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“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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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

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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.

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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. [...]

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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 [...]

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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!

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in considering the direction of my work:

1. clothing is my second skin
2. there is no way to experience the performance other than to experience the performance—Matthew Goulish
3. diaspora
4. this place. displace. displacement. place. placement. cement.
5. tradition. identity. change.
6. afraid is a country with no exit visas—Audre Lorde
7. think multiplicity

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Hello world!

in my old bedroom in my old house. not been my room since senior year highschool. my baby girl breathing hard. sleeping in shifts. 2nd shift now. usually 2 more until the big wake. i should really sleep but this blog set up has been a long time coming.

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Tonite’s Performance @Chicago Cultural Center

This year’s Site Unseen received the Reader’s Critic’s Choice write up.
Our piece is on at the top of each hour and lasts 50 minutes.
see you soon,
anida
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 15, 2006
“Say That!” (an ensemble butoh dance piece)
featured performance as part of “Site Unseen 2006″
6-9pm (FREE!)
Chicago Cultural Center (2nd floor/The Chicago Rooms)
77 E. Randolph Street
Chicago, IL
Say That!
(Say That! [...]

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