End-of-the-year Questions for the Zeitgeist...

1- What do you think would happen if every person of color stopped using the "n-word"? www.abolishthenword.com

2- Who's MORE obnoxious, Rosie O'Donnell or Donald Trump?

3- Who's the one person you wished you could have had one last conversation with before they died? (BTW, R.I.P. James Brown and former president Gerald Ford...)

4- How would we define either victory or defeat in Iraq?



5- Is uber interior designer Kelly Wearstler- whose "classically modern world traveller"- themed projects for the Viceroy resorts worldwide and boutique hotels Maison 140 and The Avalon in Beverly Hills changed the landscape of commercial design and residential interiors alike- this generation's Dorothy Draper (who recently had an excellent tribute show at The Museum of the City of New York alongside the "Black Style Now" exhibit)? Further, with her line of bedding, china, crystal, flatware and decorative accessories in the pipeline, is she poised to become the UPSCALE Martha Stewart?

6- When was the last time you actually purchased a hip hop CD?
Is Nas prophetic by naming his latest project "Hip Hop is Dead"?

7- And while we're "keeping up with the Joneses", is Kelis (Jones) this generation's Grace Jones? How SEXY is her "Blindfold Me" vid with Mr. Nasir Jones?










8- Further, since we're on the subject of sexy videos...How HOT is the new commercial for J'Adore by Christian Dior, featuring Charlize Theron ramping through the manse while stripping off the accoutrements of "lux living"?


9- Isn't this one of the most TRUTHFUL countdown lists EVER?

10- You know THE REAL RE-Edit thinks Nicole Richie is a GODDESS, right? But with her recent arrest for driving up a Burbank freeway going the wrong way while hopped up on a Vicodin/marijuana cocktail, what is to become of her?

(By the way, only a true GODDESS could take a mugshot this good after a night of partying, drugging and a DUI arrest... but I digress... :~ )











11- According to this story, an ice shelf the size of 11,000 football fields has shaken loose in the Canadian Arctic. Scientists are attributing this to the changes in global temperature. How's THAT for "An Incovenient Truth"? Is former vice president Al Gore, who has been warning of us how our environmental negligence can have potentially irreversible damaging effects on our planet, sitting back with an "I told you so" look on his face?

And now...the FLASHBACK...
The whole "Dreamgirls" hoopla has me examining my whole fascination with the girl group phenomenon. Now that I think about it, if I were in A&R (ahem!), I would suggest that Nicole Scherzinger from the Pussycat Dolls cover this song (and update this video by raiding the racks of La Perla and Agent Provocateur) for her solo project, but that's just my opinion...
Never mind Destiny's Child, HERE is the girl group that did if for ME...Remember-"Nasty Girl" by VANITY 6???!!!???!!!

MAJOR!!!!!!