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
Tags: Lee Daniels, Magic Johnson Theater, Mo'Nique, Precious, Push
Posted in Book Talk, Movie Talk | 4 Comments »
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…
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Tags: Bad Boy, Craig Mack, Hip-Hop, Notorious B.I.G, P Diddy, Sean Combs, Shyne, Tony Grands, Tupac
Posted in Book Talk, Money Talk, Music Talk, Random Talk | 11 Comments »
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
Tags: Black Authors, Black Films, Hollywood, Iceberg Slim, Iceberg Slim Movie, Langston Hughes, Pimp
Posted in Book Talk, Movie Talk | 3 Comments »
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
Tags: Beneath the Underdog, Charles Mingus, Los Angeles, Pacific Division, Proper Song of the Day, Public Transportation, The Mayor
Posted in Book Talk, Life Talk, Music Talk | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
[caption id="attachment_2750" align="aligncenter" width="406" caption="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
Tags: Ciara, Datwon Thomas, Estrogen, Gun buyback, Hitler Youth, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Medicare, Palestine, Pope Benedict XVI, Sarah Palin, XXL
Posted in Book Talk, Health Talk, Music Talk, Political Talk | 1 Comment »