The Snob Will Be Temporarily Off-Line!

It's time for the big move! The Snob will be ghost for the next four-to-five days as I move to Washington, D.C., driving halfway across the country with Big Sis. Then I will need some time to settle, some time to gather stories from my Super Blog Friends and some time to write a few myself. So enjoy your weekend! I'm too busy to blog! :(

Thank you again for your patience during "The Great Snob Move of 2009!"

Larry Johnson, Lover of British Slang (Guest Post)

Guest blogger Jonathan Pitts-Wiley has a theory about NFL footballer Larry Johnson and his recent use of the other F-bomb on Twitter -- he's a man of letters and means! Why, don't you know that sometimes a "fag" isn't a fag but something a tad more European? It's all just a big, fat misunderstanding! Pitts-Wiley of the blog Pitts Indeed hilariously explains.

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The Snob Is Enlisting the Help of "Super Blog Friends"

With The Snob getting ready to start a new job and new life in Washington, D.C. things are going to go through a bit of an adjustment phase at The Snob Blog. Because of this, I have enlisted the help of my Super Friends, other fellow bloggers and writers, to contribute to the site while I get acclimated to my new surroundings. I'll still be blogging, but not as often as I figure things out. Until then, extend a warm snobby welcome to my guest posters as they stroll through -- Jonathan Pitts-Wiley, AverageBro, Luvvie, The Negro Intellectual and more.

Tyler Perry. 60 Minutes Interview. Discuss.

Filmmaker and "King of the Chitlun Circuit" playwrite Tyler Perry was on 60 Minutes last night. You all know how I feel about the works of Tyler Perry. I have no problem will people enjoying crap, but it could at least be competently shot and blocked crap. But that's me. I can't get past the corniness of it all, but the market speaks for itself. Watch and tell me what you think.

The Snob Is Packing Her Things!

... And getting ready to move TBS HQ to Washington, D.C. this week. Last night Mama Snob helped as I packed up the bulk of the wardrobe. Today it's time to get the car serviced and tackle which books from my library are making the trip and which ones are getting donated to charity. Because The Snob is moving to D.C. this week, the site will be on a lighter posting schedule as I get myself packed, moved and familiar with our Nation's Capital!

Thanks for your patience!

TSU Doesn't Heart Tavis Anymore

According to the Houston Chronicle, radio/TV yakker and presidential critic Tavis Smiley's name has been removed from Texas Southern University's school of communications due to a dispute over the money Smiley promised to donate/raise for the school.

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Obama Family Official Portrait

They need to quit playing with all that incredible cuteness up in the photo! Oh! My ovaries!

Danyel Smith No Longer With The Root

BlackWeb 2.0 is reporting that The Root executive editor Danyel Smith is no longer with the online publication, citing the commute between her life in NYC and Washington, D.C. as too much. (And that is a brutal commute, but ... Man, that was fast!) Smith was with Washington Post-based publication for six weeks. She was editor of Vibe Magazine prior to that.

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Give It Up For the HNIC! ... Wait? What?

St. Petersburg Mayoral candidate Kathleen Ford quoted Cornel West's HNIC comment and got herself some criticism for it.Part of some of the criticism about Warren Ballentine telling Juan Williams he could "go back to the porch" came from those who felt Ballentine shouldn't have used a term blacks throw around among themselves in public. "What would happen if others started using it!?!?" some wondered. Everyone knows there are a lot of terms just used by black people, for black people and against black people that would ... er ... not sound as kosher coming out of the mouths of a non-black person.

Case in point the term "HNIC," aka "Head Negro (nee, nigger) In Charge."

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Michelle Obama: Hula Hoop/Double-Dutch Star

Technically, this shouldn't be surprising. If you grew up in any city you probably played hula hoop and double dutch, especially if you're a black girl. Heck. Even if you didn't grow up in a city. It's about as common as "Miss Mary Mack" and "Shimmy Shimmy Coco Pop." Still, folks couldn't help but stare and shout "The First Lady is just like me!" when they showed her getting down with her hula hoop and her double-dutch jump rope. Get 'em, girl. (More pictures at Essence.com)

Marc Lamont Hill Doesn't Even Know Why He Was Fired From FOX

He found out he was axed from a Google Alert, ya'll. A GOOGLE ALERT!

From Think Progress:

HILL: Yeah I mean it’s an interesting thing. I wish I could give you a great deal of information that I don’t have a lot of information because I wasn’t given a lot of information. To date, Fox News Channel hasn’t given me any information as to why. … I’m just a little puzzled. [...]

MALZBERG: First of all, you told me you found out when you got a Google alert, so I mean, did anybody eventually call you from Fox and tell you that you were fired?

HILL: Yeah I eventually – I got a Google alert at 11 o’clock [a.m.] that it had been announced that I’d been fired. After that, I guess someone followed up later in the day, you know because I was sort of trying to figure out what was going on. … I found out that it was true but other than that I don’t have any other information. … I haven’t had any thorough conversation with anyone.

Hill was a Liberal analyst for FOX News. His firing was initially announced at a shareholder's meeting by Rupert Murdoch, head of News Corp. after a reporter, oddly, asked why FOX employed Hill. The reporter stated that the pundit was a regular defender of "cop killers and racists." Classy. Murdoch then informed said reporter that Hill was already fired. Of course, Hill had no clue he was fired, but, HEY, people who defend Rush Limbaugh and his black friend stay (see Williams, Juan) and people who are Liberals go. Shit happens. Welcome to the recession, Hill!

The Snob Is Running Away From Home ...

... and finally moving to Washington, D.C.!

Exciting news, all! In all of The Snob's many trips to D.C. this year she finally came back to St. Louis, Mo. with a jobby-job. Like a real one. In Washington! (Who's surprised!?!?! Wait. No one? Why didn't you tell me so I could stop the stressing?) So in less than two weeks I'm packing up the Mazda and moving to my new home in D.C. early this November to start my new life as a blogger/gainfully employed citizen of the District of Colombia! My new job is in New Media. I'll be handling some serious web-related duties, among other things, at a non-profit in Washington, D.C.

This means the blog, the cat, everything in Snob HQ is moving to D.C. -- land of the Obamas, politics and many, many other fun things. I will miss St. Louis (of course). All of my family lives there, but this isn't the first time I have jumped ship. I did do a seven year stint in the deserts of the American Southwest. What does this mean for the blog? Probably more politics and more D.C. stories, but not as many posts a day. And yes, that means the six-post day in Snobland is probably headed for extinction for a lighter, but still daily posting schedule.

More news as it comes! Thanks for your continued support!

Returning to St. Louis Today!

The Snob will be incommunicado today as she travels from Washington, D.C. back to St. Louis, Mo.

Going Back to the Porch With Juan Williams

Poor Juan Williams! Do the indignities ever cease? First he's the only black guy half the time on FOX News (they recently fired liberal commentator Marc Lamont Hill). That deserves some form of hazard pay alone, but being in the position that he's often in (sometimes defending Bill O'Reilly, this time arguing over Rush Limbaugh being kicked to the curb by his fellow rich dudes in their group bid for the St. Louis Rams), he is often the target of ... how can we put this delicately? Accusations of a word I loathe -- "coonery." I don't use the term, but Lord knows, Juan should be more than familiar with the pejorative. Especially since fellow yakker Warren Ballentine went there with a "coonery" derivative, telling Mr. Williams to take his ass "back to the porch."

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A Celebration of Afrobeat Culture and Fela! (Slideshow)

Packed with people dancing to Afrobeat rhythms featuring drummers, "painted ladies" and colorful characters, Saturday's tribute to the music of Fela and Afrobeat culture at D.C.'s The Warehouse was a "must get sweaty" situation.

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