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Coping with ‘Precious’

Monday, November 9th, 2009

 

Lee Daniels’ film Precious is dark, harrowing, and transformative, all those things it has been hyped up to be. It’s definitely worth people’s money, and a movie I will see again, not so much because it was extraordinary but because I must be cursed by the movie gods who made sure that when I saw Precious, the theater and my fellow moviegoers would be far more depressing than whatever tragedy was playing… Read More

P. Diddy Wears Prada

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
I've always said Puffy Combs was the devil (Puffy Combs: that sounds like a hair care product for chicks with bad perms). I've noticed lately that many people share my sentiment, verbatim.   It's got to be more than coincidence that two of his flagship artists left his camp only to become religious zealots, one is dead, others have never been seen on the face of the Earth again (Craig Mack is not the type of man you'd walk past without… Read More

The POTUS Gets a Win…Sort Of.

Friday, October 9th, 2009
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Iceberg Slim’s “Pimp” on Film

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

 
Black faces seldom sell in Hollywood. Twenty years after publication, Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, a major American novel, has not yet been filmed, and Hollywood would not touch Richard Wright's famous Native Son. In all its years of activity Hollywood has never made a major motion picture which portrayed with sympathy our foremost American dilemma - jam packed with drama - the Negro problem   -- Langston Hughes, September 1966 - Introduction to The… Read More

Just Another Day Out in Sunny LA

Thursday, June 25th, 2009
Gah. This video makes me homesick. Pacific Division's "Mayor" has been on the "most played" (played in a good way, lol) list in my itunes for a while now, but this video damn near brought a tear to my temporary Atlantan, bout to be Iowan eyes.  The Forum, the Roscoes t-shirt, the beach, the palm trees, even the random shooting noise that causes everybody to duck down for a second, it truly captures the essence of LA. The real LA, not the one that out-of-towners paint as superficial and label-obsessed. Most of the superficial "hollywood-types" aren't from LA at all; they're from the East Coast, the Midwest, the South and wherever else you're… Read More

Proper Talking Points

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
  [caption id="attachment_2750" align="aligncenter" width="406" caption="A street sweeper shotgun, turned in for a gift card."]A street sweeper shotgun, turned in for a gift card.[/caption]   Happy hump day! It's the middle of the week, and you're probably wondering why the hell Friday hasn't shown up yet. No matter, here are some random news tidbits to get you through the day.    1. Pope Benedict XVI was… Read More