Williams is also collaborating on a line of shoes with designer Mark McNairy, which will be available next February. He’s also working on a coffee table book with Ambra Medda of Design Miami. “Places & Spaces I’ve Been” does not yet have a release date. Go Pharrell, go!

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This sh!t is crazy, fam. He has an actor talking about how a “community organizer” can’t claim to have done the “real” things that a man like Herman Cain has… despite the fact that Cain HAS NEVER HELD POLITICAL OFFICE. And are we really doing the “community organizer” bit when, like it or lump it, Barack Obama has been President of the United States for over two years? And the line about liberals being the ones keeping the race issue alive is just amazing. It reminded me of Lawrence O’Donnell’s remarks about the Republican Party effectively convincing people that those who speak out about racial issues are the “real” racists, while those responsible for maintaining the racist status quo somehow avoid criticism.

If Herman Cain becomes the next POTUS, I’ll be out of here on the next thing smoking. Actually, I’ll smoke some crack. I can say this with confidence, because I am pretty sure that I’m just as likely to become the next President as this clown. But cheers to him for keeping it entertaining all the way.

“On Facebook, on the news, that’s how I had to learn of my son’s death,” she told a local ABC News affiliate. Jackie spent hours trying to find more information and was never contacted by police or representatives from her son’s school. ”We waited all the way up until the next day and still got no phone calls.” Because of the lapse in time, she was not able to go view her son’s body. Police Chief Dan Mack has publicly expressed regret for his department’s failure to attempt to notify both parents and has vowed to do so in the future and the local school superintendent emphasized the importance of divorced families ensuring that contact information for both parents is made available to the schools.

We can’t help but to wonder…even if the divorce between Ridge’s parents was a nasty one, why didn’t his father ensure that his mother was notified of his passing before it hit the news? However, considering the incredible speed of the internet, that may have been impossible.

A college friend of mine was killed in an accident last year and many of our classmates learned of his passing via Twitter and Facebook. I was lucky to have another friend who called me before I could discover what had happened that way and came over to tell me in person. Even still, seeing people Tweet “Who was he?” and getting texts from people who didn’t know we were good friends asking if I knew him was quite overwhelming…I cannot even begin to imagine what Jackie Barden went through finding out about her own son’s death in such a way.

Have you ever learned of a death or some other such tragedy via social media? 

*Serious face*

However, I have gotten my absolute fill of some of the venom and nastiness that I hear, read and observe from SOME men on a fairly regular basis. Thus, I am humbly requesting that those offenders out there cease and desist all conversations regarding the following:

Celebrity Prenuptual Agreements:  It’s more likely than not that you will die without seeing $60 mil in your bank account. So while you may think that whichever NBA player is a damn fool for getting married to the girl he met at Hooters three months after their first date, you really don’t need to get all worked up when it’s announced that he didn’t make her sign a prenup. Instead of ranting about what you would do if you had his money, consider thinking of these agreements in terms of how they fit in to your actual life. Might you make Tasha sign something saying that she promises not to take half of your $36k a year salary and $100k in student loan debt? Perhaps. You never know, she might really come for your collection of 6 pairs of Jordans in a nasty breakup, so it’s something to consider. But those millions on millions that you don’t have? Probably shouldn’t get so mad about those. Nobody’s gonna take your complete House Party VHS tape collection, promise.

Famous Men Women Love: Mychal’s piece about his girl’s obsession with Idris Elba was cute and he managed to ‘complain’ without really revealing some sort of contempt. But man, let me tell you, I have had ENOUGH of men who can’t suffer a woman complimenting a handsome man without identifying seven reasons why he ain’t all that, would never want us or is probably suffering from some sort of unheard of, incurable STD. Yes, we may point out that Cassie’s remaining hair is part-weave or that you are too old to perv on Vanessa Simmons, but we don’t go as hard as the men do with this sort of hating. Please stop calling every man we like gay, telling us that they ‘like White women anyway,’ that they are actually 5’2″ in real life…we don’t actually think we’re gonna run off with The Rock, so can we enjoy him in peace? The same dudes who go to town on our Andre 3000 lust are out here saying things like, “Serena Williams can get it.” As if you’re the prize and you’re blessing her. LOL, son. L-O-L.

Feminism: I’d never say that there aren’t reasonable criticisms of feminist ideologies, feminist movements and feminists…I’d just say that they rarely come from heterosexual men who haven’t seen a (insert word that I’d never actually say on this site, but I’m thinking it) since they came out of their mother’s. Romantic frustration and ill-advised entitlement don’t make you an expert on gender studies, so can you have read a bit more about feminism than, say, an article on RudeDudes.com that explains how bitches are taking over the world before you make us suffer through a 3000 word comment-essay about how pro-women movements are destroying the Black community? Thanks. Put that argument about how the ‘real’ issue being absentee fathers is women who keep their kids away from their desperate, loving dads in the vertical file while you’re at it, because its not as common as your blinding hatred of women would have you think. This all goes double for Black men, who would probably be ashamed if they realized how painfully similar their “takedowns” of women’s issues sound to those of racist White folks denouncing the struggles of Colored people.

“Hoes”:  We womenfolk have gotten pretty tired of certain men telling us that those of us who aren’t virgins, wear skirts above the knee, and use tampons are on the loose side. We don’t see you pulling the puritanical act when policing your own peens, so feel free to join the rest of us here in 2011. Besides, I’d imagine that lowered expectations for sexual partners is probably helping you far more than it hurts you. If we were all out here waiting for Prince Charming to unlock our chastity belts, y’all dudes would never get laid. Get a gratitude journal and pay homage, kiddo.

Unreasonable Physical Standards: It’s one thing to have preferences or certain assets that you appreciate. But, err…if you are a man with a DD-cup, you probably should bite your tongue before hollering about how some size 6 girl needs to tone up her tummy. It’s not cool for the brother with a 6-pack to rip a woman for being “too small” or “too big,” but it sounds even more foolish coming from someone who wouldn’t recognize the gym if it fell in his lap while he watched “Entourage” and ate a second medium pizza. Most of women aren’t going to have 36-24-40 bodies, just as few of you have D’Angelo cuts on a 6’5 frame and a package that would require extra postage. Deal with it. Oh, and if your mom was the last one who called you “cute”? Yeah, you should probably tread really lightly before hollering about who’s a dime and who isn’t. Newsflash: looks matter to us, too. And so does personality. Do you really want to lose both contests?

That’s not so hard, right? Let these hangups go and you’ll be 75% less likely to be the human equivalent of a yeast infection. And you may have more girl friends. Or girlfriends. Or both. Can’t beat that!

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Business Insider reports that Oakland Police claim Olsen may have been injured after trying to attack them, but judging from this video (he appears at 3:30), that doesn’t seem to be the case:

Occupy Oakland Tuesday October 25 from Raleigh Latham on Vimeo.

After Olsen fell to the ground, a police officer threw a flash grenade into the crowd of people who attempted to come to his aid. He is currently said to have suffered a skull fracture and swelling of the brain. One of Olsen’s fellow Marine men posted this heartbreaking picture of his response to his “brother’s” injury. These are truly disturbing times we are living in.

Winehouse’s parents had publicly speculated that their daughter’s death may have been the result of “alcohol withdrawal” after attempting to quit drinking cold turkey and have also insisted that she had no drugs in her system at the time of her death. An initial autopsy proved “inconclusive”, leading to the current formal inquest into her death.

She tells Forbes‘ Kashmir Hill that she’d purchased the simple, small vibe because she thought it would be discreet enough not to “raise any red flags.”  A TSA spokesperson tells the site “TSA takes all allegations of inappropriate conduct seriously and is investigating this claim.”  They don’t know who wrote the note, but mentioned that other airport works not employed by their agency also have access to passenger luggage.

Jill had this to say of the incident over at Feministe: “Total violation of privacy, wildly inappropriate and clearly not ok, but I also just died laughing in my hotel room.” As Hill points out, this certainly offensive incident is a reminder that the people who work these jobs are, well, people. However, it’s one thing for them to have a personal chuckle at a traveller’s expense and another for them to reach out as a passenger in such a way.

How would you react if someone put a note like this in your bag? Does this make you feel less comfortable about travelling with personal items?

Levin also had advise for television news outlets, suggesting TMZ TV’s conversational and humorous approach to reporting would breath new life to the long-standing newscast format.

Despite the fact that 45 million people still purchase print papers each day and Americans purchased 325 million magazines last year, the 61-year-old insists that print is dead. “What is the magic of holding a piece of paper in the air when you read?” he asked. “You [in the news media] think you have to preserve this? Why?” Young people aren’t interested in the traditional media,” said Levin. “It doesn’t speak to them.” He told the press corps that as television and internet continue to merge “This is a revolution. And also, an opportunity.”

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Feature in the special is Bryan, a leader of the Occupy sanitation team who was faced with the challenge of motivating protesters to clean up before facing eviction from local government. He is joined by Kait and Caitlin, college students who are terrified about their post-graduation job prospects.

An MTV survey found that 93 percent of young adult respondents (aged 18-29) felt that the current economic situation had a direct impact on their lives, while 72 percent did not trust the government to take care of their needs; 62 percent expressed concern over their parents’ ability to retire and 66 percent felt they were in need of a leader outside of the political world who was capable of speaking to their needs.

Rumor has it that MTV also searched for future “Real World” cast-mates among the throngs of people at the protests. “True Life: I’m Occupying Wall Street” airs on November 5th at 6pm EST.