iFeature!
Added a new section to the website – Shelly’s Schedule.
This is where you can find out about any upcoming features as a poet. Check back frequently!
Apr 28
New Poem: What He Doesn’t Know
Posted this on Facebook a little while ago. Just decided to add to YouTube.
Mar 04
Thoughts on ‘Good Deeds’
Tyler Perry is back in the saddle. Did you miss him?
If you remember my post “10 Things Tyler Perry Could Be Doing“, you know that Tyler Perry seemed to be out of theaters for longer than usual. Well now we know what he was doing: Good Deeds.
I have been highly critical of Tyler Perry’s shenanigans in the past, but I will give him a bit of credit and say that Good Deeds wasn’t at all the normal n*ggerdom we expect from Mr. Perry. That’s not to say is was a great film. It is to say that there was an absence of many of his staples. These “staples” include but are not limited to: cross-dressing, neck rolling, dead beat dads, abusive fiances, evil successful women, broke & muscular men who love Jesus, aunties who quote scripture, loud baby mamas, emasculating spouses, and so on and so forth. There wasn’t really any of that, which was refreshing. It was kind of like a Lifetime movie (as evidenced by the fact that my aunt and I cried real tears).
That being said, here’s my first 10 Thoughts on Good Deeds.
- Gabrielle Union continues to seem annoying as fuck and play herself in every movie, but her skin is flawless. It is made of cocoa butter and Godiva chocolate.
- I am EXTREMELY uncomfortable seeing Tyler Perry be “sexy”. Sooooooo uncomfortable. I do not want to see Madea have sex. DO NOT WANT TYLER PERRY SEX FACES!!!!!! Watching him have sex with Gabrielle Union is like watching Ellen Degeneres have sex with Idris Elba. It’s just……. ewww. No mas!
Feb 13
Loving Everyday Actually Includes Holidays
This is a note for all the Valentine’s Day Scrooges.
Here’s the thing: We all realize Valentine’s Day is an elaborate marketing scheme. We all realize you should show appreciation for your significant other 365 days per year, just like you should recognize Black History year-round. But if you are going to live and love in America, I need you to take a moment out of your week to participate in this cultural holiday.
It fascinates me the ferver with which some people (mostly men) oppose Valentine’s Day. Men go through great lengths to protest what really amounts to a National Date Night. Are ya’ll serious? Like, for real gentleman, choose your effing battles. Is taking a stand against Hallmark really worth making the women you supposedly love feel shafted? Do we really want to fight about this? Are there other things we could maybe opt-out of? Perhaps buying malt liquor? Of all the terrible ways society could influence us, asking you to take your lady out on a date is not the worst thing that could happen.
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Mar 21
We are in The Twilight Zone
Politics, Social Commentary
by MissShellySays
Trayvon Martin
All the things I think are too ridiculous to happen in America, are happening in America. I must be in the Twilight zone. Common sense and human decency have ceased to exist. And here’s why:
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