The Post-Ritual of Washing My Hair Fingertips slicked with loc butter plunge into the spongy dampness of my hair. Pulling tightly away from my scalp, I twist soft new growth, securing it with a metal hairclip, creating a seamless continuation of the strand. This process repeated bi-weekly over an 8 year period, has yielded a …
Preconceived Notions
So while perusing some tweets last night, I stumbled across an interesting post on the blog, Feministe, authored by Captain Awkward entitled “Step into My Film School! The Importance of Casting in Breaking Open Movie Stereotypes” (link below). The title alone drew me in, so I clicked on the link to read more and what …
Dear Redman…
I miss you so much. I know I sound like a needy chick…’Redman oh Redman, wherefore art thou Redman?’ but I need your kind of verbal wordplay and tomfoolery right now. Let me tell you, as grimy as you are (remember your episode of MTV Cribs?), you are also just as attractive because you are …
East Coast Earthquake…sounds like a sci-fi film
So I’m embarrassed because I didn’t realize a 5.8 magnitude earthquake happened today because I was walking in Fells Point and didn’t feel anything, although I did hear unfamiliar sounds. My lunch partner was frantically asking, “Do you see the cars shaking?” My response, “No, I was looking up!” I really was looking up at …
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A Case of the Mundays
Today I was back to work, after a weekend filled with cable binging: first the current seasons of Weeds, then Entourage, and Curb Your Enthusiasm, followed by Basketball Wives (once the boyfriend left the house, he won’t tolerate this show), and the first 2 episodes of the final season of Sopranos, which I never got …
Cable Sweet Cable, Oh How I Have Missed Thee…
It was yesterday morning around 10a.m. when the ‘cable guy’ showed up to help me get acquainted with the 21st century. While he quickly hooked up and synced the cable box to the tv, I happily anticipated catching up on Weeds, Entourage, and Curb Your Enthusiasm. Thanks to free Showtime for 6 months and $6 …
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The Incidental Cupcake
Today I put up this picture to honor the cupcake in all its glory, but do not mistake this for a story about cupcakes, I just loved how this one looked and figured it needed to be posted. This particular cupcake was enjoyed yesterday by P.Collins after the strenuous task of her looking at yet …
Grand Prix Prep
The Grand Prix is in Baltimore Labor Day weekend and bleachers have already been lined up downtown by the Inner Harbor, Baltimore’s tourist hot-spot complete with a Cheesecake Factory, Uno’s (seems so 90s), Hard Rock Cafe, and even a Barnes & Nobles, but I digress. I took these pictures on my walk home from work today. Those bleachers …
Champagne Tastes, Kool-Aid Money
Need to do the hair, need to do a pedi, have no energy for either because my budget requires I do it myself (boo!) Need to go shopping for some cool sneakers, need to take advantage of tax-free week in Maryland and buy some work clothes…buuuut it’s highly unlikely it will happen because I’m one …
Awkard Moments…
Inspired by the Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl (http://awkwardblackgirl.com/), I want to share an awkward moment, repeated dozens of times in high school: my white girlfriends gushing that they had the perfect guy for me, he was always and without fail, black. Now why should that be a problem? Well, because although I’m black, I’m …
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