Archive for September, 2006
Friday, September 29th, 2006
“you’re the only ones who obsess on that”
From Lott: Bush barely mentioned Iraq in meeting with Senate Republicans, by CNN’s Ted Barrett: WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Bush barely mentioned the war in Iraq when he met with Republican senators behind closed doors in the Capitol Thursday morning and was not asked about the course of the war, Sen. Trent Lott, R-Mississippi, said. [...]
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Sunday, September 24th, 2006
Massive Attack and Ani Difranco — bringing us the realness.
My vacation ends tonight. But everything’s O-K. I spent 5 days in Albuquerque and northern New Mexico with my inspiring friend Andru and with the moutains and hikes of the most beautiful state in the continental U.S. And… last night I saw Ani DiFranco make music and poetry at the Orpheum. And… tonight I was [...]
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Friday, September 22nd, 2006
Gentrification pontification
From “Sometimes I feel like I’m the only one Trying to Gentrify this Neighborhood” in The Onion: When I moved into this neighborhood, I fell in love right away. Not with the actual neighborhood, but with its potential: It’s affordable, there are nice row houses all around just waiting to be filled up by my [...]
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Thursday, September 21st, 2006
the secret night of science…
Sometimes I really miss NYC. This, from Simon Reynolds’ Blissblog: DB and DJ Clever have a new night in New York debuting this Friday, September 22, at Love, 179 MacDougal Street and 8th Street. It’s called The Secret Night of Science and the concept is the return of “sexy jungle” (no noisy shit, no MCs–”we’re [...]
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Thursday, September 21st, 2006
Hijab Scene # 7
No, I’m not bald under the scarf No, I’m not from that country where women can’t drive cars No, I would not like to defect I’m already American But thank you for offering What else do you need to know relevant to my buying insurance, opening a bank account, reserving a seat on a flight? [...]
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Wednesday, September 20th, 2006
the 5th “Erase Racism” carnival…
…is up at Black looks. Awesome. I’m still reading through the various submissions, but here’s an intro from Sokari (author of black looks): The 5th Carnival Against Racism and the 1st to be held in the African blogosphere. It hasn’t been as simple as I had thought largely because some of the American terminology and [...]
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Wednesday, September 20th, 2006
“So…we need to make it legal”
Stephen Colbert has an excellent piece poking fun at Bush’s need to “clarify” the US’s use of torture. Click on the photo to check out the clip, presented on Alternet’s Video blogs section. A fire quote by Colbert: “Everyone knows that President Bush is one of the world’s great clear thinkers…. Torture is illegal. The [...]
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Thursday, September 14th, 2006
by the time i reach albuquerque…
…those are some lyrics from “by the time i get to phoenix” by engelbert humperdinck, a man my parents and my brother and I loved back in the day when we used to listen to “oldies” together, all the time. They’re from a sad song, but these are happy times. I’m heading to New Mexico [...]
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Thursday, September 14th, 2006
“So, we’ve run into a bit of resistance…”
You went to PS 163, which you’ve dubbed the Alfred E. Neuman School, and you started the first animal rights society they’d ever seen. I’m curious to know, how old were you then and what inspired you? I can’t even remember what it stood for, but it was called the BSPTA, and I was like [...]
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Wednesday, September 13th, 2006
“I knew i shoulda chose a life of crime”
Check this out — there’s a great NPR segment on Nellie McKay, a singer-songwriter whose works I stumbled upon later than everyone else in this country, it seems. I’m dying for her to perform here in Los Angeles soon! For the other 3 of you out there who didn’t know much about her, here are [...]
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Monday, September 4th, 2006
the roots of music censorship.
“The turn to death themes in the spirituals was partly due to the execution of Nat Turner in 1831. Soon after, many songs included references to the coming ‘Judgment Day’ for the plantation regime and, later, for the Confederacy–’Can’t stand the fire.’ Turner’s rebellion also sparked a movement that spread white Christian missionaries across the [...]
