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Has been added to the TAKEOVER TOUR!!!NonStopInfo.com got a chance to sit down and speak with Comedian Darnell Wright A.K.A. ”The Bulletin King” A.K.A. “The Myspace Stimulus Plan” (Former I Love New York 2 Contestant). His bulletins and blogs have gotten wide spread attention among the MySpace community.
Talk about talent? Darnell Wright sure has a lot of it and has no problem displaying that on stage or in his writings. He knows how to embrace the stage and make it his own. With only 4 short years in the game he’s accomplished what most strive for in a career. Darnell took a chance at his jobs talent competition and went on to win first place prize. The positive response from the crowd motivated him to pursue comedy as a career. From that moment he’s done over 300 shows nationwide, and headlined 4 sold out One-Hour-One-Man shows. He’s performed in almost every major club including the most recognized Comedy Club Caroline’s on Broadway in NYC.
He performed at countless Colleges, High Schools, and even Church events. And has shared the stage with today’s hottest comedians such as: Gerald Kelly, A.G. White, Talent, and was blessed to be coming off the stage when a Comedian Legend decided to grace the stage unexpectedly, David Chappelle at Gothem Comedy Club in NYC.
His comedic timing is right on point and his material is for all audiences across the board. Darnell is energetic, raw, and has the ability to make any topic funny. His skits deal with his drinking problems, to his outlandish jobs, his horrible dates, to even clowning his own short stint on the “I Love New York Show” season 2 on VH1. He has catchy punch lines that will have you reciting them well after the show. Darnell has the complete package to be one of comedy’s biggest stars.
To go along with his stage presents he’s also an Internet writing phenomenon. With writing for Humor Mill Magazine an online magazine geared toward Comedian and Urban News and his funny “Blogs” on MySpace, Darnell has grown is fan base to 30,000 daily readers. With blogs like “Top 5 Reasons Crack Isn’t That Bad”. In his latest blog titled “I’m Old School You Might Be Too” , Darnell takes you on a trip down memory lane while making you laugh the whole way.
RECKLESS LETS GO!!!
Frank N. Mickens, former principal of Boys and Girls High, has passed away.
Frank N. Mickens, former Boys and Girls High School principal and basketball coach, passed away of natural causes at his home on Thursday, July 9, 2009.
A lifelong resident and native of the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn, Frank N. Mickens was born to parents John and Hortense Mickens on June 22, 1946.
Coach Mickens attended Junior Academy during the elementary years of his education. He continued with his studies in the New York City public schools, graduating from Erasmus Hall High School in 1964. Mr. Mickens completed his undergraduate studies at the State University of New York at Potsdam. He received his Masters from New York University, and completed graduate work at Columbia University. In December 1991, Mr. Mickens was awarded an honorary doctorate from Medgar Evers College.
Dr. Mickens had over 36 years of experience as an educator in the New York City public school system. Through the years, he served as teacher, dean, basketball coach, assistant principal, principal, and assistant superintendent.
Mickens began his illustrious career in 1968 as a teacher of Social Studies at the Old Boys High School, spending ten years there. From 1978-1982, he served as assistant principal of Junior High School 109 in Queens. From 1982-1984, he served as principal of Junior High School 324 in Bedford Stuyvesant. In September 1985, Mr. Mickens was appointed principal of Martin Luther King, Jr. High School.
Mr. Mickens served as principal of Boys and Girls High School for 18 years (1986-2004). “Mick,” as he was respectfully and endearingly hailed by students, staff, and denizens of Fulton Street, received nationwide recognition for his commitment to young people and for the relentless campaign of his positive program on self-esteem at “The High.”
In recognition of his initiatives for young people, Mr. Mickens was featured often in The New York Times, New York magazine, New York Newsday, and The New York Amsterdam News. Also known and loved as “The Chancellor of Fulton Street,” he appeared on The Today Show, Geraldo, The John Walsh Show, Good Day New York, CNN, Best Talk in Town, The McCreary Report and The MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour with Charlayne Hunter-Gault. On March 7, 1992, ABC National TV News designated Mr. Mickens as its “Person of the Week.”
Mr. Mickens attended Harvard University’s Principals’ Center at the Harvard Graduate School of Education as a part-time visiting practitioner.
On November 18, 1992, Joseph A Fernandez, the New York City chancellor of schools, appointed Mr. Mickens to serve in the position of administrative superintendent in addition to his duties as principal of Boys and Girls High School. Dr. Mickens also served as an adjunct professor at Long Island University, New York University, PACE University and Baruch College, and was also a Charles H. Revson Fellow at Columbia University.
A noted lecturer on effective schools, Mr. Mickens spoke engagingly at educational forums throughout New York City, Atlanta, Chicago, Kentucky, Georgia and Washington, D.C.
The New York City Department of Education lost a legend with the death of Frank N. Mickens. Mick was a mentor, brother, uncle and father to students, staff, and family. Mick touched the lives of 1000s of children and adults from NYC and across the world. He will be dearly missed by all.
A viewing and public memorial service for Coach Frank N. Mickens will be held on Friday, July 17, 2009. The Friday viewing will take place at Woodward Funeral Home, which is located at 1 Troy Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11213-1129 from 12-8pm. The public memorial service will begin at 6pm on Friday, July 17 at Boys and Girls High School (1700 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY). Attendees are encouraged to pay their respects at the funeral home and then walk to Boys and Girls High School, which is one long block away. On Friday, attendees whose lives Mick touched are encouraged to wear “Red, Black, and White” in his honor for the home-going celebration.
Funeral services will take place on Saturday, July 18, 2009 at The Elim International Fellowship, located at 20 Madison Street, Brooklyn, NY 11238. On Saturday, there will be a viewing of our beloved Frank N. Mickens from 8-9:15am, with funeral services immediately following at 9:30am. In honoring Mr. Mickens’ internationally acclaimed Dress-for-Success program, all men are encouraged to wear bow ties to the funeral services on Saturday.
He will be missed.. He is truly a Reckless educator, motivator, leader and trend setter his impact on his community will be missed dearly. Yet his accomplishments will never be forgotten.
Devin Carthan President of Reckless Promotions
By Reckless Rach
Today is a day that will be forever marked in history; and not because Honduras, after a violent military coup against it’s democratically elected president, has decided to mediate their political crisis. Nor because today marks almost a month since Iran has broke out in bloody protests and shady media coverts. No, today, there is only one thing to talk about; only one focus for every breathing person in the entire world, including some random rice farmers in Timbuktu and it’s the Michael Jackson Tribute.
With a star studded cast, live television coverage on several TV networks including CNN and MTV and millions of viewers worldwide, it was nice to see the world stop burning for one second to admire a brave and beautiful cultural icon… excuse me, the cultural icon of the Century. Even the persistent, depressive rain in NY subsided for a while in honor of the King.
And while watching the tribute and all of the people whose hearts Michael Jackson has touched, from Magic Johnson to John Mayer to his 3 children, all I could think was “Fuck all the Michael, haters! And yes that includes Kat fuckin’ Williams!”
It seems like now, in death, people have realized the huge disservice and pressure the media placed on a man who had grown up pretty much entirely in the lime light. Can you stop for a second and imagine, I mean really imagine that type of pressure? Really? Imagine how you felt at that big game in high school, in front of all your family, friends and neighbors playing for a college scholarship or to impress the girl of your dreams… Now imagine that magnified by a million, complicated by shitloads of money and how it would be to feel the weight of all those expectations, of your nerves, of your fears, of defeat and humiliation being thrown onto you non- stop since you were 5 years old. >DAMN<
Yes, I think for that reason, the media could’ve cut Michael a lil slack. Shit, give the guy a fucking break.
Especially since Michael was unarguably one of the most generous and humanitarian celebrities the world has ever seen. He was always pushing for some cause, trying to get people to care about the environment and African babies way before Angelina Jolie made adopting them cool. Even in death his generosity is insurmountable considering how he has left 20% of his estate to various charities.
So, all you Michael haters can go play in traffic. Who on this earth can touch Michael? Madonna? That bitch stole an African baby and tried to call it adoption! I don’t think so. Elvis? Puhlease! We all know Elvis stole his sound from niggas. The Beatles? Close but they have not transcended racial barriers and cultural lines like Michael has. You can go to the smallest, most remote village in the smallest town, in some barely inhabited island off the coast of nowhere and for sure, all 10 people in that village have heard of Michael and love his music.
That is why today will be remembered for years and years to come as the day the world bowed it’s head in consideration and whispered “Long Live the King!”
*WARNING: I have disclosed Reckless relationship advice. Follow at your own risk*
I had been told by my closest girlfriends, family members, my mother and even random strangers that I NEEDED to read Steve Harvey’s book of relationship advice to women called, Act like a Lady, Think like a Man. My initial reaction was, “Steve Harvey is gonna give me relationship advice? Advice worth hearing?” And the respective answer was, “Girl…You have no idea!”
So, finally, this past week, I picked up the book and began reading. And… (drum roll, please) Steve Harvey knows his shit! I recommend that all women go out, get this book, devour it, and place it on your bookshelf to read as a refresher on “why men are dicks”.
The appeal in this book isn’t that it tells you something miraculous or new, but that it clearly states the shit us ladies know but decidedly ignore; and it kills any and every excuse we will dish out for our wack-ass husband or boyfriend or “the guy you’re talking to” or your fuck buddy. Whatever he is.
And in honor of the book, and that I’m now in a relationship state of mind, I’ve decided to give the reckless readers a little advice of my own. So here Reckless Rach’s tips on:
How to Act like a Man & Think like a Reckless Lady.
This is “act like a man” advice. If you’re shopping for a f*ck buddy or an easy lay, people with low self-esteem are the way to go. This little nugget of knowledge was given to me by my Super Bachelor uncle and it makes complete sense. For dudes, a girl with low self-esteem will have no expectations for you and will let you hit it and quit it easy. For the reckless ladies, men with low self-esteem are good the way to go because they usually fall into my number 2 advice which is…
Girls, you know that an ugly dude works extra hard hoping you’ll keep him around. And usually they work where it counts the most… in bed. An ugly dude will lick it and stick it sooo good, he’ll have you screaming “Fuck them pretty niggas!”
Getting drunk is an essential part of any reckless relationship. For you boys, the benefit of getting drunk is that it could make you last longer in bed. However, it could also make you last so long, you have trouble “finishing” (if you know what I mean). I say, take your chances!
Reckless Ladies, the benefits you reap comes from drinking so much, you don’t remember any of the freaky shit you did the night before. Trust me, you won’t want to remember anyways, especially if you followed advice number 2.
And last but not least…
Duh.
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Side note: ( I feel like such selfless promoting of Reckless deserves a raise, don’t you agree President Devin F. Reckless?)
It’s that time again… hot weather, cold beers, loud music and loud relatives. Aaaaah! With summer approaching, it’s time, once again, to break out that Barbancourt or whatever is your equivalent of colonial Island rum. You know what I’m talking ‘bout. In Haiti it’s Barbancourt; to Puerto Ricans its Bacardi; to Brazilians it’s Cachaca; to Jamaicans it’s Appleton Estate and so on and so forth. You can find these potent colonial rums in any Caribbean/ South American country that suffered through slavery, especially places that processed sugar cane fields and used sugar cane byproduct to produce a potent rum to help them forget about how they wanted to strangle and stab every white man in sight. So tell your grandpa to break out that ole colonial rum and let the good times roll.
And let me just share a little something I’ve learned about barbeque season. Depending on where you go, there are cultural specific rules that you should be familiar with beforehand such as: a non-Haitian, non-West Indian, non-colored friend invited to me to her home for a barbeque a few weeks ago. My jaw unhinged when she told me that the barbeque would begin at noon. Noon? Being Haitian, I have never heard of any party/ wedding/ communion/funeral and definitely not a bbq that began before 6pm. Now, when I arrived there at 1:45pm (early for a Haitian) and found that all the guests had already arrived, my jaw and bottom lip literally scraped the floor.
When a Haitian family barbeques, everyone shows up after 6pm, and stays until 3am. People are still cooking rice and chicken when you arrive and everyone takes a big ole plate of food home with them on their way home. We drink too much, we eat too much, we dance (sloppily) and we joke on the non-Haitians in Kreyol so they can’t understand what we’re saying; and then we drive home at 3am deaf, drunk and bloated, praying a cop doesn’t pull us over. (Leave it to the reckless blog to make reckless behavior sound so wonderfully tempting). And the colonial island rum is, of course, a staple of the Haitian barbeque. A lil Barbancourt and grandma and grandpa can get drunk and reminisce about the not-so good good old days with Papa Doc. And a lil Barbancourt will put a crying baby or toddler to sleep in 2.3 seconds. Talk about good times! So call up your token Haitian friend, and hit up your local liquor store, because nothing says summer like a good barbeque and Barbancourt.
Sak Pase to all my Zoes!
Enjoy some Haitian humor. It goes well with some Haitian rum...By Reckless Rach
So, I went to this party last weekend and I couldn’t help but notice this tall, dark and lean cut of man chilling with what I assumed was his girlfriend. The boy was dressed in a smedium (a shirt size that falls in between small and medium giving heterosexual men the opportunity to show off any well worked muscles without being mistaken as gay) black t-shirt and fitted jeans. Ladies, let me just add, this dude was Morris Chestnut fine. I mean double scoop of dark chocolate with the nuts.
I was conspicuously stalking Morris as he left his girl’s side and headed to the bar. I noted his not too fat, not too flat ass as he ordered a henny on the rocks and a pink drink that appeared to be a sex on the beach or some other fruity variation of liquor. He walked over to his girl and I released an envious sigh thinking, “Damn. Not only is he fine but chivalrous too.”
I took a sip of my beer and looked over my shoulder just in time to catch Denzel Jr. handing his girl the henny and sipping the fruity concoction out of a mini yellow straw. What the f*ck?
Now, I shouldn’t even hate because I often drink beers at parties; not because I particularly like them, but because they’re usually the cheapest thing on the menu. However, to my defense, I drink light beer, so I feel like that re-affirms my girlieness. However, what is it about a dude drinking a b*tch drink that makes him lose his sexy? Or does he?
I watched Morris go back to the bar several times over the course of the night and order some more sex on the beaches or amaretto sours and drink it while his girl swallowed Jack on the rocks.
After deliberating over the b*tch drink topic with my girls, I decided that there are different levels of b*tch drinks with varying acceptability. Please consult charts A and B.
Chart A
| Category 1 | Bud Light/ Coors Light/ Mikes Hard Lemonade/ Margarita/ Long Island Iced Tea/ Alize (the blue one) | ACCEPTABLE |
| Category 2 | Smirnoff Twist/Bacardi Breezer/ Martini / Mudslide | ACCEPTABLE-ISH |
| Category 3 | Sex on the Beach/ Flavored Martinis/ Amaretto Sour/ Alize (the pink kind) | QUESTIONABLE |
| Category 4 | Cosmopolitans/ Pina Coladas/ Bahama Mamas/ Shirley Temples | NO MORE B*TCH ASS-NESS |
Chart B
Ratio of B*tch Assness to Acceptableness
So fellas, next time you go to a party, you’d better watch your b*tch ass-ness. If you must have a fruity flavored type drink, consult category 1 and 2 respectively beforehand.
And if you are gay, then you can dismiss this posting because it doesn’t matter what you drink as long as you… Work it!
* I recognize how Reckless it is to perpetuate gender stereotypes and the usage of the term B*tch in reference to women however, I thought it was funny, and I am Reckless Rach. If you where offended by anything written here you should step up your critical reading skills and not believe everything you read on the internet, fool. Also, all angry e-mails can be directed to Devin F. Reckless. Thank you.
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