9/17/09

Fall 2009 TV shows

There’s much buzz around the internet about the fall TV schedule. I’ve read some synopsis and have sorta decided on what my fall 09 tv viewing schedule will consist of. Wanna know……..here ya go:

Sunday:
8:30 – The Cleveland Show
9pm – Desperate Housewives - CBS
10pm – Cold Case - CBS

Monday:
8 pm – Lincoln Heights – Family Channel
9pm – Trauma - NBC
10pm – Castle - ABC

Tuesday:
9pm – NCIS: Los Angeles - CBS
10pm – The Good Wife - CBS

Wednesday:
9pm – Law & Order SVU - NBC
10pm – CSI: New York - CBS
Thursday:
9pm – Grey’s Anatomy - ABC
10pm – Private Practice - ABC

Friday:
8 pm – Law & Order - NBC
9pm – Ugly Betty (CBS) or Southland (NBC)
10pm – on my own…………

Saturday: on my own……

Looks like Monday is the only day I need to rush to be home by 8. This is good because I’ll be able to run some errands, like hit Tar/get. And for real, I could pass on Tuesday’s night show, as I’m only watching NCIS for LL.

What tv shows are you watching this fall?


Peace, Blessings and Laughs

9/15/09

Fwd: The Strong Black Woman is Dead...

A friend/classmate shared this on facebook. I think it is so powerful and moving. So you know I had to post/share here on my blog.

The Strong Black Woman is Dead...

On September 14, 2009, at 11:05 p.m.,
while struggling with the reality
of being a human instead of a myth,
a strong black woman passed away.

Medical sources say she died of natural causes,
but those who knew her know she died
from being silent when she should have been screaming,
milling when she should have been raging,
from being sick and not wanting anyone to know
because her pain might inconvenience them.
She died from an overdose
of other people clinging to her
when she didn't even have energy for herself.
She died from loving men who didn't love themselves
and could only offer her a crippled reflection.
She died from raising children alone
and for not being able to do a complete job.
She died from the lies her grandmother
told her mother and her mother told her
about life, men & racism.
She died from being sexually abused as a child
and having to take that truth
everywhere she went every day of her life,
exchanging the humiliation for guilt and back again.
She died from being battered
by someone who claimed to love her
and she allowed the battering to go on
to show she loved him too.
She died from asphyxiation,
coughing up blood from secrets
she kept trying to burn away
instead of allowing herself
the kind of nervous breakdown she was entitled to,
but only white girls could afford.
She died from being responsible,
because she was the last rung on the ladder
and there was no one under her she could dump on.
The strong black woman is dead.

She died from the multiple births
of children she never really wanted
but was forced to have
by the strangling morality of those around her.
She died from being a mother at 15
and a grandmother at 30 and an ancestor at 45.

She died from being dragged down
and sat upon by UN-evolved women posing as sisters.
She died from pretending
the life she was living
was a Kodak moment instead of a 20th century,
post-slavery nightmare!
She died from tolerating Mr. Pitiful,
just to have a man and the house.
She died from lack of orgasms
because she never learned
what made her body happy
and no one took the time to teach her
and sometimes, when she found arms
that were tender, she died
because they belonged to the same gender.
She died from sacrificing herself
for everybody and everything
when what she really wanted to dow
as be a singer, a dancer, or some magnificent other.
She died from lies of omission
because she didn't want
to bring the black man down.
She died from race memories
of being snatched and raped
and snatched and sold and snatched
and bred and snatched and
whipped and snatched and worked to death.
She died from tributes
from her counterparts
who should have been matching
her efforts instead of
showering her with
dead words and empty songs.
She died from myths
that would not allow her
to show weakness withoutbeing chastised by the lazy and hazy.
She died from hiding her real feelings
until they became hard
and bitter enough to invade
her womb and breasts like angry tumors.
She died from always lifting something
from heavy boxes to refrigerators.
The strong black woman is dead.

She died from the punishments
received from being honest
about life, racism & men.
She died from being called a bitch
for being verbal,
a dyke for being assertive
and a whore for picking her own lovers.
She died from never being enough
of what men wanted,
or being too much for the men she wanted.
She died from being too black
and died again for not being black enough.
She died from castratione
very time somebody thought
of her as only a woman,
or treated her like less than a man.
She died from being misinformed
about her mind, her body
and the extent of her royal capabilities.
She died from knees pressed too close together
because respect was never part
of the foreplay that was being shoved at her.
She died from loneliness in birthing rooms
and aloneness in abortion centers.
She died of shock in courtrooms
where she sat, alone,
watching her children being legally lynched.
She died in bathrooms
with her veins busting open
with self-hatred and neglect.
She died in her mind,
fighting life racism, & men,
while her body was carted away
and stashed in a human warehouse
for the spiritually mutilated.
And sometimes when she refused to die,
when she just refused to give in
she was killed by the lethal images
of blonde hair, blue eyes and flat butts,
rejected by the O.J.'s, the Quincy's, & the Poitiers.
Sometimes, she was stomped to death
by racism and sexism, executed
by hi-tech ignorance
while she carried the family in her belly,
the community on her head,
and the race on her back!
The strong silent, talking black woman is dead!
Or is she still alive and kicking?
I know I am still here.
-Laini Mataka

Peace, Blessings and Laughs

9/14/09

09 VMA

I'm not really into the music awards shows anymore. But fa.cebook was abuzz about Kan.ye and something he did so I decided to stay up and watch the encore showing and here are my notes/comments:

Jan.et's tribute: nice, liked it.....

Taylor.Swift/Kan.ye/best female video: um, it was really in poor taste of Kan.ye to interupt someone during their acceptance speech to voice his personal opinion. It wasn't his show, so his actions were really uncalled for. And might I also point out that the video he mentioned in said interuption was just ok and doesn't really deserve video of the year award, said video was just ok, nothing to write home about or interupt a speech for!

Russ.ell Crowe as the host: um hit or miss for me, I like his accent and he can be funny at times

Wa.le as the house band, I likes.......

La.dy>Ga>Ga performance: WTF.......maybe I need to hear the song to understand, but I just didn't get it.......the blood and the hanging?????

I'm liking Wal.e................

I'm not sure if I'm really gonna stay up to watch all of this......I'm sure I'll see highlights on various blogs tomorrow.

the trailer for that new twilight movie looks abit interesting, I actually stopped what I was doing and looked at the trailer.

Beyo.nce's performance: ok I'll give it to her.....she can perform and she can sing I'll just leave it there. (please movie directors and producers, don't hire her for acting gigs, I beg of you)

I can't believe I'm still up........

TraceyMorgan/Eminem continuous skip: the very first part I chuckled, but that's it........where is this headed, I need for the end to get over with

why does Emin>em always look mad.......he won for best hip hop award, which I think should have went to HOV, I so love D.O.A

Kid.Cudi and Wale, loving the sound.....yeah I'm dancing

WTF is up with this LadyGa character.......she's in all red now with her face covered in some red lace, ok so she take off the face mask mid acceptance speech in which she states the award is for GOD and the Gays

ok, now P.ink's performance was creative.......

um, is Wa.le changing his clothes......he's going hollywood aready? Jimney cricket, he's the house band..............

Be.yonce wins video of the year award and invites Taylor.Swift to come out and finish her acceptance speech

LadyGa changed her clothes again????? now she has some white get up on looking like an eskimo with this thing around her face

so after the HOV performance I'm gonna call it a night. I do have to work and will need to be up again in about 6 hours......

I'm a HOV fan so yeah I loved the performance with Alicia.Keys, and I will certainly purchase his new cd when it drops!

Good night all

Peace, Blessings and Laughs