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BusinessMy Life

Come Celebrate My Blog’s Birthday at My Awesomely Golden Party in Chicago!

My peoples! On August 8, 2006 I launched this website. Back then it was called “Luvvie’s Random Rants” and I had just graduated from college. I felt like I had outgrown my Xanga blog (remember Xanga?) so I moved to Blogger, shut down my old blog that I had for three …

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Diane Stretton
Random

The Fired Nanny Who Won’t Leave: The Real Life Consuela from Family Guy

You hire an older woman to help you watch your kids in exchange for her living in your house. Two weeks after she’s living with you, she disappears for hours in her room, leaving your kids unattended and you frustrated. Just in case you didn’t make yourself clear enough, you …

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Throwback Thursday

The Beloved Sony Walkman and the Cassette Tape Struggle: Throwback Thursday

Before you could fit 10,000 songs on a device the size of tic tac container, us 80s babies had the Sony Walkman and double-sided cassette tapes. The Walkman was a rite of passage and when you got it (after begging and saving and whining), you felt like you had truly …

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Famous folks

Lupita Nyong’O’s Lancome Ad Won’t Kill Me Die! LOVE!

Somebody gotta tell Lupita Nyong’o that I don’t have time for her perpetual slayage because how am I supposed to get work done and feel good about myself when she’s walking around looking like perfection? I DON’T HAVE THE TAHM NOR THE ENERGY, LAWD! Just look at Lupie’s first ad …

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Faith

Because You Need 75 New Ways To Say “Fix It, Jesus”

Phaedra Parks of Real Housewives of Atlanta blessed us all with her concern during one of the RHOA reunion shows. Kenya Moore the Terrible and Porsha Williams the Simple were arguing when Anointed Attorney Parks shook her head and said “Fix It, Jesus,” winning the show and giving us a …

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FelonBae
Random

About #FelonBae and the Butthurt Brigade

By now, you’ve probably seen a picture of Jeremy Meeks aka FelonBae in your Facebook newsfeeds or Twitter timeline. He has taken the internet by storm, with his crooked but FAHN ass. Jeremy and his fellow thugs were arrested yesterday and the police department in Stockton posted their mugshots on …

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Whose is this?

Whose Swordfish Toenails are These?

People can be utterly ridiculous sometimes. I came across this picture and I just had to say “Why?” and blame it on human nature. Because seriously. It makes no sense. These are weapons of mass destruction and haters of shoes. The wonderful people of my Awesomely Luvvie Facebook page family …

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Culture

Delta Airlines Twitter Fail and the Circle of Trife: A Giraffe for Ghana

Tonight, USA and Ghana faced off in the World Cup and USA came away with the win, 2-1. Afterwards, Delta Airlines’ Twitter account posted a picture cheering on the home country and also managing to be offend people who had sense. The Statue of Liberty for the U.S. and a …

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Social Media

5 Things To Do To Avoid Passing On Fake News on Social Media

Mark Twain, Winston Churchill and other old and dead white guys have been attributed to saying the quote: “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” Even though I’m still trying to find out who really said it (even Google is …

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TV and Movies

The Children: Game of Thrones Season 4 Finale Recap

The season 4 finale of Game of Thrones wrapped up some of our questions and packed so much in one hour that I felt it was too rushed. But let’s talk about it. Mance and Peace – Jon walks by all the slayed Wildlings into the woods towards their camp, …

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