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In Honor of Valentine’s Day – My Top 10 Romantic Chick Flicks!

Fellas!  So the economy has you down and you aren’t able to wine and dine the lady like years past?  No problem!  Ya boy gotcha covered!  Get yoself some champipple, a box of Blast-O-Butta popcorn and a Blockbuster/netflix movie pass and check out any one of these movies to make sure your cupid arrow doesn’t go unattended to on the 14th! And yeah this list is biased to movies made during the time that I’ve been alive and old enough to appreciate them! 10: Pretty Woman (1990): Richard Gere, Julia Roberts. Every woman’s fantasy is to be swept off her feet by [ ... ]

In my mind I’m going to Carolina…

I can’t really explain it.  James Taylor sang about it best.  There is something magical about growing up in North Carolina that maybe only people in boston and new york or michigan and ohio can understand.  It’s often called one of the best rivalries in all of sports–the Carolina-Duke rivalry.  The real 8 mile (sorry Eminem).  The Dean.  Coach K.  Grant Hill straddling the back of a bloodied Eric Montross after a monster dunk.  Danny Green putting deez nuts in Paulus’s face on a one handed jam.  It’s Michael Jordan, Christian Laettner, Jerry Stackhouse, Elton Brand…the list of household names [ ... ]

Are you black enough?

Recently, I was forwarded an article from a friend discussing President Obama’s heritage.  It wasn’t the usual article one could dismiss with ease when it comes to questioning the President’s blackness, as this one involved Aaron McGruder, the creator of the cartoon The Boondocks.  The Boondocks, for those of you who are unfamiliar with the comic, is a highly satirical  and controversial cartoon that often lampoons popular African-American culture as well as current events and political topics. In the article, Aaron stated that he doesn’t view President Obama as a “black man” in the traditional sense simply because he was born [ ... ]