MANDII LETTER ~ TO THE GAY BEST FRIEND THAT I LONG FOR

Dear Gay Best Friend That I Long For,

I look forward to the wonderful adventures we will have once we meet. Going to drag shows, raving out in gay clubs & bars. I can't dance worth a crap, but you know all the latest moves. And even come up with some hott ones of your own. It'll be so much fun having our own little mani/pedi parties while sharing make-up & fashion tips, sipping mojitos and cosmopolitans.
Gay Best Friend, you are truly the best of both worlds. A girl-friend and a guy-friend all rolled into one flamboyant masterpiece.
Not only do you love the peen...you POSSES one. You're the perfect person to swap sex tips with. The abundance of peen-pleasing tips & tricks I will learn from you is invaluable.
Gay Best Friend That I Long For, I hope & pray to see you soon.

ZOO BREW

Zoo Brew is today! And guess what...I'M GOING =D
I didn't catch the event last year. But this go round, I purchased tickets just in time.
*happy, happy...joy joy*
I'll be attending the event with a family member and a colleague.

From memphiszoo.org:
Beer lovers from around the Mid-South are invading the Memphis Zoo for the second annual Zoo Brew, on Friday, August 29. Zoo Brew is a beer tasting event featuring 40 beers from around the world, provided by Southwestern Beverage and Distributing.

This marks the second year of this extremely popular event, and with a sell-out crowd last year, the Memphis Zoo is looking to go bigger this time around. Cindy Krag Catering will also be bringing delicious appetizers to enjoy with the libations.

The Doc Shots Trio will be providing soulful sounds for entertainment, and guests can delight in the beauty of renowned artist Hayden Hall’s pottery in an exclusive show. Wine and soft drinks will also be available for purchase.

Although there's no limit to the number of beers you can sample, servers will be pouring responsibly.

Samples include several international beers, including Kronenberg 1664 (France), MorettiXingu (Brazil), Warsteiner (Germany), Famosa (Guatemala), Singha (Philippines), Murphy's Irish Stout (Ireland), Tilsburg Stout Brown (Netherlands) and many others. Brews from the States include Abita (Louisiana), Yazoo Hefeweizen (Nashville), and Sea Dog (Maine). Local featured brews from the Naked Lion Brewing Company and Ghost River Brewing: the new beer company from Bosco's founder Chuck Skypeck. We'll also have several home brews to sample from the great folks at the Bluff City Brewers and Connoisseurs.

Proceeds from Zoo Brew will go to support animal care and programs at the Memphis Zoo.

(Italy), This event has sold out for the second year in a row. We look forward to seeing you next year!

**UPDATE**
And Mr. Man is coming too!
=D

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME

I think my miracle pill is failing me.

I started taking Yaz earlier this year (see post Keyword: Control), and all was well - no side effects, no pregnancy.

But for the last couple of weeks, I have been a royal BITCH. I can cling to people like a lint ball and then want everyone the hell away from me within the hour. Some days I can't eat anything & others, I can't eat enough. I cry all the time, have virtually no patience, wake up already annoyed & irritated, I can't concentrate and even the smallest things leave me completely frustrated.

I'm determined to at least finish the 2 packs I have left from my last prescription fill. Maybe this is temporary. But I may have to get a fckn Nuva Ring or something before I kill someone.

I am a pile of emotionally unstable wreckage.

MR. GRIND

Check out these hilarious vids from Montgomery, Alabama's Mr. Grind.


Mr. Grind (as Rico) - I Like Your Girl Parody



How Does It Feel - D'Angelo Remake - Rico Butt Naked



For more, and there is plenty, visit Mr. Grind's Myspace Page & Mr. Grind's YouTube Channel.

MESQUITE CHOP HOUSE

On Thursday August 21st, I visited Mesquite Chop House in Southaven, MS for their August Beer Dinner featuring four new frosty treats from Rogue Ales. What's the verdict? Lets take a look...

First Course:

Peking Duck Wontons served with the Morimoto Soba Ale (pictured above, second from left)
Just looking at this picture makes my mouth water all over again. The pastry was crisp without being too flaky & the duck was cooked to tender perfection.

Second Course:

House Smoked Amber Jack with a Key Lime Mustard Sauce and a Sweet and Sour Slaw served with the American Amber (pictured above, third from left)
This was my first time having amber jack. Its a pretty light fishy (think tilapia), but the key lime mustard sauce drizzled over the top made sparks fly.

Third Course:

Cocoa and Coffee Dusted Medallions of Beef with a Sweet Potato Casserole and served with the Mocha Porter (pictured above, far right)
My fave of the night. Josh Cobbs (Head Chef of the Southaven location, recently promoted to General Manager), you WILL personally teach me how to prepare this one.

Fourth Course:

Triple Chocolate Bread Pudding Ala Mode served with the Chocolate Stout (pictured above, far left)
Ahh, desert. It's triple chocolate, for Heaven's sake. Do I really need to say more?


The atmosphere: exquisite / The menu: flawless / The service: impeccable / The price: just $40 per person



The beer tasting is a monthly event for Mesquite - every third Wednesday. Mesquite also hosts a wine dinner the first Wednesday of each month for $50 per person.

2008 ANIMAL PLANET EXPO

Saturday Aug 23 & Sunday Aug 24, Discovery Channel's Animal Planet wrapped up their 2008 Animal Planet Expo Tour at Shelby Farms Park Conservancy in Memphis, TN.

I attended this event Saturday along with crowds of people & pets from Memphis and surrounding areas. Despite sketchy weather, the turnout was great. Activities included full face painting, a frisbee dog show, the Happy Gator obstacle course, a Giant King Croc slide and a live animal showing on the main stage.

Moment of the day?: When the guys at Animal Planet presented a $5000.00 donation check to the Collierville Animal Shelter.


If you're an animal lover like me, take a moment to visit www.aspca.org. While you're there, consider joining in the fight to end animal cruelty.
I have...

NEED....MORE....TIME.....

I had a GREAT weekend, and I have SO MUCH to blog about. The last 4 days have been bonkers =] I may not be able to update until tonight, but I promise not to leave you hanging any longer than that.

<333
mandii

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ~ TO ME

FROM THE BLACK MAN, TO THE BLACK WOMAN

Whatever you're doing right now...STOP! And read this post from Truth Merchants.

That's all I'm going to say.
(once you read it, you'll understand why)

RAW DAWG BUFFALO

The blogging world wasn't out of my mind during my recent hiatus. Even tho I couldn't make it to my computer to actually post, I was still thinking of new material & concepts.

Now on to the one I'm most excited about sharing with you: Showing love to my fellow bloggers.

Up first, Raw Dawg Buffalo. Dawg describes his material as "the truth, uncut funk, da bomb", and I couldn't agree more.

So visit his site! And while you're there, be sure to check out his hilariously accurate memphis slang translations in the post Intro to Memphisian 101.

JOHNNYBOY & STANKY PUSSY

Trantastic tart JohnnyBoy tells the world how he feels about stanky chocha...



Visit JohnnyBoy's YouTube channel & Myspace Page for even more from this crazay queen.

HIV POSITIVE MAN RAPES 17 YEAR OLD GIRL

From WREG News Channel 3 in Memphis, TN:
Omari.Fleming@wreg.com

(Memphis, TN 8/19/2008) Kenya Pipkins is outraged. "That babies life is destroyed and it could have been avoided. That's just wrong."

While she may be outraged, she's not at all surprised Timothy Payne is now charged with raping a 17-year-old girl, while knowing he was infected with HIV.

"It just makes me sick to my stomach." In late June, right before Memphis City pools re-opened and about a month before the suspected rape, Pipkins says the 37-year-old man made her a very indecent proposal.

"He said he could give her a job making ten dollars an hour answering phones but she needed to go home and get some little shorts or a swimming suit to work in."

Pipkins says her daughter never took the pool attendant up on his offer. Instead she told her mom what happened. Pipkin says when she took her concerns to managers at the Westwood Community Center, nothing was done.

"It breaks my heart to hear that they didn't take us more seriously, that they waited until something bad happens to do something."

Police believe Payne has had consensual sex with several other underage females. A quick background check shows eight convictions between 19-92 and 2003. They include a misdemeanor assault which was reduced from rape. He also violated a protection order. In the complaint, Payne's ex-girlfriend says he slashed her car tires and bashed the car with a crowbar. One more reason Kenya Pipkins is calling for better background checks

"We need to be able to trust our children are not working around predators."

Payne was a temporary employee who was fired August 1st. There were no background checks for temporary employees until last year. Payne was hired in 2006. We're still working to find out when he contracted HIV.

JERRY BUCK INMAN

One of the reasons I remain an advocate for capital punishment...

From CNN.com:
PICKENS, South Carolina (AP) -- A convicted sex offender has admitted he strangled a 20-year-old South Carolina college student, leaving her body in her off-campus apartment with her bikini top still wrapped around her neck. Jerry Buck Inman pleaded guilty Tuesday to kidnapping, raping and murdering Tiffany Marie Souers of Ladue, Missouri.

The 37-year-old Inman could face the death penalty.

The Clemson University engineering student's body was found in May 2006.

Inman's DNA matched samples taken from Souers' apartment and he was arrested near his mother's home in Dandridge, Tennessee, about two weeks after her body was found.

Inman spent about 18 years in prison in North Carolina and Florida for rapes committed in those states as a teenager.

EEW, EWW, EWW!!!

And people always give me the side~eye treatment for being a "germ~freak"...

From CNN.com:
CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- A man who contends he got a 9-foot tapeworm after eating undercooked fish has sued a Chicago restaurant.

In the lawsuit filed Monday, Anthony Franz said he ordered salmon salad for lunch from Shaw's Crab House in 2006 and fell violently ill. He later passed the giant parasite, which a pathologist determined came from undercooked fish, such as salmon.

Franz's lawsuit seeks $100,000 from Shaw's and its parent company, Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises, contending the restaurant's staff was negligent in serving him improperly cooked fish.

But Carrol Symank, vice president of food safety for Lettuce Entertain You, said the tapeworm didn't come from Shaw's.

"We have done a thorough investigation, and we're confident the restaurant is not the source," he said.

According to the Web site mayoclinic.com, tapeworms can measure up to 50 feet long.

MANDII LETTER ~ TO A HATER

First, I want to say NO! No, I haven't changed my opinion on the song. It's still one of the most annoying things I've heard lately.

And now I want to say NO again. No, I am not about to "thank the haters". Why would I? I give credit where credit is due. And the "love" of a hater is NOT the driving force behind my success. I am. My God is. But a hater? Nah, you don't have that kind of power.

Now that that's out of the way...


Dear Hater,

I'd pay a nice piece of cash to have seen your initial reaction/expression when you realized your failure. I applaud you though. You actually had me going for a minute. Fool me once, the buck stops here - there are no second chances.
You see, Hater...I may become distracted at times & lose sight, but I always regain focus. Confidence, faith, trust, morale, goodwill, intellect...I have all of these things & more. And they prevent me from falling short.
So, Hater...now that you have failed once, what's next? Will you learn from this experience with me? Or will you continue your shenanigans, only to fall flat on your ass again?

SAMWELL ~ MY GAY BEST FRIEND[in the head]

So unless you haven't touched your computer in the last year, you already know who this juicy nugget is. He reached internet superstar status with his video "What What (In the Butt)". Check out these other gems featuring my gay best friend[in the head], Samwell...

Samwell Goes To The Spa

Samwell "Interviewed" Part 1


Samwell "Interviewed" Part 2


And the infamous What What (In the Butt)


Watch Butters from Comedy Central's Southpark funk out What What (In the Butt)


Visit Samwell's Myspace Page!

PEACHEZ FRIED CHICKEN

"Gone & wash ya hands, cuz ya gone be lick'n 'em"

I TATTOO'D MY TEETH

Not really, lol. But what if I wanted to? Steve Heward has made it a possibility.

From Steve Heward's website:
Normally this artwork is done on the back teeth, the molars. Some people prefer having it on the cheek side of the tooth, some on the tongue side. These tattoos are maybe considered a white collar tattoo. They are seen only when the person that has one wants to share what they have, by pulling their cheek out so it could be seen. The other advantage to these tattoos is that they can easily be removed in five minutes in the dentist’s office with just a little grinding with a rubber wheel. We show the artwork on the front teeth so people can see our artistic abilities.

Hott concept. I call Steve a creative genius. But for practicality's sake, I call this a no~go. With the artwork being so small, seems like you'd look as if you have cavities =|

A FEW THINGS EVERY MAN SHOULD KNOW...

10 Reasons Why A Brotha Ain't Gettin No Play

This priceless gem comes from Odara at The Goodie Bag.

JEALOUS MUCH???

From Wikipedia:

Envy may be defined as an emotion that "occurs when a person lacks another’s superior quality, achievement, or possession and either desires it or wishes that the other lacked it."^[1]

It can also derive from a sense of low self-esteem that results from an upward social comparison threatening a person's self image: another person has something that the envier considers to be important to have. If the other person is perceived to be similar to the envier, the aroused envy will be particularly intense, because it signals to the envier that it just as well could have been him or her who had the desired object.^[2][3]

Bertrand Russell said envy was one of the most potent causes of unhappiness.^[4] It is a universal and most unfortunate aspect of human nature because not only is the envious person rendered unhappy by his envy, but also wishes to inflict misfortune on others.

It's no wonder envy is one of the Seven Deadly Sins. Envy begets acts of evil for the purpose of destruction. Envy broods in the mind and festers in the heart. Envy is the vice, and kindness is the virtue. For as long as people are envious of what I possess, I shall be sympathetic of what they lack. Through my kindness, I will continue to flourish. And through their malevolence, they will continue to fade.