Authentic conversations about culture, motherhood, divorce, black excellence, humor, and style!
1. It's our culture. 2. They're doing it already, so why not just legalize it? 3. The law only affects those who practice it. 4. It is the religion of the Muslims, just like Sharia, so they should be allowed to practice it. 5. Legalizing it is the same thing as legalizing gay marriage. 6. The men don't actually have sex with the young brides until they are of age. 7. This law doesn't actually exploit children; instead, it gives child brides the same rights as adult Read More
Follow my blog with Bloglovin It's time for the 65th annual Emmy Awards, and it airs on Sunday, September 22nd at 8pm EST on CBS. I was going to post the entire list of nominees when I realized that it's 71 pages long on Microsoft Word. Uhm, no thanks. So I'll just post the most popular categories. I didn't even scroll to the 71st page, so you can check out the full list of nominees for yourself here. The ones I'm rooting for are highlighted in pink.I'm shocked that Jeff Perry (Cyrus on Read More
It seems like only yesterday when we used to watch music videos on DVDs Video CDs. I don't know if YouTube did not exist then or if we were just not used to it, don't remember. All I know is that there were CDs upon CDs upon CDs with mostly poor quality music videos. If you wanted to see the music videos of contemporary artists like D'banj, 2Face, P Square et al, you had to purchase and watch a VCD that couldn't even skip scenes. It could forward, but not skip. I was never into them, not Read More
Uniqul is a startup company from Finland, and they have developed a new way for us to pay for our transactions and much more. It's a face recognition device that doubles as a payment system. Basically, when you go to check out, the thing recognizes your face and then you press OK on the screen. There are no details yet on how your face goes into the system. You can even use it to check in at the airport. Like I said, there are no details yet on how this will work, like how the machine Read More
Just in case you've been living under a rock (Hi Funmie!), Robin Thicke's song, Blurred Lines is currently America's number one song. I love the song. But then, I love Robin Thicke, too. I can count on one hand how many albums I have bought with my money, and Robin Thicke's 2006 album, The Evolution Of Robin Thicke is one of them. His new hit song, Blurred Lines featuring T.I. and Pharrell is getting played and downloaded like crazy. Unfortunately, there are critics who say that the song Read More
