Heavy Mentalist

I will be reviewing it very shortly. Thank you so much, and please know that someone received your work, I’ve just been busy but I will get your reviews up, prolly in the next two weeks.

Peace
Cherryl

A picture of blocks that is. The bigger the block, the more buzz the story attracted from news makers and consumers.

I’m surprised to see the recent “Tiger Woods Adultery Scandal” block is equal to the the “2016 Olympic Selection” block, but then again the Tiger Woods story has had a brief run, being that the scandal broke so close to the end of this year. Both blocks put together look to be the same size as the “Henry Louis Gates Arrest” block in the center column of blocks beside “Economic Crisis”.

Learn more about this 2009 news infographic and how it came to be at Good.is. You can also see it in larger flash form there, and zoom in to see the smaller blocks.

Jeez it’s like news Legos or something, but wow what a great way to see the biggest news stories of the year, right?

I seem to have let my 30 Day Blogging Challenge to to sh*t lately, but the upside is that I have been writing every day. And I now feel guilty as heck when I don’t blog. I guess that counts for something because last month I would let days go by without posting and not give it a second thought.

Thank God for small improvements!

I’m in the final stretch with my Yes Weekly story, and planning a couple of “year end” type entries for this blog that I hope everyone will like.

Methinks I should do something pertaining to Beyonce…just because it seems like everyone loves to read about Beyonce and I have an idea that I believe I can tie in to a New Year’s Resolution type post, but anyhoo my Yes Weekly story is due in the morning so I gotta go tighten that up…sorry to be so short. Not just in my stature but with my post tonight (I’m 4′ 11, same height as Lil Kim, lol) but I’ll be back with a post (hopefully) tomorrow.  Continue reading...

Break out the homemade eggnog, pin some mistletoe on your hat like my granny does (I swear the woman’s totally incorrigible!) and bust some moves to these funky Yuletime tunes.

These songs are my top 10 funky and funny Christmas songs — some funny, some funky, some both — in no particular order.

Some of the content in a few of these songs is bit ho ho ho-ey so they’re better suited for big elf parties, but a few of the songs are kid friendly.

This list is a mix of Christmas hip hop songs, Christmas funk and blues Songs and Christmas cartoon songs. If you have a favorite Christmas song that is funny, funky or both let me know! Ok here we go…

1. Beatbox Christmas aka What Happens When You Make Black People Take Care o’ Yo Kids for 400 years

2. James Brown – Soulful Christmas. JB cuts rugs into shreds. Owwww! Good God.

3. Snoop Dogg – Snoop Dogg Christmas (Explicit). I like this video more than the song, but the song is catchy too. LOL at the gay elf and David Hasselhoff in a Speedo.  Continue reading...

Sad news for all fans of the 80s sitcom 227. Alaina Reed Amini aka Alaina Reed Hall has crossed over to the other side yall. She died of breast cancer.

Reed Hall portrayed “Rose” on the show that was a beloved part of many 80s babies’ evening TV viewing schedule, along with shows like “The Cosby Show”, “What’s Happening” and “A Different World”.

When these shows came on, you couldn’t unglue my bee-hind from my babysitter’s plastic couch covers until they were all over, and if memory serves me correctly they all seemed to come on in one big block of time.

Alaina Reed Hall also played Gordon’s younger sister “Olivia” on Sesame Street. She was 63.

According to Alaina Reed Hall’s Wikipedia page, she died on my birthday, but I think many media outlets may have just received the press release about her death yesterday, which may be why the news is just being reported.

I just love Best Week Ever’s tribute to this under appreciated actress: “5 Things That Made Alaina Reed Hall Awesome“.  Continue reading...

The people on the book are performing the opera Aida.

The munchkins and I just made our first decent snowman – here it is below! Click on the photo to see it enlarged. Usually my snow persons turn out less like people and more like mounds of dirty snow with twigs sticking out of it so for me this is an accomplishment.

I followed these directions and they worked out great. Happy holidays!