Ugh I'm being inarticulate today! I don't think time had anything to do with it either-they just decided 'oh, we have this footage, let's run it!', which was a horrendous call. You're absolutely right, it's not as though they didn't have choices.

I suppose so, Scrawler. I've read your other posts and I agree with your reaction to what happened. What I meant is simply that they had to go with something, and if they'd had an actual journalist instead of this ex-athlete things might have gone differently. The idiots at NBC had to run something about Miller, and…

I'm mostly just glad that I only have to be reminded that Bode Miller exists every time the Olympics rolls around since I don't really follow skiing. Didn't he boast about partying the entire 2006 Olympics or something?

It's amazing that no one mentions that whole 'I knocked up a girlfriend, didn't want custody, married someone else who miscarried a baby, and now I'm trying to get custody of the baby I didn't want from the ex-girlfriend' thing.

I suppose what I meant was that it had more to do with desiring Ava than being envious of her hair. The thing with Rachel and 'good hair' was definitely more about colorism, at least to me.

Triumphant Boyd is one of my favorite things on this show.

I'd have to re-watch, but I saw this a bit differently. It was less about being envious of the hair than a general kind of 'why do you like white girls?' kind of thing. Growing up in a neighborhood that was 95% black we always made fun of 'white girl hair', or at least we didn't necessarily envy it so much as it was…

Oh god, I'd forgotten about Helen…Poor Helen.

I nominate this:

Yeah, I love this way more than I probably should.

I hope so!

Quite possibly. All I know is, after he appeared on camera I was only vaguely aware of my husband, who was sitting right next to me, trying to say something.

Hi.

I would argue that Anthony Mackie is pretty good replacement eye-candy.

So I am mostly a neophyte when it comes to musical theater (I've seen plenty of stuff but wouldn't consider myself an expert in any sense at all), but I caught the Neil Patrick Harris version of 'Company' on pbs not too long ago and loved it. So of course I went to YouTube and watched some of the original songs (I'd…

The bad news, as it has been for a long time now, is that movies with predominantly Black casts rarely do well internationally, and since this is where distributors make a lot of their money, they're not usually willing to take the risk.

Yeah, I thought about typing out a response to the original comment, but decided not to feed the troll.

My husband watches a lot of anime, and I have to say I just can't get into 90% of what he watches. The three series I've liked are Cowboy Bebop, Fullmetal Alchemist, and FLCL. I'll try to find 'City Hunter'-thanks for the suggestion!

Not when these films make so much money. It was the same with blaxpoitation back in the 70s. The first few films were remarkable and interesting, but most importantly successful, and then independent industry types went- 'hey, we don't even have to spend a lot of money making these, because black folks mostly want to…

it was worse for me, I kept thinking of him as 'That guy from the 7up commercials'!