About a year ago, I got an early Christmas gift when my very good friend Donnie gave me a link to a blog full of the most random, dated R&B that I’ve never heard of in my life. Unfortunately, that blog is now dead and gone, but I managed to salvage some of the best Read More
This is my grown-up Christmas wish.
It’s your birthday. Everything is *perfect*. There are colorful balloons and streamers playing about in the wind, and Memaw came all the way from Bloomington just to pinch your cute widdle cheeks. You’ve got all the trimmings: a magician, cotton candy, one of those big inflatable jumpy bouncy house things, a stripper —everything. And then Read More
Will Phonte be there?!
I’ve been meaning to write this entry since a few months after I moved back to Kentucky from Philly, but I guess its better that I didn’t do it so soon. After being natural for two years and spending one of those years in Louisville, KY, I’ve had a lot more time to really examine Read More
Today’s lesson: “I’m sorry you feel that way” is NOT an apology.
I’d had a sucky weekend. The reasons why, the story about what happened, that doesn’t matter. Just know that I’d spent my entire weekend indoors, stewing, just wanting to be somewhere else. Finally, it was Sunday and I spent the day anxious to jump out of the house, if not out of my very skin, Read More
Look. Look at it. (t looks so soft, doesn’t it? It’s so billowy. So velvety. ( want to roll around in field of it. I want to stuff my pillows with it. I want to lay on my back and look up at clouds of it and talk about how that one looks like a Read More
This article was written by seansmyph, co-creator of our blog Splackavellie Central: Ridiculous Moments in R&B and Beyond. It’s part of a series of posts called “The Worst of MC Hammer,” which is part of a series called “Worst of the Best,” which probably doesn’t make much sense the first time you read it. —– Read More
Please work your voodoo magic and make sure that this becomes the official poster for your adaptation of ‘For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf.’ I’m already worried about how the adaptation is going to turn out. At least give us something to look forward to and be hopeful for. Read More
