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“grand opening; grand closing”: the 50th of donata meirelles

some people have stopped using their brains nowadays.
it’s real sad.
i’d like to think phones are making folks stupid,
but everyone has google on their devices.
i like to think of google as a free “know-it-all” assistant.
so the “vogue brazil” style director,
donata meirelles,
turned 50 last friday and lost her job the same night.
why?
this is what she decided to do on her birthday via “daily mail”…

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trans vixens are actually biologically female (who woulda thunk?)

i really enjoyed the show “pose” on fx.
i thought it was brilliantly done.
it showed me a side of the life i wasn’t familiar with either.
well one of the stars,
indya moore:

…who played one of my favs,
“angel”,
had this to tweet.
it caused quite the stir…

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nicki minaj sits back as her barbz drag “bet” to her

when you are writing for a company or brand,
you cannot be opinionated.
one of my wise allies to the foxhole taught me that.
in the foxhole,
jamari fox can font whatever he wants.
even still,
i try to use discretion as i’m building my fox empire.
i’ve learned a lot in my mistakes of blogging.
the moment i font under a company like “bet”,
that’s the moment i report the news/gossip.
a she-jackal by font,
who writes for “bet”,
did this when cardi won “best rap album“ at the grammys last night…
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was it “motown” or “uptown”? (i’m confused)

motown.
when i think of motown,
i think of black soul.
a time when artists stood on a stage and sung.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc_SDlPMGDA

they might have had background dancers,
doing one or two hand motions,
but it was all bout the voice.
motown reminds me of a happy time in my life.
when my parents were alive,
they would play those classics while cleaning or going somewhere in the car.
i often listen to the music to invoke those memories.
so when i heard jennifer lopez was performing a motown tribute at the grammys,
i knew it would NOT go well.
it didn’t…

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ariana grande got smoke for the entire grammys

i was done with the grammys when they played b and rih that one year.
they nominated rih for like 7 awards and gave her nothing.
b lost to adele for “lemonade”.
well they played ariana grande today.
the grammy producer,
ken ehrlich,
said in the following that ariana posted on her twitter: