Home with the fam!

Got my hair done but there was ghetto drama. More later. LOL

I look good, though. LOL

Got an email from Dook. File complete. They took my highest scores from the GRE which gives me an 1180 and a 5.5 on writing with barely a 3.0 undergrad and, of course, Dr. Supastar's LOR. What do we think? God this makes my stomach hurt. Hope everyone else takes the highest too.

I'mma make a cake and cioppino. I mean how much pig and turkey can blackfolks eat! Jeez. Let's get some gastric diversity. :D

Between this and Sarah Palin NOT liking her is about to put me back on the Couric train.

Team Adam.

That is all.

Is there a difference, this blogger asks?

Interesting.

Now, f what you heard, I use to get down to pre-Hard Core Kim. I even rocked a wee bit during early Hard Core Kim days. The Junior Mafia days was my joint! A woman unashamed of making money, making moves and controlling some part of her destiny? That message is made for a young woman feeling her independence for the first time, like I was in college.

Trina? Not so much. Never got on her train. She's not clever or witty and we all know how much I love witty.

But I have no shame about my Bey popping when I'm exercising, open road driving or getting ready for a night out on the town. It is what it is, but if you say "do Naomi Campbell, walk, do Naomi Campbell now click, click, click" doesn't get you hype for the club then you have no soul. Not no black-roots-music soul but jesus-in-a-manger soul. It's catchy, it's directive, its call and response, its harmless, it's fun!

However, I admit to wondering why Bey resonates with so many people. I have long been dismayed by the fact that I think Kelly is prettier and that a dozen others are more talented -- where the hell is Leela James, btw? -- but I am also a big proponent of my own coined truism: everybody can't be Diana; somebody up in this piece got to be a damn Supreme.

So is this just about star power? Probably not. This is America, after all. There's some classism and some colorism, sure, but I think there's something for the comment about her being "protected" because being with Jay legitimizes her. I mean, she's a wife. A wife can't be a ho, too. There's a whole hood rule about it: can't turn a ho into a housewife. There will be no transgressions of hood rules. LOL

But is it even a valid question to begin with? Do they have to be the same thing because they all have boobs and brown skin? They are operating in different levels of the marketplace, after all. Besides the obvious -- they are all female, black and paid entertainers -- I don't know if comparing them is even an equitable comparison. Do we compare the Rolling Stones with the Jonas Brothers? No, really, I'm asking because I immediately turn on my internal blinders when I see the Jonas Bros. Maybe we do, but probably we don't.

Which stands to ask, does the question limit black women to acceptable age old archetypes -- madonna or whore! you must choose and you must choose now! -- and the question is the problem?

It's not my field and I would have no idea where to begin but someone really needs to do some longitudinal research on people who feel the need to "flame" and "troll" online. I know most of them see it as some kind of hobby or something but I have all kind of unfounded hypotheses about the correlation between that type of hyper-aggressive, infantile, negative affirmation online behavior and "real life" pathos.

Basically I want someone to prove that these people who do this are batshit.

All this good internet and fools want to get on it and act a monkey.

Think I'm making this shit up? Watch at your own risk and blame intlpopstar .




And remind me to tell you about my history with ol' Aaron. LOL

:13 into the Palin interview on Oprah and it strikes me that people forget Oprah's background. She started in news back when that meant something. Follks can let her Spirit talk fool them if the want to. Palin just tried one of her patent "woe is me i'm just a wittle white wimminz tryna be a good american" spiel regarding her kids being "off limits" to the media and Oprah responded "but Barack supported that". Palin, "uh, yeah well I said 'good for him!' and too bad my kids don't get that same treatment." Oprah: "but he was talking about protecting YOUR kids." Palin: "oh yeah, that was, uh, nice of him."

This heffa is not use to someone who talks BACK to her. She thinks she's just supposed to talk and no one is supposed respond or clarify or challenge her.

This bitch is crazy. If this is the leeway white women get then I need to get my own white woman like Wanda Sykes. Life is GREAT with a white woman -- if she's not,you know, fat, lacking highlights or has too much of her own opinion; then they become HIllary and we know how much white men hate her.

"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power."
Benito Mussolini

"How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think."
Adolf Hitler

Some people seem to have it all.

November 14, 2009

Libra (9/23-10/22)

Every now and then, you need to let go, so prepare yourself. The more you've been considering a change lately -- the more fearful, erratic and restricted you've been feeling (and behaving). That's no reason to stop, however. In fact, that's the universe telling you to push the accelerator. So strap yourself in and get ready to go on the journey of your life. It's gonna be a doozy!

YOu really have no idea. What's happening to me internally right now is downright terrifying. *sigh* Whatevs.

I actually want one but that doesn't change the fact that the commercial is essentially "how to jerk a man off while sculpting our arms" tutorial.

I mean, really. LOL

Since it's everywhere let me make one post versus a string of comments on various boards and such:

I resent the fact that black students are not allowed the same freedom of self-expression as white students. How is it possible that the point of the civil rights movement was not full citizenship but full citizenship as defined by the generation that precedes you? This is like the woman's movement not respecting that a woman's choice might mean that some women make choices that differ from those that the movement envisioned.

I hate sagging pants. They aren't attractive. But neither was my purple and orange Cross Colours outfit in the early 90s or my mother's lopsided 'fro in the 70s.

HBCUs are facing some serious challenges. They run the risk of an ever decreasing slice of the government financial pie. They have yet to master how to grow endowments. Their very missions and reason for existing faces new challenges in an increasingly diverse country and they want to talk about fashion?

I can go to the flagship campus of UNC and see girls in various stages of undress all built upon the flip-flop. Goth chic brings young men in make-up and pierced parts. Who is to deny the students down the highway at NCCU the same privilege of growing up and acting out in a safe environment?

The very essence of all this dress code posturing is the idea that being black in America is something that still must be mitigated and compromised for white consumption.

I thought progress meant not monkeying the dominant culture but not caring about it one way or another.

McClurkin recently suggested he still had gay sexual urges and compared homosexuality to diabetes: "I don’t eat sugar, but it doesn’t mean that I don’t want sugar."

There's also something about evil butches and gays being vampires. Sylvester disco jesus does NOT approve, Donnie.

Joe Medicine Crow is getting busy at the Tribal Nations Conference at the White House. LOL

He is so cute.

I'm on a philosophy list serv for womens*. THere is a cat fight going on there right now that is morenice nasty than Michel'le, you hear me?

You ain't seen catty till you put some PhDs and feminists together. Lawd'a'mercy.


*intentional lest someone say something and i have to e-cut you.

Click and read. It pays me and plus I can write better than a monkey with a mac. Mostly.

Also, academia has made creative writing a non sequiter for me of late -- see, i say things like that! with NO sense of irony, damn shame -- but I was recently challenged to write a version of Woolf's "A Room Of Her Own". The great feminist manifesto. Of course, I suck as a feminist but it was for prize money. Being a whore is one of the reasons why I'm not a great feminist. So I wrote it. And won. That's gas money!

See a theme?

I'm broke.

( It was a quickie but it got the job done )

The editor went on and on about the beans representing her creative capital and i'm thinking "lady it was about beans' but whatever. LOL this is why i don't trust english majors.

I just had to change my LJ password because all of sudden the one that's cached and that I KNOW is right didn't work? No email. Should I be worried?

It would only be one of two jackasses who stalk me -- you know who they are -- but damn.

I have noticed a trend in the applyingtograd community. Those applying for MFAs in creative writing have the worst statements of purpose. What is that about?