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06 Sunday Apr 2008

Posted by Vivrant Thang in Weekly Round Up

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averagebro, chris rock, fabulous finiancials, field negro, maxwell's favorite blogs, philadelphia, soul bounce

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In the spirit of spreading the linky love, here’s a roundup of posts I enjoyed over the past week. As I’ve mentioned, I read a lot of blogs and often fall WAY behind. I hope you find some new blogs here to stalk so you can share in my misery! I plan to do this regularly.

  • Single Ma was able to tell her job to kiss her en-tire ass (figuratively of course) – even as they offered her everything but their first borns to get her to stay. All because of wise financial decisions (and an FU fund) she’s made over the years. She is the ISH. I am SO inspired.
  • field negro breaks down why he loves his hometown of FeelaKilladelphia. I was going to leave a comment with only 8 words: Home of Jill Scott and Bilal. Nuff said. They getting real serious in the comments though so um, I didn’t think my two cents would have been welcomed.
  • I had been giving AverageBro the serious side-eye for his favorable review of the disasterous snoozefest that was the straight-to-video Three Can Play That Game. He redeemed himself big time with his post, Top 13 Debits To The Black Race. He’s dead on with each and every one. I don’t claim nary one of them fools. Ya’ll can have them. They have collectively set us back 4384973947389473 steps.

Chris Rock on Black Progress in US

  • The Beautiful Struggler posed the question, ” What do you, as Black men, need or want from Black women that you are not getting? ” Check the young tenderoni, “The Handsome Succeeder” breaking it down so it can forever and consistently be broke. Made me take another look at my tenderoni, that is until I remembered he told me I snore like his Dad.
  • White Folk Shyt, indeed. Exactly what I thought when I read the story in the paper.
  • You all need to be keeping up with what’s going on with ya’lls Colored People Organization and the horrific Dubar Village tragedy. You know Al Sharpton and his press-n-curl are up in the mix.
  • Soul Bounce has started counting down their 100 Favorite Soul/R&B songs. There was a catfight in the comments over the ranking of Whitney’s I’ll Always Love You. I had to get involved when some fool said he/she couldn’t think of 30 songs better than that one. Oh really?

And if Soul Bounce is not one of your daily reads, you need to get into it. Now. Maxwell has.

I’ll repeat that again.

Maxwell has. Yes, THAT Maxwell.

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My First Fifty Posts: A Retrospective

22 Tuesday Jan 2008

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9th wonder, banita jacks case, bilal concert, chrisette michele concert, da'niyah jackson case, death of donda west, eric roberson, facebook concerts, i am not my hair, keite young concert, little brother concert, michael vick case, rapper ti case, songs in the key of life blog, van hunt concert

by vivrant thang on retrospective

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I’m really excited by how far this blog has come in the three months I’ve been posting regularly. At first since I didn’t share the URL with a lot of people, I was a bit surprised when I got my first comment so soon after I started writing. I thought I’d be talking to myself for quite a while…and I was okay with that. I wanted to find my way a bit and decide just what I was here to do. Knowing that people were reading made me move a little quicker!

I don’t post daily or several times a day like other folks so this is just my 50th post. Since I’m moving right along with one of my blog resolutions, which is to increase readership and comments, I thought I’d do sort of a retrospective for new readers. I don’t know about you, but I appreciate when a blogger does that because as a person that subscribes to over 150 feeds, which I obviously don’t always keep up with, I need a round-up on occasion. So I intend to do this every 50 posts.

Over these past couple of weeks, some great things have happened as a result of a few posts in particular.

  • Just today, I discovered that CNN has linked to my rant post about the Banita Jacks case under their From The Blogs section. Lawd, take me now. It appears to be powered by some news aggregator but I’m thrilled that it found my post out of all the blogs that I hope are talking about this. I don’t know if it will change soon so check it out!
  • If that wasn’t enough, last week I wrote a post about a HOT party I had the pleasure to attend. Super Producer 9th Wonder and DJ Cuzzin B actually took the time to comment and then 9th Wonder linked to my post from his Myspace blog. If that wasn’t enough, they also added a link to my blog from the True School website, which is also linked from 9th Wonder’s main website. All of this because I simply wrote about what I love: rocking to REAL music. I didn’t expect anyone to find it, much less comment on it. I just had to share it.
  • Shortly after all that, I discovered that my post about “Getting Back” with Little Brother was used on the Facebook page for their upcoming concert in London at The Jazz Cafe. (aside: I wish I lived in London. They have some HOT shows coming up there *gasp and swoon*). There were several excellent posts which I referenced in my own, but they used mine.

Here are some other posts I’ve written that I’d like to spotlight:

The Daily News

  • She’s In a Better Place (rape and murder of 10-month-old Da’Niyah Jackson)
  • Unpretty (death of Dr. Donda West)
  • Why? My Thoughts on the Michael Vick Case
  • Self-Destruction (thoughts on TI and Michael Vick)
  • I Am Not My Hair

Concert Reviews

  • From Erro to Prince: I Gets Around!
  • The ERRO Concert Experience
  • Let’s Rock with Chrisette Michele
  • There’s Something About Keite Young
  • Love It: Bilal Concert Reviews and Videos
  • Let’s Rock: Highlights from the Van Hunt Concert

Here are the posts that have been among your favorites, according to the stats:

  • My Favorite Things: Top 50 R&B/Soul Songs
  • Other Woman
  • My Favorite Things: Top 10 Songs of 2007
  • No More Drama
  • Young, Gifted, and Black!

I’m also really proud of the blog campaign I participated in last month for World AIDS day. You can see all of the posts here.

For the newbies wanting to know more about Vivrant Thing, check the “Who’s That Girl?” page and the All About Me section.

So there you have it…the highlights thus far. I’d love to hear your comments on some of these past posts if you missed them the first time around.

I have a lot in store for the next 50 posts. So hang tight and enjoy the ride!

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Did You Miss Something?

07 Friday Dec 2007

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black blogging to end aids, can we talk, da'niyah's death, darien brockington, donnie hathaway, little brother tour

by vivrant thang on weekly round-up

I was a blogging sista this week and it felt great.

Here are some posts you may have missed in between the daily Blogging Black To End Aids entries.

  •  I “got back” with Little Brother and DBrock last weekend.
  • Instead of “texting-to-know-you,” I wondered “Can We TALK?”
  • I let it be known throughout the cyberland that Donnie Hathaway is the Christmas song king. What do you think?
  • Although it makes me wanna holler and throw up both my hands, I had to admit that 10-month old Da’Niyah is in a better place. Where should her mother be though?

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