Celebs Out & About
Rapper Nelly was out & about in my hometown of London, England yesterday. I heard a rumor that twice-divorced Tameka Foster (Usher’s ex) has been blowing up Nelly’s cell phone lately. I’m guessing she’s trying to hook up with him now that he’s single too. I don’t know how true this is, but they say Nelly stopped returning her calls and instructed his boys not to take her calls either. Hey, Tameka, JD is single.
Singer/songwriter Keri Hilson is so wrong for this outfit. The paps caught up with her signing autographs in London, England yesterday.
Jay Z On Oprah Pt. 1 & 2
Two of the biggest attention whores in the country got together for a narcism love fest on Wednesday. By that I mean Oprah Winfrey and Jay Z. I’m not interested in what either of them had to say, but I’m sure you are.
Celebs Out & About
Boston Celtics star Paul Pierce met with former President Bill Clinton and R&B star Usher at the Heads of State Reception at the MoMA in NYC. (Pierce was invited by Clinton to launch his FitClub34 fitness initiative at the CGI.)
Photo: National Basketball Association
Beyonce looked constipated while performing live in Perth, Australia yesterday.
The results of Lala Vazquez’s crash diet shows in this pic taken last night at the The Launch Of The New Porsche Panamera in Hollywood last night.
Quincy Jones gave Alicia Keys relationship advice at the the Clinton Global Citizen Awards in NYC yesterday.
Legendary rapper KRS-1 attended the VH1 Hip Hop awards with his daughter Tyme. His stepson Randy Hubbard Parker, who KRS helped raise, committed suicide in Atlanta 2 years ago after battling with depression for years.
Is It Now OK to Turn a Ho Into a Housewife?
I found this interesting comment (among many) in an earlier post I wrote about black men who think LSLH/white women were a better catch. The responses in that post were mixed, with most women defending other sistas for raising today’s men to be the sorriest crop of brothas in history.
The old adage used to be, you can’t turn a ho into a housewife. So the question for today is: is it now OK to turn a ho into a housewife since Kanye West, Lamar Odom and just about every rapper is doing it?
Loyal reader Nichelle Walker writes:
Most of them do these days –- look at Kanye with Amber. Men now [would] rather have a stripper than a hardworking woman. It has taken over even with Khloe: she has been with at least 5 men I know of This year alone yet she can still get married. Men don’t value themselves any longer. So I don’t agree. I believe black men have set their standards low, it was a point where a man wouldn’t dare try to turn a hoe-into-a housewife but now that’s what they want damn a good woman…
You know how I feel about this subject.
We have all seen the disaster that’s resulted from black women raising black men alone in the last 30 years.
The bottom line is: It takes a man to raise a man. A female is not a proper substitute for a man in a boy’s life. We need to do better.
If you’re a single woman raising black boys, it is imperative that you have a man in their lives. You don’t have to be sleeping with the guy — he could be their uncles or male family members or just a friend. But he has to be there regularly in your sons lives to teach them how to be men. That means showing an interest in what they do, calling often to check up on them, taking them to ball games every weekend, etc.
In case you missed it: A female is not a proper substitute for a man in a boy’s life. And ladies, it would help if you stop putting black men down in front of your sons.
Does Janet Jackson Seem Happier Without JD?
Since the news broke about Janet Jackson’s split from producer and longtime boyfriend Jermaine Dupri, does she seem happier to you? I can’t help but notice how youthful and content she seems in these pics taken in Milan, Italy yesterday.
I’ve always thought of Janet (and her older sister Rebbie) as the most stable Jacksons. So it seemed odd that she would want to be with a cheating dog like JD who obviously was using her to elevate his own status.
When Janet and JD were together she looked tired, old and wary in her pictures.. She also looked like she had reconciled herself to the fact that he just wasn’t going to do right by her — and she couldn’t do any better. She displayed the same stoic resignation in her longterm relationship with her ex-husband Rene.
Suffering in silence while your man sows his wild oats is a learned behavior that she obviously picked up from her mom, Katherine.
The entire industry knows that it was JD who (along with MTV) helped ruined Janet’s career by orchestrating that disastrous nipple stunt during halftime of Super Bowl XXXVIII in 2004.
But love, like alcohol and drugs, is a very unrelenting addiction. You really can’t see the damage it causes until you kick the habit for good.
God, forgive me for laughing…
From WSMV.com news:
Channel 4 has learned that Kings Island has dropped plans to include celebrity skeletons as part of a Halloween display.
Skeletons dressed and positioned to resemble ex-NFL quarterback Steve McNair and his mistress were part of the display. A promo video for the “Halloween Haunt” shows McNair sitting up on a couch with [Sahel] Kazemi lying across his lap. There is a hole in the top of McNair’s football helmet.
E-mails flooded Channel 4′s inbox expressing a distaste for the display. Channel 4 e-mailed the park and received an answer late Wednesday.
“When the gates open for the start of our Halloween Haunt event on Friday,” said park spokesman Don Helbig, “park visitors will not find a depiction of Steve McNair in any scenes.”
Thursday, the park released another statement, saying, “Kings Island has removed the celebrity scene from its Halloween Haunt event. We were not intending to be distasteful, and we apologize if we offended anyone.”
Kazemi fatally shot McNair before killing herself July 4 in Nashville.Other celebrities included in the display were Michael Jackson in pajamas, Health Ledger with pill bottles and Sonny Bono on skis.
Thanks to loyal reader Jennifer for the tip.
Is Anglina Jolie Raising Shiloh To Be a Lesbun?
That’s the buzz that’s going around the Internet. They say that Angelina Jolie-Pitt recognizes the fact that Shiloh identifies with her masculine side and she allows the little girl to wear her brother’s clothes. I’m not making this up. Shiloh is often seen wearing boy’s clothes while Zahara is always dressed feminine.
I don’t have a problem with any of this (for obvious reasons). I think it’s great that Angelina is so open minded and recognizes the early signs of a budding lesbun and encourages Shiloh’s alternative lifestyle choice. But some people are questioning Angie’s parenting skills and whether the kid is growing up to be another Chastity Bono, who is currently undergoing a sex change.
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