<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/" xmlns:blogger="http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5392922</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 06:00:05 +0000</lastBuildDate><category>Stanford</category><category>hebrews</category><category>prosperity</category><category>BET</category><category>Barack Obama</category><category>Booker T. Washington</category><category>Denzel Washington</category><category>Django</category><category>EDP Consulting Engineers</category><category>Easter</category><category>Ernest Hemingway</category><category>F.D. Wesley</category><category>Family Values</category><category>Fatherhood</category><category>Felony Convictions</category><category>Gabrielle Union</category><category>Hittin Licks</category><category>Hitting Licks</category><category>Houston</category><category>Jamie Foxx</category><category>Kanye West</category><category>King James</category><category>Licks</category><category>Lil Keke</category><category>Michael Pickrum</category><category>New Year&#39;s Day</category><category>New Year&#39;s Eve</category><category>OJ Simpson</category><category>Quentin Tarantino</category><category>Renada Romain</category><category>Resurrection</category><category>STD</category><category>Screwed Up Click</category><category>Snoop</category><category>South Park</category><category>Southside</category><category>Spike Lee</category><category>Sunnyside</category><category>T.I.</category><category>The Book of Eli</category><category>To Kill a Mockingbird</category><category>Tommy Curvey</category><category>Z-Ro</category><category>addictions</category><category>adultery</category><category>aramaic</category><category>bay area black comedy competition</category><category>black evangelical</category><category>black family</category><category>blessings</category><category>british open</category><category>christian doctrine</category><category>christian liberty</category><category>conservative</category><category>cream</category><category>d.e. washington</category><category>david washington</category><category>dead game</category><category>deadbeat fathers</category><category>deadbeat parents</category><category>democrat</category><category>discipline</category><category>eckhart tolle</category><category>extinct species</category><category>faith</category><category>family</category><category>fratricide</category><category>glory</category><category>godfather</category><category>golf</category><category>gospel</category><category>haggai</category><category>hard head boys</category><category>hypocrisy</category><category>idolatry</category><category>kings</category><category>larry gist</category><category>literature</category><category>love</category><category>money</category><category>monogamy</category><category>myths</category><category>new earth</category><category>niggaz</category><category>obama</category><category>padraig harrington</category><category>patricide</category><category>pornography</category><category>pre marital sex</category><category>presidential nomination</category><category>preventative procedures</category><category>priests</category><category>progression</category><category>reading</category><category>recession</category><category>republican</category><category>ride or die</category><category>right to bear arms</category><category>same sex marriage</category><category>security of salvation</category><category>servinemup</category><category>sexual gratification</category><category>sexual immorality</category><category>spirituality</category><category>strip clubs</category><category>stunts</category><category>wu tang clan</category><title>Servin Em Up!!</title><description>Written by D. Washington</description><link>http://servinemup.blogspot.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Servinemup)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>253</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><blogger:adultContent>true</blogger:adultContent><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5392922.post-4299947747749502168</guid><pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2017 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2017-08-07T12:43:00.452-05:00</atom:updated><title>Come As You Are</title><atom:summary type="text">
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I told my wife that I had a new girlfriend….


Oh yeah? Who?


Renada Romain.


Who is that?


She’s a &amp;nbsp;morning DJ on
satellite radio, the hip hop station.


What does she look like?


Uhhh..I don’t know. I’ve only heard her voice..I need to
look up what she looks like…it don’t matter tho..cuz I already know, that’s my
new girlfriend. I like that ear candy.


Hmmm. Okay. &amp;nbsp;I betta
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I haven&#39;t done a movie review in awhile. If you read my previous movie reviews, Dirty Pretty Things and Book of Eli, rest assured, if you haven&#39;t seen the movie yet, I won&#39;t be the one to give up any spoilers.

First, let me say, I like Quentin Tarantino movies. Dusk to Dawn. Pulp Fiction. Jackie Brown. Kill Bill Vol 1 and 2. That nga is crazy. I know the word &#39;nga&#39; sparks a lot of controversy</atom:summary><link>http://servinemup.blogspot.com/2013/01/django-ngz.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Servinemup)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu9o7f2Bf-SL45UZBFnNoKQ_kdtAUVyW8TdquVvxzJ_-X8D2AgyRR-dKJuVAprGgLuFfbNVQIn6LOos1u1C97bWYCiw8bt49O9MLNGBBxK9fvZflrtxFgpXfr0o2erIB5-ELTMug/s72-c/Django+Ngz.jpg" height="72" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5392922.post-8585981898691950081</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 18:07:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-14T13:07:38.852-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Barack Obama</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">black evangelical</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">hypocrisy</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">pre marital sex</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">same sex marriage</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">sexual immorality</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">STD</category><title>Sex and Marriage</title><atom:summary type="text">


You know…as I was preparing this blog post, I was going back
through the www.servinemup.com archives
reading past blogs I’ve written concerning marriage.




Some were written over 8 years ago.




And
the Two Shall Become One


It
Takes Two to Make a Thing Go Right


Love and
Respect


There were some things I wanted to go through and edit out
or delete. I don’t even write like that no mo’!!
</atom:summary><link>http://servinemup.blogspot.com/2012/05/sex-and-marriage.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Servinemup)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy15qlIQDGNQzdNWMxW9tC2qoES7KsHr7QzoOgjYGBSWdFP5JvG2cibN2TdrpOe2uCqxvQkVl0xArBG_qnhjK6DZe8hpphQGwR2qzVxHwLTT8fuRxwqv5SB6m_eL3BrBXnWA6f-w/s72-c/WeddingTired.jpg" height="72" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5392922.post-7266157218989891400</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:55:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-04-24T16:54:15.419-05:00</atom:updated><title>The Realest It Got For Me</title><atom:summary type="text">


April 24, 2012

by D. Washington
(I dropped the E, cuz it had them tricks guessing too much).

The way I see it, everybody who comes to Christ at some point has to get &#39;butt naked&#39;.

No covering.

&#39;&quot;For we must all appear before the judgement seat of Christ, that each one may recieve the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.&quot; - II Corinthians 5:10 NKJV

</atom:summary><link>http://servinemup.blogspot.com/2012/04/realest-it-got-for-me.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Servinemup)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXzDIiQEjFgeRUuSavNuVuh85ikGWRmtWd8sCj_4pXRrEX2TmKGPUAiUjVQz5crVfOvO6qtIYb7gGUmrBla-UjGPQbgkzL8LCHZRTUCcud-xR15UGhJNXqE6zjpY-Pco0Wwjyy-g/s72-c/BigMamaandMan.jpg" height="72" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5392922.post-4258122845846349393</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2011 04:11:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-07-23T23:11:12.698-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Family Values</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Fatherhood</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Felony Convictions</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Hittin Licks</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Hitting Licks</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Houston</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Licks</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Screwed Up Click</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">South Park</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Southside</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Stanford</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Sunnyside</category><title>Hittin Licks 2011</title><atom:summary type="text">Im on One.  
When people read through the &amp;nbsp;www.servinemup.com archives, one of the first questions I normally get is, Where are you from….
I guess people tend to assume things from your apparent social status in the present that prevents them from connecting the dots to the past.
I don’t lie either, cuz when they REALLY wanna know..I tell em.
Im from the back of Sugarvalley.
What
You heard </atom:summary><link>http://servinemup.blogspot.com/2011/07/hittin-licks-2011.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Servinemup)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5392922.post-6085575271475179657</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:58:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-10-19T11:58:48.411-05:00</atom:updated><title>Reasons for Serving</title><atom:summary type="text">One of the songs that always seems to inspire me whenever I hear it&amp;nbsp;is Marvin Sapp&#39;s &#39;He Saw the Best in Me&#39;.


It&#39;s a song that can lift you up when things around you are bringing you down.
Living the Chrisitan life and walking the prescribed Christian walk is not always an easy task. It&#39;s a responsiblity that requires reaching down inside for more. Getting &#39;outside of yourself&#39; &#39; if you </atom:summary><link>http://servinemup.blogspot.com/2010/10/reasons-for-serving.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Servinemup)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6vOIbtjU9gMzXSTcslFEYGKAYozS7Vc03A6jqgscOamhYymh3apXa6FIbq9wsFN1_uX67L_rCpVG1LEoxYCqqYHnrl_Cq1h0AFWL61IBa5N7k3Mkx8DrgxjOgxHy80uvoian3zw/s72-c/Washington+Crew+Crop+Aug+2010.jpg" height="72" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5392922.post-2517405395220733795</guid><pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:58:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-01-27T20:01:55.335-06:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">aramaic</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">d.e. washington</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Denzel Washington</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">hebrews</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">King James</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">The Book of Eli</category><title>Learning from the Book and Eli</title><atom:summary type="text">First of all, let me say, I&#39;m not a movie snitch. Those who have read my only movie review posted on http://www.servinemup.com/, Dirty Pretty Things, know that I&#39;m not one to spoil the movie for others who have not seen it. Unless of course it&#39;s a movie that&#39;s been out for over 20 years, then all bets are off.As a mater of fact, at the time of this writing, I haven&#39;t even seen the other D. </atom:summary><link>http://servinemup.blogspot.com/2010/01/learning-from-book-and-eli.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Servinemup)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKuAvbNCTro2QolS9C4Ce2HBQIMregOhZYe8_uNiEmAKnqm3kY2KplaHPKnp7q6UMlJn7tye_i3muAj14fLx6jAYnLATh3VCJq26JaJHhEcx6DmrF2ppGko-ZJlham6FOUE_KdRQ/s72-c/The-Book-of-Eli-Poster.jpg" height="72" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5392922.post-6374485843134343777</guid><pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 00:44:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-01-02T18:58:55.592-06:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">bay area black comedy competition</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">christian liberty</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">larry gist</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">progression</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">security of salvation</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Tommy Curvey</category><title>Something To Do</title><atom:summary type="text">Once you get to be close to 40, married, with chilluns..it&#39;s very rare thatyou can find a moment where you can say, &quot;I don&#39;t have anything to do&quot; alsoknown as &#39;spare time&#39;.The comedian Robin Harris had a joke about spare change....&quot;Spare change? DoI have spare change? Hell naw i ain&#39;t got no spare change! You need to getyou a spare job!!&quot;That&#39;s funny. I actually saw Robin Harris before he died </atom:summary><link>http://servinemup.blogspot.com/2010/01/something-to-do.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Servinemup)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6qCsP-pM9IDNaX3CyxyjO-UCWlcJTJjP4gyNKBHzrj4qjPASrgrvSG9JFjVvAgfhyZYw7wVQVFyprSGqa5wJMy3pr7tgtwwBzEx76Qrju6z_A6l84LpwirRtigGpeIWTEk6yJOQ/s72-c/2Hard2Swallow.jpg" height="72" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5392922.post-1223507146831334018</guid><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-04-11T11:21:26.742-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">dead game</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Easter</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Resurrection</category><title>Resurrection 2009</title><atom:summary type="text">Quite often I go back through  and read past articles that I have posted on servinemup. Sometimes I cringe, wondering how I could have been so crass or ignorant. But I don&#39;t delete them, because I know I have to be real to the pen.Hopefully, people will be able to see the progression in D.I&#39;m always striving to hit that higher mark.I don&#39;t feel bad about all of them though. There&#39;s some that I </atom:summary><link>http://servinemup.blogspot.com/2009/04/resurrection-2009.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Servinemup)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5392922.post-3456611116343625355</guid><pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 05:28:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-01-02T01:20:07.530-06:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">david washington</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">EDP Consulting Engineers</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">New Year&#39;s Day</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">New Year&#39;s Eve</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">recession</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">servinemup</category><title>New Year&#39;s Day 2009</title><atom:summary type="text">I really don&#39;t make any new year&#39;s resolutions or promises.I mean I don&#39;t think you should wait for a particular date to make a change. When you&#39;re ready to do it you just do it. Ya know? Usually when I lead my family prayer, I make sure to thank God for all His blessings bestowed on our family and I also ask Him for guidance for me and our whole family.&quot;May the words of our mouths and the </atom:summary><link>http://servinemup.blogspot.com/2009/01/new-years-day-2009.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Servinemup)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtCwFEiVYIowJ_EGhkqsM5Sk6a2OmgPAG5R7BppLKs6h25QORHCiDb0hAVrpuruCQCqPISNNsTTeRvp8HPhisplA9rnK3BGOBUB8Aw342iwWEFK-p5tHW0BDPdgr3MgXXP3gd_Cw/s72-c/Southside2.jpg" height="72" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5392922.post-2015489230071313916</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 05:22:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-08-14T00:59:47.359-05:00</atom:updated><title>Troy Nicole Washington</title><atom:summary type="text">Wazzup fam!I know it&#39;s been a minute since a lot of you have heard from me, but if you&#39;re in this distribution loop, chances are high that you&#39;ve seen me at least in the past year.2009 saw the transition of one of God&#39;s warriors. Artelia Jeanette Scott made that move to the upper room, I have no doubt.Big Mama has touched a lot of souls in her life.I was one of them.Big Mama had a way of making </atom:summary><link>http://servinemup.blogspot.com/2009/08/troy-nicole-washington.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Servinemup)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXUBfVfhF820AN_vaP66P58O0Asp2UqmTdLz_GZf2lKG4Ra11swloL8g9EJMQAviHvZSAs1p9P4HGmOqVdWXuX5yEUHAW7x29O-Ze97t0UiSNml_QWkKeC53fFe2bHqkMgl6gwVw/s72-c/SamTee.jpg" height="72" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5392922.post-8279030978492620412</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:49:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-27T17:21:52.047-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">eckhart tolle</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">faith</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">glory</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">hebrews</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">literature</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">new earth</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">reading</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">spirituality</category><title>Glory 2 Glory</title><atom:summary type="text">One of the wild things about maturing and growing older (and hopefully wiser), is that you can look back on some of the things you used to do (or say) and think, ‘Wow. I was a damn fool.”     And yet, God still kept me, even through my ignorance.     The next part that bakes your noodle is when you wonder if 10 or 20 years down the road, you’ll look at where you are right now and think the same </atom:summary><link>http://servinemup.blogspot.com/2008/06/glory-2-glory.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Servinemup)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNkaAXLXvv4oliVt8BXEMMwXGgDG94YybehRsD4-13vzd7FgoGttRdv0aN51TIQWPw-G2Ih1QRdyIHj8urVCDg4Uz4uloXiJw65DeBsPKVV4ZaqZnAe8NOAvNX4-eL0FZF-Xj27w/s72-c/BWing.jpg" height="72" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5392922.post-1259118138592962942</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 16:14:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-05-29T11:17:54.980-05:00</atom:updated><title>Dilbert</title><atom:summary type="text">I&#39;m actually a big time Calvin and Hobbes guy, but quite often I can read the whole comics section and never crack a smile.But I read this Dilbert comic and I found myself laughing out loud.  Of course, my sister has always said I have a twisted sense of humor. I dunno..it&#39;s just funny to me.</atom:summary><link>http://servinemup.blogspot.com/2008/05/dilbert.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Servinemup)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMbFviXC68dC5W_gVMig0AFNoUBSfAxOknLCquWIO6_XRDLHatYkHKNnEB2ojkAa_v9Ygj4RuLU7JPhQHe9hqpyztbuhKoLDw9GMZedCN9KLV-KUd79XWAZXrPcdoTFxv326KAWg/s72-c/8718.strip.print.gif" height="72" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5392922.post-7859718150007744025</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:09:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-04-09T08:28:22.335-05:00</atom:updated><title>Learning Environment</title><atom:summary type="text">One of the factors you have to look at concerning a person is the environment that they grew up in.     Socially. Economically. Spiritually.     I was driving home for lunch and as I stopped for a red-light at a major intersection (Reed and Cullen) on the Southside, a pedestrian crossed my path and caught my eye.     First of all, it was 1pm on a Tuesday afternoon and this chick was walking </atom:summary><link>http://servinemup.blogspot.com/2008/04/learning-environment.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Servinemup)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxtdwDxPZasI7RFCnNGGC6zERRawK8-Jp-n91GdGSSWDxOpC-dIXuQ4xeAcZeLliaAceQXDTUwt_Ge2jgiGaHdesMtm-dHreK0aoYMldDp6z8bvWEbgFuVRWEvyKOWtfeuhTg2_w/s72-c/bd05.JPG" height="72" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5392922.post-2638839738016691221</guid><pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:04:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-04-12T10:24:30.519-05:00</atom:updated><title>The Writer&#39;s Life</title><atom:summary type="text">The holiday season is usually the time when I get the most ‘new’ readers. From Thanksgiving to New Year’s, www.servinemup.com, normally get a lion’s share of hits from new and unique visitors.I couldn’t quite figure out this trend, based on a five year sample period.But my editor reminded me that this is normally the time when people get the most depressed. And since a lot of people are depressed</atom:summary><link>http://servinemup.blogspot.com/2008/04/writers-life.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Servinemup)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5392922.post-1613084595511955816</guid><pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:10:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-02-28T07:39:27.007-06:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">conservative</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">democrat</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">myths</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">obama</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">presidential nomination</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">republican</category><title>Myths and Facts about Barack Hussein Obama</title><atom:summary type="text">Most of the people I work with everyday can be described as over 50, white, conservative Republicans.Being the minority in an environment (although I actually do consider myself a moderate-conservative), gives me the opportunity to be a fly on the wall and listen and observe how others think.I couldn&#39;t help but overhear one water-cooler conversation regarding Barack Obama..&quot;He hides it from the </atom:summary><link>http://servinemup.blogspot.com/2008/02/myths-and-facts-about-barack-hussein.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Servinemup)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkjJ2r_YpRefJ2rvOhZdyLdq-zwhp_hVLPml3KmnaoveLKIZKXQqTZLzaKAgHTDIYQwOBYsRfqBnZnB8nawTtF4sdUdmjfdxreu4Mx2DnPrlXwqtmuvsvmn6RJDiApyHtwRlxvPA/s72-c/barack_obama3.jpg" height="72" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5392922.post-3391487421135206060</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:54:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-02-26T14:57:45.245-06:00</atom:updated><title>Praying for Our President</title><atom:summary type="text">Believe it or not...I wrote this back in 2004.      Praying for our President                                    Praying for Our President - Thursday, October 14, 2004When we were in our Young Adult’s Bible School class this past Sunday, our teacher had us all give an example of our testimony towards God’s goodness that we have had in our lives. We went around our small knit class, (there was </atom:summary><link>http://servinemup.blogspot.com/2008/02/praying-for-our-president.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Servinemup)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5392922.post-7147952904548547940</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:13:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-01-23T12:58:32.693-06:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">blessings</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">haggai</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">idolatry</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">love</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">prosperity</category><title>3 Steps to Blessedness</title><atom:summary type="text">My wife has this thing she tells the kids from time to time, ‘When people show you who they are, you need to believe them.”     The key word is ‘show’.     It ain’t what it say or what it look like,  it’s what it DO??!!     Love is an action word.     My wife and I often find ourselves in the situation where we’re trying to teach our children what is right and what is wrong and in the process of </atom:summary><link>http://servinemup.blogspot.com/2008/01/3-steps-to-blessedness.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Servinemup)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTUHhyLNBbKkKvpSUVRpNnR5tzj23-MqmrWeVnc-Lah3qrgheA3xyPiAZvA2gOaYG6Qz_VKobYJQaBtDeKYdtg-F5Ve3yYj7gzaVM_Tu8Mt-ywjz4LclOLcjO_jupacBQJ8hp0ng/s72-c/s41017ca103333_2.jpg" height="72" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5392922.post-7605319882390963087</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:09:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-01-17T11:50:36.152-06:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">fratricide</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">godfather</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">hard head boys</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">patricide</category><title>Hard Heads 2008</title><atom:summary type="text">Sometimes I have to go into ‘timeout’, so that I can calm down and get myself together.     Even though I’m a grown man with kids, I still have my tendencies of ‘tunnel visioned’ passion. (see Hard Heads)     As a child, I used to get so ‘caught up’ in whatever it was I was doing, that I lost sight of other things going on around me. This usually manifested itself in my MULTIPLE occasions of </atom:summary><link>http://servinemup.blogspot.com/2008/01/hard-heads-2008.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Servinemup)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaO5qpTS-1wdVUMUYqhjh9O9aBY45vGvpnHFy4gPPYpRs5ez0xFwGY24CQ2Ahyphenhyphena3O3s_NYQZqxS3vDwU31jJhoWuxiFsXQ-UgtLe0_cAActw0hNTtrSiRocFlD2GDmexFxSGy-gw/s72-c/g23.JPG" height="72" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5392922.post-7089926858072250023</guid><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:19:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-01-07T12:00:54.712-06:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">black family</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">deadbeat parents</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">extinct species</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">kings</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">priests</category><title>The Dying Family</title><atom:summary type="text">As I was driving her to school this morning, my daughter asked me if I had made any New Year’s resolutions.     I told her no.     “New Year’s resolutions never made any sense to me. If people want to change something about themselves, why wait until January 1st ?? Do it right away!”     Of course, that’s not to say that I don’t have some things that I can improve upon.     Tidiness. Punctuality.</atom:summary><link>http://servinemup.blogspot.com/2008/01/dying-black-family.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Servinemup)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbSp9fWHMLdeIvsKWkmGKWOcNs4NHROS5B3Zwt2BYCp-DoLfmqQkJUifLy4ggDNggXDMlS224gtrvP05MLvZQZsz-9PcDuhGYyT2Mso3df9uF_XOtQQD9Hv4zenJFRdwAHxOE_NA/s72-c/MyPeople.jpg" height="72" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5392922.post-7893885568535629367</guid><pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:39:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-12-12T19:45:18.791-06:00</atom:updated><title>Too Hard To Swallow</title><atom:summary type="text">The best thing about writing on the internet (for me), is that it has allowed me to express my beliefs more clearly with people who I interact with everyday. And in turn, those who are new or curious about the faith seem to be comfortable asking me questions that they feel reluctant to ask &#39;holy rollers&#39;.&lt;?xml:namespace prefix = o /&gt;The people who know me, know I get down with my pen.Everyone in </atom:summary><link>http://servinemup.blogspot.com/2007/12/too-hard-to-swallow.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Servinemup)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjocbxgmbOnL4AAWqwY6gRDNNLU9wI5v7HKrP7jbKbiWwk3qd0DJX48WsTwZRI8fy-lhhvjyZ-2MSyN3_RstGKPadpIKEKqBmoXHWjRsp0yWR-Pjd3U7PLBulvyPyZekBMJ7_9uCQ/s72-c/servin$27emupcopy.jpg" height="72" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5392922.post-1977851850935557419</guid><pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:53:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-12-11T01:58:13.213-06:00</atom:updated><title>I Made It by Marvin Sapp</title><atom:summary type="text"> Marvin Sapp is the name of the dude who sings that song I referenced in Tripping.     It’s from his album called Thirsty and the name of the song is I Made It.     “I’m stronger. I’m wiser. I’m better. I’m SOO much better. I made it.  I never could have made it..without you.”     I heard this song for the first time at a funeral that I went to last week.     It was the kind of funeral where they</atom:summary><link>http://servinemup.blogspot.com/2007/12/i-made-it-by-marvin-sapp.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Servinemup)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibGztUBV3b2YSxKFoFfsYCKA-yrKHCoSkiCx1BhJ3Zq78Ubdzm-Q5voSHNyO31d0xvDr07bG5_JpzhrOFVZ6ajDEHqQSuq18qckkNPmj9uN5e3Nh7PovS0DWiu6V-6rOO1bk__Vw/s72-c/mARVIN+SAPP.jpg" height="72" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5392922.post-7734677374638618418</guid><pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:47:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-12-04T13:52:16.045-06:00</atom:updated><title>Tripping</title><atom:summary type="text">I know a lot of people who visit servinemup.com for the first time get ‘thrown off’ a bit.     My delivery and content can come across as shocking to some, others just think I’m crazy as hell.     The real funny part, is that in my family’s perspective, I’m one of the nicest, sweetest, most mild-mannered dudes in the whole family...     Got a good education. Got a beautiful Christian wife, he </atom:summary><link>http://servinemup.blogspot.com/2007/12/tripping.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Servinemup)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEamiSMasImjRO675-7ScX3zyIqYzwH_bQOtuTY42C4RJE__-7x2X6hu4s9EkLdg2xJdDMtemSS_gEx5z1lO8maGJb56CdWjZOGUnOaLlvJV1cAftRp7FrCpAqYMmWSVa4aA53Zw/s72-c/big+fella.JPG" height="72" width="72"/></item></channel></rss>