This is for my Canadian friends (and any others) who missed Prince rockin’ da funky joint on the American Idol final last week. And to think at one time, Prince and Michael Jackson were competing for pop music supremacy at the same time. Those were the days. But I gotta give it up to Prince. He looks good and still has his skills. Damn Michael! What happened brutha?

A grey-haired white dude is YOUR AMERICAN IDOL. Let us all say AMEN… Not only does the union stay strong but American Idol as we know it is finished. Taylor Hicks is the most “unholy” of American Idol picks. An aberration. A freak. A BLUE-EYED SOUL BRUTHA! Never in a gazillion years would I’ve imagined a BLUE-EYED SOUL BRUTHA winning. Not a white dude trying to sing like a black dude. But a genuine BLUE-EYED SOUL BRUTHA (you tired of me saying that?). American Idol will have to re-tool to bring back some normalcy. Gone are Randy, Simon, and Paula. In are Celine...

I support building border fences/walls/moats to secure our southern border with one big yet beautiful change: We build restaurants, malls, and entertainment venues into the fence/wall/moat at strategic points! Just think about it… We can get paid, secure the borders, and share our wonderful American-ness with would-be illegals. Once our lovely neighbors down south get a dose of cheap goods and entertainment (no red light districts) at the border, they won’t have any reason to come here. They’ll be too busy luggin’ around cheap, globally made goods and have club hangovers....

I saw the below photo of actress and model Phoebe Price earlier today: I can’t help but wonder if her butt starts itching, scratching it in public my send a sizable number folks into orbit. And if she does the whole “butt chair rub” to alleviate the itch, ya better get a fire hose out. Those around her will get to watch a damn-near naked woman gyrating on a seat. Hope she has room for all the paper she’s going to earn off that itch.

I couldn’t agree with Nick Schager’s review of the disaster flick Poseidon more (although I laughed alot more than Mr. Schager probably did). And for those of you who don’t know what high yella means, it’s a old term that we black folks use to describe the lighter-skinned variations of us. Just look at my picture in the corner. Classic high yella! So remember that while reading Mr. Schager’s review. [zing! to Nick Shager]

Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow– You are not wrong who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.” – Edgar Allan Poe, “A Dream Within A Dream”

An African woman from Cameroon I work with once told me this about her home country a few months ago: Africa is a pedophile’s paradise. You can defile the children with nary a thought to your punishment. Sickening and horrible, it seems that some of those providing aid and education are the pedophiles… Peacekeepers, teachers prey on Liberia girls: report By Alphonso Toweh MONROVIA (Reuters) - UN peacekeepers, aid workers and teachers are having sex with Liberian girls as young as 8 in return for money, food or favors, threatening efforts to rebuild a nation wrecked by war, a report...

Bomani Jones has written an article for ESPN Page 2 called ‘Akeelah’ Wins You Over. The article is a review of the new movie Akeelah and The Bee and his thoughts. I urge you to read his article. He touched on so many things about what average, everyday black folks feel about education and success in general. Can’t lie. I almost felt like crying since I identify. I’ll talk more about my experiences later. [zing! to Bomani Jones]

I just love it! Dragon House folks are my heroes… (I just have to post the whole article!) Family Kicked Out of Buffet Restaurant From the Associated Press Fri May 5, 5:36 PM ET DES MOINES, Iowa - Wendy Dershem may think twice before leaving that egg roll on her plate at her next Chinese buffet. The Des Moines woman, her boyfriend and her two children were kicked out of a restaurant last week after management accused her of leaving too much food on her plate. “They told us we are not welcome there anymore,” said Dershem, a repeat customer at the Dragon House buffet. “We...