July 2008
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isms31072008: wtf?!
my twitter post from this morning:
ohmygodohmygodohmygod: http://tinyurl.com/6brgl9
i’ve finally stopped dryheaving everytime i see this news headline in my feed reader [warning: do not read if particularly sensitive]. it’s pretty horrible - probably one of the sickest, most horrible true things i have ever read in my life.
i’m a horror movie buff. but this… i...
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random examples of racist discourse in the toronto...
i’ve been on an anti-racism trip recently. every once in a while, i become aware of language in the media that makes me incredibly uncomfortable. these are a couple of examples i came across today. these things worry me. my whole life has been spent being othered, and it’s not getting any easier. maybe that’s because “grin and bear it” has now transformed to grit and...
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nas got beef. bill o'reilly puts in his two cents →
reconstruction of an imagined conversation based on media quotes from both parties (with bill o’reilly representing fox news) fffound online:
nas: you are visual cancer
bill o’reilly: really? you are a vile rapper
nas: well, your racist propaganda is poisonous
bill o’reilly: your new album’s a catastrophe
nas: nobody should watch fox news
bill o’reilly: nobody...
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U.S. blacks face harsher climate change impact →
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“Alice came to the fork in the road.
“Which road do I take?” she...”
– Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
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“Am i too humble or ignorant
who’s begun to find some things are important...”
– just one of those days, sizzla
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"War is Halo" - video game warfare
“If you’ve seen combat in the flesh, you know what the fireball on the screen means to the people in the car. But to a teenager raised on Doom and Halo, it looks like just another score. He can’t feel or smell the explosion. He isn’t even there. The eeriest thing in the demo video is the total silence that accompanies the car’s destruction. The only sound that follows...
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summer excerpts from "Of Human Bondage", by W....
“The summer came upon the country like a conqueror. Each day was beautiful. The sky had an arrogant blue which goaded the nerves like a spur. The green of the trees in the Anlage was violent and crude; and the houses, when the sun caught them, had a dazzling white which stimulated till it hurt.”
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“It was a fine summer. Day after day was hot and cloudless; but the heat...
“Never to breakdown never to fall
We won’t keep living with our backs...”
– free, bad brains
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“Of course, it’s a bit of a jump, isn’t it? I mean, er… chartered accountancy to...”
– Monty Python’s Flying Circus
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Andre3000's verse off SpottieOttieDopalicious
As the plot thickens it gives me the dickens Reminiscent of Charles a li’l disco-tech nestled in the ghettoes of Niggaville, USA via Atlanta, Georgia a li’l spot where young men & young women go to experience they first li’l taste of the nightlife Me? Well I’ve never been there, well perhaps once But I was so engulfed in the Old “E” I never made it to the...
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what?what!, my cat, macgyvered her way out of my second-floor window last night. found her this morning soaked, shivering and miaowing underneath a patio bench. brought her back inside to the amusement of office workers on their way to work.
couldn’t run around and do errands today because it’s bloody freezing. why am i wearing a full sleeve turtleneck and shivering in july?! oh...
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youtube+last.fm mash-up! →
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Life Doesn't Frighten Me, Maya Angelou
Shadows on the wall Noises down the hail Life doesn’t frighten me at all Bad dogs barking loud Big ghosts in a cloud Life doesn’t frighten me at all.
Mean old Mother Goose Lions on the loose They don’t frighten me at all Dragons breathing flame On my counterpane That doesn’t frighten me at all.
I go boo Make them shoo I make fun Way they run I won’t cry So they fly I just smile ...
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“Pretty boy, towel your tears,
And robe yourself in black.
Pretty boy, dry your...”
– Blues for X, George Elliott Clarke
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“I thought poetry could change everything, could change history and could...”
– Mahmoud Darwish
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“Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no...”
– - from The Painted Veil, W. Somerset Maugham
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excerpt from Animal Farm, by George Orwell
For once Benjamin consented to break his rule, and he read out to her what was written on the wall. There was nothing there now except a single Commandment. It ran:
ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS
After that it did not seem strange when next day the pigs who were supervising the work of the farm all carried whips in their trotters. It did not seem strange to...
