Viva La Meme!

Thanks to Steve

for drawing my attention to to this epic rebuttal to right-wing claims of "reverse racism":
"Black Power's Gonna Get You, Sucka"

Would that there were time and space enough in a everyday conversation to draw on this essential list. It requires endurance, but its length is its greatest piece of evidence that racism continues to do more harm to people of color than it does to the white population.


In other news, the ornery old goat that writes editorials on behalf of other ornery old goats in my home town newspaper has come out as a Birther. He's about 6 months behind the curve, but that doesn't dull his sense of righteous anger that the president is black "not a citizen." (Link not yet available to print subscribers).

Flattery Will Get You EVERYWHERE!

I decided to see if the "I write like" function would be less admiring of my writing by taking another sample from this blog. Here is it's revised opinion:

I write like
Margaret Atwood

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

All I've got to say is if one were to ask me to list my two favorite writers of all time here is what I would write, unhesitatingly, in order:

1. Margaret Atwood
2. David Foster Wallace

I believe DFW is the better writer, technically speaking. But I love reading MA. So there you have it people. You are who you read. (Well, maybe more accurately, you ape who you read).

I Hate MPB. I Hate it So Much.

Mississippi Public Broadcasting sucks. 

http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/07/15/4684985-louis-ck-gets-terry-gross-fresh-air-run-out-of-mississippi

The state's only NPR station has dropped "Fresh Air with Terry Gross" for inappropriate content after an interview with Louis C.K. That means one more hour of nothing worth tuning into.

First, MPB sucks. I mean suuuuuccckkkkss. It is easily the WORST public radio programming I have ever been obliged to support. And I have lived in 5 states other than Mississippi. My husband has lived in three other states, and he assures me that he has never been so disgusted with the profound shittiness of the programming on NPR until moving here.

Second...You know what? That is my case. I do not feel the need to present more. I hate MPB. I hate that I can not look forward to Fresh Air. I hate that the sensitivity of a state full of obese rubes is enough to stop me from hearing the comic stylings of Louis CK. Hate. Hate. Hate.

Thank goodness for podcasting.

Hell Yeah!

I write like
David Foster Wallace

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

I couldn't have dreamed of a better interpretation!

New Black Panthers and the right's new Southern strategy

New Black Panthers and the right's new Southern strategy

This is a thought provoking, if brief, analysis of the ways that racism is being redeployed and coming back to the political fore (if it ever retreated). I think it also does some work to help place that God-awful cartoon published in the DM into context.

Cartoon of the Day: July 13, 2010 | The Daily Mississippian

http://www.thedmonline.com/article/july-13-2010-cartoon-day

Jayzuz. What the hell is wrong with this student newspaper?

My head tells me this cartoon is racist. My heart tells me my head is the more reliable of the two and that I should just go with it. But part of me wants to believe that the artist was trying to say something profound. Sadly, once again the general illiteracy of the student body is exposed anew by this stab--and I mean IN THE FREAKIN' DARK!--at satire.

There was also a smug article on why we shouldn't recycle paper because doing so discourages the planting of more trees. But how can I bitch about with this cartoon?

Just Can't Get Enough

for more of the same, go to bluntcard.com

Pretty People Need Love, Too.

Frankly, I'm not embarrassed to admit that this made my day. Eso es amor!

(No thanks to Telecinco for removing the interview from the web, though. To truly appreciate the moment, you have to see Iker go for the gusto).

New Favorite Word

hulksmash, v. to crush with meaty, over-sized, green fists in a fit of insane fury.

As in, "Hearing Sarah Palin talk about the political force of 'grizzly moms' makes me want to hulksmash everything." (Paraphrased from a comment on Jezebel)

I'm going to be using this a lot, I think.

Same Old Song

This is hilarious.  Do as the article says, read it through.

In other news...well. There is nothing to write about, really. The pics I posted yesterday were the bottom of the barrel; I took them back in May. I could show you a bunch of pictures of my now destroyed zucchini bushes, but that will only serve to remind me of the nasty squash vine borers that had to be removed one by one to salvage the sturdier plants. I didn't even participate in the process; instead I stood by sweating in 100 degree noon time heat and watched Tiff take a box cutter to each grub she found. She had the willies, true. But more importantly, she had gloves and the will to do it. I was ready to pull the plants up by the roots and move on from this unfortunate turn of events. She's a garden hero, I am not.

Class is back in session and it's going just fine...there is one woman in the mix who attended the first day, informed me that she will be starting the grad program come August and that she wasn't happy about it. Then she disappeared. Hasn't bothered dropping the class either. Doesn't bode well, I say, not well at all.

I realized the other day while shopping somewhere that I forgot to add one song to my All Time Top 10 Songs. Of course adding it means ousting another, so I'm changing the list title to All Time Top 11 Songs. Please to enjoy:

Look Away!

A few weeks ago I was at a local dive, enjoying a burger with my fella, when my eyes fell upon the following:

 Proof positive that I did not make up the "scissors" hand gesture, Sweet Pickles. Others know. Oh, they know. Scissor me timbers!

I also found this:

Look closely. What do you see? Yup. That's a fruit bowl. Enjoy!

May I Just Say

I love that Queen Elizabeth continues to wear that hat even while touring a factory:

Pictured: The Queen, geeking out 

 Photo by John Stillwell - Pool/Getty Images

Canada Day!

File this under, "You Learn Something New Everyday!"

Funny Man A: "Best Canada Day Ever"
Funny Man B: "'cept for '76. That was one to remember."
Funny Man A: "Weren't no Canada then. The US invented Canada in '77 to house surplus theaters showing Star Wars. It's your classic bigger bang for the buck scenario. This is also how the Canadian rupie became the dollar. True fact."

(Mad props to The Ron for not being afraid to revise history).