Hooray for Monday! Randomness

Good morning everybody.  I don’t know how many of you out there are Kanye West fans.  I for one, got over his novelty after the second album.  Now he seems to be making more headlines artistically and fashionably than before.  Hey, I don’t knock dude’s hustle, cause once you get those white folks lovin you like that, your money can get really, really long.  And there’s no doubt about it, white folk love Kanye’s ridiculousness.  In GQ magazine they named him a fashion icon. But I wanna say “HUH?? FASHION ICON?” Come on…I mean in the beginning he dressed fresh, but somewhere along the road, he got so rich and so far beyond fashion that he started to dress like this:

Fashion Icon? You decide

I guess dressing crazy and looking like a bum is really an indicator of how fashionable you are and/or how rich you are.  We see pictures of actors and actresses in Hollywood looking like homeless people all the time.  I guess what tells the world is that “Oh yeah, don’t get it f*cked up, I can dress my ass off with designer boutique sh!t, but if I dress like that all the time, you wouldn’t appreciate it as much, so I’m gonna starve your asses with my homeless steelo and when you least expected, POW! I’m gonna hit you with the fashion funk.”

You know, I used to be trapped in a vicious cycle of hating my job.  No matter how agreeable the people or my boss were, I found a way to find whatever unhappiness I felt or dissatisfaction I had, and magnify it to the point of hating to get out of the bed to come to work.  Now I am happy to say that I truly am thankful to have a job, and it’s just not lip service that I mumble to God so he wouldn’t think that I’m ungrateful.  Mind you, I know it resembles complacency, but trust me, it’s not.  I’m just getting better at taking a lemon and making some lemonade Chick-Fil-A quality.

Bill Maher is my favorite white dude.  I dvr his hbo show and he definitely says some real sh!t.  What he said on last week’s episode floored me.  He had Cory Booker, a white lady and an australian dude on the show.  He was talking to the australian dude and he was like “they love you in australia!” and Bill said something to the effect of “Yeah, but when I put on the Steve Erwin costume with the stingray stinger in my chest, they wanted to kill me!”  The australian dude tried to brush it off and talk over it, but thenBill said

“HEY! I DON’T APOLOGIZE FOR THAT! IF YOU F*CK WITH AN ANIMAL AND DIE, THAT’S WHY YOU’RE DEAD! CAUSE YOU F*CKED WITH AN ANIMAL!”

I thought to myself, “Damn, Bill might be black!”  I blogged about that before.  It’s pretty safe to say that generally, black people DO NOT F*CK WITH WILD ANIMALS.  If we do, we’re trying to kill it to eat, or maybe the animal is threatening our safety or our loved ones’ safety.   So Bill might have some black in him.  I mean, he did have a go with Superhead, who by the way is a very beautiful woman, even though I would just as soon be with Miss Sophia from the Color Purple.

Speaking of Oprah, sitting next to Tyler “p*ssy lips” Perry, she went in on Rihanna taking Chris Brown back.  In the soundbyte that the Today show played she told Rihanna “Love doesn’t hurt you.  If a man hit you once, he will hit you again.”  Can’t say that I can controvert her wisdom and that’s what the studies show.  What I have a problem with is how public this whole thing has become and how the public is weighing in on her decision to take the guy back.  Granted, if Chris is the villain that everyone wants to make him, it wouldn’t make sense for her to go back with him.  But seriously, she is young, and it is her life to screw up or not.  They even say her endorsement deals may dwindle because of her decision to take him back.  Even though it may not be fair, I can see the purpose if that happens.  Even though Rihanna’s talent is questionable at best, she has been elevated to pop icon status, and with that comes younger people looking up to you (little girls and gay boys).  Her taking him back possibly sends the message that domestic abuse is acceptable to a certain degree.  Not good for our  future mothers and wives.

Speaking of being young and screwing up your life, my older sister told me that my younger sister, who turns 20 next month, got a tattoo of her name between her breasts.  I said “what the f*ck? did you tell her that she’s going to regret getting that?”  My sister was like “Corduroy, I told her that before she got it, but hey, she’s grown.”  I just sighed because it’s one of those situations where you KNOW better and you wish your loved one will just listen and TRUST your wisdom, but instead they don’t, and it’s like watching a train wreck in super slow motion.

Enjoy your Monday gang!