I’m throwing a baby shower this weekend for a close friend of mine, so I stopped at Party Packagers today to pick up some decorations and stuff. I came across a party favour in one of the aisles that brought be back to all those wacky 90s fashion trends: Pacifier necklaces.
If you were a girl in elementary school back in the early 90s you’d remember the fad of wearing those acrylic pacifiers as accessories around your neck back in the day. I admit had a couple… but I wasn’t on E or anything… :D
This ghoulish holiday crept up on me quickly! October went by so fast I didn’t even have time to choose a costume or a Halloween party to hit this year. Oh, well… at least I get to splurge on discounted candies and chocolates tomorrow! :D
I know, I know… it’s been over a week and I haven’t made a post to my blog. To my readers (if any :D ) I apologize. Life’s been hectic as of late! With my full-time job and freelancing, it’s like my job never stops. I need a vacation!
Stay tuned for some yummy recipes that will be posted by this weekend, though!
If you haven’t heard the premiere track “Seven Day Fool” from Ms. Black’s sophomore album titled Revival, you’re missing out. I just came back from Jully Black’s showcase performance at The Supermarket in Toronto. This woman has such a great voice. It was a pleasure putting together her revamped official website JullyBlack.com (although cross-browser compatibility can be a pain). Be sure to check it out, as there are photos, videos, audio and wallpapers (avatars will be up soon). Jully blogs regularly to the site, so if you want to keep up with what she’s going through as her new album drops, keep it linked.
I seriously thought this flyer was a joke when I saw it posted on a message board several days ago. “Light Skinned Women & All Libra’s Free Entry All Night”, states the (badly designed) flyer.
Detroit promoter Ulysses “DJ Lish” Barnes apparently cancelled the event that was supposed to occur last night at Club APT after getting a furor of angry calls and emails when word of the party spread to the net.
Barnes, 27, said that he “didn’t think there would be a backlash”. Really? He didn’t think that Black women of ‘darker’ shades would have felt ostrasized by an event that stated that only light-skinned women (and Libras!) got in to the party with no cover charge? According to a Detroit News story Barnes said:
I didn’t mean to offend anyone. I had planned a party for other shades (of black women). We were going to take a shade of color each week. Next week was going to be a party for ‘Sexy Chocolate’ and the week after that ‘Sexy Caramel.
That seems like a bold-face lie. He probably just said that to try and save face. Regardless of how many ‘shaded’ parties he planned on throwing, he’s still being ignorant.
How could he have believed that he wouldn’t offend anyone with an event titled as such? What was he gonna do? Stand at the doors of the club and verify that the light-skinned women who wanted to get in free were actually light-skinned and take out a brown paper bag to make sure? I could just picture it now: “I’m sorry. You’re too dark-skinned. You have to pay the cover charge.” What if two “light-skinned” women were to show up, one being a bit darker than the other–where do you draw the line?
It’s probably not surprising to some that Barnes happens to be a “dark skinned” black man. I bet if there was a party being thrown for free entry for all the light-skinned brothas out there, he’d understand why there was such a backlash. It’s sad to think that as a ‘Black’ community there’s so much prejudice within our own race.
Well I guess something good came out of this situation: On DJ Lish’s MySpace page he’s now presenting “Controversy” as next Friday’s themed event. Everybody free entry all night.
I’ve been there a few weeks ago and I’m from The Netherlands so i should know how it would taste and I got a apple crumble pie and it was the best I’ve ever had little expesive but okay it was delicious!
I’m throwing a baby shower this weekend for a close friend of mine, so I stopped at Party Packagers today to pick up some decorations and stuff. I came across a party favour in one of the aisles that brought be back to all those wacky 90s fashion trends: Pacifier necklaces.
If you haven’t heard the premiere track “Seven Day Fool” from Ms. Black’s sophomore album titled Revival, you’re missing out. I just came back from Jully Black’s showcase performance at 
I seriously thought this flyer was a joke when I saw it posted on a message board several days ago. “Light Skinned Women & All Libra’s Free Entry All Night”, states the (badly designed) flyer.
on August 11, 2016