Just yesterday you dreamed that you were going to do the Soulja Boy in front of a large crowd of people?? That's wild.

You'd have to scroll back to the previous day's entry- before we went to a taping at Showtime at the Apollo, I told my sisters that I thought it would be awesome if I got to do the Soulja Boy dance in front of everyone there. Then I actually had a chance to, because they invited white people to the stage to do it (I know, lol), but I stayed in my seat, because I figured I was too far from the stage.

Hey, Soulja Boy, congratulations. My favorite Soulja Boy anecdote: some magazine asked him, along with a bunch of other emcees and producers and whatnot, to provide an interview question for legendary gangsta rapper Scarface (I know this isn't a big rap crowd, but, seriously: legendary). The phrasing was something like 'If you could ask Scarface one question, what would you ask him?' Most of the rappers said something like 'What's the secret of longevity?' or 'How do you feel about being so great?' Soulja Boy asked him, 'How did you feel when you first heard my hit single 'Crank Dat (Soulja Boy)'?'
(Scarface has mostly laughed it off.)

One of Beyonce's clothing lines? How many does she have?

Questions, anyone?

What's the Soulja Boy dance?

Soulja Boy is an extremely popular teenaged rapper who makes 50 Cent look like Cornel West. Here's the video.

heh...I've never heard of the dude, yet alone know his dance...and i'm black. Go figure!

Souljah Boy is Marlo Stanfield??

Okay, next question. Who's Cornel West? I know Cornel Wilde, but not Cornel West.

I'd never heard of Soulja Boy either, mudpuppie. Having seen the video, I see that the dance is what we used to call The Funky Chicken back in the day ...

Awesome that you won a goody bag, TPS! I remember you saying a while ago that you wanted to learn the whole dance. You'll have to show us a picture of you and the new scarf.

Nah, Mary J. Blige is Marlo Stanfield, but only when she's buying steroids.

Cornel West was a professor of African-American studies at Harvard who was more or less run out of the university by Larry Summers after West took time off to do various pop-culture-y, activist-y things, including recording a rap album, which resulted in half the Afro-Am department leaving Harvard. This was before Summers managed to alienate the entire female population of the university, but after, I believe, he declared that all pro-Palestinian protesters were anti-semitic and therefore not allowed to protest on campus.

Good times.

That was totally unclear. Wow.

Summers' getting upset at West made west leave (and go to Princeton, I think), and West's leaving basically destroyed the Afro-Am department, because a bunch of other professors thought Summers was being an idiot and completely unsupportive of their scholarship, so they left, too.

How bad was her weave close-up, Pinks?

And I bet the reason her legs and arms looked thick are because they are the hardest body parts to slenderize with foundation undergarments.

(I'm feeling especially catty toward TyTy since she told the ANTM girls that homelessness was an issue close to her heart because she was homeless for a day on her show once.)

Her weave looked pretty good up close- I noticed in person, and now on TV, that she wears her hair styled forward to cover most of her big forehead. That would drive me crazy; I need my hair off my face. Her hair was big and curly with no bangs (a style I prefer over her long, straight with bangs do). Also, at the end of the show, she gave her beauty tip about weaves- mainly that, when you are between weaves, but you want to trick your man into thinking you are still wearing one when you go to bed, buy a full wig and cut off the bottom. Discard the top of the wig. Now, wear the bottom of the wig (which Tyra refered to as a "wiglet") with a head scarf over it. Your man will be tricked into thinking you are still wearing a full weave!

(I'm feeling especially catty toward TyTy since she told the ANTM girls that homelessness was an issue close to her heart because she was homeless for a day on her show once.)

Hah! I wonder if Scott Bakula does that same type of thing...

topic: oranized crime
Scott: "That's an issue very close to my heart, since I once played an FBI agent who had to protect a woman in the Witness Protection Program from mafia retribution."

topic: racism
Scott: "That's an issue very close to my heart, since I once played an elderly black man facing discrimination in the Jim Crow era South."

topic: domestic violence
Scott: "That's an issue very close to my heart, since I once played a high school nerd who had to stop my older sister from marrying an abusive alcoholic."

topic: broken homes
Scott: "That's an issue very close to my heart, since I once played a divorced mother of three who had to prevent my teenage son from running away from home."

Et cetera.

Hey, lay off! Scott Bakula-abuse is an issue very close to my heart, since his name was once the answer to a clue in the NYT Wednesday crossword puzzle.

*makes puppy-love eyes at Atom Eyes*

WTF is that scarf/wig thing? So you'd wear a headscarf AND half a wig to bed? W. T. F. ???

Heh essexjan, it's a black thang...
(no i dont wear weaves, but i do rock an afro like you wouldn't imagine, although these days i'm big into braids)

You are so right, Atom Eyes. Bakula has been through so much. We should start a charity in his honor. The Scott Bakula Association for the Prevention of Everything.

(Or maybe just the prevention of Dean Stockwell.)