"Mom, pass The Notorious B.I.G., please."

If you hadn't heard, a Biggie bio-pic is in the works. It's going to be called Notorious and it's going to be directed by the guy who did that Cuba Gooding Jr./De Niro deep sea diving movie, Men of Honor and Soul Food. Hmm..could go either way.

So, who's gonna play Big? After a year of open casting calls (including a semi-hilarious one from last October), producers chose...drumroll.... Gravy.



Jamal Woolard, an underground Brooklyn-based rapper who goes by the rap name 'Gravy', snagged the much sought after role. What do you think? Here he is in costume:



Also, here's a youtube video of Gravy and his friends calmly taunting a camera man, then suddenly and generously offering business:



1500? Doable, doable.

So Biggie is gonna be played by Gravy. I wonder who's gonna play Tupac...



Get it? Taters, bro. The man's name is fucking Gravy.

Anyway, I have lock jaw. Or more precisely, Temporomandibular Joint Syndrome (TMJ). Basically, the right side of my jaw comes unhinged from my skull every time I open my mouth more than an inch and then cracks back into place causing excruciating pain. So you know, things are good. Here's a diagram:



Wonderful.

This morning, Barack Obama gave a "sweeping" (the term that seems to keep popping up to describe it) speech this morning, confronting the controversy surrounding his pastor's racy comments (literally & figuratively). It ended up taking the controversy head on and addressing the element of race in America on a much wider scale. It ended up being a pretty darn amazing speech, mostly because Obama was able to articulate the resentments that both white & black people have of one another and was able to coax the conversation out into the open by doing what he does best: speaking the darn truth and taking a rational, human approach to the situation rather than a calculating one. I heard more than one commentator today dub the speech "the most important speech on race since Martin Luther King's 'I Have A Dream' speech." Seems a little far fetched. Or is it? Check out a video of the speech in it's entirety below, or read the full text here.



Just learned the speech is called (or has been christened) the "A More Perfect Union" speech. Check out the insanely positive praise it's been getting from columnists across the board right m'here.

If that's not enough Obama for you for one day, I'll leave you with Tracy Morgan's hilarious endorsement on SNL's Weekend Update over the weekend in response to Tina Fey's endorsement of Hillary Clinton a few weeks ago:



Tracy Morgan officially makes the best Newport references.