The makers of the Beanie Baby Dolls have unveiled their latest:  Sweet Sasha and Marvelous Malia.  A couple of bronze-skinned dolls who the company insists are not inspired by Barack and Michelle’s daughters, in name or resemblance.  However, every Sarah, Kendra and Bobby, too, will be directing their parents through wind, sand and rain to…

This is a sweet day for me.  I know a few of the Oscar nominees, personally.  I mean, I know them know them.  Like we break bread, shared the same shower [not at the same time – hehe] and I literally spoke to one yesterday afternoon [I’m lying about that, but it felt good saying…

I wish I could say yesterday, with all its disorganization and claustrophobia, was one of the most amazing days of my life.  And it was, until the sun fell, and millions of people packed up their gear and headed home.  I was one of those people.  See, I wasn’t able to make it to any…

The long and frigid journey to witness President Barack Obama take the Oath and give his inauguration speech as this country’s 44th President was worth every chilling minute.  Even if I did have to watch from a Jumbo-Tran on the Mall some million or more people away from him.   Most of the official entrances to…

I made it!   After a long and germ-crazy bus ride from Chinatown in New York City to the heart of D.C.’s Chinatown I finally stepped into the beautiful madness.  The bus ride was pretty somber.   I guess 3am travel will silence even “Obama-giddy-I-took-off-work-and-I-dare-anybody-to-say-anything-I’m-about-to-celebrate-our-first-black-prez” troopers.   But once all 57 passengers stepped onto H and 5th Streets…

The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation conducted a survey last week about race relations.  They phoned 798 whites and 332 blacks and asked if King’s “I Have a Dream” vision has been fulfilled.  Meaning:  do we, as multi-varied Americans, believe race is no longer an issue in Obama’s America on the eve of the Grand Inauguration?  And…

Last night I attended an interesting multi-media piece on “redevelopment and securing history” at the Public Theater in NYC.   It was called Architecting.  Stay with me.  The play centers around a young white architect who’s been hired to redevelop a neighborhood in post-Katrina New Orleans.  Still with me?  The architect is kidnapped by a group…

Today is officially Martin Luther King’s birthday.  Barack Obama will be officially named president of the United States of America in five days.  Martin hoped that one day black and white children could walk hand in hand under the same flag; Obama believes Americans share far more similiarities with each other than they’re willing to…

So the Presidential Inaugural Committee has unveiled the Inaugural talent line up and guess who’s shaking her shimmy and belting out a few under Mister Emancipator himself… Beyonce.  Now don’t get me wrong, I think Beyonce is talented.  She can sing and dance in a style that can only originate in the basement of a…

I don’t know if it’s the fighting in Gaza, or the possibility of Islamic children terrorizing airliners, or maybe it’s just a general mistrust of anything that looks, speaks or burps like a Middle Easterner, but now baby dolls are being pulled from store shelves for fear of Islamic takeover.  Over the holiday season church…