The Prodigal Sun

Something positive for a change

Ok... with all this negativity I have been talking about lately, I need to brighten it up a bit. So I will NOT tell you about my macbook pro drama and my screen going black and me being without my laptop for a week, or that I have to bring it back to get repaired and be without it another 7 to 10 days... nope... I am NOT here to talk about that... (ARRRRRRRGH!)

What I do want to talk about is my girl Jennifer Hudson. As you know, if you have read my blog in the past... I am a big fan of JHud. I have loved her ever since her AI season and I even stopped watching in protest when she was voted off after singing the best non-Whitney version of 'Run to You'... (well... I did tune in to the finale to see Fantasia win... I couldn't help myself... I loved Fantasia too... lol)

We have all heard about Jennifer Hudson's tragedy, losing her Mother, Brother and Nephew in one fell swoop... and our hearts went out to her. I know I really felt for her... So I am really glad to see her back on the scene, and come back in such a major way...

No doubt you have all seen her performance at the Superbowl singing the National Anthem... well if you haven't, here you go...

I have said it before, and I will say it again... JENNIFER HUDSON IS ONE SANGIN' AZZ HEFFA!!!!! WOOOO... THIS GIRL CAN SAAAAA-HA-HA-HA-HAAAAANG! I mean dayum... its crazy. I LOVE her voice. And I love her runs... I love her power. I just love to hear her sing.

And immediately after the superbowl, the press was all over the fact that she lip-sync'd. So fukking what? She had to sing it at some point... its still her voice... and its no less amazing. And really, she didn't need to lip sync. She can perform like that live, and has proven that time and time again. JHud is one artist who doesn't need studio magic... that is for sure.

I am just glad to have her back. If she can overcome losing 3 family members at once... and still shine... how can I be upset about a laptop issue... or a houseguest that is a pain in the azz... or a friend who has drama in her life... 

Looking at what she has overcome makes my issues seem so small and insignificant... Just goes to show that no matter what happens, you have to keep on moving... and that you can overcome anything. Kudos to JHud.

The Debates and Head of Skate

After watching the debates last night, I was left with a knot in my stomach. I felt like Barack did well, but he could have shut McCain down, and didn't.

McCain said over and over 'What Senator Obama doesn't get'... or 'just doesn't understand' so many times it was ridiculous, and Barack kept taking the high road and not addressing that shyt. It could have been a simple as saying, 'But what Senator McCain doesn't understand is that even if we shut down all 18 billion in discretionary spending, giving a tax break for 300 billion to the wealthiest like the big wigs on wallstreet would leave us with a 282 billion dollar whole bigger than the one we have now AND worse financial issues on wallstreet... Senator McCain just doesnt get that'... I mean, shyt like that could have SHUT HIM DOWWWWWN! And there were a zillion other opportunities for Barack to do the same thing, and put more nails in McCains coffin. He has to break this shyt down for the dumbest of dumb... and stop trying to illustrate his Harvard intellect... we've GOT that. You are smart! Now relate to the Punksatawny Community College drop out. But Barack kept espousing these long drawn out intellectual answers and that will NOT resonate with Dumb Azz Middle America... they will respond to McCain and his emotional responses, REGARDLESS of his lacking intellect.

We have two more debates... and I am hoping that people will advise him to break it down more and make it less verbose. This race should NOT be close, and it is... so Barack needs to change it up.

And he will because he is going to win. I am just putting that out into the universe. Barack Obama WILL be the next president. Barack Obama WILL be the next president. Barack Obama WILL be the next president. Nom-yo-ho-ren-gyeh-kyoh...  Nom-yo-ho-ren-gyeh-kyoh...  Nom-yo-ho-ren-gyeh-kyoooooooh...

Anyway, I saw the funniest video today. Its a Sarah Palin skit called... 'Head of Skate'. But while it is really funny, it is sadly a very real possibility if Barack doesn't start shutting McCain down... ENJOY!

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

How old are teenagers? *side eye*

For those of you who missed it, myself included, R. Kelly finally spoke out publicly about the child molestation case with Toure on BET, for the first time since the case has been over. I finally saw the interview online, and I must say that I was flabbergasted by one moment during the interview...

Toure: Do you like teenage girls?

R. Kelly: When you say teenage... how old are we talking?

The blank look of Toure for three seconds before he regrouped was priceless... its says confusion, shock, and 'did this nigga really just ask me how old are teenagers?' all at once...

I am with you Toure'... when I got to that point of the interview... I had the same exact look on my face. Did this nigga just say that? How old are teenagers? At 41, I am sure that he knows that a teenager is someone in their teens. So he was trying to mince words, admitting that he still fukks with teenagers.

I try to believe in the good in my people. Practically everyone disagrees with me, but even with OJ, I still don't believe that he did it. The story as it was presented, with him snapping and killing two people, only feet away from each other, but leaving absolutely no evidence? no fingerprints? I don't buy it. But before we get into a big debate about OJ, lets get back to 'R'-uh. 

Now... R. Kelly? That nigga is GUILTY! I believe that he is a child molester. It's not my educated guess... its not my opinion... ITS ON VIDEOTAPE!  

And with his stupid word-play about how old are teenagers, he basically admits that he still likes them super young, which, to me, illustrates child molestation tendencies.  His only differentiation is legality. So the girls could look younger as long as they were still legal... and that is problematic.

R. Kelly has a problem and I am not the only one that feels this way.

Check out Funk Master Flex verbally pissing on R. Kelly. The sad thing is... he probably likes it.

WAAAAAAAAAKE UP!!!

The state of our country scares the shyt out of me. I have said this before, and I will say it again. America is living on past glory, and if we don't do something DRASTIC soon, we will become a third world country. Gas and food is becoming unaffordable... people are losing their homes and defaulting in record numbers, and now wall street is buckling...

The bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, a major financial firm that has been around since BEFORE the Civil War... and the sale of Merryl Lynch to Bank of America on the same day is serious sign of our country's dire financial status. These companies survived world wars, natural disasters, 9/11...

But what they can't survive is DUMB AZZ SMALL TOWN AMERICA!

Thats right! I said it. Middle America is STUPID!

Everyone is pandering to the small town Americans, and really, I think that THEY are the ones to blame for the decline of America. And I am going to tell you why...

They elect people based on their perceived character rather than their position or actions on issues that affect the entire country's well-being. (Actions ILLUSTRATE character... not a stupid speech!)

Middle Americans are racist and ignorant. They think its ok to say that they are ignorant because they are from a small town. Its a license to say racist or offensive things... 

Middle Americans bought into this stupid war against Terrorism. (How do you fight a CONCEPT?! Wars are fought against defined opponents. Not an idea... not a single person like Bin Laden... And there is supposed to be a clearly defined metrix for success... without which, the war NEVER ends.) Middle America bought into the whole idea that if you don't support the war, we must hate America.

Small town americans idolize this 1950's white picket fence mentality which even THEY fail to live up to it. (Sarah Palin with her teen-aged pregnant unmarried daughter...) This 'common sense values' bullshyt is forcing our government to legislate based on religious beliefs when our country was built on the DIVISION between church and state.

Our focus SHOULD be on things that prepare us for the future. Our focus should have been on being green DECADES ago, or regulating our financial industry to prevent things like we are experiencing now. But NO... we are arguing irrelevant issues like... gay marriage. Who cares if two women/men want to get hitched? WHY IS THAT A NATIONAL ISSUE TRUMPING OUR ECONOMY? TRUMPING A SENSELESS WAR? TRUMPING ISSUES THAT WILL KEEP US RELEVANT IN A GLOBAL ECONOMY? I will tell you why, because small town America IS STUPID!

I know what you are thinking... middle America may be stupid but what does that have to do with the failure of our financial system... And to you guys... I have just one thing to say...

MIDDLE AMERICANS ELECTED GEORGE W. BUSH!

TWICE!!!

They elected a president based on his views on same sex marriage... despite the horrible first four years. Because of THEM, we were subject to 8 years of bad government, both in the top office and in legislation where republicans had control for many of those years.

AND NOW they are humoring this ridiculous McCain, Palin ticket... Someone who says 'I don't know' more than my four year old nephew, and a mayor of east bumble cookie Alaska, who clowns Barrack's community service prior to his federal government tenure, but talks about how she ran a city in Alaska like it's REAL experience... as if its even remotely relevant...

Middle Americans are like sheep. They blindly follow whatever the Republicans say without question. So many contradictions and false statements have come out of the Republican candidates that its amazing to me that they are nearly tied with the Democrats in the polls...

What scares me about this whole financial situation is that it is the result of Dumb Ass George Bush who was elected by Dumb Ass Middle America. And the very possibility of it happening again with McCain almost makes me want to move to Canada.

But I can't. Becuase despite its flaws, I still believe this is the BEST country in the world. I love my home and I want it to STAY on top. I don't want to live anywhere else in the world (until I retire or something... but that is more about living in the tropics like a king than the nation itself... but I digress)

Middle America needs to accept that THIS IS NO LONGER 1950's AMERICA! This is a NEW AMERICA. One that is diverse, and changing... If we want to stay at the top of the heap, we have to WORK and EVOLVE with the rest of the world. And we can't do that stuck in the past.

Middle America... I beg you... please...

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE UP!!!

Before it's too late...

Street Cred... on Central Park West?

Ok... so my new guilty pleasure is... Gossip Girl. I would say, 'no homo'... but... a grown azz man watching a show called 'Gossip Girl', kinda is... lol But its interesting and well written. It's like a Mean Girls TV show. I watch it... so what? I still have hair on my balls, so fukk ya'll! (lol)

Anyway, one of my favorite characters and actresses on the show is Leighton Meester. She is kinda the dark-haired bitch on the show. But that is not why I dig her. I dig her because she is so beautiful to me. She has such a pretty smile, and I am a sucker for dimples. She kinda has that Gabrielle Union glowing smile thing going... but... white.

So I am surfing random blogs today and I came across one that made me REALLY dig Miss Meester. (What kinda name is that by the way? It sounds like I am saying Ms. Mr. with a mexican accent... like it should be followed by... 'on a steeeeeeeek'... lol)

And while Miss Meester is playing a rich brat from Central Park West, in real life, she was BORN IN JAIL!!! No. Really. Well, her mom was allowed to live in a half-way house with her til she was 3 months old. But she was still technically a jailbird. And Leighton was raised by relatives while her mom served time in a Federal Prison for drug charges.

Now, I am not celebrating her parent's delinquency (her dad did time too...) I am just saying that I love the story of the come-up. I love when people can surmount their situation and accomplish something major against the odds. And I LOVE that this story is about a white person, and illustrates that black folks aren't the only ones with messed up backgrounds. This could be ANYONE's story. This could be anyone's success.

So any of you readers out there whose mamma was(is) a crackhead or daddy was (is) in jail... BE ENCOURAGED! You can be anything you want to be. Just go out there and DO IT!

I have a dream

It's been a long time... its not that I haven't wanted to blog about random things since this hiatus began. But after being gone for such a long time, I couldn't come back and blog about burning boiled eggs (true story) or the really smelly sandwich roll dude at Pathmark that wore my nerves out. It needed to be something worthwhile...

After a long hard-fought battle with Hillary Clinton, Barrack Obama FINALLY solidified his nomination for the Democratic party to become the first black nominee for a major party in history. Its a beautiful thing. I am so excited to be alive during this moment in Black History, and American History. We are only months away from what could be the first Black President of the United States.

Martin Luther King had a dream that we as African Americans would be viewed as equals. And in my eyes, there is no better symbol of our equality than for one of us to be elected as the president of the United States in a country where we are STILL a minority, which would mean that many of the votes to elect Barrack will come from non-African American citizens. For White Americans to vote for a Black man believing that he could do just as good a job if not better than a White man, would illustrate that not only do WE believe that we are equal, but that others believe it too. I am not saying that Martin Luther King's dream would be realized completely by Barrack's presidency, but exactly 40 years after his death, a monumental step toward this dream could be taken.

I just hope that all the division created within the party by Hillary's long fight does not create bigger issues for us all. Many are saying that they will vote for Mccain if they can't vote for Hillary. And that to me is ludicrous. The majority of Barrack and Hillary's ideals and policies are the same. They just go about solving the problems differently. I can't imagine these issues disappearing based on who is on our Democratic ballot.

Ultimately, the difference between Hillary and Barrack is personality, and her being a white woman, and his being a black man. Now, don't get me wrong... I do love Hillary. Long before I knew who Barrack was, I knew that Hillary was a champion for causes that affected me. So I do love and support Hillary, BUT... I just love Barrack more. I hate to say that its just cause he is a Black man... because there are other reasons that I won't get into because I don't want this to turn into a Hillary bashing post. But, the biggest reason and difference to me between Hillary and Barrack is that the profound significance of a Black man being elected president is far greater in my eyes to that of a white woman. How we are viewed by the world, how monumental this is in our blood-stained history, and finally and most importantly to me, the potential effect this could have on the Black community. Children growing up seeing a Black man as a president has to open their eyes to their own potential.

Some might argue that the impact for a woman can be great for little girls too. And while that could be great, its not the same. Young White girls grow up with white privilege their entire lives. I don't think that they grow up thinking that they can't be president. I think they grow up thinking that it just hasn't happened yet. And even if there was a White woman president, that would not translate to Black girls. In my opinion, it would be another example of White privilege that they are not privy to. Where as a Black man as president is so far reaching in it's unlikelihood just a few short years ago, that if a Black man could become president, I believe that everyone would believe that they have a chance...

I have dream. I have a dream that Barrack Obama becomes this nations next, and first ever Black president. I have a dream that little Black boys and girls will be able to take pride in this and believe in the possibilities of their greatest and most profound dreams. I have a dream that the dreams of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were only a precursor to the dreams that we will realize in our own lifetimes. And unlike Dr. King's dream which probably seemed so distant to him and more idealistic than real, my dreams are only a few months away, and so close that I can taste them.

Who knows what the next few months may bring, but I am excited at the possibilities. And I am optimistic about the outcome. Ya'll just make sure that you are registered and get out there and Barrack the vote when the time comes.

Brandy's no criminal

As some of you may know, charges  were recently dropped against Brandy in that big accident she had  in which a woman unfortunately lost her life.  Initially, the LAPD were looking at pressing criminal charges  but in my eyes there were no grounds for any criminal precedings.  She was not speeding and she was not under the influence of any drugs or controlled substances. She simply realized too late that traffic had come to a complete stop ahead of her, and hit the car in front of her, that resulted in a chain reaction of cars that led to the fatal incident. In my eyes, this was just another  case of... celebrities get away with everything under the sun... UNLESS YOU ARE A BLACK CELEBRITY!!!! (Cause Black celebrities are ALWAYS the ones that not only pay for their crimes but the judges and the public are both EXTRA hard on. If any celeb is going to be the 'example' that the law doesn't go easy on celebs, they are usually BLACK!)

Now if she were drunk or speeding, I would have felt sorry for her, but I would feel like she would need to pay the piper nonetheless. Wreckless drivin, wreckless endangerment or vehicular manslaughter or anything that leads to a loss of life is no joke. But being a bad driver is not a criminal offense. So I am glad that they have finally dropped the whole entire incident.

On the flip side, the woman's family is still suing Brandy in civil court. And while I don't believe Brandy is a criminal, she did start an accident that resulted in someone's death. If that were my mother, I would be suing Brandy too. If I can sue someone because I got whiplash in an accident, you better believe I am going to sue if someone dies. It's unfortunate that, because she has money, the suit will be for a lot more than it would if she were a regular joe, but thats is life.

I am a great big Brandy fan. She is no power ballad singer like a Jennifer Hudson, or a strong singer-performer like Beyonce, but there is just something about Brandy and her music that I have always loved. So I am glad to see that she will not be taking any mug shots any time soon. Now if she can only keep her triflin brother from still trying to pimp his dick and that stupid skin flick with Kim Kardashian anymore, all will be right with the world again.

I don't buy it...

Did any of you see the TMZ video clip of Raz B, Chris Stokes, and Raz's brother Ricky coming out of the restaurant together and hugging??

I realize that Raz is trying to take back what he said but it just isn't working for me. What dude you know that would openly admit that his booty hurt from anal sex  that was forced on him if it were not true?

No. Really. Who does that?? And if it were indeed a great big fabrication, what dude you know would allow someone to accuse them of GAY rape then chill with them afterwards like nothing was ever wrong? Wouldn't you be mad as hell? Yes, I realize that they were/are family... but that would make it even worse if it weren't true.

I just ain't buyin it.  The cat is out of the bag...  They may never press charges... but don't try to pretend thhat the rest of us are stupid.

Watch the video

Dog Lovers May Not Want to Read This...

Ok... maybe I am biased because I have never had a pet other than goldfish in my entire life. My brother had a puppy for all of a month. He begged and begged for it for months, my mom gave in. But the thrill wore off after he realized the responsibilities of having to walk him 3 times a day. He stopped walking him after 3 weeks, the dog was shyttting all over the house. But the last nail in the coffin was when he ate my new suit right before a religious convention, my mom lost it, and gave it away.

Be that as it may... Can you really go to jail for up to 5 years for dog fighting? People who are guilty of far worse things go to jail for less time. I mean, I understand that a dog's life is still life, and should be respected and protected, but I just don't value a dog's life like a do a human's. I am not saying that dog fighting is good or even ok. But a stiff fine would be an acceptable punishment in my eyes. I can't imagine anyone going to jail in a FEDERAL prison for a year for a death of a dog, much less Michael Vick's 2 years (23 months actually) AAAAAND he was even suspended from playing before he was convicted. With all the players with pending cases in the NFL on the field... ? Seriously?

I am also biased because I just HATE to see Black men go to jail. I hate to see Black men be made examples. Michael Vick was clearly not the Ring Leader of a Dog Fighting Ring... that just doesn't even sound right. And now another Black man is going to be behind bars... not for killing people, not for drugs... but for dogs.

I know this is not the popular or politically correct opinion, but my feelings don't have to be. They just are. And I hate to see Black men go to jail. And I think this Michael Vick thing is way out of proportion... and really unfortunate. Everything he is going thru right now is excessive. And I just don't think its right.

Celebrity Exhaustion

I just read an article about  Lil' Bow wow being hospitalized for stress and exhaustion....

Ummm... I need to know what the hell is making modern day celebs and entertainers so da dayum tired. Everyone from Kelly Rowland  to now Bow wow has succumbed to fatique and exhaustion. And I just dont get it.

Have any of yall ever seen a tape of Tina Turner performing? Now if she can perform rolling on a river with a fifty pound wig of horse hair on her head, AAAAAND withstand getting her azz beat like she stole something every night, and NEVER have to go to a hospital for exhaustion (except after giving BIRTH), NONE of these new artist or performers have an excuse.

Modern day performers are wusses... They need to take some dayum multi vitamins or something. I just feel like people today make everything an emergency these days. And usually, its so unnecessary. I also feel like its all publicity stunts to keep names in the news when the buzz dies down. Kelly and Lil Bow wow were on tour when they had their bouts with exhaustion. And I bet that ticket sales were lagging at the time of each break down... I know its supposed to be the frantic tour schedule that causes the collapses, but people have been doing much more hectic tours and much more tiresome shows for years and pulling through it. Hell, look at the late great James Brown. Remember how much sliding and splitting and everything else he did during his shows? And he was doing that shyt WELL into his AARP years without any exhaustion incidents.

Normally when people go the hospital, I would say get better soon, if I believed any of the hype... but since I don't, I will just say... Booo to Lil Bow wow, grow some freakin' balls and suck it up. And that goes for the girls too. But especially Lil Bow wow cause that nigga don't even dance in his show. Double boooooo!