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February 05, 2008
CALL ME BUT ROMEO AND I'LL BE NEW BAPTIZED
This is the way I roll:
It's storming outside. Tornado sirens are wailing. If I take three steps outside my kitchen door, I will ruin a pair of shoes. However, the power is still on, which is good, because I was able to discover that my childhood home is still standing, but the mall where I used to go to play THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS and buy over-priced cookies is, apparently, not. Where I will go now to renew my drivers license?
So as I listened to the reports, I idly noticed this story on Yahoo!s college basketball page.
I was looking for details on Chris Douglas-Roberts, the guard with clutch moves and dashing good looks who is currently and suavely tearing up the Memphis basketball court. He is also the best looking man in Memphis (I'll probably erase that before I publish), and has rejuvenated the "Jersey with an Undershirt" look popularized by the 1991 UNLV basketball team and Scottie Thurman.
But instead I was treated to the news that Master P's son, Lil' Romeo (now just "Romeo," like the character, or the coach of the Cleveland Browns), snubbed a reporter who wanted to report about his recent signing with USC.
This raised a number of questions, besides, why aren't I working on my thesis*? The main was this: Master P has a son? And he's famous?
When I worked at a Memphis Blockbuster in 1997, the most personally memorable movie of the Summer was Master P's I'M BOUT IT - a self-produced, self-starring, straight to video that announced that, whatever IT was, Master P bouted. My Blockbuster was on the edge of a largely African American population, which was troubling since my store only had eight copies of this wildly popular video. I would get phone calls all the time asking me for it, and we would never have it. One guy berated the assistant manager for not catering more to the community (which was, I suppose, a pretty fair
But I guess he fathered a rap star who is about to sign to play basketball at USC, and who dissed a Sporting News reporter trying awfully hard to be the TSN equivalent of The Sports Guy.
But all this to say, I had to do some research to find out more about this kid, and I came on this Wikipedia page. In this page, we see both the primary lure and the problem of Wiki:
Anyone can edit it.
This page is hilariously exhaustive, and yet clearly written by a 14 year old in love with the word "Sassy." As long as these anyone with a computer can change Obama to "Osama" the Wikipedia poses a problem that is specific to its definition. I believe we are in the beginning of the end of the age of the Wiki.
Don't say you weren't warned.
* - Because I have this perhaps cowardly fear of tornadoes, even though I never saw the movie TWISTER
| By Andytown | 08:16 PM
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Comments
My Fovorite line about Romeo is:
"A little bit rapper and a little bit basketball star, Romeo is a whole lot of mischievous."
I thought they were talking about Andytown for a minute.
meerkat
Posted by: meerkat at February 12, 2008 10:59 AM