mizChartreuse || redefiningSuccess

“I hate to say this, but hair is the best thing to happen to rhythmless non-blacks.” “Did I die and go to simple bitch hell?” Issa Rae, creator, producer, and star of “The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl,” is hilarious– and onto something. I became aware of the Awkward Black Girl Twitter account several months [...]

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Television is not the truth. Television’s a goddamn amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers, and football players. We’re in the boredom-killing business. So if you want the Truth, go to God. Go to your gurus. Go to yourselves! Because that’s the only place you’re ever [...]

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Television is a hell of a drug. And no show has ever tugged at my heartstrings like Fox’s 24, or as me and my fellow geeks call it, the Jack Bauer Power Hour. And now, as of May 24, during the hours of 2-4 p.m., 24 is over. My obsession with 24 began slowly. I remember [...]

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While perusing the crazy stuff I’ve written about over the years (thanks to my great new WordPress plugin which generates related posts at the end of each entry), I re-stumbled upon the blog from the two days I spent learning and teaching the dance for Oprah’s 24th Season Kickoff Party back in September. I finally [...]

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December, 2009. Reality TV. Two words. Jersey Shore. Whether you’ve watched the MTV “Reality” show or not, you’ve heard SOMETHING about it. Perhaps it’s the fact that a girl got sucker-punched in the face at a bar, or that UNICO National, an organization all for advancing the rights of Italian people, is staunchly opposing the [...]

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