Saturday night various and random musings
I’ve become kinda hesitant to give free product plugs on The Breaking Point (some bloggers charge $25,000 to write new product reviews) but I have to give it up to Sanpellegrino Limonata. If you haven’t tried it, you might be playing yourself a little bit. The can says it contains “Sparkling Lemon Beverage With 16% Of Lemon Juice From Concentrate.” Whatever that means works for me. It’s delicious and I especially appreciate the foil wrapping at the top of the can.
When I was in the store buying the Limonata I bumped into a woman I met about three years ago. She’s attractive: about 5′3″, dark brown skin, large eyes, curly hair and a come hither smile. She’s also well-spoken, does volunteer work and has a career in marketing.
We had a couple of conversations by phone, but I could tell after the first one that for whatever reason, she wasn’t feeling me. I wasn’t looking at rings, either. It happens. We see each other from time to time and always speak. Tonight, though, there was something about her vibe that was kinda off putting.
I can’t put my finger on it and I’m not really trying to, but as I drove out of the parking lot it occurred to me that if we’d hooked up (whatever that means) when we met there’s a good chance we wouldn’t be on speaking terms today.
That’s not a knock on either of us; people with the best intentions fail at maintaining relationships that “should” work. But she probably did me a favour by not showing any interest and I probably did her (and myself) a favour by not sweating her. I say that because I know plenty of women who swore up and down that they weren’t feeling a guy whom they later ended up dating because he was persistent.
I’m not persistent and I have never been. I don’t think I need to be. If I walked up to a woman and offered her a 10 ct. diamond and $1 million in cash, I wouldn’t need to persist in getting her to accept it, would I?
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Can someone explain to me why studios feel the need to announce that their new films are “only showing in theatres”? Where else would a new release be showing?
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Does Tamron Hall have “Caucasian features”?
I ask because that’s what I was told recently when I listed her as one of the women I find I attractive. I recognise that Tamron isn’t the darkest sister around, but to describe her as having Caucasian features seems like quite a stretch.
I was also told that Liya Kebede has “Caucasian features.”
I don’t see them. Not that it much matters but, um, she’s Ethiopian.
When I look at these pictures, I see black women.
Ridiculously, I was also told that Vanessa Bell Calloway has vaguely “Caucasian features.” No, we’re thinking about the same Vanessa Bell Calloway:
Seriously?
I offer no apologies for not having been brainwashed into believing that a black woman has to look whiteish in order to be attractive physically or that unless a woman is as dark as the night sky with a broad nose, thick lips, high cheek bones and kinky hair that she shouldn’t be deemed attractive.