Dear NRA, A Stadium of Seats Awaits You
The National Rifle Association (NRA) has been tripping for a good while and they’ve been hitting their dougie all over the collective nerves of people with sense. They’ve more than earned this sternly-worded letter. Dear NRA, I’m beginning to believe that you have to be a dizzy dingbat to be …
Whose Drunk Uncle is This?
We all have black sheep in our family. Some of the folks we don’t like to claim might one day end up on TV for all the wrong reasons. Like this dude: LMAO!!! This dude was so damb drunk that he couldn’t e’em hold his own head up to take …
Social Media Week Lagos, Here I Come!
Social Media Week is a global event that happens in multiple cities all over the world at the same damb time. The goal is to explore the “social, cultural and economic impact of social media.” So it’s basically All Social Media Everything. It happens twice a year, in February and …
The Donkey Booty Dispute: RHOA Episode 11 Recap
*sings* “How do you solve a problem like Kenya Moore? How do you catch a cloud and pin it down?” My Sound of Music fans will appreciate that because Kenya needs some nuns somewhere to worry about her. Every episode of Real Housewives of Atlanta has revolved around her, so …
My 10 Thoughts About the 2013 Golden Globe Awards
I was really excited to watch the Golden Globe Awards this year because my comedy sheros Tina Fey and Amy Poehler were hosting. You cannot get a more perfect pairing than those two and I figured it’d be a good show with them at the helm. So I sat through …
I Was on WGNTV’s “People to People” With Micah Materre!
My peoples! I somehow failed to give y’all a heads up but I was on TV this weekend! It was WGN-TV’s People to People with Micah Materre, and I had a GOODT time! I was invited on to speak about my work with my nonprofit organization The Red Pump Project …
Hi, Scandal. This Was One for the Dog: Episode 210 Recap
These past four weeks without Scandal have been tough. LAWD, THEY HAVE BEEN HARD! Thursday nights without Olivia Pope an’ ’em have been empty. They’ve been a shell of their former selves. I was PARCHED for them to return. Dehydrated, even. Last night, I was in front of the TV, …
MLK’s Dream Wasn’t to End Up On Your Club Flyers
Y’all play too murch. TOO DAMB MURCH! I know folks love clubbing and promoters love getting people to buy expensive, watered-down drinks while listening to terrible music for 4 hours and getting their shoes stepped on. HOWEVER, must they use some of the tactics they do? Like: Seriously? Why do y’all …
10 Lessons Celebrities Need to Learn About Twitter
The other night, I got into it with a celebrity on Twitter over a question I asked. I won’t get into details because it really went from 0-60 and it was disappointing and made me become less of a fan of someone whose work I really respected and really liked. …
“Best Funeral Ever” Might Be My Newest Guilty Pleasure
I didn’t have any intentions of watching the TLC’s newest show Best Funeral Ever because it just sounded like a hot mess to me. But last night, Angel Laws and Joanna Simkin were live-tweeting it and I was pulled in. And they told me I needed to watch it because …