I Shouldna left you, without a dope blog to laugh to...

So, its been a minute, but I am bizzack. So many things have happened. School is going well. My students are kinda crazy but they are darlings too, so I work with them on not being so crazy and a little more darling. I went to New Orleans and there will be more on that later... but on to my real blog...


One day i was listening to the radio on the way to work and Jennifer Hudson's "And I am Telling You" from the Dreamgirls soundtrack came on and I wondered..."Is Jennifer Hudson going to bring singing back?" In a world where Cassie, Ciara and Rihanna grind their attractive, poppy and yet not vocally inclined selves to success, where are the real singers? I mean we know that MJ Blige has made a serious comeback, with a couple Grammy wins earlier this week, but she is old school... Nowadays, a girl has to be able to grind and all of that more than sing. She has to be able to pose on FHM and King, straddling a chair and eating cherries, so that she can make a hit. But listening to Jennifer Hudson, okay I will admit it, I was singing along with Jennifer Hudson... I was thinking.. this girl can really sing. She can sing in a way that makes you feeeel what she is feeling... I think she might be singing back. Where a girl with brown skin, and with a little more to love can step out on the stage take the nominations, go platinum and be divine enough to go to the top of the charts, without talking about grinding and doing extra credit. I would like to take it back to the point where a woman can sing and she can be super dope... and be just that without having body or color problems.

Go jennifer.. Represent chi-town. Hold it down girl.

Notice

1. You need not have a wedding on a weekday.

Kismet

What is that spark that makes you want to know someone? The smile you share across the room, the eye contact that is a bit too long that makes you wonder where they are from, what they do, what makes them them? It's different from simple attraction or lust. It's something that intrigues and excites, but makes you comfortable not nervous.

Second Chances

Who the hell needs a recap show... Don't punish me.. I've been watching all season. Why do I have to watch this trash when I have been watching it all cycle???? You can do the recap FOLLOWED by a new episode. I can't believe you Tyra. Same thing with Grey's Anatomy last week. What happened to our world where when you missed a show you had to wait 3 months to HOPE to see it in reruns on a holiday week?? There were no encores and you couldnt find it on your favorite cable station so that you could stay abreast. Either tape it or miss it.. say goodbye. But now there are second chances. Maybe that is what life is all about? Appreciating a second chance. A second chance to make it right, to say I'm sorry, to say I love you, to be the bigger person. A second chance to hold your head high and reach the sky, fulfill your dreams.
I want a second chance to do all of that, but I don't want a second chance to watch a show I already saw.... sorry suckas who dont prepare, but I want "fresh" episodes of ANTM on my CW!!!

nov 1.

I will be found in the cacophony
drowning deafening silence
filling gaps in spaces you never
formerly knew. noticed.
Listen closely.

I dont have time to figure out how to love you.

Hours spent interpreting innuendo.
questioning if silence has meaning

Vote or Die

SOmeone told me that even after the Vote or Die campaign, Puff Diddy didn't vote. I dont know if that's true but I wonder why people do not vote. I mean unless you are under 18 or a felon there is no reason not to vote. Self-disenfranchisement is not hot at all. I mean you are leaving others to make decisions for you. It cannot be a democracy when everyone does not exercise their right to vote.. and voting is important every time, not just when the president is being decided, because the president needs a congress and we elect our congress every two years... But voting is not enough.. I think the incumbency rate in elections is over 90 percent. Meaning that once you get elected you are almost certain to remain in office term after term.. i mean unless you do something really bad.. but it has to be worse than doing drugs because we see that DC welcomed by herione addict caught on tape, Marion Berry. Either way I wish more people would vote. it is disheartening when people i know don't feel the need to vote. I have voted in every election since I could vote. Cause that's what ya do. You vote. So if you are registered to vote in this election next Tuesday, please vote. If you are not registered, get registered and vote in your next election... cause if you dont like what is going on in the world, dont bitch and moan about it, vote against it.

Helllloooooo Nurse

I have not blogged in a long time because I said I did not have enough time. But I totally do.. Im just lazy. But I am back. Back with a vengeance. So many things to discuss. When I think about the most important thing, its Flavor of Love.. How could that be the most important thing you ask? Well, I watched it religiously (it's funny that I use that word because I definitely dont to church 'religiously', but anyhoo) and it was so embarrassing. Embarrassing that there are black women out there who want Flavor Flav's lips on them.. even for fame or money, its not worth my skin crawling and vomiting daily after contact with him... and embarrassing that they acted so crazy about it. Cursing folks out, fighting, dressing crazy... for him? for any man? i dont think so.. There is no partner in the world that is worth embarrassing yourself like that for.. or maybe its even more embarrassing to me that obviously these women are not embarrassed by their performances on the show? When it is all said and done, I must say that Flav played New York again and I mighta showed my ass (figuratively) too, if I were her, talk about embarrassment. And for Deelishus (or whatever crazy spelling he made up.. or maybe that's how he spells) She looked soooo busted without her make up and not that hot with it... But I guess she had body... ugh.. either way.. I wish i was above watching those kinds of things because I certainly am above acting that way (shut up). And its like I wonder why people talk about those that slow down to see an accident on the road. I definitely carved out an hour (and a half for the finale) to savor the Flavor of Love.

Next. America's youth.. be afraid very afraid...

Lastly, I hate that Janet's album was not so hot. I mean I like it, but I definitely bump Beyonce's more. And they didnt promote it well.. and people hate on Janet and maybe her time has come, but I think she is great. I mean I just love her and I can't wait to see her in concert cause she is going to be amazing. But such is life, if she would have sold a billion albums, I definitely would still not any help paying the rent next week.