Sunday, July 11, 2010
Lebrongate
SIGH but looks like team owner Dan Gilbert had other ideas. I don't even have the energy to waste to copy and paste his letter to fans in what I have now called Dan Gilbert does Bernadine in Waiting to Exhale. That man verbally burned Lebrons car full of all his Cavs uniforms with gas can an match. SMDH. You really would have thought Lebron was his boo and he was breaking up with him!
The only beef I have with Lebron is the manner he made his announcement. Sir! A One hour special???? Really? You couldn't have just tweeted like every other celeb/athlete. It was overboard. We were all witnesses alright. To a steaming hot mess bowl of media whoring.
However, I have a theory. He may have been trying to really make a point to the Cavs. Like hmmm maybe the organization may have known something going on with a close unnamed family member of his and a person who may have been a teammate of his* and not told him and when he found out he may have really wanted to bounce and throw some baby powder as he left (The Decision Special) in peoples faces as he did it.
*I apologize for the vagueness but please see this link to explain why Toye is super vague with the above discussion. A sister is paying loans and certainly can not be sued! http://www.bvonsports.com/2010/05/18/lebron-james-mother-delonte-west/
To quote one of my friends:
"Blame [Insert possible teammate] ... for [insert action verb +ing] Lebron's [Insert unknown family member] ... you gotta leave after that... you know the hood knew what was going on... and no one told him " Sorry for this round of ad libs but do a quick google search if you are still confused once again a sister is pushing 30 and eating ramen. I can't be sued!
Friday, June 18, 2010
NBA FINAL CHAMPS
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Federation Internationale de Football Association World Cup
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Joran Van Der Sloot definitely is a victim of the syndrome.
Was it not enough that this man did the unbelievable. a white man killed and made a white woman disappear and got off not once but twice and was able to go home and live his life. I guess its not that unbelievable. It would have been unbeleivable if he was African descent and named Leroy.
Well here he goes again and these Peruvians are not playing games. A young woman was found beaten in his hotel room and when the police finally caught him in a cab WITH blood clothes they were not letting him go, The family of this young woman seems convinced he did it as they should. And he is not going to get off it seems if the family has anything to do with it. The girls daddy was on tv and looked real serious when he said the family "will have justice" By serious I mean mafioso. Apparently their family is very wealthy and powerful in Peru. So the Peruvian police have been "interrogating" him (ie beating him down).
I should probably share that my family members are also foreigners. So we can appreciate sometimes in cases like this when things like due process and prisoners rights do not exist. I personally hope they let the family in their late one night. All four of this girls brothers to just go at it with him. Yea some may say Toye thats insensitive, that ain't right,....whatever.
This young man has been killing people all willy nilly! He needs to be stopped and I am sad this young woman had to suffer at his hands (yea I didn't say alleged anywhere in this post. Like OJ "(If) I Did It" Simpson, this kid is guilty!
Friday, June 4, 2010
Random Rant From Toye
I have been Ghost yes I admit it I started a new job and have been easing in. I still love you blog.
So its Friday Night and I am boo'd up with some of my best friends: TVOne, my computer, and a cherry coke zero pondering some deep thoughts that I thought I would share:
1. Why Do Networks Who Rerun A Different World Even Bother Playing Season 1
Denise wasted her parents money and our time even trying to make a go at it that first semester at Hilman. Heifer should have just gone ahead and named herself Lilakoi Moon and ran off to South Africa or had Lenny Kravitz's child (who walks around looking as bohemian chic aka homeless as her mama). That season sucked! Thank goodness that Debbie Allen was able to save the show and make it a permanent part of my weeknights from 10-11p.
2. I Think I need To Start A Campaign for More Days Off
Now as a federal empployee I am glad that I will be getting more days off like Veteran's Day. (I thank all Veteran's but for your efforts I wowuld not now get two days off in November!) However, since this country refuses to acknowledge the need for a siesta (A TWO Hour period in many countries overseas where everything just shuts down so people can go home and have a meal or otherwise what they do at a certain HBCU that shall remain unnamed whenever I needed my transcripts) I have a plan for more off days. See I figure Jesus was a Jew, so by default us Christians should also get Rosh Hoshannah, Yom Kippor and Passover off too!! Thats three whole days!! Isn't their some kind of implicit holiday acceptance? Imagine if I ceould take Hannakah week off! A whole week! Then Christmas and then tack on Kwanzaa (I mean they say Jesus's hair was like lambs wool) Thats 3 weeks for holiday. Think about it. Begin writing letters to Obama.
3. BP is somehow shocked that Their Capping the Hole did not Work.
One year- I wasn't older than 7- I was at a friend of my parents house. It was the eighties so while the parents chatted downstairs, probably a little older than I am now, we kids unsupervised roamed around upstairs. Again it being the eighties, they had a waterbed. Well between our game of tag and kickball....you guessed it we caused a tear in the bed. (Who sleeps on a waterbed for real!) So us being oh so smart thought we could duct tape the hole and stop the leak. Well flash forward 1 hour to six children aged 6-11 fresh off a spankings (this was the eighties were this the present I would have just said receiving disciplanary action) from their respective parents staring at the two new leaks that broke through the bed as the preasure from the duct tape was too much. So when I heard BP was creating a cap for the freaking one month old leak in the ocean I shook my damn head and knew that was not going to work. Someone please Whoop oops Disciplane BP. That hole is capped and still leaking out the sides. DUH.
Lol hopefully you are not reading this until Saturday Morning after enjoying your Friday night out while I start this second episode of A Different World.
Monday, May 17, 2010
Happy Monday and Happy BDAY Youtube
Its been a little over a week since my last post so forgive me. I have been super busy and a lot of great things have been going on. However..... in the midst of my busy few weeks. I must say... my room.....well its suffered. I am currently living in a FEMA disaster area. It was like one of those situations that you can only let good friends in because you know that they won't completely write you off as trifling or report you to A and E Hoarders.
So today is the day that I try to dig out. I have a week vacay of sorts and I will be heading to the complete anti -tropical location..... a random city, in a greaf midwest state, on a not so random mama's newly remodeled patio to spend my vacay. No beach but def will have a drink with an umbrella and lots of rum in it!
Anyhow today I write in celebration of one of my fav hobbies: Youtube. Youtube is five and its def changed my life. I love ignorance and ridiculousness. Youtube brings these things to me quickly. Whatever you want to find yoga videos, cooking shows, dancing babies..... one click away! In honor of Youtubes BDay I thought I would share one of my favs this Monday for you to start your work week. Enjoy!!
Saturday, May 1, 2010
120 Reasons Not to Cheat.......Rather a $500 million Reason
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Welcome to Atlanta
Oh Atlanta! How I miss thee. I am sure T.I. did as well. Unless you were living under a rock, I am sure you are familiar with the fact T.I. went away for a year or so for stock piling like he was a militia leader. (You can read my original comments on that here)
So TIP throws himself a welcome back party. When did it become appropriate to celebrate getting out of jail?? I don't think Hallmark has a card for that [Congrats on your release. Hope you didn't drop the soap!] I mean really I feel like its a glorification of breaking the law. You are getting praise for something you weren't supposed to have done.
So him and Tiny seem to be back on track. He has given her a ring and they are engaged, They are in this pic stepping out to this party. They seeem happy. Her with her new hair color of the week, tasting the rainbow as always and him sans weapons. Fabuolous. I really try to like them as a couple, but I am just not feeling it! First off the fact that subtitles are necessary to understand both of them [On T.I.'s Road to Redemption] maybe is causing a disconnect for me. Secondly, I am consistantly confused when people have been together for years and have children together and are still dating or newly engaged. Ummmmm what are you doing? Getting to know each other better?? I mean really! Tie the knot already!
But I guess their dimmuntive sizes and extreme hoodness make them a good match. Its not for me to understand I suppose. However, I need her to keep her man out of trouble from now on. Cause T.I. is beyond his three strikes for sure and with him being 5 foot tall, any long jail stints might make her boo someone elses boo!
Friday, April 23, 2010
R&B Today: Keith Sweat Come Teach Some Whinning
So anyone who knows me. Knows I LOVE a good R and B song. I am talking about some male singer begging and pleading for his woman or from the depths of his soul explaining why he loves his woman. Carl Thomas's Emotional is currently in my car CD player and I have been blasting Cold Cold World.
It's a cold cold cold world
Living here without you in my life
Although I try to get along, but I can't
Cuz I need you to be here, why oh why
WOOOHH I mean can't you feel it!? He's singing from his heart! I can just imagine him in that studio begging and pleading for his woman back, Scurl juices running down his forehead and all!
So of course the current state of music saddens me. When it comes to R &B I have a general rule with few exceptions made, that if it was made after 2000, I generally don't listen to R&B. [Please no judgement but that allows for my enjoyment of TP2.com by Robert Kelly] I mean singers these days are usually singing a song featuring some rapper, and not singing about how they love their woman and want her back, but usually about something ignorant. Even Usher has succumbed to this madness. Have you heard that song Little Freak by him. Put your hand in my pants??? Usher you are a 30 year old man, I need you to stop the madness! As one of my friends remarked when she heard it "Usher's Little Freak is beyond filfth, I turn it off whenever it comes on, my Jesus comes out". I can only agree.
Anyhow suprise suprise that my new favorite CD is Trey Songz's Ready. I for the most part enjoy every song on the CD. However, its a prime example of whats wrong with R and B today. First off Trigga must every single you drop have an accompaning sexually explicit video???!!! Sir if my 13 year old sister is in the room I certainly could not watch any of your videos! Secondly, about 50 percent of the CD is about him having relations. Its overkill. He is in fact pulling what I call a "male Rhianna/Ciara". I mean he can actualy sing so he is not using sex to cover up his lack of talent. But he is using sex (and his washboard abs) as a distraction. He is distracting us from the fact that he is just like the other perpitrating R&B singers out there and is not really singing about love, but lust. And he has somehow successfully distracted me!
You know in the midst of this hooplla on black relationships. I think Nightline, Steve Harvey\, and Jill I mean Hill Harper (cough) need only look at R & B music. Maybe if more begging for my heart was going on in music and not for the nookie, I believe men would follow suit. Yep see I have solved the whole issue. Go ahead crown me a relationship expert like Steve Harvey. Minus the two divorces I am dropping knowledge just as well. :) Now if someone would just pay me to write a book with my theory, life would be grand, and Sallie Mae could stop caling me!
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Keepin it Real Goes Wrong..... Techie Edition
Recently, I got an iPhone. I know you are thinking so what? But honestly I don't know how I functioned without it prior. I do everything with it. It's my bestfriend. We are tight. It was love at first sight. I call it iBoo. So some haters out there following the announcement of the iPad, iBoo's big brother, felt that there was no possible need for the device since you could get a computer or an iPhone. I dispute these attacks on my boo's brother because trust if I get $400 in discretionary income, like Swizz Beatz said:"I'll be on to the next one"
However, in this ever changing world leave it to ignorant people to make a bad name for the iFamily:
An ireporter (basically me everyday when I take pics of kids acting a fool on DC metro on my iPhone) was at my old stomping grounds, Lenox Mall in Atlanta GA and saw this fool who was more than willing to pose with his iPad on a chain. Is that what we are doing now?? We are wearing technology! And you know he was playing Gucci Mane or some other foolish rubbish. He thinks he is fly. iReporter thinksthat he is a fool. I find myself per usual like I want to on the metro, wanting to put on my invisible cape and pretend not to be associated with this young man by race.
I know I shouldn't say that. Cause honestly I love being Black.......until we do this foolishness! I was so angered by this that I immediately came to write here to vent!!! Like honestly, why do we feel that ignorance is cool? You look a fool and no one takes you seriously. And now certain types of people will make value judgments about me based on you wearing a iPad around your neck! Prayerfully its not the next person who interviews my under 30 self for a job. I want us to do better.
Also is this man serious! Sir how much street cred do you have rockin an iPad around your neck. Hope you are not walking to the MARTA Station with that on cause trust "pumkin and dem" will jack you.
Anyhow someone just hit me on gchat on my iBoo gotta run! But this is just the beginning. I am back and committed to getting Toye back to Talking.