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

While I am continuing my transition into womanhood, I noticed that this world has flat out gone to hell and back. All of the shit that's going down in the Middle East is flat out crazy. This ISIS group beheaded an American photojournalist last week, and threatens to repeat the same thing to another American if we don't stop these airstrikes in Iraq. President Obama has sent the troops home and that damn nation can't even get its own government to get its shit together. Maybe Saddam Hussein was doing Iraq a favor.  Then you have what's going on in Israel. Gaza folks and Palantines are fighting to see who has the bigger cock and who can use it more wisely. Scary enough to even fly to its capital, Tel Aviv. Syria is even worse. GOP has been blasting Obama on how he's been handling all of these issues coming at him with no sense of mercy. Fuck 'em. He's only one person, and you'd need balls of steel and then some to deal with this buffet-style controversi...

This selfie pic was taken this morning as I did my monthly shopping spree. Sure, I don't at all about being whom I want to be. Just feeling relaxed as my transgendered self. I do know that I have to be patient in what I would like to accomplish down the road. I had planned to resume going on hormones as early as last month, but more important things had to get taken care of first, like rent at this dump, minutes for my cell phone, and obtaining the everyday health & beauty needs. Welcome to life, everyone! I know it's for the best for me to put a few things on hold in order for things to be ready. Summer is already in it's last full month, and the kids will be heading back to school in a few weeks here. Tell me time doesn't fly! I am guessing God still has a plan for me as my new self. But first, I have to be responsible for whatever debt I did have in the past. I found out that I could have about $84,000 of my college loans forgiven when I can make the first...

I really don’t know where to begin with this. We have seen major turmoil in Israel between the Israelites and Palestinians, Ukraine's problems with Russia, and let's not forget the plane crashes in the past week, especially the Malaysian Airlines Flight 17, shot down by Russian missles in eastern Ukraine. That airline is already gone through some hell.  You do remember this spring they had that plane going from Singapore to Bejing that crash landed somewhere in the Indian Ocean. To date, that sucker is still in Davy Jones' Locker. Then you add the recent crisis with all these immigrant children from Central America entering the USA illegally. Can you believe all these Republicans, who have flat out shown their extreme hatred for President Obama since he took office back in 2009, have started talking about impeaching him? Do they know some of this shit started when the predecessor was in office? No, they don't want to talk about that. Real Americans know Barack Obama in...

                                    As you can clearly see by the pictures above, attending the annual Chicago Pride parade was wonderful! Trying to walk the entire three-mile route in your first-ever parade was HELL! So I watched most of it on the sidelines. I actually took about 76 pictures total, some of them as I tried to march in the warm midday Chicago sun. I made a 31-minute video on my experience the day after the event. Still trying to upload the sucker onto YouTube. I am so hoping that the organizers reserve a float for our group. More fun, less agony for the feet and ankles!  i did, however, uploaded a video of the waiters at Ed Debevic's (bottom photo) doing the Jackson 5 classic The Love You Save . It's a popular eatery where the waiters are known to give a lot of sass to the customers. They just happen to be spinning records when me and my pal in crime Gary showed up. The jour...

It's almost here, folks! The 2014 Chicago Pride Parade is next Sunday, and I'm going to my first one! I am also making up for what was 19 pure nights of hell from last year. The San Antonio Spurs took care of the Miami Heat in five games, and the Chicago Blackhawks fell to the eventual Stanley Cup champion L.A. Kings in 7 games. No more nights of sleeping with 15 other guys in over-sized orange jump suits! I can also say that headache is almost over. $100 more to go and it's PAID IN FULL!!! Such a relief when the last payment goes through in a month or two.  I am going with a few guys from church, including my pal Gary, who gets to spend the upcoming 4th of July weekend visiting his facebook friend in Albuquerque. Yes, the New Mexico city where Bugs Bunny routinely forgets to make a left turn when traveling underground. Guess who got to book his trip? Yours truly! Bonus!! I have never been that far out west personally, unless you count delivering small freight to Point o...

Here in 2014, I have heard a lot about some momentous anniversaries about the Beatles' first arrival on the Ed Sullivan Show,  O.J. Simpson's infamous Bronco run, Ghostbusters,  Tiananmen Square and others. Well, everyone, I just happen to have an anniversary to commemorate this coming Sunday, June 15th. What happened that commemorative day? Easy. Yours truly graduated from Milwaukee Washington High School 25 years ago this coming Sunday! Damn, just thinking about a memory like that has made me grow a few extra gray hairs! We all know how much life has changed since that Thursday evening in 1989. Yes, I had all of my teeth back then! My hair was jet black (and short),and transitioning was nowhere in my mind. All I cared about was going to college outside the Midwest. Maybe even finding a girl to knock boots with. That was answered before the month was over by getting my acceptance letter from Dillard University in New Orleans.  Some of you are probably wondering wh...