I really think Twitter and Facebook, etc., are the death of some people too. This was in a mag, of course, but even then, social networking spreads the news further and faster than ever before in human history.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mr. Worf" <hellomahog...@gmail.com> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 6:03:27 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Waay OT: Singer Mayer Apologies for Racist, Sexist Comments Some people should never do interviews without a publicist. On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Martin Baxter < truthseeker...@hotmail.com > wrote: So much for him crossing over onto the R&B charts or ever being invited to play Fire Island... One of the nastiest conversations I've had in my life has been with a former friend who is decidedly un-PC, in which he proceeded to call me everything but the Child of Deity because I am, in my old age, VERY PC. Mayer just highlighted why. Hew-mons need to use their brains before they use their mouths. "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:00:22 +0000 Subject: [scifinoir2] Waay OT: Singer Mayer Apologies for Racist, Sexist Comments Wow, if "retarded" was offensive, I I wonder if Palin will call for his head? Funnier than the comments (which aren't funny) is how the idiot's trying to backtrack and apologize. Explain to me again how using the term "nig**a pass" is explaining the evils of racism? Or why a guy who says his member is racist then talks about how he wants to get with Holly Robinson and Kerry Washington? I tell you: people do themselves in more often just by talking too damn much. Warning: this is offensive--and bizarre. ********************************************* http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1631667/20100210/mayer_john.jhtml John Mayer has never been one to hold his tongue, whether freely tweeting his innermost thoughts or confessing his insecurities in the middle of a concert. But his latest foray into the familiar territory of speaking-his-mind-no-matter-the-consequences comes in a new interview, which has already unleashed a strong backlash online. During the lengthy chat, the 32-year-old rock star spoke brazenly about his relationships with Jennifer Aniston and Jessica Simpson (calling the latter "sexual napalm"), his sloppy kiss with Perez Hilton and his lack of sexual attraction to black women. "I don't think I open myself to it," Mayer said of dating black women. "My d--- is sort of like a white supremacist. I've got a Benetton heart and a f-----' David Duke c---. I'm going to start dating separately from my d---." Such comments have already lit up the Internet with cries of racism. Yet Mayer also spoke about "why black people love me." "Someone asked me the other day, 'What does it feel like now to have a 'hood pass?' " he told Playboy. "And by the way, it's sort of a contradiction in terms, because if you really had a 'hood pass, you could call it a n---a pass. Why are you pulling a punch and calling it a 'hood pass if you really have a 'hood pass? But I said, 'I can't really have a 'hood pass.' I've never walked into a restaurant, asked for a table and been told, 'We're full.' " Mayer also delved into detail about his two most high-profile romances. When it came to dating Simpson, Mayer said he didn't think very much about the intrusion the paparazzi would make on his existence. "It wasn't as direct as me saying 'I now make the choice to bring the paparazzi into my life,' " he explained. "I really said, 'I now make the choice to sleep with Jessica Simpson.' That was stronger than my desire to stay out of the paparazzi's eye. That girl, for me, is a drug. And drugs aren't good for you if you do lots of them. Yeah, that girl is like crack cocaine to me. ... Sexually it was crazy. That's all I'll say. It was like napalm, sexual napalm." During the interview, Mayer also spoke about his ongoing feud with Perez Hilton and how they once kissed at a club. "I remember seeing Perez Hilton flitting about this club and acting as though he had just invented homosexuality," he said. "All of a sudden I thought, I can out-gay this guy right now. I grabbed him and gave him the dirtiest, tongue-iest kiss I have ever put on anybody — almost as if I hated f--s." Perez has already hit back against Mayer, but so far the usually Twitter-happy singer has not addressed any element of the Playboy interview. Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. Get it now. -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
