October 2009
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“To me this film would be as awful and haunting as cell phone videos of real...”
– Julianne Hing, on the new film ‘Precious,’ over at ColorLines.
Pastor Molly preached on this last year, acknowledging that although she consumes it and although media violence may not beget real violence, there is a “soul-shaking disconnect” between the “real violence...
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YouTube Comment or e. e. cummings? →
From McSweeney’s:
1. loog a his lirow nose 2. there is some shit I will not eat 3. LISN bud LISN 4. this i bad sorry to saY 5. leave her alone she’s not your gal 6. She is Lucifierian ! 7. THuNdeRB loSSo!M iN 8. aThe):l 9. stunned. i. am. stunned. every question speaks to us 10. What is nothing?
Click through for the answers. [via Boo]
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“In the annals of American slavery, this painful story would be utterly...”
– Sends shivers up my spine to read that line. Coincidentally, I re-listened to Zadie Smith’s extraordinary lecture at the NYPL from the last winter – both pieces call me to reassess, somehow, my understanding of how race is constructed in America. Can the times really be changing, even if only...
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“Polanski was not actually arrested like a “common terrorist” [as in...”
– Can I get an amen? Jezebel via Ze