YouTube digging
I was digging around on YouTube again and as usual, I can count on these guys to have what I’m looking for. I was watching this show called So You Think You Can Dance? It’s like an American Idol for dancers. Anyway, this guy did a face plant while trying to breakdance…
For those who enjoyed my “women gets punched at PTA meeting” video, this one’s for you.
And speaking of falling down…
Alcohol is not your friend.
ANYWAY…these two were my favourite from the last season of SYTYCD
A day in the life of Rice Crispy
During my break from class I made my usual visit to the ladies’ room.
I hate using public washrooms. I’m convinced that women are worse than men when it comes to washroom antics. My biggest pet peeve: women who meticulously line the seat with toilet paper to avoid the evil toilet herpes and then LEAVE THEIR TOILET PAPER ON THE SEAT. Is your ass so nasty that even you don’t want to touch your own toilet paper? Just push it into the toilet with your pinky and flush it!
So I was late for my first day of class and just sat in the first empty seat that I saw. Mind you, this is a web design course so the class is located in a computer lab. Why does the guy next to me bring his laptop? I thought he was being a bit “extra,” but whatever floats your boat. He also had some other gadgets so he had three things plugged into the wall outlet. I was usually pretty good about stepping over the cords but one time I totally forgot and tripped over a wire and knocked whatever it was off the table (good thing it wasn’t his laptop). And then the girl who sat beside him was one of those people that asks questions and then when you give them the answer, they either act like you taught them wrong or say “I know.” So needless to say, I wasn’t pleased with my seating arrangement.
I’m very picky about my “personal space” as well, so when Mr. Laptop started peeping at my screen while I was blogging, I knew I had to move. I know this is a public blog, but really…can I post it before you read it?? I had to move soon because often times in a class situation, where ever you sit on your first day becomes your permanent spot. So on the 3rd day of class, I moved.
Just when I thought I escaped Mr.Laptop, the next morning I see him at my bus stop. Great. I give him an obligatory “Hello” to which he promptly sat down next to me and proceeded to have a conversation with me, even though I was listening to my IPod…with the volume all the way up. He asked me, “So, do you have your own business?” (he does) and when I say no, he gives me this incredulous look and says “Why are you taking this course then? For fun?”
Yeah. Exactly. I quit my job and spent money I don’t have on this course, for fun.
But then I started to feel bad for being a snob so I attempted to make some small talk with him around the coffee machine (they provide free coffee for us students). So my cheesy small talk was “I usually don’t drink coffee, unless it’s free. haha.” The whole time I’m talking he is saying “coffee….coffee….coffee…coffee…” Um. Yeah. So much for conversation.
Anyway, between moping around (quarter-life crisis) and school (which I’m currently loving!) I’ve been neglecting my blogging buddies. I finally made my way to Jem’s page today (sorry girl but better late than never..right? right?) and she broke us down good. Thank you Jem … now I understand why we are the way we are.
*sigh*
I went to see X-Men 3: The Last Stand last night. It was good but I liked X-Men 2 much better. Me and my friend had big plans to go out last night, then we got lazy and decided to stay home and take advantage of her “Movies on Demand.” We decided to watch Brokeback Mountain to see what all the hoopla was about.
*Yawn* It was long and boring and I kept dozing off. I don’t see what is so ground breaking about two gay men hiding their relationship from those around them out of fear of persecution. Imagine that!
Anywhoo…I’m in a bit of a mood today so I don’t feel like writing much.
Go HERE if you really want to know what kinda mood I’m in.
Save Britney!
Do you have to get permission first before you run off and make a wax figure of a celebrity? I find this kinda scary.
“Bring Back Britney is a grassroots movement started by Madame Tussauds to help restore Spears to her former glory as a sexy starlet – Britney Spears 0f 2000. “
“A young Britney Spears fan holds up a sign that reads ‘Save Britney’ as Madame Tussauds unveils the Britney Spears Wax Figure and launches a ‘Bring Back Britney’ grassroots campaign urging people to ‘Save Britney’ held at Madame Tussauds on Thursday, May 25, 2006 in New York. (Pictured: Britney Spears Wax Figure) Photo by Gregorio Binuya”
GRASSROOTS MOVEMENT??? Uh ok. Original source and if you dare…close-ups of the wax figure HERE.
What’s Your Sign?
I had a whole 30minute sleep/nap this morning because I was up all night making a web page for the webmaster program I’m in right now. I know it’s my fault but I really can’t focus on what the instructor is saying right now. Instead, I’m reading my horoscope!
( I know…not a very exciting post but I’m brain dead right now)
Virgo (August 23 – September 22)
Your May Horoscope by Susan Miller
Something in your life has recently changed, and it’s for the better. After having come through a truly dismal March, when difficult life conditions came on suddenly to create extreme tension, and possibly even a crisis, you will welcome the changes that May will bring. Sweet relief is on the way, and encouraging news will cheer you on several fronts.
You’ve been focused on one small piece of your life lately, most probably out of necessity. It is time to step back and view the world in brighter and more panoramic terms, dear Virgo. Doing so will help you see the larger plan that the universe has for you, and to see options you haven’t noticed before.
Your chart shows that you are about to be treated to an engrossing, joyous distraction or new source of stimulation. To get it, you may travel internationally, go back to school for stimulating classes, or get involved with a new interest or hobby. You won’t have to try too hard to make this happen, as it will occur naturally, as pieces of the cosmic plan begin falling into place. As you venture into new areas, you will meet new people, and they will bring fresh ideas, too. With each step you take (in just about any new area) your life will expand geometrically.
Sounds pretty accurate!
Here is the rest of the prediction for VIRGOS.
Go HERE for all the other signs.
Is Outkast outdated like a Jheri curl?
I wasn’t planning on posting today because I have homework to do but this little juicy tidbit just popped up when I was logging into my IM. Anyway, here’s the scoop.
Could it be splitsville for the Grammy Award winning hip hop duo that is Outkast? One half, Andre Benjamin (aka Andre 3000), seemed to be hinting that the duo was headed in that direction. While the successful group, which generated one of only three hip hop albums to ever go diamond, still has one more record to produce under their contract with Sony, Benjamin is refusing to tour with it.
“It’s like wearing a Jheri curl in the fifth grade and then trying to wear a Jheri curl at 65, just to look like you did in the fifth grade,” explained Benjamin. “I don’t wanna keep throwing myself back into that. I don’t wanna be on stage rapping at age 40,” continued Benjamin, who turns 31 on the weekend (May 27). I probably wanna be at some club, playing saxophone.”
Benjamin and Antwan “Big Boi” Patton have a long friendship that started long before Outkast. “The business has put a strain on our relationship,” said Benjamin. “We’re like brothers, though. We can argue, but we’re still gonna be together. I want Big Boi to do well inside and outside of Outkast. Because certain things don’t last forever.”
Turn off di BUMBACLOT light!!!
It was Kardinal Offishall’s birthday (Toronto rapper) over the weekend at a club called Touch, here in Toronto. The girls and I were there, dancing, feeling grown & sexy and having a good time. Usually, the clubs here go til about 4am-ish so Kardinal started cussing when the club people started turning on the lights at 2:30am. Hence the title. (they turned the lights off shortly after the onslaught of Kardi’s choice phrases. I mean afterall, it was his birthday.)
I’ve been told a couple times that I sometimes put out a “don’t talk to me/I’m a snob” vibe but there was one guy that night that didn’t seem to think so. Not only did he come and “talk” to me, he creeped up behind me and pulled me close to him and whispered in my ear.
I was mortified. I felt like I was being taken hostage. I froze as he said, “You are the best dressed girl in here tonight. I love your style and I love your smile.”
My smile?? More like my grimace. I was trying to be cordial but he was breathing down my neck. Then he said “oooooh…What perfume are you wearing? You got to tell me, it smells so good.” Not but a few minutes before his arrival, I was thinking that I forgot to put on deodorant and I was starting to sweat. So, I was trying to inconspicuously smell myself when dude came and attempted to woo me. I told him it was my natural scent and he told me again how good I smelled. *rolling eyes*
Then he goes on to say, “I have so much to say so I’m going to write you a note,” and he dashes off! Presumably to write some 4-page letter? He comes back later, creeping up behind me again and gives me a “note.” He says, “Here, put it in your pocket.” As he attempts to put his stocky fingers in my pocket, I promptly scoop the note out of his hand and say “Thank you. I’ll put it in my pocket myself.” I figure this is going to be good, so I saved it for the ride home so I could share it with my friends. (more like share a good laugh)
As we are leaving at the end of the night, we are lost in a sea of people trying to move towards the exit. I see ol’ note-writer and he beckons me to come over to him (like I’m a dog or something) and I give him my “I gotta go” sign language which involves me pointing to the exit and making a quick getaway. My friends burst out laughing at my wordless exit, telling me how mean I am. I suppose it was mean but hey, would it be better if I strung the guy along by being nice when all I really wanted was to erase the memory of his breath on my neck?
As we are walking to the car, I check to make sure he is not behind us. When I was sure he wasn’t, I whipped out the note! What di f*ck?
This is my interpretation:
“eveN Thoughl IT was Loughd
IT wasapleasase TO maet you hope
to talk to you.”
I guess this is what it was supposed to say:
“Even though it was ______, it was a pleasure to meet you.
Hope to talk to you.”
Can somebody please tell me what “Loughd” means?
(The moral of the story: don’t write notes for girls who have scanners…. and a blog.)
Celebrities: then and now
I got these in an email forward from Jem. Now this is what I call before and after pics!
Tyra Banks and Eve
Usher and Omarion
Doesn’t Omarion’s have an old-looking face in his younger picture?
Kanye West and Jermaine Dupri
Oh Laaawwd…JD’s hair!
Nelly and Ludacris
Why was I expecting to see a Band-Aid on Nelly’s old picture?
Lil’ Wayne and Lil’ Jon
Fugly and fuglier. Is that even Lil’ Jon in the old pic? I don’t believe that’s him.
Outkast: Big Boi and Andre3000
Snoop Dogg and Notorious B.I.G.
Missy and Lil’Kim
Missy looks pretty much the same. The real Lil’ Kim?
Halle Berry and Jennifer Lopez
Beyonce and Ashanti
Just my luck!
On Thursday, I woke up late, as usual, so I had to rush outta my house like a bat outta hell. I didn’t want to be late for class because my instructer is really nice BUT he hates tardiness and will call you out. Needless to say, I didn’t have time to get into my Sunday best. At the end of class, I head to the ladies room and caught a peek of myself in the mirror. Can you say HOT ASS MESS? I had my nerdy glasses on and my bangs are growing out so I pushed them to the side; just looking like a general HAM. I remember thinking to myself, “LAAWD, I hope I don’t bump into anyone I know on the way home.” I step onto the damn bus and bumped into someone I knew! Just my luck!
A few weeks ago, my friend told me she found an IPod, just laying out on the floor of some store. She gave it to the store owner just in case the IPod’s owner returned for it. Then she tells me should have just kept it; finder’s keeper’s right? But I told her no, she made the right decision to return it because if I lost my IPod, I’d want someone to return it. A couple days later, my IPod was stolen. Me and some friends were in a restaurant and got a little too excited about their fabulous buffet and left the table unattended. When we got home, we realized my damn IPod was gone. Did anyone return it to me? NOOOOO! Where’s my good karma for giving my friend the “it’s good to return other people’s things” advice?? Just my luck!
Sometimes I get a brilliant idea or thought and I think I’m the only person who could have possibly come up with it. Then I go to other blogs and see that someone else has posted something similiar to me or something I was thinking of posting but hadn’t gotten around to doing it yet. Mr.Big told me to do a post about the striking resemblance between Paula Abdul and Michael Jackson. I kinda slept on the idea and when I got around to looking for pictures, I found someone else’s blog that already did the comparison! Just my luck!
(By the way, does anybody know how to protect against plagarism?)
I was bored one day and decided to google “Crispy’s Corner” to see if I would be at the top of the results list. Instead, I found another blog called “Crispy’s Corner.” What the hell? Jem and I came up with that name, thinking we were so creative. I told her another friend gave me the “Rice Crispy” nickname. Then Jem suggested I add “Corner,” like Common’s song, “The Corner”, to allude to the idea of hanging on the corner, talking to friends and giving the blog name a bit of a hip-hop feel. If the owner of the other Crispy’s Corner sees this, I swear! We came up with the names ourselves! Technically, this is “Rice Crispy’s Corner” anyway.
Just my luck!
Americas..Next…Top…Model…Is…
“Shut yo mouth and say it ain’t so!” – Danielle 2006
She was my favourite from the beginning but I didn’t think she would win given the obvious mess up they made last year by choosing Nicole over Nik! ANTM redeemed themselves this year.
TEAM DANIELLE!!!
The Biggest Loser
I’m not sure which magazine this is but they’ve rated different celebrities as “winners” or “losers” according to their weight loss.
First up, Jay-Z and Beyonce:
His man boobs could stand to be toned down a bit but what is wrong with Beyonce’s before picture? NOTHING! Is it just my bad eyes or do I see some rippling muscles on her stomach? People with tone tummies should definately lose weight. *rolling eyes*
(click on the images to get a larger view)
Ashanti and Star Jones:
Ashanti is bigger in her after pic but she still doesn’t look bad to me, either way.
Where did they dig up the before picture of Star Jones?! I remember her being big but not like this. She looks a hot mess in that picture. Her after picture must have been a fluke because she looks normal. She usually has this big bobbly-head thing going on so I don’t think these two pictures of Star is an accurate and fair comparison.
They tried to appear neutral by rating grotesquely skinny people as being “losers.” Look at their weights before, of course they are “losers” for losing more weight! (Nicole Richie and Thandie Newton)
Go here for original source
Back to Beyonce being “fat.” While I was surfing the net, I found this blog, The Superficial.
“I remember hearing Beyonce say before that she was a fat black woman just waiting to bust out and that she had to work extremely hard to maintain her figure. Well I guess whoever was in there decided to finally make an appearance, because Beyonce is looking mighty plump these days. Not that she’s fat, she just has the waist and butt of a hippopotamus. A really fat hippopotamus.”
Here are the alleged “hippopotamus” pics:
Off topic but, is that Denzel in the black shorts?? Anybody know?
Original sources: Dean’s Planet, The Superficial
It’s no wonder there are so many people with eating disorders. Recently, Lindsay Lohan and Nicole Richie have come forward to claim that they’ve realize that they are too skinny and really do eat (food allegedly) and are working on gaining weight. But until then, they are still regular features in fashion magazines. Hmmph.
Anyway, I don’t know about them heffers but I, Rice Crispy, am going to go get some food for my bigger than size 2 butt.
“Hip Hop Vernacular”
Am I the only person who’s irritated by the overuse/misuse of “hip hop/urban” slangs or phrases?
Like when people say “That’s so ghetto!” to describe anything that’s negative or not “proper” or doesn’t even make sense as to why that phrase is even used to describe said object/behaviour/etc.
I think the term that irritates me the most these days is “bling bling.” I mean really, how old is that Cash Money song? I can’t even remember how the song goes, come to think of it…
reference.com did a pretty good breakdown of the term:
” ‘Bling Bling’ is a 1999 hit hip-hop song by The B.G., featuring his Cash Money Records labelmates Juvenile, Lil’ Wayne, Turk, Baby, and Mannie Fresh. The song, and its many follow-ups from the label, popularized a hip hop slang term which refers to expensive jewelry and other accoutrements. The term is thought to be derived from the onomatopoeia of a visual effect used to denote light glistening off metal or jewels.
…Mainstream hip hop music’s fixation on bling bling and other material and luxury goods has led to much criticism from media pundits and musical critics. They charge that the phenomenon promotes consumerism and materialism, and strengthens racist arguments that young African American men are incapable of higher or more virtuous or spiritual goals than material gain. Some of the most vocal critics of “bling bling”-oriented music are alternative hip hop artists. An example of this is the group Dead Prez, from “Hip Hop”
The extremely widespread proliferation of the term into the early 2000’s inevitably lead to a degrading of its hipness value. With MTV itself even releasing a satirical cartoon commercial in 2004 showing the term being used by a rapper, then several other progressively less “streetwise” characters, then finally by a middle aged white woman who uses the term to describe her earrings to her elderly mother. It ends with the deadpan declaration: “RIP Bling-bling 1997-2004″. …Today, it is rare to find a mainstream rapper who uses the term in anything but a sarcastic or joking manner. Infact, you are more likely to hear the term “bling-bling” from a critic of rap music, then you are from an actual rapper or someone who is a fan of the genre.
The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary added Bling-bling as a new entry in its fifth edition (2002).”
Remember “Talk to the hand, cause the face don’t understand?”
I heard a co-worker say “Talk to the hand, cause the face don’t want to hear.” Huh? That doesn’t even rhyme!
“What’s the deal, yo?” or “What tha dealy, yo?”
I saw this phrase being butchered in either YM or Seventeen a while back; I can’t remember which magazine though. They had the phrase written as “What’s the dilli-o, yo?” So basically, you are saying “yo” twice. Duh.
What’s the Deal – AZ
