Did you just say Rest in Power to a Goddamned dog? Rest in Power means something. It’s a phrase Black folks made up to honor our dead. 

It’s hard to make something happen if it’s already happened, ya know?

I hate having to say this but...

Every single hotel I’ve been to with a pool required a key card to get into it. 

Live in DC in a mostly gentrified neighborhood. We have the occasional “suspicious person” notifications, and stolen packages (sometimes they post video). But most crime posts are about gunshots. White people seem to think that any loud noise is a gunshot. I remember somebody set off a roman candle (whistle-pop) and a…

I think I love you

Oh man, I feel for you.

Listen. I know that this site hates the Kardashians and I know that there are a lot of legitimate reasons for people to do so. And no, getting a ride to an interview is not the same thing as getting a job. But as someone who has been homeless AND jobless AND without transportation, sometimes the biggest barriers are…

There is something very attractive about a woman who “talks her shit.” I see no reason to be shy about success, as long as you aren’t putting someone else down to do it.

When I moderate panels, my standard spiel before opening for Q&A is “Questions should be two sentences or less and end with a question mark.” It usually works. More or less. 

While we’re at it, can we add “Asking celebrities to prom” to the list of banned things? No, this adult person with a career and a life does not want to drop everything, drive/fly to your bumfuck town, and pose for awkward pictures with you, a stranger. 

“This is really more of a comment than a question...”

Her most recent contract is for $20 million a year. The first 10 years were way, way less. Acting is a feast or famine industry for most actors. 

I actually think Amy Adams is this generation’s Meryl Streep.

am I alone in thinking wedges are very comfy and practical?

interesting. Not Dr. Dre with the Beats acquisition? In any case, kudos, hopefully his business interests will continue and can be passed along to his children someday. #BlackLegacyWealth

If this is not the corner of Faux Woke and Male Privilege, I don’t know what is.

IDGAF about credit, honestly. Seventeen people - most likely all PoCs - removed from the prison industrial complex is a win; keep’em coming. We’ve seen the power of documentaries combined with social media to shed light on horrible crimes and injustice.