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Paul Carrick BrunsonPaul Carrick Brunson, love doctor, helps people meet people for a living. It's what he does. People hire him to help them navigate their love lives in hopes of finding that special someone who you can eat Nutella straight out of the jar with. (And it is soooo hard to find that person.)
And now Paul is helping people find that person using ... THE TWITTER! How does one get people dates via 140 characters and tweets? Let me explain.
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Photo via UPII think someone knows that people think he's an uppity so-and-so. In his latest Mayoral debate with rival D.C. Council Chairman Vince Gray, D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty admitted it must have been cold there in his shadow ... to never have sunlight on your face.
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I won the judges' choice for Best Political Blog for the 2010 Black Weblog Awards! It's a three-peat! In previous years I won judges' choice for best new blog, best political blog and best writing in a blog. I'm special! YESSSSS!
If I knew how (or what) the "dougie" is I would do it. I think ... nah. I'm from the 90s. I'm doing the Roger Rabbit.
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Via White HouseYou know what that means? That means it's time to raid the official White House Flickr page for cute pictures of the Obamas! Duh. August is up!
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Or "The One Where I Write An Elaborate Ruse That's Just An Excuse To Post A Viral Video"
Watching Ava DuVernay's BET documentary about women in hip hop, "My Mic Sounds Nice," and reminiscing about the style of Hip Hop I grew up listening to, triggered an old memory for me. It was of me and my little sister listening to rap music, but trying not to pay attention to the lyrics out of the fear that to know the sexist truth would mean I would have to stop listening to rap altogether.
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Photo via APThe Snob was quoted in a recent Associated Press story on Internet meme and accidental star Antoine Dodson. Errin Haines of the Associated Press interviewed Dodson to get an update on how he and his sister Kelly are doing since she was attacked and how the notoriety from the song "Bed Intruder" is helping their family.
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First off. Every guy I've ever seriously dated has loved Wu-Tang in an unhealthy, "I'm going to hide the Man With the Golden Arms because I can't listen to this crap anymore" way. This doesn't mean that I dislike the Wu. Au contraire! I actaully like a quite a bit of their music. And most of you know how I feel about Kanye (Love him. Love to hate him. I own the mixtapes and follow him on the Twitter.) So when I saw this on Gawker asking me if I'd like to listen to Justin Bieber's "Runaway Love" with Kanye and Raekwon I wanted to say, "God no." But I couldn't.
]]>Over the weekend President Obama was in New Orleans giving a speech on the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and the damage it caused. More than 1,800 people lost their lives in the storm and the flooding that took place afterwards. The clean-up and rebuilding effort was complex, slow and often didn't reach the people who needed help the most. Five years later there are still problems in gulf region (now further complicated by the BP oil leak), but the city remains resiliant, vibrant and steadfast.
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Photo by AverageBroCommon sense would tell you a liberal black man has no business at a Glenn Beck/Sarah Palin rally. And that's exactly why my cyber play cousin AverageBro went. Here are his random observations, with lots and lots of photos.
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