Views from a BrewTown Sista (aka The Chronicles of Kayleah H. Madison)

June 22 Solitude after hours has arrived in Cell Block L. I guarantee I will have a field day when I get back home and add this to my blog! Getting used to the new surroundings, yet the mat that goes on top of this metal bunk bed is not making my sleeping habits any better. Having an actual mattress to sleep on is a far cry from what I’ve been laying my head on since coming back here. First that plastic “boat”, now plain flat metal. Each time I try to sleep I ball up the blanket they give me to use as a pillow. Let’s just say it made my back pains a lot worse. Hearing about how the other cellmates made one person’s family history an instant punch line. I did hear he was supposedly related to that Motor City Madman himself, rocker/hunter/political activist Ted Nugent. Well, stupid is what stupid does, right? I had written in a few other blog pages about my time in the big house. This has without a doubt been the longest tenure I have ever had in my life. There were some other p...

June 21 Leading up to this day with the judge, I had been doing some work on what I was going to say and how I was going to attempt to convince him/her that I can make the necessary payments needed to finally pay off this headache and hopefully get the hell out of there. I got to go to their “law library”, which was nothing more than being one of the cells with a bookcase of law encyclopedias. The information I eventually found was recent, but not current. Someone had told me that there was a motion where I could request that the time allotted while in jail could be compensated towards paying off the fine. This took about an hour and change to look it up, and Game 6 of the NBA Finals had started when my time was up. One cellmate mentioned that one person, who may have had some more experience with law, was successful in accomplishing that task, resulting in about $200 (about $5/day x the length incarcerated) for his tickets. I went ahead with the game plan that I prepared myself f...

June 18, 2013 For the past few days yours truly wasn’t trying to attempt to pack my bags and go on a much-needed sabbatical. I only wish I could afford to do something that drastic while leaving everyone in suspense. That I may actually do one day and see what develops. Late in the evening of  Tuesday, June 11, around 11:30pm, I get a knock on the motel door that Mariah, my long-time roommate, and I currently reside. Turns out it was the local fuzz searching for someone I’ve never heard of. Then, the cops ask for our ID’s. Damn. Reality just hit me in the face:  an outstanding warrant (my THIRD, by the way) for my arrest in neighboring Ogle County over something I know I should’ve taken care of. Click-click go the handcuffs on my wrist for the third time in three years, leaving Mariah in a state of shock. I spent the next day and a half locked in the Winnebago County slammer,   (don’t ever eat the food there. Keeps you hungry!) awaiting transportation to Ogle Coun...

Ok, folks. I have been trying to upload this new blog I constructed over the weekend. It’s about how I saw Rockford’s 2 nd annual Pride Fest, which was held June 1-2 at Vasa Park in southeastern Rockford. This wi-fi signal at my motel, which alone can’t help revive its already-prone notation as a source for drug pushers and prostitutes, is never strong enough to even to attempt to call Superman long-distance. Screw his new movie coming out this week! The people at the front desk did tell me this was going to happen, since it shares its respective signal with the nearby ambulance station nearby. Geez, it may be time to save up a few pennies and take the dreaded bus over to the local library. I used to have a mobile wi-fi gadget via Cricket that would get me online in no time. However, at $50/month, it was too much money for not enough Gigabites to use, especially when Mariah’s ever-present, bored-as-hell retro self keeps wasting the time on YouTube. You guys know I have a little busin...

                                                      same video, different music in background. You can hear me on this!

keep in mind there's no vocal audio on this video. Tell me what ya think!