Some Tweets hit too close to home.

Marc Maron was looking for suggestions for guests on his awesome podcast, WTF. So I piped in suggesting myself. As many of you know, I was on last February with my good friend and comedian, Dwayne Kennedy --- who was only on the episode because he (nicely) drove me there... And because Marc knew him. We spent most of the time talking about "the black thing" --- Marc's words. And we never got to do that whole now classic WTF my life story that includes Marc apologizing to me and/or me telling him that I used to think that he was a jerk thing. It was a lot of fun, but looking back I miss not getting to do my whole Inside The Actor's Studio thingy. So I sent him a (slightly) snarky tweet suggesting myself. And here is how he responded...

Touche... and ouch!

Some tweets backfire. Some tweets hit too close to home.

For the record, I never did think Marc was a jerk, nor did he need to apologize... UNTIL NOW!

Just kidding.

If you wanna hear my episode of WTF, you can get the WTF Pod app for your iPad or iPhone. Or you can go to WTFpod.com an dget it there. I think it costs money now... Because it was THAT good... also it was one of the first 50... before Marc went all Ira Glass/Carlos Mencia/Ray Ramano/Louis CK/Blaine Capatch on us.

#SinceBushForgaveKanye... We can all have fun

First of all, why did Kanye apologize. That was one of the few media blow-ups that Kanye has had that I was actually totally with.

(Although when he said it back in 2001, I was stupidly hyper-critical of his word choice. "Doesn't care about" seemed kind of like soft selling it to me. But now I realize that if it had been me on live television deciding to NOT read the teleprompter and go rogue to try to blow up G Dub's spot like that, I wouldn't have been nearly as eloquent. Especially not with all those visions dancing though my head of me getting audited every year for the rest of my life.)

Second of all, did Kanye mean to apologize? According to his Twitter feed, Kanye got caught up in Matt Lauer's baby blues (not that I know what Matt Lauer's eye color is, but blue seems right), and apparently Kanye just said whatever Matty Nice wanted him to say. Which for a dude who always seems comfortable bum rushing and going off in whatever direction his lips take him, it seems weird that Matt Lauer is his Kryptonite.

Thirdly... of all, WHY THE FUCK DID GEORGE BUSH FEEL LIKE HE WAS HIGH ENOUGH ON THE MORAL HIGH GROUND TO BE IN A POSITION TO FORGIVE KANYE???...

Ummm... George, Imma let you finish, but... YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE. You proved that during Katrina. And I no it doesn't count that you used to own a few. And, just in case you didn't know, you also don't care about poor people, Iraqi people, Afghan people, non-born again Christian people, gay people... In fact, in the aggregate, it would seem you don't really care much about... people people.... Unless they are rich, born again Christian people.

But I digress... READ THE REST OF THE BLOG AT THIS WEEK IN BLACKNESS

& Now for something completely different A WKB CONTEST!!!

Hello people!

So I'm trying something new at WKB Industries. I'm working hard to get people to come out to my NYC shows, so instead of just asking (ummm... begging) for your help. I thought I'd make it a little more fun for you! A CONTEST!!! If you tweet about my upcoming shows in NYC, you can win a copy of my new cd, Face Full of Flour, autographed by yours truly with some other swag thrown in for fun (stickers and maybe even an inappropriate picture or two). All you have to do is talk about my shows on Twitter (using the hashtag #TheCurve) and a link to my Facebook invite (http://ow.ly/1KjHJ). I’ll choose a winner at random on May 24, once the shows are over!

A few rules:

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3. Only one tweet per day will count. We don’t want to spam all of your followers.
4. Please mention me too if you have space: @WKamauBell

Here’s a one hundred and forty character example:

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