You Are Not A Poet » News http://www.youarenotapoet.com Where I Eat My Words – Or You Eat Yours Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:04:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 After Michigan bans smoking in restaurants and bars, Sen. Joe Hune fights to cut cigarette taxes http://www.youarenotapoet.com/2011/08/after-michigan-bans-smoking-in-restaurants-and-bars-sen-joe-hune-fights-to-cut-cigarette-taxes/ http://www.youarenotapoet.com/2011/08/after-michigan-bans-smoking-in-restaurants-and-bars-sen-joe-hune-fights-to-cut-cigarette-taxes/#comments Tue, 02 Aug 2011 13:05:40 +0000 Susan J. Demas | MLive.com Contributor ]]> http://www.youarenotapoet.com/2011/08/after-michigan-bans-smoking-in-restaurants-and-bars-sen-joe-hune-fights-to-cut-cigarette-taxes/feed/ 0 White House defends invite to rapper Common http://www.youarenotapoet.com/2011/05/white-house-defends-invite-to-rapper-common/ http://www.youarenotapoet.com/2011/05/white-house-defends-invite-to-rapper-common/#comments Wed, 11 May 2011 19:11:02 +0000 W.C. Pikey http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42992773/ns/politics-white_house/ http://www.youarenotapoet.com/2011/05/white-house-defends-invite-to-rapper-common/feed/ 0 With poems, teens say goodbye to Cabrini http://www.youarenotapoet.com/2011/04/with-poems-teens-say-goodbye-to-cabrini/ http://www.youarenotapoet.com/2011/04/with-poems-teens-say-goodbye-to-cabrini/#comments Sun, 24 Apr 2011 14:54:38 +0000 W.C. Pikey http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42738045/ns/us_news/ Prague-born artist and teacher Jan TichyEvery day at sundown, the gutted shell of the last Cabrini Green public housing tower takes on a ghostly aura as lights start flickering sporadically from 15 floors of empty rooms.


]]> http://www.youarenotapoet.com/2011/04/with-poems-teens-say-goodbye-to-cabrini/feed/ 0 Witness: Co-defendant wielded machete in attack http://www.youarenotapoet.com/2010/11/witness-co-defendant-wielded-machete-in-attack/ http://www.youarenotapoet.com/2010/11/witness-co-defendant-wielded-machete-in-attack/#comments Wed, 03 Nov 2010 20:11:59 +0000 W.C. Pikey http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39993522/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/ William Marks takes the stand during Steven Spader's trial in Nashua, N.H., on Nov. 2. Spader is on trial for the second week for his role in the murder of Kimberly Cates and the attack on her daughter Jaimie in Mont Vernon, N.H., in October 2009. A teenager who was in the room during a deadly home invasion acknowledged Wednesday that he wrote a poem saying he liked to cut up women with an ax but insisted it was two co-defendants, not him, who hacked the victims with a machete and knife.


]]> William Marks takes the stand during Steven Spader's trial in Nashua, N.H., on Nov. 2. Spader is on trial for the second week for his role in the murder of Kimberly Cates and the attack on her daughter Jaimie in Mont Vernon, N.H., in October 2009. A teenager who was in the room during a deadly home invasion acknowledged Wednesday that he wrote a poem saying he liked to cut up women with an ax but insisted it was two co-defendants, not him, who hacked the victims with a machete and knife.


]]> http://www.youarenotapoet.com/2010/11/witness-co-defendant-wielded-machete-in-attack/feed/ 0 Theodore Sorensen, top JFK aide, dies at 82 http://www.youarenotapoet.com/2010/10/theodore-sorensen-top-jfk-aide-dies-at-82/ http://www.youarenotapoet.com/2010/10/theodore-sorensen-top-jfk-aide-dies-at-82/#comments Sun, 31 Oct 2010 20:57:43 +0000 W.C. Pikey http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39939573/ns/politics-more_politics/ President-elect John F. Kennedy with Theodore Sorensen, right, discussing West Virginia's economic problems in this December 1960 file photo.Theodore C. Sorensen, the studious, star-struck aide and alter ego to President John F. Kennedy whose crisp, poetic turns of phrase helped idealize and immortalize a tragically brief administration, died Sunday. He was 82.


]]> President-elect John F. Kennedy with Theodore Sorensen, right, discussing West Virginia's economic problems in this December 1960 file photo.Theodore C. Sorensen, the studious, star-struck aide and alter ego to President John F. Kennedy whose crisp, poetic turns of phrase helped idealize and immortalize a tragically brief administration, died Sunday. He was 82.


]]> http://www.youarenotapoet.com/2010/10/theodore-sorensen-top-jfk-aide-dies-at-82/feed/ 0 Deep Thoughts by War Machine: Part 8 http://www.youarenotapoet.com/2010/10/deep-thoughts-by-war-machine-part-8/ http://www.youarenotapoet.com/2010/10/deep-thoughts-by-war-machine-part-8/#comments Thu, 14 Oct 2010 19:16:15 +0000 Beth http://www.galsguidetomma.com/2010/10/14/1751431/deep-thoughts-by-war-machine-part-8

Please excuse me for slacking.  War Machine put up his latest blog last week and I just saw it now!  I guess this Gal can only stand so much awesomeness at once.  I need a longer break in between War Machine's prison blog sagas.  This week, Mr. Machine thrills us with tales of body hair, masturbation (again), drugs, and Hepatitis C (my second favorite venereal disease).  Does anyone else feel that War Machine may be breaking some prison "bro code" by talking about all the drugs that make their way into prison?  Watch your ass, War Machine, and Godspeed.

3 months done! Doesn't seem like I've been here that long. I hope the next months fly by in the same way! I finally got fed up with growing all this damn body hair and took advantage of the privacy of temporarily not having a celly, and I shaved. Man I feel better! I don't know how other guys can stand that shit. They think it's gross if a girl has a "bush" and yet they have pubes longer than their own dongs! LOL! 

Anyway, still the same ole boring shit here... I think I've broken the world record for the amount of times someone has "spanked it" in one day many times over! LOL! I finally got on a steady workout regime. I was getting skinny & fat at the same time... UGH!

What else... man these guys here have all kinds of lil' tricks! They've even developed ways so their friends can send them stuff in the mail. The jail checks all the mail we get too, but it still gets by! I don't understand why anyone would want to be high on meth or heroine or whatever and be up for days on end in here with NOTHING to do, but plenty of them do it. It'd be easy to come to jail clean and leave a junkie. Glad I'm not one to fuck around with shit like that. It's a huge business thogh. I hear stories of guys in prison literally getting RICH while serving life or long sentences from selling dope. Crazy.

And SO MANY of the guys here have Hepatitis C!! I don't know how easy it is to catch but it makes me nervous being celled up with someone who has it!! That would end my fighting career! One more reason to avoid fighting in here though, last thing I want is that blood on me... ugh!

So a few of the cops that work here at the jail told me they were curious and "Googled" my name. They told me that they watched the surveillance footage of the fight that landed me here. Unanimously they agreed that it was bullshit! They told me they can't believe I got charged and nobody else did. Furthermore, they said it was ridiculous that I received a felony as a result. I already knew this but it's nice to have police officers share the opinion. At most, I should have gotten a misdemeanor battery, lame. Watch for yourself. YouTube search "War Machine Bar Brawl."

Either way, I shouldn't be out drinking and putting myself in situations where problems can occur, but I just hate the fact that I'm labeled as some arch criminal, bully, when it's not the case. The bouncer I fought in Vegas was my co-worker and was 6'3" 350 lbs. The fight I got into at the porn party was me vs. 7 guys and I was NEVER EVEN CHARGED because the cops/DA ruled it self-defense. Don't believe the hype/media. As a professional, I'm always respectful in the cage and I put on entertaining fights. When I'm free again, I won't put myself in shitty situations and these mishaps will be behind me.

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