Ion’t know…do you think there is some liquor involved here?

video credit: originally uploaded to YouTube on November 7, 2008 by failblog

Umm…I think I would not be eating here…

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I love how this dude just keeps talking, even though he knows the chair is going…going…gone!

video credit: originally uploaded to YouTube on October 23, 2008 by failblog

So I woke up this morning to the first day of my 37th year of living. I was planning this long ass post of reflection and what I’ve learned, and then what I have to look forward to…but to hell with that for now.

It’s my birthday!!!

I had my favorite martini, and my favorite meal, and my favorite slice of cheesecake…and I wore a smile all day because I know that there is love around me and in me. Oh, I could go on and on about the things that I need to change, fix, update, re-do, organize, de-clutter, ponder, arrange, grasp, juxtapose, wonder about, forget, regret, yearn for, miss, hate, lust after, clean up, open, close, answer, and face…but today I choose to be grateful for just being…me.

Peace…

Happy Monday, y’all! Thanks to everyone who left me a “feel better” message…I do feel better!

There is magic in this music…can you feel it?

video credit: originally uploaded to YouTube on January 10, 2008 by LOVESOMEGLADYS

Seems like I missed some good news tidbits not posting the 10Spot on Saturday…like the dumbass football player that posted a racial slur against President-elect Obama on his Facebook account and lost him his position on the Texas Longhorns football team…or the GOP sending lawyers up to recover the clothes it purchased for Governor Palin to wear on the campaign trail (she’s sorting through them)…

There also seems to be an uproar over whether or not Beyonce’ attended the funeral for Jennifer Hudson’s family…but more interesting is what is going on with Jen’s sister and why is she posting pics of herself online? There’s an interesting write-up over at WAOD…

Ms. Regina tagged me with a Real Mom’s meme…Ms. Regina, I promise to get to it this week!

Well, that’s all for today…I will see y’all tomorrow!

Alright…my mind hurts. And I’m sick…so there will be no 10Spot this week (sorry). Lucky for me, I got tagged by a couple of my folks so I’m just going to post those in place of the weekly…

First up…My Favorite Movies A - Z (from IW)…

A - American History X/Ali
B - Bad Boys
C - Color Purple, The/City of God/Cabaret
D - Devil In A Blue Dress
E - Eve’s Bayou
F - Forrest Gump
G - Godfather I/Godfather II
H - Higher Learning
I - I Am Legend/In The Heat of the Night
J - Juice
K - Kill Bill I & II
L - Lion King, The
M - Malcolm X/Memoirs of a Geisha
N - New Jack City
O - Officer & A Gentleman, An
P - Postman Always Rings Twice, The
Q - Queen of the Damned
R - Rocky III
S - Sparkle/Soldier’s Story, A
T - Tsotsi
U - Usual Suspects, The
V - Vacation
W - Which Way Is Up?
X - xXx State of the Union
Y - Yours, Mine, & Ours
Z - Zebrahead

Next…Secrets of My Past (from Iriegal)…uh oh…

Here are the rules:

1. Link to the person who tagged you.
2. Post the rules on your blog.
3. Write six random things about yourself.
4. Tag people at the end of your post and link to them.
5. Let each person know they’ve been tagged and leave a comment on their blog.
6. Let the tagger know when your entry is up.

Here goes:

1. Yeah, I used to smoke weed…I was going through a phase. I can say I did it and moved on…
2. I’ve been celibate for exactly 2 years…
3. I had a one night stand with this dude who I knew nothing about…it was not worth my time and when he called again, I never answered the phone. 
4. I have never had a physical fight in my life.
5. I used to hate my name…I used to want to change my name to “Monica” when I was younger because I didn’t know anyone else named “Marva”…now, I wouldn’t have it any other way…
6. I’m anal about a lot of things…I brush my teeth twice a day, I have to balance my checkbook every night, and clean my desk at work before leaving…things have to be a certain way in order for me to function…

OK, that’s it…everyone enjoy your Saturday and The10Spot will be back in full effect next week!

Ms. Regina asked if OSF was going away…

NO!!!

Sorry the new themes are not posted…Mrs. G and I are still working on getting them together…look for the e-mail tomorrow night telling you what the theme is for this Friday…I will also do a post with the theme here tomorrow to let everyone know.

I will have the new theme list up as soon as it is scratched out…

Smooches!

I live in Kansas City. It is a nice place to live, but of course it has its faults. Normally, you run into some pretty nice Midwestern folks around here. We have our suburbs, which is where you find the shopping malls and upper crust stores. There have been incidents over the years of sometimes subtle, and sometimes blatant, racism displayed at one of the premier shopping malls in the city (located in one of the burbs), but I think this story takes the cake.

A Kansas City man found a racial slur printed on his receipt after returning a pair of shoes he bought over the weekend.

KMBC’s Marcus Moore reported that Keith Slater, 22, bought a pair of shoes from a store called Journeys. Slater later returned them after finding a cheaper pair at another store. Slater did get his money back, but it was what was printed on the receipt that he and his family found disturbing.

“That makes me upset. I don’t want to look at that (receipt,) that makes me so upset. Why would you say that?” said a woman who was shown the receipt.

“Have they been fired? I mean, this is absolutely crazy,” said a man who saw the store ticket.

The receipt, which shows “Cust: Dumb” and then the n-word, is what Slater received after returning a pair of shoes to Journeys at Oak Park Mall.

“When he showed me that receipt, I could not believe it,” said Slater’s mother, Linda. “He couldn’t believe it. I couldn’t believe it. None of us got any sleep just thinking about it.”

By the time the Slaters noticed the racial slur printed on the receipt, the store was already closed for the day.

Hoping to get answers about how the words got on the receipt, the Slaters returned to the store the next day. But they said they never got a full explanation, only that the employee entered a generic code.

As of today, the employee who rang up the return has been fired and a statement has been issued by the owner of the store:

“While we are continuing to investigate this incident, it now appears that an employee in one of our stores entered highly inappropriate statements in a form used to process a merchandise return. Needless to say, such an act was not authorized by Journeys, and will not be tolerated. This employee has been terminated.

“At Journeys, we pride ourselves on valuing and respecting every customer. We are shocked and sickened that a former associate could be responsible for an act so out of keeping with our culture and our values. We profoundly regret this incident.”

Source: KMBC.com

It is hard to reconcile in my mind any kind of justification for this. I don’t think there is any.

Happy Monday! I’m going with most of your suggestions and just writing what’s on my mind…so whatever comes out is your fault!

First, let me say that today is an anti-politics day…

PjazzyPar @ Traces of a Stream has awarded me with the Brilliante Blog Award…thanks a bunch! PjazzyPar is one of the participants of OSF and her choices are always entertaining! Here are the rules of the award:

1. The winner can put the logo on his/her blog.
2. The winner must link to the person from whom they received their award.
3. The winner must nominate at least 7 other blogs for the award.
4. The winner must place links to those blogs on their own blog.
5. The winner must leave a message on the blogs of the people they’ve nominated.

And here are my awardees:

• Sharon @ The True Urban Queen
• The Diva Muse @ All Things Bootylicious
• Ms. Regina @ Regina’s Family Seasons
• Viv @ Songs In The Key Of Life
• Symphony @ Essential Presence
• Cynthia @ Love.Self.Entirely
• Tha Connoisseur @ SoulAfrodisiac

Enjoy Ladies!

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Now, there’s this woman that I work with that has the foulest attitude towards me. Some people can’t deal with change, and in me she sees it coming. I am not the run of the mill, follow the leader type chick. I am, and have always been, one of those people that if I see something that is broken, then let’s get it fixed. And this place is broken. I took this job because I saw what it could be, not for what it currently is. And that is part of the reason that I was told I was offered this job…I bring new ideas and experience that can liven up this joint. I will admit that I gave her the same attitude that she gave me, and I was the one that called to the carpet on it. But you know what? She is not going to win this battle because I have a purpose here…I didn’t choose this for myself; it was given to me for a reason. So ever since I was called out on my attitude towards her, I swallowed my pride and have been killing her with kindness…I have actually been looking forward to it daily because it seems to shock her. It kinda makes me giggle.  

In my mind, though, I have but one thing to say to her:

video credit: originally uploaded to YouTube on August 9, 2007 by hiddenbeachmedia

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I will be 37 in 3 weeks and 3 days. I usually do a lot of prep for my b-day. Not this year. I think I’m going to spend it quietly and even (gasp!) go to work. I usually have a dinner out with my girls, but I’m not even looking forward to that. I’ve turned into a total bore…I can’t stand it. Maybe I’ll switch it up and dial up one of those numbers on my cell phone and have me some birthday sex…just kidding, I kinda don’t want the drama…kinda…

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Finally, Rudy Ray Moore, better known as Dolemite, passed this weekend. I remember being 12 years old, visiting my aunt and uncle when they lived in Wichita, and being down in the basement with my cousin (who was 10 at the time) and finding these albums. Oh it was a plethora of cuss words and off limit shit that we knew we weren’t allowed to listen to, but couldn’t resist! We would sneak the records on the stereo, and put the headphones on and giggle our little asses off at the pure indignation of Rudy Ray Moore, and Redd Foxx, and Richard Pryor. Such memories!

Lord have mercy…

Have a good evening all! See y’all tomorrow…it’s Music Tuesday tomorrow!

Hey everyone…I’ve been AWOL for a couple of days and I’ll tell ya it’s because the well has run dry. I’ve looked around and really nothing has grabbed my attention (except for the same old bullshit) and I’m kinda tired…

So I’m reaching out to my readers (that’s y’all) to assist me with feeling out some direction. So here are a few questions:

1. What would you like to see here on The Marvalus View?
2. Is there something in the past that was here (or on OBW) that you would like to see again?
3. What don’t you like?
4. What do you like?
5. Any suggestions?

I thank you for all of your input…and appreciate your help…I’ll be back for OSF!

OK, this one has to be different because you know Prince has no videos on the ‘net. And the ones he does have, are not likely to stay up very long…I swear he spends his spare time trolling YouTube to see if his music is there.

So here are two of my favorite Prince cuts…it’s a shame there is a limit to this because there are way too many to choose from!

Ms. Regina has given me The Kick Ass Blogger Award…now that is cool! It is my pleasure to pass this award on to my blogging friends, so here goes:

Here are the rules:

* Choose 5 bloggers that you feel are “Kick Ass Bloggers”
* Let ‘em know in your post or via email, twitter or blog comments that they’ve received an award
* Share the love and link back to both the person who awarded you and back to www.mammadawg.com
* Hop on back to the Kick Ass Blogger Club HQ to sign Mr. Linky then pass it on!

I give this to:

• DB @ DarkBrotha (even though he’s missing in action)
• SK @ Skoolboi’s Playground
• Tha Connoisseur @ SoulAfrodisiac
• The Style Master @ Swagger Style
• Urban & The Crew @ Urban Observation

Pass it on!