Prerogative

This album was released only a mere five years after Spears first released ...Baby One More Time. While it is somewhat common for artists to release compilations after four studio albums (compare with Madonna's The Immaculate Collection), Spears released her hits album before she turned 23 years old. This age is considered young for an artist to release a greatest hits album (compare with LeAnn Ri

The Allowance Issue - Promotion of Ethics or a Privileged Prerogative? - Are you struggling with the issue of allowances for your kids? Do the questions of 'how much', 'how often' and 'what for' frequently spiral through your mind? Are you arguing with your kids about these issues or contemplating the potential of a frustrating discussion that hasn't even taken place yet? If so, you're not alone.

One of the brightest R&B stars of the late '80s and early '90s, Bobby Brown was the man who popularized new jack swing, a blend of classic soul, urban synth-funk, and hip-hop rhythms that often featured rap breaks in between the conventionally melodic verses and choruses. Guy's Teddy Riley may have been new jack's greatest innovator, but Brown was its greatest hitmaker, crossing over to pop audiences with his blockbuster Don't Be Cruel album and thus making new jack swing the dominant trend in R&B through the early '90s (which, in turn, helped kick start the solo careers of his former bandmates in New Edition). As R&B tastes changed, Brown became better known for his private life than his music; a sometimes rocky marriage to Whitney Houston and a series of run-ins with the law kept him in the tabloid headlines for most of the '90s, even though he wasn't actually recording much music.Brown was born February 5, 1969, in Boston, and began singing with Roxbury schoolmates Michael B

Actually, blogging is nothing but prerogatives, isn't it? So I guess I'm being redundant.I promise that I am not turning Thursday Night Gumbo into one of those blogs that consist largely of reports on how the blogger is feeling and pictures of his pets. But, here is a picture of our newest pet. And I feel like posting it.We have dogs and guinea pigs and tropical fish, too. So our taste in pets is not (quite) as unconventional as it looks. But we did recently acquire two specimens of Tenodera aridifolia sinensis -- Chinese mantises. (To be accurate, we acquired a couple of hundred specimens, as they hatched from an egg case, but we released all but a couple into the backyard.)They've been fun to watch growing up, if somewhat expensive to support. As hatchlings, they eat fruit flies, which, ounce for ounce, cost about the same as caviar. Now, blessedly, they're big enough to like houseflies and moths, of which we have an adequate free supply.They're engaging little creatures. They c

Download People can take everything away from you But they can never take away your truth... But the question is, Can you handle mine? They say I'm crazy I really don't care That's my prerogative They say I'm nasty But I don't give a damn Getting boys is how I live Some messy questions Why am I so real? But they don't understand me I really don't know the deal about my sister Trying hard to

" People can take everything away from youBut they can never take away your truthBut the question is..Can you handle mine? "- Britney Spears.Since we coexist among homophobes, straights, allegedly straights and gays in denial; we have faced some pretty frustrating moments and other fun ones. The dates we actually get laid with swing between hot and passionate ones to the what-the-hell-am-I-doing-here ones. When it comes to embarrassing moments in public or with friends, we can remember a long list of funny things that would entertain us even before we share it with others. Being gay makes you always see the world in a different perspective than others, since you are in touch with your inner self as well as having your systems always alerted (either for hunting other men or paying attention not to blow your cover for those group of people who would really disdain you if they knew). How much can you venture? How honest can you be? How would it be, if you were in my shoes?It was early Aut

Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine @ allmusic.com Greatest Hits: My Prerogative appeared at the tail end of a year where Britney Spears was married twice, canceled a tour, injured her knee, lost the movie role of Daisy Duke to rival teen pop diva Jessica Simpson, was a punch line in Fahrenheit 9/11, and had countless paparazzi shots of her drinking and making out in public. It was enough