Happy Birthday My Dearest Janet Jackson

While I am unable to celebrate your birthday with you, I did however make you a delicious birthday cake in honor of your universal debut. I prepared a chocolate and vanilla mint chip ice cream cake with a cookie and caramel filling. The ice cream is Breyers and the cookies are Oreos. Obviously, the caramel is homemade. I wouldn’t dream of offering you store-bought caramel. It’s made with sugar, heavy cream, unsalted butter, and a pinch or two of salt. The best part of this cake is that the caramel stays soft, smooth, and creamy in every bite.

You are truly a remarkable woman. Your heart, your all-encompassing smile, your ability to see the world around you, and your extraordinary capacity to love are just a few tracts I will always love about you. You continuously hold your head up in the face of bigotry, relentless persecution, ridicule, unfairness, unkindness, and hatred. I know it isn’t easy even for the toughest amongst us; yet, you stand up and you keep on going. You go on, because giving up isn’t who you choose to be. In the face of hopelessness you may falter or even doubt your purpose, but you reach down and find that burning will to survive.

I don’t know if you always feel loved or deserving of love or worthy of love. I don’t know if you understand how special you are and how good you are. The wrong people sometimes enter our lives just to bring us to our knees. Some throw stones to see how many blows we can endure before we shatter while others wish our demise. When you have so much against you, you can’t avoid being blemished by it and it affects how you think of yourself. My heart weeps a day for every moment you’ve spent feeling inadequate and undeserving of love. Being this incredibly gifted singer, performer, actress, dancer, and humanitarian doesn’t begin to tell the story of what an amazing woman you are. No amount of awards, fame, or success will ever reflect the wonderment that is you.

What makes you the woman I will always love and support is the way your hands sit hand-in-hand nurturing each other as to say don’t worry Jan, we will get through this moment together, the way you gently bit the inside of your lip as you examine the interviewer trying to figure out where he/she is taking you with the next question and if you are okay with it, the way you slightly lean back, lift your head up and inhale with an approving blink or two to relay this is the appropriate path, the nervous impulse to tug your ear or flip your hair back even when it’s sitting comfortably behind your shoulder or to the side of your face, your uneasiness when receiving a compliment, your laughter and the way you try to hold back when you think it is too big, the shyness your smile tries desperately to conceal, the story your eyes tell including the stories filled with anguish, the way your spirit encapsulate the room, the way you let others shine around you, the whisper of your voice and the inner fellow “sista” voice I secretly desire to slip out from time to time; LOL, and the way your eyes seek the right words to express your thoughts.

You are deserving of every bounty of love your heart can carry. This birthday and every day forward, I want you to carry the love I have for you in your heart so that you will always know no matter how dark the darkness becomes,  no matter how long the darkness last, there is someone out there in this hellish world that loves you completely and will love you through anything. I want you to know your music, your song, your dance and your talent isn’t what makes you precious, it’s simply you.

You are irreplaceable.

You are special.

You are deserving.

You are worthy.

You are kind.

You are resilient.

You are strength.

You are courage.

Yes Janet, you are good enough.

You are beautiful.

And most importantly, you are loved.

Happy Birthday Janet. I love you.

Janet Jackson’s New NutriSystem Commercial

Janet Jackson shows us how NutriSystem worked for her. I’m tempted to say pass the plate! While I’m happy she seems to finally be happy with her size, she needs to know there hasn’t ever been a moment when she wasn’t beautiful. I love you Jan.

Message of Love ~ Janet Jackson

I’d give you the stars, but they would burn out. I’d give you the sun, but the clouds would overshadow it. I’d give you the moon, but it would abandon you in the presence of daylight. I’d give you the ocean, but the ocean has its shortcomings. So I give you my love, because it infinitely shines for you, no shades of gray could mask it, it dims for no one, and it’s indefectible. I love you Janet.

Janet Jackson: New Face of NutriSystem

Janet is the new face of NutriSystem. She makes anything seem tasty. I can definitely say she makes me want to “Get On It”.

Let’s just say I’m referencing NutriSystem.

Update: Be sure to check out Janet’s Latest Commercial

Leave Michael Alone

When will these vultures stop? They tore Michael apart in life and now in death. I didn’t think anyone could stoop any lower until I learned the bed Michael Jackson died in will be up for auction. Are we fresh out of human decency? Michael was a human being with a heart, soul, mind, and spirit. Yet, people used and abused him as if he were an object. Radios are used less than Michael was in life. Michael took his last breath alone, scared, with the weight of the world on his shoulders, and in unspeakable pain. He felt abandoned in life and he was abandoned at the moment of death. How much suffering must one man endure? Michael’s death proved there are limits to suffering. Michael’s death proved it does matter how you treat people.

Entertainers are people, nothing more or less, just people. They cry salty tears just as we do. Painful words hurt them just as they hurt us. They are not immune to your hatred, insensitivity, cruelty, lies, and speculations, because they live in some perceived fantasy world. Nothing about the world they live in is a fantasy. However, the rest of you can’t see it, because you choose to close your eyes to the misery of others. You choose not to look beyond your existence. The world is bigger than what you see in front of you. You don’t have to walk in the shoes of the person next to you to know their suffering is as real as yours.

I remember saying as a kid, sticks and stone will break my bones, but words never hurt. It was absurd then as it is absurd today. Broken bones heal or can be fused together; I can’t say the same for the damage words leave behind. The sting of a bitter tongue can be greater than the force of a thousand swords. Viciousness slices through the core of our souls and most will forever wear the scars; not even death will hide them.

Michael is free from the brutality of your tongues. Never again will he shed a tear of pain. While Michael is free of your ignorance, his family is not. He has three beautiful children, a loving mother, caring father, devoted sisters, supportive brothers, and a list of caring relatives. They are all affected by the filth you spew. Why must they hear or read your unkind words simply, because you have the right to say them? With right comes responsibility. You are responsible for the misery your words inflict upon others. Michael’s family is forever changed by his loss. And just so you know, time doesn’t make death any easier. I’m never more than a blink away from the heartache of losing the people I dearly cherish. What sometimes get me through the day is listening to family & friends share loving memories of my dad and grandma. Entertainment families are no different. Hearing how Michael made a person smile makes another moment of peace for them attainable. On the other hand, listening to one of you fame-seeking parasites bash Michael, rips through them like a knife to the heart.

What is it about this family or entertainers in general make you think they aren’t deserving of love, kindness, and respect? What is it about this family or entertainers in general make you think they are immune to your hate? What makes you think the camera and the internet is your platform to hurt others? Have you not learned that words hurt? Have you not learned that words destroy people? Have you not learned that words kill? You have the right to feel whatever you feel and to think whatever you think; but you don’t have the right to weaponize your tongue against others.

Update: As of 11/15/2011, Michael’s death bed has been removed from the auction.

Janet Jackson Flashes a Sexy Smile on the Cover of Harper’s Bazaar Arabia

Fashioned in a drool inducing green, Janet evokes a desire to call her Ms. Jackson. If this November spread doesn’t press your “Nasty” button, nothing else will.

Eyes of Fire

Miss Jackson can’t be stopped!