We're All Made of BlogStars
Growing in number: This one goes out to the blogs I love.
The brainy, the beautiful, the bitchy -- Elyse Sewell, model blogger.
ELYSE SEWELL: Ever wonder what it's really like to be a giant skinny woman trying to make as a model after appearing on a reality show that, like, five people and me, watched religiously on UPN? Elyse Sewell was like a Trekkie at a Ren Fair when the aspiring doctor showed up on a program filled with gay black men, a Bible thumping queen of pageantry, a rock 'n' roll mushmouth from Joliet, Ill., "pretty-bitches-with-problems" and Janice Dickinson. Personally, I hated her when she was on the show. I liked that she was smart, as I too am a nerd. But just because I read and like The Shins doesn't mean I can look down on people who think clothes are a life or death situation. But since the first season ended and the latter seasons of "America's Next Top Model" began to suck major bollocks I've learned to love the Elyse in all her brainy bitch glory.
That said, even though she did not win the competition, she definitely went off to model — with mixed results. On one hand, she was on the cover of Hong Kong's Harper Bazar. On the other, well, right now she's modeling Home Shopping Network style products in Korea. It's a hard-knock life, Bakerinos, but it makes good blogging.
And for those who like a little racial-political-hip hop punch with their blogging ...
JIMI IZRAEL: Back when Africana.com was up and running, columnist/hip hop journalist Jimi Izrael was a favorite of mine to read. Now he's on AOL/Black Voices wrecking shop. Busting heads. Opening minds. The usual. He's been published all over the place and recently he wrote a column so good they wouldn't print it. It's on how author Terry McMillian ("Waiting to Exhale," "How Stella Got Her Groove Back") is divorcing her Jamaican boytoy who was the inspiration for the book. (He's apparently is gay as all outdoors.) Jimi throws in the villianization of black men and all the drama over that "down low" stuff that has been in the media for the past two years in the mix. Read the banned column! Be angry! (Or be like me, laugh and be amused. I am NOT a fan of Terry McMillian although I've been through a divorce and yes, it's unpleasant. But her boooks and films? Uh ... no.)
The brainy, the beautiful, the bitchy -- Elyse Sewell, model blogger.
ELYSE SEWELL: Ever wonder what it's really like to be a giant skinny woman trying to make as a model after appearing on a reality show that, like, five people and me, watched religiously on UPN? Elyse Sewell was like a Trekkie at a Ren Fair when the aspiring doctor showed up on a program filled with gay black men, a Bible thumping queen of pageantry, a rock 'n' roll mushmouth from Joliet, Ill., "pretty-bitches-with-problems" and Janice Dickinson. Personally, I hated her when she was on the show. I liked that she was smart, as I too am a nerd. But just because I read and like The Shins doesn't mean I can look down on people who think clothes are a life or death situation. But since the first season ended and the latter seasons of "America's Next Top Model" began to suck major bollocks I've learned to love the Elyse in all her brainy bitch glory.
That said, even though she did not win the competition, she definitely went off to model — with mixed results. On one hand, she was on the cover of Hong Kong's Harper Bazar. On the other, well, right now she's modeling Home Shopping Network style products in Korea. It's a hard-knock life, Bakerinos, but it makes good blogging.
And for those who like a little racial-political-hip hop punch with their blogging ...
JIMI IZRAEL: Back when Africana.com was up and running, columnist/hip hop journalist Jimi Izrael was a favorite of mine to read. Now he's on AOL/Black Voices wrecking shop. Busting heads. Opening minds. The usual. He's been published all over the place and recently he wrote a column so good they wouldn't print it. It's on how author Terry McMillian ("Waiting to Exhale," "How Stella Got Her Groove Back") is divorcing her Jamaican boytoy who was the inspiration for the book. (He's apparently is gay as all outdoors.) Jimi throws in the villianization of black men and all the drama over that "down low" stuff that has been in the media for the past two years in the mix. Read the banned column! Be angry! (Or be like me, laugh and be amused. I am NOT a fan of Terry McMillian although I've been through a divorce and yes, it's unpleasant. But her boooks and films? Uh ... no.)
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