Archive for June, 2010

• June 28, 2010 Black HERstory: Lorraine Hansberry posted in Black HER/HIStory tagged 29 Years Old, 5th Woman to Receive the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, A Raisin in the Sun, Broadway, Cancer, Chicago, Gifted and Black, James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry, Nina Simone, Paul LeRoy Bustill Robeson, Paul Robeson, Playwright, Southside Native, Southside of Chicago, To Be Young, W.E.B. DuBois, Woodlawn Chicago, Writer
• June 23, 2010 Fair Comparison. posted in Seasonal Sustenance tagged Bard, Cold Beverages, Comparison to a Summer Day, Famous Poet, Hot, Love, Love Poem, Poem, Poem About Summer, Poet, Poetry, Shanti, Sonnet XVIII: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?, Summer, Summer 2010, Summer Day, Summer Girls, Summer of 2010, Summer Poem, Summer Poetry, Sweaty Brow, William Shakespeare
• June 20, 2010 A Father That Knows Best: Reginald VelJohnson (7 of 7) posted in Father's Day, Seasonal Sustenance tagged 1988, 1989, 1998, Bachelor of Arts, Carl Winslow, Clutzy Antics, Cop, Crocodile Dundee, Dad, Die Hard, Die Hard II, Father, Father's Day, Fathers, Film, George Tenet, Ghostbusters, Harriette Winslow, Irked, Jo Marie Payton, New York City, New York University, Officer Carl Winslow, Overprotective Father, Perfect Strangers, Queens, Reginald VelJohnson, Ron Jeremy, Small Roles, Steve Q. Urkel, Television, Tom Hanks, Turner and Hooch
• June 20, 2010 A Father That Knows Best: Ed O’Neill (6 of 7) posted in Father's Day, Seasonal Sustenance tagged 1969, 1985, Actor, Al Bundy, Bundy Family, Defeated Posture, Deliverance, Deputy from Deliverance, Disenchanted Vengeance, Edward Phillip "Ed" O'Neill Jr., Father, Father Who Knows Best, Father's Day, Fathers, Football, Haphazardous Misfortune, Imminent Failure, Married... with Children, Ohio, Outside Linebacker, Peggy Bundy, Pittsburgh Steelers, Red Lobster Commercial, Self Loathing, Self Loathing Shoe Salesman, Shoe Salesman, Social Studies Teacher, Television, Ursline High School, Youngstown
• June 20, 2010 A Father That Knows Best: Steve Martin (5 of 7) posted in Father's Day, Seasonal Sustenance tagged 1967, 21 Year Old Dropout, 70's, Air Quotes, California, Clingy Parents, Comedian, Comedy, Dad, Father, Father of the Bride, Father Who Knows Best, Father's Day, Fathers, Film, George Banks, Inglewood, Originator of the Air Quotes, Overprotective Father, Saturday Night Live, Stand -Up, Stephen Glenn "Steve" Martin, Steve Martin, Texas, The Gong Show, The Jerk, The Smothers Brothers Comdey Hour, The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour, The Tonight Show Starring Johnn, Waco, Wild and Crazy Guy
• June 18, 2010 A Father That Knows Best: Bill Cosby (4 of 7) posted in Father's Day, Seasonal Sustenance tagged 70's Cartoon, Author, Bill Cosby, Black America, Cliff Huxtable, Comedian, Cosby, Dad, Entertainment, Fat Albert, Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, Father, Father Who Knows Best, Father's Day, Grammy Winning Comedy Album, Heathcliff, Heathcliff Huxtable, Holiday, Huxtable, Philadelphia, Surrogate Father, T.V. Show, Television, The Cosby Show, William Henry "Bill" Cosby Jr.
• June 18, 2010 A Father That Knows Best: Delroy Lindo (3 of 7) posted in Father's Day, Seasonal Sustenance tagged 1992, 1994, 5 Children, Brooklyn, Crooklyn, Dad, Do the Right Thing, Dreams, Eltham, England, English, Father, Father Who Knows Best, Father's Day, Fathers, Film, Flaws, Jamaican, London, Malcolm X, Movie, Musician, Romeo Must Die, Spike Lee, Spike Lee Joint, Struggling Jazz Musician, The Cider House Rules, Woody Carmichael, X, Zelda Harris
• June 17, 2010 A Father That Knows Best: Bob Saget (2 of 7) posted in Father's Day, Seasonal Sustenance tagged 1987, 1998, America's Funniest Home Videos, Bob Saget, Comeday Central, Comedian, Dad, Danny Tanner, Father, Father Who Knows Best, Fathers Day, Film, Film School, Full House, Half Baked, Marijuamedy, Philadelphia, Saget, Sitcom, Softcore, Stand -Up, T.V. Dad, T.V. Show, Television, Temple University, The Comedy Roast of Bob Saget, Uncle Jesse, Uncle Jessy
• June 17, 2010 Plug Tuning: Gank. posted in Plug Tuning, Tender Vittles tagged A Dancer's Gank, Amy, Evangelista Gank, Gank, Gank Central, Gank Lifestyle, Peanut Butter Gank, Photos, Plug, Plug Tuning, Posing, Tumblr
• June 16, 2010 A Father That Knows Best: James Avery (1 of 7) posted in Father's Day, Seasonal Sustenance tagged 1968, 1969, 1990, 1996, 50 Greatest TV Dads of All Time, Atlantic City, Dad, Duckman, Emmy Award, Enduring, Father Who Knows Best, Fathers Day, Fletch, Hill Street Blues, Ill Tempered, James Avery, James L. Avery, L.A. Law, New Jersey, PBS, Pepper Ann, Phillip Banks, San Diego, Shredder, Silverbolt, Sparks, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Blues Brothers, The Dukes of Hazzard, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, The Jeffersons, The Prince of Egypt, The Proud Family, The Wild Thornberrys, Transformers 3, Uncle Phil, UPN, Will Smith
• June 16, 2010 Table for One Please: 5 Reasons Why You Do Not Have a Beau (2 of 5) posted in Self Help, Tender Vittles tagged 5 Reasons Why You Do Not Have a Beau, Academia, Arrested Development, Associates Degree, Belching, Booker T. Washington, College, College Graduation, College Schmollege?, Correct Grammar, Correct Spelling, Cuban Missile Crisis, Degenerate Diction Gets You No D*ck, Dismay, Dissatisfaction, Dumb, Educated Opinion, Educational Snob, Female Genitalia, Ghetto, Historian, Hood, Intricate Gibberish, Judd Apatow, Ken Jennings, Learn, Learning, Linguistic Discipline, Little Miss IDK, Lord of the Flies, Love, Love Life, Mind Body Problem, Mr. Wendel, MSNBC, Not too Bright, Olde English, Politicians, Pretentious Minimal Effort, Pythagorean Theorem, Reason #2, Respect, Sex, Shakespeare, Shooting Dice, Shoulder Shrugging, Single, Single Woman, Speech, Spelling Nazi, Stephen Hawking, Stupid, The Wrong Emphasis on the Wrong Syllable, Thug, Unclassy, Verbal Couthness, Woman, Women, Wrong Tools, You Suck
• June 16, 2010 Call & Response. posted in Uncategorized tagged 2Pac, Black Poverty, Conscious Youth, Dan Quayle, Frustrated, Hip-Hop, Hit 'em Up, Holla If Ya Hear Me, Long Island, New York City, Pac, Police Brutality, Police Injustice, Post-Digital Underground, Pre-Death Row, Public Enemy, Rap, Rapper, Rebel Without a Pause, Sociopolitical, The Notorious B.I.G., Tupac, Tupac Shakur, Tupac Shakur's Birthday, Westside gangbanger
• June 16, 2010 Panther Cub. posted in Tender Vittles tagged $1.6 Million, 1971, 1982, 1996, 2Pac, Afeni Shakur, Assata Shakur, Baltimore, Billy Garland, Birthday, Black Nationalist, Black Panther, Black Panther Party, Brinks Truck Robbery, Callifornia, Civil Injustice, Cub, East Harlem, Elmer "Geronimo" Pratt, FBI, FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, Fugitive, Happy Birthday, Hunted, Joanne Chesimard, June 16th 1971, Lesane Parish Crooks, Marin City, Maryland, Mutulu Shakur, Panther, Panther Cub, Peruvian Revolutionary, Police Brutality, Rapper, Revolution, Revolutionaries, Robbery, September 13th 1996, Social Inequality, Túpac Amaru II, Tupac, Tupac Shakur, Tupac Shakur's Birthday, Urban Squalor, West Coast Rap
• June 15, 2010 Flight of the Fireflies. posted in Ocular Heroin, Photography, Seasonal Sustenance tagged Bug & Stars, Bugs, Fireflies, Firefly, Insects, Insects of Summer, Lightning Bug, Stars, Summer, Summer Night, Summertime
• June 15, 2010 Requiem for a King. posted in Music tagged April 4th 1968, April 7th 1968, Assassination, Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., Bass Player, Black Empowerment, Black Liberation, Civil Freedom, Civil Rights, Dead, Disdain, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Killed, Martin L. King Jr., Martin Luther King Jr., Murdered Civil Rights Leader, Music, Nina Simone, Sing, Singer, Sociopolitical, Song, Statement, Westbury Music Festival, Why? The King of Love is Dead
• June 15, 2010 Table for One Please: 5 Reasons Why You Do Not Have a Beau. (1 of 5) posted in Self Help, Tender Vittles tagged 5 Reasons Why You Do Not Have a Beau, Adult Swim, Belching, Bloody Marys, Casually Broke, Chinese Food, Classless, Clueless, Faux-Feminist, Female Counterpart, Financial Stability, Free Spirited, Genuine Adoration, Guy's Girl, Inadequate, Little Debbie Cakes, Lonely, Lonely Woman, Lonely Women, Male Ego, Melodramatic, Mimosas, Modern Woman, No Tickee No Laundry, Opinion, Opportunity, Pads, Passing Gas, Personage Deficiency, Polygamy, Poor Etiquette, Post Modern Wildflowers, Post Women's Lib, Post-Feminist Movement, Prim and Proper, Prude, Reformed Bitches, Relationship, Relationships, Rude, Sanitary Napkins, Scientific Observation, Switzerland, Undercover Bitches, Village Dwelling Bohemian, Vindictive Mimicking, Woman, Women, You Suck
• June 14, 2010 Betsy Ross Day… Kind of. posted in Flag Day, Seasonal Sustenance tagged 19th Century, 50's, 70's, American Tradition, British Blue Ensign, Bronk's County, Commerce, Committee, Courage, Dedication, Dutch, Equality, Fame, Flag Day, Flag of the United Netherlands, George Morris, Hartford Connecticut, Honor, Independence Committee, June 14th 1861, King Phillip II of Spain, Liberty, Ne Cede Malis, New York City, New York City Knickerbockers, New York City Mets, Patriot, Patriotism, Peace, Pledge of Allegiance, President Woodrow Wilson, Prince of Orange, Purity, Red Black & White, Star Spangled Banner, State Holiday, The Bronx, The Prince's Flag, Tobago, Trini, Trinidad, Trinidad & Tobago, Trinidadian, United States, Yield Not to Evil
• June 13, 2010 Who the F#%k Invited Pun? posted in Music, National Puerto Rican Day, Seasonal Sustenance tagged 100%, 2000, Big Punisher, Canibus, Corny, DMX, Harebrained Scheme, Heart Attack, Hypnotized, John Forte, Mini Barcadi Rums, Mos Def, National Puerto Rican Day, Nuyorican, Poland Spring Water, Puerto Rican, Puerto Rican Day Parade, Puerto Rican Rapper, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rock, Rap, Rapper, Terror Squad Representative, The Notorious B.I.G., Tony Sunshine
• June 12, 2010 Musikal Haikus: Asher Roth posted in Music, Musikal Haikus tagged Ashe, Asher Roth, Hip-Hop, Pennsylvania Rappers, Rap, Rapper, Rik Smits, Seared Foie Gras with Quince and Cranberry, Short, Sweet, White Rapper
• June 12, 2010 Levantar a la Gente. posted in National Puerto Rican Day, Seasonal Sustenance tagged 1975, Héctor Lavoe, La Voz, Mi Gente, Music, Off-Key, Ponce, Puerto Rican, Puerto Rico, Rehearsal, Salsa, Salsa Singer, Singer, South Bronx, The Bronx, Tus Ojos, Willie Colón