You sent a picture of your WHAT to WHERE, now??

Making one of my daily trips to "The Segment" and I see that the new development is that Neb, Andy and Kenza now have an "Adult Advisory" warning attached. I'm thinking, "okay...sometimes the language gets a little salty, but is it really that bad??". I click the button that allows me to continue on to the blog and Nebby has posted a blog explaining the reason for the warning. The Segment's gonna get a little mo' racy yaaaaaaaaaaaaall!! I'm grown, so it's no skin off of my back. I continue reading and Neb posts a little "love" letter to all the degenerates who send her pictures of their junk via email. Saywhatnow?? Who the hell does that?? I really want to know the thought process of a person who not only takes a picture of their penis, but has the balls (pun intended) to upload it to their computer and email it to someone they probably only know through their blog. Is it a planned activity or do they just wake up one morning and go "you know what? I'm gonna email a pic of my cock to Nebby today". I mean...Nebby's a beautiful girl, but if that's your approach...just kill yourself, dude. It's funny and not funny at the same time. It definitely speaks to a huge lack of respect for themselves, their mommas, their grandmomma, aunties, cousins, not to mention the person who is innocently reading their email only to stumble across a picture of someone's lil penis. And I'm not naive enough to think that there aren't women who enjoy receiving dick pics (oooh...let's call them that from now on, 'kay?) and probably reciprocate with some obscene pics of their own, but that don't make it right. It's not sexy, or cute, or appealing in any way. In fact, it's damn tired.

So, if you're reading this blog and you are a dick pic-er, put your pud back in your pants and find a hobby that doesn't involve your pee pee or the internet. I suggest whittling. You can start with that hunk of "wood" below your navel. Nasty.

"Only very stupid people do not change"

Every difficult situation is an opportunity to learn who you choose to be, but equally as important, it shows you who you should choose NOT to be. We so clearly see the flaws of others while completely ignoring our own. That is not the path to self-awareness. Each day offers an opportunity to peer into the life mirror held before our eyes and see ourselves, not for who we think we are, but for who we REALLY are. Be prepared to not like a lot of what you see. Prepare yourself to be ashamed of how small minded and petty you can be. Prepare yourself to be confronted by your absolute human-ness. It’s not always pretty or enlightened, but thank God it need not stay the same. The most beautiful thing about humanity is its adaptability and capacity to change. Every day we wake up with breath in our lungs is an opportunity to grow and to change and to become who we were divinely crafted to be. Change is not something to fear, it is something to embrace!


Be Blessed

J~

One more observation before bed...

Anchorman is one of the most juvenile, gag inducing, laugh out loud funny movies ever made. If you don't agree....I will fight you.


G'night.

Just an Observation...

Was the TV Guide channel owned by Michael Jackson? 'Cause hand to stan they've been running the same 5 shows on MJ since he passed. No, there will never be an entertainer that will come anywhere near his level of greatness...but it's enough already. The man has been dead for well over a month. Y'all are the only ones still running 24 hour coverage. Seriously, enough! Even his ignorant behind daddy shut his pie hole and sat it on down. (and by the way, Papa Joe...no one appreciates that more than me. If had to see you on my tv one more time I was going to open a vein. You do have pretty teeth, though.)

And so, in closing I'd just like to say to the execs at the TV Guide Network...please, for pete's sake, return to your regular broadcasting schedule.

The misuse and degradation of the term "Strong Black Woman"

I am offically calling a moratorium on the phrase "strong black woman" until we (and by we I mean the global 'we') stop using it interchangeably with the word 'bitch'. And I guess for that to happen, we've got to re-think our definition of what a strong black woman is. Time was, a strong black woman was a black woman who was out in the community, fighting for change, all while praising the Lord, raising her children and loving her man. But times have changed. Nowadays, the term is synonymous with 'bitch' and, I am ashamed to admit, more than rightly so. There are women who have affixed themselves with the term "strong black woman" who are anything but. A strong woman isn't combative, loud, emasculating, and bitter. No...that describes a sad woman. A woman who has long ago allowed herself to believe that if she let her guard down long enough for anyone to see the woman inside, everyone would hurt and betray her. A strong woman let's down her guard and allows herself to give and receive love freely...even if she's been hurt before. A sad woman tricks herself into thinking that she doesn't need a man for anything. This is a lie. Our very nature is to need one another...just look at the story of creation in the Bible. the first woman was made when God plucked a rib from the first man. We are innately a part of one another. We DO need each other. We NEED each other to raise our children. Can it be done as a single parent? Sure, but it is not ideal...we were not built for solitude.

I encourage all of us to rethink how we view ourselves. To really look at who we are. Be prepared to be appalled by some of what you see. But also be prepared to change that which appalls you. Let's decide right now that we are going to wash the muck off of the term "strong black woman" and bring it...and ourselves...back to our former glory.

Be blessed.

J~


Suggested reading: Sisters of the Yam by bell hooks

"RAWR RAWR like a dungeon dragon"

I recently heard the remix of Drake's "Best I Ever Had" w/Busta Rhymes. It's an okay song with or without Bussa Bus, but it made me miss Busta Rhymes circa Leaders of the New School. The collabo between Leaders and Tribe was insane. Here's the vid:




Can you tell I've been listening to a lot of old school hip hop?

BackinthadaywhenIwasyoungI'mnotakidanymorebutsomedaysIsitandwishIwasakidagain...

I was listening to the new Yahoo Music (HATE!) and they played this:




And I was transported to nineteen-ninety(mind ya bidness!) when I was young, dumb, and full of...naive notions about life and love and what I would be when I grew up. Walking down the street in the summertime in those shorts that hugged my booty maybe a little too tightly, trying to pretend not to notice those cute boys sitting on that porch in front of that house that always had the cute boys in front of it.

Damn...I feel like walking to the corner store and buyin' a purple jug and a bag of bontons...