
“…my defense is impregnable. And I’m just ferocious.”
It’s been a long week.
Normally when things are amiss, I turn to Hip-Hop to clear my head. Fifteen-thousand thoughts running at once – I need money. I need a job. I need to graduate. I need to clean. I need to do laundry. I need to call him. I need those shoes. I need money. – can be exhausting. But for some reason, my playlist just wasn’t doing the trick today.
It’s in these times that I turn to Mike Tyson.
This video is perhaps one of the greatest sources of simple-minded joy. The quotes are many and the impressions birthed from them are priceless. And what of his interview with the female reporter where he said he only speaks to women he “fornicates with?” It makes me uncomfortable just to be female. Still though…hilarious. And Punch Out?!? I often have extensive conversations about the game from my elementary school days – up-down, up-down, left-right, left-right, B-A, B-A, select, start, anyone? Read the rest of this entry »