Big Sole Blog (BSB)

This blog gets hits daily from people who think it's about shoes, but as I've said many times before, "This blog is not about shoes." Nonetheless, sometimes I can't resist an intriguing shoe photo. Today, it's a great picture of the succulent actor Idris Elba that his fan page shared on Facebook. The photo is a three-for-one prize because it features first, Elba, and second, he is holding

The advertising brains behind the latest SmartWater bottled water campaign selected the sizzling Black Brit Idris Elba to be the product's new spokesman. That choice may be the best visible proof that the SmartWater people are indeed smart. Elba definitely drew my eyes to the SmartWater ad when I visited TheRoot.com today. The company is sponsoring The Root's Luxe List.

Is this controversy with boycott the same as objections to The Last Airbender casting? As Rosanna Rosanna Danna would say, "It's always something!"I just read at The Root and the U.K. Guardian that a white supremacist group in the U.S.A. is boycotting the superhero movie Thor because British black actor Idris Elba has been cast as the Norse god Heimdall. Wikipedia says Heimdall is called "the