The Ultimate Hustler

As the saying goes, always a bride's maid and never a bride. Not to remain in second place after losing to Brian R. on BET's Miniseries Damon Dash's The Ultimate Hustler that aired in 2005, Dashawn Taylor has set out on his own ventures. Including a book From Poverty to Power Moves: A True Story, Dashawn has several online interviews and clips circulating on YouTube. His MTV Cribs short, posted below, is particularly funny. And everybody wants to know...why are so many East Coast people moving down to North Carolina?

Here's to the Chef

Just like Ocean's Eleven movie series star Bernie Mac, Musician Isaac Hayes is now gone. Billed as a "Memphis Icon," Isaac Hayes' restaurant shut down in 2007 to make room for another Peabody Hotel. Hayes also left his job in early 2006 as the voice for "The Chef" on the animated series South Park after the show decided to poke fun at Scientology. Both celebrities will be missed but not forgotten.

In Memory of Anna Nicole Smith

Trimspa is now $5.00 a box at your local convenience store, but somehow Prince von Anhalt has stayed in daily rotation on TMZ. This is more than a year after the death of Anna Nicole Smith and the custody battle that ensued after her baby Dannielynn was left orphaned. Husband of actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, the British press circulated the rumor that Prince Frederick von Anhalt, Duke of Saxony, bought his title from Princess Marie August of Anhalt. Zsa Zsa Gabor, who great-grandmothered Paris and Nicky Hilton, has been said to have passed on the title to a number of adoptees. However the Prince has acquired his title, he sees it fitting to ridicule Michelle Obama saying that she will look like a washer woman among former first ladies.

Bag Balm

A product made for chapped cow udders that I recently picked up off of the personal hygiene aisle at a local CVS/pharmacy.

Anastasia Romanov

1500 are reported killed due to the conflict between Russia and Georgia -- a vital conduit for transporting oil into the Caspian Sea. The conflict has not only been a war of arms but one that has included cyber warfare. The Georgian government began shutting down Russian government websites at the inset of the fighting. The long storied strife between the central government and the people of the region is reminiscent of the legend of Anastasia, the last remaining heir to the Romanov dynasty. Princess Anastasia and her family were reportedly killed by the Bolsheviks in 1918, but somehow, she, the youngest daughter managed to survive as the the legend goes. Many people have claimed to be Anastacia including Germany's Anna Anderson who died in the Dalldorf Asylum in 1984 and could not read or speak languages becoming of a Russian princess. Anderson's remains could not pass a DNA test years after she died. The legend of Anastsia has helped to keep the memory of her father Czar Nicolas II in the public consciousness years after his fateful overthrown.

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TIME online featured an article this week about the new website www.whocanisue.com that beginning in September determines for consumers whether they actually have a case and help them find an attorney from a list of lawyers who advertise their expertise on the website. As always, I forward relevant information like the www.whocanisue.com by way of e-mail to other lawyers and other professionals that I know. I have several investigatory questions for the site since mail that I send to Seton Hall Law professors are intercepted by non-legal staff. The first of which starts with the song "You" by Raheem Devaughn that played incessantly on the radio when I worked in Memphis beginning three years ago. I posted the video below...

Raheem DeVaughn - You
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MLK Jr. Boulevard

Central Intelligence Agency Director General Michael Hayden has earned a street sign with his name on it. Right outside of his hometown's Pittsburgh Steeler's Heinz Field is General Michael V. Hayden Boulevard. Pittsburgh knows how to throw a party. I was thoroughly upset after I waited twenty working days for this thoughtfully wrapped package from Hayden's Agency and I read the contents inside highlighted in my earlier post, Brown Paper Bag Test.