Sylvia Hubbard's Blog

The trailer is AWESOME! I'm so giddy with excitement that I'm tingling from my toenails to the my split ends.

I'm praying that they didn't just show only the good parts in the trailer and this might be one of my best 2009 trailers for next year.

May 1st I'll be there with baited breath!!

I don't mind the winters. I left my college home of Florida when I had a perfectly good opportunity to stay (job and weather) to come back home to Detroit, but yesterday I have to definitely say out of the coldest days in Detroit, it was FRICKING FREEZING!

I try not to complain about the weather especially in Michigan because the saying really is true, if you want it to change just wait a minute. I think out of all the midwestern cities, Detroit has one of the most versitile weather patterns. One must be half crazy to say, "I want to be a Detroit weather person" because you might have a better time convincing others you want to be a professional liar.

There wasn't only the temperature, but the wind chill that just dried up the skin like the sahara desert. On top of that nature had the nerve to make it a clear afternoon from the mornings torrential cold rain, so one had to actually go outside to actually know what the real deal was.

Mother Nature had to have been upset because she was not playing around or Jack Frost got out of his cage early and sneaked past the cold mizer brother. Either way that wind whipped about even crystalizing the moisture in the air.

By and by I found the whole thing fasinating, hence that's just another thing I love about the city.

 

 

CLICK HERE TO SEEE VIDEO : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLiLT9GJROA

Personally i don't think DP should get offended by this. If we first separate politicians and the disabled in the comedy field, SNL and many parody shows have made fun of politicians stupidity and mistakes and so forth. Everyone has an opinion and so forth about everything on whether a politician is capable, intelligent enough to do their job despite if they have a handicap or not. We've made fun of politicians for so long its a norm to think once you become a politician you're going to become an imbecile in the comedy light.

People with handicaps have been made of before as well - in comedy sketch shows such as this, in hollywood and even by us - don't lie you have made fun at one point or another of another person with a disability (from a stutter to no ligament).

To put these two together and reflect it toward a real person is the key question here. Were they really discriminating against the man (DP) or his being a politician or his being blind or his being a blind politician. Either way, we have to step back and look at this and say ITS COMEDY PEOPLE.

Why are you being offended at this show that have made fun of politicians and other blind people before?

Maybe as a writer I take offense against people taking COMEDY REALLY SERIOUSLY. Maybe I don't know the whole story. Maybe I'm being the silly one for thinking that this was just some writers/actors opinion of DP's politics.

But bottom line it was COMEDY PEOPLE! Come on!

Just another rant from blogger of How To Love A Black Woman, Sylvia Hubbard

 

 

6. harry potter and the halfblood prince

 

It didn't even come out in 2008 but it was just awesome to watch over and over again. (If you read the books, you'll know what i really mean.)

 

 

5. Iron Man

 

It gets me every time he shoots that little old rocket back at the big ole tanker and it just makes this little dinging noise and then the big blast. I chuckle every time.

 

 

4. Hulk

 

I think I'm strange. Well, I knew that already, but I seriously need therapy because there's something really sexy about this hulk. I'm salivating in the movie like i'm reading a Zane novel. Ya mean.

 

 

3. The Dark Knight

 

Lawd, y'all know i'm seriously scared of the new joker. He makes George Romero's look like a teddy bear.

 

 

2. hancock

 

When I saw this in 2007, I knew that 2008 film line up was going to be filled with stuff movie goers had never seen before. It wasn't going to be the year of the sequels or remakes. This year was going to be filled with something new and innovation. Will Smith brought it (as the girls say it bring it on) and he gave and gave so much, I'm screaming for hancock 2.

 

 

1. Wanted

 

I thought for sure the trailer used all the good scenes in the whole movie, but IT DIDN'T! The trailer prepares you not to blink the whole two hours when you watch the movie because you'll miss the good stuff.

 

Okay, now i'm going to probably make some JB fans upset but please continue reading before you jump down my throat.

before i go further, i own every jb movie and anything jb i would buy

so when i say really loud, WHERE THE F*(*!!#x! WERE THE GADGETS AND TECHNOLOGY IN THIS B you have to sit back and think, ummm, there were none.

If I wanted to go see a believable action movie, I'd have watched a Crank movie - (as in the words of Borat) - NOT.

This was an action movie.

That's not why we went to see James Bond only.

True, it was action, but it was also the new gadgets and Q

How could they forget about Q

No cool cars

Did you see that small crap she was driving.

I'd been happy seeing him roll around in a Ford FLEX, that turned invisible or could turn into a submarine.

WTF?!!

The movie line was tight. very tight.

And i like the continuous feel from the other movie.

I even like this jb and he's tied for second place with Pierce (of course sean is number one)

But I was disappointed that what was familiar about jb was missing.

what's your thoughts?

With the buzz about Twilight being a big ticket this weekend and me being a movie fanatic, I thought I'd give my best top five vampire movies that I liked.

My top five best movie vampires

1. Blade (Wesley Snipes) Movie: Blade

2. Selene (Kate Beckinsale) Movie: Underworld

3. Lasate (Tom Cruise) Movie: Interview with A Vampire

4. David (Kiefer Sutherland) Movie: The Lost Boys

 

5. The Count (Gary Oldman) Movie: Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

Honorable Mentions:

Jesse Hooker (Lance Henriksen) Movie: Near Dark
Count Vladimir Dracula (George Hamilton) Movie: Love At First Bite
Santanico Pandemonium (Salma Hayek) Movie: From Dusk Till Dawn
Mumuwalde (William Marshall) Movie: Blacula

And even though I'm a fan of Stephen King, Salem's Lot was too creepy and complicated. Even when they made the remake.

FYI: Detroit Mayoral Forum with 14 Candidates

 

I’m no sports nuts (despite the fact that I did date a professional football player and my current beau is a football nut).

But I know a little something something about the game and I was shocked to hear that there could be a tie in football.

 I’ve never heard of that happening even almost happening and I think they said this is the first time.

 

 

What’s yanking my chain is that fact that they’re making fun of Donovan McNabb who admitted that he didn’t know about it either.

 

 

So what he’s got so much wins under his belt that it makes him look like he has dunlap. Has it occurred to you – the sports writer – that when the NFL was shaking money in his face to get him to sign a contract, no one sent him to NFL university or given him a workshop on NFL 101.

 

 

Heck, shake a million at me and see if I click past the rules, terms and conditions. (I think I did that when I signed up for this blog account.) Who reads the fine print anymore and who else – except the rule makers, administrators and people making money from this sport – actually knew there was a tie.

 

 

Give the guy a freaking break!

 

 

 

 

Awesome film! Check out the YouTube Video here or click the picture!!

 

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ALRIGHT!

i've never asked for anything from you guys at fox 2 but you should have already suspected i was going to come hard and come strong on this subject.

HOW DARE YOU GIVE AWAY MY BRIAN MCKNIGHT TICKETS TO JUST ANYONE?!

How many times do i tell you over and over : I LOVE BRIAN MCKNIGHT!!

Sista will strip naked and run down 8 mile until all y'all come out that building to see me for those tickets!!

He's my world! I love me some Brian. More than anything else in the whole world. He gives me crazy love, he gives me one last cry, he's my inspiration, my motivation my man!!! in a single woman's looney world.

he got me through heartbreaks, divorce, stress full times (yes, that's two words in a single mother's world), frustrations and confusions of this world.

i've gone to hell and back and what's kept me sane is Brian

So if you don't want me really really mad at you, you need to send me an email and say, Hey Sylvia, I heard you were a Brian McKnight fan. Here's two tickets. (cause you know i don't have a car and i need to bring my ride unless you also arrange a nice limosine then you might as well throw in some back stage tickets too.)

Why do it?

Cause I'm your best blogger (except for shockhazard)

Cause I'm a single mother who hasn't had a vacation in 13 years and is about to go out of her mind

Cause my momma said all you can say is no ( and Sylvia hates that word. i hear it too much already)

CAUSE I LOVE BRIAN MCKNIGHT!!!!!

(PS. honestly i can't stay mad at you long. Never could hold a grudge, but it might last until November 30, 2008.)

 

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  Yes, I'm crazy and not sane at all to involve myself in this. On top of that, I'm really going out on a limb and challenging myself by starting my first Christian Romance novel. Lawd da help I've already got a title: Eve's Deceptive. I'm already envisioning the cover which is a first since I usually don't do [...]   Read more at: http://sylviahubbard.wordpress.com   See my NaNoWri page and become my buddy: http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user/422181

What is the name of your alter Ego?

 

Beyonce has an alter ego now: Sasha Fierce

Eminem wanted to be known as Slim Shady (but then changed his mind cause people liked Slim more than they liked Eminem).

And then Prince wanted to be known as _____ okay, I can't find any keys on the QWERTY to type it, but you get the point.

In all this, I ask do we all have alter egos? Is there a little bit of Sybil in all of us?

If you don't know who Sybil is I must be showing my age, LOL.

When I was little, I had a lot of emotional issues with my father and my family - I think I still do, LOL. But I had an imaginary friend. I called him Sylvester. I'd tell him my stories and my secrets and in turn he would assure me that I was special and smart - something my father forgot to tell me a lot when I was growing up.

By teen, Sylvester had gone away and in it's place was Cat. A dark side of me that I don't like to bring up but she had the backbone that I knew I didn't have and got me through a lot of things that I don't think I as Sylvia could have made it through, but she also got me in a lot of trouble too.

In college my club name was Kelli. I was the party girl that didnt' need a drink to get the party started. I think I was the only one who wasn't drunk in the bars, but I was the life of the party. I wasn't the shy girl. And i definitely wasn't the stay at the table or the wall flower. I danced, swung from the chandeliers and made sure by the end of the night, you knew I had been there.

I still tell stories to myself and sometimes I do look beside me as if someones sitting there. And that evil side of me is still around, but I don't refer to her as a separate entity

And then there's Kelli. I like tokeep her close that way I can blame all the wickedly nasty things I do on her.

LOL

If I had to name my alter ego now though, I would call her Cali. (A little like Cat and a little like Kelli, but a lot of Caliente).

 

photo courtesy of ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images

against married parents and no children people trying to give single parents advise about raising children. that's a whole 'nother arena you don't know 'nah 'bout, Beo-yotch!

against women whose hair looks better than the way their children are dressed.
against gold teeth. whichever woman encouraged a man that was attractive that's just nasty!
against calling for a number and not having a pen to write things down

against asking stupid questions and not expecting a stupid answer. (ex: who is the CEO of Detroit? If I was born in tennessee, can I get my birth certificate in Detroit, Michigan? if a freaking tree falls in the woods and no ones around, will anyone hear it?)

against asking a woman out when you're riding the bus knowing you don't have a car to pick her up on a date.

against not flossing. smell like the dead rose up in your mouth

against wearing a wig that you know you should have combed out ten days ago but you just keep on wearing it over and over again and then have the nerve to sleep in it.

against fake toenails

against talking on the cell phone while you're on a date.

against wearing your blue tooth while in church (especially while you're in the choir and then having the nerve to answer it while you're singing.)

okay, add your own...

(and don't add silly political racist stuff cause I'm certainly going to delete it!)

Michigan Mother Who Left Son in Omaha Identified Michigan Teenager Dropped at Omaha Hospital Michigan Teenager Dropped At Omaha, Neb.,
When does it come to a point in a mother's life when she says to herself, "I can't do this anymore."

There have been times as a mother I've said this and cried over my failure to support my children, whether emotional and financially. The grief that embodies a parent at the realization that its either me or the kid is a very scary thing because what comes after once you journey down the road its something you can't reverse or take back.

I've been blessed from day one for not chosing that road, but there are so many others that haven't.

After reading these stories and finding out that the mother was not even alone in the car with the child. Her mother and aunt were with her! Most likely to hold the boy in place.

I've threatened my children several times that I'll give them up rather than kill them after they do some of the most disrespectful idiot crap this side of the Mississippi. (I've been using that term a lot lately.)

But people must know that YOU did this to that poor woman.

For a while I've been shouting for more attention to be put on mental help for single parents. There's no outlet.

In the community we're regarded as leeching off the system

In the church we're regarded as sinners.

In our own family, we're regarded as the bad apple.

What have you done for a single parent ever?!

It's double the mental stress, double the responsibility and triple the heartache when it all feels like it's about to go really wrong?

Now I'm a believer that if you crap in the bed, you need to go and lie in it and work it out, but people have got to understand that it really does take a village to raise a child and there needs to be more programs and more assistance out there to help single parents take care of themselves.

HELP!