HALLOWEEN!

This year I'm ready for Halloween. I got my costume already, got my plans made up, and I guarantee it will be better than last year's last minute Halloween festivities. Last year i thought it'd be a good idea to dress up as a Dutchmaster....you know the 4 guys on the box of Dutchmasters.

It was supposed to be me and my 3 stoner friends all dressed up like the "pilgrim" looking dudes on the box....but because we didn't plan ahead 2 of them dropped out. So it was just me and my boy Bryan and on the day OF halloween we managed to conjure up some RANDOM ass pieces of clothing for our costume. It consisted of a black shall, a black cape, 2 hats (1 pilgrim hat and 1 Zorro hat!) and thats it. We looked so ghetto that no1 knew of our original intentions to be a Dutchmaster....every1 thought we just looked like pilgrims....BUT this year Ima definitely do it up better. Me and my friend Marcel are gonna go as everyone's favorite stoner...Cheech and Chong!! It's gonna be so awesome. Im gonna shop at a thrift store for our gear, Marcel already has the Cheech mustache growin in, and I have to hit up a beard and wig store for my Chong ensemble. And we're goin to a VICE magazine party in Willyburg thats gonna be sick! A free open bar all nite, Bad Brains and Peanut Butter Wolf are performing as well as other bands, a skate mini ramp INISDE the loft which spans 2 floors! It's gonna be a fun nite indeed! =D


-TONY

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"Some of ya’ll just need to smoke some weed and see if it don’t help the quality of your mother fucking life. I know, I see some of y’all. Look, I understand. If you ain’t smoking weed ‘cause you got a good job, then by all means make your paper booboo. But if you ain’t got no job, and you’re not smoking weed, I don’t know what the fuck you are doing with your life. I really don’t." - Katt Williams

Photoshop 101

So since I'm tryna cram all the classes I need for my Media Arts Minor during my last year of college, I'm taking multiple THR classes this semester alone, just like this one. Another THR class, 216, is teaching me how to get used to the basic techniques involved in using Photoshop. Now I've heard many many things about this program, but I always felt it was way too intimidating to mess around with. But now, thanks to my professor, I love using photoshop! This shit's so much fun! Check out my 1st ever done photoshop picture that we handed in for our 2nd project. We were assigned to use 3 pics, and with the help of photoshop, we were supposed to create an image that best expresses our personalities. Here's what I came up with and I think it expresses me quite well....

-TONY

Another rant about weed....

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2009/08/25/2009-08-25_stop_the_war_on_pot_smokers.html

"Last year, the New York Civil Liberties Union released a report, by Harry Levine and Deborah Small, showing that New York City arrests more people on marijuana charges than any city on Earth. The report's authors found that since 1997, city police have arrested hundreds of thousands of people for low-level, misdemeanor marijuana possession offenses."

This pissed me off so much. I've run into trouble with the law over the exact same issue that's discussed in this article (actually a friend of mine posted this on my facebook wall yesterday! talk about irony!) I don't understand the effectiveness over arresting someone for a little bit of marijuana, when you've got way bigger issues to deal with on the "scary" streets of New York. You get locked up for like 22 hours, and when you come out of bookings are you supposed to say "Fuck weed! I'm gonna be clean for the rest of my life now! Hoorayyyy!" When they arrest you the cops tell you that nothing is going to happen! They say you'll spend the night in jail, and the judge will say "Hey! Dont do that again!" and he slaps you on the wrist. That's a fucking joke man....why even go through that whole unnecessary process if the law even knows it aint a big deal.

I mean the damn plant grows naturally!! Naturally I say! How you gonna arrest someone for weed when it kills NO ONE on a regular basis..........meanwhile alcohol is legal if you are over 21.....but you can overdose on alchohol!! Does that make any sense to anyone? I can drive high, but there's no way I can drive drunk! lol. Why can't New York be more like Cali where they are actually active in taking steps to decriminalize mary jane. Anyone have any thoughts??

My encounter with the Stony Brook Police.....and not the 1st time.

So i finish class around 3:40PM yesterday and converge with my friends by the SAC to figure out what our next move was, even though I already knew what that move was going to be. We decide to take a little "break" from school and meet up with my other boys in Roosevelt quad (aka the Ghetto). Now I will preface this story by admitting that I do dabble in the activity of smoking the occasional "marijuana cigarette" from time to time......actually I don't even smoke cigarettes at all......just the all natural cannabis plant (it's much healthier for you). So we head to the top of a little hill inside the quad where there's some huge rocks and an old, worn out bell......i mean the place looks like a prime spot to meet with a group of people and smoke. lol. We begin smoking, stirring up fascinating conversations about classes, life, relationships, and all the other things you talk about when your with friends.

Now im a super senior that's lived here for 4 years, so i know how it is with weed and this campus. When i was a freshman this place was called STONY brook for a reason......cuz theres a lotta stoners on campus. Im not saying EVERYONE smokes, but the lighting up of some reefer is a past-time that is usually associated with college campuses. And I guess because we were all upper classmen we felt that we "ran" this campus....you know....that whole "no one can tell us shit" attitude. Well boy were we wrong. We're up there for about an hour just burning it down one by one, not a care in the world, and the smell was soooooo pungent that I'm pretty sure everyone in the quad got a contact high. lol. After we were done doing our business we stayed up on that hill and just chilled for a while, when out of nowhere we see "the boys" stroll up us and begin to ask us questions. Now I'm not mad at these guys because they were just doing their job responding to a complaint *(snitches)* of weed smoke in Roosevelt quad. So we confessed to "allegedly" smoking marijuana up there.......I mean theres no point in not complying with these Stony Brook cops.....and since we didnt have any hard evidence on us there really was nothing they could do but give us a warning.

After they took our info down they began talking to us as if they were our boys who's history goes way back. I hate when cops try to act friendly with you after they just caught you.....it's like damn man, stop sharing stories relating your life to mine!

Cop: "oh yea i grew up in brooklyn too.....i know how it is man......but dont smoke out here or on campus...if your gonna smoke do it in your own home."

Anyways, I'm done sharing my Monday afternoon with you guys. Lessons learned: Dont smoke weed at the bell tower hill in Roosevelt Quad....lol......and if you do, dont make a smoke fest out of it like we did! Oh yea and below is the dialogue from the funniest moment of our encounter with the cops.

Cop: So how much weed were you guys burning up here? it smells like you guys smoked a whole ounce.
Friend: Nah man its not like that at all.....we were just up here "smoking" and bullshitting...
Cop: Oh really!? so you guys weren't smoking weed at all huh?
Friend: Yea, well we were but it was only a lil joint....
Cop: A lil joint!! Are you trying to tell me that all 6 of you guys were smoking 1 joint!?
Friend: ........yea man.....its a recession!

I bit my lip so hard to restrain myself from laughing at that comment!