New Survivors to Compete By Race.. And Leo's Not Gonna Stand For It - 12:56 p.m.

Not sure how many of you watch Survivor. I've been a fan of it for a long time, mostly because I ran an office pool. That's past tense, because the last two seasons were pretty much too boring to watch and we were too busy surviving for our jobs to care. This season may be a whole new story. The show's creator, Mark Burnett will be splitting up the contestants into tribes by race: the Hispanics, the whites, the Asians and the blacks.

Burnett said they decided to do it because people complained about the show not being racially diverse. That's complete crap. It's obvious it was done to get ratings, and if I'm planning to watch after not doing so for 3 seasons then guess what? It worked. The host Jeff Probst was a little more forthcoming, "It's very risky because you're bringing up a topic that is a hot button," Probst said. "There's a history of segregation you can't ignore. It is part of our history. For that, it's much safer to say, 'No, let's just stick with things the way they are. Let's don't be the network to rock the boat. Let's not have 'Survivor' try something new.' But the biases from home can't affect you. This is an equal-opportunity game."

A history of segregation?.. I don't know why he made it that deep. Again.. If you've watched the show before, you know the tribes have been split up into young vs. old and men vs. women. As the losing tribes begin eliminating their own (because that's how it works) all the tribes are merged into one. The separation of tribes only happens at the beginning to make it interesting or to see how.. an all female tribe does against the men or if old school farts knows more than the new school brats. It's a harmless thing

Cutting anything along someone's skin color is going to get people talking, and in this case some people are 'very upset.' Take this guy Leo Terrell. Some radio show host I've never heard of. He was on Scarborough Country last night losing his mind about this. You want to talk race? He was the epitome of the stereotypical Angry Black Man. The show's producers booked him because they knew he was gonna be against it.. nothing wrong with that, he's that guy for the panel. I wonder if they expected him to be this heated though, because everyone on that panel, including Joe Scarborough, were damn near speechless.

Why you so mad Leo? I'll tell you why I'm mad..

"This makes me sick. This is the race card being played to increase ratings. 12 years ago he didn't care if blacks or Hispanics were not on that program. I find this offensive. He's trying to squeeze a couple of years out of this program. And I want to look him straight in the face and say don't tell me after 12 years you're racially sensitive to the lack of blacks or browns on this show. I hate this whole concept. This civil rights attorney is going to do everything possible to make sure that doesn't go on!"

We talked the ratings thing. Honestly is that really a problem. It's not affecting people's civil rights, they aren't giving the black tribe watermelon slices and chicken, Hispanics arroz con pollo, and the whites and Asians whatever they think is a good ethnic look. He also said black people don't watch the show. If this gets 1/10th of a percent of them watching is that a bad thing?

Obviously he was speaking for himself, doesn't watch at all.. If he did he'd know there's always at least one black, Hispanic or an Asian. And the fourth season's winner was a black woman. One black woman in the mix with everyone else won the million through the votes of the other tribe members. There are no dirty tricks being played here.

What's going to be interesting is if the alliances take place along racial lines. Say no matter what, I'm not gonna vote you off. Which is what people say to whoever they click with in the beginning and think will help them. That's where the social experiment in this really is.

Do you stick with someone, even if they are a losing/negative influence, because you could be blood ten generations down the line?

I'll tell you this.. my man Leo would be voted off first chance, no problem, looking like Beetlejuice. You got to go. .. Survivor premieres September 14th.

Had a flash clip but the encoder's acting up. Here's the real video.

Barack Obama Making His Way to the White House - 2:59 p.m.

Look who's on the cover of the Sep/Oct issue of Men's Vogue. It's the star of the 2004 Democratic convention, Barack Obama. When Barack Obama took the stage to deliver the keynote address, no one outside a tight political circle knew his name. It only took a few minutes for that to change.

"On behalf of the great state of Illinois... (APPLAUSE)... crossroads of a nation, land of Lincoln, let me express my deep gratitude for the privilege of addressing this convention. Tonight is a particular honor for me because, let's face it, my presence on this stage is pretty unlikely."

"My father was a foreign student, born and raised in a small village in Kenya. He grew up herding goats, went to school in a tin- roof shack. His father, my grandfather, was a cook, a domestic servant to the British. But my grandfather had larger dreams for his son."

"Through hard work and perseverance my father got a scholarship to study in a magical place, America, that's shown as a beacon of freedom and opportunity to so many who had come before him. (APPLAUSE) While studying here my father met my mother. She was born in a town on the other side of the world, in Kansas. Her father worked on oil rigs and farms through most of the Depression. The day after Pearl Harbor, my grandfather signed up for duty, joined Patton's army, marched across Europe. Back home my grandmother raised a baby and went to work on a bomber assembly line. After the war, they studied on the GI Bill, bought a house through FHA and later moved west, all the way to Hawaii, in search of opportunity." (APPLAUSE)

"And they too had big dreams for their daughter, a common dream born of two continents. My parents shared not only an improbable love; they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or "blessed," believing that in a tolerant America, your name is no barrier to success. (APPLAUSE).. They imagined me going to the best schools in the land, even though they weren't rich, because in a generous America you don't have to be rich to achieve your potential." (MORE APPLAUSE)

There was much more, certainly some of the things he said had been said by others, but it was the way he said it, the genuine belief in the power of faith and opportunity for change which guided his words that had TV commentators (Chris Matthew comes to mind) wondering if he would run for president some day.

The Men's Vogue article retraces the story of his life told in his memoir Dreams From My Father, a 54 week New York Times best-seller, that he says allowed him to pay off his college loans. Touches on his second book due in Oct.The Audacity of Hope, speaks on his wife and kids who a family friend says "is his rock".. AND of course asks if he'll run for president.

"Look, it was highly unlikely that I would ever be a U.S. senator, so it's very flattering for people to talk about a presidential race."

In other words, it'a question that he dances around. In fact, he avoids any of the shine people place on him.. "I'm so overexposed I make Paris Hilton look like a recluse," he said. Vogue writes that the gossip in Washington is that Obama isn't not  running for president.

Obama is aware of the challenges he'd face, that he has limited foreign policy experience, that candidates like Hillary Clinton are well ahead of him, and that anyone next to sit in the White House is going to have to "clean up the mess."

Some might throw in his race as a big factor as well, but all of those things are the obvious. If he ran I think he'd be more concerned with finding a way to express his desire to do great things.

Article excerpt: He recalls walking recently through a corridor of the Capitol Hilton, which is filled with portraits of all 43 presidents, and pondering their careers. "You go through and you think, 'Who are these guys?' There are - what? - maybe ten presidents in our history out of 40-something who you can truly say led the country? And then there are 30-odd who just kind of did their best. And so - I guess my point is - just being the president is not a good way of thinking about it."

"My attitude about something like the presidency is that you don't want to just be the president. You want to change the country. You want to make a unique contribution. You want to be a great president." end excerpt

To this point Barack Obama seems content with playing the background, learning the game from the sidelines (and in the trenches of Congress.) 2008 seems too soon, but there would be no surprise to hear his name in 2012. Especially once Hillary Clinton loses to Rudy Giuliani.

Spike Lee's "When The Levees Broke" Parts 1 & 2

When it was announced that Spike Lee was filming a documentary about Hurricane Katrina the big 'is that necessary' was the first thing to pop in my head. Watching the first of two parts last night I've got to say I was all kinds of wrong. It is one of the best docufilms I've seen in a minute. He's on a roll: first Inside Man, now this.

I watched the news coverage from the weekend before Hurricane Katrina hit the shore. You know how crazy the storm season was last year. Any fuzzy mass on the doplar radar was reason to turn to the Weather Channel for the strange entertainment value of hearing minute to minute coverage as it pushed along.

Katrina was the megablockbuster of all the storms, and Spike Lee charted the path of destruction and the aftereffects in the most thorough way possible. The biggest point he makes is that Katrina didn't do most of the damage it was the breaching of the levees that caused the devastation. There you might think, well Katrina caused that, but you know people talk. The way he handled the rumors that the levees were purposely blown open was a nice detail. Instead of leaving it to the voices on the street, which can be easily dismissed as crazy, paranoid people. He mixed it up with a proven fact that black sections of Mississipi were intentionally flooded in 1927, and a story that the levees were suspected to be dynamited in 1965's Hurricane Betsy that caused the Ninth Ward to flood to save the richer sections of New Orleans. The Betsy situation was never investigated. Just left out there to wither away. Kinda like Katrina.

Beyond that I watched with a nod and smile at the people being interviewed. Swamp Thing was a cool ass dude; some woman with a striped shirt looking and sounding like a person that everyone knows (and loves) in their neighborhood; and the Radio Raheem-like rap at the the end was - well, hilarious, to me. It was the sudden break into song that got me. He busted a tear, so I apologize for diminishing his passion.

The impact of Hurricane Katrina only came through because of the people literally dying on TV screens across the globe. Which only makes it all the more crazy that FEMA Brown got on CNN and said he had just learned about the people at the convention center four days into the thing. I knew that before the storm hit. There were reporters interviewing people going into the Convention Center for hours. Spike brought the CNN anchor Soledad O'Brien on who broke character on her show to basically ask Brown if he was serious.. oh, he was serious and firing off emails about his colorful ties.

"It was baffling to me how you could have what was at that point an official estimate of 50 thousand peope at the convention center and not know about it. And have no idea.. The other thing that was surprising to me was that he seemed to have no intelligence. At one point I said, 'How can we have better intel than you have? Because I have a research file prepared by my 23-year-old production assistant, and I'm getting better intelligence than you're getting?'"

Without the small moments like Mayor Nagin going off on radio, this Brown thing, and the not so small thing.. news crews filming and reporting 24 hours a day, you wonder just how long the people would have had to wait to get any help. Best believe one other thing FEMA hadn't anticipated was the response of the media.

It defies any kind of logic to figure out how it takes four-five days for the government to move in and help. With yes, just the basics. A bottle of water. Not even food. Some tap water in a bottle. What drives it over the edge is hearing the politics behind the slow response. Bush calls Nagin for a meeting (after he bitches) with the governor, Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff, FEMA Michael Brown.. everyone is pointing fingers at the other person, talking about who signed what papers and what calls weren't made or should be made so that the i's and t's can be crossed and dotted, faxed, copied and filed in a polished cabinet before any help can begin to be on the way.

You mean to tell me legal issues prevented them from helping those people?

That's the biggest crime ever. When it comes to an emergency like that, who cares who has to declare it an emergency. It's obvious to anyone with two eyes.. or even a bad eye. Watch that floating bag of laundry. Oh, that's a dead body.

By the end of the show I was just as pissed off as Spike Lee is when people question his film's intentions.

Didn't plan on it. I was laughing for awhile, got pissed and then reflective.

Why make a movie about Hurricane Katrina? Because it'll go down as one of this generation's biggest fuck-ups. Spike is simply getting the truth on the table. For sure, a film like this wouldn't have come from anyone else. And it surely wouldn't be this long... can't imagine how he fills another.. 2 hours is it?. We'll see. Acts 3 & 4 tonight.

Kola Boof Says Osama bin Laden Loved Whitney Houston.. Blames Bobby Brown - 2:56 p.m.

If you're anything like me, you're thinking, who is Kola Boof? She's a Sudanese writer with six books to her name, the latest being Diary of a Lost Girl: The Autobiography of Kola Boof. Although her story has been told in newspapers for a number of years, it's in that book that she tells of her time as Osama Bin Laden's 'sex slave.' In 1996 she claims she was held against her will at Morocco's Prince Fabrizzio Ruspolli estate and used for his sexually deviant pleasures.

A statement that Prince Ruspoli has confirmed, as far as them staying at his estate. La Maison Arabe

This woman has an interesting story that should be fleshed out a little more, no time for that now. I haven't even done the digging to comment with a straight face. But by all means, check her official site and this one which has a ton of news links, audio, video and an interview where she describes the first time she met Bin Laden..

"We met in a restaurant in Marrakech. I was there with my date and Osama came in with his men and ordered me over to his table. They escorted my date out of the restaurant and I never saw him again. Osama chatted with me for a few minutes, and then later that night, he came to my hotel room with his men and he raped me very violently. And then a few days after that, his men arrived again at my hotel...only this time to fetch me and my belongings. They took me to the Medina, La Maison Arabe, and I was kept there in the Winston Churchill room for six months. Osama came to the estate off and on, about four out of those six months total. He had sex with me and I accompanied him and his men on hunting expeditions and fishing trips. I got to know a lot of his friends, such as his doctor Ayman al-Zawahiri."

Two things I find really crazy: a Moroccan estate that has a room named after Winston Churchill and this 'rape' which included fishing trips and what have you. Maybe she got the special treatment. Considering she said Osama's feeling about black women was, "African women are only good for a man's lower pleasures. What need do you have for wombs?" Guess that didn't include Boof [entirely].. or Whitney Houston.

Harper's Magazine printed an excerpt from her book where she says that Osama was crazy in love with Whitney Houston. "He said that he had a paramount desire for [Houston] and although he claimed music was evil, he spoke of someday spending vast amounts of money to go to America and try to arrange a meeting."

Whitney's $100 million Arista contract? She could keep that for pocket change. Osama wanted to make her one of his wives, "He said he wanted to give her a mansion that he owned in a suburb of Khartoum. He explained to me that to possess Whitney, he would be willing to break his color rule and make her one of his wives."

The comedy in this doesn't begin until you hear how he blamed Whitney's downfall on Bobby Brown. Haha. This guy can't get a break. "He would say how beautiful she is, what a nice smile she has, how truly Islamic she is but is just brainwashed by American culture and by her husband - Bobby Brown, whom Osama talked about having killed, as if it were normal to have women's husbands killed."

The obsession was so deep.. "I would come across photographs of the Star magazine, as well as copies of Playboy. It would come to the point where I was sick of hearing Whitney Houston's name."

Wait a minute, is that how an 'unwilling sex slave' thinks.. Jealous of the next chick?

Jill Marie Jones Still on Girlfriends? - 1:58 p.m.

What would Girlfriends be without Jill Marie Jones? We many never have to answer that question.

Word according to TMZ.com is she hasn't left the show at all. Or more like, had second thoughts about the choice between: something or nothing.

It's really sad that her 'girlfriends' didn't stick together to get the raises they wanted. Makes you realize who the real money whores are.

This is still rumorsville though.. checked CW and her picture isn't in the cast photo. I'm betting that her association with the show will be along the lines of a plastic blowup doll look-a-like propped up on Joan's couch. Juice lips and all, get a ventriquilist doing the voice work and it's like she never left.

Pharrell. Nosssirr... Diddy Duet with Keyshia Cole - 3:22 p.m.

Early this week the production boy wonder, Pharrell was on The Jay Leno Show.

It may have been a repeat from last week because Christina Milian was there to talk about Pulse, as was Will Ferrell's buddy from Talladega nights. In any case, Pharrell was the musical guest. He sang "Number One." It had to be the lamest, most uninspiring performance I've seen since.. um, Cherish performed on Regis and Kelly.

He's ultra-casual in shorts and a polo shirt. Smirking confidently, clapping his hands and doing a side to side, two step.. "' sing along.. number one.. classic.. " Sounding like Eddie Murphy in Coming to America - remember the Jehri Curls, Sexual Chocolate?

Talladega Nights guy was looking from offstage in disbelief. You know it was his first time hearing the song. He's probably thinking this guy is on Jay's show, he must be good.. yup, good and terrible.

"Number One" isn't a bad song.. but a true singer, Pharrell is not.

Produce, experiment with the N.E.R.D.S., but do not shoot to sound like the "Just Got Paid, It's Friday Night" guy.

Self-confidence will get you everything, even when it isn't necessary.

Now the artist formerly known as Puff Daddy is talking about his singing debut. His admiration of Keyshia Cole's Mary J like struggle has resulted in a duet with her called "Last Night" on his new album. That's right, the man is singing. Unless the album is leaked, you won't hear it in advance. That's a deal breaker right there.

Or a deal maker? Give him the benefit of doubts being misguided. Maybe he can teach Pharrell a few things.

You can only hope he's so good it branches out into a full fledged album. Dapped out in his Frank Sinatra suit singing Luther's classics. "Diddy Croons in St. Tropez"

When Black is White and Assumptions Fall Flat - Sgt. Jason Thomas Speaks - 2:42 p.m.

For anyone that saw World Trade Center, you'll recall the Marine was a white guy with a midwest swagger. Did he fly in to New York to help out? I forget. Anyway, his character is critical to the movie because he represented the person who first heard the voice in the rubble, which led to the two policemen being rescued. Once again - for those that didn't see it (or read the review) - the movie doesn't focus on the towers being destroyed. It's more about these two cops that were actually rescued from the smoking hole that used to be the World Trade Center.

So this Marine is all over the movie and it turns out that the guy who saved them is actually black.

Does race matter?

Does it matter if Jesus was black or white? I'm taking it back there. Haha

It does matter if you want to get the facts right, and if you want to give a job to a black actor.

I'm just thinking, who could have played this newly tanned Marine? Samuel Jackson? Taye Diggs? Boris Kodjoe, for the ladies? Or the way to get the attention of the raptivized crowd.. 50 Cent? If he can pull off Home of the Brave don't think the studio won't be kicking themselves after learning this new information.

And it is new information.. Sgt. Jason Thomas never came forward to say he was the guy that saved them. To everyone involved with the movie, he was a mystery man. They knew of him, but didn't get the license plate number.. that kind of deal. Jason Thomas didn't even know the movie was being made. It wasn't until his mother told him about the movie and I'm guessing his photographic negative twin brother.. that he decided to say, "Hello, a Brotha is over here."

Don't let me mash up his words. He's more humble than that.

In fact the character, the person who plays you is a Caucasian. They sort of had to pick someone who they thought resembled you just in character. How did you feel to see someone that looks dramatically different from you?

"That didn't bother me at all. My thing was the message.. the message needs to be much stronger and the world needs to see this movie, and I was happy that the movie came out. I was hoping that New York would be ready for it."

Take us back though, you were there. It's 9/11 and you find out what happens. What do you do?

"I took it personally. The attack personally. It's my city. I felt. And I didn't think it was an accident. My mother actually told me about the plane. I was at my Mom's house, I just dropped my daughter off and when I get to the door she tells me, 'A plane just flew into one of the buildings.' I said, 'What do you mean?' She's like, 'A plane just flew into the World Trade Center.' .. I threw on my uniform and just head to New York."

He goes on to describe what he saw when got there and does one of these..... paused when he got to the part about the tower collapsing. It looked like he was thinking of what to say, but if you watch the whole thing you'll see he was really affected by what occurred. To the point that he said he won't see the movie - not yet, "I'm not ready for it."

And don't call him a hero.. "The people that lost their lives, the people that ran back in the buildings to help others, they are the heroes. They should be shown and recognized for their heroism."

Here's the Clip - Sgt. Jason Thomas - Mystery "Hero" of 9/11

Jay-Z Water Crisis Documentary. Roc-A-Water For Life? - 3:25 p.m.

What do you do when you want to rhyme like common sense, but the common cents don't add up? In Jay-Z's case it seems that you tackle a tough social cause with something more than a verse. Yesterday, at the United Nations, Jay sat with UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to announce his association with the UN to assist in helping their efforts to solve the water crisis in many 'third world' nations.

What water crisis?

More than 1 billion people lack the access to even the nastiest tap water you can twist out of your faucet, never mind a cold, frosty bottle of Evian, Poland Spring, or Dasani. Why did that sound like Ricky Bobby?

Do this.. take all the people that were in the club you went to last week, or the movies, or the restaurant and picture all of them dying in the most horrific way. Nice, right? Multiply that by 10 or 15 and you have the number of people who die from water-related diseases and thirst every day. Not a pretty picture. Not even a thought that you'd want to mess with.

Retirement gets the bones creaky, so with Jay-Z embarking on yet another tour on September 9th.. international this time, Poland being the first announced stop (in October, South Africa with Rhianna) he wants to visit places he's never been to and see some of the people and situations first hand that are dealing with fresh water shortages. The plan is to hit the stage at night and during the day it's all about the streets.. Jay-Z said, "Of course, I can't go to any place without touching the culture and seeing what's going on. When you start getting down to Africa and places like that, you see that billions of people don't have access to water."

Umm Hmmm.. Africa, India, Honduras

In addition to just looking around and saying.. "What a shame" Jay-Z has donated money to build "play pumps" which are described as merry-go-round-like structures that pull water from the ground when spun. He wants to build 1000 of them and is encouraging other entertainment figures to get involved.

MTV will film the trip they've dubbed "Diary of Jay-Z: Water for Life" on November 24th.

Without a doubt Jay-Z was made aware of the situation from others, and in some way may benefit him career wise, but it should take nothing from him agreeing to be a part of the project. It shows the growth he's experienced as a person: Hard Knock Life era Jay-Z wouldn't have been interested, and the respect and influence he has gained from the business community and his fans.

Jay knows that a wave of his hand won't solve the problem. Ultimately he wants people to simply be aware of what's going on.. "It's a basic thing to us," he said. "If you bring awareness to other young people, they're gonna see [that] and want to be involved. I'm not a politician - I'm just a regular person with a heart. If you see a problem like that and do nothing about it, there's something wrong with you."

Lil Wayne Arrested - Katrina Survivors Blamed For Houston's Crime Rate - 1:41 p.m.

Lil Weezy aka the best damn rapper period (his words, your laughter) was arrested on drug charges yesterday, today, last week. Tell me, does it really matter? The kid's middle name ain't Sosa, those unspecified drug charges probably amounted to one saliva soaked blunt in the backseat of the Rover. That's good news for his fans in Cincinnati who will not have to take back the new sneakers and white tees they bought for the Baby and Wayne show on the 17th, Philly, Washington... Weezy's gonna be there for you baby!

When he gets out he might want to give his evacuee buddies in Houston a hand with their bail and lawyer fees too.. *Insert Chris Rock "Help six brothers out!"*

Houston police have blamed a 17.5% jump in crime on those unbelievably care free and rowdy Hurricane Katrina evacuees. You know, the ones who promptly grabbed that $2000 FEMA debit card and took it to the strip bar, Best Buy, and popped the Cristal and Billy burgers (what boycott?)

Louisiana bounty hunter James Martin rummages through the ruins of New Orleans looking for clues to the whereabouts of some of his suspects, and frequently finds himself on the highway to Texas to snatch up his prey. "I don't think Texas really knows what they got," Martin said.

What they got was 250,000 evacuees, with many of them being moved to other states and some leaving on their own, the New Orleans folks number rests around 150,000.

Since they've settled down in their new surroundings, crime has been on an upward trend. Incredibly, since July 25th, 2005 there have been 252 homicides, 21% of them have involved an evacuee as either a victim or a suspect. What I'd like to know is how many soldiers have died in Iraq since that time. Seriously, stupid don't know, but that's the waste of space they represent. Killing each other over who owes who $200 hundred dollars; boo-boo arguing with too-too over some chicken wing argument - not the actual wings, but an argument lacking in real meat, like that piece of the bird. Long as it comes with fries it's all good. I'm hungry.

Truth be told many of the people that are forced to stay in Houston are some of the poorest people from New Orleans. Some sick and physically unable to run around, all their belongings washed away. And with poverty comes all kinds of social issues as well. It's like peanut butter and jelly, one don't come without the other.

It sound crazy but what you think - negative vs. positive mind state does matter.

It's also crazy to say that negative usually wins out in a crowd. Put a hundred thousand people together and the minority willing to act on their horse shit will stand out from the positive anytime.

That's why when I read articles that say those that left New Orleans on their own are doing better than those who stayed I want to tell them what a big brain they have, in a Pulp Fiction kind of way.

Houston's police officials say they don't know what kind of home training these people have or what they're used to regarding the law, but this is the land of the cowboys, these terrorists.. umm, evacuees are gonna be brought to justice.

"New Orleans allowed a lot of these guys to stay on the street for whatever reason or be picked up and released after 60 days," said Capt. Dale Brown, who oversees Houston's homicide division. "Texas law, I don't want to say it's tougher, but we take these offenses very seriously."

James Martin's partner in corralling chimed in with.. "I think some saw (Katrina) as an opportunity. No one knows who they are over here."

That might not be clear, but it's so clear where the money is.. in law enforcement. To date $18 million has been spent to fight the new rise in crime. In June, Texas Governor Rick Perry signed off on an additional $19.9 million.

Not to say this is all about the money.

At least one evacuee, Vincent Wilson of the much better worded.. Katrina Survivors Association (time to start using that) was impressed. He said that in New Orleans before Katrina, "everyone knows that if the jail's crowded you get a slap on the hand and get released."

So now they'll spend time in jail like Weezy. If they can catch him on the 24 hour turnaround.

You know they can't keep the shooter from shining.

Flavor of Love 2: First Show, First Observations - 2:10 p.m.

Sunday night's debut episode did not disappoint. From the previews it looks like there is a long way to go, and a whole lot more insanity to be witnessed. It's to the point where you're already thinking what and how could they pull of Flavor of Love 3 (I know VH1 is thinking that). What jumped out from the first show?..

The White Black Chick: I would love to see this girl at her family's Thanksgiving dinner table. The disgust on Grandpa's face seeing his little granddaughter with her bling bling and sideways cap."Yo, yo, yo pass dem yams, homie! You know what I'm saying. A bitch is hungry up in this mug." Smiling and high-fivin, referencing Snoop Doggy Dogg lyrics. <-- got to go full name on that. This chick is the worst kinda person. Trying way too hard to be someone that she isn't. Flip the race and have someone going too hard on the white side, it's the same thing. Just stop the fake accent and 'cool' lingo. You're not from the hood, you're not down.

Don't worry grandpa, drop this bitch in Brownsville at 2 a.m. she'll do a quick u-turn on those hood ambitions.

Huge Flapjack Tits: That should've been her nickname. Have you ever been talking up a storm with your people, a smile here, a laugh there, then go to the bathroom, look in the mirror and see a full course meal stuck in your teeth? Spinach draped over that front chicklet. What great friends we have that don't tell us when we're storing food in our cheeks like a chipmunk.

Here we have Miss Flapjack, these girls don't know her and they are in competition, but someone should have been kind enough to tell her the flapjack tittie platter wasn't working for her. She had them hanging out like they were some impressive looking peaks. Yeah, they were peaks. Nickname: Molten cliffs. Lava spilling all down the sides.

Here's how you know Flav is aware that you've got to put some show in the show. They're in 'private time' and this chick's babbling on with some nonsensical, dime-store, pimpstress philosophy.. "Life is life" six is six and eight is the magic number, to the point that VH1 captioned the comedy of the thing and Flav is nodding his head and later said "She made the most sense to me at of all the girls I've spoke to tonight."

Leave this 'jive-talking' chick some syrup and butter outside the front door and slam it when she bends down to pick it up. "uuuu.. lotion!"

Toastee: Can anyone be that airheaded? Not really. It's an act that was apparent from the first shot of her sipping and tipping. Fake bitches are all over the show, but masquerade it a little. When it's that obvious you wanna crack her head with the bottle. D-Listed interviewed her when she.. sobered up.

The Blonde $800 Weave Monster: She straight-up had lil Abercrombie & Fitch in a scissor headlock. So hood and so good for drama. It was sad to see her go so soon. Looking back at the tape, she did put the flowers in the girl's face, then the girl hits her with the flowers.. then she got she pushed into the wall. The girl playing the victim was killing me though. I was hoping she got bounced, not Weavy. It wasn't until she was on her knees explaining her side to Flav that I knew she had to go.. can't pick someone this crazy for the love brigade.. the look on his face, said it all. Flashing the choppers like. "ooookayyy."

Nibblz: Miss "No Gag Reflex", Mike Tyson lisp, I'm a sometimes lesbian. So ho hum. She's not worth a comment. Apparently Wendy Williams put her on blast yesterday with some guy calling in to say she was a legendary Brooklyn Ho. She responded on Myspace.

Buckeey aka Grande Bootie: Despite the legitimately crazy bitches there are some absolute dimes Flav will have time to maul and molest at will. They've already been trained from the first season, they know what's expected when 'private time' comes. Check this chick right here, Day One (along with Bootz) she's willing to slob the God down whenever she had the chance.. or when she made the chance. She's got the Jessica Rabbit going for her. More so than Bootz or any of the others in that ridiculous body category - in my eyes. She also wants to be the new New York. Buying him personalized gifts.. he's my man thing. She said she had a lot of bad experiences with men. So your telling me top choice has come to Flav for the good person that he is on the inside? Who's believing that?

Spunkeey: This girl called it at the table with Flav and 2-3 girls all over him (these have to be setups for the 'reality' of the show) Spunkeey said, "We have chicks here trying to be on TV, we have chicks here trying to be with other chicks, video chicks in here, just trying to get another video. I'm coming to you straight up." She sounded like a real, clear thinking person, not caught up in the hoopla, and most importantly like she had some sense. All that went out the window when Flav gave her the final clock and she did some bizarre Spunkeey snake dance into the clock rope, too happy and way too spunky. It was like a totally different person.. if not completely fake enthusiasm, it was for sure, completely annoying. Take your clock, set the alarm, if all goes well it's gonna blow up in 1.. 2..

Somethin: Who would have ever guessed the smell in the house would be one of the girls shitting on the floor? I'm was thinking someone threw up, maybe Toastee drunk pissed on the floor. Nope. We're talking a human turd plopping on the floor. Flav said he saw someone bend down and then run up stairs.. and that someone was the wildly, screaming, Somethin who squatted to pick up the poop she squeezed out in the middle of everything going on.. or it slipped out. I'm sorry.. but what kind of shit is that? Everyone's been asking that question, but my cousin called it: she's an anal champ. There is no muscle left back there to hold it in. Slips in and *plop* slips out on the brand new floor. That makes sense when you consider people have linked her to pics on some porn sites.

Flav's got some easy decisions to make.

Star and Bucwild.. Well, Star Appears on The Opie and Anthony Show

For the first time since the blowout with DJ Envy and their radio show being cancelled, Star and Bucwild made an appearance on The Opie and Anthony Show yesterday to discuss all things good and bad about the incident. Where the "..." comes in is not 30 seconds into the interview Star introduces Bucwild, congratulates him on being sober for 6 days and tells him to go sit somewhere. Yup, business as usual.

The legal charges brought against Star resulted in 3 days community service and six month probation [a period where he can't make derogatory remarks about Envy or his wife]. Job wise, it should be noted that Star had a contract with Clear Channel, so his show being taken off the air doesn't mean he doesn't cash Clear Channel checks. As a matter of fact he said.. "I cashed one this morning."

Last month there was news that Star was filing a defamation lawsuit against NYC councilman John Liu. Liu was the guy that held the press conferences and pushed for charges to be made against him. Liu called Star a pedophile, racist, and anything else that can be scribbled on a protest sign. Star's mother is also filing charges against Hot 97 for remarks made by Miss Jones who called her a prostitute.

In yesterdays' Daily News Star spoke to anyone upset by the remarks he made.. "So what you're offended. Get over it. We're all offended by something. I'm offended every day by people who wave the flag of Jesus. (He's an atheist) I'm not going to grovel to soothe the current climate of pressure groups. I didn't just one day decide to go after someone's Asian kid. I've made jokes about Italians, blacks, Jews. That's what I do. I sit and tell racial jokes. If we're at a point where we can't make ethnic jokes, then game over. If we can't joke about ourselves and each other, then it's a new day and my day is gone."

That's where the Opie and Anthony show picked it up from. Star walks in the studio telling everyone they need to "kiss the ring." Opie and Anthony are the guys that got fired for broadcasting a couple having sex in St. Patrick's Cathedral. They were never arrested for the incident so Star feels like he's 'top shock jock', right now.

Other than a mention of a possible deal with Music Choice for a TV show, there were no jewels or big revelations revealed. It was Star being Star, in his words being confident and aggressive, talking to guys he really doesn't know.. and who don't know him.

Opie, the lead guy of The Opie and Anthony Show was trying to figure him out the whole time. At one point, in disgust, he told Star he was trying to act like he was tough and "it's really bothering me."

Star sideswiped him later, saying the name, The Opie and Anthony Show, sounded gay. Toward the end callers were put through who got on his case a little, but for the most part you hear Star tell you he 'ain't mad at no one' and big things are coming. It was a missed chance at putting some life into his situation.

A better interview, more conversational was something I expected and really the kind of interviews that O&A do. With the boost they could have given him with a soul shake, he could have had an in at XM or Free FM. What he got was a lot of criticism on this morning's show for him being phony.

A lot of misunderstanding on both sides. Regardless, my guess is the huge popularity he had in radio or a new radio/tv hybrid is over.

Listen to the interview (Real Audio) - download it (MP3 5.4 mb)

Meet a YouTube Star: Nia Sings the Hits - 1:29 p.m.

Nicky Mac sent me this Youtube clip yesterday, which made my day in a big way. I'm not one to say your kid is cute, this and that, but this little girl (Nia) is.. too cute. She's singing "Can't Hide Love" off Earth Wind and Fire's Gratitude album. That's music your momma, or your momma's momma has definitely groovy looed too.

It's the throwing back of the head, the outstretched arms and dramatic looks that make her adorable. Not to mention that she knows the words to the song. I'll hum along, no way a dude can belt it out like that.

She's just 4-years-old, her parents are obviously amazed that she shows such an aptitude for singing at such an early age. There are clips of her singing Alicia Key's 'Falling" and others that have her age marked at 2-years-old. So she's been doing this for a long time.. as in 4 years, as in singing in Momma's belly. *Late at night. What's that sound?.. Patting her stomach. Oh, that's just Nia.*

She's much too young for anyone to tell if she can actually sing, but I have a good feeling that this will be a classic clip 10-15 years from now. You can hear her Mom and Dad's voice in the background on some of the other clips, 'stand back so I can see you'.. guiding the career like Knowles folks already.

The clip has been viewed nearly a half million times, so you may have seen it already. Checking out the others on the page (which Momma seems to be updating every day) I think you'll agree it's the best of the bunch.. that greatest hit.

Oh no. Teddy Pendergrass ? Watch as she drops the 'mic' and actually looks disappointed. She's serious about hers. Haha.

She's going in my favorites.

Zab Judah Takes the Stop Snitching T-Shirt Slogan to Heart - 2:41 p.m.

Last night Zab Judah was hanging out at 27th and 10th avenue in New York City - there's a club around there - he was lounging outside with his yellow Lamborghini when a van pulled up with three passengers. They jump out of the van, and one guy, 19-year-old Derrick Ayers, flashes a gun, telling Zab to put his jewelry on the car. Zab is forever flossing. Instead of relieving the jewels, he took off running. For whatever reason, they jumped back in the van and Zab doubled back, hopped in the Lambo and followed them.

A block away the would-be Zab jackers ran a stoplight and crashed into another car. A Homeland security officer on his way to work spotted the accident and rushed over to help. The driver of the van was injured, but his two buddies ran toward the nearby Chelsea housing projects. Zab rolled up seconds later and told a cop who had arrived that the injured driver had tried to rob him.

On the other side of the projects one of the thieves hailed a cab and told the driver to take him to Brooklyn. The cabbie said, "no problem." Which should have been a warning sign. At least pinch yourself to see if you're in the Twilight Zone. What cabbie picks up a young, black guy, 5.a.m., "no problem", going to Brooklyn?

With thoughts of escape in his head, dude hops in, not realizing the cabbie saw him run from the accident and drove around the corner to track him down. Does he take him to Brooklyn? Of course not.

The cabbie drives him back to the scene of the crime. With the doors locked, dude's in fear, looking out the back window, twitching like a mouse on a glue trap. The cabbie, laughing, popped out and greeted the donut and mocha cappuccino ingesters with his prize.

But by the time everyone involved had filled out the paperwork at the stationhouse, Zab decided that he really couldn't identify the suspects.

Walking out of the stationhouse he told reporters.. "I don't identify anybody. I'm not a snitch, I don't do that, that's not my forte." Then he gave a shoutout to Brooklyn. No joke. Fired up the yellow Lamborghini and took off down the axle-busting, rim-demolishing, pothole laden New York streets.

Is this the definition of snitching?

Snitching to me is when you tell on those you personally know, or are involved in ongoing mischief with, where breaking the law is a known consequence of being involved. So when the pressure is on and you get bagged, you turn around and point fingers at everyone else. That's snitching.

Busta's situation bordered on snitching, because you know he knew who was involved, but because he knew them, or who they ran with, he was in a tough spot as to how to handle it: turning in friends of his friends. Pointing them out would be close to snitching.. to those friends. Not to say that was right, but that's what it was.. you know he wasn't blinded by the flash of the gunfire. Amnesia from the pop.

Zab Judah pointing out guys he doesn't know who attempt to rob him, that doesn't seem like snitching. Who would say Zab is wrong for doing that? How would his "reputation" be hurt doing so?

And what was the reason for chasing them down, to deliver hands on justice? I mean, he has a few belts, but Zab has tasted his ass coming out his mouth many a time, from the beatings he took against opponents supposedly not in his league. He could have drove up and got tagged by a 19-year-old. Considering they had guns he could have caught a bullet.

For them to take off in the first place, maybe he flashed steel of his own. Zab was quoted as saying, "They were just a bunch of idiots who didn't know what they were doing. They messed with the wrong guy."

Makes me think there is a gap in the official version of events.

The 'no snitching' thing may give him credibility with the stickup kids though: here's a guy who got caught slipping and didn't turn in the guys who did it when he had the chance. His reasoning may also be what he said, they were just kids who weren't thinking.. why send them to Rikers? I'm good.

Things like that give you credibility with the criminal/understanding minded people, but others will wonder, why would you want to do that?

Me. I'm still wondering what the hell he was doing with a Lamborghini in the middle of New York City.

Stephon Marbury Loves the Kids: "Free Haircuts for all of them!"

I shouldn't bash my man, Steph's gonna be on my NBA fantasy squad this season. I'm predicting better days for the Knicks. Regis asked him about the Knicks upcoming season, Stephon said.. "just watch." Which is all anyone can say regarding the Knicks, trying to explain where they are going and what they accomplished last season is guaranteed to get you nowhere.

After Regis complimented Stephon on the suit (See.. Regis liked it. He said he looked like a banker too.) Steph talked about his sneaker line called Starbury. It actually includes clothes as well, but he specifically mentioned the sneakers which will sell for $14.98.

Bargain bin crap you say? Steph broke it down.. "You take a shoe that's $200 and then you take my shoe and you cut it in half, it's the same exact shoe."

To prove that is durable and won't split at the seams with the slightest move, he's going to wear them this coming NBA season.

I remember Kevin Garnett was on this same trip when he left Nike.. saying kids spend way too much on sneakers. He did the And1 thing and is now with Adidas.

Steph added.. "The thing that we're doing is we're going to the inner cities and teaching kids that you can go out and you can buy the shoes yourself. You don't necessarily have to use your mother's money. You can use money that you can save up from getting an allowance or whatever."

Basically teaching responsibility and financial independence.

Steph should be commended for even trying to make this work, he could have easily priced them at $175 and it would be much easier to market.

What stuck out for me was the mention of him giving free haircuts to kids in his old Coney Island stomping grounds. For how long? Umm.. as long as he's living.

"I put seven guys on salary, and I provided, for where I live at in Coney Island, I provided haircuts for kids forever."

That's good stuff. The type of thing that's rarely mentioned when talk of an athlete's million dollar contract is batted around. Here he is giving a job to seven guys, and keeping, who knows how many, shorties from walking around Coney Island with neglected, nappy doos.. You know, afros by circumstance, not by 'this is the new style.'

Tamar Davis: Milk, Honey, and The Xtra Juice - 3:10 p.m.

There is an unspoken rule in the Guide to Being a Gossip Columnist which says.. "If thou knows not If said information is true, thou shalt say it anyway. Who gives a damn about the facts!?! We want Juice!"

Who can argue with that? Juice, gravy, extra syrup on the waffles and pancakes, it seems as though Page Six poured the extra syrup on a recent blurb about Prince splitting up with his wife Manuela in favor of younger, fresher, flesh in the name of Tamar Davis. The story goes that Prince has been so concerned with Tamar and her career that wifey felt slighted and apparently felt the heat in their relationship had flamed out.

With divorce papers served to Prince, Manuela Testolini-used-to-be-Nelson is on her own. A 'source' gave Page Six this quote about Prince and Tamar.

"He is trying to get her [Tamar] signed with a major label and has her doing the rounds. Everyone takes the meeting because of Prince, but she's just a pretty girl singing Prince songs. It is not very good. He hasn't found a taker, but he is smitten with her."

Fact check: Tamar already has a record deal.

She signed with Universal Records in December 2005, around the same time Prince inked the papers. Her debut album Milk and Honey will be released on August 29th.

Check the cover. Check Herspace

There is something about that cover which old souls and crate diggers will have flashbacks of: Ohio Players album covers. This one in particular... Honey. And when you're talking Ohio Players you have to talk Skintight. Yes, the days when exposed flesh was done in an artistic manner, (that's artistic), you know, sans straight donkey shot at the camera.

In any case. Tamar has the looks and quotes of being the real deal.

"I can't write or sing anything without knowing the reason behind it," says Davis. "Once that idea is established, I make sure to tell a story that allows the listener to visualize and experience the song with me."

Speaking on recording her album at Prince's Minneapolis studio she says.. "This album was driven first by the bass line. I'd sit at the piano and play the bass line. Then I'd bring in live musicians to build on that bass line. Afterwards, I would harmonize a melody on top of that, just humming or singing la, la, la. The longer I grooved to the track, I would begin to feel something personal."

MTV did an Overdrive piece on her recently, she spoke about being in a group with Beyonce called Girl Tyme.. before it morphed into Destiny's Child she opted out of the group to pursue solo ambitions after a tape her cousin slipped to Prince caught his ear. Prince expressed interest and offered her a production contract. That was when she was 14-15 years old. Ten years later.. here we are.

Tamar told Overdrive..

"Beyonce and I were cool, Kelly was in the group at the time. We did Star Search and things like that and lost on there. Of course it's weird because you're looking and you're like, 'Whoa, my friends are really on TV, and then you're kinda like, 'uh, did I make a wrong decision?'"

A ten year buildup seems an eternity but Tamar says even two years ago she wouldn't have been ready..

"mentally physically, spiritually, emotionally or anything. So to be a part of it now, it's like everything that I fought for, everything that I cried for, everything that I stayed up all night for, you know, spending money on, it's paying off now."

B-Day numbers she will not see come album release date, but I'd guess that it's gratifying just to see the album and her career finally see the light.

Nothing in there says Manuela's suspicion of an affair are true, but if I may get my syrup bottle out, sprinkle a little speculation.. It would be the first time that Prince has traded shades. You know, every woman he's ever publicly been with Vanity, Appolonia, Mayte.. Manuela, have all been caramel/cream complexioned dimes. Here he is walking around with a milk chocolate bar. It's the evolution of souls; the dawn of the new age BET era Prince. I ain't mad at him. Unlike Robert he had the patience to wait for any possibility of a relationship NOT to require calling up a lawyer and buddying up with the Rev. *booo hoo hoo. *fake sniffle* I've got a problem!*

*capping the syrup bottle*

Flickarazzi: Tamar Davis Update - 11:57 a.m.

It has come to my attention (I read the comments.. checked around again) that Universal has postponed indefinitely / dropped Tamar Davis from the label. As of July 1st it was all good, but in recent weeks the train got derailed. No official explanation, speculation is everything from bad blood betweeen Prince and Universal, to the album wasn't that good (as if they release nothing but gems), to Manuela conjured up some hoodoo voodoo in the kitchen sink to sabotage her career. So the source of Page Six's story had an accurate foundation for the quote.

There was a press release that announced Tamar's August 29th release date, along with articles in MTV and MusicRemedy stating the same that caused me to jump on it. A sentence turned into fifteen paragraphs, and it was fun to write.

All of that means nothing for how your day will flow, has flown, and it means nothing in the way of the rule changing. What I said about The Guide is the absolute truth. As they say, it is written and now it's pictured.

It was just last month, June 16th, that Prince performed on Good Morning America with his protege in tow.

Good times. For Tamar's sake I hope it's not the highlight of her career. Shall the record exec gods divinely bless you with a 7 album deal with millions of unrecoupable dollars stapled to the back.

Prince stays with that funk mug [when you feel the music so much you have to make faces], good/funny thing and that outfit?.. Fonzworth would approve, as a matter of fact, he'll bite..