Oh won't you take him to...Funky Town?

Just when you thought things couldn't possibly get any weirder, our fearless leader pipes up with the "Chocolate City" comment. What on earth was that all about??? Aside from the fact that Chocolate City sounds like the name of a particularly bad porno flick, it is actually a Parliament song! Was Ray channelling George Clinton??? I would consider that except for the whole God thing he had going on. And have you ever noticed that his speech cadence and articulation change depending on his audience? And I don't mean he speaks five languages either. That would actually be pretty cool. No. Our mayor starts acting like he's all down with it when his audience is African American and when he is speaking to "those Uptown people", he sounds like a Hermes krewe member or something. It makes me feel all squirmy. Kind of like when this acquaintance of mine in New York, an Asian-American Republican (not that there's anything wrong with that) visits Brooklyn for an afternoon and comes back acting like he's in Wu Tang Clan or something. It's just icky.

Now, on to more important things. Has anyone else noticed that there is no CDM at any of the grocery stores?? Right between the Folger's and the Community dark roast is a huge blank space of emptiness. Seriously, if CDM is going the way of Crystal hot sauce, I may have to go to Funky Town myself!

P.S. I couldn't help but notice that Willy Wonka totally ripped off my last year's Mardi Gras costume -- at least the hat and hair part. It's exactly the same! Except mine was blue...and it had red barbed wire wrapped around a cut out of the State of Louisiana ending in the business end of a blue donkey.