We are about an hour away from MTV’s 2008 VMA extravaganza.
I was doing some of that digging in the C drive stuff today and really dusted up some memories. It’s the first ever (and last) Flash based Whudat Music Awards.

I am consistently amazed at some of the things I fooled around with back then - some of the writing too. It’s like a different person.

Anyway, consider this the pre-show to the pre-show on this Retro Sunday.

2001 Whudat Music Awards: And the Winner Is?..

Yesterday Rihanna was pictured leaving Da Silvano’s in New York. It’s an authentic Italian restaurant with great food and a favorite of the celebrity crowd. Can’t you picture Rihanna putting a hurting on a big plate of penne a la vodka?

She was also looking every bit the 2004 Miss Combermere Beauty Pageant winner.

This is the second time this week Rihanna’s been spotted without C. Breezy. Which you have to admit, is a break all of us needed.

The video for Brandy’s new single “Right Here (Departed)” debuted early this week. The song is about supporting the people you love, no matter what. Little X directed the video. Brandy was really excited about the concept he came up with, but it’s a little confusing. Did she pass away and return as a spirit to those people, or is she Goddess Durga?

Brandy “Right Here”

Nonetheless, the video and song is soothing.

Sticky Note: Those streets look like something out of I Am Legend. Brandy needs to forward this to Mr. Smith as an audition tape for the sequel. ← joke.

Ciara is on the cover of the new Vibe magazine. Can someone tell me who is in charge of attracting the masses over there? In the last 12 months Vibe have stuffed their pages with meaningless top twenty lists; talked Keyshia Cole into losing her shirt; they get a pass for the no-brainer Jay-Z Juice multi-cover; but now Ciara promotes her “Fantasy” by squatting like she’s taking a dump. That’s not a twisted interpretation, the Vibe staff pushed it along with the quote..

“I’m Not Gonna Hold Back Too Much”.

How’s that for creating a visual.. and a smell?

Robin Thicke is in the issue as well and wanted to be on the cover.
He was told by Vibe that they don’t put white artists on the cover of the magazine and defended it with a where else are you gonna go? attitude. It’s a ridiculous policy when Robin Thicke was embraced to platinum by black audiences, did so on Pharrell’s Star Trak label, and is married to a black woman.

A better explanation would have been, “Look.. Ciara ia going to sell more magazines and we have something really big in mind for the cover.” And they did.. Who left one sheet on the Scotty?

Pick that up Ciara. It’s your dignity.

It’s not an Obama/Biden 08’ sign but it works..

Eight months ago, I was a registered Republican, standing in a cold room in Iowa supporting Ron Paul in the Iowa caucuses. For most of my life, I’ve been a believer in small government and individual liberties, the ideals that, according to what I learned in high school civics, the Republican Party stood for. I voted Libertarian in 2004, simply because I felt that the Libertarian candidate seemed to best voice those ideals at the time.

As I stood in that cold caucus room, I listened to several people stand up and talk about their candidate. For the most part, instead of giving me compelling reasons to vote for that candidate, each stump speaker (aside from the bubbly young woman who spoke about Ron Paul) spent their time not talking up their own candidate, but hurling shovels of specific insults at the people in the Democratic caucus in an adjacent building. I didn’t learn much about Mike Huckabee or Mitt Romney or John McCain, but I did hear a lot of talk about the negative character, poor experience, and profound ignorance of the primary Democratic candidates, Obama, Edwards, and Clinton.

Over the next several months, as the campaign season went along, I started actually opening my ears and listening to talk radio a bit.  Previously, I would just listen to music in my truck during my commute, but I started tuning into a pair of local talk radio stations, which aired programs by Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, and the like.

And I was deeply disturbed. Instead of hearing compelling arguments for why John McCain was the right man for the job, I would hear three nonstop hours of insults levied toward Barack Obama, much of it not directly aimed towards him, but intended to serve as character assassination by association.

Continued at..  Daily Kos

Everyone is raving about Sarah Palin’s speech this morning, let them have their moment. This is the Republican’s time to show the country what they’re made of. If the majority of Americans found in that speech the kind of direction and leadership they want to embrace for the next four years, they will get exactly what they vote for.

What John McCain found in Sarah Palin is someone to be the ‘celebrity’ that can match the Barack Obama show. Someone that can actually speak for John McCain, because truthfully anything he says is ignored or forgotten five minutes later.

Lost in between Sarah Palin’s ‘funny’ and ‘biting’ comments was the lack of any truthful reason to cheer on the Republican squad. If you carved out all of the anti-Barack Obama lines what you would have is: I’m with John McCain all the way and “Drill Baby Drill.” As the Governor of Alaska she knows a few things about that pipeline..

Other than that Palin is following John McCain’s lead on policy.
Which anyone knows by listening to him on and off the stump is a refried Bush burger on a McSame seed bun. See.. I can be snarky too.

Which works. As we’ve seen with George Bush being elected twice, people vote and pay attention to he or she who is just like me.
Who can simplify things to the basic instincts - “The terrorists want to hurt you.” I couldn’t believe Giuliani brought that up or that Sarah Palin said victory in Iraq is in sight.. sound familiar?

Diddy Blogs are getting a lot of attention these days; not for good reasons. People are generally amazed that a multi-millionaire is goofing around on the internet like a teenager. I liked the video about gas prices, Janelle Monae was the truth, but sometimes Diddy seems in desperate need of someone to edit the off the rails stuff.
Like “John McCain is Buggin Out”.

In his latest video blog Diddy apologizes to Alaska and gives a second opinion on Sarah Palin. He added that he’s aware black people (and crack heads) live in the 49th state and tells folks not to take his videos so seriously.

Diddy Blog 16.5 - I Apologize Alaska

Diddy blogs are meant to be fun. ← His words.