Flavor Flav Opens Fried Chicken Restaurant

Just when you thought that Flavor Flav couldn't outdo himself in being a walking cartoon character, now comes the news about Flav's latest business venture. 

A fried chicken chain.

The first of the Flav's Fried Chicken restaurants opened up in Clinton, Iowa on Monday.

 

Before y'all roll you eyes like I did when I first heard about this story and thought, 'There he goes again feeding stereotypes', Flav actually has a culinary degree he earned in 1978 and managed restaurants before finding music stardom as a founding member of Public Enemy.  

The Flav's Fried Chicken menu includes Flav’s specially seasoned fried chicken recipe, ribs, greens, and macaroni and cheese.

"I'm not scared to go against the colonel taste wise," Flav said. "Business wise, he's got me, because he's been here longer. But I'm about to catch up to the colonel."

Yeah, boyee!    I can see the commercial for this chicken joint already.

 FFC, coming to a 'hood near you.
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Where Do You Draw The Line?

TransGriot Note: Guest post by Toni Williams

This was deleted from a 'discussion' that was on another FB page. I guess since I had a dissenting opinion they felt the need to delete my post. It's sad when we can't disagree.  It's one reason our progress has moved so slowly.

"When I hear people say that don't want to be associated with 'those people', I can't help but hear a level of bigotry.

I understand where it comes from so I am not one to harshly judge those who express such sentiments. There are some creepy elements in the fetish segments. To me that would be like me not wanting to accept the term African American label because of the negative stereotypical members of my racial group.

It also ignores the fact that many well adjusted transsexual women, at one time, came into who they are through what they perceived as a fetish. Think of all of the girls (especially those who transition later in life) who have said over and over that they say things through the lens of a fetish.

What if Steve only dresses on the weekend? He could still very well be a transsexual. It comes down to what is in his mind. And what about the creepy fetish minded transsexual? What about those, like myself, who fall on the blurred less defined lines of these definitions?

I look at something like the Southern Comfort Conference, which is mostly attended by TVs. You would be hard pressed to be able to tell the difference between most of the attendees and a late transitioning TS. I think those lines are so blurry that they can not properly be defined. Especially without knowing the person (as an individual). I know of many many many on the pageant and ballroom scene that live in those gray area. Many who most would assume were fulltime and fully transitioned.

Sure, those transsexuals on the far end of the scope have close to nothing in common with those fetish minded crossdressers on the other end. I would suspect that a very large portion exist more in the middle. The size of the middle is too large to draw strict distinctions."

Pam's Ponderings- I Want To Be A Model/Actress. So Do A Slew Of Others

TransGriot Note: Another post from author Pamela Hayes :

It has been raining relentlessly all day. I put on galoshes and a raincoat and went to the library. Some new books came out a few weeks ago and I wanted to see if the library had them.

They didn’t. I am fighting the urge to just buy the damn books. But I have so many books crammed in bookcases, in boxes in the utility closet and in my mother-in-law’s garage.

So, I’m going to try and reduce the book load by getting novels from the library. But I may have to resort to a Kindle. The library is too slow about getting books or if they do get them, they may have one or two copies of a title and if the work is by a popular author, the book is quickly rented and then there is a waiting list.

And impatient me does not want to be dealing with all that. So, perhaps a Kindle is the way to go, although I’m a little unwilling to read a book from an electronic device.

I ran my errands using my husband’s Jeep. I don’t like driving Jeeps.

Ugh! Too butch.

But my husband took my car in to be inspected.

God, I’m so bored. Of course, I’m bored, sitting here penning this. I was originally going to write about how many transsexuals, not all, think that they’re breathtaking beauties.

I hear so many girls talking about wanting to become a model or an actress. And of course, one doesn’t have to be a great beauty to enter those professions. I don’t think Naomi Campbell and a slew of others aren’t all that.

But I’d like to tell those trans women who have fantasies about becoming the next Heidi Klum or Kerry Washington that it isn‘t easy. And I’m not trying to douse their aspirations.

But I’d suggest you have a plan B or C because plan A may not happen.

I think I know what all this, ’I want to be a model/actress’ is about. You have low self-esteem. You’re not that crazy about yourself. You want people to adulate you. And you feel you can achieve that by becoming a celebrated icon. Your family members, society has knocked you and you want to accomplish something big, so you can show your critics. I get it.

I understand.

I would love to become a best selling novelist, so I can stick my tongue out at my critics and say, ‘Take this, bitches.’ So I understand where the model/actresses wannabes are coming from.

It is with reluctance that I say forget this model/actress shit. It is a long shot. Even if you were genetic, it would be a long shot.

But baby, your asses are trans and I have trouble seeing this bigoted world allowing a trans actress to play a genetic woman on a TV show or in a movie. I can’t see a trans woman on the cover of Essence or Glamour. I’d like to see it.

But when Isis King was on America’s Next Top Model , she should have been profiled in Essence, Ebony or Jet and I don’t recall seeing her there.

I know there is a trans woman that recently had surgery that was on the cover of a magazine and maybe she was on Oprah, but will she become as big as Naomi and Heidi and Cindy?

I doubt it.

And I’m not being negative. I’m being truthful. I’m offering my opinion. I think those t-girls with dreams about becoming models and actresses may become popular in the trans community or become celebrated on the Net or may achieve RuPaul‘s level of success.

And believe me, I’m not mocking Ru‘s popularity. I used to enjoy her talk show.

But for those trans girls who are dreaming about becoming a model/actress, go for it. But remember, it may not work, so have a plan B.

I’d suggest becoming a teacher, lawyer or a nurse who looks like a model.

Back in the day, I was told that I should be a model, that I look like something out of Hollywood. I never pursued any of that. But some girls hear it and judging from how they act, I think it goes to their heads.

Just don’t invest totally in something that may not happen.