Real (Negro) Housewives?

So I'm catching up on Project Runway (who's sweeter than Heidi???) when I see an ad for the new Real Housewives. I had heard that the new season would feature ladies from Atlanta -- at least boring, if not tacky -- but I didn't know that many of them would be black! I had lost hope for any diversity on this show when they managed to do a New York series without any African-Americans...

If you hadn't heard (as I hadn't) that there would be some color on the ATL season...now you know! I can only hope the women are simply fabulous, rather than ghetto-fabulous as their bling might suggest. Indeed, with the setting being Atlanta, the crown jewel of the Southeast, even the white people have jheri curls so this should be a fun season.

To Bravo -- BRAVO!

Birds and the Bees

So I'm walking along the sidewalk in Brooklyn one afternoon and I see -- wait for it -- two birds having sex on the sidewalk. It occurred to me then that while several animals have a reputation for lustiness, that was the first time I'd seen two birds in the moment and frankly, despite the fact that "the birds and the bees" is a time tested euphemism for learning about sex, it doesn't make any sense. Shouldn't it be "the dogs" or something?

It being Brooklyn and all, I'm sure that wasn't the first time that spot on the sidewalk had been used for intercourse, but I can't help but think, maybe that was the first time birds had ever used it for such. What happened to their nest, anyway? I guess even birds need to spice it up every now and then.