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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
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. [...]
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
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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!
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.
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! [...]
OCT 25 BOOK LAUNCH & READING
i’m not doing too many poetry readings anymore so here’s a rare chance to see me with some other fierce muslim women!
come out and celebrate the launch of this new anthology:
VOICES OF RESISTANCE: MUSLIM WOMEN ON WAR, FAITH & SEXUALITY
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
California Clipper, 1002 N. California, Chicago
Doors open at 8:00 p.m.
Reading begins at 8:30 [...]
ANIDA’S UPDATE // Fall & Winter 2006
i finally have time to update folks on what’s happening in my life.
thank you for your continued support of my work. after months of traveling i will be in chicago for most of the fall as i get myself ready for the next phase of my life – Grad School!!! yep i’m taking the plunge [...]
