“Word” to the Wise.

11 08 2008

Provenance- Origin; source.

  1. The provenance of his possessions traced back to dukes and duchesses, kings, queens, czars, emperors, and dictators.
    – John Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Try and create a sentence using the “Word of the Day”.



Poor Me

11 08 2008

Im not feeling well…again. I got a sore throat. I had to leave an hour early today, from work, because I couldnt talk on the phone any longer. Tomorrow, I also have to go to a funeral. I pray I get better by Wednesday.



Look at America’s face

10 08 2008

America Ferrara and Blake Lively are promoting their new movie Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants II when the reporter asked Blake about Gossip Girl and thats when America stole my heart. Take a look.



Isaac Hayes dies at 65

10 08 2008

What is going on here with all these people dying. RIP Isaac Hayes. :-(



How cute!

10 08 2008

I have a friend that I’ve known since high school. Her name is Toni and she is expecting her second child. I remembered when she gave birth to her first child on October 13th and now she is having a second child (also a daughter) on the same day. I think thats cute. when you have children whose birthdays are on the same day, you can buy one birthday cake (if money is tight) and its just easier to remember. Thats cool.

toni

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TONI!



Bernie Mac dies at 50

9 08 2008

bernie mac

CHICAGO - Bernie Mac, the Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated actor and comedian who worked his way to Hollywood success from an impoverished upbringing on Chicago’s South Side, died Saturday at age 50.

“Actor/comedian Bernie Mac passed away this morning from complications due to pneumonia in a Chicago area hospital,” his publicist, Danica Smith, said in a statement from Los Angeles.

She said no other details were available and asked that his family’s privacy be respected.

The comedian suffered from sarcoidosis, an inflammatory lung disease that produces tiny lumps of cells in the body’s organs, but had said the condition went into remission in 2005. He recently was hospitalized and treated for pneumonia, which his publicist said was not related to the disease.

Recently, Mac’s brand of comedy caught him flack when he was heckled during a surprise appearance at a July fundraiser for Democratic presidential candidate and fellow Chicagoan Barack Obama.

Toward the end of a 10-minute standup routine, Mac joked about menopause, sexual infidelity and promiscuity, and used occasional crude language. The performance earned him a rebuke from Obama’s campaign.

Always a performer
But despite controversy or difficulties, in his words, Mac was always a performer.

“Wherever I am, I have to play,” he said in 2002. “I have to put on a good show.”

Mac started his comedy career at age 8, with a standup performance at a church dinner. In 1977, at age 20, he took that act to comedy clubs in Chicago.

His film career started with a small role as a club doorman in the Damon Wayans movie “Mo’ Money” in 1992. Mac went on to star in the “Ocean’s Eleven” franchise with Brad Pitt and George Clooney and his turn with Ashton Kutcher in 2005’s “Guess Who?” — a remake of the Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn 1967 classic “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?” — topped the box office.

Mac also had starring roles in “Bad Santa,” “Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle” and “Transformers.”

The comedian drew critical and popular acclaim with his Fox television series “The Bernie Mac Show,” which aired more than 100 episodes from 2001 to 2006.

The series about a man’s adventures raising his sister’s three children won a Peabody Award in 2002. At the time, judges wrote they chose the sitcom for transcending “race and class while lifting viewers with laughter, compassion — and cool.”

The show garnered Golden Globe and Emmy nominations for Mac. He also was nominated for a Grammy award for best comedy album in 2001 along with his “The Original Kings of Comedy” co-stars, Steve Harvey, D.L. Hughley and Cedric The Entertainer.

Planned to retire soon
In 2007, Mac told David Letterman on CBS’s “Late Show” that he planned to retire soon.

“I’m going to still do my producing, my films, but I want to enjoy my life a little bit,” Mac told Letterman. “I missed a lot of things, you know. I was a street performer for two years. I went into clubs in 1977.”

Mac was born Bernard Jeffrey McCullough on Oct. 5, 1957, in Chicago. He grew up on the city’s South Side, living with his mother and grandparents. His grandfather was the deacon of a Baptist church.

In his 2004 memoir, “Maybe You Never Cry Again,” Mac wrote about having a poor childhood — eating bologna for dinner — and a strict, no-nonsense upbringing.

Mac’s mother died of cancer when he was 16. In his book, Mac said she was a support for him and told him he would surprise everyone when he grew up.

“Woman believed in me,” he wrote. “She believed in me long before I believed.”

Source: MSNBC



OMFG!!!

8 08 2008

If you just swallowed some food, please…I beg you please dont look at these pics. These pics will make you throw up what you just ate and more. View at your own risk!

omg

Click on image for pic.



For those who HATE or LOVE their jobs…

8 08 2008

please visit this website my friend Toni suggested. Its a good site if you want to read up about different companies and possibly make a move or stay where you at.

jobvent



Who the hell is this?

6 08 2008

who?

The face looks somewhat familiar but I cant tell who it is. To find out click on image.



Is it just me…?

5 08 2008

or does Laverne from I Want to Work for DIddy look better than Omarosa? Let me know? :-)

laverneomarosa

And for those who are not familiar with Laverne, she’s a transgendered female.