Free Art Friday: Want free art? Only catch is you Gotta Find Them.

There have been several Free Art Friday drops made by me today in downtown Cincinnati.  Three of which are magnets made by Nicolette Stefanopoulos, the founder of the Cincinnati chapter, and the forth is the poem I wrote earlier.  All we ask is that you post if you retrieve them on the facebook page, Cincinnati Free Art Friday. Like the page too while you are at it.  You can also tweet us your discovery @FAFCincinnati or #FAFCincy.

How to Find The Hulk

How to Find The Game Boy

How to Find The Bow

How To Find The Poem (I'm sure all the ladies will be flocking to this)

If I were a bird.

If I were a bird, I could just fly away.
South for the winter, come back in May.
I could be a swan, maybe a blue jay.
But all I am is a human today.

If I were a bear, I would be so strong.
I would fight enemies when they were wrong.
I could sleep in so winters were not long,
But I am human; all I have is song.

If I were a mouse, nobody could see.
I would be a blur whenever I flee.
I could keep to myself and just be me
But human is really all I can be.

If I were a hog, I could eat all night,
Bathe in mud, not a problem in my sight,
I could outsmart my enemies and be bright.
But I am human, if that is all-right.

If I were the sun, I shine on the bay.
Brighten you up when the skies were so gray.
I could burn my enemies, with one ray,
But all I am is human today.

If Mike Tython grew up ath Me and a Justin Bieber story.

So today I want to talk about Title 9 and how professional sports should never be integrated with women and men....just kidding.  I am finished with the sexism talk and I have moved on to a new topic.  In a previous blog, 

Mike Tython, Charlie Sheen, Giant Sloths, Living Forever, and Diabetes...oh and Chaz is still in on DWTS, obviously I talked about an actual sexist, Mike Tyson or as I referred to him Mike Tython.  Here is the quote from the blog I wrote on Mr. Tython. As the blog states, he is a major sexist.  I refer to him as an awesome guy, but I in no way condone his treatment of women.  I was referring to him in context as Mike Tython the comedian not Mike Tython the sexist bastard that he is.  He is a crazy interview.  He has told a female reporter once, "I wanna make you my girlfriend," and "I don't do interviewth wiff women unleth I fornicate wiff them."  He is a true sexist and a wife beater. To compare him to me is an apple and oranges comparison.  I figured as a transition to get off of these low vibes that my blog has been creating lately, and by request from my friend, I would write in the point of view of Mike Tython if he lived in my shoes for a day.  He would have my brain and life, but his body and voice if that makes any sense at all.

If Mike Tython Grew up ath Me.

Goth I hate diabeteths. I blame my father becauthe of hith geneth.  It'th okay though.  I know he meanth well and I love him to deaf.  I have thethe thudden urrgeth sthometimeths to eat children.  I don't know where that cometh from.  Maybe I've lived in two bodieth or sthomethin.  I don't know.  I want a tattoo but Dad disthaproveths.  I had thith dream that I got one on my facce. It'ths really weird it almostht feels like I've done it before.  I think it would look really cool.  

I love my job.  I work in inthurance. it'th not really what I went to sthchool for but I love the people I work with and I feel like I fit in.  I get thethe momenths of anger though. I don't know where they come from.  I juthst wanna punthch people in the damn fathe. I feel really sthrong, but really I'm sthy and people don't realize I'm a gentle giant and wouldn't hurt a fly unleth you really get on my nerveths then I would punch the hell out of your eye.

I love my family.  They alwayths have my back.  I don't work well with them in team sthporths though esthpethially volleyball.  They jutsht get stho damn angry.   I don't really know how to deal with it.  Sthometimeths I justht feel helpleths with them on my court.  

Dating isth fun.  I have sthweet charm and I try to hold my terreths in.  All tha ladieths love me.  Goths now I justht wanna do the Dougie.  I love to danthe eventhough I'm not really that good but I don't care what people think of me.  I'm Mike Tython. It doethn't really make thence at all that I have a different name than the rest of my family.  I don't quethton it though.  I jutht go with the flow.

I am really on an ithed tea kick lately.  I love ithed tea.  I quit drinking pop and ithed tea is really hitting the preverbial sthpot lately.  I hope it makeths me lean and mean even though I'm built like a MAC truck. 

I really feel like I lived in a giant manthion and dated the beautiful Robin Givenths and I feel like sthes had an affair with Brad Pitt sthinthce me and I ****in hate it.  Here I am thiths average Joe, quite sthexy I may add, but I feel like I did date thisth chick. Sthorry if I offended all of you sthexistht out there with calling her a chick but I'm ****in Mike Tython.  I don't care.  

I hate having a sthweet toof.  God wasth toying wiff me when he gave me a sthweet toof and diabeteths.  It'ths okay though.  I know I need to take better care of mysthelf but it'ths really hard. sthugar iths like my addiction.  I often sthay, "I'm stho sthweet, God made me diabetic." I know right? Very cute.  Wilferd Brimely isth an awesthome guy how he sthaysth dia-beeeethuths. It makesth me laugh.  God I'm stho happy I don't have a stpeech impediment. 

Well ladieths and gentleman, I'm off to cauthse havoc.  Peasthe out! 

Winner of the Day: Keyshaun Johnson,  this former NFL Player chased Justin Bieber away from his mansion after he was speeding and doing other things an adolescent would do in their gated community. The story: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/follow-that-ferrari-justin-bieber-chased-by-exnfl-player-keyshawn-johnson-after-alleged-speeding-in-25mph-zone-in-la-8635682.html

Loser of the Day: Us.  My Wednesday night volleyball team got blown out three games in a row.  I have never lost three games that bad in the history of playing volleyball.

Quote of the Day: "I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds."-Mike Tyson

Song of the Day: Stu's Song by Ed Helms

Cheesy old wrestling photo of the Day:

Sexism

So what is sexism?  I have been accused of being a sexist on this blog and in all honesty if you ask 100 people what sexism is you are going to get 100 different answers.  There has been a huge debate lately on whether holding the door for a lady or paying for a lady's meal is sexist.  Everyone is entitled to their opinion but I believe that those are manners taught to us.  Women have not been given the same liberties in this country since the pilgrims first came in and settled with their own morals.  Women had their own family roles while men had theirs.  This is the way life was.  Women couldn't vote and they couldn't work.  The men were the bread winners of the family and so was life.  I am NOT saying that it is right.  I'm just saying that's the way it was.  Then came the women's rights activists like Susan B. Anthony in the late 19th Century who brought women's suffrage to the forefront of the United States culture. 

She was a pioneer and started a movement that helped lead to the 19th Amendment in 1920, allowing women the right to vote.  In the late 30's and early 40's women were asked to step in for men at the machine shops while the men were shipped to war.  Images like Rosie the Riveter became famous as the women kept production up to assist with the war. 

When the men came back, they also took a lot of their jobs back and women were asked to go back to the kitchens.  Obviously that was wrong, and it has been wrong since the days of the pilgrims as I have said.  Men have controlled women for years when they should have been on a level playing field.  Women then were allowed to get jobs like secretarial positions but they were in many cases sexually harassed and expected to do favors for male counterparts and bosses.  I watch Mad Men as you all know and it shows how women were mistreated terribly in office settings in the 60's.  In the 80's women started becoming heads of companies and although they weren't getting paid as much as their male counterparts progress was being made.  We almost had a female president in 2008.  Progress is being made and I am aware sexism still exists.  I know that some men look at women as lower than them and it truly is sad.  I'm not saying women don't have to deal with it everyday.  I have sympathized with them. I listen to their stories.  I damn well try to do something about it, but I still find it annoying to be accused of being a sexist for admitting to holding a door open for a lady or giving her my coat when she's cold or paying for her meal.  I never once in my life called a women a bitch.  It is disrespectful and degrading and I'd never do that, but people seem to put me in the same category, because I have values and beliefs that you should respect women, never cuss in front of them, and treat them like princesses because that's what they are.  I know they can hold a door open themselves but when you're on a date what is the problem with someone being a gentleman?  I just don't get it.  Extreme feminists will take anything one says to be sexist in some way.  I am not out of line in my beliefs as the extreme feminists are not out of line for believing that.  Everyone is entitled to their opinion, and to be honest the majority of females I have polled agree with me that it is a sweet gesture to hold a door open.  Are you considered offensive to an elderly person when you help them carry their groceries?  What about when you hold the door for a stranger at a restaurant? Is that inappropriate? No.  It's just polite.  If any of you know me, you know I am about as nice of a person as they come.  I don't have many enemies and I treat everyone with respect.  So please don't think I'm a sexist.  I never degrade women, unless paying for their meal is degrading but I just think it's polite.  If not we will agree to disagree and we will just never date obviously.  That as they say, is that. I'm finished defending myself.  My blogs will soon go back to the lighter side, and if you take offense to something I write, I'm sorry.  No one is forcing you to read.  Just please leave my character out of it, unless you know me.  Too many people are judgmental without knowing anything about someone else.  Get to know me then you can decide if I'm sexist.  Give me that chance. Until then, as Rodney King would say (God rest his soul), "Can't we all just get along?"

My Response, Free Art Friday, and Michael Bolton

There has been a lot of talk lately about my blogs and what I should write about.  I do take some suggestions into consideration, but when it comes down to it I'm going to write what I want to write.  I had a comment on my last blog that said my thoughts were irrelevant and I should write about what was important in the world like the Oklahoma tornado victims.  I wish them all the best and I am sorry that it happened, and I do send my prayers and support to them, however I mean no disrespect to them in any way by not writing about it but as a journalism minor I suggest if you want to read about that, go to a newspaper.  This is a blog.  It is an opinion piece where I can write about what I want when I want to write about it.  My blog isn't about current events although sometimes it can be.  It's about whatever is on my mind.  On my last blog, I had an apparent unpopular opinion and that's okay.  I'm not always going to agree with everyone on every issue and that's alright.  I will let you speak your mind and if you hate me for my opinion, first of all it's pretty shallow and secondly you don't have to read. No one is forcing you to come to this page.  On my last few blogs, I have also been accused of being sexist.  I'm not quite sure where this came from.  I'm about as far from being sexist as one could be.  People are reading way too much into one sentence on a blog.  If you all know me, I mostly hang out with female friends.  I hold the door open for them, I pay for their lunches for the most part even if they are just a friend, I stand up for them, and I support them in every way I can.  I treat them as equals and I have never disrespected them in any way.  I believe it is stupid that I even have to address this but I promise you that I am in no way sexist.  You can ask my two sisters and my mother.  You can ask my best friends.  To label me as sexist for one sentence that wasn't even out of line is very judgmental and it takes a shot at my character so I have to address it.  I hope you all continue reading as most of my blogs will be much lighter than this and more fun.  And by the way, whoever left that first comment on my last blog, please look up your facts as it is a primary offense in most states, including the state of Kentucky where I reside, to not wear your seat belt.

Winner of the Day: Free Art Friday.  What is this do you say?  It is a program to promote the arts and its basic concept is that all artists should create a piece of art each Friday and leave it somewhere for free for a random person to pick up.  According to Cincinnati representative, Nicolette Stefanopoulos, "It's about giving, getting people back into art whether that means just appreciating it or executing art. Also, it could make someone's day by finding a piece of art.It's about sharing the love, the art way." For more information please view their facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Free-Art-Friday-Cincinnati/320050141431311


Loser of the Day: Cheaters.  Five people have been charged for cheating at the new Horseshoe Casino.  The five are charged with either “capping their bets,” “pinching their bets” or “past posting” their bets, whatever that means.  Here is the article.http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20130528/NEWS/305280035

Quote of the Day: "Be so good they can't ignore you." - Steve Martin

Song of the day: "Playas Gon' Play" by 3LW

Cheesy Michael Bolton photo of the Day:

Click it or Ticket (Another cop bashing Blog)

I've never been pulled over for not wearing my seat belt.  I've been pulled over several times for several different reasons. Some of which I dispute, but not once has it been for not wearing my seat belt.  With that being said, I believe it's unconstitutional to not let me make my own decision on whether or not I want to wear my seat belt.  We've all seen the commercials with the 'Click It or Ticket' campaigns.  First of all, why are all these cops trying to be bullies? Most of the people police fine are the honest, law abiding citizens.  Certainly, no one is perfect and we all bend the rules sometimes, but I have a theory that they really sit around and literally pick on people they know will pay the fines.  

The whole police ticketing thing is all hypocritical, anyway.  If you are an attractive women, you have a far greater chance of getting out of a ticket than a 350 pound man committing the exact same violation.  I find that wrong.  If you are going to ticket people, it shouldn't be at the police officer's discretion based on looks, although I would much rather have an officer give me a ticket than some camera or airplane mailing me one, because at least with an officer there is a witness, no matter how biased he may be about the driver.  There's a human element there and it's kind of like baseball.  Don't let machines call balls and strikes.  We can live with the incorrect calls of an umpire now and then to make our game pure.  Now the umpires seem to be getting worse, but my theory is technology just got better and we can see how bad the umpires actually have been for years.  Some day drones will run this country's law enforcement and that's going to be a bad day.  You wont be able to get away with anything and the government will control are lives more than it already does and books like Fahrenheit 451 will have predicted the future.

I promise.... I'm getting back on track. In this country, we have something called, The Bill of Rights, which is the first ten amendments to the Constitution.  The first one states the following: 

Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. 

Basically it says, we are free to make our own choices.  Obviously, I'm talking about a seat belt issue.  I should have the right to decide if I want to risk my life in a vehicle without buckling up.  I'm not saying I would, but I say I should have a right to.  I would not be endangering others, which is why laws should be written (to protect others).  We allow people to destroy their bodies by smoking, but you can't drive a car without putting a seat belt on or pay for a ticket.  The cell phone pull over rule is another problem.  Obviously. texting while driving is dangerous, and it should be banned as it does endanger others but the issue is cops don't know whether a person is texting or looking at a GPS map on their phone.  I don't have an answer but it's just something that came to mind while I was writing this.   

Winner of the Day: Lebron James. Hate him or love him, the guy made a layup last night with literally no time left on the clock to win the game.  When he finishes his career, he will be one of the top 3 players of all time.  I'm not sure if he will be #1 yet.  Time will tell.

Loser of the Day: College Grads.  You are graduating at a tough time in the economy and there are very few jobs out there.  College was the easiest part of life.  Good luck.

Quote of the Day: “Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.” 
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

Song of the Day: Mr. Roboto by Styx

Thought of the day: Be a good person.  Never sell yourself out.  Be yourself.  Don't live life for anyone else and be honest.