You are listening too . .
Bukowski from Modest Mouse.  A song about Charles Bukowski (as the song says a good read, but . . ) and God.

Dear Malach
Haven’t had a Dear Malach is a while have I?  Been shirking my duties . .

• Nurse Myra asks: Dear Malach, “Wanna get busy, put on a fizzy”? who wrote those lyrics anyway….? The nurse is refering to this video I posted yesterday.  That of course is from the [adult swim] show Robot Chicken.  It is of course a take off on Jim Henson’s cult classic Dark Crystal.  The wrap was performed and partially written by T-Pain.  T-Pain is perhaps most famous for his participation in this:
  
  I have  a t-shirt with Popeye on it that say “I’m On A Boat”.  That will be next for T-Shirt Friday.

KMP Softball Update
Wow. So we are in the championship round.  We are playing the best out of 5 vs. the Bulldogs.  The Bulldogs came in second and were the only team that beat us twice.  So we played the first game vs. them today, and surprisingly we smoked them, 13 – 0.  My pitching was on, and I decided before the game, I was only pitching one pitching until they showed they could consistently hit it.  My curve.  My curve is a ball I throw that starts inside off the plate, and then break over the plate at the last minute.  Evidently between that and KMP’s stellar defense and timely 2 out hitting, we shut them out, my 4th of the year.  Got our next game Wednesday . .

I also hit a little better today, I have figured out and I trying too hard to get cute with bad pitches.

Ugh
What is up with Sports figure doing crap like this?  It was sickening with Lebron, the TO and Barry Bonds show, and now Favre.  What is the man going to do when finally he physically can’t do it?  Suicide?  Heroin?

Wow .  .
I really can’t believe they are making a TV Show out of Shit My Dad Says, and starring William Shatner of all people.

Hey Scientists!
Your wrong!  The world’s oldest creature is Mike.

Malach’s Video of the Day

I am Malach and take your life advice from Conan and you can’t go wrong.

Dear Malach

• Mitzi G. Burger asks: Games the Celtics play … Who can drink the most black bitter beer on a wintry night? Who can sing Danny Boy to produce the most tears in their listeners’ eyes? Who can wear the itchiest woolly sweater? I am sorry to confuse my Non-American friends with my American sports teams.  When I say Celtics, I refer to these Celtics the 17 time NBA Champs and not these Celtics, although the logo for the first Celtics is this.  You see they are one win away from sweeping the Orlando Magic in 4 games to advance to yet another best of 7 series for another NBA Championship, where they will probably face their rivals, the Los Angeles Lakers, who have won the title 14 times.

And yes  . . .
RedBull is financing this endeavor.

Malach’s Video of the Day

I am Malach and I blog, bloggily

Dear Malach

• Syncopated Eyeball asks: Dear Malach, Have you seen pictures of Sheela-na-gigs, Malach? Of course, it is like Porno from Medieval Man! Here a pretty famous one from Church of St. Mary and St. David in Kilpeck England:
  The funny part is these things are all over 10 – 12th century churches.  My favorite form of ancient man porn though has to be the Venus of Willendorf:
• Which is 20,000 to 25,000 years old.
• Dr. John Rebello asks: Dear Malach, So did my cheering routine help (your pitching)? Possibly . . . do it again before a game next week.

Didn’t know this was coming out . .

PLEASE HOLLYWOOD DO NOT SCREW UP JONAH HEX LIKE YOU DID WITH DAREDEVIL AND GHOST RIDER!

Malach’s Video of the Day

I am Malach and I will not apologize for art!

You are listening too . . .
What else, The Blarney Stone from Ween.

Dear Malach

• Nursemyra asks: Dear Malach,  Let me get this straight – Urkel is only the father of the three boys isn’t he? your client’s daughter’s three girls were fathered by someone else weren’t they? Or was he just going up and down stairs impregnating them in turn? Ahh my fair nurse, now you know why this would make a wonderful reality show . . . he is the father of ALL OF THEM.

St. Patrick’s Day
Many of you might already know I have  major issue with St. Patrick’s Day, so hear goes my yearly rant with a few things added.

Why do I hate St. Patrick’s Day you ask?  I tell you why.  Well, why is St. Patrick’s Day, a day of celebration for being Irish and all things Irish, like a major holiday here in the US?  Unless you are born and raised in IRELAND, you are not Irish.  Just because 300 years ago, you might of have a relative from Ireland, you are still not Irish.  YOU ARE AMERICAN.  As American’s when do we ever celebrate being American?  July 4th?  Not really.    Why do people insist in this coutry on telling people their ethnic ancestory instead of saying they are American?  What do you mean you ask?

Ask anyone in the US what they are, 99.9% will tell you their ancestory and not that they are AMERICAN.  Even when their North American ancestry traces back to the 1600′s.  Many of my friends are of Portuguese ancestry.  They all say they are Portuguese.  Most of my friend are 2nd and 3rd generation Americans, and are no more Portuguese than I am.  They were not born and raised in Portugal, most haven’t even been to their ancestral home, so how can they be Portuguese?  Mani of my friends tell me I am French.  Sorry, first, my ancestors from 5 – 600 years ago that spoke French are from Canada not France, and both sides of my family go back at least 4 generations of American born and bred, and before that they are mainly Canadian and Native American, so still North American.  I am no more French than the Pope is Eskimo.

Why does this happen in America?  Cause we are “the melting pot”?  Sorry but this country hasn’t been a melting pot or open immigration since the 1920′s.  So are we embarassed?  Is being American too boring?  I don’t see Ireland celebrating Independence Day and going around with Red White and Blue.  Does this happen in other countries?

Addtionally I have a problem with the term “African American” (or “Irish American” or “Mexican American” etc).   You are not African American, you are AMERICAN.  Even if your ancestors were forcibly brought here as slaves, their successive generations are Americans.  If you want to differentiate your race, your are black, just as I am white.  All of my black friends ancestry is longer in the country than my Portuguese friends.  You are not African.  YOU ARE AMERICAN!

I don’t think you see this in other countries?  I have never heard of a Irish European or an African Australian or for that matter a Mexican Canadian.  Do other countries celebrate St. Patrick’s Day like we do?

That is the other thing, what do use AMERICANS do on St. Patrick’s Day?  Or for that matter Cinqo De Mayo?  We get innebriated . . . way to support those Irish stereotypes.  Might as well have an African American day and eat Fried Chicken and Watermelon.

Malach calls for American Day!  Let’s celebrate being Americans!  Even those from Texas!  Don’t be embarassed to be AMERICAN!  Dubya is no longer our President, you don have to be scared.

Think the weather’s bad here?
Try Jupiter.  I also had some fun today egging on several people on a science forum arguing about whether Pluto is a planet or not.  Nerd Fight!

Malach’s Video of the Day

I am Malach and not all Ninjas are awesome

You are listening too . . .
6’1″ from Liz Phair

Dear Malach

• Nursemyra asks: Dear Malach, what’s with the video today? – INXS are cool, but Jimmy Barnes is such a tosser. I had to look up Jimmy Barnes because it seems he is the most popular Australian Singer ever, but never made it out of Down Under, got a nice lesson on Cold Chisel too.  Video was posted as the song was from Lost Boys, and it was the death of Corey Haim.  A tosser huh?  Gonna use that one.

South Beach Diet

So, I stated the South Beach Diet 2 and half weeks ago, and following fairly closely.  So far I like it, have lost 12 lbs.   Good too, I got up to 240 this winter.  Got to start jogging this weekend as Daylight Savings comes back into effect.

YAY!
Betty White rocks!

Wow
Who wants to go to the hospital in Amsterdam with me? HEEELLLLO NURSE!

Malach’s Video of they Day

I am Malach and I am a scientist

You are listening too . . .
I am still feeling the Ween, so you got a fave of mine, Mutilated Lips

Stardom once again . .
Once again, Malach and his program will be featured on TV by Catholic Charities and the Fall River Diocese.

Dear Malach

• Syncopated Eyeball asks: Dear Malach, Hey Malach, do you know of Bishop John Shelby Spong? I think he’s very cool.  Yes, he is cool, and I like his ideas about Christianity and Jesus and the philosophy of both.  SHHH, many of the Catholic Priest I know and deal with, like his stuff a lot too.
• Dr. John Rebello asks: Dear Malach, Can you take your kids to work? Yes, I can, but they would be bored, scared, or in the way or all three.

Malach’s Video of the Day

I am Malach and that was dedicated to 4 Dinners

Dear Malach

• Nursemyra asks: Dear Malach, Anyway, isn’t the stereotype of a chicken-eating black man supposed to be about American Blacks?   Yeah that is the point.  We live in an interlinked world cause of the internet, and a very politically correct world.  If you are an ad exec, don’t you need to be AWARE of that?
• LucastDs asks: Dear Malach, Were steroids actually BANNED in the 90s in baseball?  No they were not, they we illegal in the US with a 1990 control act, but Baseball had a memo in 1991 saying it was adding it to banned substances, but had no testing for it as it would not pass the Player’s Union and had to be collectively bargained into the the CB Agreement in 2004.  Here’s a good timeline: http://thesteroidera.blogspot.com/2006/08/baseballs-steroid-era-timeline.html.

  So, that is basically putting players on the Honor’s System, and we all no that really doesn’t work, never mind adding millions of dollars, MLB coming off a strike and the Home Run Race saving them, and ultra competitive guys.  Another reason why I would vote the Juicers in?  Who am I to make the determination who was and wasn’t juicing in that era?  So, you either vote them in, or vote no one in from the late 80′s to the early 00′s

Conan O’Brien
I agree with Conan here, not to mentions he is a Hell of a lot funnier that Leno.  You Go O’Brien.

Well now . .
That is really passive agressive, is it not?

Who would win in a fight?
Google or China?

Malach’s Video of the Day

I am Malach aka Lane Meyers

Dear Malach

• Syncopated Eyeball asks: Dear Malach, Hey Malach, can you drop back over to the comments section of my ‘One For Malach’ post and answer a couple of zombie questions, please? And actually, I still don’t know why you want me to catch a bus to Beelzebub.  Dude, I try to be accepting of folk but Satan’s second in command? Don’t think I wanna get on that bus! Looking forward to further explanation. Also, what’s that funny movie where the Zombies blob about going ‘brains’?  My dear I answered you question about Zombies, I hope adaquately, as for the Bus?  Get onto the Bus!  The Bus that take you to Beelzebub!  Let me show you (better have your dancing shoes on)!
  
  Your words burn the air like names of candy bars . . As for you issue with Zombies and Brains, I think I can solve that with this:
  
  Hopefully I have answered all you concerns.  I am reading The Zombie Survival Guide right now, so you can trust me . .  BEHOLD THE POWER OF MALACH!

Famous once again . .
Had a client write a nice little letter about me to the local newspaper that was published today. Wonderful client by the way, one of my favorites.

Goodbye Jason Bay . .
While I don’t understand why you would want to play for the Mets (well beyond money), don’t hold it against you.  Sorry to see you go.

Malach’s Video of the Day

I am Malach and that was for my kids to see tomorrow

You are listening too . . .
Like a lot of groups (REM, Red Hot Chili Peppers, U2) The Cure’s albums after Disintegration are only ok, so I stop there.  So tonight we start with a new group, that will lead us right into the holidays . .  Fugazi.

If there is a band that should have been in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame years ago, it should Fugazi and they have never been nominated.  Even if the got in, they probably wouldn’t accept it anyway, typical Fugazi.

So your a listening too one of their most famous songs, off their first album 13 Songs . . Awsome song Waiting Room.  In that past you have seen the crazy video I have posted for it.  There are some interesting covers of the song, but this in my favorite by far, as good as the original:

One of the problem Fugazi has, is they have been around in one form or another since 1980, under different name (Minor Threat being the most famous and not far off from Fugazi) and did not realise their first official album until 1988. In addition they have always refused to sign with a major label, would do shows for $5 a person, and take strict control of the crowd, even playing hardcore punk, for crowd safety and women’s rights. I have been to a number of Fugazi shows, and they have stopped playing if the mosher is getting out of hand, or some is groping a female, escort that person out of the venue and hand him a envelope with $5 in it. Supremely talented band, both musically and lyrically, focus much of their music on political stances.

Fugazi came out of the hardcore straight edge punk scene, and took it to a much different level with their music, adding reggae, funk, crazy guitar work, big noise, and heavy riffs influenced by Led Zepplin and Queen. Very much like Public Enemy, Ian MacKaye and Guy Piccioto’s singing play off each other. They play foils to one another both singing and guitar work.

FUGAZI IN THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME!

Just got home
Yeah, I worked a couple of hours tonight, our food pantry manager could not pick up a huge donation from a local churches Thanksgiving Mass, so myself and the Residential Manage took the truck up and picked it up, I drove.  See I do everything.

Dear Malach

• Sycopated Eyeball asks: Dear Malach, You sound so busy. Do you sleep?  Why yes I do, I am and extremely good sleeper, I am usually in bed by 10PM.  Because I work 4 days a week, I work long hours to work full time.

Malach’s Video of the Day
And we dedicate today’s video to Buzzardbilly, exploring our inner Freddy Mercury

I am Malach Happy Turkey Day!

Dear Malach

• Buzzardbilly asks: Dear Malach, Oh, The Cure will get in. How could they not?  Yeah you would think so, but this band, whose first release was in 1978, has NEVER EVEN BEEN NOMINATED!  What a travesty.

More fun times with clients . .
So, this was a fun day at work.  Firstly, the client I talked about a few days ago, we are putting him into our Domestic Violence Homelessness program, he should be in before Dec 1st.  Good news there, now I just got to get the time to recover his stuff.

So today, I met with a client that my brother, fellow co-workers, and legal services has been trying to get me together with for a month now.  FInally did.  This woman is bi-polar, and spend a lot of time in psychiatric hospitals.  Her landlord is trying to evict her, stating she is absolutely nuts.  She is also a former crack addict.  So, she just returned from a stay at a hospital and I set up to meet her today.

So I walk into her apartment, and it is a complete disaster area.  Broken walls, kicked down doors, smashed dishes, paper and clothes all over the place, it looked like the place had gotten robbed.  The client was their and she proceed to tell me how he landlord wants her out so bad, he came in while she was in the hospital and destroyed her apartment.  I told her to call the cops right now, she refused saying all the cops ever do is beat her up and put her away on a Section 12.  That was my first warning.

There is a huge part of the ceiling torn down, which she claimed was from water damage, of course, there were no water stains.  Huge chunks of plaster have been ripped down in the bedroom, and along with a door smashed of it’s hinges.  Of course there was a plaster ridden hammer in the room on her bureau.  The final thing that sent off the red flags was her TV.  It was pretty new, flatscreen, and a hole had been poked forcefully through the screen, and hole just big enough to fit her cane tip.

Yeah, so I knew I dealing with a looney.  I am good with those.  So, I agree with her, take her to my Fall River office, and we sit down and talk.  Seems her past living situations, have all turned out like this too.  What to do, what to do?  We will see on this one.  We are referring her to our women’s SRO.  Why do I have a feeling I am going to follow this mess around for the next few years.

So, I get back to my office, and sitting in one of the basic needs advocates offices for the past 3 hours is another bi-polar homeless woman.  Malach sits with her, get’s her back to reality, she wants us to kill her.  That is enough for me, I convince her she would be best served taking a taxi over to the crisis center.  It took a while, but she voluntarily went.  What fun!

And of course, I ended my day, with one of my favorite clients.  She is living in one of our Scattered Sight Homeless Apartments.  Beautiful 34 year old with a past history of alcoholism and drug abuse and mental health issues.  She has really done and awesome job builder her life back up the past couple of years. 

The past few months have been tough.  Her 55 year old mother who has HIV, had a stroke, is starting to suffer from dementia, but was recovering and living with her daughter in the apartment in our program.  She was taking care of Mom as she recovered, and both were doing pretty well.  Last month her mother had another major stroke, and had a hard time recovering from it, on top of it, because of her weakened state, the HIV has turned into AIDS, and she is having uncontrolable seizures.

I am going to start working with her weekly to help her through this, I don’t want to see her back where she was 5 years ago.  Breaks my heart.

Nice
So, yeah, the New Bedford Police take this stuff seriously . .  here is the video, warnng, lots of use of the F-Word, and the rap really sucks too . .

Yeah, don’t quit your day job, if you got one.  It is funny, all the locales are place I drive by everyday, and PO Judy Young is a very reasonable woman too.  Hey Murk!  What say me and you redo this one?  We could he HILARIOUS!  Ahh, typical New Bedford idiots.

I got your F’n Volcano Right HERE!
BOOOM!

Malach’s Video of the Day

I am Malach, hey Murk, let’s combine the above video, with the Anti-NB Police one!

You are listening too . . .
Lovesong off The Cure’s best album Disintegration.  This album marked the peak of The Cure’s creativity, and their pentultimate goth album.  Lovesong is the other song by The Cure which is a Gen X love song, along with Just Like Heaven and In Your Eyes from Peter Gabriel that appealled to a broad base of Gen X’ers.

A very simple song lyrically and musically, but very powerful.

Dear Malach

• Syncopated Eyeball asks: Dear Malach, Hey, I spy with my syncopated eyeball the Strength tarot card in that cool painting. Do you read tarot, Malach?  Do I read it, no.  Do I understand the meanings of the cards and use their symbolism in my paintings, yes.
• Four Dinners asks: Dear Malach, Happy Anni thingy. You remember the date? The wifey would be impressed…;-)  I always remember most dates like Birthdays, and Anniversary, except for one.  For some reason I can never remember my Father’s Birthday, I always confuse it with my parent’s anniversary and I can never for the life of me get it right.  I also just figured out you got a new blog, I saved it.
• Moooog asks: Dear Malach, One of The Cure’s best albums? You mean that they actually had an album that was good?  Yeah, you’d be surprised I am pushing them for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.  I understand where you are coming from though, they had nothing on RATT right my hair metal buddy?
• Murky Murk asks: Dear Malach, Why aren’t there more blog posts about volcanoes?  Why my blog in particular or blogs in general?  My blog in particular?  I live in New England, I care not for the threat of volcanoes.  As for blogs in general?  Well, soon Yellowstone will explode, and then there will be LOTS OF POST on that, at least for a few weeks until most of the world turns into The Road.  You need to post “King Kong, your Wrong!” on your Twitter Account.

Speaking of Volcanoes
We won’t have to worry about Yellowstone, we will all be destroyed soon in a blackhole accident at the LHC.

Malach’s Video of the Day

I am Malach and wow that Natalie Portman is HARDCORE!

You are listening too . . .
As we move into the mid 80′s with The Cure, we move more into their goth period.  Album here is Head on the Door and In Between Days is the song, which is more goth and “emo” that previous songs . . this is getting toward the creative peak of The Cure.

Dear Malach

• Dr. John Rebello asks: Dear Malach, How’s your back?  Good question “doctor” you tell me.  It is not necessarily the back, it is more the right shoulder, to the back, lower from the armpit to the muscle group that runs along the spine.  Not sure what I did to it, I did some aerobic boxing the night before but it was fine, and woke up in intense pain the at 2AM, and thought I might have to take my self to the emergency room.  Aspercreme and double dose of Advil got me back to sleep, and it felt a bit better the next day, of course by the end I was hurting.  This morning, I felt sore, but much better and pain was more in the shoulder.  I don’t work Fridays, and was planning on resting it, but emergency at work, and I worked 5 hours, and the pain, though not as bad is there right now.  Ice has helped a lot.  Thoughts Dr. John Rebello, or even better, NurseMyra?

So how was your Friday?
Again, Malach is a disability expert for a very large non profit in SouthEastern MA.  I run the disability program which consists mainly of case management and service coordination, advocacy, PCA Surrogacy, working in the Schools, and such.

For the past two weeks, myself and our Basic Needs department was working with a guy, I will call him Joe.  Joe is a 40 year old multi ethnic Latino male with Spina Bifida.  He has been mostly in good physically shape for most his life, working, having 5 marriages, 3 kids, and living all over the world.  After his last marriage failed, he came to the New Bedford area, and began working to support himself and provide child support for his three kids.

That was until this year.  This year, his Spina Bifda began to wreck his body.  He started to lose mobility on and off, and gross and fine motor skills, similar to what MS does.  His began to fai=ll on and off, and lost bladder sensation, leading to catheterization every 2 hour.  He spent a lot of time in the hospital, from falling, and losing bone density in his legs, snapping one of his shins in half at one point.  Needless to say he lost his job.  He ran out of unemployment and decide it was time to apply for disability.  He more than qualfiedfor SSDI.  He applied and to almost everyones surprise he got denied.  This is guy who definitely can no longer work.

No, this to me was not a complete surprise.  With the economy and everyone out of jobs, EVERYONE is allying for SSI and SSDI, and at this point Social Security is turning 95% of them down.  I have had to file appeals for tons of people like this and every single one of them has eventually got on one or the other, it is just a long process.

Back to Joe.  I was called into Basic Needs, when Joe was there to help him file the appeal.  Joe had been almost 8 months off unemployment and after getting denied he was no on EAFDC (welfare for the disabled) and making $303 per month.  He was at basic needs looking for help to get out of a room he was renting from a couple across the street and get some type of subsidized housing.

We had a room at a wonderful Single Room Occupancywe run, and he would only pay $90 including utilities for it for one of the subsidized units.  We sent him on his way while the process went about.  About a week and half later, Basic Needs and the Manager of the SRO were trying for several days to contact him, as the room would be ready for him next week.  No one could find him.  Every call was answered by a someone who said he was not home, or an answering machine.  So, Thursday, Malach decided to go to his home, and find him, Malach is like that.  So, he lived right down the street.  My workplace is a poor neighborhood, the apartment he was renting the room in was in a nasty building, but hey I am used to it, and I can run, bob, and weave still pretty well if I need to.

I did find him, and met the couple he was living with.  They seemed pretty nice. Latino couple, the male has not a citizen but had a visa.  They were in the process of trying to get their son back from DCF.  That should of been my first warning.

So I take Joe back to my office so he can sit with Basic Needs and finish up his paperwork and then take him to the SRO to see it.  While he is sitting there in basic needs, he breaks down and tells us that woman, is abusive, physical and mentally abuses the husband/boyfriend, and started in on him last weekend.  She is unmedicated Bi-Polar, got super drunk, and attacked him with the iron stove covers on the oven, and threatened him with a knife.  He showed us the bruises, and told us, he had to call the cops, she was nuts and was afraid she was going to kill him and the husband/boyfriend.  She has busted down his door, and she was in lock up, coming out on Monday.  He was barricade the door using crutches under the doorknob.  Because of his physical issue, he could not defend himself, and the husband, wouldn’t do anything displaying the exact behavior the Domestic Violence women I deal with do.

So, we had an emergency, so who did I call, the New Bedford Women’s Center, yes, the work with DV men too not a lot of them, but the do deal with them.  First problem it was so late, no one had a bed for him (much harder to find for men that women) but, the abuser was working 9PM to 9AM, so the case worker  (Trudy) at the Women’s Center told me to bring him in early in the morning.  Joe showed me a letter he had gotten from the New Bedford Police DV Unit, informing his he was a victim of Domestic Violence and to go to The Women’s Center, so we were headed in the right place.

So, I picked him up at 8AM, and for the second time in two weeks, making MOOOG jealous, I spent half the day at The Women’s Center.  Turdy managed it find him a room, at a battered women’s shelter in a close city.  This shelter had a full handicapped unit on the other side of the shelter for privacy, and they in the past have put disabled men in it, and they felt they could take him on.  Cool.  We had to head back to Joe’s room, collect his clothes and I had to get him out the city where the shelter was, and the shelter would send for a cab (you have, for the protection of the client keeps these places secret, even though I already knew where it was).

So, we head back there about Noon, already working 2 more hours than I wanted to, the plan was to get his clothes, medical supplies, and his 6 month old 30″ flatscreen cause he was worried the abuser would toss it out a window.

And guess who was there?  The abuser of course.  He husband/boyfriend had gone down the street.  The minute Joe and I walked in and started packing his stuff, she new the jig was up and lost it.  She started screaming in both Spanish and English.  Foaming at the mouth.  Screaming about money Joe supposedly owed her, and such.  She started slamming things down, and throwing this, and then, typical bi-polar started crying.  I told Joe to ignore her and helped him pack, she got steamed, got right in my face and went the whole “respect me in my house” crap.  Of course, me being the sarcastic one, went right back about respect for others, like Joe and her Husband/Boyfriend, and with what happend this weekend she might want to back away.  She lost it again, now realizing Joe had come clean with the incident, and that is why we were pulling him out.

She started going off how she wanted me out of the house, that I did not belong in her house, and she needed to talk to Joe so I should bring his luggage downstairs.  When I told her I wasn’t leaving, she again lost it, and started screaming again to get out of her house.  I of course told her, if she wanted me out, she could call the Police.  That end her thoughts of that, and she started on the money thing again.  I told her to take Joe to Housing Court, and Joe and I carried his stuff out of the apartment with her yelling screaming and tossing things behind us.

We get downstairs and he husband/boyfried in down there, crying, afraid to go upstairs.  Joe spoke Spanish, so we told his to call the women’s center and I wrote the number down for him.  I told his to at least call me on Monday, and I would get him hooked up with our IVRP Program.  He just kept saying that he wasn’t going back upstairs for several hours, but he would be OK.  I hope we convinced him otherwise.

So, I got Joe out to the meeting place, and off to the shelter, got back to my office and clocked out around 1:30. 

So, how was your day?

So advice to any man who reads this who if going through something like this.  There is help.  Battered men is much more common than you think, it is just not reported for many reasons.  Seek the help.

Malach’s Sheik Yerbouti Friday Video of the Day

I am Malach and that was another song off Head on the Door

You are listening too . . .
The Cure first ever release Killing and Arab.  This song throws off a lot of Cure listener who are used to their early stuff.  The song itself is about a scene from a 1942 Novel, The Stranger.  Of course the song has kind of haunted The Cure through the 90′s and 00′s with all going on in the Middle East.  Robert Smith has changed the lyrics to “Kissing and Arab” and “Killing Another” over the past 20 years.

Dear Malach

• Dr. John Rebello ask: Dear Malach, Has Bellichick has gone insane?  Ok, well about last night, Belichick defended it all day long, basically saying at the time it was the best way to win the game.  It is hard to defend the decision, and I am one of the biggest Kool Aid Drinkers out there, but here I go.  Two thoughts.  I think Belichick overthought it.    I will try to get into the mad scientists mind for a moment.  His defense was tired, over injured, and not stopping no one for the last two time the Colts had the ball.  I think he thought, I go for it here, if I fail, the Colts will score really quickly and it will give me enough time to get in field goal range to win.  If we punt, they will march down the field and waste all the time left in the game.  Of course it didn’t work.

  My other thought was this:  Malach is REALLY GOOD at this job.  I am Bill Belichick of disability knowledge and services in Southeastern MA.  That give me a lot of confidence, hubris if you will, when tackling problems with that field.  Even I everyso often bite off more than I can chew, and it knocks me back down the Earth.  I learn something from it, and it make be even better (there is that hubris again).  I think this happened to Belichick.

• Tiff asks: Dear Malach, What’s the weather like where you are, Malach?  You must be referring to the remants of Ida, which slammed you home in North Calalackey?  We got a bit of rain on Saturday, but nothing to extreme . . what was extreme was the temperature.  It was 70degrees plus all weekend!  November in New England!  I turned the heat off and opened window!  Today it was beautiful too, upper 60′s.  Of course, we are getting back to regular, it is 47 right now.

Sarah Palin
Her stories are INSANE!

Dead or Canadian?
Ken Ober.

So . .
Who wants to be stamps go up to say $1.52 a stamp?

Jools Holland
So, now that I have Direct TV, I get Ovation TV, and I grown very fond of Later  . . . with Jools Holland.  It comes on nightly here, I get to see cool stuff past and present and it on at 7PM.

Malach’s Video of the Day

I am Malach and lets sing along with Malach

Dear Malach
Dear Malach returns with a few questions from the buckos!

• Buzzard Billy asks: Dear Malach, Did the 950 time drivers test taker have to be Asian?  Yeah, I know, I know but there is a kernel of truth to every stereotype is there not?  I will ask Dr. Murk’s Asian wife when I see her this weekend how many times it took her.
• Dr. John Rebello asks: Dear Malach, Another of you lovers, that driver?  Ahh, Dr. John will your never learn?  Every joke you make about me, I turn around on you and having relations with your mother, so my answer:  Yeah, your mother’s still a bad driver.

Hey Sammy Sosa?
What is up with that? Seriously dude, this is weird!

Seriously though, why do we have issues with blacks and latinos lightening their skin and not with us white people trying to darken our skin by tanning?

NO WAY!
Not the New Bedford I know!

Malach’s Video of the Day

I am Malach and who knew Super Villians were so stupid?

You are listening too . . .
Public Enemy’s defining song, a Gen X anthem, Fight The Power.  Came in at a perfect time in 1989, with the gang violence, the changing political face of the world, crack, and the upcoming race issue the US would have with LA Riots.  Also if you like Malach, your first hear this song when you saw Do The Right Thing in the theaters . . . one of the best uses of a song in a movie ever.  Additionally, most people don’t realize that Fight the Power is a offshoot of There have also been a TON of remakes of this song, one of my faves is the Barenaked Ladies version.  There is also the version from King of Queens.

Speaking of FIght the Power . .
Malach and family went to see Cloudy with a Chace of Meatballs today.  Very funny, much better than I thought it would be.  One of the best parts of the movie is a fake internet viral video of FIght the Power done by a flash animated kitten.  Looked for it already not on the internet yet.

Dear Malach

• Four Dinners asks:  Dear Malach, I’m curious what you make of this. My bro in law is a cop. (In London, England). My daughter is dating a brilliant bloke who is half cast. Half Jamaican (dad) and half English (mum). (They are great people by the way. I get on so well with them I admit – discreetly – I will be a bit pissed off if she doesn’t marry the lad one day but I guess it’s her choice). My bro in law seems to have a MAJOR problem with this. I haven’t. I couldn’t give a toss whether my daughter’s boyfriend is white, black, brown or green with yellow dots – well actually I’d be a tad alarmed at green with yellow dots in case he was contagious…as long as he treats her well….and he does.  My bro in law refuses to speak to him (weird) and, as a result I’ve banned him from my house. The boyfriend is (I think) a tad embarrassed that he’s caused a family rift – but HE hasn’t!!! Nowt will change until/unless either my daughter or her boyfriend change it – if it dies the death it does, if it doesn’t great. He’s cool and he buys me beer (which is, of course, important). Being a white bloke (living in a predominantly Black/Asian area) I’ve never had any probs so I’m after a different perspective here. WTF is my bro in laws problem?  Jax is happy, her boyfriends happy, his mum and dada are happy, me and the wifey are happy. Am I naive or is it a cop thing? Soz to put this on you but I’d value your input old bean.  Personally I’d settle for hitting the idiot and putting an end to it but the wifey won’t let me.  Anyroad. There you go. Life’s a bitch eh?….;-)  Well, this in quite a question.  If you lived in the US, I would say it is a cop thing.  You see, in and around these parts, the cops constantly deal with minorities, who tend to be poor, and tend to commit a lot of the crimes.  This causes a lot of cops to be suspicious of non-whites, even my middle class friends who I hang with, get the once over from cops here and there, even when hanging with us.  Nowing a number of cops, I would not say most cops are racist, but I would say most of them are predjudice because of the typical person who is getting in trouble with the law. Now, this is personal Malach issue.  Growing up watching English TV like Monty Python, the Young Ones, and Dr. Who, you never saw black people on British TV, so I always find it wierd when a Black Person has a english accent.

Malach’s Video of the Day

I am Malach and you best watch out when Captain America throws his mighty sheild.