March 2011
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Dianne Wynne Jones 1934-2011
I read a lot when I was a kid but I rarely ever re-read books. One of the few that I did read was Dianne Wynne Jones’ Howl’s Moving Castle, a book that was made famous by the beautiful film adaptation by Hayao Miyazaki.
I never really read about the death of a celebrity or famous person in the news and feel something real, a connection, an intangible something or another that I long...
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GEOPOLITICS IN FIRST-PERSON SHOOTER VIDEO GAMES -... →
Interesting piece over at Sociological Images about this map that
was created by a group at Complex to illustrate the way that the changing actual political landscape can be seen in the nationality of villains in video games.
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Being Male and an Asshole = Worthy of Our Time
(via missworld)
But really though…Charlie Sheen, Chris Brown, etc….how are people justifying the WALL TO WALL Charlie Sheen coverage…? Who knows what’s going on in Libya? Who can quote Charlie Sheen? …WOMP
….aaand cue Lupe Fiasco’s Words I Never Said:
If you turn on TV all you see’s a bunch of “what the fucks” / Dude is dating so and so blabbering...
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Watch Colbert: The Word - Neutral Man’s Burden,
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart won best late-night comedy at Comedy Central’s first annual Comedy Awards.
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I still don’t understand why people like The Daily Show over the Colbert Report. Colbert is funnier, better written, smarter, better structured, more sharp and incisive as opposed to Stewart’s jacking off to...
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Settler Colonialism and the Imagined Indigenous... →
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When one lives in a settler-colonialist state, when one is ashamed of or conflicted about one’s settler privilege or the actions of one’s ancestors, it can appear to be emotionally simpler, easier, to identify with an indigenous viewpoint. “If I had lived then,” so many of these books and movies say, “I would have done differently. I would have been on...
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Watchwherestheoffbutton:
Asian Jenna Baby: “Excuse me G.I., do you miss your girlfriend? I’m good at math.”
Jenna: “So it’s not offensive.”
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Watching the second generation of Skins makes me...
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Dear Chris Brown, Shutapppp. and go away.
In which the always awesome Jay Smooth tells Chris Brown to shut up. The only thing missing from this video is a joke about his hair….but really though…
Also, this great piece from The Loop that asks
It’s not about being on so-called Team Breezy. 1 in 4 women are victims of domestic violence in their lifetimes. These women are out there and not all of them are celebrities like...
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“Flail if you need to”
– beautiful advice from a friend
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Okay Jon Stewart, I See You Calling Obama Out on... →
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Things We Had When New York Was A Union Town →
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Condemned to Joy →
Interesting read. Cotains such gems as:
This belief in our ability to will ourselves happy also lies behind the contemporary obsession with health. What is health, correctly understood, but a kind of permission we receive to live in peace with our bodies and to let ourselves be carefree? … Yet by trying to remove every anomaly, every failing, we end up denying what is in fact the main...
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Have You Heard the One About the Art Scene... →
In which the Village Voice takes time to appreciate the comedian as artist
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'Limitless' asks a surprisingly relevant ethical... →
“Someone was saying these [people on mental-enhancement drugs] will be the leaders of the world. But the leaders of the world come up with creative solutions. The way the drugs are being conceived seems to be about processing information faster. And that’s a very narrow way of thinking about it. Creative thinking comes out of failure, out of spacing out, out of staring at the wall...
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Sitcom premises are just a work in progress:... →
Interesting read about “post-premise comedy” and changes in TV writing.
Like some form of comedic Darwinism, the basic premise that launched a TV series often is nowhere to be found a seeason or two down the line as the show morphs into whatever it might need to be to survive and flourish
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This is cold, brilliant comedy, intellectual and hyperactive, which has no time...
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Ten Crunk Commandments for Re-Invigorating Hip Hop... →
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NYTimes: Don't Call Me, I'll Won't Call You →
Yo I’ve been saying this for years! I hope this is an actual trend and not just a new-york-times-people trend… Me and phones just don’t get along..
Phone calls are rude. Intrusive. Awkward. “Thank you for noticing something that millions of people have failed to notice since the invention of the telephone until just now,” Judith Martin, a k a Miss Manners, said by way of...
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Film To Watch: I Will Follow →
I recently saw this blindie (black + indie, lol yes that just happened) film over the weekend and I really enjoyed it. The film is in limited release in select theaters around the nation and due to its popularity, the theaters have extended the dates of the showings so go check it out and help spread the word.
Read what the folks over at Bold As Love had to say about “What’s the...
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re/write:: thoughts on a. wallace & asian am... →
Easily the best response there has been to the “Asians in the library” video and its many responders.
miswritten:
callin you out on your bullshit.
[*i use the term ‘asian american’ here for convenience, not because i don’t have issues with how the term itself is constructed (exclusions of southeast asians, south asians, erasures of the differences and different positions of “asian”...
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I miss you (and by you I mean me)
I really enjoy blogging but I haven’t done it in a while.
So I’m going to do this thing where I try to do the things I enjoy.
Let’s see how it goes.
