Now, look, I have had dope rides in my day; a mint 1963 Lincoln Continental with Suicide Doors (and I don’t mean Suits VS SuicideGirls, either), a 72 Cadillac Coupe DeVille and a 2005 Cadillac DeVille (in 2005) so I am up on what I am putting down. And I can tell you that the lion’s share of the attention you get from dope rides is from guys not girls. Usually it is some skippy “congratulating” on how “sick” you ride is followed by tales of how they “used to own” a dope ride similar. Sh*t gets tired real quick.
If you think having a dope ride will get girls stepping to you, you are in for a surprise. Even in Southern California.
Doubt me?
Next time you see a Ferrari roll by, 99 times out of 100 you are going to see it with some solo dude or some cat and his weesh buddy. Rarely if ever will you see it with a fly girl attached.
Ferrari’s and other rides at that price point simply aren’t with it in regards to swooping girls. Hell, you would need to swoop like 30,000 girls to even make it pencil out. A highly unlikely occurrence, even for the most G of International Playboys.
Another word on Ferrari’s: max you can only fit one or two girls inside. Personally, I like rides that you can fit three or four girls in, hence the need for a Lac.
Hell, when I was a young up and coming Playboy on the rise, I drove a Ford truck (mostly for low-profile purposes). Granted, I was in my heavy “transport” days and uncrowded point breaks in Norte Baja days but I still peeled fly girls like a fresh Papaya in Panama.
So what do I do these days?
Truth be told, I don’t drive much anymore. I am usually waxing too much of a headbuzz and driving is the easiest way to get yourself caught up in the “Shitstem”. Nowadays, I mostly spend my time traveling, primarily in cities where having a car is more hassle than it’s worth.
Now I never get parking tickets, get towed, get DUI’s, get busted with 100 lbs of grass in the trunk or have to pay for car washes, oil changes, new alternators, or gasoline.
If I do need a ride, I have drivers on call. My cell is literally full of town car drivers and cab drivers. In fact, the only thing I have more of in my cell, is numbers of fly girls.
Michael Porfirio Mason
AKA The Peoples Champ
AKA GFK, Jr.
AKA The Sly, Slick and the Wicked
AKA The Voodoo Child
The Guide to Getting More out of Life
http://www.thegmanifesto.com
2Pac – Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z – Representin’ 93
I just came across this poem by Robert W. Service called “The Men That Don’t Fit In”. My Grandfather, like many Irishmen, used to recite this poem to me, among others, when I was a young cub. Check it:
There’s a race of men that don’t fit in,
A race that can’t stay still;
So they break the hearts of kith and kin,
And they roam the world at will.
They range the field and they rove the flood,
And they climb the mountain’s crest;
Theirs is the curse of the gypsy blood,
And they don’t know how to rest.
If they just went straight they might go far;
They are strong and brave and true;
But they’re always tired of the things that are,
And they want the strange and new.
They say: “Could I find my proper groove,
What a deep mark I would make!”
So they chop and change, and each fresh move
Is only a fresh mistake.
And each forgets, as he strips and runs
With a brilliant, fitful pace,
It’s the steady, quiet, plodding ones
Who win in the lifelong race.
And each forgets that his youth has fled,
Forgets that his prime is past,
Till he stands one day, with a hope that’s dead,
In the glare of the truth at last.
He has failed, he has failed; he has missed his chance;
He has just done things by half.
Life’s been a jolly good joke on him,
And now is the time to laugh.
Ha, ha! He is one of the Legion Lost;
He was never meant to win;
He’s a rolling stone, and it’s bred in the bone;
He’s a man who won’t fit in.
Michael Porfirio Mason
AKA The Peoples Champ
AKA GFK, Jr.
AKA The Sly, Slick and the Wicked
AKA The Voodoo Child
The Guide to Getting More out of Life
http://www.thegmanifesto.com
I recently finished a pretty dope book called The Man Who Made It Snow by Max Mermelstein, which is about the guy who basically sunk the whole crew depicted in the movie Cocaine Cowboys; Jon Roberts and Mickey Munday. Mermelstein was also personally responsible for making $300 million for the narco-traficantes in The Medellin Cartel and brining in fifty-six tons of Cocaine into America. Essentially, the guy made it snow in Florida.
“I would sell five keys to some colombian for $30,000 a key, or a total of $150,000. By the next day the Colombian had adulterated my pure stuff, just off the plane by 20 percent, adding enough quinine or amphetamine (better known as speed) or inesitol (powdered vitamin B) to produce six cut keys. He sold the six kilos he had created, claiming it was “pure” stuff, for $30,000 a key, making a quick profit of $30,000 in a day or two.
Some other lowlife Colombian bought the cut key and made it into a key and a half by further adulterating it. Then he sold this hashed-up kilo and a half to black street dealers in measure of one-eighth of a “pure” key, selling twelve one-eights of a key and pocketing his profit.
The street peddlers took their one-eighth of a key and added more cut to double it to one-quarter key, then sold it on the street by the gram, a quarter key becoming 250 grams, for $80 to $100 a gram.
The money derived from the pure stuff we brought in from Colombia kept a huge coke-hungry army of dealers and petty pusher driving their fancy cars around the slums of America’s Cities.
Nobody closely associated with the cartel delt in anything less than multiple kilograms of coke straight from Colombia. We never even saw street peddlers. …and life was sweet”
Two main lessons from the book:
Never drive a car.
You can’t chase a paper trail if there is no paper.
Michael Porfirio Mason
AKA The Peoples Champ
AKA GFK, Jr.
AKA The Sly, Slick and the Wicked
AKA The Voodoo Child
The Guide to Getting More out of Life
http://www.thegmanifesto.com
Michael Porfirio Mason
AKA The Peoples Champ
AKA GFK, Jr.
AKA The Sly, Slick and the Wicked
AKA The Voodoo Child
The Guide to Getting More out of Life
http://www.thegmanifesto.com
Here are some thoughts on the Floyd “Money” Mayweather VS Sugar Shane Mosley fight:
Power
Obviously, Sugar Shane Mosley has a significant edge in this department. However, Money Mayweather’s power is seriously underrated. Doubt Mayweather’s power? Watch the toughest boxer in recent memory, Arturo Gatti, wince in pain from Mayweather’s body shots. Speed plus precision equals damage.
Speed “Life is about timing and inches,” Mayweather said. “Boxing is about timing and inches. I’m able to time a guy pretty well.”
Both Mosley and Mayweather are fast like Eddie Felson. Something tells me that Mayweather will make Mosley look a little slow on May 1st, and answer the question, “Will Shane Mosley be rusty after a 15 month layoff?” As far as the other big question out there, “How will Mayweather deal with Sugar Shane’s speed?” The answer is “timing”. Like my Grandfather, Michael James Mason V (an excellent boxer in his day, fought at Madison Square Garden) always said, “Good timing beats speed, power and size”.
Last Fight
Mayweather dominated the #3 pound for pound fighter in the world Juan Manuel Marquez.
Mosley destroyed Antonio Margarito.
Both fights were impressive wins. Keep in mind however, that Margarito was mentally screwed up after having his loaded handwraps discovered and was basically a punching bag for Shane.
Style
I think Mayweather has a huge edge here. Mosley tends to throw his punches a little wide whereas Mayweather throws them more straight. This could be a big advantage for Mayweather. Mosley also tries to “shake and bake” with his punches too much. Mayweather is more fluid. Mosley also has the tendency to get a little wild and lose focus. Mentally, Mayweather has the edge. Not to mention he has dominated the pre-fight Mental Warfare.
Killer Instinct
Mosley gets the edge here, although Mayweather is no slouch. If Sugar Shane can really hurt Mayweather, he can close the show.
The Jab
People always yap about how when Oscar De La Hoya used the jab, Mayweather was in trouble. Watch the fight again. The fight with Oscar wasn’t that close. It is hard to jab Mayweather when you get countered over top of it with straight rights. Also, Mosley’s jab has never been one of his strong suits. Furthermore on Mayweather’s De La Hoya win: He beat The Golden Boy at 154lbs unlike Pac-Man’s win a year and a half later at a draining, straining, 145lbs. Significant difference.
In fact, Mayweather’s jab to the body will be one of the most important punches in this fight. Watch for it. It is very subtle.
The Crowd
“Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.” – George Foreman
The crowd with be overwhelmingly pro-Mosley. It won’t be so Platinum Digger heavy, like when Oscar fought Mayweather, but it will still be rabidly for Sugar Shane. Mayweather is such an artist that the crowd misses many of the clean punches he lands. The crowd will also no doubt cheer fanatically for every glancing and blocked combo Sugar Shane throws. This does sway judges. Also, Las Vegas, historically speaking has been pro-West Coast fighters.
The Fight
Mosley really has a hard time winning this one. If he boxes Mayweather, he will lose for sure. If he attacks and tries to rough up Mayweather, then that also plays into Mayweather’s hands.
Expect Shane to start fast and try to bully Mayweather, as he should. By round 3, Mayweather will start to discourage Shane with defense and pin-point counters.
Through the middle rounds, Mayweather will be able to pot shot Mosley with straight right leads and left hooks. With Mayweather’s back to the ropes, Shane will have some moments, but Mayweather’s underrated infighting, chin and pushing off on Shane’s eyeball with his elbow, will give as good as he gets.
The pivotal point in the fight will happen around the 8th round when Shane gets his second wind and tries to change the fight. If he can land a looping punch, which Mayweather can get touched by (see his fight with Demarcus “Chop Chop” Corley), the fight could change. But even then, I think Floyd’s defense and chin will hold up.
Rounds 10 thru 12, Mayweather will keep landing crisp shots, and possibly cut Shane and chop him up like Mark “Chopper” Read.
Look for a close decision for Mayweather on the cards and a wider margin in reality. 8 rounds to 4 for Mayweather, with a slight chance of a late round stoppage.
Mosley’s real chances are like I said before, landing a big looping punch that changes the fight or a fishy crowd influenced Las Vegas decision.
Smart money on Money Mayweather. Hell, if you are like me and have bet on Floyd every fight he has ever fought (except the Diego Corrales fight), you will end up in the black no matter what the outcome is.
Floyd Mayweather Sr putting to rest the “Mayweather has been Ducking Shane” talk:
“Shane Mosley is thirty-eight and he’s coming to fight Floyd too late. You know, he’s coming to fight Floyd too late. If he had a chance, maybe he should have done it a few years ago. Floyd challenged Shane Mosley when Shane Mosley was at his best pound for pound fighter at that time at 135 pounds. Floyd challenged him when little Floyd had just won the championship at 130, the junior lightweight champion. Shane was the lightweight champion but Floyd was the junior lightweight champion and we challenged Shane, and they denied us and they did not take the challenge. They did not take the challenge. Now, he’s fighting because it’s a must—have to fight, got to fight, need to fight. That’s why he’s fighting us now. He has to, he must.”
Michael Porfirio Mason
AKA The Peoples Champ
AKA GFK, Jr.
AKA The Sly, Slick and the Wicked
AKA The Voodoo Child
The Guide to Getting More out of Life
http://www.thegmanifesto.com
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