Author Archives: anida
“All Muslims Are Terrrorists” Except that 94% are NOT!
check this report out. I am reposting this from Planet Grenada’s blog.
A couple of interesting links:
From Loonwatch: All Terrorists are Muslims… Except the 94% that Aren’t summarizes an updated FBI report of terrorist acts on US soil. As you can see for yourself from the above pie graph, among the counter-stereotypical results are: 1) Only [...]
RIP. Fashion is Dead.
R.I.P. Steve McQueen. 40 years young and one of the most daring fashion designers to grace our world. May you continue to grace catwalks in the next world with more innovation and pizazz.
another reason to hate ‘Twilight’
It’s sad that this generation has been sucker punched into loving the ‘Twilight’ vampire series of books. Forget that another book with a similar title was written by Anna Deavere Smith many moons ago. Her book was a collection of stories/monologues from the LA riots in 1992 and one of the first to humanize Korean [...]
killin’ me with cuteness
yes – they’re real…not stuffed animals.
16 panda cubs posed for a photograph with their keepers at Wolong National Nature Reserve, in Sichuan Province, south west China.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1248678/Panda-monium-Sixteen-panda-cubs-pose-class-shot-day-nursery.html#ixzz0f6gcTQ6g
dumb professor
This little short is called “Dumb Professor” by Randall Park. It made me LMFAO! Maybe it’s because i’m at this elitist institution where tenure is golden.
Fashion No Go Forward
oh god – wtf – there’s ugly then there’s fugly! lots of misses coming out of Paris Fashion week for the Spring 2010 line:
Karl Lagerfield is doing retro-mickey-mouse-in pastel for Chanel. we all know that classic Chanel like Mickey Mouse only looks good in b&w.
Then there’s Jean Paul Gaultier appropriating Mexican Sombrero’s into his line. [...]
Red+Melted Face=Acceptance Speech
Performance Art is so coming back! Karin Dreijer Andersson of Fever Ray receives the prize for the years best dance artist at “P3 Gold” in Gothenburg. This acceptance speech/performance blows Lady Gaga out of the water. This woman has a melting face underneath her veil. Now i’m not sure if this commentary is related to [...]
50 Most Racist Movies of all Time
spoiler alert – guess what’s the #1 most racist film? i didn’t come up with this list, just saw it:
The 50 Most Racist Movies of all time.
In Solidarity with Haiti
i always turn to poetry to help me grasp with reality. this is a poem by Lenelle Moîse.
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BECAUSE JOHN DOE IS NOT A HAITIAN NAME
d
a rotting smell
where the school once stood
a hungry shrill
where the guava tree grew
last night before the earth
ate port-au-prince
a bleeding orphan was
somebody’s baby
& that somebody
was pretty or plain
& that somebody
was saucy [...]
thank you pritzker prep/noble st. charter school
today young people with hungry eyes reminded me why narrative work is important, why i started to write, why it’s still compelling to me. simply put… because no one else can tell my story…because everyone has a story to tell and everyone’s story is worth telling!
