Monthly Archives: July 2010
I’m proud to be associated with you
I know, I know, it’s not quite Friday yet. But I love this song, so let’s celebrate a day early: Le Tigre, TGIF (lyrics are included on the YouTube page.) Also, Le Tigre is holding a karaoke contest! Details here.
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Saddi Khali asks us to embrace the beauty in our bodies
At first glance, I fell in love — with Saddi Khali’s photography. Last week, the former HBO Def Jam Poet friended me on Facebook and I was so taken by his portrait above, “Heaven, Home…” I decided to cast away LSAT tutorials today to do some clicking through. This portrait is in his Facebook album [...]
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NOM swears it preaches love, yet threatens violence
As Vanessa mentioned on Tuesday, this summer, the National Organization for Marriage, the anti-marriage-equality group famous for their unintentionally hilarious “Gathering Storm” commercial (which spawned many parodies), is running something called the “One Man, One Woman” bus tour. The month-long tour, according to NOM’s press release, “will stop in key battleground areas of the marriage [...]
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What We Missed
NPR is petitioning (against Fox News) for a front row seat at the White House Press Briefings. Lady Gaga is scheduled to play in Arizona on Saturday, just two days after a watered-down (but still problematic) SB 1070 goes into effect. Fans are lobbying her to cancel the show. There was a huge oil spill [...]
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Mainstream media outlets ignore people of color