Any fan of the cult classic “Friday” remembers the dismissal of the pretty crackhead played by Angela Means. “Bye Felicia” became a tagline for dismissal and unfortunately the draft fortunes of her son Brad Kaaya have reverted to being worthy of the irony and cruelty that the Internet lends when such easy dots are connected […]
There are actual cottage industries built on the insatiable thirst for insights into the lives of celebrities. From tabloid journalism which includes the likes of gossip magazines, to entertainment centric television and the likes of TMZ, the public are perpetual voyeurs into the lives of celebrities. Reality shows like Keeping Up With The Kardashians give […]
Charlie Murphy was in the US Navy when his younger brother Eddie began his road to International superstardom first as a key player on Saturday Night Live and then from the success of his first film, the box office smash 48 Hrs. Charlie’s Murphy nearly six year stint in the Navy, where he served as […]
You would think with a self proclaimed handle like “Diary Of A Mad Mind” April fools day would be my favorite manufactured holiday, but that has never really been the case. Call it the trauma from my youth, when my mother smacked me for a birthday card for a “play” cousin on April 1st. I […]
By Richard Ray: In the exhaustive research I conducted for the #Atlorgy piece, I found the woman behind the organized event to be an interesting dichotomy of honesty and contradictions. Okay, exhaustive may have been a bit of an overstatement, but in the Trump era of alternative facts #lietillyoudie, I figured the 80 minutes […]
I have a great deal more empathy for those unwitting Caucasian tourists who happen upon South Beach during Memorial Day Weekend. I ended up in Germany during their Carnival festivities recently and the sight of thousands of really inebriated German teens and twenty somethings marching, signing loudly and hold mostly empty 40’s was interesting to […]
The Super Bowl is the most watched event in the United States. Of the top 20 most watched television events of all time in the US, the Super Bowl holds 19 of the top 20 slots (with only the final episode of MASH breaking its monopoly) In the United States there are not many […]
The other day someone mentioned a newsfeed detailing the closure Ringling Bros. & Barnum Bailey Circus this upcoming May after over 146 years in existence. They were struck by my initial non-reaction, though I am unsure why because sentimentality is not usually my strong suit. However, upon further thought the notice of the closing of the […]
I highly recommend everyone go see the film adaptation of August Wilson’s play “FENCES”. Starring and directed by Denzel Washington, the film chronicles the complexities of an African American patriarch, frustrated by broken dreams and minimal opportunities in the backdrop of 1957 Pittsburgh. Wilson won both a Pulitzer Prize as well as a Tony award […]
I have jokes today… so if you are feeling particularly sensitive or politically correct… then this isn’t for you! I can’t with some of you… wasting space on the Internet with your delusional assess. I realize that I need to start getting high, to either appreciate the level of crazy or at least join in, […]
