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I’m half a day late because I’ve been devouring social media all day long. Please forgive me. Many have tried but few have succeeded in making my all important (to me anyway) timelines, news feeds and Google Reader. And since I have the day off, I’m doing my best to get up to speed with my current loves (even if it’s only in my mind.)

I’m only willing to introduce them to you in hopes that you are one of them and you’re reading this right now and will subsequently be mine forever. Am I asking too much?

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Ok people, cool out. I am sorry to hit you with so much fineness so suddenly. Please remember that many of us often misrepresent ourselves within the confines of the world wide web. Indeed within this sphere we have the opportunity to showcase our hottest profiles and express ourselves in the most eloquent ways possible. Thing about it is, for Jozen Cummings, the technique is working.

Author of Until I Get Married. VIBE.com/Magazine contributor. Editor for Global Grind. Oh the possibilities! He writes the good stuff. The stuff that keeps you coming back for more. And even more than I’m crushing on his words, I’m crushing on his commenters. 72?! In one post?! In a one week period?! Teach me your ways oh wise one. Nothing makes me much more happy than to be in the company of an eloquent gentleman. I just might get my chance because I recently discovered we have mutual friends … IRL!

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Upon first glance with my pearls on and my high waisted skirts you wouldn’t think I did the hip hop thing. Don’t let the high heels fool you! I will show up to Southpaw reciting lyrics like a hypeman! And if I see you in the street bringing as much energy to a live show as I do, believe I will develop a crush faster than you can say, “Put your hands in the air!” When I first caught glimpse of @jcrillz, I was dumbstricken because all signs pointed to him being someone I had a MySpace crush on and made an absolute fool of myself with years ago. Lucky for me, it wasn’t him. PHEW! He’s a 12FT reader so already there’s mad love there. He runs with some of my favorite people back in the bay and is the biggest hip hop head I’ve never met. These days, J is single-handedly keeping me abreast of new music via his Twitter feed and his contributions on The Mashup. When I make more time, I dive head first into Hip Hop Is Cool Again. Because let’s face it, hip hop wasn’t cool for awhile and with a sweetie like the one above filtering out the BS to bring the goodness, can’t complain much about the genre anymore. I’m starting to get shy about this one. Because I know he’s reading. Moving on.

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A poem for Boom:

All I know is you’re Jennifer
All I know is you tweet amazingness.
All I know is you read The New York Times.
All I know is I want to reblog everything you post.
All I know is we have a mutual friend.
All I know is we have one mutual friend.
All I know is you’ll never stop being my number 2 girl crush.
All I know is you’d be number 1 if Zoë Saldana didn’t exist.
All I know is you have amazing taste in music.
All I know is you(r social media) was made for me.
All I know is that even though I don’t understand you sometimes, you understand me all the time.
All I know is we’re already best friends in my head.

And that may be all I need to know.

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