PopCulturalist
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From Gawker: So this morning, Usher just showed up at the White House, apparently uninvited, and he and his entourage just walked in the northwest gate. But President Obama wasn’t home. Informed that Obama had just left for Iowa and wouldn’t be inside, the singer seemed disappointed. “He did?” he said. What an odd story!
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By Luvvie Social networking makes the world go round nowadays. In high school, I used to eHang on AOL Instant Messenger, highschoolclub.com (remember that?), and of course BlackPlanet. There were many lunchtimes when we’d all go into the computer lab to update our BP pages on some “Girl, did you see my new picture???” Just…
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Yes! They’re back! By a LANDSLIDE! Honestly, I stopped doing “Incognegro” because I got tired of being accused of being some colorist despite the fact that it seems all black people are fascinated to some degree with it. Oh well. I have a mandate now! Fifty-three percent. So either we all hate ourselves, or we…
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Then’s Lt. Uhuru and now’s Officer Dualla: Sisters, still answering the phone in the future after all this time. Is this like nursing where almost all the switchboard operators are black and they get together and gossip about the white folks on break? Who new segregation would STILL be a problem millions of years in…
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Um … what? Burger King has recruited one-hit-wonder Sir Mix-a-Lot to transform his classic ode to ass “Baby Got Back” into a commercial promoting their new SpongeBob SquarePants Happy Meal to kids. To give some background on the evolution of the single, “Baby Got Back” was once quarantined in late-night music-video blocks because MTV deemed
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I love Kal Penn. I love him on “House.” I loved him in the “Harold and Kumar” movies even though they were too … um … testosterone filled for me and kind of gross, yet still funny. I think he’s cute. Sexy even. Hence his inclusion on “The Great Wall of Sexy.” (Hindis represent! Actually,…
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It’s time for another display in Obama Era Hustlenomics. Please discuss these! From New York Daily News (via AOL/Blackvoices): Two city fast-food joints are calling themselves Obama Fried Chicken — and the new names are ruffling some feathers.Eateries in Brooklyn and Manhattan plastered the new president’s last name on their awnings recently.And some passersby are…