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  • Yo baby yo baby yo baby, yo. Check out this DPT Freshness for The New Year...   Yes, I do love Blogging and all of you good folks that check for my writing every time I post, but since I don't seem to be making it over ...
  • Happy New Year Dedicated Readers!! I hope you all made it to 2012 with heads held up high and your personal standards intact. As for me, I certainly did and I know I'm a blessed and HIGHLY FAVORED woman because of it. Haleloo...that certainly isn't everybody's ...
  • Adoption. I know you're thinking about when a couple that wants to have a child chooses for one reason or another to take little one into their family that wasn't born to them to love and cherish 'til death do they part. I love adoption. ...
  • My friend Jean DeGrate, whom I believe is a very talented writer in the same way that I am (awesome storyteller), sometimes blogs over at Jean DeGrate Has Spoken. I wish he'd write more, but when he does I make a point of reading what ...

From Candy Apple to Brick: Black Girls CAN Wear Red Lips!

by ThePBG on January 10th 2012 in Beauty & Style, Culture, featured, Women     tags: , , , ,    19 Comments     

  So, this whole "Red Lipstick For Black Girls" has been an issue for me for a little while. OK, for a long while. Mainly because wearing red lipstick is allegedly yet another thing that Black Girls aren't supposed to do. A few weeks ago, I asked around the Internet to see what other people knew about the racial & gender-based sin of wearing red lipstick. Here's what I was told ...

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Fat Girl Fairytales: The Amazing Transformation of Jennifer Hudson

by ThePBG on January 8th 2012 in Culture, Lifestyle, Rant, TV Tales, Uncategorized     tags: , , , , ,    43 Comments     

Can we talk about Jennifer Hudson being in cahoots with those "diet" people over at Weight Watchers to make people think that FAT=HORRIBLE & TACKY? Yes, let's do that. I've been meaning to rant about this for at least a week. I'm about sick and tired of seeing Jennifer Hudson in these awful TV ads for Weight Watchers. She's been wailing like a newly-freed slave for those Weight Watchers coins ever ...

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Quick Programming Note: Expanding Dirty Pretty Thangs!

by ThePBG on January 2nd 2012 in Blogging Community, featured, Randomness     tags: , , ,    No Comment     

Yo baby yo baby yo baby, yo. Check out this DPT Freshness for The New Year...   Yes, I do love Blogging and all of you good folks that check for my writing every time I post, but since I don't seem to be making it over to this space as often as I'd like to with my Real Job and all, here's what I decided to do & I hope you ...

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Happy New Year: Living & Loving in 3D In 2012

by ThePBG on January 2nd 2012 in featured, Friends, Lifestyle, My Voice, Socializing     tags: , , , , , ,    1 Comment     

Happy New Year Dedicated Readers!! I hope you all made it to 2012 with heads held up high and your personal standards intact. As for me, I certainly did and I know I'm a blessed and HIGHLY FAVORED woman because of it. Haleloo...that certainly isn't everybody's testimony. It was my awesome New Year's experience that lead me to this particular post. I feel like I just have to talk to My People ...

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