Now, being a Lakers fan from birth (I knew who Magic and Kareem were and could have recognized them on the street by the age of three) I’m completely entitled to agree with the rest of the world that Lakers fans are crazy.  However, since we have the best team in the US and, therefore, the world, its okay.  But this particular Kobe fan is not okay.  It is never okay to be this crazy.  I just love the reporter’s face.

Apparently this is for Sex & the City 2, I hope that means I don’t have to hear it while Carrie and crew crosses the desert in Morocco…

When I got Jones home I dived in to see what it was all about.  Both the publisher and Editor-in-Chief are black.  The publisher, L. Londell McMillan, nodded to all of the beautiful, elegant black women who raised him.  The Editor-in-Chief, Tracey M. Ferguson, explained how the magazine, which is positioned as “The Shopping Guide for Women Who Know Better,” came about through a book club group that also shared shopping and style tips in Houston, TX.  That grew into a Houston regional magazine and now a national magazine.  The mag is named Jones as a nice little double entendre – “Keeping up with the Joneses” and “I’m jonesin’ for that!”  Cute, right?  And the magazine is full of beautiful fashion, beautiful black people, has quality writing, and is well laid out.  Trust me.  I’m something of a magazine connoisseur.

I’m hopeful for this magazine since I’ve had my poor little magazine loving heart crushed far too many times when a magazine that I love, that’s creative and celebrates all the swagger, flyness, and beauty of being ethnic, just up and folds (oh Suede… will I ever get over you?).

In addition to the magazine there is a website and a reality show on Centric (too bad I can’t watch it.  I got that basic basic cable) that follows Editor-in-Chief Ferguson in her trials and tribulations of launching a national magazine.

Anyways, if you see Jones on the stands I think you should definitely buy it because we need more publications that express us (you know, alternatives to Sister2Sister, which has Tiny on the cover this month O_o).  Good luck, Jones!

Oh and apparently he can dance too. Yuuuup, I told you them Taiwanese are mad nice with that robot techmology…

Rush Limbaugh

All Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck seem to do is complain and make outlandish statements.  Their fiery words often spark controversy and invite extreme criticism and ridicule from everyone from Keith Oberman to Jay-Z.  It doesn’t help that they have many avid followers that believe every single thing they say.  If I was any liberal politician I would find it super hard to not full on call them out for the rating hungry, contentious, attention whores that they are.  So luckily I’m not the president of the United States who is much wiser and realizes that it will not get him anywhere to use words as harsh for these two annoying nut jobs as they use for him.

In an interview with Harry Smith on CBS when asked about words like “socialist” and “Nazi” that are being thrown around in association with him, Obama specifically calls out Limbaugh and Beck for their polarizing radio and TV shows.  However, he diplomatically explains it away saying, “… when you listen to Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck its pretty apparent and its troublsome, but keep in mind that there have been periods in American history where this kind of vitriol comes out.  It happens when you’ve got an economy that is making people more anxious.”  Very diplomatic, Mr. President because I have the feeling that you really want to go in on them like “Rush Limbaugh is so fat that…” and “Glenn Beck is so stupid that…”

To hear Limbaugh and Beck talk most of Americans are against Obama’s policies (which doesn’t make much sense since he was very clear about his major goals during his campaign for presidency and apparently enough of the voting public liked what he had to say because, you know… he’s president and all).  What it really seems to be is that those in disagreement and the ignorant just seem to shout louder than people that are in agreement with the administration’s policies.  Obama doesn’t buy that most Americans are of the same mindset as Limbaugh and Beck.  He believes that “the vast majority of Americans know that we’re trying hard, that I want what’s best for the country.”

LMAO, she was really jamming to Bon Jovi!

I don’t know if this makes me want to use Foursquare more or immediately deactivate my account…

LOL at Ed Lover going in on the “We are the World Remix”. Damn, was it that bad?

JESS3 / The State of The Internet from Jesse Thomas on Vimeo.

Wow. The internet is mad popular, like for reals…

But seriously, 200 Billion spam emails a day? Do people respond to those or something? Because apparently it must be working for someone.

I’m so mad she kicked the tea table like that…classic.

Kevin Smith (director of Zach and Miri Make a Porno and the new movie Cop Out with Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan — more commonly known to me as Silent Bob, so that’s what I’m going to call him) went ballistic today on Twitter then on his own podcast and blog over an incident that happened on a flight.  Silent Bob got asked to leave a Southwest Airline flight because he was too fat (not in those words, of course).  Silent Bob usually purchases two seats on flights because, according to him, “its just more comfortable” and he “can afford it” so he doesn’t usually run into this problem.  However, this time he got bumped to a different flight and only got one seat.  After he was already seated the flight attendant asked him to deplane because, to her judgement, the armrests could not easily go down all the way, a no-no for Southwest Airlines.

Silent Bob was, of course, enraged.  He admitted to the flight attendant that yes, he is fat, but that he isn’t so fat that he couldn’t fit comfortably in his seat.  After his social media outcries Southwest apologized twice (once as a Twitter response to Silent Bob).  Additionally, Silent Bob was able to get on a later Southwest flight, where he Twitpic-ed himself seated with both armrests down, so clearly the flight attendant judged incorrectly.

This is getting a lot of media buzz because Canada just passed a law (of course) that says if a passenger must get a second seat because they are overweight then the second seat is free.  Oh liberal Canada, that doesn’t even make sense.  Its another seat and it costs money.  If you bring a kid on a plane and they take up an extra seat it costs extra.  If you bring your large self on the plane it should cost extra, too.

Passenger advocacy groups (which I had no idea existed and who must not be doing that great of a job because we all have to pay that new extra fee for checked luggage… I’m just saying) are saying that this just goes to show that the airlines need more concrete guidelines so that flight attendants are not making subjective judgments on the fatness at which you can’t ride a plane.  They also say that with the rise of obesity in the U.S., the airlines should install special “obese” rows reserved for passengers that might need that extra room.  My thoughts… 1.) Its interesting that Silent Bob is not even so overweight that he really couldn’t get down the armrests, but he’s about to be the face for every obese advocacy cause.  2.) Tweeting something off the wall and making yourself the wronged victim right when you have a movie coming out is great PR.  Silent Bob got tons of Twitter followers off of this.  3.) Don’t fly Southwest if you’re fat, those seats are tight even if you can get the armrests down.  4.) Only fly first class if you’re fat because its more comfortable, you get better food anyways and its probably cheaper than buying the two seats you know you need to purchase so that your thigh won’t be touching me for the next 6 hours.

I should avoid saying the obvious about the U.S. really having a problem when people get to talking about obese rows on planes… but it really needs to be said.

Everyone is always going on and on about how the internet is changing the world.  Nobody believes in that change and potential for change more than Get Fresh Daily, and there are quite a few websites that really puts that into perspective.  One such website is Causecast.org

Causecast is a website that uses new media like webcasts, social media, and mobile technology to be a one-stop-shop for the caring, preachy, zealot, crunchy, socially conscious, tree hugger, social activists (you know, people like us).  Their official tagline is that they are an “interactive community that connects individuals, leaders, celebrities, and brands to make a positive impact in the world.”  I’m always excited about a cause, but Causecast can get you really engaged with your favorite cause, give you a resource to find out more about a cause or help you find new causes.  Other features include a weekly newsletter, interviews about social change with musicians, a How to Change the World guide that is updated every Wednesday, etc.  Also, the most popular causes have their own pages.   Its a lot of what I like to call philathro-tainment and its exactly how you would always like to see the internet being used.

My resounding answer:  Ummmm, hell to the naw!

Nobody seems to know who paid for the billboard or why they would pay for it.  Is it satire, is it a joke, or is somebody really serious about this?  I mean, obviously, they can’t possibly be serious about it, but you never know where people’s heads are at these days.

The questions this billboard raises for me are: Why would you even ask?  Do you miss being lied to ?  Do you miss mispronounced words and slightly incoherent sentences?  Do you miss nobody paying attention while Wall Street runs wild?  Do you miss randomly made up reasons for wars?  Do you miss enough funding to occupy Iraq, but not enough funding to provide emergency aid or to run FEMA?  Where were they going with that?  etc.

I hope this billboard doesn’t start popping up in other places.

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