is 100,000 times safer than it was when I was growing up!)

I’m back in the desert, btw. LOL, I know! Right!?!?! I didn’t expect me to be back so soon, either! But surprise, surprise! Here I am!

And when I hit the desert, I’m always on the prowl for the best Mexican food, javelina, where da fiestas at(?), good beer and Jan Brewer in a 2-piece, LOL!!!

Well… Off to breakfast with a friend and then I have some phone calls to make.

Have a wonderful day, my friends! Or evening, if you are on the other side of the globe 🙂

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