Do I look like a criminal?

I'm a nice guy. I also like to think that I am not an unsavory person -- a good Samaritan if you will.

Wasn't the case last weekend.

Went to get sushi in Canada on Saturday with a few of my friends. I always get an uneasy feeling when crossing the Canadian border. In my head I'm like, "o shit o shit o shit o shit" while my exterior is calm and composed. Answer the questions with a firm, confident voice and boom... your're in all-the-sushi-you-can-cram-into-your-face heaven.

Didn't work this time.

At the end of the conversation, the border patrol guy said, "pull over to the side bitch-made-trick-ass-mark-ass-biatch-shut-up." Nah but he really did say pull over to the side...

Don't even know what made him do it. But I guess six dudes in a soccer mom mini-van looks pretty intimidating, huh? (pfft.)

I mean, I don't think I look like a criminal... but I guess it didn't matter because I also ended up getting pulled over after sushi and having to take a field sobriety test.

What the fuck.

Officer said I had a broken tail light. Whatever. I was fine with taking the test -- I only had one drink swimming around 123898 pounds of salmon and rice in my belly. I was shaking like crazy after because I've never been pulled over before (knock on my wood, pause).. so this was a new experience.

But really, how could this happen to Arthur!? I'm a good Samaritan! I live with my mama!

Blogging Rhythm

My blogging rhythm has been off. I blame last week.

Last week I worked an INSANE amount -- at least from what I'm used to. I worked about ~13+ hours a day on average and had to add 2.5 hours due to commute. It would have been more but we were getting out so late that rush hour had already died long ago.

That whole week, I literally barely saw the light.

Woke up at 5AM, meet my co-worker to carpool, actually arrive at the audit site at 7AM, then work straight until 7-9PM until we had to drive another 1.5 hours back home...

I mean, I really really like my job. I also really really like life. Keeping work and life separated is something I definitely want to preserve -- I commend ya'll work-a-holics but that just isn't me.

You might say, "Arthur but you're going to get paaaaaid!" You know what, you're right. Sure, I make some extra money... but at the same time, I was missing out on time with my family and friends -- I wouldn't want to make that trade on a regular basis.

Anyway, I got on a tangent. Long story short, I haven't been blogging because I've been busy with work and now I'll be back to blogging regularly.

Hopefully ;]

I am a Rude Boy

I don't care what you think, I like Rhianna - Rude Boy.

I don't know why, but it's SUPER catchy to me for some reason. When I hear this on the radio on my way home or to work, I get like... hypnotized and put in a trance. I get all excited and shit *pause*. It doesn't help that it's about her getting smashed by a big enough ding-a-ling (by her standards). And if you have haven't seen how beat up it is... check this out -- be forewarned, this is not work safe! Tell me she hasn't had a few 'rude boys' in her life. I mean, check out some of the lyrics...

"Come on rude boy, boy
Can you get it up?
Come here rude boy, boy
Is you big enough?
Take it, take it
Baby, baby
Take it, take it
Love me, love me"

... and my favorite *pause for the 'boy' part*,

"Do you like it boy?
I wa-wa-want
What you wa-wa-want
Give it to me baby
Like boom, boom, boom
What I wa-wa-want
Is what you wa-wa-want
Na, na-aaaah"

C'monnnnn man... what is this? I feel disgusted yet entertained yet aroused at the same time. Got me feelin' like this...

...Shieeeeeeeet, I'm a rude boy.

Delonte West is the new Gucci Mane

Dudes has to be as high as an unidentified flying object.

Safeway at Night

Last night I went with my girlfriend to Safeway at around 11:30.

Weirdest checkout experience ever.

It wasn't the actual checkout that was weird, it was the people in the line and what they were buying. I remember each person vividly.

•  Group of two girls who would get Pedobear's Stamp of Approval. They were buying like 10 packs of the same type of gum, I swear. Brushing your teeth in 2010 is out, cavities are in biatch! It was funny watching the clerk scan the same pack of gum like 92038 times.

• The guy after them was buying two gallons of milk, both with different percentages of fat. At 11:30 at night. Maybe he wanted to compare fat densities of both. Maybe he ran outta milk for his Golden Grahams. Maybe he's a weirdo. I don't know. 
• Next was this really quiet asian dude that was buying 1.99 dollar cinnamon buns. That's it. Did dude just wake up in the middle of the night and was "Damn I want creamy white stuff in my mouth?" *pause* then went and drove to Safeway? I ain't mad -- he gettin' in those buns.
• Dude behind us bought like a footlong sandwich and floss. His homie was buying two 24-packs of beer -- one was Pabst and one was Rolling Rock. Flossing teeth party?
• Next was two dudes again, but one was wearing black leather pants -- swag on super high. Doesn't mean that I won't SMH at him though. They were having a deep discussion in line, while buying beer also. I don't wanna know what that night led to.

You may be saying, "Arthur, you're so mean! What did you buy, you asshole!?" Contact solution and a toothbrush, you know, regular stuff.. so sit on it! Plus IDGAF.

Safeway at night, that's wsup.

Manicures and Wax is for G's

IDGAF (I don't give a ...), manicures and waxing eyebrows are for G's.

Last week I got my nails done -- wow they are on point. For real, I used to be a bit insecure with them because they get beat up with all the stuff I do. Now? Swag's on high.

Today I just got my bush...y eyebrows waxed. Got em cleaned up a little bit -- makes a huge difference. I made sure to tell the nice lady not to make me look like a biatch, so we were straight on that.

It didn't hurt at all, that's what she said. I mean, it just like a little pull and all that. When she was all done and gave me the mirror...

I was smiling all hard -- I was in my zoneeeee hahaha

But for real, I'm grown -- I needa get this stuff on lock! I don't care what ya'll say, this is the real deal. You would get aroused if you saw me... LIKE THAT. *pause for males*.

Alcohol Sucks.

Throwing up off the skybridge into the street below (lol).

Throwing up in the parking garage.

Getting accosted by cops.

Spins.

Hungover.

Alcohol sucks.

Thank you's go out to all my friends who came out yesterday for me -- I really appreciate that and I got too excited to see ya'll and got sick. A very special thank you to my girlfriend who took tremendous care of me -- I was a handful last night, pause.

Lebron's a Fool

Video had me dying!

Joakim lookin' very salty -- almost Morton's Sea Salt salty.

Thank You

I turned 24 this past Wednesday.

Thank you's go out to everybody that called me, texted me, facebooked me, poked me, then POKED me -- pretty much thank you to anybody that showed love. To all the males who wished me happy birthday, good looks. To all the females who wished me a happy birthday...

...PIIYB. But for real, thank you also.

It really did bring a smile on my face.

That's what she said.

My iPad

I got's that corner bodega version.

Big ups to Steve Jobs for doing his thing -- it's a nice little gadget and the design is top notch (except the screen is glass? Where they do that at?)... but I don't see it replacing anything.

Still can't believe 270,000 of these sold. Remember when the iPhone came out? If you were holding one of these, you aroused men, women, grandmas, cats, dog.. anything. This is the new version -- the tool that those artsy dudes at Starbucks use to get some of dat barista mass.

I'm smiling, but SMH lol

Hallelujah!

Happy Easter! Jesus is back and chillin' (don't know if he ever left), and Arthur is back on Facebook and Twitter!

Damn I have a lot of notifications. Look for yourself..

 
Click to enlarge. To sum it up...

• 21 Friend Requests
• 56 Messages
• 62 Notifications
• 76 Other Requests

That is the result of spending 40ish days without Facebook. It was pretty hard to get through all of Lent without signing on -- I had the urge at least once a day. Did it for the Big Guy Upstairs though, and also for myself. It didn't help that my friends would be asking me if I saw what so-and-so posted on Facebook. Whatever.

It feels good to be back though, felt like I was disconnected for real. People were telling me that they posted on my wall to 'Reconnect' with me. I didn't know what was happening on the weekends. I was lost.

Syke, but I really didn't know what was going on.

Facebook hasn't changed much though -- people are all still there, the chat still blows balls, and I still continue to get 2190380218 FarmVille requests.

No I won't send you a cow. No I won't fertilize your farm. No I won't send you fruit. No I won't raise your gamecock *pause*.

Screw FarmVille. Happy Easter!

Happy Bday Chantha

We went to the Crab Pot to celebrate.

I have never been so full of seafood in my life. And I don't even like most seafood. I just didn't care. Oysters, clam, crab, corn, potatoes, salmon, mackerel, girl clam (well not really) -- I ate it all.

What they do is just cook the damn food and pour in it front of your face. Pretty much how I eat already (because I'm pudgy), but just in a restaurant. But for real, I was surprised that they just put all the food in front of you. When they rolled through and were like "Here King Arthur, a feast suited for the gods.." and just poured it in front of me?

Damn. Happy birthday Chantha -- thanks for helping me gain 17 pounds!

From The We$tside, With Love

From The Westside, With Love DOWNLOAD LINK
The latest offering from Dom Kennedy. I've only just now started listening to it -- it's bananas so far.

Dom definitely embodies the westcoast feel. In a crowd filled with hypebeasts and Cool Kids type groups, Dom stands out to me. I can definitely identify with his laid-back style and delivery.

Just a preview, while your download is downloading...

We$tside is coming back!

Coo Song But...

... I swear dude is saying 'nutting on you' AKA the moneyshot . Call me a pervert, but come on (no pun intended).

Nut-nut-nuttin' on you babe!

Returning Home

I'm on the way back home from NY -- I'm on the plane right now.

I originally had a NotePad file with notes from NY that I was going to use to create a NY blog post.

I'm going to scrap that.

Partly because I'm lazy, but mostly because of the enormous amount of things we did -- we went everywhere. Multiple times. We walked. Alot. I usually hate walking, but I got way better at it just because of the sheer amount of walking we did every day.

Our days usually played out like this: Wake up around 12, eat a big lunch, walk around and do stuff for 7 hours, drink copious amounts of alcohol, head home at 5AM in the morning. We ate at all the good spots. Saw all the good spots. Had all the good times.

Special shout out to Joanne for having us over the whole time -- your hospitality is most definitely appreciated. I wish you luck in your upcoming med school interviews!

One random thing about New York that I thought was cool was that I could fart in public at will. New York is definitely home to some bad smells. It's to the point where I could let off some mean bare butt e-scent-uals and people we be like 'Man this city stinks!'

New York is awesome.

Who is the cutest?

http://www.whoisthecutest.com

Gruuuuhh Vol. New York

Getting home when people are going to work? It's 6 AM.

Damn and good night.

NY - First Day

We got in around dinner time and decided to have some Greek.

Greek food is awesome.

I didn't take a picture of it because my camera broke. If I did, you would all be amazed and aroused. Tell me why the dude tried to bop us though? He tried to get us all to buy bottled waters. He kept on saying something really fast and ending it with 'water' after he asked the four of us. It went like this..

Blah-blah water?
Blah-blah of water?
Blattle of water?
Buttle of water?

His accent was hella heavy -- it took me a while to decipher before I caught onto him. Got em coach.

We did the tourist thing after that -- went to a beer garden and drank for days then took the subway to Times Square. The subway is pretty amazing. It definitely connects the whole city together. You can get to where you wanna go pretty easily.

Even though we have the subway, man you still gotta walk. Alot.

Great first day, just finished the second day but will talk about it later -- I gotta massage my feet.

New York

On a 737 to New York right now. I'm writing this using the plane's Wi-Fi.

I've never been -- the agenda is to do any and everything. I think it's going to be completely different seeing that I was born and raised in the northwest. Don't really know what to expect.

I'm excited! There's so many things to see.. I don't know what I'ma do with myself.

I'll try and keep you guys posted with brief entries -- but for now, halla at me.

Round-By-Round Analysis - Manny Pacquiao vs Joshua Clottey

For 12 rounds.