Archive for February, 2009

Yves St. Laurent – The Art of the Auction

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

What do you get when you take a world renowned fashion designer, one of the worlds greatest art collections and an auction that has the who’s who of art collectors lining up to buy a piece of the action?  That’s right, a little over a quarter of a billion dollars worth of art that is [...]

Duke Ellington – D.C. Quarter

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

Legendary jazz musician Duke Ellington has been commemorated on the state editions of the U.S. Quarter.  Duke is stamped on the back of  District of Colombia’s quarter in front of his greatest tool, the jazz piano.  What makes this newsworthy to myself and everyone else hopefully, is that Duke Ellington is the first Black American [...]

Northern Trust – Lifestyle of the Rich and Shameless

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

Fancy hotels, extravagant dinners, private concerts with groups such as Chicago, Sheryl Crow and Earth, Wind, and Fire entertaining you … Damn life must be good to spend $1.6 billion in government bailout money.  What’s that? You haven’t heard the news?  Yessir, well check it, our good friends over at TMZ have pulled the rug [...]

Returning $2.2m – Is it Honesty or Stupidity?

Friday, February 20th, 2009

Are you following me?  Look at this …
ONSLOW COUNTY, N.C. – 17-year-old Jacquelyn Lockard went to a Marine Federal Credit Union ATM Feb. 12 to get some money when she saw there was $2.2 million in her account.
“I looked at my receipt and I realized there as a lot of digits there that didn’t belong [...]

I Don’t Like Fake “Ass” Girls – Literally

Friday, February 20th, 2009

A little while ago I went window shopping with a girl friend, and ran across the strangest thing I didn’t know even existed.  It made me feel like I was being made fun of, tricked, I wanted to take a cold shower while sitting down crying, truth be told, it was just horrible.  Once again [...]


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