JTT=still MIA

taking a break from my new hobby, interior decorating, i was browsing some blogs when i came across "90's Teen Idols-Where Are They Now?" my heart skipped a beat with the thought of finally discovering where in the world is johnathan taylor thomas! the euphoria lasted about 10 seconds till i read their summary, which stated:

 

thanks for nothing:" where are they now?"

"Ryan Cabrera, is that you??? No, honestly, it's too bad that JTT hit his peak at such a young age. Since his teen years, he's appeared on shows like “Smallville,” “8 Simple Rules” and “Veronica Mars," but nothing recently. He also attended Columbia in NYC. And then there were also those gay rumors, which have still yet to be confirmed."

this is pretty much what i wrote about a few weeks ago. this is truly a case for the FBI.

the best parts of the oscars

i don't think i've ever missed the oscars. when i was little, i would fight with my parents to let me stay up until the end; back in the day, the 90's, the show would go till almost 1 am. i have vivid memories of watching billy crystal doing film parodies and whoopi flying over the audience. this year, i was extra excited for the oscars because steve martin and alec baldwin were going to be the hosts; they have great chemistry and i am a fan of the both of them. i used to watch father of the bride every single day when i was 4 years old. thankfully, i was not let down, they were hilarious. the show was a bit wonky, you could tell they were testing some ideas out. ideas that were borrowed from the miss america pageant and should never be repeated again. there was some awkward directing cuts and an overabundance of lamps. and now it seems that every stage crasher will be "pulling a kanye". all and all, the show was entertaining, even if the outcomes were predictable. here are some of my favorite moments. 

 

 oh i didn't notice you back there.

1. hooray for katherine bigelow becoming the first woman to win the oscar for best director! she truly deserved it. the hurt locker was one of the most intense/captivating movies i have seen in a while. i feel like taking it back to 1996 and saying: GIRL POWER! 

2. ok, this wasn't part of the actual oscars but...christoph waltz...i smell an emmy! i've watched this more than four times and i laugh every time. i don't know how funny it is to people who haven't seen the original. i am so glad to see he has a great sense of humor, i am definitely a big fan. another well-deserved oscar, his performance was mind-blowing. even my dad and brother thought he deserved it, and they are the harshest critics with the most awful taste in movies. 

oh gurllll!

3. oh samuel l. jackson. i still don't have the proper words to describe this picture. all i know is when i saw this face, i laughed for a good 5 minutes. but i can't make fun, i know that if i were there, i'd have a hard time controlling my stank face too. 

bi-racial, mixed, mulatto...are you offended yet?

i thought i was done with race posts, but i saw this post on ontd and couldn't resist. actress paula patton recently said:

"I find [the term biracial] offensive. It’s a way for people to separate themselves from African-Americans….a way of saying ‘I’m better than that’. I’m black because that’s the way the world sees me. People aren’t calling Barack Obama biracial. Most people think there’s a black president."

 oh goodness. where do i begin?

-i'll start off with saying, i understand where she is coming from. i know many half-black, half-white individuals who solely identify as black. sometimes it is  because that is how they appear to the "rest of the world" or they are blatantly told to identify as just black. sometimes it's a cultural identification. but, for one reason or another they only identify as black. it's a choice, not a choice that i would make, but i don't judge the people who do.

-not all blacks are african-americans. they are jamaican, haitian, panamanian, dominican, cuban, the list goes on. (sorry, i'm feeling snarky)

-the word biracial is not exclusive to half white, half african-americans. it applies to millions of people of all different mixes.how are they supposed to identify without using such an "offensive" term?
-deeming the word biracial offensive because of a few stuck-up, bourgeois mixed girls is hardly fair. when most people identify as biracial, they are embracing their mixed heritage, not using it as a tool of separation from one community or another. being biracial is not always simple, in fact, i could argue that identifying as one race is a lot easier. 

i just hope that in a country that is finally allowing to check more than one box, people will feel comfortable enough to do so.