RANTS
okay, so I've accepted the fact that sometimes I can be a not-so-nice person. if any of you get the notion to think me a bitch after reading this, so what? this month the phenomena known as the "dry perm" will be treated, ridiculed and dismissed--and off we go. my fellow black women out there (i'm sure at least one of you happens upon my page somehow), what's the deal with the dry perm complete with scraggly ends? huh? i've already accepted the fact that the majority of black women are too scared to actually let their hair grow the way god intended and that it took erykah badu and lauryn hill just to get a small percentage of you to think about cutting those permed and processed locks, but really, i thought the point of a perm (or relaxer to be semantically correct) was to make the hair more presentable and manageable. <----run-on sentence. riding the bus, walking the street, minding my own, i come across too many dry perms to sustain the lie of relaxers being the "answer" for hair that's too "kinky." really now, why can't you at least clip the ends? style the damn thing? and no, the gel-filled ponytail does not count. it seems to me that the price of upkeep is too great for the majority of you, so i propose a solution, cut that shit off and grow your hair naturally. think of it this way, either way you have to comb and maintain your hair, why not choose to not suffer from premature balding, scalp burns, and scraggly ends all because of chemicals that don't belong anywhere near the human body in the first damn place. now keep in mind, i'm not a fake radical afrocentric screaming nonsense-actually i'm pretty sensible. relaxers are not healthy, nor are they as easy to maintain as its proponents would have you believe. i can't help it, aesthetically the majority of women who have perms don't even look right with them or care enough to care for the damn things (my mother's an exception, she keeps hers tight---kudos mommie!). c'mon dammit, stop rocking the dry perms, it's starting to piss me off. if god (or genetics, depending on what you believe) gave you your own customized shit, why bother it?
WEBSITES YOU SHOULD VISIT JUST BECAUSE
i'm really lazy this month yall. i no longer have access to a T3 connection, i'm working and going to school, it's hot, the list goes on. for these reasons, i will not and cannot go off for sentences and sentences about this month's artist. it'll be more like BAM! now go buy it. Bobby "Blue" Bland, BAM!, now go buy some of his music. i believe that he's either the first or only male artist to be admitted to the blues hall of fame who doesn't play (you know play play, like BB plays Lucille) an instrument. that, my dears, is a testament to his voice. his rendition of stormy monday is the bombest (is that a word?). so yeah, go to the website and proceed to jock