July 2008
72 posts
The Last Belated Celebrity Batch: Slash's B-Day →
It was July 23 and it was legendary rock guitarist and incognegro Slash’s birthday bash in Las Vegas, baby. With wife on arm and Fergie on vocals, Slash rocked out with a throng of…
Say It Ain't So, Luda ... Barack Soooo Needs... →
“Obama probably likes this song but he can’t be like man this song is the shit when it talks badly about the other candidates. Luda is making some hot tracks as always.” — commenter Ek…
More Belated (Random) Celebrity Snapshots →
So many pictures, so little time. Right, Ashanti? Because I was slackin’ and suffering from brain drain last weekend I didn’t get my celebrity photo spread up. Tsk. Tsk. Guess I’ll just…
A Fight Agaisnt Taser Abuse and Other News →
UPDATES!
Day of Blogging For Justice: The AfroSpear has declared Wednesday a day to spread awareness of the abuse of tasers by law enforcement. These acts sometimes ending in death…
Tom Kaine Isn't Exactly Setting the World on Fire →
There’s some murr-murring in the press right now over a Virginian who is not Sens. Jim Webb or Mark Warner.
It’s TIM KAINE!
Tim who, you say? Well, Tom Kaine is the…
Michelle Obama Makes Vanity Fair's "Best Dressed"... →
First Lady candidate Michelle Obama in Chicago Tuesday addressing a Women for Obama fund raiser. The Chicago-Sun Times reported the event may have raised $1 million for her hubby’s…
A Belated Celebrity Round-Up →
You’re invited to a garden party! (Or I should say, you’re invited to look at pictures of a garden party.) It’s the Art for Life benefit in East Hampton, NY July 19th. A gala filled with…
Someone Please Give These People A Job →
A series featuring my favorite underemployed blacktors and blacktresses.
I’m not going to admit that I came up with the term “blacktors and blacktresses.” Anyone who closely watched “In…
The Current and Future President of the United... →
Sometimes when I’m not carefully it’s easy to forget that Barack Obama is not the president. As I’ve joked previously, this election sometimes feels like a St. Louis mayoral race where…
And Yet Another New Yorker Cover Parody →
This makes, what? Four now? This comes via Vanity Fair online.
We had our own presidential campaign cover in the works, which explored a different facet of the Politics of Fear, but we…
When Love For Obama Goes Too Far →
Sayeth one commenter: “… (Y)ou know we cannot publicize this type of shit until the second wednesday of November. Please remember that.” (Picture from Fly Cliche)
Get Yer SCAN Gear →
Join the revolution! Finally The Secret Council has gotten off their CP time to put their fierce logo on bags, shirts, hats and other items up for sale on Midwestern precinct leader,…
It's Finally Here! Snob Gear! →
After taking forever and a day I finally expanded my Snob store at CafePress.com. Now you will find all sorts of designs, from my Snob logo girl on the masthead to my Andy Warhol…
It's Called "Hyperbole" →
I rarely pay attention to FOX News’ Bill O’Reilly. Mostly because I think he’s irrelevant and not a real journalist … and I think he knows he’s not a real journalist on a fake news…
They Don't Call It "Leader of the Free World" For... →
All right. Who is orchestrating these things? Stephen Spielberg? Cecil DeMille? Starring a cast of thousands. In fact, a cast of two-hundred thousand? TWO-HUNDRED THOUSAND…
America's Next Top Pundit →
Image from My So-Called Strife blog
It was October 2004.
The show was CNN’s 24-year-old political stalwart, Crossfire, then hosted by Paul Begala and Tucker Carlson.
For…
Nas Does Colbert and He Does It Right →
Wednesday I proposed the question: NYC rapper Nas repping for Color of Change’s anti-FOX News racism campaign, good, bad or WTF. Later that night I got my answer on The Colbert Report:
Google Stalking TJ Holmes: TJ on Racism →
How anyone could ever discriminate against my little Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup of TV News is beyond me. I mean, look at that face? So sweet. So pretty. How could anyone find him…
Nas Protests FOX and FOX Balks! →
A black person stood up and called someone on their shit and per usual, that person who did the shit and stank-a-danked things up cowered and hid. Black person: one. Punk-ass news bitch: 0.
Obamas in People Magazine: Want Normal Life for... →
The most photogenic family of this political cycle is on the cover of People Magazine (and there are promises of more pictures inside!) Try to go easy on the pictures. You may go into…
When Is Black "Black?" →
“She needs to quit.”
That’s how the discussion got kicked off on One Drop Rule’s message board July 2nd. The person accused of needing to cease and desist was CNN reporter Soledad…
Nas For Obama: Good Thing? Bad Thing? WTF Thing? →
It seems rapper Nas has joined with black progressive activist group Color of Change in their campaign to challenge FOX News for their habitual Negromongering over Presidential…
Right On! Barack! →
Ask and ye shall receive …
Obama: Teen Hearthrob →
He’s just so dreamy! LOL!
From The Onion, June 19th. (Yeah, I was late finding this thing but … hilarious!)
WASHINGTON—According to a poll released Monday by Teen Zogby!, both…
For A Great Rundown on Obama Abroad ... →
Check out the Roadkill Refugee’s Daily Tidbits for Monday. It’s priceless … here’s a little nibble:
Somebody Get Him the Talking Points. During a photo op with McCain in Maine,…
You Got What You Wanted, McCain: Obamamania In... →
Because it’s blowing up Hollywood style in your face.
Be careful what you wish for because you JUST MIGHT GET IT.
I knew this wouldn’t go well for John McCain — Barack Obama going…
The Black Snob Presents: Doomed Romance →
Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte in one of my favorite musicals and doomed romances, “Carmen Jones.”
Back when I was still living it up in Bakersfield, Calif. I was working on…
TJ Has A One Track Mind →
But it’s not his fault entirely. He interviewed a couple about their book Saturday where they discussed their attempt to have sex every day for a whole year. I’m going to go out…
Week in Pictures IV: Kimora Rolls Out for JC... →
Also this week, Kimora Lee Simmons held a launch for her Fabulosity line at JC Penney. Classy. She was there with her family, including her beaux Djimon Housou and her adorable little…
Week In Pictures III: Everyone Looks Good For... →
Time to party in NYC for Major League Baseball’s All-Star Weekend. Clef is down.
The Jordan label threw a shindig for Yankee’s star Derek Jeter and everyone tried to…
Week In Pictures II: Candace Parker Is An... →
Dancers dressed as Tiger Woods, Jessica Simpson and Tony Romo
It was time for the ESPN Awards or the ESPY’s in Los Angeles, July 16. I love these because they bring together two of my…
Week In Pictures I: The Good Naomi and Chris Brown... →
This is the Naomi Campbell I like to see. The non-violent, sober, lovely, baby cuddling Naomi Campbell, all smiles as she participates in the Africa Rising music, fashion and arts…
The Black Snob on MySpace! →
Now if you want to know the more personal side of a broke journalist/fiction writer you can check me out at my new spot on MySpace — theblacksnob! There you can friend my alterego, …
And the Parodies Get Weirder ... →
I honestly don’t know what The Stranger, a Seattle, Wash. alternative weekly newspaper, is going for here, but as a last minute, thrown together effort to dramatize/lampoon/cash-in on…
The N-Word Makes Elisabeth Cry →
My good friend the Negro Intellectual sent this to me this morning and I had two reactions to this um … heated weepy discussion of the dreaded “N-word:”
1) Sometimes…
SCAN Bidness: Is There A Push to Push the MAN From... →
The following was written by SCAN’s partner at What About Our Daughters, Special Blackness Agent, codename “Gem.” Our field agent is concerned about a rumored campaign to have…
Bangin' On the Astroturf??? →
I saw this headline when I opened up ye ol’ Yahoo.com:
NFL steps up monitoring of players for gang signs
NEW YORK (AP)—The NFL is stepping up its monitoring of on-field player…
Found Object: The Man of Your Dreams →
I believe it’s supposed to be Barack Obama as a romance novel cover star. The Great Hope Mongerer as the Great Love Mongerer! I somehow missed it when it came out in Willamette Week…
It'll Get You High →
“It’ll Get You High.”
Setting: MSNBC studios. Chris Matthews is sitting at the “Hardball” set reading through the script while Andrea Mitchell sits across from him also reading her…
Mr. Baby Wipes Goes Pop →
I don’t know how this pass through my Snob radar, but actor, unrepentant black snob and baby wipes aficionado Terrence Howard has cut a record.
And it doesn’t sound half bad. Seriously….
And the Parodies Keep Coming ... →
This one from BuelahMan’s Red State Revolt … it’s oddly familiar (but kookier) than Tuesday’s offering. (Thanks, Raw Dawg Buffalo!)
When Common Sense Isn't An Editor →
Jossip ran this item in an attempt to put the whole New Yorker Mag fiasco into some perspective, arguing that both imagines should ring up as obvious exaggerations … although, the…
When Being An Incognegro Gets You Accidentally... →
I wish I could find the audio for it, but I’m going to have to ask you all to take my word for it. During Major League Baseball’s Home Run Derby Monday night ESPN’s announcers remarked…
Google Stalking TJ Holmes: Skirt Chasing →
Thank you, anonymous TJ-aficionado, for sending me a link to this mini-Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup nugget with The Snob. This photo is part of a trio of shots featuring CNN Weekend’s …
Satire: Drug of Choice →
A few weeks ago I wrote this mini-satirical play after writing about the media’s obsession with The Clintons, particularly Chris Matthews’ obsession with them, and how-oh-how would they…
Git Yo' Complaint On! →
Concerned net citizen, Lisa (aka blackwomenblowthetrumpet.blogspot.com) was kind enough to post the contact information for the Powers That Be at the New Yorker Magazine for all…
Yung Berg's Pool Test: The Color Game Remix →
Rapper Yung Berg recently said he was a pro-wash-n-wear, anti-“black butt,” self-described racist for lighter girls raising the hackles of many. He’s an idiot, but he’s also more proof…
What's Wrong With This Picture? →
Goodness gracious, geez Louise. I realize that this form of “satire” is irresistible to some illustrators but it’s so amazingly over the top and unnecessary and so obvious that I wonder…
Be Afriad. Be Very Afraid. →
Vivica Fox and Jessica Simpson came to party for Jessica’s 28th B-Day.
Cowgirl up.
Is there no place Vivica Fox won’t go get drunk in? Does she even work…
Conservative Pundit and former Bush press... →
He was 53. I was not a fan of the man’s views or his employers but he had style. No one could turn the tables on a reporter like Snow. He was a worthy opponent. Snow died of colon cancer…
