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		<title>Rihanna&#8217;s injuries &#8220;horrific&#8221; Chris Brown wanted by Bajans for an &#8220;ass-buss&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:36:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New details from Tmz.com, they report that according to law enforcement sources in LA that Rihanna&#8217;s injuries are &#8220;horrific&#8221; including  contusions and at least one bite mark on her arm. There are further reports of a screaming match before the fateful car ride after Brown was reportedly caught chatting up another woman at the Clive [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nubienne.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6448663&amp;post=103&amp;subd=nubienne&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color:#ff6600;"><a href="http://www.tmz.com/2009/02/10/rihannas-injuries-horrific/">New details from Tmz.com</a>, they report that according to law enforcement sources in LA that Rihanna&#8217;s injuries are <span style="color:#ff00ff;">&#8220;horrific&#8221;</span> including  contusions and at least one bite mark on her arm.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff6600;">There are further reports of a screaming match before the fateful car ride after Brown was reportedly caught chatting up another woman at the Clive Davis Pre-Grammy Party.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff6600;">Meanwhile back on The Rock (Barbados) Bajans are up in arms over the drama, recalling reports of Brown&#8217;s bad behaviour when the pair were here on holiday including the alleged Hilton Hotel room bust up and the alleged garbage can-into -the-Land Rover incident.</span></p>
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<p class="wp-caption-text">Chris Brown and Rihanna in Barbados</p></div>
<p><span style="color:#ff6600;">Rihanna has had a bit of drama quietly surrounding her for quite some time with reports from sources close to her Bajan posse describing her local liming (hanging out) crew as <span style="color:#ff00ff;">&#8220;wild&#8221;</span> and <span style="color:#ff00ff;"><span style="color:#ff00ff;">&#8220;u</span>p for anything.&#8221;</span> The same sources say they are unsurprised by the way things with Brown have apparently turned out given the girls reported predilection for bad-boy types and drama.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff6600;">Hmmm&#8230; I guess Ri Ri ain&#8217;t no sweet bread but still as the immortal <a href="http://www.boycevoice.com/blog/2007/11/18/maddy-maddy-school-patrol-madd-1992/">Glamour Girl Sue</a> said <a href="http://www.islandmix.com/backchat/f6/rue-rue-10772/">&#8220;Talk, but doan touch me!&#8221;</a><br />
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		<title>Rihanna and Chris Brown drama or entire population of small island nation wants to give Brown a good old-fashioned island beatdown</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:57:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[updated see new post for breaking info. &#8220;He what?  oh no he didn&#8217;t hit my Ri Ri&#8221; Barbadians are very upset at the possibility that Chris Brown  may have  been violent with our Ri Ri and conversation buzzed like the low persistent drone of mosquitoes  at last night&#8217;s Barbados Model Search finals as the drama [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nubienne.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6448663&amp;post=70&amp;subd=nubienne&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color:#ff0000;">updated see new post for breaking info.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff6600;">&#8220;He what?  oh no he didn&#8217;t hit my Ri Ri&#8221;</span></p>
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<p><span style="color:#ff6600;"> Barbadians are very upset at the possibility that Chris Brown  may have  been violent with our Ri Ri and conversation buzzed like the low persistent drone of mosquitoes  at last night&#8217;s Barbados Model Search finals as the drama surrounding our biggest star Robyn Rihanna Fenty spread like a cane fire via Blackberrys, iphones and whispered comments in the darkened hall. <img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-72" title="791125" src="http://nubienne.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/791125.jpg?w=300&#038;h=360" alt="791125" width="300" height="360" /></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff6600;">As reported by the web site <a href="http://www.tmz.com/">TMZ.com</a></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff00ff;">&#8220;According to police, Brown and a woman whom cops refuse to identify were arguing inside a vehicle around 12:30 this morning when suddenly things allegedly turned violent.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff00ff;">Cops say they received a 911 call, and when they arrived they noticed the woman had visible injuries. We&#8217;re told she then identified Brown as her attacker. Cops say Brown had left the scene by the time police arrived.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff00ff;">Cops say they are looking to speak with Brown and may arrest him when they find him.&#8221;  <span style="color:#ff6600;">the rest of TMZ&#8217;s reporting can be found <a href="http://www.tmz.com/2009/02/09/chris-brown-and-rihanna-before-the-arrest/">here</a><br />
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<p><span style="color:#ff6600;"><span style="color:#ff6600;">Rep</span>orts out of  Los Angeles state that Brown turned himself in to the LAPD, was charged with one count of felony criminal threats and subsequently released on $50,000 USD bail.</span></p>
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<p><span style="color:#ff6600;">Reps for Ms Ri Ri have been tight lipped about the entire thing saying only &#8220;Rihanna is well&#8221; </span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff6600;">Oh no! not our Ri Ri!!  Brown better watch out because Bajans real vex about the possibility of anyone harming our girl, I hope he isn&#8217;t planning a vacation anywhere near area code 246 in the future.</span></p>
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		<title>Oh O!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 11:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have mad love for Mrs O, mad mad love, a lot of women do, and not just because she&#8217;s in the White House with her hottie-I-am-the-most-powerful-man-in-the-world hubby and her two bright and precocious daughters, I love Michelle because Michelle makes me feel that I don&#8217;t have to either win the lottery or marry Donald [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nubienne.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6448663&amp;post=56&amp;subd=nubienne&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color:#ff6600;">I have mad love for Mrs O, mad mad love, a lot of women do,  and not just because she&#8217;s in the White House with her hottie-I-am-the-most-powerful-man-in-the-world hubby and her two bright and precocious daughters, I love Michelle because Michelle makes me feel that I don&#8217;t have to either win the lottery or marry Donald Trump and have him bankroll my wardrobe to look as stylish as she does.</span></p>
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<p><span style="color:#ff6600;">First it was jcrew, this sunny yellow was so bright I couldn&#8217;t help smiling. Mandi Norwood, a blogger with Access Hollywood made much of the fact that she often wears yellow, writing of her inauguration outfit &#8220;As every fashionista knows, yellow can be a difficult color to wear&#8221; but here&#8217;s a little secret, did she mean every white fashionista? because the black fashionistas know yellow looks good on dark-skinned black folk and we&#8217;ve never had much difficulty wearing it.<span id="more-56"></span></span></p>
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<p><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-58" title="Michelle Obama The View" src="http://nubienne.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/large_view1.jpg?w=300&#038;h=213" alt="Michelle Obama The View" width="300" height="213" /></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff6600;">Up next was Mrs O on the View, her dress was so hot that it sold right out of stores after her appearance, price tag $148 USD,</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff6600;">the label ironically titled White House/Black Market was chic and sexy and AFFORDABLE</span></p>
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<p><span style="color:#ff6600;">And most recently I have been wowed by Mrs O in&#8230; H&amp;M yes that&#8217;s right I said it, Mrs O rocked a $35USD H&amp;M dress that I absolutely covet. The perfect fit, the now trademark belted waist, even the colour and the pattern are hot. I am starting the petition for H&amp;M to open up a branch in Barbados right now! </span></p>
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		<title>Rewriting Twilight or how you just cannot make pudding and souse on Saturday with Tuesday&#8217;s chicken steppers.</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color:#ff6600;">I was all prepared to hate Twilight, it is unashamedly a teen movie and makes no apologies for it&#8217;s hormone laden IV directly into the veins of adolescent teen-aged girls. I didn&#8217;t hate the movie, it was a little bit of a guilty pleasure, a righteous girly romp that took me back to my teen years, I giggled at the absurdity and I was convinced that I had never acted so silly even when I was sixteen.  I do however stand firm in the knowledge that no self-respecting Caribbean teen was going to walk into a wet spooky wood having just discovered that her man was in fact a member of the genus Nosferatu but that affirmation has nothing to do with the movie.</span> <img class="alignright size-small wp-image-30" title="twilight_bigteaserposter" src="http://nubienne.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/twilight_bigteaserposter.jpg?w=655&#038;h=969" alt="twilight_bigteaserposter" width="655" height="969" /></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff6600;">The problems I have with Twilight aren&#8217;t actually with the movie, the movie is beautifully filmed and there is even a baseball scene that just wows the photographer in me,<span id="more-29"></span> the problem I have with Twilight is the simple fact that the story is so badly written that screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg simply cannot make anything remotely resembling realistic dialogue or a plausible storyline out of the utter dreck she is presented with by Stephanie Meyer. I like Meyer&#8217;s concepts and I even like Edward Cullen, the hot tortured vampire teen, but the dialogue is so bad it is actually painful to read,  alright already, we get that his skin is cold if I have to read the words &#8220;smooth cool marble-hard skin&#8221; or &#8220;Perfect statue-like chest&#8221; one more time I think I will vomit.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff6600;">Robert Pattinson as Edward Cullen does his best with what he&#8217;s given but since he isn&#8217;t given very much it is hard for him to to do more than alternate between a scowl and looking remarkably pretty, </span><span style="color:#ff6600;">Kristen Stewart as Bella Swan has the worst gig, trying to make such an utterly unbelievable vapid character believable, poor thing, she fails miserably but I don&#8217;t hold it against her either, it isn&#8217;t her fault.</span><span style="color:#ff6600;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff6600;">Meyer&#8217;s work reads like the first draft in an English class, a class which she might fail if she doesn&#8217;t do some quick editing and a few rewrites. Her characters are shallow and lifeless and not in a way that relates to the story, the dialogue is implausible, the relationship Bella has with her parents unbelievable and her adoration of Edward false and  vaguely psychotic. An unfortunate situation given that the potential for me to get hooked on the story was teetering near Harry Potter on my &#8220;love it&#8221; scale but I have to agree with Stephen King and say the difference between Rowling and Meyer is simply that Rowling actually knows how to write.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff6600;">So Meyer, good concepts, great potential but really bad books and the movie was just meh simply because you can&#8217;t make pudding and souse on Saturday from Tuesday&#8217;s chicken steppers.</span></p>
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