I actually hadn't paid attention to her until I was in college (somewhere between album 2 and album 3) and heard a coworker of mine play When the Pawn... I wanted to know whose beautiful voice that was, he'd told me "Fiona Apple", and it was love ever since.

I never get tired of that line.

1a. Comments like those are a major reason why I stopped participating in Black hair care discussion forums. If it wasn't the Long and Real Hair Stans gushing over their hair growing 3/4" in a three-day timeline, it was the Natural Hair Stans obsessing over the various grades of naps. These days, I spare myself from…

You're not the only one on the Rock of Ages train. I'm heading out to see it this weekend because I'm long overdue for some cheesy fun at the movies.

You know it.................................................

Her brows are truly a wonder, aren't they?

Fiona's new song is the aloe that soothes the flaming hot mess that is today's crappy music is to my ears.

*sigh*

All that needs to be known about the person that Zac Efron broke up with is that she is Phil Collins' daughter. She wins at life because she is the child of the man that was a huge part of my early childhood soundtrack - and gifted the world with this wonderful gem of a song.

That First Lady Obama Tweet warmed my heart...

#trollpatrol

Likewise. I won't be surprised if that girl eventually takes up with a guy (if she hasn't already) that shares her father's definition of 'protection', though I do hope that she'll prove me wrong and get the fuck away from that environment as soon as she is old enough and has gathered enough resources to do so.

Maybe because it sounds like 'velcro'?

The fact that he (and some other Negroes) would rather "protect" Black girls instead of empowering them underlines your point.

I couldn't have said it better myself, although I'll add that I am truly sorry that you had to live through that abuse and still are dealing with the effects of that.

Same here, as I'm one of those people who gets upset with people when they give their children stupid names.

I honestly thought that he 'rechristened' himself as Creflo-fucking-Dollar as a way to promote his 'prosperity' preaching. Damn shame that his parents name him that (although Cashflow has an appropriate ring to it).

On another note, this:

OK, this made me laugh out loud.

Considering that these are the same people who would be likely to look the other way when it comes to high ranking church officials committing other forms of child abuse, I'm not at all surprised that they'd celebrate and defend that charlatan's right to harm his child.