From Brooklyn. No seriously, from Brooklyn.

Theres so many musicians who claim Brooklyn after being here for a full 5 minutes. They're called Brooklyn bands even though they really have no concept of the place and have been here less than a second. Kensington has a few of them I believe. In the grand scheme of life it means nothing of course but I just don't get it. So I have decided to spotlight an artist who actually is from Brooklyn and who actually is from the Kensington area. The rapper Wordsworth.

I don't know him personally but growing up I knew who he was from the neighborhood. He was a few years older than me and I can recall a few times playing football and stickball with him when I was with my older brother. Before PS130 build that extension area the yard was much bigger and by one the entrances to the school(which is now covered by the extension) there was a painted strike zone against the wall. A tennis ball or blue handball and a stick ball bat would be used and we would play a modified version of baseball, over the fence was a double, over the library a homerun, etc., etc. M.F. on church ave. would sell stickball bats, old-timers would bitch and moan saying broom sticks would be fine but whatever

anyway back to Wordsworth.

You can find some articles on him by googling him. Here it has a quick mention of him being from the area and this interview he talks about growing up in Brooklyn a little bit. I remember him living in that building on the corner of ocean parkway between caton and kermit place.

and so there it is. Wordsworth a true Brooklyn artist. you can hear him on "rock rock y'all" on the tribe called quest album "the love movement" so go search him and buy his stuff and listen to it.

Coming home from work last night I saw a raccoon on Ocean Parkway between church and caton. It was on the lawn of one the buildings. It was squeezing through a gate when I first saw it and I thought 'man that's a chubby cat'. Then it started walking on the grass, it was 3 in the morning and I was tired so at first I thought it was a skunk cause the dark eye area of the raccoon was throwing me off while I was trying to recognize which cat around the building this was. It took about 2 seconds to realize this was actually a raccoon. The raccoon walked the building lawn and then climbed the tree.

I blame the kensington hipsters for attracting raccoons.