Asian history, the effects of colonialism in Africa and India, history of the Middle East and the Ottoman Empire, and the United States in the 1800s to 1930.
An Interesting Fact
I sang in a jazz band and I act out my screenplays while walking back and forth, talking to myself, in my bedroom while listening to soundtracks I've made up for the screenplays.
The most photogenic family of this political cycle is on the cover of People Magazine (and there are promises of more pictures inside!) Try to go easy on the pictures. You may go into acute Obama overload. The last thing we need are tons of black Obama fanatics overdosing on the black family love displayed inside.According to ABC.com, in the article Obama's sister talks about her brother wanting his girls to have stability.In the PEOPLE exclusive, Obama and his wife Michelle say they're... Read Full Story
"She needs to quit."That's how the discussion got kicked off on One Drop Rule's message board July 2nd. The person accused of needing to cease and desist was CNN reporter Soledad O'Brien who spent the past year working on a documentary for the cable news network entitled "Black In America" which airs this week. And the quitting in question was in regards to her black status."I have watched her with (African Americans) before and never once did she refer to (African Americans) in the first... Read Full Story
It seems rapper Nas has joined with black progressive activist group Color of Change in their campaign to challenge FOX News for their habitual Negromongering over Presidential candidate Barack Obama and his wife Michelle. Sometimes it feels like 1952 on there -- the way we never were. Someone had to launch a counter-attack.From MTV.com:You don’t have to be invited onto Nas’ tour bus to know that the big screen in the back lounge isn’t tuned to Fox News. Ever.If the track “Sly Fox” (”Watch... Read Full Story
He's just so dreamy! LOL!From The Onion, June 19th. (Yeah, I was late finding this thing but ... hilarious!)WASHINGTON—According to a poll released Monday by Teen Zogby!, both Barack Obama's approval and dreaminess ratings among slumber party–attending tweens have risen to 82 percent following last week's publication of the Tiger Beat cover pictorial "Hangin' With Barack!""Barack is sooooo hot!" said 12-year-old Tiger Beat subscriber Beth Majors upon reading the issue, which included a... Read Full Story
Check out the Roadkill Refugee's Daily Tidbits for Monday. It's priceless ... here's a little nibble:Somebody Get Him the Talking Points. During a photo op with McCain in Maine, former President Bush (”41″) responds to a press question on how he feels about Obama’s planned events abroad, “A little jealous, is all.”Ben Smith of Politico has a pair of contrasting photos capturing the day (if not the campaign): one is of Obama in Iraq with General Petreaus, looking as cool as Neo in the Matrix... Read Full Story
Because it's blowing up Hollywood style in your face.Be careful what you wish for because you JUST MIGHT GET IT.I knew this wouldn't go well for John McCain -- Barack Obama going to the Middle East and strutting around like we already elected him president. All he can hope for now is a gaffe, a faux pas and fumble to put a blight on what so far has been the "Everyone Loves Obama" show overseas.While some conservatives are bitching about the wall-to-wall coverage in the press let me remind... Read Full Story
Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte in one of my favorite musicals and doomed romances, "Carmen Jones." Back when I was still living it up in Bakersfield, Calif. I was working on a series of short fiction stories under the title "Doomed Romance." Partly out of humor and partly out of my own romantic graveyard I began collecting the stories of love gone bad.I'm a romantic malaise mess. My love life is littered with the remains of unresolved issues, drama, disappointment and wayward, misfired... Read Full Story
Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte in one of my favorite musicals and doomed romances, "Carmen Jones." Back when I was still living it up in Bakersfield, Calif. I was working on a series of short fiction stories under the title "Doomed Romance." Partly out of humor and partly out of my own romantic graveyard I began collecting the stories of love gone bad.I'm a romantic malaise mess. My love life is littered with the remains of unresolved issues, drama, disappointment and wayward, misfired... Read Full Story
But it's not his fault entirely. He interviewed a couple about their book Saturday where they discussed their attempt to have sex every day for a whole year. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that my Peanut Butter Cup o' TV News is about as giddy and as horny over this prospect as the next dude, but most don't get to have a cringe worthy interview about it.Back in April when TJ revealed he didn't cook and ate out all the time I suggested that someone go to Atlanta and cook that... Read Full Story
Scan is scam for real. I have been using the name Brofucius for several years. I have published a book, The Philosophical Brother and two spoken word CDs under my company Speak-Easy Publishing LLC.
