all to say, i recently came across this and was bemused....
Guide To Guilty Pleasures
A: Anything From the 80s, ass, alternative porn, **award shows for black people
B: being racist, *blaming the condom, biz markee, buying from crackheads
C: Cosby, *Cuba Gooding Jr (hating on), **cumming too soon, [candy] cereals
D: *Diary/Email reading, other people's
E: explaining slang to white people (also, black people +2)
F: Fresh Prince, fat black women, Flavor of Love, Friends
G: Golden Girls, getting a metrocard swipe for a buck(bwahahaha), gambling
H: Halal street vendors, hopping the train, hip hop magazines
I: Ingrown hairs
J: slow Jams ...(mixes)
K: Kirsten Dunst, King of Queens, *Kevin Smith
L: **Lipgloss is poppin, Lil Mama
M: Meg Ryan, Maxim Magazine (sigh)
N: New Edition,
O: overhearing sex, Oprah, Onion Rings
P: popeye's chicken, picking fights, picking boogers, **PM Dawn
Q: quarter waters
R: R Kelly, R&B (same thing), "rapearations", rhymes, Run's House
S: Smurfs, saving money via the dollar menu, sandra bullock, sex in the city marathons, selling a metrocard swipe, smoking too much,
T: Tyler Perry, Timberlake
U: Using the supermarket circular
V: video games, violins in hip hop (also, flutes), vitamin water,
W: White Castle, weed, white girls, Will Smith
X:
Y: yawning in someone's face, yeah yeah yeahs "maps" on repeat,
Z:
not sure what that asterisks indicate exactly. also don't think the metrocard swipe economy is popping such that it warrants a couple mentions anymore. black people award shows i might need to revisit. i kind of miss the old times when hip hop shows were guaranteed riots. The Oscars could use an old fashioned melee where Clooney throws his shoe someone or something.
<3 <3 <3..but pray tell, what does this have to do with assimilation?
ReplyDeleteadmittedly it might be a stretch, but i think the idea that both assimilation and guilty pleasures are forces beyond our control is what i was reaching for. the general realm at least.
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