Those who know me know that i love my food and wine. Being able to locate a cheap bottle (cheap being defined as under $15) without traveling too far is my forte. Contrary to popular belief, the key is making sure the wine is very drinkable on its own, not the cost at the counter. I’ve been a frugal chick for much of my adult hood, and finding new bottles at a low price point has been easy. Trust me, I’ve spent well over $40 on a bottle before and still been disappointed, so I’ve become accustomed to trying new wines that only disappoint my wallet on a way smaller level. The following are some great bottles that retail at your local grocery store for less than $15. Cupcake Chardonnay, California This wine has a rich buttery flavor (one of my favorite attributes in a chardonnay) and goes very well with a garlicky, creamy, or… [Read more]

Hate is an International habit but I swear that we of the internet have it mastered over everyone else. Whenever a celebrity crosses over into a different realm of entertainment (yes this includes sports), the first thing people look forward to is their failing – hard. It’s this attitude of “how dare they try and be good at more than one thing” which confuses me. The news of Serena Williams making a rap song hit Facebook and Twitter like a storm and blogs everywhere quickly jumped on it to offer up a critique “it’s aiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight” seemed to be the consensus, corny, cliché but not necessarily terrible. Why did Serena do this? Well if you follow the tennis legend you would realize that her being young, single and richer than hell allows her to do what she likes off-season, including dabbling in fashion, modeling, making naughty commercials and yes having fun via whatever avenue she so… [Read more]

Don’t you hate nosy people? I know I do. Many of us men come up being extremely private to the point where we turn off family members and friends just by the amount of silence we keep about our love lives. Oft times this code of silence comes from being burnt one too many times by big-mouthed people who make us feel uncomfortable for our preferences and choices throughout our dating lives. Having dated a number of different women from across the spectrum of race, style and class – I know all too well the comments and hurtful jokes that gets thrown at single men for their choices. When I was in college I dated a number of light-skinned black girls, not because that was my thing, but because they were the ones who were talking back to me. You know the game denizens, hell if you read my articles enough, you know why this… [Read more]

“A man can be an artist… in anything, food, whatever. It depends on how good he is at it. Creasy’s art is death. He’s about to paint his masterpiece.” – Rayburn, Man on Fire It’s peculiar how we can fear death yet applaud it’s dealers so heavily in movies, books and videogames. Think about it, the crowd cheers in The Expendables when Terry Crews comes marching down a hallway offloading an Atchisson Assault Shotgun into a crowd of invaders leaving a road of death in his wake. The crowd also roared when little Chloe Moretz as Hit Girl was cutting up adults as if they were paper mache in Kick-Ass. Fact of the matter is that we love our fictional, professional killers. So who are they and who did we decide to list? Well we sorted through the hundreds from cinema to pick out the people who dealt death as their duty, as opposed to… [Read more]

Why would a man hate on a cute, friendly, and well-meaning customer service girl? Well they send men confusing signals which potentially leads to misunderstanding, embarrassment and worst of all – reminders that we’re losers. As we all know, men expect pretty girls to be mean, judgmental witches that don’t smile. Blame it on the defense mechanism that most pretty girls have when a guy gawks at them, you lot get all serious and evasive, so men come up believing that part of the pretty girl package is to have a permanent scowl on the face accompanied by a bit of attitude. But here you have this customer service hawte breaking the rules, she’s smiling, being all good at her job and polite, so we think: “What’s your deal anyway? What’s a man really to think!? Are you trying to earn extra tips? Wait… but you don’t take tips so… oh I know, you probably… [Read more]

If a beautiful woman stays with a bunch of guys and she wants to know which one of them is madly in love with her, all she has to do is take note of which guy is trying a little too hard to be aloof, or mean to her for absolutely no reason. Welcome to Simpin’ 101, come on in and take a seat as I school you ladies and gentlemen on one of the main reasons why men are so resentful of beautiful women. There’s an interesting occurrence that comes up whenever you mix one part single, pretty girl with a few non-confident guys that like her and an oblivious confident guy who merely sees her has dating potential. See, the confident guy will have sex with some effort and attention given, while the other lot will sit back and become both resentful and hateful of them both. What makes this even more interesting… [Read more]

Men all agree that going after a woman for romance only to wind up in her friend zone absolutely sucks. Many times it is due to our lack of game, terrible timing, or fear of asking (for you guys who think that a woman will just get the hint by you hanging out with her). There is a subset of guys however who think that they are in the friend zone but in reality are in a “holding cell”. This creates a complex dilemma for the woman because she does not want that guy to be in her friend zone but is too shy to upgrade him, fears he will reject her, or fears the chance of losing him altogether. Who are these guys? Many times these are the childhood friends who became handsome winners as they got older. Some of these men may have been put in the friend zone during courtship because the woman was going through the harshest… [Read more]

There’s always people covering Hip Hop songs through another genre all together but this one by Neneh Cherry covering the mighty MF DOOM’s song Accordion is just… well… amazing. If you are a jazz and blues man or woman like I am and you’re a Hip Hop head, check this video out and if you need context the original MF DOOM version is below the lyrics. Enjoy and support real music, please… Livin’ off borrowed time… the clock tick fasterThat’d be the hour they knock the slick blasterDick Dastardly and Muttley with slick laughterA gun fight and they come to cut the mix-masterI.C.E cold…nice to be old Y2G stee twice to threefoldHe sold scrolls, lo and beholdKnow who’s the illest ever like the greatest story toldKeep your glory, gold and glitterFor half, half of his niggaz’ll take him out the pictureThe other half is rich and they don’t mean shit taVillain a mixture between both… [Read more]