June 2009
134 posts
Vibe Magazine Is No Mas →
Wow. No words. Hope the writing/editing staff lands on their feet. This isn’t exactly a journalist’s market.
From Daily Finance via Gawker:
Vibe magazine, the urban-music magazine…
Don't Make Desiree Rogers Angry. You Wouldn't Like... →
Remember that story about Michelle Obama’s Chief of Staff Jackie Norris leaving the White House to embark on a career elsewhere in the Obama Administration? Well, seems Desiree Rogers might…
Danielle's Journal: Anyone Wanna Date A Snob? →
A few years back I went on dating strike. It wasn’t that I was upset with men. (I love you all appropriately.) It was more that I was really angry and in no position to be dating anyone. I’d…
Letters From Luvvie: Dear BET (Guest Post) →
Methinks Luvvie didn’t care much for the BET Awards this year!
By Luvvie
Dear BET, Eff your ENTIRE life. You are DEAD to me. Deader than Sean Paul’s hairline. Deader than Arsenio Hall’s…
The Black Snob Goes Back On The (Meet) Market →
Joe Jackson: Eleventy-Billion Kinds of Wrong →
When I was complaining about the MJ coverage being filled with a lot of hearsay, fourth-hand information, rumor-mongering, controversy rehashing and general assholey-ness the case of…
That's Funny. I Flunked At the So-Called "White... →
You go to a school where there’s no music, the gym is falling apart, the books are old, the building is near dilapidated, the neighborhood is iffy, the crime rate is high and the drop out…
Politico Warns of "Queen Michelle" →
If she plants a garden, someone complains. If she wears expensive shoes, someone complains. If she speaks at a college commencement, someone complains. And when she wasn’t doing anything…
Hot Topics: No Home Church For the Obamas Yet and... →
Hot Topics is on and popping!
The Obamas still haven’t settled on a home church. Lately they’ve attended church at Camp David, but so far no Washington, D.C. church has one the…
The Begging Continues, The Voting Continues and I... →
And the Snob-A-Thon keeps on rolling like steam-roller! (And thank you for being so polite and putting up with it!)
Things are going great with the Snob-A-Thon. Thanks to your…
Supreme Court Overturns Firefighter "Reverse... →
This was a case originally ruled on by Supreme Court candiate Sonia Sotomayor where she sided with the lower court, upholding the city’s right to throw out the written firefighting tests…
Pryor & Wilder Go To The BET Awards →
“What the hell is this?” was all Wilder asked over and over and over again as we watched the BET Awards together. Naturally, she didn’t last the whole show, but she made a solid…
Missing Michael, But Missing The News →
Do you remember the week that was? North Korea threatening to blow up HAWAII??? Gov. Mark Sanford admitting to some Argentine “gov luv?” The Iran election protests turning into violence and…
We're All Gonna Die: North Korea Hates Hawaii... →
So … North Korea wants to blow up some things. Again. Or, at least that’s what they’re screaming. I, personally, think this is just a shakedown for more cash. This is a country that…
Fear of Commitment (To A Hairstyle) →
Danielle's Journal: Hair! Hair! Hair! →
Curly or straight. Curly or straight. I’m one girl who can’t commit to a hairstyle. Read about my back and forth and around again (especially with my mother) in the Journal. Click here for…
Battle of the Greek Barbies →
Remember AKA Barbie? Well, homegirl has some competition! (Trinity Designs Inc. via Jack & Jill Politics)
Yeah. They look pretty, but I want to know can they step?
The Limits of Blackness: Sagging W/ Skinny Jeans →
Unless you’re doing it out of irony … no. Just. No.
The Limits of Blackness is a semi-regular series which features tales about things that are too “black” for even the blackity blackest…
The Week The Pop Died →
Try not to drown yourself in 24/7 news coverage this weekend. It’ll just make you want to punch someone.
Oprah: Getting A Little Too New Agey For the Jesus... →
Crusing the Web for a break on all things Michael Jackson related and I found this story on Black Voices caliming that Oprah had denied Jesus as the only path to God. Suddenly the Scooby…
A Nickle For Your Corpse: Why Michael Jackson's... →
Michael Jackson was a phenomenal talent, beloved by many, who lived both a mercurial and Howard Hughes-esque existence. He made a ton of money. People were drawn to him to the point of…
Tales From A Multi-Culti Life →
My stories, your stories about life in a multicultural world. The good, the bad, the hilariously funny. Every Friday The Snob will run a story from either one of her readers or her own life…
Our Top Commenters Bring the Pithy →
From The Snob’s Valentines Day collection.Time for our first ever celebration of the best comments on the blog this week. There are our top three:
Some of you think Condi did a little…
Tales From A Multi-Culti Life: The Fetishizer →
Those Two Crazy Kids Just Might Make It (Obama... →
Michael Joseph Jackson: 1958 - 2009 →
Pop icon Michael Jackson has died and so has my snark. Now all that’s left of my childhood are some old Barbie dolls and a Purple Rain LP. I’ll miss ya’ Mike. “Don’t Stop Til You Get…
You Can't Stop the Snob-A-Thon! →
The Snob-A-Thon keeps hustlin’! We keep surviving … on your donations. In seven days we’ve collected more than $776! We’re looking for donations, but also advertisers and sponsors. Give us some…
Hot Topics: Politicos Lacking Game and the Case... →
Hot Topics is both the cornflakes and the milk!
Politico is wondering if Obama’s image as “Mr. Perfect” is a bad thing. After all, it didn’t work for my fair Mitt “Mittens” Romney….
What Not to Say to White People (Diversity Inc.) →
I have friends who happen to be white. Like good friends. Like the kind who will drive you to the emergency room at midnight and sit with you for almost 10 hours. And since we both share in…
L'Oreal Doesn't Care About Black People (Or Arabs... →
You know who’s not good enough to shill shampoo for French cosmetics maker L’Oreal? Most of the people who read this blog. While they hired faces like Beyonce, Kerry Washingtion…
Lighter and Brighter Behaviors (Guest Post) →
The obsession with skin-lightening: Is it ever okay to bleach?
By Lamees Al Mubarak
We’re forever being told by those who should know better that beauty is “only” skin deep. Well, for many…
The No Pants Dance →
Politicians cheat for the same reason everyone else does — they thought they could get away with it.
Americans are often accused by their European cousins that we’re a bunch of Puritanical,…
Congress Apologizes For Slavery: So What? Now What... →
by Maco L. Faniel
Breaking news! Congress apologizes for slavery! Yes, I said it right! Last week the U.S. House of Representatives issued what has been called an “unprecedented” …
Ask Nia: Fighting the Fight and Father Issues →
Ask Nia is The Black Snob’s weekly advice column. Here Nia Orms (and her multiple personalities) take on the problems that plague your lives. This week Nia(s) helps out a reader…
Black, White and Read on The Snob →
Starting next week there will be a new feature on The Snob as part of our efforts to increase the intellectual discourse between people of different backgrounds. To kick the series off, we…
Richard Nixon: The Bigoted Gift That Keeps On... →
More tapes of former President Richard Nixon saying some crazy racist things about blacks and Jews popped up in the news Tuesday. The complaints about “the Jews” weren’t new ones. Nixon’s…
An Intelligent Discourse →
Just a little note to let you all know how much I enjoy conversing with the readers on this site. I feel like we’ve developed such a rapport of creative and intelligent discourse here at The…
Can the President Bum A Ciggie? →
Granny Snob, a woman who has fought poverty, stroke and cancer to remain the quick witted, incredible woman she is today, is a nearly pack-a-day smoker. While visiting us this weekend, a house…
We'll Take the Kind that Jingles But We Prefer the... →
The Snob-A-Thon soldiers on! And we need YOU … to donate. So far we’ve racked up a grand total of $585 but we still have some ways to go. I’m holding down the side jobs and the…
Ban the Burqa In France? →
This goes under my list of “Things That Can’t Happen In American Due To the Bill O’ Rights (Thank God).” It seems French President Nicolas Sarkozy thinks the traditional Muslim garmet, the…
Did You Vote Snob for The Black Weblog Awards? →
All you have to do is click on these two icons to vote SNOB for best political blog, best cultural blog, best writing in a blog and best blog post series. (I’m up for my…
You're Not Fat, You're Just "Big Boned" Now Proven... →
This is what a “fat” woman looks like. Me, in college. at 155 lbs. I’m HUGE according to my BMI. Visually though … not so much.Of course by “Big Boned,” they mean higher muscle mass or a…
Poem: I Miss You (2004) →
How to Excel Yourself Out of the Community In Ten... →
The Snob at 20 after winning a scholarship while in college. Faces blurred to protect people I don’t know or remember anymore.And I just want to know Where the fuck did everyone else go …
Hot Topics: Ain't No First Lady Like the One We... →
Hot Topics are sizzlin’ and taste best served en fuego.
Robin Givhan says people weren’t ready to smell what Barack’s wife’s been cooking. In a column all about the audacity of Michelle…
Black Snob on the Radio →
I’ll be on the Technocolor Show tonight at 7:15 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on Harlem’s own We Rock Tech Talk on 90.3FM - WHCR. Check them out on Twitter.
Supreme Court Goes 8-to-1 to Uphold Part of Voting... →
Three guesses!
Aw. You didn’t need three.
From the Washington Post:
Civil rights activists had braced themselves for the conservative majority on the court to find Section 5…
Like What You Read? Vote For Snob! →
The Snob has been nominated for four Black Weblog Awards. Click the button and vote for moi for Best Blog Post Series, Best Cultural Blog, Best Political Blog and Best Writing In A…
Hey Snobbinista, Can You Spare A Dime? →
The Snob-A-Thon continues this week! Thanks a bundles to all the people who have donated so far to help pay for the site, its upgrading, its content and a…
No One's Elite Enough For "Our Kind of People" →
First Lady Michelle Obama with the wife of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.Snob reader Fanita was nice enough to point out to me this little bon mot I missed in the Martha’s Vineyard…
