• If this picture is any indication, I'm going to be able to watch Derek Luke playing Puffy in the Notorious with a straight face. [C&D]

• Nas explains some of the more "coonish" things that famous blacks have done. Oddly, he doesn't include naming an album Nigger in that list. [Bossip]

• Why did Samuel L. Jackson get cut from Ironman? [MTV]

• Sean Hannity is a disgusting man. [NH]

• Usher likes being a grown-up. [CL]