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FRANK’S FIVE FAVORITE FIVES


1.
5 BLACK MEN THAT FRANK WOULD...(CENSORED FOR G-RATED AUDIENCE)

1. GIANCARLO ESPOSITO
2. MORRIS CHEST…NUT
3. ALLEN PAYNE
4. MICHAEL JAI WHITE
5. VIN DIESEL

2.
5 PEOPLE NO LONGER ALIVE THAT HE’D LOVE TO MEET

1. LANGSTON HUGHES
2. SOJOURNER TRUTH
3. MALCOLM X
4. MICHEL FOUCAULT
5. AUDRE LORDE

3.
5 ESSAYS HE REQUIRES ALL OF HIS FRIENDS READ THROUGHLY

1. KIMBERLE CRENSHAW. “DEMARGINALIZING THE INTERSECTION”
2. AUDRE LORDE.“THE USES OF ANGER”
3. MICHEL FOUCAULT.“THE ETHICS OF THE CARE OF THE SELF AS A PRACTICE OF FREEDOM”
4. LOUIS ALTHUSSER. "IDEOLOGY AND IDEOLOGICAL STATE APPARTUSES"
5. ESSEX HEMPHILL. “LOYALTY”

4.
5 PEOPLE HE’D LIKE TO BE STUCK IN AN ELEVATOR WITH AT THE SAME TIME

1. CONDOLEEZA RICE
2. DENNIS RODMAN
3. AMAROSA, or, AUDRE LORDE
4. LITTLE RICHARD
5. LOUIS FARAKHAN

5.
5 THINGS YOU’D PROBABLY NEVER GUESS ABOUT FRANK

1. HE STARRED ON 3 EPISODES OF MTV’S now-cancelled hit show SAY-WHAT-KARAOKE in 2000, and THE BEST OF SAY WHAT KARAOKE in 2001

2. HIS FAMILY STILL CALLS HIM BY HIS ISLAMIC NAME “IBN”(pronounced Ii-Ben) GIVEN TO HIM AT BIRTH BY HIS BLACK MUSLIM FATHER, HALIM ABDULLAH

3. HE WAS SUSPENDED IN THE 6TH GRADE FOR 10 DAYS FOR SETTING A GARBAGE-PAIL ON FIRE.

4. HE WAS PARALIZED FROM THE WAIST DOWN FOR 6 MONTHS AT THE AGE OF 2 AFTER A FAILED EMERGENCY SPINAL TAP.

6. HE CANT MULTIPLY PASS THE (5x) FIVES-TIMES-TABLE (SERIOUSLY).


What’s your favorite five?

Posted by the young people's professor on 6/09/2005 at 12:02:00 AM |

Wow, who would have thunk you had Islamic heritage. Bigger Wow, contestant on a MTV.And Karaoke go figure. I used to watch that show. Whammy Wow, paralysis as an infant. Now that my brother is inspiration. You never cease to amaze me. As always in parting, I came in Peace and in Peace I leave.

Posted by Blogger The Divo | 6/09/2005  

You've rendered me speechless yet again Frankfurt

Posted by Blogger Dubbed As Trent Jackson | 6/09/2005  

I will fight you over Morris Chest..Nut. Please believe it. He wasn't all that hot during the Boyz N Da Hood days but when he walked into Soul Cafe in the best man I was sold.

anyway I will be reading that essex hemphill at your rec

Posted by Blogger jb | 6/09/2005  

cool lists.

Posted by Blogger The Humanity Critic | 6/09/2005  

Hey Professor(rememba that?)I too love Vin Diesel,Foucault,and lists.The MTV thing just added a whole other layer to you.what's that 1,000 now?I was surprised you did not include Basquiat.

Posted by Anonymous Anonymous | 6/09/2005  

Amen on Morris Chestnutt...I don't eat chocolate...

But there are always exceptions...**fans myself**...

u definitely have good taste...

Posted by Blogger Quaheem | 6/09/2005  

Since we are talking about five favorites.

1. My mothers cole slaw. its hte boom

2. Staying on a rainny day with lots of food and cuddling. if no one to cuddle just eat like a pig

3. Chocolate ice cream. yum, ym,

4. Board games

5. Talking to my close friends about absolutly nothing and having of the feeling that we talked about the world.

BTW. I would also like to be on an Elevator with Vinn Diesel. just him and I. Stuck yeah stuck for hours. LOL> i am ashamed of myself

Posted by Blogger Stone | 6/09/2005  

I completely don't understand the fascination with Vin Diesel...he's so bland like albino-ish. But I love the lists, you continue to add dimensions to your fab self.

Posted by Blogger @GaryTylone | 6/09/2005  

cool lists, frank..and you can't have Vin..he's mine! lol! you and holiday..i can give you gary dourdan and djimon hounsou and the two of you can have at it..but vin is mine! lol!

you are quite multi-dimensional..which is great.

sidenote: i may be in town for interviews again the end of this month, i.e. june 25th through the first weekend in july..if everything goes through, weneed to meet up for coffee or something. :)

Posted by Blogger Ryan Canty | 6/09/2005  

YOU ARE A BEAUTIFUL BROTHER.

Posted by Anonymous Anonymous | 6/09/2005  

It is a knowledge of fire and beauty that I will carry beyond the grave. When I sit in GOD's final judgement, I will wager this knowledge against my entrance into the Holy Kingdom. There was no other way for me to know the beauty of Earth except through the sexual love of men, men who were often more terrified than I...

Loyalty by Essex Hemphill

Posted by Anonymous Anonymous | 6/10/2005  

Ok, I'm gonna fight you for all those pictures...Privately it's just because I have not mastered posting pics yet!

Love this post Superstar!
Holla on the blog!

Posted by Blogger The Foxybrown Show | 6/10/2005  

multiplication is overrated. that's why man invested calculators.
(said by a fellow PhD who only knows his 2s, 3s, 5s and 9s).
::: eyes the stack of multiplication flash cards he brought from Barnes & Noble :::
:: sucks teeth ::

Posted by Blogger Larry D. Lyons II | 6/10/2005  

nation not sunni?

Posted by Blogger Kima Jones | 6/10/2005  

Ah Ha! I knew there was a thread there to why I felt connected and drawn to you as a person, part of it was that we are both from Islamic backgrounds. No wonder you are as great as you are...Nice, but there's much more to come for you and this is only the very beginning.

Posted by Blogger Troy N. | 6/10/2005  

LOL... you too have a sordid MTV past, huh? I went to both MTV VJ auditions back in the day... first time I actually made it to some preliminary round thing where I had to do all these video intros... but I didnt make the cut.

They were looking for something zany, and that was the year that Jessie (that tall goth crazy slow talking kid who said he was homeless in cali... while in reality, his dad was a professor at the university of hartford... lol)

I did make it to a couple commercials... I introduced a brian mcknight video, and criticized him for not having a personal trainer before doing a bare chest scene in a video... lol

Posted by Blogger prodigalsun | 6/10/2005  

oooh that's a hard one. and you'd think i could come up with at least SEVEN. okay let's see... here are my five favorite things:

1. my smile, my personality, my creativity, my hands, my life.
2. jada pinckett smith, oprah, sean combs, destiny's child, lloyd boston.
3. watermelon, bananas, mac & cheese, buffalo wings, salads.
4. water, white wine, orange juice, POM juice, pineapple-cran mixture.
5. photography, blogging, event planning, creating from nothing, meeting new people.

Posted by Blogger C.R. Knight | 6/11/2005  

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