Fantastic:
After watching his sister try three times to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee, Sameer Mishra put himself on a mission. “I told my mom I was going to do the bee,” Sameer said. “And if I was going to do it, I was going to win it one day. And I guess it [...]
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Homogenous, Homogeneous
Published May 31st, 2008 in Celebrity, Education, Indiana, Language and People. 5 CommentsMadeline L’Engle died yesterday of natural causes:
Madeleine L’Engle, who in writing more than 60 books, including childhood fables, religious meditations and science fiction, weaved emotional tapestries transcending genre and generation, died Thursday in Connecticut. She was 88. Her death, of natural causes, was announced today by her publisher, Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Ms. L’Engle (pronounced [...]
I drove up to Chicago last night to catch part of Yearly Kos, and met Jill Filipovic and Amanda Marcotte finally after multiple years of online contact. Jill snuck me into a panel Amanda and Jessica Valenti were on called “Blogging While Female” and then got me an attendance bracelet to get into the [...]
Magical Negro Strikes Again?
Published February 28th, 2007 in Advertising, Entertainment, Movies, People and Religion. 17 CommentsObviously I haven’t seen “Black Snake Moan” yet, but I can’t get away from the buzz today. Several bloggers I respect are writing about the website and the trailers (see here in particular), and a particularly nasty discussion about the movie posters has erupted at Salon.
It’s the interview with director Craig Brewer at Salon [...]
Well, isn’t that sweet. I’m still not buying your magazine.
That’ll Do, Pig. That’ll Do.
Published December 13th, 2006 in Assholes, Feminism, People and Pr0n. 4 CommentsConsidering that Joe Francis makes $40 million a year coercing young women to take their tops off with alcohol and peer pressure, it ain’t much. It is something:
The founder of the “Girls Gone Wild” video empire was sentenced to community service Wednesday for his company’s guilty plea to federal charges of failing to monitor [...]
A Congratulations to Mary Cheney
Published December 6th, 2006 in Asides, Assholes, GLBTQ and People. 0 CommentsReally. I agree with this one. Live the dream, Mary.
“Americans will know that, when they buy a diamond, it doesn’t make you an asshole with money, it can make you a person who’s empowering Africans.”
Why, thank you, Russell Simmons. I too find bloodshed, enslavement, and civil war a truly empowering thing for all African nations. I’ll get one today!
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Yo, Macaca, Welcome to America!
Published September 30th, 2006 in Asides, Assholes, People and Politics and News. 6 CommentsThe George Allen Insult Generator
So Dumb It’s Almost Charming
Published September 13th, 2006 in Back In the Day and People. 0 CommentsI don’t know what reminded me of this.
When I was in high school a friend of mine had such a huge crush on a girl that he shook off his beefcake jockboy image and wrote her a poem. It was called “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and had been featured that year [...]
Editorial: The Reduction of Katie Couric
I owe one of my most pleasant learning experiences to Willi Ninja and this blogger, who was once my professor. Ninja was famous for* voguing, a dance form that was practiced in gay clubs frequented by African-American and Latino men in the 80s and early 90s, both immortalized in the movie Paris is Burning.
Dr. [...]
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