Almost the Weekend

It's 10 pm and I should be blow-drying my hair. Instead I'm BLOGGING (about nothing)! I still have yet to clean my cats' shit boxes. See dareal, I told you you could blog about nothing in particular...ha!

Anyway, this weekend should be pretty eventful. I'm going to try to take pictures of my whereabouts. This weekend is the Detroit Football Classic and there are a lot of events surrounding this one. Friday, my mother & I are going to the annual step show. Friday also marks the start of the Detroit Jazz Festival. It's always a good time. I'll especially take pictures there. That'd be some good photography.

Umm, yeah, I think tha's all I have for now.

Unbeweavable

So, today, in my favorite net spot, C+D, we are discussing lacefronts.

I have been inspired to post pictures of myself wearing misc wigs & weaves...

This is me au natural:

This is me with extensions:



Here is the wig:


Here is my quickweave:



And here is one of my ponytails:



I don't really want a sermon on natural hair, I'm all for it and wear mine often...I just like versatility from time-to-time, too.

Detroit: Super Bowl Weekend

Super Bowl Weekend in Detroit was a lot of fun. It was the first weekend of February 2006 and my friends came out to paint the town red. Here are some random pictures of the city, as it prepared for the huge weekend.

Construction

A couple of years ago, a building was being torn down to make room for a parking lot just in time for Super Bowl Weekend. This is located right in Downtown Detroit's Harmonie Park. These pictures were taken from my job's parking garage.
I threw in one of my favorite pics... it's a streetlight that was taken down due to the construction in the area.

Detroit: Up Close & Personal pt. 2

Here are more pictures of misc things in the city:

This is the Detroit Athletic Club. It's a private, city club (country club minus the golf course):
This is a local bar in Harmonie Park...Coaches Corner:
This is a small theatre for plays & various productions:


Home of Tigers Baseball



Skyline of Detroit from the Detroit River:
The Renaissance Center...Home of GM Headquarters:

Detroit: Up Close & Personal

I'm no photographer. But for some reason, I feel the need to take my camera with me where ever I go. Just in case there is a perfect picture opportunity. Or, I may like the way something looks so abstract that I may snap an impromptu picture. I especially love taking my camera downtown on a nice Saturday. Well, here are some miscellaneous pictures of some things in and around Detroit.

This is a ring that symbolizes the manugacturing industry of Detroit (I think):
Renaissance Center
This is the Ambassador Bridge that connects Canada to the USA:

This is Casino Windsor shot from the Detroit River:
This is the Fountain in the new Campus Martius Park
This is an bldg in which will be available for loft living in the near future:

This is a Harmonie Park bar/lounge:

Sassy Saturdays

I swear I posted something yesterday. I guess it didn't go through because Blogger was on its period at the time. Figures.

Anyway, I saw Idlewild last night.

It was decent. You have to have an open imagination when you go see it. It blends eras, music, visuals and acting. You have talent such as Terrance Howard, Ben Vereen and Ving Rhames, then you have mediocre acting talent such as Big Boi. Yeah, I said it. He's no thespian, that's for sure. Andre was okay...I'll give him a little more credit since he has more acting experience under his belt. Macy Gray usually does a good job playing drunk. Actually, that's how she "acts" most times she's on tv for some reason or another, anyway.
You have to keep in mind that the movie was directed by Bryan Barber, so the cinemetography was...interesting. Actually, the cinemetography was innovative and nice. But there were other strange things that might remind you of their video for "Ms Jackson" and "Morris Brown". I mean, it was entertaining...as is their videos. It was typical OutKast.

I don't really have much else planned for the weekend. I trimmed our privacy fence this morning and cut away weeds, etc that come through the fence from the neighbor's yard. I now, have welts and scratches on my arms from the top of the fence. Since they obviously don't know the first thing about lawn care, I stood in a chair and leaned over the fence to cut some tall, tree-like weeds down. It's so nice out (not too hot) and I want to do something outside. I haven't seen my Goddaughter much at all this summer, so I called my cousin and suggested we go to the zoo. I know it's last minute, and she was even willing to go, but they close at 5 today and she & the kids had some other running around to do first, so I don't think we're going to make that at all. SHe said maybe we could do something else, but other than that, I can't think of anything else that I'd want to do with 3 kids, so I think the opportunity has passed. There's only so many times you can go to Chuck E. Cheese and I'm not trying to do that today when it's so nice out.

So maybe I'll get caught up with magazines today (Essence, VIbe)

Save Room!

The 3-Time Grammy winner, John Legend is back, y'all!

Hook a Sista Up!

Friends, Fam & Passersby,

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Thanks!!

On the Jungle Floor with Van Hunt

I should have blogged about this a long time ago. Earlier in the spring, on Mother's Day, to be exact, I went to see Van Hunt live. I had been anticipating the show since I've been a supporter of his ever since his debut. BOTH his CDs, and are items that all fans of the real soul music should have in their possession. According to Van, though, he makes pop music more than soul. Go figure. Needless to say, the show was a hell of an experience. If you haven't been to a Van Hunt show, you need to make it your business to be there.

I had the pleasure of Interviewing Van for BrownGurl Magazine

Here are some pictures from the show:

"Get Prayed Up"

This is one funny man:






His act is a bit much, but I like the guy, though :-)

Backslidin'

Okay, okay, it's been a few weeks... make that about a month and a half and I haven't posted anything. I did it again. I fell off. Well, I'll post up again real soon. My 10 yr Class reunion just took place! Damn I'm old...sike. It was a great time.

Hmm, what's on my posting agenda? Maybe a few pics of moi! Oooh, ooh, I know...I have some pics of the Detroit Skyline and Ambassador Bridge (that connects the US to Canada). I'll post those tomorrow and maybe some other stuff.

Til then, folks. Folks = the 2 people that might pass through here by mistake. Ha!