5 1/2 inch heels never looked so good

Leave it to Rihanna to be in a pair of shoes I just fell in love with after seeing them here just a few days ago. These Burberry Mesh Ankle Strap Sandals are $ 695 over at Nordstroms. By the way, the heels ae 5 1/2 inches!

While trying to find some similar shoes at a more affordable price, I came across these Kenneth Cole shoes for only $189. I’m not extremely fond of them though so if I find some I like more I’ll be sure to post them.  In the words of Jay-Z their “alright but their not real, Burberry’s that deal“…ok that’s not what he said but you get what I mean.

New N.E.R.D. “Everybody Nose” Video

“100 dollar bills…..Achooooo, Achoooooo”….I wonder how many kilos they paid Lindsay Lohan to be in the video.  Anywho…I can’t wait for their new cd Seeing Sounds to drop June 10th, it’s about time for a new N.E.R.D. cd!

Make Sure To Check Out…..

New N.E.R.D. (Oh Aunt Jackie!)

Suge Knight Get’s Knocked The F#$k Out (Media Outrage)

It’s That Time To Get Gorgeous In White (Lolo’s Cube)

This (Almost) Made Me Tear Up…Obama Covers Time Magazine (BlogXilla.com)

Hit Or Miss: Rogan Gregory for Target (Make Fetch Happen)

From The Pole To Prom (The Cynical Ones)

Working For UPS Looks Really Good When You Start Modeling Lace Fronts (Mz Virgo)

Throwback Video: Madonna “Burning Up”

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Madonna aka M Dolla is everywhere right now, including in my iPOD. Her newest release, Hard Candy took a few listens to grow on me, but once I found the songs that I liked, I have been playing them nonstop since. With production from my boo in my head Pharrell and a song featuring Kanye West, Beat Goes On (which is one of my favorites) this particular cd brought me back to the days of Madonna’s early career with songs like “Everybody” and “Holiday“.

Back when I should have only been singing along to Sesame Street, I was busy watching Prince and Madonna on MTV (I feel like I always say this but that explains so much about me today lol), and although through the years I haven’t been a fan of everything they have done (American Life, Cinnamon Girl) I still get excited when either of these ICONS bring me back to why I once loved them so much.

Before it gets time for Madonna to need a hip replacement (Prince already beat her to it) I will be getting tickets to see her for her upcoming Sticky & Sweet Tour. Say what you want about her but when I get to 50 years old you better believe I want to look that good.

Speaking of hot new music, go get Estelle as well, her cd took a few listens for me to really get into but overall she has a pretty hot cd.

Anyways…this is from one of my favorite Madonna era’s…probably because it reminds me of the time when I was still innocent. And I would love for someone to explain this video cause I still don’t get it.

When it’s ok for Grandma to choke a bitch

One thing you do not do in my eyes is mess with an old woman. I am very sensitive when it comes to old women(I was one of 5 million black women partly raised by their Grandma) so I DO NOT play that. Now, while my Grandma used to say things like “I’m so mad I can spit” and “Oh fiddlesticks“…..I would hope in this situation she would go Wayne Brady and say, “Does Grandma have to choke a bitch?”

Seriously, I thought this was a joke and wanted to come through my computer and Hammer Dance all over this broad. There is a reason why my black ass is sitting where I am right now and not on that subway because I would have caught a case that day, and I’m not a fighter.

Please watch til the end, after the spawn of Souljah Boy let’s out whatever exorcist it was that cause her to freestyle like she was on 106 & Park, she then went on a rampage about being raped and….well, just watch. All I have to say is…”Where my doorag at“. Lord please drop birth control from the sky to protect us from these heathens from procreating.

UPDATE: So if you haven’t heard, the Crazy “Where My Doo Rag” girl was arrested for this incident, click here for details.  While I feel bad for laughing at her considering she is bipolar, I realized my sense of tact was lost a long time ago and still couldn’t help myself from laughing at this Remix……all I have to say is if you laugh….Gasoline Draws….you know the rest.

A night no fashionista can turn down

Monday nights annual Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute Gala’s theme was “Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy”. My fantasy would be to get a freaking ticket lol. Either that or a ticket to another one of Plies “Bust it Baby” try-outs. You know, which ever comes first.

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Beyonce went with the “If it ain’t broke don’t fix it” mermaid fit dress that she always looks great in, but can retire for a new look. Her jewelry is gorgeous though, I can only imagine what that wedding ring looks like. Also, I think any baby rumors can be put to rest unless she is wearing one hell of a corset.

I looooovvvvveeee Christina Ricci’s dress…it looks part couture part pin up girl….me likey.

This look is a major upgrade from this picture of Christina “Can’t Get Anything Past Me” Ricci that was floating around last week.

Call it the girly side of me(yes the cynical side left a little room for a girly side) but I love dresses like Eva Longoria’s. They seem so fitting for events like this.

Thandie Newton channeled Halle Berry’s ability to look flawless, I almost thought it was Halle. Speaking of Halle, when are we going to see that baby!

I have no idea how Jennifer Lopez lost that baby weight but dammit she better give up the secret so when I have a baby I can bounce back as quick as she did. Only Jennifer can pop out twins and still give her signature, “Yes I am that bitch” look on a red carpet months apart.

Oh Anna Winthrop, playing in Tina Turner’s Mad Max costume left overs is not the business.

I would pay good money (Five dollars) to see the inside of Karl Lagerfeld’s closet. I may be  reaching on this, but I can guess that colors like….well hell colors are no where to be found.  When…when…when is there going to be a movie on him? I have got to see behind the scenes of the man that says things like this(I love this man).

As I have said many times before, I love Victoria Beckham for her swag alone so no surprise that I’m feeling this look. It reminds me of Marlene Dietrich and Old Hollywood. And that David….let me stop and remind myself he is married.

The Olsen twins….I’m tired of asking what the fuss is. They have their moments, but they are few and far between at this point to me. I like Ashley’s dress, but would like it on someone with a little more curves more. And Mary-Kate, I’m just tired of this child. Maybe it’s just the fit on her because it’s really not that bad, but it’s not that good either.

I usually love the Dora the Explorer hair cut (hell I’m rocking one of my own right now) but Katie “Creepy” Holmes just seems off to me. I love the color of her dress, but those blue shoes, I would have rather seen her in open toed shoes.

Gisel is all smiles—-and should be, she is worth $150 million.

The Countdown is on for the Sex and the City Movie

“Old New York, new New York, it’s still f—–g New York!”~Carrie from the Sex and the City movie

Well old Sex and the City, new Sex and the City, it better be f—–g Sex and the City or else me and all the other die hard Sex and the City fans will be as disappointed as Mariah Carey three months from now after listening to Nick Cannons jokes day in and out.

I don’t know if I should be proud of this or not, but from the middle of Season One, I watched every episode of Sex and the City on the original air night. The only time I was deaf, dumb and mute to anyone trying to talk to me was for 30 minutes straight for six years every Sunday night. To this day, I can watch any given episode with no problem, so looking forward to the movie somewhat explains how excited I will be on May 30th.

I was worried that the movie would be a bit predicable, but was relieved to read this quote from Sarah Jessica Parker as well as this review from The New York Daily News.

In the age of sequels, I wouldn’t even be mad at the girls if they came out with another movie in the future (look at me being greedy before the first is even released). If I had it my way, I would be able to see Samantha as the old woman in booty shorts trying to get into the club, Carrie needing her 10th hip replacement from still trying to wear heels at the age of 79 (why do I have a feeling this will be me), Charlotte rocking pearls, a Chanel tweed suit and the latest bag while play Bingo at a Nursing Home for WASPs, and Miranda as the happily married woman that after 50 years still has yet to be seen in public showing affection to her husband.

I’m hoping that the movie will not be for the general audience and but for the fans. What I mean by that is that in college I was able to turn anyone that would give me 30 minutes of their time into a fan of the show by making them watch any given episode where Samantha said things like, “Hi, I need something that will make a guy cum in his pants as soon as he sees me”.

While each episodes witty quotes and shock factor of seeing things like Miranda getting…ummm….remembrances from a good hand job literally ejaculated into her hair never got old, the thing that made me fall for the show was how much it touched on things that women, and men could relate to. Although the actual way that things occured may only happen in Sex and the City world (for instance the fact that Carrie owned all those Manolo’s on a writes salary) could be questioned, for the most part topics like friendemies and “He’s Just Not That Into You” put into perspective how in tune the show was and how it will be just as relevant as Cosmopolotians, Birkin Bags and Carrie’s signature name plate necklace were to the show.

Although I am against bootlegging, I can’t lie….I will have a bootleg copy of this movie after I see it in the theaters lol. Check out one of my favorite scenes between Aidan and Carrie.

Did Eddie Murphy Snatch 50 Cent’s Chain?

Click here for the video of 50 getting gotcha bitch

While performing in Africa, 50 Cent got his chain straight snatched on stage. I don’t know who that was laughing in the background but it sounded mighty close to Eddie Murphy. I kept waiting for whoever was laughing to start yelling out, “Half 50! I want half! What have you done for me lately 50? I was butt naked on a Zebra last month 50…now I want half!”

Instead of snatching his chain I wish someone would have snatched 50’s eyebrows. Did he mess with a bad batch of botox or is that his “given them sexy” look. I’m going to go with botox.

Anyways, with all of this chain snatching talk, I think I have found a way to get all the shoes I have been lusting after. While men snatch chains, I’m about to start bum rushing stages and snatching shoes. Starting with these….I plan to sneak up from underneath Alicia’s piano next time she performs in these lovelies. Hopefully she is a 7 1/2.

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When Good Clothes Happen To Bad People

Is this or is this not the same jacket I was lusting after a month or so ago?

How long did it take Diana to completely f#%k this jacket up?  Why does this remind me of seeing someone with ridiculously scuffed up Christian Louboutin’s?  Damn you dirty Diana.  Aren’t you supposed to aspire to make anything look good?  How in the hell do you make a hot jacket look a hot ass mess?  Do you know where your going to Diana?  Do you know?  Looking like this I’m guessing to Mr. Blackwell’s Worst Dressed List.

I want to know who sent you

I don’t know which one of my blog readers was up to this, or which one of my friends, but you must think I am very naive. I have been driving past Fountain and La Brea everyday for the last 2 weeks….and not once…not one time….have I seen anything like this.

I have seen more than a few crazy things since I moved to LA, but James Brown with Ceily from Color Purple’s beautician is just too much for me.

I tried to get the best picture I could on my Blackberry’s camera phone, but unfortunately I could not truly capture how HE, yes HE had D’Angelo’s stomach cuts (circa How Does It Feel) with a gut reminiscent of someone in their third trimester.

Then the fact that he had the nerve to be dancing…..I just quit. It was too easy. I have decided to take another way home from work. One more of these and I’m moving back to Chicago where the pimps and hustlers keep the ladies(or men) of the night in line and I feel much safer.

La..La..La..La….Wait Til I Get My Money Right

So after all my whoas me’s about my foot surgery and how I was out of heels for five months and I had no desire to get back into heels….I relapsed faster than Karrine Steffans at a BET Awards After Party this weekend.

I finally got in some 2 inch heels and oh did it feel good. I am two weeks short of ending up in the emergency room for trying to get my hot ass in some 4 inch heels too fast I’m sure of it. I figured if I had to go out with a bang, why not in some DSquared2 heels?

I usually try to post some reasonably priced shoes along with pricey ones, but since I have been tortured the last few months seeing all of you in your cute little heels (and secretly wanting to saw them down to flats lol) I decided we should all suffer through this one lol. Who is down for starting some kind of foundation for a pair….I’m willing to be a Jerry’s Kid or whatever I have to do.

If you have $700-1500 for a pair, click the link.

I Went To The Glow In The Dark Tour….Are You????????

In between starting a new job and getting my new place together, I managed to find time to make myself look presentable and go see Lupe, N*E*R*D, Rihanna and Kanye to the at The Glow In The Dark Tour for the second show in LA last week. It left me tired for the rest of the week(on a side note….did you know it is possible to be fully asleep with your eyes opened?) but it was worth it.

For a full run down and accurate review of the show, click here. If you can manage to get your hands on a pair of tickets..please do! If you already have tickets get ready for an experience.

Lupe opened the show that started right on time and performed songs mainly from The Cool but also performed some songs from Food and Liquor. I saw him last summer and noticed an improvement in his stage presence and was happy to see that he kept everyone on their feet for his entire performance.

I can’t tell you what happened when N*E*R*D came out because I was too busy picturing myself and Pharrell running through daisy fields holding hands and riding on unicorns….

but I do remember that they kept the crowd on their feet. Sigh….that Pharrell sure is dreamy.

Then, there was Rihanna. I like Rihanna, but honestly would have liked her better on another tour. I would have preferred to see someone like Common in her place. I feel like the energy in the audience went down by the time she ended her first song. For the first time that night people were sitting in their seats and watching as she literally gyrated through most of her songs.

I think that an artist like Common would have meshed better with the flow of the show. Adding Rihanna to The Glow In The Dark Tour made as much since as adding Cameo to a BeeGees and Abba Reunion Concert.

I love that she is trying to be different with the whole “bad girl” image, but felt like calling her people and telling them having her smoke a cigarette during her song, Rehab, didn’t make her a bad girl, it made her a candidate for a voice box. A cigarette puts her more on the level of in Sandy from Grease or something. Why stop there, if she really wants to be the bad girl she can be the girl that stuffs her bra at the Sadie Hawkins Dance and makes-out under the bleachers.

Anywho, once Kanye came out….I felt like I was in Coming to America and just got done watching Randy Watson because the whole time I was clapping and yelling out “That Boy Is Good, That Boy Is Good”.

Kanye raised the bar for concert performances with what has been called an “apocalyptic space opera”. I loved that the whole night there was no one on stage with Kanye (until Lupe joined him at the end of the night for Touch the Sky) yet he still commanded the audience from the first song until the end of the concert which says a lot in the age of guest appearances, dancers, trapeze acts, stilt walkers and flame tossers that usually make appearances to bring out the theatrics at concerts.

Unfortunately these are not pictures from the concert, I got an ok picture of Rihanna but wasn’t trying to risk getting kicked out because they were on it if the saw even the slightest flash…so word to the wise….keep your flash off lol.

I Call Oscar

So my best friend always talks about me because she thinks that I don’t support black movies. When I was in high school, I up and walked out of a few black movies that were so bad I felt like just sitting in the theater I was setting us back further than Diddy’s gumline.

It’s not that I don’t support black movies, it’s just I refuse to support those that shall remain nameless (Norbit) because I know we are capable of more than that. When a black movie of quality, like The Great Debaters is released, most of the time I have to get my tickets early because opening night it’s guaranteed to sell out…even if the movie doesn’t make a whole lot at the box office.

We will go and see a quality black movie just as quickly as we will see a movie with Madea in it. The only difference is, someone like Monique is going to pop in a movie more than someone like Journee Smollet may due to a little thing I am hoping Journee keeps that I think “Mr. Snakes on a Plane” Samuel L. Jackson lost a long time ago….dignity. (Sigh….he was so promising when he was good ole Gator in Jungle Fever smoking up his Momma and the Good Reverend Doctors tv).

Anyways….my point is, that while I am not looking forward to any upcoming movies featuring Katt Williams, I am looking forward to Jamie Foxx’s new movie The Soloist which is still filming.

You may have already seen the pictures of Jaime looking like he should be selling tube socks and sunflower seeds on 79th and Stony Island already but was unsure why.

Jaime will be portraying Nathaniel Ayers, a classically trained musician that ended up homeless due to schizophrenia.

After his portrayal of Ray Charles, I’m calling Oscar Number 2. Click here for a series of 5 interviews with Nathaniel Ayers and journalist Steve Lopez who will be played in the film by Robert Downey Jr.

Go Ricki….Go Ricki

So I have this theory that the 90’s was one of those few decades where there is not much that can make a comeback. There are some exceptions, but any decade that spawned not only “Whoop There It Is” but “That’s Just My Baby’s Daddy” should be hidden along with where J. Edgar Hoover is for obvious reasons.

While I can’t see myself dusting off my hottest baby doll dress from Contempo Casuals anytime soon….I can thank youtube for reminding me of how I wasted many days watching Ricki Lake, Jerry Springer and Jenny Jones. I can thank them for my going to college in fear that if I didn’t I would have to have a make-over and life intervention due to my dressing like a sexy teen and marrying a midget that is also a KKK.

This is classic Ricki….lots of “ooohhhhsss” and “ahhhhhs” from the audience, a couple in matching bed sheets or something, and a mullet. By the way, did anyone else wonder what was on those cards she held? And if you fast forward to 2 minutes and 14 seconds, was that Ike Turner in the audience?

A Song Cover I Actually Like

See….I’m not always cynical……although hearing him say “Call me if you want a thug” and “I can make it juicy for ya” just doesn’t have the same ring lol. They actually sound really good covering Lil Wayne’s Lollipop.