Stuff White People Like #94: Talking About Stuff White People Like

Fourth most e-mailed on the Globe website today?"10 things white people like" , featuring a photo of the man himself, Canadian (he's ethnic, it's ok for him to make fun of white people) Christian Lander.

In case you've been living UNDER A ROCK for like three weeks, Lander runs Stuff White People Like, a hilariously on-point blog that makes you feel uncomfortable in the way funny things should. He scored a book deal with Random House. Can't wait to see that unwrapped in the family Yankee Swap.

Unfortunately, Lander seems to be following shark-jumping formula, nudging forward a subtle format change the day after he announced his book deal. Yesterday's was a "White Problems" entry dedicated to how much white people like talking about whether or not children should drink wine. Careful, man. One thing white people don't like is things other white people liked a month ago. And talking about how they read it when it was funny.

Update From the sticking it to the man department

Melonie Griffiths Evans didn’t need another protest. Evans, who successfully protested her Dorchester home’s foreclosure January 23, postponing eviction until February 1, settled with U.S. Bancorp Thursday evening, before her scheduled Friday morning demonstration.

The bank agreed to negotiate with Evans on loan repayment for her two-family Semont Rd. home.

At 9:30 Friday morning, Evans stood on her porch in red sweatpants and slippers with Steve Meacham of City Life/Vida Urbana, a Jamaica Plain-based grassroots community organization that organized her protest. A table of coffee and Munchkins sat outside for well-wishers.

Evans was happy, but seemed unsurprised; she never even started packing. City Life meetings, she said, gave her confidence. “It’s like something happens to you when you get in that room with a bunch of people going through the same thing,” she said.

Evans bought her home with a loan from U.S. Bancorp at 8.5 percent interest. When interest increased to 12.5 percent, Evans defaulted on the loan and called City Life, which maintains affordable community housing and works with homeowners to fight foreclosures.

Also on the porch was Andre Myers, whose three-family Norfolk St. home in Dorchester is City Life’s next protest subject. If they succeed, Myers’ home will boast a yellow “Anti-Displacement Zone” sign from City Life as Evans’ does.

Meacham pointed to a United for a Fair Economy study released January 15, blacks and Latinos are three times more likely than whites to have subprime loans; 55 percent of blacks’ loans are high cost, while only 17% of whites’ are, according to federal data.

As Meacham left the porch, Evans descended to the driveway to bring in her trash barrels, her home her own again.

“It’s a war,” said Evans. “We’ve got one down.”

“One down,” said Meacham, “and 3,498 to go.”

lactose tolerance at all-time high

Well, it’s all good in the hood(sie)…Toscanini’s in Central Square reopened Friday

after its government seizure Thursday Jan. 17 for nonpayment of over $160,000 in state taxes.

They've proven that when you make delicious treats, you can do whatever the fuck you want in terms of business practice.

Owners Gus and Mimi Rancatore (bro and sis) had ice cream maker Sam Mehr quickly create savetosci.com, a site where normal folk could donate cash to the ice cream gods in hopes of helping them make a down payment to the Department of Revenue (DOR).

Wouldn’t you know it, by Friday they had over $30,000…and lots of comments, mostly either praising the Rancatores for their community activism or accusing them of shady business practices.

dated like the 1984 encyclopedia at your parents' house

On Monday the 21, Mitt Romney honored Dr. King's memory with a totally CrUnK pop culture reference at an MLK parade in Jacksonville, Florida. Trying out some of the new focus-grouped "black" material...on people clearly too young to vote.

If you watch past the Baha Men tribute, there's a small payoff at about 2 minutes 30 seconds when Romney tells a tiny baby he's got some "bling bling" going on.

Tastes better than shock therapy, but not as good as gay marriage

Tuesday, January 22--that's tomorrow--from 2-4 p.m., state legislators and staff will vote. On the state's best cookie.

Dead legit serious dude, it's an annual event sponsored by MassVOTE to thank local election officials for all their hard work counting hanging chads and asking you your address and whatever, by giving them cookies. You know, like how you thank Santa Claus, who you pretend does work, even though most people know he really doesn't.

I think the most absurd part is that there are two hours set aside for this. And it ends at 4, which means NO ONE is going back to work afterwards. It reminds me of when you'd have classroom parties in first grade for Halloween or Patriot's Day or some shit, and the teacher would try to pretend that the party would start after lunch and end at 1, but you knew it was really going to go until the end of the day, and that the teacher sort of wanted it that way.

Mike's Pastry, Dancing Deer and Greenhills Irish Bakery are all submitting their wares. State House visitors get to vote too. Fuck MLK day, take tomorrow off and hit this up. Teachers, if you're looking for a day to bring your kids on a State House field trip to show them a typical day, well yeah I guess tomorrow would be alright.