His Aura Was Orange

This January I'm Taking My Talents To Tumblr

2010-12-24T22:17:00.002-05:00

It's been fun but I'm in another space. His Aura Was Orange was what I needed to do in 2008 but I'm not this site anymore. When I was 17, all I wanted to be was 18. It couldn't come fast enough, it felt like. The day I become 18 it wasn't enough. I needed to be 21 by that point in my mind. That's really the best way I can put it.

Wants In a Lifetime is my new muse. It's me in a different way. Not like His Aura Was Orange at all. It's what I need to do now. I'll understand if you can't follow me over there. Really, I will. It's going to be far more personal but you're welcome. But if nothing else, give the new blog a shot. Read some, see if it's for you. If not? No hard feelings.

Thanks for making this place what it was though.

-Management
(Wantsinalifetime.tumblr.com)

Dear Religious White People

2010-10-30T15:28:00.001-04:00

You all are my brothers and sisters before God and I love you all but please explain this foolishness, LOL.

Brett Favre's New Wrangler Commercial

2010-10-26T17:33:00.001-04:00

LOL @ this. Pretty good.

Wednesday's Woman: April Lee Hernandez

2010-10-18T23:45:00.002-04:00

You, like myself, may only be familiar with Mrs. Hernandez as the new Latina cop castmate of Michael C. Hall's Dexter. You might also know her from 2007's Freedom Writers. However if you can't place her from either production, then allow me to introduce you to her as this week's very deserving, very attractive, Wednesday's Woman. I give you April Lee Hernandez.

Video of the Week: The Toll Marriage Takes on Hot Women

2010-10-18T22:13:00.002-04:00

I defy you to watch this video of before and after shots of some nice looking women and where marriage takes their looks. Enjoy

Barack Obama's Alter-Ego: Barry WhiteHouse (Bill Maher)

2010-10-06T13:21:00.002-04:00

I El Oh Elle'd hard @ this.

NBA Countdown To The 2010-2011 NBA Season Promo #1

2010-10-05T23:37:00.002-04:00

Are you ready for some basketball? I sure as hell am.

Best of the Maze/Scare Videos

2010-10-03T03:27:00.000-04:00

It's Halloween time again and rather than scare, allow me to show you something to lighten the mood in the key Halloween. I'm sure you remember the maze/scare game that was popular a few years back where you'd get some unsuspecting person to come to computer under the guise that you wanted them to play a game where they tried to maneuver their way out of amaze only to get nearly to the finish line only to be scared shitless by a zombie child screaming abruptly. Well rather than give you all a heart attack with that shit, I've decided to share with you some of the funniest moments/reactions to that video. Enjoy...

Wednesday's Woman Redux: Maíra Britto The Unreleased Photos

2010-09-29T04:56:00.003-04:00

I know, I know I already made a post about Maira Britto. I realize I'm probably breaking some unwritten rule. You know what though? I don't care. I really don't. If it was one of my own rules that I can't repeat a person as 'Wednesday's Woman' then fuck my rule. It's mine. Rules are meant to be broken. Not mine or anything. I don't want to give you the wrong idea. You break my rules and there will be a penalty. Trust. I'm just saying if somebody is going to break my rules it should be me. So yeah, Maira Britto is just the optimum allowable dosage of human fineness. You can't make me believe otherwise without visual and scientific proof that finer indeed exists. Most will agree with me. At least one person won't. That's cool, but unless you come at me with visual proof of someone finer than her, I won't believe you. And you better have some pie charts and bar graphs and long-hand scientific equations thereby backing up your claim. And you better have a lab coat on when you present this evidence to me or your false claims will be laugh at, dismissed and we won't ever exchange words again. You better come with it.

LOL @ me calling these 'unreleased' though. They're not unreleased but they are different pictures than I posted last time. Somebody please make this woman a household name here in America. I beg of you.

ABC News Racial Bike Stealing Experiment

2010-09-26T19:04:00.000-04:00

Everyday you live you take with your certain feelings and opinions and most often you don't have any proof to prove or disprove your feelings so you just kind of shrug it off. Well take a look at this experiment where two actors, one black and one white, are both put in parks and given tools to pick a lock on a bicycle and watch the different reactions both actors generate. Entertaining to say the very least.

Louis C.K. - Things Are Fucked Up Now (New Clip)

2010-09-15T02:03:00.002-04:00

This is a new clip from his new standup special 'Hilarious'. Looks pretty good.

Jim Rome On The "Likes To Fight Guy" We All Know

2010-04-24T12:34:00.001-04:00

Dead on. LOL

Dave Chappelle On The Serial Rapist In Houston Who Only Rapes Men

2010-04-21T02:07:00.000-04:00

First new Chappelle clip in a while. Enjoy.

Wednesday's Woman: Anne Keothavong

2010-04-14T00:07:00.005-04:00

Dear Tennis,
More Anne Keothavong, please.
Love, Me.

CK Louis On Bad Drivers

2010-04-11T00:18:00.000-04:00

It's been a couple weeks since my last post. I didn't know whether to explain myself or what so I decided to best way to come back would be to post a video that made me literally laugh out loud. Now me laughing out loud will be of no value to you personally but what will be of value is you laughing which I can assure will happen. Press play, take a listen and enjoy.... CK Louis on bad, irrational drivers and how to one up them.

Dwight Howard's Best Charles Barkley Impersonation

2010-02-06T16:11:00.000-05:00

As a strong Celtics fan it pretty much makes me anti-Magic but I won't front I LOL'd @ this. Well done, D12.

Public Service Announcement: Kobe Fan

2010-02-01T02:10:00.000-05:00

Kobe Bryant is YOUR favorite player. Not mine. I think he's great. Really I do. I give him props where he succeeds and shit when he fails. What more do you want? It's not hating if I don't the worship dude like you do, damn. Its like me telling you your girl is cute. You tell me she's gorgeous. Fair enough. Understand though, thats because YOU like her more than me obviously. You wifed her. If I liked her as much as you she'd be MY GIRLFRIEND! LOL Just take a compliment. Kobe's not my favorite but I give him credit when its due.

Dennis Rodman's Daughter

2010-01-19T19:00:00.000-05:00

She definitely has her mother's genes and not her father's. Damn she's fine.

Jean Claude Van Damn In Real Life Street Fighter

2010-01-19T18:50:00.000-05:00

Fun-Knee.

Tuesday's Top Ten: Greatest, Must-Hear Christmas Songs

2009-12-23T21:38:00.001-05:00

This week's Top Ten List is very simple. It's a list of my greatest Christmas songs of the season. It's not going to have a lot of songs that have been done to death over the years or have been rendered bad because department stores have played them out either. So sorry you won't find Boyz II Men on this list and you won't find Donny Hathaway either and you have the commercialization and oversaturation of those songs by the corporate world to blame for it. Now if you can get past that though than this list will be for you. My favorite Christmas songs of the season...

10.) Alvin and the Chipmunks- Christmas Song - I know this is a song from your childhood but if there's every a holiday that is all about you reverting back to that time, this is the one.

9.) Tchaikovsky - Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies - Look I'm a black man who listens to Mobb Deep, Clipse and a gang of other musicians who boast of tales of coke dealing and shootouts but at the same time I'm a college educated man whose confident enough in myown skin to own up to the fact that I also enjoy classical music, have the ability to play the cello and can appreciate some good orchestral pieces as well. If that qualifies me as (insert insult) then so be it. I can live with that. This is classic.

8.) Luther Vandross - Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas - You just can't deny Luther. Even if you wanted to, the boy had skills. The man one of the best friends song has ever had. He killt this. KILLT IT!

7.) Run DMC - Christmas In Hollis - This one is self-evident. It's as mandatory a part of Christmas as socks are to shoes.

6.) Charles Brown - Merry Christmas Baby - Old classic soul of the kind we're not likely to see again.

5.) Nat King Cole - The Christmas Song - LOL, the song is worth the price of admission in and of itself but the video is just class. Nat was smooth. No lie, he might have been cooler than Obama in his prime. His voice didn't miss a beat and his performance was polished too. Moms always let Nat live during the holidays and this is probably a lot to do with her influence as much as it my taste. Thanks mom!

4.) Frank Sinatra - A Merry Little Christmas - Old blue eyes doing what Old Blue Eyes do!

3.) Vince Guaraldi Trio - O Tannenbaum (A Charlie Brown Christmas) - This is just class personified. It's the living embodiment of the season really. It's what corny guitar riffs are to adult films. Mood setting.

2.) A Charlie Brown Christmas - Christmas Time is Here Song - If you can't appreciate this then something is wrong with you.

1.) Ray Charles & Betty Carter - Baby It's Cold Outside - Two things, the first being this song is all kinds of genius. The way it's laid out like a conversation is ill. I dig the style on this one. It's just before it's time. Two, LMAO @ Ray trying to get this chick to stay throughout the whole song, Dude is not playing and he's definitely not taking no for an answer. Listening to this song is like watching a cartoon of Pepe LePew. Class.

Ray Charles & Betty Carter - Baby It's Cold Outside - The funniest movie is here. Find it

In Memoriam: Chris "Slim" Henry

2009-12-19T14:07:00.004-05:00

Skip to 26:45 for a lighter more fonder memory from the past involving Chad OchoCinco and Chris Henry discussing whether there was a women in this world they've be willing to stay with because of her beauty if she cheated on them. You'll smile. As I said though just drag the time tracker to the 26:45 minute mark to go immediately to the part I'm talking about.

Anyway, I've avoided speaking on the issue because I wanted to find out some more details before inserting my thoughts on the matter and prematurely being proven an idiot or otherwise after new details began to emerge. So after finding out the particulars concerning the incident I had a feeling it would be something like this in the end but again it was naive to speculate too far into the matter earlier this week.

Chris was young and in love and handled an argument in an immature fashion that ultimately cost him his life. It had nothing to do with thuggery or his past arrests, but rather just a thoughtless moment of passion. He might have been just pulling a stunt like jumping in the back of his girlfriend's truck as a ploy to get her come to a halt so they could talk and just stumbled off the back of the truck accidentally or he might have jumped. Who really knows and at this point what does it matter? From everything I know about him on a local level and from everything the whole country knows he wasn't necessarily a bad guy. I think 'troubled' fits better. Just a talented man who led a troubled life. Not unlike other famous stars in other walks of life who've passed too soon and led troubled lives as in their limited time here. You don't need me to list names as examples as the world has given too many examples of these types unfortunately all too often. The entire situation is unfortunate and to reiterate the obvious, I feel the sorriest for his 10, 3 and 2 year old surviving children. I only hope he had a life insurance plan and they were his main beneficiaries and will be taken care of.

Still no matter what his deficiencies were, what we we feel we know about Chris or what we think we do, a man lost his life to the pain and grief of the people who knew him well and at the very least we ought respect that. R.I.P. to Mr. Henry.

Canabalt - The Game

2009-12-19T13:20:00.000-05:00

This is probably the most addicting and fun game I've played all year. If you're trying to pass the time, whether in the short run or in a much larger capacity (trying to kill the clock at work) this is the game you should play and potentially lose your job over. You won't regret it.

http://adamatomic.com/canabalt/

Barkley: "Tiger Needs To Take My Calls"

2009-12-16T17:12:00.000-05:00

I've avoided making comments on the Tiger Woods case because it's a private issue and should be handles privately just like anybody else's hardships and mishaps. I did think what Spike Lee and Charles Barkley say on the matter is very interesting though since they know Tiger and seem to be wanting to circle the wagons around him only they can't seem to get in touch with Tiger because he changed his number.

Garbage Can Prank = Win.

2009-11-17T23:11:00.000-05:00

Why didn't I think of this in college? It's definitely pure win. The guys reaction is priceless.

Wal-Mart: Now Slanging Caskets

2009-11-15T02:39:00.002-05:00

I shit you not. For a small fee of $1200 you too can buy your final resting place along with your groceries at the same place. If you're in the 12 items or less line and you've got a shopping cart full of a couple greasy fattening things that might kill you, you can actually eat those artery-clogging items guilt free because you can buy the pine box to put your dead ass in.

All seriousness aside though this a great idea for their company for once. Everybody knows funeral homes rape grieving families for all they're worth in one of the most vulnerable times we have to unfortunately find ourselves in. The mark-up of caskets into four and five times what Wal-Mart wants is legalized robbery. So while I hope that neither your nor I or anyone I know has to be in the business of buying one anytime soon, just know that if you do, maybe you can consider Wal-Mart's low low prices too.

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