February 2010
94 posts
January 2010
46 posts
“I can’t feel my face!”
– wordsandsteel, walking out of frozen daiquiri shack Bourbon St., hour 4 of her b-party.
W&S, you are made of win.
(via schwartzy)
I’m glad you remember me so fondly…
Accord
schwartzy:
Y’all, can we talk about how I <3:
1) the partner I’m working for right now, who told me “dont lose sleep over this [deliverable]” (sic)
2) the two gayboys sitting across from me on the C train reading comic books
3) lady gaga (yea I’m still on this. What?)
4) tequila!
5) Timbo-produced Aaliyah beats (yea I’m still on this. What?) (specifically Are You That Somebody? — right now...
“SPECIAL SKILLS
Singing (Soprano w/ lower belt), Face Contortionist, Burp on...”
– from actress Anne Wersching’s resume [aka, Renee Walker from 24]. Man, I am so in the wrong line of work.
formspring.me question! →
what is your favorite filipino food?
Ooh, this is a tricky one! Let’s see, I love making chicken adobo and kaldereta, probably because I know I can make them well. But I love eating …
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formspring.me
what is your favorite filipino food?
Ooh, this is a tricky one! Let’s see, I love making chicken adobo and kaldereta, probably because I know I can make them well. But I love eating kare-kare, pork sisig, sinkamas, Brazo de Mercedes, and grilled pusit— I just don’t have the time or materials to commit to making these! But I think the absolute, number one best Filipino food...
“Every woman I have ever loved has left her print upon me, where I loved some...”
– Audre Lorde (via steamandcaffeine)
“The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation...”
– Masanobu Fukuoka
favorite appetizer recipes? →
Dear blogosphere-
I’m hosting a small birthday get-together at my house this Saturday. Being a poor grad student, I can’t go too crazy with the food, but I still would like to provide some nice…
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formspring.me
what do you think of weddingbee adding a lesbian couple as one of their bees?
As in, recently? I actually didn’t know about that— I have not read the blog since I left WB as a blogger in summer of 2008 due to their acquisition by eHarmony and the subsequent censoring of my posts as too controversial (aka too queer and focused on silly things like marriage equality). While I read the...
weekend in San Francisco →
As a birthday present for the hubs, the two of us made a quick jaunt up to the Bay Area this past MLK weekend. Good eats and drinks with great company followed, with lots of fantastic pictures…
oh, tumblr
While I’m glad they got rid of that stress-inducing Tumblarity tab, now I don’t know how to work the damn right bar. Ugh, Tumblr. Why do you make it so hard to love you?
Ask me anything anonymously →
I’m probably going to regret this, but here we go.
lowendtheory:
chuffedlittlezombie:
Tumblr, if you don’t help me, these (hypothetical) kids are going to get assigned Jasbir Puar’s book in their first semester in college. Not all of them will make it.
My undergrad mentor actually told me some horror stories about her “unforgivable mistake” of assigning Terrorist Assemblages to her Junior/Senior seminar.
Apparently there was an attempted...
Another help me! question.
chuffedlittlezombie:
Are there any critiques of IGLHRC or queer tourism (or something similar) that would be appropriate for a 101-level class? Or anything else on transnational queerness that you think would be good for an women’s studies intro course?
Just a few:
Dereka Rushbrook, Cities, Queer Space, and the Cosmopolitan Tourist, GLQ 8:1-2 (2002), pp. 183-206
Julia O’Connell...
“The details may be dazzingly colourful in their diversity, but the whole will...”
– Georg Lukacs, “Realism in the Balance”
Lukacs hating on photomontage, Expressionism, Ernst Bloch, etc. What a diva! I love to hate him.
“(The beaver, pursued by trappers who want his testicles from which medicinal...”
– “The Fable of the Beaver,” Selections from the Prison Notebooks, Gramsci
Oh, dear god. My weekend quals readings have just gotten as crazy as I feel.
Manigong bagong taon (Happy New Year)! →
I miss blogging here. So many good eats, so little time.
For those of you still around, I promise there are new blog posts coming up soon!
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Branded as Scholars →
I’m tired of avoiding all the depressing Chronicle of Higher Education articles on the dire straits facing humanities grad students. Instead, I’m going to look at pictures of attractive tattooed professors.
It’s motivation for why I need to finish grad school and get my tenure track job, dammit. Who will hire me with this many large tattoos? :P
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In Timbuktu, a race to preserve Africa's written... →
bonesarecoralmade:
Ahmed Saloum Boularaf is holding a leather-bound sheaf of documents that date back to the 13th century. The manuscript contains a poetic rendition of the life of the Prophet Mohammad, written in the lacy Arabic handwriting of an African scholar who knew how to read before some Europeans even knew of the existence of books.
Like most of the 1,700 manuscripts in Mr. Boularaf’s...
A Decade In Haiku by Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai 2000
plastic angels rise from a west side lawn - guns pop - mourn the daily dead - 2001
hands close the circle we breathe fear as towers fall paranoia kills
2002
wear my hair in braids sweat the night away at clubs come, lean into me —
share our stories now. we are urgent, relevant — we need each other.
2003
scars carved on shoulders ...
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Top 12 of 2009 [music]
Being of incredibly short memory [at least when it comes to non-academic things], it’s been hard for me to remember what my favorite albums of the last year were. Acquiring 70 gigs of music at once this summer also didn’t help matters, as I was inundated with music (some new, some just new to me) in a very short amount of time.
All that being said, here are the top twelve...
excuse my insanity
Just so you all know, those last two posts were triggered by searching for online reviews of a Rodarte for Target dress I just bought. Why I needed reviews, who knows. Why I kept searching after I saw that first video of the kid, I don’t know. Why I then posted those two things for all of the Tumblr-verse to see, I can’t say, really, except that I thought others may benefit from my own...
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so that kid?
from the previous video? Is a 12-year-old fashion blogger who is beyond adorable and precocious. It warms my heart, truly.
From this Chicago Tribune article…
“She’s only 13, but Tavi Gevinson has the fashion world enraptured,” gushed Harper’s Bazaar in the introduction to a column Tavi penned, making her the youngest writer published in the magazine. Like a...
Library of Congress Puts Thousands of Historic... →
Nearly 60,000 books prized by historians, writers and genealogists, many too old and fragile to be safely handled, have been digitally scanned as part of the first-ever mass book-digitization project of the U.S. Library of Congress (LOC), the world’s largest library. Anyone who wants to learn about the early history of the United States, or track the history of their own families, can read and...
When Allies Fail →