50 Cent turns 34 today
Just like the headline says, this page/board is where you can discuss the stuff that we didn’t cover in today’s issue. (It’s sort of like feedback with a twist) Remember, NO name calling, racial taunting, graphic sex talk and vulgarity in general, PLEASE.
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EUR MOTIVATIONAL NOTE
Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. – Pamela Vaull Starr
CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS
July 6: Actress-singer Della Reese is 79. Rapper Inspectah Deck of Wu-Tang Clan is 40. Rapper 50 Cent is 34. Actresses Tia and Tamera Mowry (“Sister, Sister”) are 32. Actor Jeremy Suarez (“Bernie Mac”) is 20.
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BLACK HISTORY
July 6, 1853: William Wells Brown published “Clotel,” the first novel by a black American. (Source: www.BlackFacts.com)
It’s morning. A new week. I am thankful for the holiday and am hopeful that this week will breeze by. Have a great day gummy bears.
Today’s CHOCOLATE JAM is “All My Life” by K-Ci & JoJo Hailey
That’s my wedding song.
MOBILE, Ala. — Former Oakland Raiders quarterback JaMarcus Russell has been charged with possession of a controlled substance — codeine syrup — after being arrested at his home in Alabama on Monday, authorities said.
The 24-year-old former LSU star and the No. 1 draft choice in 2007 was arrested as part of an undercover narcotics investigation, said Mobile County Sheriff’s spokeswoman Lori Myles. She would not say what led to his arrest. She said he did not have a prescription for the codeine.
Russell, who graduated from high school in Mobile, was booked into the city jail and released soon afterward on $2,500 bond, online records show.
The Raiders released Russell, considered one of the NFL’s biggest draft busts, in May after he won only seven of his 25 starts and was benched. He completed just 52.1 percent of his passes in his career with 18 touchdowns, 23 interceptions, 15 lost fumbles and a passer rating of 65.2.
Oakland paid Russell about $36.4 million through the 2009 season. Since the start of the common draft in 1967, only one other No. 1 pick was released this quickly in his NFL career. Indianapolis cut 1992 top pick Steve Emtman after three seasons, but that was more because of injuries than production.
Russell and his agent did not immediately return calls for comment.
ATHENS, Ga. — Damon Evans offered another apology on the day his resignation as Georgia’s athletic director was announced by the school’s president.
The announcement by Michael Adams came after a conference call with the executive committee of the athletic association’s board of directors Monday. Adams said Evans resigned Sunday, less than a week after Evans was arrested on a DUI charge.
Evans released a statement Monday in which he offered “my sincerest apology” to Adams, Georgia officials, coaches, fans and student-athletes.
Georgia athletic director Damon Evans apologized for his DUI arrest in a news conference Thursday.
Evans was 34 when he was chosen athletic director in 2004.
“It had been my hope since taking the job in 2004 that I would have a long career at UGA,” Evans said. “But because of a serious mistake in judgment, that won’t be the case and I understand that I have a long road to rebuilding my reputation and career.”
Adams read a statement and said he will have no other comment until Tuesday.
Evans was arrested late Wednesday in Atlanta. He was charged with DUI and failure to maintain a lane. Also arrested with him was Courtney Fuhrmann, who was charged with disorderly conduct.
Evans said Thursday Fuhrmann is “just a friend.” According to the incident report, the arresting officer said Fuhrmann told him she had been seeing Evans for “only a week or so.”
Evans and his wife, Kerri, have two children. He apologized to his wife Thursday as she attended his news conference.
Evans became the Southeastern Conference’s first black athletic director in 2004.
There was no immediate word on a replacement.
Adams said Evans, whose raise to a $550,000 annual salary took effect at about the same time as his arrest, will be paid three months salary as severance. Evans also will receive $100,000 he has earned as a longevity bonus.
“We acknowledge the many positive accomplishments of his tenure, including an increased focus on the academic success of student-athletes, the overall financial strength of the athletic department and the hiring of many very good people as head coaches and senior leaders in the athletic department,” Adams said, reading from a statement.
Despite those accomplishments, Evans’ arrest caused damage to his reputation that led to the resignation.
“As I said on Thursday morning, when I first learned of the situation, this is not an example of the kind of leadership that I expect our senior administrators to set,” Adams said. “I have high regard for Damon personally; I care deeply about him and his family.”
Adams chose Evans as AD after the president refused to extend Vince Dooley’s contract.
Possible candidates to replace Evans from the Georgia staff include associate ADs Frank Crumley, Arthur Johnson and Claude Felton and senior associate AD Carla Williams.
At his news conference Thursday, Evans said he “failed miserably” as a leader and representative of Georgia.
At that time, Evans said he hoped to save his job. Details from the Georgia State Patrol’s incident report from the arrest added even more embarrassment.
According to the report, Evans attempted to influence the arresting officer, identified in the report as M. Cabe, by telling the officer he was Georgia’s athletic director.
According to the report, Evans said: “I am not trying to bribe you, but is there anything you can do without arresting me?”
Cabe said that Evans asked to be taken to a motel instead of jail or to be let off with a warning.
The officer noted that Evans was found with a “red pair of lady’s panties between his legs.”
Evans was the public face of the school’s athletic department in many venues, including at home football games at Sanford Stadium. Before each game, his taped video message was played as he urged fans not to drink and drive.
“If you drink and drive, you lose,” Evans said in the video message.
I enjoyed watching Trisha Goddard on tv yesterday and hope that soon she gets her own show in the US.
Good morning family. What it do?
Who is Trisha Goddard?
Random: Fiddy CGI…..as long as I didn’t have to see his face.
Trisha Goddard is a British talk show host who is sitting in this week for my daytime guilty pleasure – “Murry” (as in ‘Murry, I am 1,000 percent sure he the father’).
It’s going to be 102 here today. I am off to the shore. Have a great day and play nice.
Morning fam! Lil’ Jordan from the Bernie Mac show is 20? Wow!
G’morning everyone… I’ve been off 4 days and all 4 days, I woke up right at 6am. Today I was SUPPOSED to wake up at 6am and I laid there hitting snooze until 6:45. He was supposed to be up at 6:30 and he didn’t get up until 7… It’s a wonder either of us made it to work.
I hope no one blew off any fingers over the weekend!!
YLY – 50 couldn’t get it from me if he were the last baboon in the jungle and Mother Earth made us a bed from banana leaves.
What up fam? Man, I did absolutely NOTHING on yesterday and feel damn good about that there.
I mean NOTHING.
Now I do have a house full of work waiting on me tonight and the rest of the week, but I thoroughly enjoyed yesterday’s do nothing day after working on the campaign of a local Judge/friend of mine on the Fourth… and traveling 3 hours each way to pick up and bring back my babies from their grandparents’ house on Sat.
What’s hatnin’?
Wow at Damon Evans. Man, how you gonna screw up a $550 thousand per year gig with a DUI AND one where you have your sidepiece in the car?
Talk about getting your hands caught in two cookie jars/more like mice traps.
I know what you mean about ‘do nothing day’. I didn’t do JACK yesterday except run to Ann Taylor for 15 minutes and then went right back home.
I keep it pretty clean at home and since all I was doing was laying on the sofa and watching tv, I didn’t have to do any major cleaning yesterday. I’ll save it for teh weekend.
I have a lot of fam & friends in town and we’ve been drinking since Thursday… I have never in my life craved water like I have been the past couple of days.
Ex, I think it’s just you and I today (and there has to be a lurker because I didn’t give you that thumbs up).
Did you have some bbq this weekend?
Went to the Taste of Chicago, had to escort the kids down there. You know how some of us get in public. Trey Songz was there on Thursday. Needless to say, a riot almost broke out. Posting the story after this comment. I moved out of the hood. Just had to. The nonsense got to be a bit much. And when the Taste of Chicago comes around, it is worse. Pookie and them come out from under the rocks, swearing at women, pants down to the knees, slurring their words, the girls are no better, wearing bras and panties outside, just nasty.
Violence near Thursday night’s Taste of Chicago resulted in three teens
being stabbed after 9 p.m. in two separate incidents, but the rowdiness —
both the good kind and the bad — began hours earlier during the festival’s
musical acts.
Trey Songz — the non-threatening, sexual R&B teen heartthrob of the moment — seemed an innocuous enough distraction for a beautiful night in Grant Park. But the mood of the crowd turned restive before the performances began just after 5:30 p.m. Five people waiting in line for the concert were treated for heat-related illnesses, and multiple ambulances had been dispatched near the concert site as early as 3 p.m. to be ready for such cases, according to Fire Media Affairs spokesman Richard Rosado.
As the jammed throng grew increasingly agitated before a line of mounted police, one Chicago policeman near the VIP area muttered, “There’s a riot going on.” Opener Teairra Mari, all swagger and faux empowerment as she began her opening set, became visibly nervous halfway through her performance, pausing after her 2005 hit “Phone Booth” to tell the heaving crowd, “Y’all need to calm down back there. This is getting crazy.”
After Mari’s performance, police made several arrests in the crowd during an hourlong DJ set. Near 7 p.m., a Taste representative took the microphone and addressed the crowd: “We are very close to shutting this concert down.”
Songz managed to calm things down, taking the stage unceremoniously and performing dutifully. At least, he changed the nature of the frenzy. The overwhelmingly female audience up front screamed in response to the young singer’s every move, from something as simple as wiping his face with a towel to removing his sunglasses.
Songz, 25, played the smarmy, R. Kelly Jr. role nicely, his silky tenor holding up well on opener “I Need a Girl” from his third and latest LP “Ready.” Much of the set leaned heavily on that album, and the new material further ups the sexual ante — from the bad-boy flirt of Songz’ debut “I Gotta Make It” to “Ready’s” hardcore, pounding-the-walls brand of freakiness. Much of the ’60s R&B influence Songz displayed on “I Gotta Make It,” and to a lesser extent on 2007’s “Trey Day,” seems to have been shelved in favor of radio friendly, generic club bangers. Shame.
After Usher-lite slow jams “Black Roses” and “Jupiter Love,” Songz stripped off his shirt for an extended jam of “Neighbors Know My Name.” It was a moment of identity crisis, as the pre-teens swooned and Songz rhapsodized about noisy sex waking the neighbors. Songz has the chops to grow into a mature, nuanced artist, but he needs to grow up quickly because the schtick right now is becoming a bit creepy.
Lovely…I didn’t fire up my grill until yesterday. I had the stuff marinated and ready for Sunday but ended up everywhere else.
Hello? Hello? Hello? HEY Everybody!! It is I. The one and only. *waving*
X-Man– As a UGA black alum, I’m very saddened by the actions of Damon Evans and his resignation/firing(b/c we all KNOW that’s what it really is). Dang DUDE!!
I can tell you right now, Georgians and Georgia alums, ESPECIALLY white alums do NOT play when it comes to their beloved UGA. SMH I hope he can rebound from this and soon. JUST DAYUM!! I wish him well. *I bet his boys/family are giving him the business*
Leo – did you get any pictures of Trey?
Letmein – so your weekend was peaceful?
Hey folks!!!!
Love, Ann Taylor had a helluva sale this weekend. I got 5 pairs of slacks for the office! They are kinda snooty in the store, though. So, I tried on everthing and went home to purchase it online. Those bishes weren’t getting commission off of ME!
Hey Ex- what do you normally marinate your meat in? I have purchased a few marinades, but have been disappointed in the outcome.
The Taste of Chicago that I experienced in 2006 wasn’t hood. But, I didn’t do the concerts– I went to the museums instead. The trolley tour was AWEsome!
Have fun at the beach, cuzzin!
X-Man marinates his ‘meat’???? Really????
Is it some type of special sauce, Dothat makes it taste better? Or handle his business better? Just asking….
Hell naw Lovely, I need a do over! It wasn’t as bad as it could have been but shit. But the good thing….we had hella fireworks and we had some good stuff, too! We blew the freakin’ block up!! We run this shat! LOL!!
Was there a reason that Frankie Beverly didn’t close out Essence? I didn’t know that.
Word of the Day
July 6
ponderous
\PAHN-duh-rus\
adjective
Meaning
1 : of very great weight
*2 : unwieldy or clumsy because of weight and size
3 : oppressively or unpleasantly dull : lifeless
Example Sentence
“Electronic texts can be updated at the speed of a download rather than waiting for the next edition of a ponderous textbook.”
Good afternoon BBP’s! I hope everyone had a great 4th! Mine was kinda boring.
We spent most of the day unpacking. We did get a chance to eat a lil’ bit of bbq later, but for the most part, it was kinda ‘blah’. PD went to Chitown w/ her friends so she got to kick it! We still haven’t gotten a chance to celebrate J’s bday either…this move has taken a lot out of all of us! I promised him that we’d make it up to him though, he’s 14, he ain’t trippin. In other news, I don’t know if I mentioned this to you guys, but I’m on a weightloss mission and this time I WILL NOT fail. It’s not an option. My cholesterol was 273!!! So play time is over. I’ve been journeling whatever goes in my mouth, and I’ve been walking the dog with hubby or J every night for about 30 min so it’s on & crackin! 
Okay I’m done, what’s the T? *scrolling up*
Dang…I’ve only been on the board for 5 min. and the thumbs down bandit don’ hit me up already???
I’ma need you to go buy a life…
Asize, you know I got your back, lady!
Po Thumbsdown bandit just don’t know a good posts when (s)he sees it.
LawdHv, that’s hilarious what you did to Ann Taylor employees. I shop a lot on line with them, bc can’t stand them snooty b!tches in their stores. Bottom line: You are a sales clerk, who only ask if you can start a room for me.
OK…havent read the topic yet, but hope y’all had a great holiday weekend. I enjoyed mine, b/c I like to cook, and cook is what I did! We had young ppl over, b/c of the kids, and it was really fun. I made some coconut rum margeritas for me and Mr. P, and ginger ale ones for the minors.
I made white chocolate mouse y’all. OMG was it spectacularly easy, but tasted expensive. [
OK…I’m going to the pool now…its 95 degrees here!
**giving the finger to all you at the pools, beaches, shores and shat**
Awe…I’ll do a dive off the 6 footer just for you Let! and thrown my hair back as I break the surface of the water. LOL
Lovely….I SIGNED YOU UP FOR THIS…
Dear Dancers and Dance Ministries:
The Heritage Dance Ministry cordially invites you to their third annual Rivers of Praise dance conference. Our theme this year is “Moving Forward”. Our scripture reference is Acts 17:28
For in him we live, and move, and have our being;
This empowering 1 1/2 day event begins on Friday evening, September 17th at 6:00 p.m., and resumes on Saturday, September 18th 2010 beginning at 8:00 a.m. at the St. James United Methodist Church, 5540 Wayne, Kansas City, MO
*hugs* Thanks lawdhv, you’re the bomb.com.
LOL @ letmein!
Letmein– Is it a shut in Praise Dance Conference? LOLOL
Don’t be angry Let. Can you go to the pool anytime this week?
It is a hazy, hot and humid 101 degrees here. *sigh* It’s summer and I will not complain. I look soooo cute in my little white sundress today.
Oh….WHY WHY WHY..did our local traffic reporter(black) just get busted for shoplifting at the mall?????? $105 worth of clothing FROM SEARS!!!
Why BLACK PEOPLE?? Good TV job and you gotta mess it up. I’m so disgusted w/ her.
Pene– the two girls working the floor were black. That pizzed me off even more because I was a sista standing in their store with an arm full of clothes and they didn’t even offer to start a dressing room. After I tried on the stuff I left that shat on a display table and left. Ann Taylor is overpriced if you ask me. But their slacks fit so well and the sale was off the chain! I got $128 slacks for $53 each. One pair of jeans was $89 and I got them for $23. I saw a cocktail dress in there to die for, but I need to start hooking if I have to pay $500 for a dress. Either that or I’d wear that shat every Tues and Thurs!
Anyway,
Take THAT, bishes.
LEtmein, ya’ll did stuff in the rain???
OK, just saw the praise dance thing!! You know I would slit my wrists and then get blood all over my white unitard!!
Oh and TV Traffic girl said she was on an undercover assignment. What did shse steal? Jewelry, cologne and a men’s Hawaiian-style shirt.
Hersh, I see you been playing behind my back while I been gone.
I didn’t know you went to UGA. I thought Rutgers. Was Rutgers the graduate degree?
Lawd, I think it was Let who talked about marinating meats, but I DO marinate my meats … all varieties.
I use a Mexican/Spanish marinade made by the company Goya called “Mojo Criollo.” It wakes up the flavor of chicken, beef, etc. Nice stuff. As an alternate I might use a dry rub with either Emeril’s “Essence” or Goya’s Goya Sazon.
Now the other “meat.” That gets marinated with warm juices from the lad
… err… message me about that one. 
Hey black people! You back from the celebrations? Gooood.
Am I the only person still cracking up at HersheysKiss’ comment about Ex’s marinated meat. Loves that woman.
Welcome back all.
HK – why Sears?!?!?! Heffa could have at LEAST gone to Macy’s.
LHM – I got some shirts and didn’t try any of them on. I didn’t know they worked on commission… there’s a nice old woman who always helps me. I have to admit, they’re less snooty downstairs at AT Loft… I got a couple of t-shirts from there the other day when I went to get some Wallflowers from White Barn.
Speaking of bath & body… why did I think the wallflowers were on sale for $5 so I got 6 of them. Got up there and the chick rang me up and my bill was like $80… I didn’t want to tell the girl to put it all back so now I have to trick Crip Walker into returning all that regular priced sh*t next time he’s near the mall. There’s no way in heaven nor hell I would spend $80 on air freshener crap!! Not even if I was Oprah…
BBW had their wallflowers on sale online last week for that price though……
Hersh, I don’t even know her but I’m mad at your local traffic reporter. Damn! SEARS? You gonna through away five figures for a hunded dollas of damn SEARS clothing? She bet not come to Florida ’cause I got an azz whopping waitin for her.
XMan— UGA was the grad degree.
BTW– Alpha men are FREAKS!! And don’t let Lawd fool you with that qwerstion. She knows about dry rubs and Alpha men. That is all.
Love Train & Xman– And the Jewelry (earrings) cost $3.99!!!
That in itself is absurd.
MY KING!!! I soooo heart you. You CGI all day.
Ex- I use the special kind of ‘homemade’ body oils when I marinate meat. And I use traditional marinades when I marinate chicken, beef, pork, or fish.
You would be “pleased and thanking God”, Please and thank you.
JUST KIDDING!!!! Hersh, yousa mess!
Lawd, yeah “homemade body oils.” That was the kind I was tawkin’ about.
That’s the only way how to do that kind of meat. Now chicken, beef, pork, or fish… Goya or Emeril got som’n for ya. 
I’m howlin’ at your comment “You would be “pleased and thanking God”, Please and thank you.” LOL! You’se a mess.
Hersh, Imma be getting the next flight out to your home state to give TV Reporter Girl a whoopin with a switch made from oak. Afta that Imma take a round trip to Houston to see about some homemade oils.
Pene,
You’re right about Ann Taylor hiring “snooty b!tches.” I remember back in tha day when I went there to buy a gift with my two girls for the former Mrs. Ex. These ho’s was looking like I had the damn plague or som’n. Apparently, they forgot that I was about to pay their check that week. Who stupid do you have to be and still breathe?
LOL at XMAN thinking it’s going to be a ’round trip’ticket. More like one-way. –Lawd and her Alphas. Sounds like a reality TV show. But then again… I so often digress…..
*shaking angry fist at Xman* This is NOT my home state.
But you can take a flight out if you so choose. I hear her attorney is a undercover ambulance chaser. SMH She’s going to need some better counsel. I’ll buy you dinner tho. 
Random thought: When you put your cursor over Gospel to see what the articles are about, 3 of the headlines have the word “Gay” in them. What’s up with that?
Hersh, I recognize where you grew up but you live where you live NOW… THAT’s your home state ’cause it’s where your “home” is.
We’re on for dinner after the whooping.
Who does stupid stuff like this? A TV reporter (regardless of whether it’s traffic or not). That’s just DUMB. And to get pinched for some damn Sears stuff is beyond the pale.
Ex… stop playing. LOL
Although the Houston doors are always swanging open…
Hersh ——>
LHM – has your roomie started looking for a new home?
Lawd,
What makes you think I’m playin?
Lovely, I hope so. He handed me a check for $1200 on Sunday for ‘backpay’. I told him that he needs to keep that because he will need it for his NEW crib that he will be getting by September 1st.
I hope that ninja don’t think he can stay…
XMAN– Who does this?? Same folks who have a prestigious job making nearly 550K at a prestigious university but blow it over a couple of martinis/beers then drive drunk w/ a pank woman in your passenger seat who happens not to be your wife not to mention the red pannies in your lap. Or pro golfers that leave messages on your mistresses vm and uses his REAL name.
THAT’S who does this.
My bad..I thought it read ‘Houston legs are always swanging open’. I stand corrected. Altho, doors could be that new lingo for legs. I just don’t know.
Marinating meats, dry rubs, doors swanging open. I can’t take all this double entendre.
Ex, I know you ain’t playin. Houston has 2 major airports, and about 5-10 private hangars for Beyonce when she comes home. Feel free to pick a flight!
You would have a good time in H-town! Marinated meat and everything…
Jazz,
You should change that to Four articles, ’cause one of them is talking about DeWayne Wood. Now my gaydar ain’t ultra strong but let’s just say I know someone who knows him and that ninja is gay like a mug … not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Hersh, I am in serious need of a manicure and you are not making this easy for me B/C I have to HOLD the alt key to make this gesture…
*sigh*
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Lovely….the rain slowed down about 10′ish over where I live and that’s all my son needed to get started. We went in after awhile because it started raining heavier plus he said he was done. Hell got in the bed and we heard the neighbors about 30 minutes later out there shooting stuff. Me and hubby got back in our clothes and was back out there. We shut the shat down! After hubby set off that 1/4 stick of dynamite, it was a wrap! Mf’ers I said go to bed!! HA!!!!
Ex I threw up in my mouth a little reading warm juices. That hit me wrong. I thought of warm urine.
Jazz be real. Gospel and gay are almost synonyms. Forgive me Lord but
you know it’s true.
* LHM – wait, so you gave the money back? Can he send me $500 of it?
* LETMEIN – not dynamite!! Most of my grandma’s neighbors have dogs (RIP to my doggie) and the homeowner’s assoc is quick to call the police if fireworks are done. I can only imagine what would happen if someone set off some dynamite!! Everybody over the age of 50 would be on the phone with the cops.
Hersh, oh hey’ll to the naw! He had his pank ladies’ “red pannies in [his] lap”? *Channeling Florida Evans voice* “damn damn da–mn”! Dude… seriously? Seriously???
Oh and … you’re killing me with the “‘Houston legs are always swanging open’. …. Altho, doors could be that new lingo for legs… Marinating meats, dry rubs, doors swanging open. I can’t take all this double entendre.” You are a straight MESS today.
Let, threw up? Well I guess that why they call it a blo… never mind.
EX…Dewayne Woods mother is a member of my church. That woman can saaannngg!!! OMG, I love to hear her voice!! Now….I have looked at him and my gaydar does go off. Then I found out he is married to (or was)a girl I grew up with. I heard he got married to try to cover up his indescretions but it didn’t work.
Lovely….does your grandma live in OP? I heard they were giving out tickets left and right on Sunday. Steep ones too! $250 for the FIRST offense and $500 after that!!! WTF?!?!? **making mental note to consider firework laws while I’m searching for a place to move**
Let, wow… small world. I did know he was from your area. Anywhoo one of my Gospel music clients from my days in Pene’s city (location recordings) was one of Dewayne’s “friends.” Dude, my client, was obviously gay but in denial. D Woods was the same. I never met D Woods, but my client would from time to time disappear for a couple weeks every so often and coming back tawkin about getting “mentored” by his “mentor.”
That’s when I knew I was in too deep. Had to separate from those cats (well really Dude ’cause I didn’t know D Wood). Having cats like these as friends will give a very hetero man a rep as geigh. Can’t have that.
He (Wood) CAN sing tho’…
Letmein – she doesn’t but I do. I didn’t hear any where I live. She lives in KCK but its an area where there are a lot of snooty black folks who think they’re mob bosses. They have rules for EVERYTHING. That homeowner’s association thinks they’re for real doing something (and I guess they do because folks follow the rules)