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So many cute pictures! No room for them all! Check out the full roster on my Flickr page or check back at the BlackSnob 2.0 site later today! (Don't forget to poke around and check out all the new pages and services! Especially the new "Hot Topics" discussion boards!)
And what a time to have a birthday! You're about to be First Lady, Michelle LaVaughn from the South Side! It's your world. We're just barnacles on the side of history. Go on with your handsome "Leader of the Free World Husband," adorable little girls, Ivy-league pedigree and success on top of success with a thick layer of strawberries and cheesecake on top.
From The New Yorker:
(T)here are times when we are lying in bed and I look over and sort of have a start. Because I realize here is this other person who is separate and different and has different memories and backgrounds and thoughts and feelings. It’s that tension between familiarity and mystery that makes for something strong, because, even as you build a life of trust and comfort and mutual support, you retain some sense of surprise or wonder about the other person.
Must resist! Can't write 500 paragraphs about how beautiful love is ... won't do it!
Read more about our hopelessly devoted, up with love, future power couple here.
I was really depressed today (don't ask), but then Christmas came back when the President-Elect and Michelle Obama released "first day of school" pictures of the kiddies. Why? Obamas? Why can't I quit you??? You're just so aspirational! I can't find my snark. I CAN'T FIND IT! (Gawker)
Goodbye Hawaii. Goodbye Chicago. Hello Washington, D.C.
Sidenote: There's a debate going on in one of the threads about Michelle Obama's appearance. Normally, I stay out of such fracas because I honestly don't think its relevant. She's First Lady, not a beauty contestant. But to toss in my two cents -- stop. Nothing good will come of this. I don't like it when people reduce Michelle O. to her body parts and lust all over her. I don't like it when people talk like she's the Queen of Sheba. I don't like it when people accuse her of looking mannish. I goof on how much like Michelle because I do, genuinely, like her and find her fascinating. But there's no need to cut each other over this issue of "beauty" and its many definitions.
So just stop. It's not her job to be pretty. I enjoy that she likes to dress with some flare. I enjoy that she has taken to her role as aspirational figure well. But this isn't America's Next Top Model. This shouldn't be an argument at all because her looks are immaterial to what she truly represents --
The first black First Lady. That pretty much beats beauty queen hands down. If she wears cool clothes on top of that, that's all just extra nuts and syrup on the Sundae.
That said, Daddy/Daughters time! (At the zoo Dec. 30 in Honolulu!) We black folks need our paternal therapy via pictures of Barack hugging his kids. You don't know how happy this makes people feel. Seriously. Black women alone are OD'ing on this right now. It's like the Snickers Bar of Hope. Hug your kids, people!
This picture surfaced recently on the Web claiming to be for a January Vogue cover shot, but other reports have Michelle on for the cover in March (which were recently debunked in Newsweek's blog Readback so who the hell knows what's going on here). This also looks very similar to some pictures Michelle took for Paris Match Magazine in 2007 by the same photographer. But until then, enjoy this nibble until I get a higher quality picture. The photo is by, of course, famed celebrity/fashion photographer Annie Leibovitz. (Above image from Flickr; below image from Mrs-O)
On Tuesday, President-Elect Barack Obama, his wife Michelle, his sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, and several other friends and family members attended a ceremony in honor of Obama and Soetoro-Ng's grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, whom they called Toot.
After a service at the First Unitarian Church, her ashes were scattered at a seaside memorial in Honolulu. (Photos from Associated Press and Reuters)
I was going to bury this because it feels so odd to ogle the president, but ... eh, screw it. Shirtless pics are going up top!
He played some golf too. (And yes, I got all ninty-billion of your notes and emails about Obama being shirtless! Yes! I got them ALL!!!)
This is going to be the most awkwardly sexy four-to-eight years ever. Also, are we joining the rest of the world in shirtless world leaders? If so, Hopey McChangey's abs kicks Putin's abs ass. And all disputes between our two countries should be settle with ab-offs.
But, back to serious business now. Nothing to see here! Move along! Enjoy the golfing pictures. Aren't they great? What? No, I don't want to discuss the shirtless pictures. YES, I'm aware I posted them. They're from TMZ and he's allegedly doing the laundry on his washboard abs, they joked. (Shirtless tip from Gawker, of course.)
They were taken along with several others of the family at the vacation home by gossip site Bauer-Griffin. It was a nightmare just to view the few pictures I did on their blog, (the site is all kinds of not working today), but it's worth it. There are tons of pictures on there. Although, if both the Washington Press corps and the paparazzi are all going to stalk the Obamas at once this is going to be an odd presidency.
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