3 Ways Is Shutting Down
3 Ways Is Shutting DownMs. Jenkins, Seattle, and myself have put a lot of time, energy, and money into making this site what it is today. When we first started out here, we never envisioned that we’d be pushing toward 500 subscribers and logging well over 1000 views per day. We just wanted to provide a site with well-written content, daily discussion, and a variety of topics. We didn’t want to be the best relationship blog, best comedy blog, or best shock value blog on the internet. We did, however, make a promise to ourselves to hold a certain standard in terms of our writing/content and that standard is what people have come to expect from us. It’s a gift and a curse. Over the last few weeks, we’ve all been getting a little burnt out from this grind that we been on for well over a year now. We love what we do here and all the people that come through daily, but we’ve decided that it’s time to take a serious break to focus on our real-world happenings and rejuvenate our creativity. The last thing we want to do is just post content for the sake of posting and risk losing our readers. Ms. Jenkins will be up with a post on Monday and then we will be shutting it down. Do not fear, for we shall return at some point. And when we do come back, we’ll be better than ever. Keep us in your prayers feedreader and stay subscribed. We’ll let folks know when we’re about to be back in the mix. In the mean time, we’re looking for new topics to cover upon our return and ideas for the site moving forward. Please visit the “Holler at Us” page and share any ideas, thoughts, or suggestions. Good Day…and don’t forget your Eff ‘Ems below! We dont wanna leeaaaaaave, but we gotta go right nooowwwww, The 3 Ways Crew Make sure you add Slim and Crew on Twitter. We keep the party going all day long!  Eff Em FridayNo need for an intro. You know what day it is. Let’s eff! Miss Jenkins Eff school for keeping me from watching football and basketball. I’m taking a stand this Sunday. Eff my vision that is progressively getting worse. Contacts are annoying, but those are the best thing for me right now. These intermittent headaches are not a good look. At all. Eff Bank of America for taking over 7 business days to send me my new debit card. The lady I spoke to last week knew good and well they had a holiday last week and that mail would be delayed. Why didn’t she say something to me? Eff RCLS. Slim Jackson Eff all the things simultaneously going on in my life nowadays. I got a lot of prioritizing and scheduling to do. **sigh** Eff the looming holidays that will lead to reckless expenditures. I should’ve started putting money aside months ago! Arg! Eff getting back into top shape. My lungs don’t expand as much as they used to. I got a lot of work to do with the weights and on the treadmill. Operation Ultra Beast 2009-2010 is underway. Eff…eff this. I’m out. Seattle Washington Eff all the stress & eff this. I’m disappearing like Keyser Soze. Your turn folks. Are you as burnt out as we are? Anything to eff this week? Get it all out. This will be the last therapy session for a few. Back to Reality, The 3 Ways Crew Make sure you add Slim and Crew on Twitter. We keep the party going all day long! 6 Celebrities We Love to HatePeople love to hate—particularly on celebrities. They’re such an easy target and we’re trying our hardest not to become celebs. Why else would we be hiding in the depths of Wordpress? We wanted to keep it light today though. Therefore, we’ve put together a short list of the celebrities that we, including you, love to hate. **In Lil Jon voice** Let’s gooooooo! Robert Sylvester Kelly bka Yellow Kellz
Aka R. Kelly bka “I may be gross but I sure can sang. ” People seem to have mixed feelings about his shady child p0rno/pseudo child-molesting/peeing on women past. We all judged him a bit when he kept going and going with that whole “In the Closet” phase. Yet we still find ourselves singing “Number One,” or bumping some classics from 12 Play. When the “Pied Piper” drops a new track, the first reaction may be to say “Ugh, go away.” But you can’t help but enjoy the man’s music. He may be an unsavory human being, but he can sang just about anything. Sigh. Sammy Sosa There seems to be less of a question of love/hate here, and more of a “What the eff were you thinking,” kinda vibe surrounding Senor Sosa right now. “It’s a cream that I have, that I use to soften (my skin), but has bleached me some. I’m not a racist, I live my life happily,” he said. Really though Sammy? Bleached you some? Cut the crap. You mean to tell us that you didn’t see anything wrong with this? We ain’t stupid. Be straight up with us. And yes we knew about the ‘roids too. We may not have judged you then, but folks are damn sure judging you now. Soulja Boy It’s said that no one person can mess up a whole culture, but Soulja Boy is definitely one of the scapegoats for doing it to hip hop. Folks have said he’s the downfall of the music genre, the epitome of what’s wrong with the rap game. Ice T even said something about him. Ice T! Sure he’s not helping with his remedial songs and overspending, but… No buts. I can’t even front, I shake my head every time I hear about some reckless thing he’s done.
Rev Run Somehow Rev went from hip hop’s spiritual and moral guru to a joke. I guess Twitter can do that. There’s several trending topics about his… eff it, yeah his basic ass tweets and now even a mock Twitter account. I’ve seen folks hate, but damn! This account is quickly bettering Drake’s Knee. Who barely missed the list himself. I’m not sure it’ll last forever, but as long as Rev Run keeps kicking knowledge that’s already been stomped out; I think the folks will keep loving to hate.
Beyonce Behind every bad chick is a gaggle of broads that will hate on her every move. I’m not even a fan of her music or her style, but damn if I hear one more Black woman saying something bad about Beyonce I’m going to snuff someone. No Chris Brown. Let the chick live! She’s bad and she’s married to one of the most, if not the most, influential MCs ever, she has an outstanding career and she’s bad. And what really kills me is that the chicks that hate are ugly/have nothing going for them/are single. Stop hating and use all that energy to get yourself together broad! Barack Obama
He’s a celebrity right? Well, at least that’s what Fox and other news channels would say. Though a good number of us tinty folk think the man is still fresh in the game, it seems there is an ever-increasing desire to criticize every action the man makes. When I’m (Slim) running on the treadmill, I don’t want to see 3 new channels showing him do a mini-bow when greeting someone in Asia and analyzing the bow. Do people not understand he is the Prez? He can do whatever the eff he wants! Not gonna lie though. I wouldn’t ever want to be him. He doesn’t look so young anymore. Has anyone else noticed how much he has aged in the face since he took office? So yeah folks, that’s our list of 6 celebrities (of sorts) that we love to hate. What do you think of the folks we mentioned? What are your additions to this list? We know you hate/hate on/know someone that hates on some particular celebrity. Sharing is caring…and ish. Hating, The 3 Ways Crew Make sure you add Slim and Crew on Twitter. We keep the party going all day long! The Choosey Lover**I’m giving the spotlight today to someone who’s pretty much been around for my whole blogging existence. Those who visit 3 Ways regularly know her name. Those who don’t bettah recognize! I know her in real life as Lola B., but you probably know her as The Choklit Factory. Give her a round of finger snaps! -Slim** Choosey Lover, Boy I’m so proud of Ya.
-Aaliyah ‘Choosey Lover’ 1996 I must have listened to this song a good 20 times before I understood its true meaning. According to the lyrics and my own definition, a Choosey Lover is a selective or picky person who engages in much thought and effort when choosing a mate for relationship purposes (I am not referring to jump-offs!). These people weigh the benefits and possible damages of dealing with someone on an intimate level and do so preferably without (or more likely despite) the influence of strong sexual desires or favorable superficial appearances. Some characteristics the Choosey Lover will consider include: the person’s past, their ambitions in life, their morals and the way they treat people in general. Let’s explore. Their Past
Life Ambitions
Their Morals
How do they treat others?
I find that many of my friends or acquaintances – men and women, decide against holding out for these admirable qualities in their mates and offer various excuses for doing so. These include: ‘Hey it’s hard to find a man/woman out here!’ or, ‘She doesn’t treat me good…but she takes photos for fun is a model!!’ or my favorite, ‘I don’t want to die alone!’ To counter these arguments I would argue that when you take care in monitoring the kinds of people you choose to bring into your life, you save yourself from the girl fights, getting burned and other d being brought into your life. And yes, you do have to take a chance, a leap of faith if you will, when choosing to enter into a relationship with someone. Still, I think committing more care into the actual choosing of your mate will determine the amount of disagreements, happiness and heartbreak you will endure as a result of the union. All you Choosey Lovers out there, I see you! You are bougie as you wanna be; you expect the best because you believe you deserve it! You are a kind person at heart, selective but never cocky – ok you are a bit cocky…work on that. What do you all think? Would you consider yourself a Choosey Lover when it comes to choosing a mate for relationship purposes? Do you think I’m being too uppity? What’s changed for you over the years that’s made you more or less Choosey? Did I lose you at pickney? What say you all?! Lola B. aka The ChokLit Factory ~No Half-steppin’~ Make sure you add Slim and Crew on Twitter. We keep the party going all day long! What Are You So Afraid Of? On the real, what happened to these kids? OK Three Ways family, I’m going to be honest with you. This past Saturday I drove for a little less than 8 hours (round trip) and with all that damn time in my car, I couldn’t come up with an idea for today’s blog post. Well a post that met my standards and/or that wasn’t going to offend someone. I was mentally tapped out. The right side of my brain was dusty. I reached down into the magical idea bag and all I felt was the velvet lining. The brainstorm clouds never came, the river ran dry and there was no Creativity FEMA in sight. You get where I’m going. With the walls closing in, slave masters Slim Jackson and Miss Jenkins gave me the eye from afar with whips in hand, wondering what the hell I was going to write for today. My worst fear was finally coming true – I ran out of ideas. For me it’s more than this award-winning blog, I make my living off my ideas. Without divulging too much, you can say I paint pretty pictures with words and use my imagination to create what I hope will be cool stuff for 8-12 hours a day. Unlike a true artist, I have to be “on” constantly. No breaks in this game. But like a true artist I’m only as good as my last piece of work. The industry I work in is quick to turn around with her neck swinging and pointer finger in the air and say, “…[Seattle], what have you done for me lately?” So until I hit the lottery, or have a team of young up and coming cats working for me, the fear of running out of ideas will be in the back of my mind. My desperation and fear got me thinking though, what else am I afraid of? Running Out of Time I don’t care about dying, it’s going to happen when it’s going to happen. Being exposed to death or someone on the brink of death early in your life puts lets you know early that there’s no escaping it. But it also got me worried about going too soon. As a result, I’ve become highly impatient and ambitious in regards to my career and endeavors. I’ve got so much I want to do and my fear is that my tasks will go without being completed. “I Do”
I joke about being a Timeless Toys ‘R’ Us kid with my friends, but I don’t want to be that old dude in the club. No matter how much of a baby face I have, I don’t want to have to kick game and chase young ass, or old ass for that matter, when I’m older. Well… No, I don’t. On the other hand, I’ve seen first hand what a dysfunctional marriage is and I’m not sure I want to dive into that either. Eh, it’ll work itself out. Right? Yeah, right. Betrayal I have a close crew of battle tested friends. I know that if something happened they’d be there, I know they’ll tell me when I’m messing up and be there if I am. Because they have. But, it took a minute for folks to get that close. I tend to keep folks at arm’s length and anyone that knows me knows my arms are as long as Inspector Gadget’s. I don’t trust folks because of a fear of betrayal. It takes a little while for me to warm up and truly open up, especially to women. I’m no emo slut! And with that said, I’m shutting it back down and closing the doors like Japan back in the 1600s. That’s all I got folks. No clowns, mysterious demons or close encounters of the fourth kind, just some basic life fears from your boy Seattle. I am afraid of walking out the house with something on my face, but I didn’t think that was as… deep. As you can probably tell I feel all vulnerable and sh!t now, so I’m going to retreat to my man cave. In the meantime, please let me know what are you guys afraid of. And what have you done to get, or try to get, past it all? Let’s gather around the proverbial campfire and share scary stories like those kids from Nick. Who brought the s’mores and the trees? Someone spark Slim & RCLS up for their Founders and let’s get to it. Seattle - Turned Those Lemons Into Limoncello (Look It Up) – Washington Make sure you add Slim and Crew on Twitter. We keep the party going all day long! More Recent Articles |
