Contact Me (Stickey Note)…

Dear Friends:

Many people can’t find my address anywhere. So I am sticky noting it to the front page…

E-Mail: ToddyBoyJones@yahoo.com

Cheers!

Sincerely,

ToddyEnglish

I Feel So Loved (Had a Wonderful B-Day)

Dear Friends:

Today my birthday was FABULOUS! Ever felt so happy that you literally wanted to explode with joy? That is how I feel right this moment.

1.) I made an A+ in my latest course (one more to go)…

2.) My mother made my favorite cake…

3.) My best friend and I caught a movie…

4.) My office co-workers gave me $80 dollars and helped me celebrate my B-day (I was totally not expecting that)!

5.) All my Facebook friends and telephone friends flooded my Wall (and inbox) with wonderful well wishes…

Chile, I almost wanted to cry (lol). It is wonderful knowing that you are, in some capacity, special in people’s lives.

Anyway, this is too much love for me to handle alone. So, I am sending some to all of YOU (lol).

::Toddy flings Michael Jackson “This Is It” spirit fingers! Showers everyone with L-O-V-E::

Take it and pass it around!

MUAH!

With Love…

Toddy English.

There Is No Excuse For Abuse (The Rihanna Interview)

 Dear Friends:

Here is the Rihanna interview in it’s entirety. I just have to give big ups to my girl because she was so real and open during the interview. Rihanna and Diane left no stone unturned. Moreover, the fact that she is using her platform to be an advocate for domestic violence victims is admirable. I loved her music but now I’m really feelin her as a person.

The saddest thing is…

The majority of the people saying that Rihanna did something to deserve being attacked were BLACK women. That was APALLING. Perhaps that is why Domestic abuse is so prolific in our community? I know it is epidemic around the country, but it seems like we excuse it more. Every young black woman that I KNOW has been abused at some point in her life and act as though it is normal and even acceptable.

Sometimes I don’t understand us.

Toddy English.

P.S.

Check out Chris Crocker. Have I told you lately that I adore shim? LOL

Good Christians Enraged About The Matthew Shepherd Hate Crimes Bill

Dear Friends:

Lovely loving followers of Jesus Christ are appalled by the fact that they can no longer openly commit barbaric acts against LGBT people. Oh the humanity!

Read On…

Pastors will test Matthew Shepard Act by “inciting hate crimes”

Religious conservatives still outraged over the passing of hate crimes legislation have decided to test the limits of the new law with a publicity stunt involving incendiary hate speech directed at gays and lesbians.  In order to “prove” that their God-given right to harass LGBT folk is being threatened, a group of pastors plan to travel to the nation’s capital and ratchet up the rhetoric in hopes of getting themselves arrested.  (Can you believe this shit?  And these zealots have the audacity to refer to hate crimes legislation as the “Hate Christians Law.”)

You can’t miss the irony here.  Christianity is supposed to be all about “Love Thy Neighbor” and “Do Unto Others,” right?  So in order to challenge the new law, a posse of homobigots led by Pastor Gary Cass (president of the so-called Christian Anti-Defamation Commission) is heading to Washington DC on November 16th where they will assemble outdoors and shout hatred and even foment violence against gays - y’know, to see how far they can go before being arrested under the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act.

From the creepy World Net Daily:  The “Rally for Religious Freedom” in front of the Department of Justice in Washington is intended to force Attorney General Eric Holder either to address the issues or be put in a position of ignoring those who say they are violating the provisions of the federal law, Cass said.  “We’re basically going to defy the law, and challenge it,” Cass told WND. “We’re going to declare the whole counsel of God, including those parts that some may consider ‘inciting a hate crime’ to see if the attorney general is going to come down and arrest a group of peaceful clergy exercising their First Amendment rights.”

They want to get arrested so that they can assume the role of martyrs.  They’ll whine piteously:  “See? See?  We told you this would happen!  Just look how the government tramples our right to agitate against gays and lesbians!  See how brave and noble we are when we engage in hate speech!  Please, bring us our crosses!” 

Don’t expect subtlety from this assembly of assholes.  They’re yearning to be handcuffed.  I imagine they’ll take a page from Pastor Steve Anderson’s playbook and start demanding the execution of homosexuals.  (He got away with it and became a sort of insta-celebrtiy, like balloon boy.)  They’ll do their damndest to out-Phelps the Phelps Clan, they’ll try to out-Savage Michael Savage.  The spittle will fly. 

Still, I don’t think D.C. tourists will appreciate hearing anti-gay slogans shouted as they make their way toward the Lincoln Memorial.  The police will be standing by, bored expressions on their faces.  The local news might make an appearance.  I doubt anyone will be arrested during Cass & Company’s little hate fest, which will only serve to make the participants look like what they are: a bunch of delusional preachers with way too much time on their hands.

Honestly, I don’t know what they are trying to prove. Most of us have been called derogatory epithets all of our lives. Hearing it from a bunch of Jesus freaks will go in one ear and out the other. Fuck em.

Sincerely,

Toddy English.

 

My Inner Child Just Did a Summersault (Jem The Movie)

Dear Friends:

Piggy backing off a thread by Wonderman…

I recently discovered that a movie about my favorite 80’s cartoon, Jem and The Holograms, is in production! Ya’ll know I love some Jem, right? Anyway, it is years away but once it’s released I’ll be one of a few dudes in an audience of teenaged girls (haha). However, unlike them, I know all of the songs!

It’s also rumored that Jem could be a possible live action television show (even better).

Anyway, it is about damn time! Jem and The Holograms was the best (alongside Thundercats)!

Toddy English.

Happy Birthday To…ME!

“We wasn’t pose to make it past 25/joke’s on you we still alive!”

Kanye West.

Dear Friends:

Today is my birthday!

Hmmm, well it’s another year. However, in reference to the above quote, I’m still so glad to be here! Chile, after the numerous tribulations that I’ve endured within the previous few years I have no problem getting older…none at all. It just means I survived. Now, I’m happily thriving. Today my heart is filled with gratitude.  The big lesson I’ve learned this year is to just keep living. No matter what you’re going through it eventually ends.

Now, for my birthday…uhm…I want  to enjoy a carnal affair! Look, it has been five months and counting. Chile, to quote Whitney from “Waiting To Exhale,” I don’t gotta be in love to do it (my body needs this). Hmmm, there is a certain blogger I have a big crush on…(teeheehee). He knows who he is! (lol)

Cheers! =0)

With love…

Sincerely,

Toddy English.

Sammy Sosa has the Michael Jackson Disease (VitiLIEgo)

Dear Friends:

There is a new pathogen run amok. While the CDC has not made any definitive conclusions it appears this seemingly rare disease is quite contagious. Michael Jackson had it first and now baseball great Sammy Sosa is afflicted. What is this insidious ailment of which I speak? Well, the mysterious disease is none other than VitiLIEgo.

Now, don’t get it twisted Vitiligo and VitiLIEgo are two different diseases. Vitiligo is a rare skin disorder that destroys skin pigmentation (leaving white spots and blotching); however, VitiLIEgo not only decimates all of the skin pigmentation (turning dark-skinned black men whiter than Casper the friendly ghost) but it erases every single trace of afrocentricity from the faces of its victims, usually handsome black male celebrities (eyes turn lighter, hair becomes straighter, and noses go from full to pencil thin). Once the disease has run it’s course the victim generally resembles a smiling cadaver (at best a grotesque mockery of a caucasian person)…

VitiLIEgo patients quite commonly suffer from delusions of grandeur. They genuinely think the general public is dumb enough to believe that: vitiligo, steroid use, and “skin rejuvenation” can simultaneously whiten the skin; straighten the hair; lighten the eyes; and result in more Eurocentric facial features.

Again, VitiLIEgo is quite heinous (as you are about to see). Be warned the following images are quite graphic…

Sammy Sosa Before being struck by VitiLIEgo

Sammy Sosa AFTER contracting VitiLIEgo (now looking like a hideous Bizarro world version of Desi Arnez)

Michael Jackson: The most extreme case of VitiLIEgo on record. Went from Black and Beautiful to make-up done by Crayola...

Lil Kim before (A beautiful young sex pot)

Lil Kim now (one more attack of VitiLIEgo and she'll be Faye Dunaway from Mommie Dearest)

Seriously though? I can’t STAND black people that don’t want to be black. Oh my goodness it just stirs a gut level reaction in me. Perhaps, it is because I find black people to be BEAUTIFUL. Aesthetically and culturally I find everything about blackness splendid. So, it is just an odd thing to me to believe that someone would want to be anything other than what they are.

Don’t get me wrong. You will never find a more devout Michael Jackson fan; however, my relationship with him has always been one of love/hate. I love him because he was a wonderful example of a true black superstar; yet, Michael was the epitome of the psychological scarring left behind by slavery, segregation, and degradation. The Jackson family (when they were cool) were the face of black America. With their beautiful dark skin, afros, and distinctly black sound and style they truly represented black as BEAUTIFUL.

Then witnessing Michael mutilate his magnificent visage in an effort to crossover was–in my opinion–devastating to the psyche of millions of black children. Michael told a generation of children, without ever uttering a word, that being black was not good enough. Michael told us all that he could never make it in the entertainment world (as a cultural icon) unless he altered his face, hair, and coloring. What made it all the more maddening was how he attempted to disguise it as a skin disorder.  I truly believe that Michael lied about having vitiligo. If he could sit up and tell Oprah that he had only two plastic surgeries then he could sure as hell lie about bleaching his skin.

With Michael I think it was about entertainment. Michael lived his entire life to entertain. Anything that would make him more popular he did it. In my opinion I think he wanted to transform himself into a being that was not black, not white, not male, not female, and etc al. In that regard Michael possibly viewed himself as some type of entertainment demigod…accessible to everyone. Moreover, the abuse he suffered at the hands of Joseph Jackson was probably part and parcel as well (the last person Michael wanted to see looking back at him in the mirror was Joseph, who ALL of his brothers look like). As it is Michael was complicated and fucked up in many regards…

But Sammy Sosa is just a whole other situation. Oddly, Sammy made it clear to me that Michael Jackson was in fact a liar. Sammy told the press that steroid use and “skin rejuvenation” caused his skin to turn white. In addition he said that he isn’t really that white it was just the camera flash. Okay, I might buy that if Sammy Sosa were my complexion. I’m kinda light and when the flash bulb is on my color washes out. However, Sammy is dark skinned. There is no way that a camera flash is going to make him lighter than his white wife.

Sorry honey but you got VITILIEGO! Get your mind right instead of mutilating your body!

With Love (A whole lot of L-O-V-E)…

Sincerely,

Toddy English.

The Words of The Day: Words starting with the Letter ‘R’

Dear Friends:

‘R’ is my favorite letter of the alphabet. There are so many wonderful words beginning with the letter ‘R’ such as: Redemption, Revenge, Ravish, Ravage, Rage, Russian Roulette (more of a phrase), Rated R, Rihanna, Remorse, Radiance, Radicalism, Rainbow, and Ramification and etc (just naming a few). However, I’m going with a few that you, more than likely, don’t hear everyday…

On the list today are: Rachmaninoff, Raison D’etre, and Rapacious.

1.) Rachmaninoff - Russian-born composer. A virtuoso pianist, he excelled at the interpretation of the late romantic composers. His own work is largely a continuation of that genre. (pronounced: rock mahn nin off)

2.) Raison d’etre – reason or justification for being or existence: Art is the artist’s raison d’être. A basic, essential purpose; a reason to exist: “Professor Naylor argues that in the nuclear age, infantry forces have lost their raison d’être.” From French, meaning “reason for being.” (pronounced Ray Zohn Det Ruh.)

3.) Rapacious - [adjective] – excessively greedy and grasping

Use them in a sentence today…or try composing a sentence made completely of ‘R’ words.

Sincerely,

Toddy English.

Whew, I Needed That!

Dear Friends:

I am back from my teeny tiny sabbatical. Honey, I just needed a few days of mental R&R, forreal. I was so stressed out I could feel it in my shoulders! Anyway, while I was gone…

1.) Rihanna gave the full interview to Diane Sawyer. I loved it! I have so much respect for Rihanna. I can’t wait to get the new album. After listening to “Russian Roulette” I have a feeling that it will be semi auto-biographical.

2.) Healthcare reform is on it’s way to becoming a reality. However, I do want to cuss out the Democrats that voted against. Well, it passed so I’m happy about it.

3.) My birthday is in two days…teeheehee. I accept: cash, check, credit cards, and gift cards.

With love…

Sincerely,

Toddy English.

Rihanna Speaks (Part one of the Diane Sawyer Interview)

           

Dear Friends:

I love how candid and open Rihanna is in the interview. People are saying that she is using this to promote her album; however, I see her as giving a wake up call to people in abusive relationships.  Good for her.

Sincerely,

Toddy English.

 

Taking a short Break

Dear Friends:

I’m going to be away for a few days. I just need a little me time (school is getting on my nerves, ugh!). I’ll be back either late this week (maybe Saturday) or early next week. Otay, see you in a little bit!

Cheers =0)

Toddy English.