Big Tex Lives!!!

 

Who is Big Tex? I know somebody is asking. Big Tex was a 52-foot (16 m) tall statue and marketing icon of the annual State Fair of Texas held at Fair Park in Dallas, Texas. The figure has become a cultural icon of Dallas and Texas. Since 1952 Big Tex has served as a cultural ambassador to visitors, and the prime location in the fairgrounds serves as a traditional meeting point.

On October 19, 2012, the last weekend of the 2012 State Fair of Texas, Big Tex was destroyed by an electrical fire that started in the jaw. Thank You Wikipedia because some of my readers are not from the DFW area or not familiar with the State Fair of Texas.

So, on October 19, 2012 I was watching The Chew and the news broke in to show Big Tex was burning up. Even though I like to think of myself pretty practical in though, like many I was sad & shocked. The State Fair of Texas Icon was burning a few days before the ending of the fair. That was horrible. The only other statue I would get sad if it burn would be the Statute of Liberty. So this was major for me to get sad about an inanimate object burning. I was sad but I didn’t mourn him like some. Do you know a funeral home had a wake for him? That was way over the top. I didn’t see the point of mourning him because the fair officials said he was coming back.

I live blocks away from the fairgrounds and I heard a lot of truck traffic on the major streets last night. I didn’t think anything of it. I looked up on the news and they were showing Big Tex’s new head. An hour later because of the wind they had to unveil him a day earlier. Big Tex going up signifies the coming of the fair. When you see Big Tex, you know the fair is soon to open. Big Tex looks great. He is slimmer, and has fewer wrinkles. He was a burn victim so some work had to be done. Now I am not a fan of those boots. They are very busy. Big Tex is a Cowboy. He needs plain cowboy boots.

 

Yes, I can’t wait to go to the fair this year. I’m hoping I can make it. The State Fair of Texas is very fun. I went to another fair in the state and it does not compare. My favorite things at State Fair of Texas at Fletcher’s corndogs. Fletcher’s are the Best corndogs in the world. More than likely I’ll wash that down with some State Fair lemonade. A Smoked Turkey leg, Fried Green Tomatoes, Alligator & Crawfish Sausage, and Funnel Cakes are delicious choices also. This year I plan to try one new fried food, the Fried Millionaire’s Pie. Millionaire’s Pie is my favorite pie, so I have to try it fried. Oh you do know a trip to the fair is a total Diet Cheat day. I don’t even try to eat right there. Wait I don’t even know if there any healthy foods at the fair.  I will go to the automotive show and see what new in “As Seen on TV” product. I’m not a ride person at the fair. Not enough Roller Coasters at the fair. I’m a Roller Coaster type of chic.  I rode rides the last time, 9 years ago with my niece and her buddy. I realize I was too old for some of that. LoL Before going home I’ll pick up a couple of bags of Cotton Candy for my family. They love it.

Welcome Back, Big Tex! Glad to see you!!!

 

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Can’t Box Me In

Being me in a swirling job. I don’t remember when it happened. Maybe it was the way my life was meant to be lived. I have all these parts of me that live together. My life is like a big house party where each room, the scene and music changes. Only thing is there is no layout map. Next door to reading room might be the researching the latest Plus Size fashions but you expected the gospel ballads room.

People who have not accepted me as the life chameleon I am, are comical to me. They are constantly trying to box me in. They know I’m a Christian and soon as they get used to that and I say I believe the Big Bang Theory, they scramble in confusion. People who know me as a nerd, call me on Friday nights and find out I’m at a Happy Hour event doing the latest line dances, wonder if I’m trying to be “hip” all of a sudden. People who know I can do line dances wonder how I won a Fantasy football league. And the list goes on & on.

You can’t box me in. You can’t box anyone in. Everyone is a swirl within themselves. Alright let me get back to swirling, I mean living life.

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Non-Pierced Ears Blues

My ears are not pierced. Well not anymore and well not only one is still pierced, I think. My mother didn’t pierce our ears as babies. She does not have pierce ears nor does my grandmother. My sister had my aunt sign for her at age 16. I didn’t get mine pierced until I was 22. My friend BJ made a deal with me. He thought I was weird for not having my ears pierced. So, if he brought refrigerator down from the third floor of my dorm to my mom’s car, I had to get my ears pierced. It was not that bad. Then somewhere I wore some “cheap” earrings for a special occasion and didn’t wear some better quality afterwards so my left hole closed. I tried pushing an earring through but I was steady giving myself a heart attack with each push so I returned to clip earrings. I play with the idea of re-piercing my ear but I haven’t done that yet. Something about knowing the slight pain that comes with it that tells me “Clip Ons are better for me”

I like clips but 1. Why are they limited in quantities? 2. Have to be only bought online? Limited quantities should not shock me. Back when I was in the high school little bit before the popularity of the internet, I could still go in Clair’s and find a few clip earrings.  My friends could buy 5 pairs of pierce earrings but on the same trip I would only but maybe have two or three. But those were the days before online shopping. Online shopping is made to believe everything purchasable can be bought there. Clip Earring not as much. The online trust worthy sites for clip earring for me are Palm Beach, Amazon & Cliptomania. Palm Beach & Cliptomania can get pretty pricey. Can we get more trust worthy jewelry sites to sell clip on earrings? Can we get in-person stores to carry clips again? I can’t find an in-person store that has non-pierced earrings to save my life anymore. What is up with that?

The answer is not, “Get your ears pierced”. Stop alienating a part of the buying population. Don’t make me start a Non-Pierced People Protest against the Jewelry industry. Get some clip on in your stores and on your websites. And to those who are selling them, Thank You!!! Keep up the Clip-On work.

Choosing to be Straight. What is the Problem?

Let me make this clear, this blog is not about is homosexuality wrong or right. This blog is not about is sexuality a choice or innate. If you know me personally you know my views on homosexuality. I’ll never discuss that in a public blog. MY CHOICE!!! Also, under No terms will any Sexuality Hate or Bashing will be accepted here or any other blog posts that OUTSPOKEN_DIVA writes or has written. Now, That is Wrong!!!

Anyone remember Antoine Dobson from YouTube Viral Video (Hide Your Kids, Hide you Wife) Fame. At one time he lived his life a gay man and recently articles have popped up about Dobson now choosing to live life as straight man. He has a girlfriend and they are expecting a child. Well, the LGBT community is upset with Dobson (Dollar to Donuts, there are some Heterosexuals who have said some things also but I've seen reports on the LGBT being upset).

I remember when I first heard someone get upset with Gospel singer Donnie McClurkin when he said that God had delivered him from the sin of Homosexuality. The person felt like McClurkin was lying because he was clearly gay. I also know a few people, hetero & homo sexual waiting for a story to contradict McClurkin. Nothing provable has been found. That was about five years ago. So now to hear that the same behavior continues does not shock me anymore.

I can’t understand why get upset with how a man (or a woman) wants to live his (her) life. If he is not hurting anyone (You know saying this publicly but behind closed doors, doing the exact opposite.) with how he lives his life. What is the problem? In my opinion, just like saying homosexuality is wrong is wrong and hurtful it is wrong and hurtful to tell someone that they cannot ever be heterosexual if they were once homosexual. No One can prove that Sexuality is a choice or innate. It is tried but still not proven. I personally know people who feel they were born gay and people who chose to be gay.

So what is wrong with choosing to be straight?

I’ll say it. Some gay people rally against bullying of gays can be very bullying to heterosexuals. They want compassion for their rights to love l but lack compassion for others right to love. They want to rally for their right to live but trample on other’s right. Hate is not limited to one sexuality.

Also I don’t want to hear the excuse about this does not help those who are closeted gays. Shut Up! Every gay person in the world could come out in the open, and it will still be one in the closet. Someone else's choice to live their life should not dictate how anyone else lives their life. If it does, it something wrong with the person who lets that dictate their life.

Like I said earlier unless anyone who claims not be gay, straight, gay anymore, or straight anymore, is lying and they are double a life that will (and it will) hurt them and/or other, they should live how they want. Don’t wag a finger at anyone until they contradict what they say and live life as a hypocrite. And even then, that finger should come from a place of love. The same love that we all want but for some odd reason can’t seem to give.

Congratulations to Antione Dobson and his Girlfriend. Praying for a healthy baby for them.

 

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Big Brother 15 Finale Tonight

Tonight is the Finale of the worse season of Big Brother. SMH The excessive racism, denial of racism, group think voting, & the bullying for group think voting made this season SUCK. CBS and Big Brother casting could not have found some the worse players of this game even if they said "Lord, send us worse". Almost don't want to watch but I'll see it through. There's nothing else on for me to watch anyway.

Right before next season starts I would like to see a reunion show for this cast. I want so to see how they felt watching themselves play the game in the worse possible ways known to the game. I would love to hear Amanda, Aaryn, and Gina Marie explain how they felt once they saw their gross behavior in the house. Not just the horrendous racist things that were said but also their "Showmance" behavior was also eye opening. Gina Marie crying over a man that she barely knew and who probably did not feel the same way for was shameful in my opinion. Where was her dignity? Amanda pouncing on McCrae the moment he became the first HOH made me cringe. Aaryn basically tried to use her sexual wiles to seduce a man into voting her way. I won't call them sluts but they did exhibited slut behavior.

I thought the group voting was the Dumbest method ever. Then when they started bullying people to group vote, that took the cake for me. If you don't vote our way we'll vote you out next week. The unbelievable part was that it worked.

I just hope casting for Big Brother 16 will find smarter players. People who play their own game. Not a house game.


Hope Howard gets America's Favorite! Congratulations to the Winner! See you for Big Brother 16!!!

Sexuality Questions

If you came to this blog and thought you would read something hot & juicy… Shame on you!!! Silly Nosey, Gossipy Rabbit, Shame on You!!! Now bow you head and leave my blog in Shame!!! No, your Shamefull self can stay.

Apparently, I am the ONLY person who does not look at a person and automatically assign them a sexuality. I think I am the ONLY person who does not even give it a thought about a person sexuality until they mention it or if I am interested in dating them. I date men who don’t date men so, that is important to me.

 Today I saw an article title “Janelle Monae Avoids Sexuality Questions” and I thought someone thinks she is gay. Earlier this week, I saw an interview clip asking Johnny Galecki was offended by gay rumors. He pretty much said why be offended and he knew it was not true (I agree). On R&B Divas Reunion, Wendy Williams asked more than once &to more than one Diva if they knew if Kenny Latimore was gay. I was getting pretty ticked off because his sexuality did not have anything to do with the show. Wendy Williams still got a no so, her questioning was for naught.  All summer long folks have still been wondering if Raven Simone came out the closet with a tweet about gay marriage. I am so over this.

 

I think people are obsessed with who is bisexual, gay, or straight.  Why does that even matter? Janelle Monae is still a phenomenal singer. Who she sleeps with is not our business? Johnny Galecki knows who he is. He’s does not need to be getting angry over someone’s stupid lie about him. Before the Internet became the gossip vehicle it is, the street have been saying Kenny Latimore was gay. That is not a new rumor. If we pick apart every everyone’s, including Raven’s, tweets and read them into their lives well there is no telling what kind of freak show we are all living.

 

I think everyone should just live their own lives. Stop wondering what the next person is doing or who they are sleeping with. I just don’t understand asking about who someone is or is not sleeping with. That is their business. Maybe people who ask these questions are not being run of the mill nosey but like me and asking because they want to date or even just have sex with them. Maybe like me they think that is important in dating someone.  What? No! ONLY I do that too. OK! *smile* Oh well. Regardless stop being nosey. Stop stereotyping people and assigning them a sexuality. I don’t care what you saw them do or heard them say, how you saw or heard them do or say it, who they were with, and/or where they were. Stop minding their business and mind you own. The tabloid industry just cussed me out for saying that. I guess if each every person did that, they would Die!!!

I wonder when I walk in or they look at how I carry myself do people assign a sexuality to me. Like I give three craps. I’m not going to be offended. I know my truth. Get to truly know and you’ll know it because I refuse to live a lie. Maybe briefly act out one out for kick and giggles but not live one.

Just leave people alone!!!

 

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Book Review "Just Want to Testify" by Pearl Cleage

Pearl Cleage is my Favorite author. I read “What Looks Like Crazy
on an Ordinary Day” in testify” does not disappoint. Here a brief description from Publisher’s Review.

In her return to the West End, that fictional Afro-urban paradise in Atlanta, Ga., Cleage (Till You Hear from Me) has the everlovin' mysterious Blue Hamilton, "godfather" of the neighborhood where crime is unknown, pitted against the Too FineYou had a Good Run Stars✨ Five, Amazonian African-American supermodels whose arrival in town spells trouble. Serena Mayflower manages the girls, or "vamps" (vampires, get it?), who is all part of a group that has moved its headquarters from New Orleans to an island near the West End? The good thing is they drink tomato juice instead of blood, the bad is that they are looking for some appropriate stud muffins for breeding purposes. They've hired five Morehouse College men for generous compensation, but the men neglected to read the fine print in their contract and have come to Blue for help. Seems that when the vamps are done with the men, the men will be done... for good. Can Blue stop them from being done?

If Pearl Cleage ever makes any of her books that contain Blue Hamilton, I hope she cast Ving Rhames. That’s the kind of presence this blue-eyed savior has to me. You cannot come to the West End and think you can act up. Blue will handle you one way or another. Abbie, Peachy, Aretha, and of course Blue’s God sent rib, Regina returns to make this book a joy to read. Several themed questions arise in this book. What is your definition of Beauty? What is willing to give up to live the life you feel you deserve? Are there any good men in the world? Why does money change us? Is a contract a contract? If it does not involve you, do you get involved? Can you love someone enough to let them go? I read this page-turner in one night.

Give him some Blue Contacts...And he could be Blue Hamilton

I will admit when I realized Vampires were in this book (It was Pearl Cleage, I didn't read reviews), I frowned. I am Not a fan of the Vampire craze. I have never watched or read any of the Twilight or True Blood series. When I see a commercial for Vampire Diaries, I roll my eyes. I don't get it. By the time I finished this novel, I accepted vampires for this book. Vampires are not romanticized at all in the book

So check the book out and other Pearl Cleage works (There more than just Blue Hamilton books). You will not be dissatisfied. Also, who do you think could play Blue Hamilton in a movie? Leave your answers in the comments below.

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While I was Away...

Hey! Did you miss me? I know! I know! I had desktop problems. I fixed them and now I am back. If you didn’t miss me then you must follow me on Twitter and gotten twearful with my opinions on all kinds of stuff.  LoL My mind was exploding so I had to get them out. Well this blog will be catch you on my opinions.

 

The World Track & Field Championships

                David Oliver is the 100m Hurdle Champion! Yes, a member of Team Eye Candy is a Track & Field Champion.  The World Championship was weird to watch this year. After Tyson Gay, Asafa Powell, & Veronica Campbell-Brown ended up on the Banned Substances List and could not compete, the track had some New names and faces on it. It was rather annoying because those who were well seasoned athletes that knew better. *sigh* Also the whole Russia will jail Gay athlete talk was getting tiresome. By time for the Winter Olympics, I will want to scream. Looks like Russia picked the wrong time to pass such laws. Oh well they won’t be getting any World Events for quite some time.  But it was fun the see Mo Farrah repeat his performances in the long distance runs like he did in the Olympics. Brittany Reese is again long jump Champion.  And of course Usain Bolt won the 100m & 200m. Allison Felix got hurt and couldn’t compete. All and it was a good showdown. Now let me learn these new names storming up the track & wearing down the field. Oh, did I tell you a member of Team Eye Candy is a World Champion? LoL Yay, David Oliver!!!

Twerk is in the Oxford Dictionary

                I would love to tell you I was shocked but, I am not. I told you all in previous blog, when Webster’s added “conversate” dictionaries were going downhill from there. People blame Miley Cyrus, who, I think has over twerked. I just blame dummies that want stupidity to be hip. I will remiss if I didn’t give Kudos to the dictionary connected to Microsoft Word for correcting twerk & conversate. Now that is a dictionary a Diva can have faith in.

 

A Twerking Scholarship.

                *sigh* Yes the rapper Juicy J tweeted that he would give a $50,000 Scholarship to best twerker out there.  As a College Graduate with a student loan debt that looks like someone’s annual entry level salary I've decided not to be totally outraged about Juicy J's $50,000 Twerking Scholarship BUT... The $50,000 Twerking Scholarship should ONLY be offered to Strippers working their way through College. Hey "Diamond" can get off the pole because of it BUT "Average Jane" don't have practice the pole because of it. It was a win, win. Well Juicy J later rescinded his “scholarship” offer. So now “Diamond” has to stay on the pole to pay for American Lit & Chemistry this semester and my niece and any teenage girl won’t try to get on one in order to get a “free” ride to college.

 

Booty Bounce

                I don’t understand what the daggum craze about twerking is. I was a teenager in the 90’s so Miami bass music (Uncle Luke, Poison Clan 95 South & my favorites 69 Boyz) were popular sound. So we bounce our butts all the time. Who remembers the “South Dallas Drop”? I was pretty good. I could “drop” flat footed as well as in heels. Twerking is not new. DJ Jubilee (who began his career in the 90’s) started the word in his song “Stop Pause (Do the Jubilee All)”. He said, “Twerk Baby. Twerk Baby. Twerk, Twerk, Twerk”. Check out the Link!  I’m not one to play the race card but as soon as these little white girl started doing the dance… I’m tired of hearing about it. Make it stop.

 

Harriet Tubman Sex Tape

                Yes, Russell Simmons took it down. It was on YouTube. Here's an Article.  I don’t care I am boycotting all Russell Simmons’ products. Glad I don’t have a Rush Card because like all my R. Kelly Music (Yes I boycott him too. Except for Trapped In the Closet on IFC. I saw it before I saw the tape so I got invested) I would have destroyed it. How dare someone make such filth? Sex with a Slave for the most part was Rape. Then to make an important person in the fight freedom be a conniving minx duping someone made it worse. I hated it was ever made. I was subscriber to one of the actor in the video. Keyword: Was.

 

Ask a Slave

                I was very worried about this at first. It came out after the “Harriet Tubman Sex Tape”. A few of my favorite vloggers like it so, I checked it out. I Love It. It’s so tongue & cheek.  Check it out Here.

 

New Book Reviews

                Yes OutSpoken_Diva has been busy reading. My favorite author Pearl Cleage has done it again. “Just Want to Testify” is so good. Let’s just say she uses Vampires to explain the State of the Black Man and how he treats women. So look out for a full review very soon.

 

Okay I going to wrap things up. I forgot how tiring blogging could be. All the typing is wearing me out. Just kidding.

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