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I just saw the Drew Brees commercial with his wife Brittany for Walgreens and Nyquil. It's posted above. I won't give it away, but it is sweet and cute.

Astronomers, have discovered an Earth-like planet, according to Yahoo! News via the AP. It's called a "Goldilocks" as an allusion to "The Three Bear" story when Goldilocks talks about porridge being not too cold, not to hot but "just right."My blogging buddy, Deborah White of From My Brown Eyed View, commented on Facebook:I hope that human kind leaves this planet alone. This one is already

Vampire Diaries star Ian Somerhalder was born and raised across the lake from New Orleans in Covington, La. I forgot to mention him when I wrote about ABC's show The Gates being filmed in Shreveport, La., in the post about True Blood, which is set in Louisiana, and of course, Anne Rice, who started Louisiana's association with vampires.Last night I was reminded that Somerhalder is from Louisiana

I hesitated on even posting the above video or approaching the topic of race, ethnicity, and divisive rhetoric in America because some people tune you out as soon as they read the words "racism" or "racist." Will we have to think up new words to discuss this critical topic in order to avoid national implosion or are there still some adults in America?In the video posted above conservative

I'm not trying to start a mess, y'all. When I first saw Discover Card's commercial series featuring Peggy, I laughed. She works for "USA Prime Credit" and is a bearded, incompetent customer service representative played by a white male who speaks with a thick accent, choppy English, and she only responds "yes." Again, I laughed. Who hasn't dealt with a "Peggy"? And what a way to send the message

You can't recall Terry McMillan's best-selling book from the 90s, Waiting to Exhale, without also recalling the movie starring Whitney Houston, Angela Bassett, Loretta Devine and Lela Rochon, directed by Forest Whitaker, and featuring music by Babyface, who wrote the theme song embedded above. Whitney sang it (Shoop Shoop).Speaking of Whitney, I thought she'd made a comeback, but apparently she's

Forcing my posts over to new page.

Last night I dreamed I was at a large hotel on a coastline taking a bath and discovered mosquitoes had been breeding in the bath water. They were everywhere. I got out and put a towel around me after spraying myself with Off, and then I walked into the next room where other hotel guests and the manager were preparing for a hurricane and complaining that the hotel's owner, who was not present,

Vampires are overrunning Louisiana again. HBO's True Blood takes place in Louisiana with vamp bar Fangtasia located in Shreveport and the vamp queen living in New Orleans. And now I've learned that ABC's vampire show The Gates is filmed in Shreveport. The story's not set in Louisiana, however.I say "vampire show," but like True Blood, The Gates includes other supernatural beings, such as

I came across an old song today that reminded me of colorism issues in the black community, and again I remind my fellow African-Americans that other people of color have similar dysfunctions. Ask someone observant from India about it, for instance, and they'll tell you that some of their people favor lighter skin.Curtis Mayfield (June 3, 1942 – December 26, 1999), opens the set in the embedded

I nearly broke my neck to get to my 3:00 class at the University of New Orleans yesterday only to find out I was one of less than half of my classmates to attend. One person said the campus parking lots started emptying just after noon as Saints fans headed to the French Quarter to see the parade put on by the NFL and concert with Taylor Swift and the Dave Matthews Band to celebrate the first

Sex and the 50-Year-Old WomanBy Nordette N. AdamsWith a body like Helen Mirren's-- never burdened by babies stretchingskin to an alien curve--she is much at 50 the same as 30, bold and glistening,fevered with lust.With a body like Venus of Willendorf,stretched after bearing fresh blood,she forgets her name, contemplatesskin alien as cratered moons cooling,damp and mysterious--the unexplored cave.

From the Christian Science Monitor:AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka charged that if Republican political star Sarah Palin is not more careful in her choice of words, the political movement she has helped to create will be linked with 1950s McCarthyismI listened to what Trumka had to say and I kept thinking of Anil Dash's commentary about how Palin uses language that he wrote during the 2008

As reported through a Foreign Policy Magazine news brief: BP officials hinted that the company may not make voluntary payments, which it had previously consented to in the wake of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, if Congress goes forward with plans to restrict the company's activities in the Gulf of Mexico. BP is saying "if lawmakers pass legislation that bars the company from getting new