This blog is all about keeping it real, fun & clean...oh & having real clean fun! I love to joke, so don't take it personal! And if you do, I can handle that too! We can get the debates crackah lackin'!! J-Quizzle doesn't hesitate when it comes to givin the bizzle! This blog is just as unfocused as the Blogger herself. Like a kid in a store, she'll touch on a little of everything, so get prepared for the ride!!
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Love & Hoodbunny (Hip Hop) Sum Up
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Stuck Like Glue...er...BY Glue...
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
LOVE & HOODBUNNIES
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| (Rihanna)I must admit, the resemblance is uncanny.... |
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| Joseline |
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| But there's a resemblance here too...John Leguizamo as Chi-Chi in "To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar." LOL! |
TOOTHtino's Pizza Rolls
Monday, June 18, 2012
Father's Day Card Idea
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Basketball Wives Reunion Rundown
Y'all read it right! I have titled this lil review its rightful name. After the last two shows (reunions), the ladies really have shown themselves worthy of a lot more respect. I mean, some are still a trip & are just putting on a 'show' because everybody else was being decent & because Shaunie has turned Mother Theresa on 'em, but at least they were able to keep it up for the duration of the reunion show. Mmmkay...first things first....Why was Kenya on the show again? Still mad they never addressed the fish thing. I LOVE a good prank & it seems wasted since they never brought it back up. *shrugs* Moving right along...Suzie tried to make herself 'relevant' at some point during the show...Everybody had on their nice girl attitudes & here comes Suzie flying all off the handle, "F#$& you, Kesha! Shut the f#$& up!" Really, Suzie? You ain't said nothing the entire show & the first thing you say gotta be gangster-laced? It was like the Tami demon took over her body or something. The tapes show that you talk too much. You & your lisp are all too eager to "run tell dat" all the time. You might not have said what Kesha said you said but you have said a lot! Don't get mad because your track record that YOU have set. Good job, Royce, on your acting gig....& on the stage play too. LOL! That scene with her and her daddy...that breakdown...that ugly cry face...Yeah...seemed a little dramatic to me...but that's just me...Or is it? Kesha! I hear you, girl! You found your voice and it only took you ALL season! Tami is so full of it..."I just wanted you to say what you wanted to say...I wasn't going to get mad...I just wanted you to have a voice." Then when Kesha started talking, it took everything Tami learned in anger-management & the thought of a lawsuit not to come across that stage on poor Kesha. It's apparent you haven't changed, Tami, because you still won't own up to taking ol' girl's purse and bullying her. So you ain't changed yet...You just had a 'Come to Jesus' meeting with Shaunie, your lawyer & your heart doctor right before the show. You're still Tami the Bully. NOOOOOW...The moment you've all been waiting for...........drumroll, please......... JENNIPHA & EVELYN!!! (Sidenote: Shaunie, there is a significant difference in getting reckless with your mouth and with your hands. I don't care for how Jennipha tends to handle things but truth is truth. Friends or foes...If you put your hands on me, we are no longer friends, we're foes & anything goes when it comes to foes! Nia, Niya...whatever is a grown woman & chose to assault someone ON TAPE!! I do feel like the charges will be dropped but they knew how Jen was before that incident, so Nia/Niya Badwig should've handled herself a little better than that. Period.) Anyhooooo, on to the bright note of the reconciliation of Jen & Ev. This was the point that made me say...ok...maybe I should remove the ratchet title cause they're growing up! Many are saying that the lie detector questions were stupid but I disagree. They were quite relevant & asked the IMPORTANT questions. Do they miss their friendship? & Is Jen jealous of Chad & Ev's relationship? Those questions/answers got to the core of the problem. Just like in the core of an apple, the seeds of their problems were planted underneath all that other mess. I was sincerely touched by them coming together...and I ain't gonna lie cause I ain't ashamed...I shed a tear or two...maybe three...maybe I even almost had the Royce ugly cry face...It was freakin' touching, man...& anybody who didn't tear up just ain't got no heart, or they're men. All that time wasted...all the hurtful things said and all these ladies had to do was be honest and say, "I'm hurt & I miss you...I miss 'us'." But hurt makes you do & say hurtful things sometimes when you don't know how else to express it. Maybe if we all could record our lives & play it back so that we could see the folly of our ways or take polygraph tests to help convey our true feelings, we may just be able to make amends with important people in our lives...Maybe we could mend meaningful, valuable relationships. Maybe. I can't wait to see what Season 5 BASKETball Wives brings...Until next season, BW fans...or until Ratchetball Wives LA. What? Them hood bunnies ain't earned their title yet! LOL! #Allthislove,there'sgottabesomehatethrownupinheresomewhere! HOLLA!!! |
| Just look at Evelyn's face...All that pain...So glad she allowed herself to recognize it, feel it & let it go. |
Monday, June 11, 2012
My Conversation With Kyle Minor
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| Kyle Minor, Author of In The Devil's Territory |
Conversation with
Kyle Minor
By Joy Quarmiley
First, I would like to thank you so
very much for taking time out to allow me to have this conversation with you. I
am honored and I hope to do you justice.
Second, I want to congratulate you on
the win of the 2012 Iowa Review Prize for Short Fiction for your story “Seven Stories About Kenel of Koulev-Ville”.
I also read that you’re a three-time honoree in The Atlantic Monthly
Student Writing Awards and a winner of Random House’s Twentysomething
Essays by Twentysomething Writers contest, where your short story, “You
Shall Go Out With Joy & Be Led Force With Peace”, was featured. Not
to mention all of the magazines you’ve been featured in! Those are all great
achievements for such a young writer (I’m 35, so, yes, we’re young! ;) and many
were accomplished before you were even published! That’s amazing!
Your
novella In the D evil’s Territory is
quite a hot commodity. I had to order it to get my hands on a copy, which I am
still anxiously waiting on. Every copy in the libraries in the state of Ohio
was checked out and had a lengthy waiting list. I hope to be that popular of a
writer one day.
Now,
let’s converse…I’m going to start with the basics first.
JQ
I know
that you were inspired by many books and writers, like Nabokov & Kate
Bernheimer but how did it come about that you really determined that writing
was your passion?
KM
I started
out writing for magazines, and while I was writing for magazines I began to get
interested in literature. I was reading rather haphazardly. Someone would tell
me about Don DeLillo, so I’d read all of his books, straight through, in
chronological order. Then I’d find out Donald Antrim liked DeLillo, so I’d read
all his books. I was working my way, sideways, through contemporary literature.
These books were making me feel things, and I wanted to make things that made
other people feel things.
JQ
You write
both fiction and nonfiction, correct? Which do you think is more difficult to
write? Why?
KM
I think
that fiction, along with poetry, is the higher calling, and also that it
generally attracts the better writers. Most of the better writers of nonfiction
also write fiction or poetry, and that’s why they’re better writers – they’ve
appropriated from fiction and poetry. But I don’t think it’s usually very easy
to write anything well. Most good things come slowly.
JQ
Which
genre do you prefer?
KM
I read in
all the genres. I love books in all of them.
JQ
What is your writing process?
KM
Right now, it’s summer, and I don’t have to teach, so I get
up around six in the evening, play with my kids until eight. If there’s a
basketball game on, I’ll watch it until eleven-thirty or so. If not, or when
it’s over, I get to work, and I work until around eight in the morning. Then I
play with my kids for awhile. Then I go to bed. Then I do it again the next
day. I’m doing this seven days a week right now. It’s great.
JQ
How do you find time to write, attend readings all over and
still mentor aspiring artists?
KM
I say no to as many things as I can. And I choose to spend
my time writing instead of doing other things that are more pleasurable.
JQ
Like I
said before, you achieved many high accolades prior to being published. Was it
difficult to get published?
KM
It’s not
difficult, in this age, for anyone to get published. What’s difficult is to
make something that is worth the reader’s time. If you attend to that, you’ll
find a good home for your work.
JQ
How was your experience with editing, with Okla Elliott, The Other Chekhov?
KM
It was great. We read all 13 volumes of Constance Garnett’s
Chekhov translations, and then we picked the ones we liked the most. We found
that there was a grittier Chekhov lurking among the popular “subtle” Chekhov,
in stories such as “Gusev,” “The Murder,” “The Two Volodyas,” and so on. We
liked this Chekhov better than the Chekhov of “The Lady with the Lapdog.”
JQ
I read that you were named in The Columbus Dispatch in their “20 Under 30 Artists to Watch” in
2007. I imagine that being so young, maybe other ‘experienced’ authors may not
really give you a lot of credit or it may be difficult for them to accept that
you’re so well established so early on in life. Is this a barrier for you? What
other barriers, if any, do you encounter in this profession- personally or
professionally?
KM
I’m not so young anymore. I’m 35, and there are a lot of
younger writers who have had more worldly success. No one seemed to be bothered
by my age when I was younger.
JQ
Do you have any suggestions to help me become a better
writer? If so, what are they?
KM
Read everything, and devote your whole life to writing.
Hardly anyone is willing to do those two things.
JQ
Your novel, The Sexual
Lives of Missionaries, is due to make its much anticipated debut in the
spring. Do you have any other projects lurking in the wings?
KM
I don’t think it will be out until 2014 or so. It’s not yet
gone to market – probably this fall is when my agent will sell it. When it’s
done, I’ll write another one.
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
I Man'I'festo
My
Manifesto
By
Joy Quarmiley
I
enjoy writing because I enjoy sharing. Sometimes it’s my own thoughts I share
and at times it has been others’ thoughts that I felt were significant enough
to share. I like to make valid points in my writings. Provide a message. The things
I tend to write about are my family, my children…These are, to me, though very
much the same, still quite different in the way that I think about them and
talk about them in my writings. I’ll explain further in a moment. I also tend
to write about television (shows, especially ‘reality’), moral
dilemmas/thoughts, and just interesting everyday happenings at work or wherever
funny or interesting things happen. If it amused me, I assume it will amuse
everybody.
I write about my family and my childhood memories with
them, because those were the happier, less stressful times. There are times in
my stories that I might be writing fictionally but throw in a nonfictional
incident that happened with me and my siblings. I think of my family all the
time and often times find it difficult not to want to write about them.
Like I said, my children are on a different brainwave and
in a special, separate heart chamber than my ‘family’. I talk mostly about my ‘family’
in past tense. What ‘used’ to be…How it ‘was’… I tend to write about my childhood. When I write about my children
I write about now. I write about my motherhood and their childhood. I believe I write about them with a different kind
of joy…A motherly love. This is why I can’t include them entirely in the term ‘family’
though they are indeed that to me. Then there’s my husband who rides solo on
his own nerve…er..um…brainwave. J (Love you, babe!)
I love writing about reality television (this includes
the daily news/headlines). I like to write up funny critiques and thoughts that
everybody else out there in Couch Potato Land is thinking. I throw in little
bits of actual knowledge here and there to keep my readers grounded, but like
the show I write about, it’s all for entertainment purposes only. If a reader
gets hold of one of the seeds I plant amongst all the jokes and broken
language, I’ve accomplished much more than I originally set out to do.
My moral dilemmas/thoughts writings are where I am
purposefully planting seeds. I joke a lot but I do have a serious side and I
like to show ‘her’ every once in a while. I want my readers to know that I do
know and understand everything is not a laughing matter. I talk about
everything from spirituality to parental concerns. I like tapping into my more
serious side every now and again…I like to think I tell the truth and keep it
100% real and hope that anyone who reads my deeper, more serious thoughts gets
that.
You can also find a lot of my everyday run-ins in my
writings. If I laugh at it, I want you to laugh at it. If my mouth hit the floor in disbelief, I
want your mouth to hit the floor. If I cried…I want you to console me. J I was the kid that looooved Show & Tell. If I found something in my huge four acre
yard, like the tomato bug I found once, no matter how afraid of it I was, I
would jar it up and bring it in. (There I go mentioning childhood memories.) I
think that’s why I took so vastly to Facebook once I discovered it. You mean I
can post my every thought…my every day happenings…Jokes about my workplace ‘characters’?!?!?
I was on it…am on it! Addicted. I have even gotten to the point that if
something happens that is way interesting, I have said to myself, “I can’t wait
to post this on Facebook!” Then I started my blog (www.j-quiz.blogspot.com) and all I
got to say is, the blog world is no longer going to be the same. I need to just
go ahead a set up an account on it to get paid because I will be blogging a
LOT. If you’re interested, please visit and become a follower.
Well, I guess I put the ‘I’ in my man’I’festo. These are
the reasons I write. If I couldn’t write about these things, I could only
imagine the mess the explosion of my brain would cause. I honestly don’t know
what I did with all my thoughts prior to some of these outlets. I mean I, at
times, wrote poetry…but I have never written like I am currently writing. And I’m not
going to sit here and front…Facebook sparked my desire to write. However, I do
know, by the monster that’s been unleashed since the creation of my Facebook
account, writing has been embedded and was lying dormant in me for quite some
time. My Facebook friends encouraged me to start taking my writing seriously
and I am now enrolled in a Master’s program with a Major in Creative Writing. I’m
glad I listened.
Ratchet Reunion Rundoooown (Basketball Wives)
Mommy...What color is Jesus?
Had this discussion with my kids just the other day.
The Boy: Mommy...What color is Jesus?
The Girl: (in that teen know-it-all voice) He's biracial.
Me: O_o
The Girl: Wait...He's not biracial...Isn't He Every-racial? Cuz He loves everybody.
The Boy: (as if mentally mulling over the information my daughter just shared)Yeeeah...
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Get Off Facebook & Get Your Face IN A Book
Me: Not true. You're not. |o)
I don't think children should have Facebook accounts...for a few reasons:
#1: Most of them under 16 & some 16 & older are not mature enough to handle the responsibility of having their own account on the internet. They 'friend' just about any & everybody & put any & all their business out there. The pics some of them post, like the ones with the kissy lips & cleavage showing, boys with their shirts off, etc., are too much for teens to be posting on a social internet site. They attract predators & are not mature emotionally or mentally enough to handle that kind of attention.
#2: Facebook Drama/Bullying. As an immature<not a bad word, by the way> kid, it's hard not to get caught up. Heck...we have adults on Facebook that can't seem to stay out of drama & Internet Gangster activity.
#3: Most kids are going to friend adults: i.e. parents, aunties, cousins, etc...The things folks post on the adult pages can be viewed by the kid(s). Some of it is too mature for kids to be seeing (pictures, stats, etc).
I will use my discretion on whether to friend a kid or not. If they are 13 & under, I will more than likely ignore their friend request. I challenge all the adults on FB to do the same & to be ok with telling your children 'No'...You can control at least a little of what they are exposed to in life. Don't worry about being 'friends' on Facebook, be parents in real life! #OOOOHPARENTALCONTROL-OH! <In my Prince voice.
Friday, June 1, 2012
Proper Drive-Thru Etiquette
#1. Don't order like you're in need of someone to talk to. Like you're in a counseling session. I.E. "Heeey...um...I think I'll haaaave aaaaaa #5...nooo...wait...What comes on that? Okaaaay...maybe I will have that...Nooo...What do you recommend, Sally? That is what you said your name is, right?" This is NERVE-RACKING for the driver behind you!The attendant is NOT your therapist! Order & keep it moving, Lonely Heart!
#2. Have an idea of what you're going to get BEFORE you pull up to the speaker. Nothing worse than being behind somebody & you hear,"Hi...May I take your order?"
Customer: "Just a minute."
Attendant: "Take your time." AND YOU ACTUALLY DO TAKE YOUR TIME! That is unfair in that not only are you taking YOUR time but you're taking other peoples' time as well! You've more than likely been to this establishment a million times & almost ALWAYS order the same thing each time! I don't know about you, but I want to use most of my lunch time enjoying my lunch...NOT ORDERING IT!
#3. If you are one of those jokers who ALWAYS has special instructions for your order like; "One #3 please, but...are you listening? Ok... I want the cheeseburger minus the cheese, make it a double, wit 2 pieces of bacon- crisscrossed, 3 pickles slid to the right a lil bit, 1/3rd slice of tomato, half ring of onion, extra mayo, a teaspoon of mustard, hold the ketchup, 'less it's Heinz, if it's Heinz spread a little on the BOTTOM bun...wit light lettuce..Oh & no sesame seeds on my bun, please." MAAAAN! Write that mess in a note & take it on the inside! Ain't nobody got all day for you to repeat that, then go thru your order & double check that!
#4. If you got more than 2 orders, GO INSIDE!! They're gonna get it wrong anyway! Then paying for multiple orders with different kinds of currency for each order ....OMGEEEEE!! That is enough to cause Drive-Thru Homicide! GO INSIDE WIT AWLADAT!
#5. Just like I mentioned about the man earlier...If you do have multiple orders or are going to divvy the order up betwixt people in your car, be courteous, AND PULL OUT OF THE DANG DRIVE-THRU!!! Do not be ignorant, like dude in the suburban, and hold up the line to make sure Ray-Ray, Pooky n' nem got their grub before you pull off. Pull that raggedy heap of rusty metal over into a parking space or somethin'! He better be glad they don't do E-checks no more! #FAIL
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