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For those who don't realize this, my fair Reese Peanut Butter Cup of the TV News aka "The Prince of West Memphis," Sir TJ Holmes got all kinds of married this month to a lovely woman who WAS NOT ME. I was crestfallen. There was a lot of me wandering around the Bat Cave singing Vesta's "Congratulations" while swilling the second cheapest bottle of halfway decent white wine I could find at Schnieder's on The Hill. Because TJ Holmes is now off the market and far, far away from my clutches (and...Read Full Story

ToureNewark, NJ Mayor Cory Booker, musician Esperanza Spalding and writer Toure made The Root 100 list of influencers today. The annual rundown of movers and shakers this year includes a lot of folks I've written about here at The Snob over the past four years, including the prolific Melissa Harris Perry, TV show host and author Marc Lamont Hill, my not-boyfriend on The Daily Show Wyatt Cenac, my other not-boyfriend who married some woman who wasn't me CNN's TJ Holmes, the best haircut in the...Read Full Story

TJ Holmes and fellow CNN anchorman, Tony Harris doing the two fisted soul man grip-n-grin. Man, it feels like FOREVER since I wrote one of these! But it's been a minute since I dug up some cute pictures of our little Reese's Peanut Butter Cup of the TV News, TJ Holmes! But folks out in Facebook have come through, snapping random pics of the Teege at dinner, at parties and with a Sarah Palin-look-a-like. See all the new pictures and more in the Google Stalking TJ Holmes photo archives on...Read Full Story

It's December! Meaning now is the time to get dumped, hired, fired, move on or be replaced. It's time for some winter house cleaning before the new tax year starts. What's going down in medialand for the end of 2010? Larry King's leaving. But you already knew that. This column is for everyone else. Your John Robertses and your TJ Holmeses and your Star Joneses. Your other folks. Which, you know, gives me a perfectly good excuse to put up yet another picture of Holmes after ending my "Google...Read Full Story

Coming to a cartoon near you: The Prince of West Memphis lends his vocals to an animation project by Jai Anthony-Lewis Husband for the Atlanta University Center.Click to enlargeWas doing some Google Image Stalking of TJ Saturday and came across a cornucopia of images of the Teege doing some vocal recording for an animation project called "Kasha and the Zulu King" by Jai Anthony-Lewis Husband. Obviously Mr. Husband was not aware of this blog and its dedication to all things TJ Holmes related...Read Full Story

Your cheatin' heart! Oh, my poor little prince of deliciousness! He's caught up in some bizarro "look how awful the Liberal media is" meme because, you know? He's kinda made a lil' "faux pas" about infidelity and the recession. Namely Holmes used the word "unfortunately" to describe how folks are having to dump their mistresses and himbos and since, certain folks (ahem, News Busters) have nothing better to do, they're overrating. CNN doesn't value traditional marriage because they have bad...Read Full Story

As an intrepid reader noticed in Uptown's April/May Edition, writers mention a quote from The Snob Blog about the Prince of West Memphis, Sir TJ Holmes of CNN Weekend. They do this, sadily, without mentioning the name of the Snob or her blog. Boo! But we love you anyway. Here's the quote from the article, page 46 by Ronda Racha Penrice: (A) commenter on one blog described him as "the most delectable man alive." And here's the full version the quote from the original Google Stalking TJ...Read Full Story

Found on his Facebook page! Doesn't my little Reese's Peanut Butter Cup of the TV News look adorable? (Although I liked the Upscale Magazine casual white long-sleeve Tee and jeans picture better. Mmm. My favorite picture of my boy from West Memphis!) Get all the TJ pictures you can stand here. Read past Google Stalking entries here. And don't forget to vote for your favorite anchor or reporter in the 2009 Ed Bradley Awards for Journalistic Hotness! (TJ was last year's winner! Who will be the...Read Full Story

She appears on the cover of "Tawny Models" in the early 1950s, a smut digest pretending to be "figure studies for artists" to avoid censors. She appears in 4" x 5" photo sets sold from the back of magazines...and was photographed at the same sessions which produced the most famous pinup model of all, Bettie Page.Fifty years later, she appears on the cover of my book which could tell the story of every African-American model trying to find a place in front of the camera during the second half...Read Full Story

I still love him anyway. But presidential "swagga"? Really? REALLY? REALLY ... O RLY? Whhhhhhyyyyy? Are you kidding me? You're freakin' kidding me, right? This is a joke. Seriously, someone is playing a joke on me. They didn't actually air this during the news day. Tell me the Riggle Sanchez made you do it. I never, ever want to see any kind of news story about any kind of political figure using slang terms from crappy Jay-Z songs ever again. Never. Got that, my little peanut butter cup?Read Full Story