2010 is almost at an end, so let’s take stock, eh? A summary of a year in the life of Yoruba Girl Dancing [It's link-heavy, I warn you]: In January, I got interested in code-switching, enjoyed Clueless and Cupcakes and expounded on the joys of pub quizzes. February saw me get trapped in a lift [...]
Monthly Archives: December 2010
The Friday Pretty: A Year In Hotness
My friends, my comrades, my Army of Pervs! It’s the last The Friday Pretty of the year 2010. We’ve been through it all this year, haven’t we? The Friday Pretty launched at the end of July with no fanfare, just honest-to-goodness hotness (as well as an erudite Ralph Ellison quote, thank you very much). And [...]
Posted in Beauty, The Friday Pretty
Tagged Beautiful People, Male Beauty, Things That Make You Go Mmm
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You Better Call Tyrone…
I just read a sequence of tweets which had me crying with laughter. They came from the feed of @BabylonSista, who you should follow if you’re on Twitter. Enjoy: So, my little sister was about 4 yrs old & just getting into Xmas. She was being rowdy & Dad told her to calm down or [...]
The Populist
Around this time last year, I noticed that Love Actually, aka Notting Hill With Added Black People! was a trending topic on Twitter. I’d seen that it was showing on ITV1 that evening, so of course, I clicked the hashtag to see what people were saying about it. Somehow this innocuous little movie manages to divide people as if it [...]
Posted in Culture, Literature, London, Movies, Television
Tagged Film, Love Actually, Meme, Popular, Richard Curtis, Sigh, Twitter
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The Friday Pretty: Fragrance Ad Guys
Yeah, you read that title right, bishes. Thanks to the lovely Shabana who suggested this over on the Yoruba Girl Dancing Facebook page (which you should totes ‘Like’ if you’re on FB). Uh huh, for The Friday Pretty this week, we’re suckling at the teat of the evil corporate menace. And we’re doing it quite [...]
Posted in Beauty, Humour, The Friday Pretty
Tagged Beautiful People, Male Beauty, Things That Make You Go Mmm
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More Wishing, More Hoping
Given the pleasing success of the first gift wishlist I posted last week, and the fact that we’re now less than 3 weeks from Christmas Day, I thought I’d post some more options for you all. This one’s more of a mixed bag, but they’re all things I’ve seen, liked and coveted for myself. Chances [...]
Posted in Beauty, Love, Shopping, Style
Tagged Beautiful Things, Christmas, Gifts, Things That Make You Go Mmm
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Pretty Is As Pretty Does
As seems to be the custom nowadays, I find myself watching telly with Twitter by my side. Last Wednesday, I settled in to watch Ugly Betty – which totes re-hit its stride just as they cancelled it – and watched as Betty met and eventually dated a very handsome playwright, Zachary Boule (Aaron Tveit). After [...]
Posted in Identity, Society, Television
Tagged Beautiful People, Comedy, Feminism, Men and Women, Telly, Women
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The Friday Pretty: Crushes Of The Week
Hola, babies! It’s Friday and it’s time to get your perv on. I feel we’re all extra deserving of the hawtness this week, as we’ve been battling through some truly shiteous weather for the last week. The only place I like ice is in my drinks, but nature has seen fit to put that ish [...]
Posted in Humour, Pictures, The Friday Pretty
Tagged Beautiful People, Male Beauty, Things That Make You Go Mmm
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Badass Women: Claudette Colvin & Rosa Parks
Today, 55 years ago, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. It was an incident that would spark one of the biggest and most well-known chapters in the Civil Rghts Movement. The resulting bus boycott gave us several of the iconic images of the CRM and Rosa Parks [...]
Posted in America, Love, Politics, Society
Tagged Black Girls Rock, Black People, Civil Rights Movement, Claudette Colvin, Feminism, Joy, Race, Rosa Parks, Women
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Friends of Exes: Would You? Could You?
A couple of days ago on Twitter, I clicked a link which took me to the Daily Mail site – boo! hiss! – and specifically a ‘showbiz’ story about professional Pretty Person™ Kelly Brook and her newest beau (only the Mail uses the word ‘beau’, much like The Sun uses ‘love rat’). This guy’s name’s [...]
Posted in Society, Sport
Tagged Beautiful People, Break Ups, How Heteronormative!, Men and Women, Relationships, WTF
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