January 2010
One does not like to generalize about so many...
tobia:
EMMA, Jane Austen (1996 Reinterpretation/Adaptation)
Relapsed Gangster?
“Yizo Yizo Actor Arrested” screamed the newspaper headline on the cardboard poster stuck to a lampost on Louis Botha Avenue. Immediately I knew it was Israel Makoe. Call it intuitiion. A journalistic hunch. A gut feel sucker punch. And at the same time I hoped it was someone else.
A few years back I wrote a story about Israel and how the reformed gangster had turned his life around and was now...
The Overwhelmingly Unreasonable Expectations of... →
lovealesia:
Remember the alternative. Save the hysterics for 2012.
If I had to label myself politically I’d be a progressive with radical tendencies. I realized a few years ago that I am not a liberal. I sure as hell am not a conservative/republican. However I hold an equal amount of disdain for liberals as I do conservatives. Whoa, maybe not equal - I suppose the hearts of liberals are in...
The only animals I like are the ones that's mah...
I was up in arms the other day when my friend put up a status on her facebook then put the disclaimer “I’m not being racist I’m just bigging up my people.” it was strange to me that she felt apologetic about talking about black issues… That people tend to call you racist when you talk race or show that you are race conscious. When I saw that mind diverted to how cagey and argumentative some...
Kevan Hall Talks about Plus Women in Fashion
curvycouture:
The Washington Post has a great article in today’s paper about the debate of plus size women in fashion. The Post addresses the recent debate of model sizes, V magazine, and celebrity sizes. They post also talks with L.A. based designer Kevan Hall who created the gown that Gabby Sidibe wore to the Globes. He has worked with a lot of actresses who are not the typical hanger and...
“Now, because I was raised my entire life to try to avoid conflict, and to take...”
– dalida
dalida:
bonesarecoralmade:
On May 8, 2006, the South African Judge Willem van der Merwe ruled that ANC leader Jacob Zuma was not guilty of the rape of Fezekile Ntsukela Kuzwayo, the daughter of his late friend Judson Kuzwayo, his fellow prisoner on Robben Island who died in exile in 1985. Zuma did not deny having sex with her, but claimed since the victim wore a khanga, a wraparound cloth,...
Japanese weirdo
That’s IT! I can never be famous. Nothing is more crippling to me than the feeling of eyes on me. Let me alone in my shell please! Oh Gosh, will I be one of those strange, hermit academics, who stay holed up in their papered offices, just churning out journals? Is that me? やばい! Ok, maybe not. I think I’m not grumpy…too happy clappy sometimes. I need to work on that melancholy...
