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#AJLT: C-line Style Capture

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Now yall KNOW, if you know, that I can dress my ass off and style on naker’s so hard, but a good pal of mine is THEE fashionista. And if And Just Like That aint gonna give us Big, they will give us fashions. And so I wondered, who would be a great person to kick off recapping the styles of our tried and true threesome, none other than Chicago’s very own, Cline from the Nine! Take it away, C-line! Lilly… oh Lily!!!!  Lil Mama opened her scene with quilted buttercup colored Chanel boots, a Chanel backpack and Chanel brooch.  Her arsenal of Chanel was heightened with her beautifully wrinkly English Bulldog!  Recital look. Her Oscar de la Renta dress was everything. Baby girl has STYLE, that dress was badass.  Lisa Todd Wexley… Sis is about to be a problem, a GOOD problem!  She’s serving 40’s successful Black woman energy and I’m here for it.  How do I know she’s bad, because she’s rocking a long caftan over a Issye Miyake drop crotch printed jumper with Guiseppe Zanotti splatter sandals like it’s nothing!  I will be stalking her short choppy bob. Oh, and I’ll tell you why I know we will love her??? It’s the Rosie Assoulin balloon-sleeve dress for ME!!!!  Charlotte… I want to start this by saying I have always loved her fashions.  She always gives prim and proper with a smidge of sexy which had me wearing tea length skirts in the early 2000’s with tank tops, heels and cardigans with my high ponytail.  Fast forward and her style is STILL on point!  We were reintroduced to Classic Char at the restaurant in her full tea length white maxi skirt and hot pink GoGoSilk blouse with Stuart Weitzman pumps. I would expect nothing less than her in that pink tweed St. John dress with her Louis Vuitton Capucines bag. I love that she’s not rocking LM monogram.  Carrie, Carrie, Carrie!!!!! Her opening scene was quintessential Carrie but my eyes instantly went to her Saint Laurent “Liya” sandals. I salivated over these in Vegas and stopped myself from buying them. Gotta learn to live with regrets. And dammit, only Carrie can rock not one but TWO crossbody purses at once.  Her recital outfit was one that my friend Lindsay and I wore from 2005 – 2013 and baby, we were faithful.  Loose crop pants with blouses and heels!!!! Couldn’t tell us NOTHING! People fear crops but give these streets a peek of your cleavage and ankles baby!!! I naturally swooned when she popped on her wedding Choo’s with this outfit.  Her fune outfit was a snapshot of why I fell in love with her style. Black v-neck bodysuit, full tea length skirt fluffed with tulle (because yes, ankles are sexy I keep telling yall!) and heels. The headpiece. The pearls. Bitch I cried. This was Breakfast at Tiffany’s meets West Village realness.  Miranda… I’m not commenting because Miranda Hobbes is giving Hyde Park / Karen vibes.   For this week’s show recap, https://www.myalogy.com/recaps/and-just-like-that-he-gone

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And Just Like That…..He Gone

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Man, who would have thought that in an episode where Carrie said the word “pussy” and we were treated to the stomach churning sight of John James Preston jagging off that those wouldn’t be the most shocking moments of the premiere of the Sex and the City reboot “And Just Like That.” Let me tell you how bad those final moments hit me. My intended was on a conference call. My first yell of “CALL THE POLICE” left him slightly startled. Then WHAT ARE YOU DOING BITCH?! scared him. My the time I was full out sobbing he and our trusty dog son were tearing ass to get back to me to make sure I was alright. I was not. To him, I was. But upon hearing the words “and just like that, big died” (or whatever she said that I barely heard thru my sobs) I truly was not okay. And so this is how the creative team behind a very highly anticipated continuing saga wants to start off – with me, texting one of the writers (humblebrag) how I would murder that entire writers room. Lets take on this episode with a character by character recap shall we? Carrie – Gotta say, I didn’t feel a whole lot of character development here, probably because she’s almost in the same situation with first met her in, with a ring from her beloved and larger bag. While not a perfect friend, she’s always been a pretty good one. So good that she misses out on a SCHEDULED departure to go on a weekend jaunt with big to watch charlottes kid in what I am sure will be her one and only piano recital – tho got damn lily played the hell outta that song. She’s always been a bit of a prude, but why join a podcast that you had to know sex was gonna be part of and act scared to talk bout sex after years of having a column called, well, yall know. As for her new “job” it very much gave me cringe. Just seems in place to check alot of boxes, but thats television in this era…..anyhoo, so as lily’s piano crescendos, big’s cycling intensifies and my eyes begin to water. Its clear what’s coming but you hope against it. And when she finally returns home to find him dying but not dead, you still have a bit of hope – til she said what she had said. RIP Mr. Big and RIP Carries wedding choos …..sad, so sad. Miranda – So this one gave me pause. I don’t give a fuck that Charlotte thinks her gray hair ages Miranda directly, but also Charlotte indirectly, but I do give a fuck that a woman that spent months getting dicked down by Blair Underwood is suddenly very confuzzled by black people. I know getting black dick doesn’t equate to being an ally, but all the unforced errors? I dunno, maybe this is yet another sign of the times….white folks that didn’t see color are starting to see too much color and it blinds them. BUT that notwithstanding, you aint gonna tell me miranda is so damn white that her red assed son is having sex in her house to the point that he’s leaving used condoms on the bedroom floor. And ya daddy not being able to hear don’t get you no sympathy points. I was probably 48 the first time I kissed a man around my mom and I just turned 46. Read that as many times as you need to get it. As we can totally see, Miranda was part of the PussyHat Dolls, spurred by societal injustices to leave her corporate firm to return to school to become a justice warrior, only to find a black assed instructor who aint impressed by her, but will soon become her friend….if the previews are to be believed. Charlotte – now im writing this bout six days out from the premier, so I cant really remember all that much about Charlotte other than her life seems as perfect as usual. Oh and her youngest daughter Rose is likely Trans, or Bi, or a Lesbian, or just don’t like Oscar de la Renta dresses, but it seems obvious her kids are gonna be her storyline and her fabulous relationship with Nicole Ari Parker. Im rooting for you Charlotte, give me more to write aboutcha! Samantha – Oh I know she’s gone, but her presence looms large and false. Apparently the biggest author since Stephen King, Carrie Bradshaw, stopped writing books and dropped Samantha as a publicist, a sin so egregious that she cut off her ENTIRE friend group. Samantha, who once blew a delivery guy and got caught….. Samantha, who once wore a bad wig to chase down Richard…. Samantha, who fucked a kid who showed up shrieking how much he loved her outside her window….. was SO ashamed by being fired by her friend that she ran off to London, only to be resurrected in the form of a lone funeral spray bearing her name. NO. NO MAAM. Sirs and madams, NO. I think I read today that she would consider returning in some form….or maybe that was about Bethenny Frankel and the Real Housewives of New York, two developments that would make me very happy. NEXT TIME WE HAVE A VERY HORRIBLE FUNERAL TO LIVE THRU…. For this week’s fashion recap click https://www.myalogy.com/recaps/ajlt-c-line-style-capture

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Kanan Concepts 1.5

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imma say this….and I just want you to hear me out. Knowing that Kanan killed his own son, I don’t find it a stretch to believe that Raq is gonna murk Marvin. And ill be here with money on her books if she do. He is THEE worst. He gets sonned regularly by his little sister. His little brother took him down on the pavement and laughed at his chick being clapped down by some other nakers. His daughter don’t like him and his nephew don’t respeck him. If this naker don’t get his own “who shot marvin” storyline like Jamie, I’d be gobsmacked. So just when I was wondering why we have to keep visiting the doctor with Officer Epps, kanans bloody snot rag appeared on his desk and the clouds parted….of course kanan is his son. Why else would we give a fuck bout this dude? No reason I could think of, but hey….Ive always liked Omar so Im glad he’s still working. Speaking of clouds parting, how Famous don’t know Jukeboxx is gay? I mean I guess we all dressed like nakers back in the day, but we aint carry ourselves like them. Juke is a dude. A dude that got her lil black ass heart broken and threatened to be exposed as a rapist…damn Karen! Thats a bit much, your lil karen jr was a willing participant. Im surprised it took yall all this time to kick in the door. Kudos on not being a typical white mama….wasnt NO doors being closed in my black ass house, but at least you entered without knocking. Poor Chad was lost but Im sure you got him up to speed and put some starch on his chinos when he found out his lil girl was put the L in the LGBTQIA+. Poor juke, but maybe, just maybe I won’t have to hear her sing for the 6th episode in a row. Raq is building a mini Carter, I like her style. I just wanna know why they didn’t cast the actual Jimmie Walker under the Save Elvin From Whole Foods Act, to play the project dude – especially since dude looked like him. that woulda been awesome. Her dumb ass brother gonna sit up and ask her when her and kanan moving in there. man somebody put a bullet in this fool for all of our sakes. Jesus he is stupid. Kanan, kanan, kanan, we learned so much about you this ep. Firstly, you are a virgin. Second Davina Greenleaf fucked you without a kiss….she got you going against your cousin and you aint even smelt it yet. Thirdly, you are a Leo….shoulda known. Fourthly, you cant fight, like most adult bullies. Fiftly, you don’t listen. You wanna be grown and have all this responsibility, but you cant follow directions. I don’t know what your mama is thinking teaching you how to cook crack, but we all know it aint gonna end well for you. Line of the episode: we shake hands when we negotiate, we throw hands when we renegotiate. #TEAMRAQ If you read this first, click here for last week’s installment which I wrote five minutes before this. See yall next week!

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Kanan Concepts 1.4

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its a twofer! when I get done writing this Imma write the next one so click the link at the bottom, myalogists! So I was just gonna do a brain dump on this but when I discussed it with my intended, he said this episode had a theme: Desperation. Upon further review, he was right. Before we get to that tho, I would like to give Unique his flowers for all his dapper dan gear. but I will take back one lone gangsta rose, cuz he was so desperate for revenge that he tortured his boy for no reason. He sat up there and tore his boys ear off and killed him and then turned around and said he knew Raq was behind his shipment being snatched, HUH? He literally told his boy the glass dick got them into this shit, and then said this shit got Raq name all over it, BOI O BOY the power writers never fail us, do they. Then his desperation led him to put stepped on dope out on the street, the fiends are not gonna be happy with this decision. White publicist lady is desperate if Marvin is the best dick she can get. And she begging that wack ass naker to cuddle with her….ugh. AND he repo’d her dog….granted she wasn’t taking care of it, but that aint the point! She went from Symphony to marvin who don’t even get a capital M in his name from me. What a fucking loser, the both of them. Speaking of lil big brother….his desperation led him allll amok this ep. Scooters bubble guts left him so desperate that he had NO other viable option than Kanan to assist him in moving the stash. Then when they spot got blown up by Unique’nem, this dumbass got so desperate that he found he had NO other viable option than to ram his car into the back of niq’s van and then found out after that didn’t work that he had NO other viable option than to shoot them THRU his window. SIGH. He then goes and finds niq’s one remaining boy bout to shoot his nephew and this time truly had NO OTHER VIABLE OPTION than to kill dude. His desperation leads him to try to hide all this from Raq, by finishing the move and letting his nephew clean up the mess. Jukeboxx whose portrayer very clearly went to the Kerry Washington School of Facial Acting, is so desperate for studio time and white puss that she engages in boosting and sitting up in them good white peoples house eating there bland spaghetti and their bland daughter. I did find myself wondering why she was boosting when her family has money but the next scene answered it, her daddy is a moron and a hater. Raq, my sweet beautiful Raq, is so desperate, only at times, to try and save her son that she puts him in her dicks class – damn that’s cold Raq. what’s the age difference on them nakers? cant be more than 10 years, but hey…..just like another beautiful single mama, she gotta have a life too. random desperations: Davina green leaf so desperate to get her mama back, she done sold out the gang. Crown Combs seems desperate for some mid Latina too. kanan so desperate to be a bad guy that he hides a blood stained shirt under his bed. Im so deseperate to not hear jukebox sing again what yall think? click here for episode 5 recap! see yall next week! ][

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Kanan Concepts 1.3

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So this is gonna be another brain dump post. Just my rando notes as I was taking them, because again, not alot of narrative development took place. I will say, I remain undeterred. Three episodes into tariq’s story, they were still focusing on them weak ass professors and their sex issues and I was wondering why. I mean by the end of the story, I was still wondering why, but at least they ended up playing a substantial part, so this is my show and Im sticking with it. moving on….my notes in sequential order. opening up with let the rhythm hit’em – solid choice officer epps should stop trying to chase down youth offenders in a blade coat and barney miller steppers Third week in a row, im compelled to mention how beautiful raq is….and she got two sex scenes…meowwwwwww This little naker Kanan smelling himself a bit too much questioning his mother and her houseguests going to school when he feel like it asking his uncle what his uncle doing in his own Childs room while standing up with no good reason to be standing up in his uncles house. DEANangelo Barksdale is the plug! Officer Epps is dying…I hope this is an important plot point down the road. Jukebox getting the Mary J “imma cut a demo in the mall” Blige treatment I shole hope her lil girlfriend don’t get the Andre Harrell Hookup before her but lets be honest she turned out to be a dirty cop so that whole singing career don’t matter while we on Juke, are we gonna have to listen to her sing EVERY episode? while we still on juke, at the boost, did she not only drop her mask, but also her knife? NOT SMART Some one tell big brother Marvin that dogs aren’t interchangeable. You cant kill someone’s purse dog and replace it with a rotttie. CROWN COMBS IS PLAYING HIS STEPDEDDY. A serious aside: its truly sad to see how drugs decimated our communities, Marvin’s pride at Kanan entering the game was pathetic. So Jess the mid Latina is an adult…sorry I called you a Kelz last week LULU Kanan don’t even know how to price drugs. Family just sent him into the streets ass out. So, is officer epps only on his own side? He aligned himself with Unique last week, but took his stash this week to help out raq, but probs only did it for himself. right? See yall next week……

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Ladies, in your Twenties, Run the World, so you don’t end up in The First Wives Club

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mannnnnn, if I aint a writer, water aint wet. So some of you, meaning anyone that knows me, knows I LOVE TELEVISION. Music is great, but have you ever had the rusty anchor episode of the golden girls come on after you arrive home post walk of shame? thats some good living right there. anyhoo….. my fellow teevee freaks may have noticed me drop not one, not two, but three of the dopest women driven shows Ive ever seen in the title up there. Twenties, Run the World, and The First Wives Club ate up so much of my time recently. They all focus on everyone’s favorite – BLACK WOMEN. Black women working, loving, living, laughing, losing, gaining, you know just being human in different phases of their lives. My Twenties girls are, well, in their twenties, doing twentyish shit like getting evicted and getting cheated out of orgasms and trying to figure it out. My Run the World girls are a bit more savvy…im thinking 30s….situated in careers, if not in love, and definitely not missing no nuts. And The First Wives Club, well them bishes old…life is certainly settled in many ways but tell God ya settled and watch him work. The thing that I love most about all these shows and what they all have in common that they feature, not black women, but women that are black. a distinction if not a difference. Im not being beat over the head with their blackness, which is gloriously still, thru their style, their lingo and their worldview very obvious. Let’s dig in….. TWENTIES (Wednesdays, BET) – loosely based on Lena Waithe’s ascension in Hollywood. It’s centered on her, in this case, a lesbian chick named Hattie, her single free spirited pal Nia, and her married serious friend Marie. Hattie ends up working for – thanks to Marie – who I believe is Yvette Lee Bowser, after floundering around and thus starts her career in Hollywood. I swear, if you dont see a sminch of yourself, in one of these chicks, ya lying. There is a joke about Hattie being violated by a dentist after getting evicted that legit made me laugh out loud. Plus, the sporty side of me is here for all of Hatties fashions, think: tees bauds and rees. In fact one of her pairs if pants had me running to my trusted fashionista, C-Line from the 9, to hunt them down. found them, ordered them, they never arrived….to china, from mya and America, eff you. But to Lena, a huge gratitude from me to you for sharing your story…we still need to talk bout some other projects of yours tho….. Run The World (Sundays, STARZ)- now I just said this about no blackness, so I AINT gonna call this a black version of a white quartet that we all lived for in the early aughts, but……the city is the same, but the vibe aint. This one is about 4 chicks, Ella is a blogger/writer like ya fave – MOI, Sondi is a post graduate candidate in a relationship with her professor, Renee is a pistol, who just kicked her wasband to the curb and Whitney is a uber successful bidness woman who feels trapped by her relationship with her uber good dr fiancé. When we first meet them they are all about to hit a state of flux….all of them are entering a season of change, which anyone near my age can relate to. Add Erika the Great Alexander to the mix as Ella’s editor….and get ya bat and yall ball cuz thats a hit. Editors note: my uncle said that lame line to me bout twenty years ago and I cringed for him like you likely just did for me. but eff yall. The First Wives Club (Streaming, BET+) – based on the movie of the same name. Jilly From Philly is megastar on the decline, Hazel E, married to an unscrupulous man who manages her while attempting to manage someone else. He cuts her off financially and she has to move in with Surgeon Bree, who kicks her too nice husband to the curb after he cheats on her after she neglects him. Rounding out the trio is Ari, a former high flying legal eagle who puts her dreams aside to help her husband launch his political career. All of them are buoyed by Hazel having to push the reset button on life and some serious hijinks and low moments ensue, while on a quest to avenge hazel and live their best lives. All three of my shows have some familiar faces in the casts, and all of them feature music that will make you bop ya head and wicked smart punchlines and writing. AND THE FASHIONS, OH SHIT THE FASHIONS *GMONEY VOICE* Sometimes you will laugh, sometimes you may drop a tear or two over a scene that strikes a little to close to home. One thing is for certain, all the creators had both their bats and balls…..too soon?

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Kanan Concepts 1.2

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Why did older brother go so hard in the paint over White PR lady? He sat up and said how Raq hates white girls and he did everything except actually drive miss daisy in an effort to impress her. Told yall….he’s gonna be trouble.

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Kanan Concepts 1.1

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So that title could be a work in progress….im not sure about it, but Im a sucka for alliteration. Here we go! Firstly, I’d like to congratulate myself for recapping a show after the very first ep. If you follow me, you know that has never happened, so YAY MYA. Moving on…initial thoughts…..RAQUEL IS FUCKING BEAUTIFUL! And she is officially my favorite mom of the Power series. Tasha was dumb and limited. Monet don’t give a fuck bout her kids, but Raq….she wants better for her son and realizes she is powerless in changing who he is, so she gives in. Good? Nah, but at least she cared enough to try. Plus she is without hips like your favorite blogger and anytime I see a black woman who aint built like a Minotaur on teevee, I get amped. This premiere ep was all about introductions and establishing characters, so this recap will attempt to do the same. The main thrust of this ep, was that Raq is a boss, who was bequeathed power by her dead baby daddy or her now dead boyfriend…honestly can’t remember, but she’s it, so thats all you need to know. She has some brothers who are clearly gonna complicate her life, probably in a similar way that her son did in this first ep. As soon as I saw them sitting in that diner, with all them windows, I said to my intended, a shootout is a coming….and didn’t it come. It was a warning to Raq from a rival dealer, Unique, which Raq understood, but Kanan did not. Raq met with Unique to dead the beef and carve out territory. Bet. Kanan still took that shit personal and snuffed out his romantic rival, Buck when he saw him on what he thought was Raq’s territory, which lead to Uniques folks shooting up Raq and Kanans’s abode. Although furious with him, this leads Raq to understand her son is a soldier not a student and she gives in to his desire to be part of their criminal enterprise, And thus begins the narrative push of this story, the third book of Power: Raising Kanan. Myalogy Minutes: The music and fashions are top notch! Sergio Tacchini suit anyone? YESSSSSSS They really want white people on these shows. I can go with the publicist, but Jukeboxx’s girlfriend is a stretch The Power team aint gonna be happy til I call PETA on them. First Milan (I think) killed Tommy’s dog and now Raq done nuked Bella? Shouts out to the old Dorito bag. Raq and Symphony is giving me strong Monet and Latino cop vibes Is Symphony also fucking white publicist lady? The opening song aint as strong as Big Rich Town, but it uses a Mary Jane Girls sample, so I won’t always fast forward thru it. See yall next week!

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Dear Daddy

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Some of you know that in April of this year, I lost the first man that every truly loved me. I kinda knew it was coming, I kinda wished it would. My daddy was a proud self sufficient man and his health was on the decline. He’d gone blind in October of last year, but was so proud he hid it from us and would still sit at his kitchen table with the newspaper in front of him – AS IF. But thats who he was. My mother, unfortunately, did not have the same type of husband as the daddy I got, but thats between them. All I know is I was loved fiercely by a man that gave me his face and his last name. The last couple of weeks were rough, he was slipping cognitively, and one of my worst nightmares, is having a loved one not know who I am. Thank God it never came to that. On one of our last visits, he asked me if he’d messed up my life by not staying married to my mom. Between tears he would never see, I assured him I had the best life imaginable, and he smiled and nodded good. So this is the first Fathers Day without me having a daddy in the physical realm. As such, I will be visiting a cemetery for the first time in my life with my brother. Its funny, when my dad’s dad passed at the ripe old age of 92, I remember my nearly 60 year old dad turning to me and saying, “well, Im an orphan now.” (my nana had died a couple of years prior). I get it…Im closer to 50 than I am to God and in the words of Blanche Elizabeth Devereaux, “im nobodies little girl anymore.” And it fucking sucks. I wanna pick up the phone and run so many things past the smartest man I’ve ever known. I want him to talk to him bout how 46 is soothing the soul of the world. I want him to know how Ill look in my wedding gown. I want him to know the bears drafted a fucking black qb for chrissakes! But most of all I want another opportunity to thank him for my life. I have so much to be thankful for. And on this Father’s Day, I wanna speak to my single dads, or dads that are not the custodial parent. Weekend dads. Summer Vacay dads. I mean the ones who have a vested interest in the welfare and well being of their children. The ones whose kids may be being fed false narratives about them. The ones that are fighting the courts. The ones who may be fighting bitter women who are angry they may have found happiness, while she is stuck nursing old wounds. KEEP LOVING YOUR KIDS, Gents. Keep showing up for them. My parents separated when I was around 10, but every morning until I could drive, he was at my ouse dropping us off at the bus stop. Every Saturday he was there to take my brother -and sometimes his friends – to his YBA games at the Y. We went on vacations as a family – until my deep twenties. The TIMES I was unfairly detained by Chicago’s finest, he was right there to bond me out and lawyer me up….aaaah good times. Daddy, I want you to know, your efforts were not in vain. Me, Damon and Janine are all thriving and doing well. I can’t tell you how many men I’ve counseled (in my limited way as only a person that has never bee a father could) on fatherhood outside the home using you as an example. I tell them, you can love and support your children and give them the fullest life imaginable. Im so proud to be your child and Im even prouder that the way that you loved us was evident to so many people. You may have had to ask if you messed up my life, but no one else who truly knew me had to. yours eternally, mya courtney seals

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