And the “Best Actress for Receiving An Award” goes to …! The luminous Angela Bassett. And isn’t she just dainty and lovely? It’s not an Oscar, but who’s being picky? And I’m sure this honor has everything to do with Angela’s fabulousness and nothing to do with that little “Meet the Browns,” Tyler Perry flick…

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And not pick up the reality show Suge Knight is shopping around, vis-a-vis Bobby Brown’s reality show of a couple years back. (From WorldStarHipHop.com) I could go into length about why Suge Knight should not have a TV show. But instead I’m going to not waste time, tiring myself out with details and just bust…

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Mother Snob’s Family, circa 1970-something before The Snob was born in Newport, Ark. Granny Snob is the woman with the little girl in the dress on her lap. That is Big Sis. Mother Snob, Big Sis and my mother, is the foxy Snob with the afro behind the rock fence with her hand on her…

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The Snob will not be updating this or the SCAN blog over the next three days. I gotta go to Arkansas to wish Granny Snob a happy birthday. Regularly scheduled blogging should resume late Monday. I’d blog from Arkansas, but I don’t think they have Wi-fi in big ol’ City of Newport. So until then,…

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Usher and Alicia Keys making me gnash my teeth to “My Boo.” Why won’t “boo” die! While I use the moniker “The Black Snob” on the blog in my non-virtual life I’m pretty militant about people calling me by my real name. I’ve never liked nicknames. If my parents went through all the trouble of…

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Venus and Serena Williams at the ESPN Magazine 10th Anniversary party. I’m a fan of Venus and Serena Williams, but this has to stop. I swear, for a pair of aspiring fashionistas they sometimes make the worst choices in clothes, hair and make up. (Actually, only Venus’ hair looks suspect. Serena’s do looks nice.) I…

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I wanted to blog about this yesterday, but I was wrapped up in my two paying jobs, unable to devote my full blogging attention to the revelation that newly sworn in New York Governor David Paterson outed himself and his wife as reformed habitual adulterers. I was non-too-pleased, but not because I’m some sort of…

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