Sometimes people aren’t so mindful in the public, like on the Metro this morning. As always the train was packed and the poles are for standing passengers to hold on. There was one girl, kind of cute looking, just hugged the whole pole. So I was standing and trying to balance myself as the train was taking off. I was going to ask her if she could share the pole but I couldn’t bring myself to say, “Excuse me Miss, but this is not a strip bar.”
Jay-Z freestyles over Too Short’s beat dissing DeShawn Stevenson.
She said her father began sexually abusing her at age 11. On August 8, 1984 — weeks before she was reported missing — her father enticed her into the basement, where he drugged her, put her in handcuffs and locked her in a room, she told police. For the next 24 years, she was constantly raped by her father, resulting in the six surviving children, she said, according to the police statement.
A gorgeously illustrated site for polling application via Twitter.
Fox News anchors credited Soulja Boy for a political video, in which Jay Smooth rhymed and edited together. These guys are so damn clueless. This is enough clue to let you know that you should never rely on Fox News.
NPR profiles my man Mingus:
One of American music’s greatest innovators, Charles Mingus was a powerful bass player, an accomplished bandleader and an extraordinarily inventive composer. The ever-impassioned Mingus was a prolific writer of intricate, highly personal music which greatly expanded the palette of jazz. And in leading dozens of his own groups, he brought a fiery virtuosity to hundreds of original compositions.
Check out part 1.
A new study by the Universities of Exeter and Oxford found that:
[W]omen who had sons were more likely to have eaten a higher quantity and wider range of nutrients, including potassium, calcium and vitamins C, E and B12. There was also a strong correlation between women eating breakfast cereals and producing sons.
Give it a try if you’re planning to have a baby boy.
I am becoming a big boy.
