The folks at VH1’s blog invited Lil Wayne’s fans to e-mail in their questions about love, sex and relationships. They got over 3,000 queries from lovelorn hip-hop fans. Check out Weezy’s first round of video advice here.

Did I say awesomeness?

From the Associated Press (via WWL-TV):

An income tax break worth up to $1,000 for some Louisiana households, at a cost to the state of an estimated $300 million, has won final legislative approval in the state Senate.

Tuesday’s 38-0 vote in the Senate sends the bill to Governor Bobby Jindal, who is expected to sign it. The tax cut would take effect January 1.

Blue Dog or no Blue Dog, Congressman Charlie Melancon says he supports the Senate version of the emergency supplemental bill. Melancon is a member of the Blue Dog Coalition, a group of 47 moderate –to- conservative congressional Democrats who are concerned with balancing the federal budget.

A recent AP story stated that the group was in favor of cutting $73 million from the emergency supplemental bill, which is to be used for housing vouchers for disabled, homeless residents in the Gulf Coast. Melancon disputes this and says the majority of his fellow Blue Dogs are in favor of the voucher program.

“Most of the Blue Dogs support rebuilding New Orleans under the supplemental bill,” Melancon says. Read the rest of this entry »

We already knew some things about Essence Fest headliner Kanye West’s likes and dislikes. (Yes on Ninth Ward inventor Mr. Quintron’s instrument the Drum Buddy. No on George Bush. Yes on outer space-y, futuristic European synth-pop. No on 50 Cent.)

Checking out his blog today, we learned he is also a big fan of artsy chairs. Lots of artsy chairs. Who knew? He may have collaborated heavily with Lil Wayne on Weezy’s latest, Tha Carter III (out today), but he’s hardly your run-of-the-mill hip-hop blingster. Seriously, could you picture Diddy sitting his bespoke-clad booty on this? Neither can we.

NAGIN’S CABINET GETS SMALLER: Kenya Smith, one of Ray Nagin’s longtime top aides, announced his resignation. He’ll be gone next week…

WEATHER MISERY: Floods in Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, and Indiana kill at least 15 people. And it’s hot in New York and Washington D.C. Like, beyond New Orleans hot. Scattered power outages, suspended service on the PATH trains, etc…

MEDIA MISERY: US News & World Report, its ad sales tanking (down 32%!), announces that it’s going from a weekly magazine to a twice-a-month publication schedule…

BILL’S GIRLS: Former French Quarter resident and saloon singer Gennifer Flowers (now relo’d to Vegas) has teamed up with another alleged Clinton inamorata, Paula Jones. Their joint project? A tasteful, not-at-all exploitive website called “Two Chicks Chatting,” where you can watch streaming online videos of the two of them discussing the former president’s body parts. The vids are all yours for $1.99 apiece, a low, low price for such high, high class.