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A Letter To The People Who Share News On The Deaths Of Celebs Who Already Died Years Ago
Stop doing this. Seriously. Please stop doing this. And by “please stop doing this” I mean “don’t ever fucking do this again.” And by “don’t ever fucking do this again” I mean “I hate you.” (Actually, I don’t really hate you. I don’t want to hate anyone. I love myself. But, if that’s what it takes…
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Someone Please Tell Deadline.com That White Folks Gonna Be Alright
Yesterday, Deadline.com published Nellie Andreeva’s “Pilots 2015: The Year Of Ethnic Castings – About Time Or Too Much Of Good Thing?” — a piece with so many layers of wrong that calling it a wrong lasagna (ht to Kara Brown) doesn’t quite do it justice. It was a wrong lasagna dipped in wrong Progresso Italian bread crumbs,…
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It's 2015. Which Means It's The Future. So, Where Are The Flying Cars???
While watching Tom Cruise repeatedly and hilariously die in the vastly (Vastly!) underrated Edge of Tomorrow last weekend, I started thinking about how he could have really used a precog — one of the psychics in Minority Report used to prevent murders — to help him. And then I went down a Tom Cruise rabbithole; acknowledging I’d…
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It's A Boy!
Yesterday afternoon, the newest and youngest member of Team VSB was welcomed into the world. Panama is now the father of a baby boy! More details might come later — if P decides to share — but he just wanted to let everyone know the new Young P is great and healthy and ready to…
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It's Great Mo'ne Davis Had It In Her To Forgive That Guy. But Still, Fuck That Guy
Around this time last week, news first began to circulate that Mo’ne Davis helped unveil a new sneaker line — with 15% of the proceeds going towards impoverished girls. A day or so later, more great news about the 13-year-old appeared: From Variety: The Mo’ne Davis story is coming to Disney Channel. The 13-year-old who made…
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Intimacy Compatibility: The Most Underrated Part Of A Happy Relationship
Rarely does a week pass without someone asking me what married life is like. I usually provide the same answer (“It’s…just like life before marriage. Except now you have God’s blessing to have sex in Macy’s dressing rooms.”), but it always feels incomplete. Mainly because the best way to describe married life is to provide…
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Why Baltimore Raven/Mathematician John Urschel Is The Blackest Person Who Ever Existed This Week
1. Because math — not English, not social studies, not horticulture, not even science — is the Blackest subject. At least it is according to JR Writer. And Fabulous. And Cassidy. And every other rapper who’s devoted several bars to bragging about dropping out of school but always being good at math. Because being good at…
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Dear Black People: Can Someone Please Tell Me What The "Gay Agenda" Is?
The first season of Empire concluded Wednesday night. Which means I went the entire season of Empire without watching one minute of Empire. There’s really no specific reason why. I’m not boycotting Wet Wipes Howard and it’s not like my Wednesdays are so busy that I couldn’t watch if I wanted to. It just belongs to…
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Eight Signs You're "Just Black" Even Though You Believe You're "New Black"
New Black fever has continued to spread. It started last year with Pharrell’s interview with Oprah where he spoke of a new Blackness that doesn’t transcend race and culture as much as it attempts to make it obsolete. Since then, several celebrities — including Raven Symone, Kanye West, and (most recently) Common — have spoken about how…
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No News Story Has Ever Made Me Happier Than The News About Leah Still
Last night, while watching TV with The Wife Person and scrolling through Facebook on my phone, I came across a story about Leah Still, the four-year-old daughter of Cincinnati Bengal Devon Still. If you recall, Leah’s battle with pediatric cancer made national headlines last year, in large part due to her father’s pre-surgery “pep talk”…
