By Kim Voynar Voynar@moviecitynews.com
Favorite Things: The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl
Last week, I pointed you to Barbie dolls with a magic vibrator. And that was some kind of awesome, right? Right.
This week, I’m turning you on to another one of my favorite things, The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl! I swear, every episode of this web series made me laugh out loud. It’s bookmarked as one of my go-to sites for when I need a break, or a laugh, or when I’m trying to write and totally blocked. I love how J, our heroine, is so flawed and normal and, well, awkward. I especially love how she pens angry rap lyrics as a means of getting rid of her anger and issues. Her awkward raps crack me up.
When I’m pissed at someone and meditation and/or Xanax hasn’t helped, I tend to go the route of either writing angry letters that I then delete rather than email, or I’ll take a hot bath and imagine the person I’m pissed off at as the victim in a particularly cheesy and bloody horror movie. Imagining the object of your irritation being chainsawed or having their brains eaten by zombies is great for de-stressing yourself. But if I had a gift for writing rap lyrics, or if, like J, I didn’t so much have that gift as think I had it, I would for sure give that a try.
Here’s the first episode for your end-of-week chuckle. You can find the rest of the series on the Awkward Black Girl site (though I tend to watch them on YouTube because they load faster for me there). Enjoy.
Hat tip: Thanks to Ava DuVernay for tipping me off to this bit of fabulousness via Facebook.
P.S. I should have mentioned this earlier, but Awkward Black Girl is the brainchild of Issa Rae.