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March 28, 2010 I'm not sure why no one I tell about conch outside of Florida hasn't heard of it, but this shit needs to be well known everywhere. It's delicious. I'm told it's a shell fish. That spot called snappers has any kind of seafood you could want. Conch is good, but I'm still a shrimp man. They cost about the same.. March 27, 2010 And yes, the salesmen got me into their dealerships after gazing at the bikes on display. Shit was so cheap and the sales dude was saying, "Give me $2000 down and I'll get you on this CBR for $200 a month." I'm the kinda nigga that has to have the best of shit. Gotta have a superbike or a BIG joint down here. So, the next day, I sold my sportster. Because back in May 2008, I had gotten a steal on it. With the sale I made a huge profit. I decided against the 2010 CBR though and even against a brand new 2008 Kawasaki ninja zx10r that they're trying to push "out the doors" for $9,000(a real good price). Not really a GXR fan and the 2010 R1's are $14 g's. Seems like everytime I'm in florida, somebody comes at me with a deal on a bike. A dude offered me one I couldn't refuse. I actually bought a bike that I had wanted in 2000. Couldn't afford it then, and can't believe there are still "almost new" ones out here sitting in garages. Well, I copped a 1000cc with a little more than 200 miles on it for less than I make a week on the .com If you're gonna buy a bike. New or used, come down to Florida to get it. I wasn't gonna take the sportster to Myrtle Beach. But now I'll be posted up, admiring ass and titties there in exactly 2 months on May 27th. March 27, 2010 Alright, I'm late with the pics, but I did hit up the Ft. Lauderdale auto show a little bit over a week ago. What a drag that was. Completely different than the Detroit or L.A. shows. Maybe it was the time I went. early weekday. But I swear, I was the youngest one up in that joint. Not to mention, the only other brothas I saw were wiping fingerprints off the vehicles. Didn't see any sistas up in that joint. I didn't give a fuck about that though. It was just that the cars were BORING. Maybe I'm saying this, because in S. Florida, the real auto shows are on the streets. You actually see mothafuckas driving the "whips" you see in Ride magazine here. My observation of this car show was that it's a place where the old geezers come to decide what car they're gonna buy in the coming weeks. Salesmen were heavy up in the convention center. And the emphasis was on getting people into their dealerships after the show. March 19, 2010 Now I can't snap every classic ride I see down here in Florida. There's a lot of them. And I respect the mothafuckas driving them a lot more than the people in Michigan. In the "D" like I said last year people store there shit and pull it out on weekends. These cats down in here in Dade county drive there shit every day. Well, at lease 3 times a week. DURING THE WEEK. Not sure how I managed to get a such a good shot of the coupe Deville coming off I95. WITH MY SLR. Unbelievable how much better that one looks than mine. His is easily a $20,000 classic. And then I noticed I had a CTS in the shot too. BONUS. Them 2 cars span over 40 years. March 18, 2010 Had planned on going to the Ft. Lauderdale Autoshow today, but on my way up to F.L., I made a detour to take in some beach scenery. That detour turned into my whole day. The sand here in Florida looks so much more thinner than that in Cali. Also the color is lighter. Not better or not worse. Just different. March 14, 2010 A little late night snack. I don't goto D&D that often but looking at the 60th anniversary box brought back a hell of a lota memories. You know you're getting old when you can look at a company's old logos and say, "I remember those." Not familiar with the mr. donut though. Man, buying a plain doughnut with vanilla creme filling was my shit. I actually stopped going when they started selling them with powder on top. Now every blue moon, I'll go in like I did today, buy some "regular" donuts and then prepay for my own special batch. Yall didn't know you could do that, did you. I get a glazed donut stuffed wth vanilla creme & sprinkles. yesssir, I'll be getting my dozen tommorrow night. March 14, 2010 Before I go anywhere though, I gotta grab some untilities from here. I've even thought about taking a photography class since I don't have shit else to do all day. March 14, 2010 Everytime I see this sign, my dick gets hard. I keep seeing the part that says 50 miles away. And I'm knowing if I cough up a lil less that a days income from my porn sites, I could be boarding the plane in the morning and arriving in the bahamas an hour later. I'ma try to save some thrills though. I'll get there, but it's gonna be after Brasil and Africa. March 12, 2010 It's Friday! Not sure if I'll ever get used to seeing so many people with tracking devices on their legs. Dead reptiles. Or even coconuts on the palm trees. March 12, 2010 Yeah man, I kinda dig Tampa. Been here several times over the years. Stayed about 5 days this time though. Don't sleep on the real estate here. It's cheap. If you got extra cash, it's not a bad place to invest. But I told yall that about Orlando a few years ago to. But what do I know, right? March 11, 2010 You'd think fairly big cities in the same state, in close proximity would be pretty much the same. Yeah, in Michigan Flint, Detroit, Grand Rapids pretty much the same. In Florida Tampa, Orlando, Jacksonville, Tallahassee, Miami seem like very different places. But then again, maybe because I'm just so familiar with Michigan and new to Florida. March 11, 2010 It's interesting how shit can be so different in such a short distance. As I move from Georgia to Florida. Shit seems completely different. I'm talking temperature, trees and even peoples accents. I mention it, because it ain't really like that going from Michigan to Ohio or Cali to Nevada. and oh yeah, I gotta get on one of those things. March 11, 2010 On the road and I spotted the exact same car I had back in 1992. Same mothafuckin' color. And you know what, back then I hated that POS. My first car. I Got it at an auction and believe me it looked a lot better sitting in that lot than it did when I took it home. To make matters worse, it used to sputter when you mashed the accelarator. I was going to lunch with a girl and she opened my passenger door at Mcdonalds and some old bitch speeds by and hits my door bending it so it wouldn't close all the way. I had to tie that mothafucka shut. Then I can remember pulling out from my High School parking lot at the end of the day. Yall know how it is when you're a teen rushing to get as far away from school as you can right? Well my mothafuckin' mustang stopped right in front of the exit. Horns started honking at me. Students started yelling lol. My homies who were in the back and passenger seats started ducking down...lol, you know what? I'd pay anything to have that car right now. The memories that came from seeing someone elses car on the highway are priceless. Hard to believe it was 18 years ago that I was driving that car around Metro Detroit. NWA, DJ Quik, MC eiht, Ice cube was always blasting outta my alpine pullout. Nothing but that west coast shit back then. And you know what else. While typing this, I just remembered trying to pick up hookers in it. I was 17, rolling all the way down Woodward avenue fucking with 25,30 year old bitches. They was bad back then though. Damn, if only I could see some of those hoes right now. 18 years later. lol, the Euclid hotel. Got dammit, I wonder if it's still there. You better believe I'm never gettin' rid of my '02. Might even add that '11 5.0 joint this fall. But then again, would be nicer to have the '12 then I'd be spanning 10 years. March 7, 2010 So wait a minute. Have I been under a rock or something. How long has Taco Bell been selling these Shrimp Tacos. Maaaan, Hadn't had one of these since the last time I was in Tijuana. Saw the commercial last night and I made it a point to stop at a Taco Bell to get one today. The best part about them is they don't skimp on the shrimp. March 7, 2010 Yesssir, rollin' south on I75(I'm already at my destination as I type this). Yo is that sugar inside of that big container? been buying Pioneer brand sugar from the grocery store for years. March 6, 2010 I gotta admit, leaving now feels so much better than when I did in 2006 or when I went on my "leaves" over the past few years. I turned onto I-75 feeling like a champion. I feel like I took on every big bad thing possible and conquered it. If you're reading this right now, no offense, but you can't tell me SHIT. I'm the man right now and probably for now on. Every fuckin' "i" has been dotted, and every damn "t" has been crossed. I don't owe anyone anything, No one "got rid of me", there's no warrants, no outstanding tickets(lol, in 2006, I was dirty as mothafucka) I'm healthy, happy and financially set for LIFE. Saved money like a mothafucka over the past 10 years, planned and plotted everything I wanted to do with my after-work life when I got fired 4 years ago. You may be looking in, thinking I just do shit on a whim. I'm spontaneouse, but mostly I think things out. I just type this blog off the top of my head. Seen and done everything I ever wanna do in the "D". Not tryin' to be in anymore titty bars, no mo clubs and if it's a concert, I'll catch it in L.A. Fucked so much Detroit pussy that I just don't want anymore. So I'm gone. You see, real niggaz do whatever the fuck they wanna do. Suckas do whatever they're allowed to do. I swear I was thinkin' about all the haters that I've come across in my life since graduatng high school(ever notice how you was cool with everyone in H.S. but in the real world, everyone is gunning for you?) When I saw the plate on that Porsche truck with 20something rims getting off on wyoming & Fenkell, I pulled up on the side, saw the bad ass 12 on a scale of 10 bitch that was driving it. I gave her a thumbs up and said, "I see you girl. Do yo thing. hahahahahaha". She laughed. Not gonna lie, I am gonna miss my hole in the wall joints. Been doing these 2 since the 90's. Sat at the top one gazing at a fat booty bitch named Brooklyn back in 2001. Her ass hypnotized me. She was almost the first model that I was gonna shoot. Think she wanted me to pay for a babysitter or something though so I passed. Knew from that point that I had to get paid from my love of looking at hoes. Sitting at the bottom one, a few beers, a hoodrat and deep thought one night actually gave me the idea to use the dash when naming one of my sites Chic-Chick. Just wouldn't look right as chicchick. People might be thinking "Chicc hick" or something. March 6, 2010 Ford and Chrysler headquarters. Over the years I had shot the RenCen aka GM headquaters many times. Hell look at the top of this blog, it's been there for years(changing it next month). I had never ever ventured into the burbs to shoot these 2 though. Pretty ironic since for 10 years I worked for Chrysler Financial which was under the same DaimlerChrysler and then Chrysler LLC umbrella before they were left behind by the Fiat owned Chrysler Group LLC. Also Looking at that Ford Headquarters in Dearborn building every single morning for almost 2 years, it's what made me realize I wanted to work in the auto industry. At UM-Dearborn, you could literally sit in my classes, look out the window and see Ford buildings. Told yall a while back in the blog how just seeing mothafuckas at lunch wearing their FoMoCo badges had me making it a goal to be down with one of the big 3. On a side note, in Orange county a few months ago I got a chance to see Hyundai's U.S. headquarters. They're sells are actually climbing better than any other car company in America right now. I still think MEN that drive Korean cars are Beyatches. Don't fool yourself, there's nothing masculine about Hyundai's or KIA's. March 6, 2010 Ended leaving this morning instead of last night. I started realizing all the spots that I had never hit over my almost 9 years of doing the .com/.net Definitely should have hit up Pontiac. I stopped and got a burger in the Oakland County city today. It's about 30 minutes from Detroit. Where the Lions use to play, right around the corner from Auburn Hills where the Pistons play now. If I was gonna do Michigan again. I'd definitely hit up hoes in Yac town, Flint, Saginaw, Ypsilanti and Grand Rapids. I have good memories of pickin' up hizzoes on Division street in G.R. back in College. Got too boring in Big Rapids my sophomore year so I'd drive the 45 minutes and spend my weekends in G.R. March 5, 2010 t Tough choice deciding what to eat before I roll the fuck outta Detroit. It's Friday, so I was kinda thinkin' fish or shrimp. I picked one of my favorites though. No Happy's Pizza this week. Went to the whole in the wall joint I'm always raving about on Michigan Avenue and Livernois. Finishing up a big dish of baked spaghetti right now. I guess I'll let yall keep clicking in to determine where I'll be after today. Give you a clue, it's only gonna be L.A. or Miami. March 4, 2010 I kinda felt nostalgic back in December 2008, Showed yall some spots from my past. Did the same thing in May of 2009. Anyways, I guess when you're proud of where you've come from, you like showing that shit off. People say it ain't where you're from, it's where you're at. I disagree. Everywhere I go, I always think back to where I'm from. It shapes what I do everyday. I shot the pics below last summer when school was out for the year. All My elemetary schools and my junior high. Good times. I'm almost certain the third one down closed for good last summer. There was no name anywhere on or around the building. Like I said in my November podcast, I think it's a blessing to be able to cruise through places that you grew up and show others, your kids, grand kids with pride. Then there are the parks. Dewey, the first one I ever played at. With the flagpole I used to swing on still there. And the last picture on bottom is Einstein field. it's where I learned how to play flag football. I can still hear my young coaches blasting Dougie Fresh & Slick Rick and Rob Base live on the radio as we played. WOW! March 3, 2010 So yeah, wasn't able to get out of the "D" as fast as I thought. I've accumulated a lot of shit over the last 3 years. I spent the last couple days trying to find a way to get all my shit up outta here. lol, thought sure I would've been on I95 the day after I turned my old work badge in. But naw, I figured let me do things right so I won't have to come back. I should be gone before this weekend though. While taking a break from boxing shit up, I figured I'd look back at the single most thing responsible for me leaving for good: My inability to make things happen in a place that's just too fucked up. In terms of money, Detroit has gotta be the cheapest place in the country to live. It'll fool you. Because when it comes to the toll that the city or should I say the people in the city takes on your mind and soul, it's the most expensive place in the U.S.A. Back in 2006, when I had been fired from my job, I went out to L.A. and financed a crib. At that point, I wanted to be there for good. but because I was in the UAW, I knew I was gonna get my job back. So basically, I figured I'd go through the motions of moving. Then when I got my job back, I'd go back to Detroit, collect back pay and bounce. I told the story 3 years ago. March 2007. The one thing a dude in L.A. I know. What up Anthony! said, "John, you're leaving a gold mine. You can buy houses for a couple weeks pay. Own it outright and never have to pay anyone anything again. You need to go back to Detroit and get you a few of those houses. You can't do that here in L.A. you're gonna be paying for your house here forever." Already having a spot out west, I figured I'd get one in my hometown just to hold on to for visits. I was so mothafuckin' gased up when I came back to the "D" in 2007. I started buying houses from the city of Detroit's auction website. I bought a couple and flipped them. But the one you're looking at above is the one I fell in love with. Figured I'd show it to yall now. I bought it for $500. look at that pretty brick house. Sure it needed work, but I only paid $500 for it. The value could do nothing but go up, right? The house next to it was just as nice. It was abandoned as well, but not for sell. I figured someone would eventually rehab that house. On the other side of the house I had bought was 2 vacant lots. I was gonna buy them both from the city when I had made my house liveable. I'm tellin' yall I had visions of creating a fortress. Iron gates, a 4 car garage. All kinds of shit. I hurried up and got the utilities going in that bitch before the city cut the line. I'd spend a few hours at the house cleaning shit up, prepping things for repair. But when I'd leave in the afternoon and come back the next morning, the boards had been removed. I was gonna get someone to live in it for me and help do the repairs, but niggaz just kept busting in before I could get someone in there. Then, the final straw was when niggaz came in and actually lifted the tub out of the bathroom window. I just couldn't see myself putting my hard earned money out there for niggaz to just take. So I threw my towel in. I rarely just GIVE UP on things, but I knew that even if I had got shit the way I wanted it with that house, I wouldn't even be comfortable leaving it to goto work. I'd be at my 9 to 5 and niggaz with nothing else to do would be finding a way to get through any alarm system or dogs. Just not worth it. The same can be said about the entire city. There's just too many fucked up people in the "D". At this point, I wouldn't live in the city of Detroit if you gave me a house and paid me to live in it. I can't do suburban Detroit either because it's just too boring. I grew up there. I laugh when people I know in other states talk about going to Detroit to buy property now. The fucked up thing is that I really do believe there are BIG things on the horizon for Detroit. Detroit is international border city, surrounded by fresh water and really off the radar. I'm gonna be looking back at this blog entry 20 years from now when Detroit is a hot spot. I'll know that I tried everything I could do to get a piece of the action early. But let me tell yall whats gonna have to happen before Detroit can be the place to be. First, the blight has to be demolished. Second, what's left will have to be secured. You'll find that once security is in place a lot of people(squatters) will be removed from places that they shouldn't be. That's when further undesireables will be removed by simply raising the price of property in the secured areas. Then the new development comes in. Yeah, I know there's already a plan in place. For yall brave investors that have time to wait it out. Buy up and Enjoy! BEFORE scrappers AFTER scrappers noticed this article in The Philadelphia Trumpet while sitting in the doctors office last week. Previously February January ©2010 Foul Fowl Entertainment powered by: