Playing Cards Is Good For You

Don’t forget to have fun, whatever that means to you: drinks, games, staying home, watching a film, sleeping etc…I love playing cards. It was our favorite thing to do during free periods in middle & high school. Winning that Rick James tournament senior year is one of the best things I’ve done in my life, deadass. Sara Tam introduced the game to the entire grade and we were hooked. I have to ask her what it’s really called, we changed the name after that iconic Chappelle Show episode with Charlie Murphy (RIP).

Cards also remind me of my grandmother, who always had a deck on hand. To this day I haven’t mastered shuffling a deck the way she could, an underrated skill. I don’t know if it’s the finger dexterity, or what I need to fix because every time I try cards go flying! FYI there are cognitive, creative, social and stress reducing benefits to playing. What’s your favorite card game? Via: Cest_Jeanne

Updated: 9/20/2024 11:03pm

James Versus James

James Brown versus Rick James, both legends in their own right. Granted the “Godfather Of Soul” is a whole different level of icon, they were both phenomenal entertainers. Still, when drugs were involved they were both equally scary. James Brown having a bad PCP addiction, once stormed into a seminar he believed was his hotel room, holding all participants at gunpoint, demanding to know “What the hell they were all doing in his bathroom?” All before a police chase, across state lines until the wheel popped off his car and still he kept going. Once the car went kaput, he exited the vehicle to perform for the officers who cuffed him promptly afterwards. Amongst other things.

Rick James was known to be volatile under the influence of cocaine. A hell of drug, as he stated in his Dave Chappelle episode with Charlie Murphy. Boy isn’t that true. James and his then girlfriend Mary Saugar, held a woman hostage for days, assaulting her with a cocaine pipe and forcing her to give oral sex, amongst other things.

So the question is, which rockstar would you be less afraid to party with? The Godfather Of Soul or Rick James…Bitch? A question that’s plagued my mind for years. Photos: Getty Images and Rick James Official