You\u2019d think, after 50 years of grainy photographs, people would just give up.\u00a0 Okay, maybe you saw a UFO, but if you can\u2019t present quality evidence\u2026well, shut up.<\/p>\n
I still keep my subscription to that blog, though, because of the occasional black woman in a cow suit story<\/a>.<\/p>\n That\u2019s right, baby.\u00a0 A blog\u2019s not a blog without a black woman in a cow suit. I think I\u2019ve found my true love\u2026<\/p>\n A police report filed about the incident said Michelle Allen allegedly chased children in her neighborhood while wearing the suit on Monday evening.<\/p>\n Allen also urinated on a neighbor’s front porch, the report said, and was warned by officers to go home and stay there.<\/p>\n Allen was charged with disorderly conduct after an officer found her causing traffic problems on North Verity Parkway.<\/p>\n The officer’s report stated that Allen was verbally abusive to him on the trip to jail and smelled of alcohol.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n It concerns me that I\u2019m able to easily picture doing all that.\u00a0 Kids playing noisily outside my apartment?\u00a0 Time for the cowsuit!<\/p>\n A message to American blacks:\u00a0 Middletown, Ohio is the place to be.\u00a0 If a black woman in DC put on a cow suit and was verbally abusive to a cop, she\u2019d probably get shot about 50 times.<\/p>\n \u201cMooooo\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s it, bitch!\u201d\u00a0 *KABLAM KABLAM*<\/p>\n Things like that make Halloween interesting.\u00a0 Oh my god!\u00a0 It\u2019s a tinfoil robot!\u00a0 Get the shotgun and call in for backup!<\/p>\n That\u2019s probably more an LAPD thing, actually.\u00a0 Do they have Halloween in black neighborhoods?\u00a0 Because I wouldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n Halloween, in general, is something that should be discontinued.\u00a0 I grew up in a ritzy white neighborhood and people still put dogs on me.\u00a0 Of course, I dressed up as a ninja and snuck around in people\u2019s backyards and garages and tried to surprise them.\u00a0 Here\u2019s a nice, oversized picture<\/a> that I can\u2019t be bothered to adjust.\u00a0 Do you know how hard it was to creep around with those sunglasses on?\u00a0 Those are my glacier glasses, by the way.\u00a0 I am a child of the 80\u2019s.\u00a0 I may have also owned a pair of parachute pants, but we won\u2019t talk about that\u2026<\/p>\n But, anyway, I\u2019m not here to write about that, either.\u00a0 I\u2019m here to direct you to this thread<\/a>, where I posted a few pictures from my recent New Orleans trip.\u00a0 I go down there to visit friends, so I don\u2019t actually do much New Orleans stuff.\u00a0 I just sit around their apartment and watch British TV on an antique laptop, drinking constantly and getting grouchy.\u00a0 Pretty much what I do at home, except it feels healthier when you\u2019re not alone.<\/p>\n I don\u2019t regret being a shut-in when I travel to NOLA, because I don\u2019t much like the town.\u00a0 We had a hard object lesson with Katrina of something that everyone always knew:\u00a0 New Orleans is not in the United States.\u00a0 So everywhere you go, even the high tourist spots, you have the faint whiff of utter poverty and overwhelming human cruelty.\u00a0 Nor is there a plucky hope of renewal to offset that.\u00a0 It\u2019s just a sad city full of sad people who have been betrayed by their government and left to rot for years.<\/p>\n Even the upbeat people who have gotten over the disaster live a life measured in \u201cbefore the storm\u201d and \u201cafter the storm\u201d dates.\u00a0 That bar opened after the storm.\u00a0 Oh, he\u2019s been riding a scooter since before the storm.<\/p>\n But I like my friends down there and, yes, I let them paint my toenails cobalt blue with glitter.\u00a0 Which might be hard to explain this weekend when my grandfather comes to stay with me for three days.<\/p>\n (You can find more pictures of me in Halloween costumes right here.<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019ve discovered something terrible:\u00a0 I\u2019m addicted to Google Reader. Five days out of town, checking email in the mornings but, otherwise, ignoring the internet, and I let Google Reader slide a bit.\u00a0 Now, I subscribe to 300 blogs (because I\u2019m …<\/p>\n
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