HIM: put a ring on it huh
HIM: they converted ya…lol
ME: and who would be they?
HIM: sissies
HIM: da Beyonce crew
HIM:
ME: hmmmm
HIM: what u doing
ME: watching tv and trying to clean
ME: got clothes everywhere
HIM: ahh yes da sunday ritual
ME: I guess
ME: but other than that just been chilling
HIM: kool
ME: how about u
HIM: i’m doing kool
HIM: had fun yesterday
ME: thats nice
HIM: yeah
ME: hold on
ME: brb
HIM: k
ME: ok back
HIM: kewl
ME: sissies?
HIM: das what i call da beyonce crew
ME: and who are they
HIM: da gay boys who lover her music that they would become her if they could
ME: oh
ME: okay
ME: dont know anybody like that
HIM: a couple in yo frat r like that but das another story
HIM: lol
ME: bye

Overall I was just pretty offended but the last line just set me off. I hold my letters and my brothers in high regard. I know that my people are not perfect. I firmly believe that my fraternity and especially my chapter works well is because we are all different types of men, who have come together to work and fellowship who genuinely like and respect each other. So why some may be somewhat effeminate in their mannerisms, they are also the strongest and bravest MEN I have ever met. So to hear that just flipped a switch in my head and I it came to me.

Recently I’ve been catching more and more of what my friend has said to me; like telling me he spends more time talking to my BF than I do, and how he hangs out with my BF. I believe that if it was anybody else, I would have put their head through a wall but I paid it no mind because is a mutual friend of me and the BF. And I’m not saying that I’m jealous or even suspicious of who my guy is friends with but after several times where I’ve made plans with the BF and only to be stood up so he can hang out with the friend, I’m just not comfortable with the entire situation. Time to re-evaluate the situation…

So I just recently came across some advance episodes of the new Marvel animated series, Wolverine & The X-Men. From watching just the first episode, you can tell that this series pulls a lot of its influences from the X-Men Movie Trilogy, the X-Men Evolution animated series and several poignant X-Men story arcs like Days of Future Past, and Joss Wheden’s Astonishing X-Men. Set against the de facto back drop of fighting for a world that hates and fears them, the X-Men find themselves lost without the tutelage of their beloved leader/mentor, Professor Xavier, whom along with X-Men long stay, Jean Grey, who disappeared in an explosion at the X-Men’s home, Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters. With human-mutant relations escalating to a boiling point, its up to Wolverine to pull the team of mutants back together and save the world from the brink of destruction.

Without giving away any more spoilers, its great to see that most of the characterization is spot on; Cyclops is very brooding and lost without Jean, Emma Frost is a manipulative bitch, and Storm has a ethereal regality about her. While some of the characterization is great, some are not. Some mutant powers are either forgotten or not present for the art of story telling. Character back stories has been alter to either have it appeal to a broader audience or maybe to avoid continuity all together. But than again I could just be nitpicking. Either way I believe that anyone from the guy who remembers watching Spider-Man & His Amazing Friends growing up to the die-hard Marvel Zombie would be able to enjoy this series. Its just a damn same that it won’t be broadcast in the U.S. until January 2009 and on the Nicktoons Network of all places.

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