The "N" word.
It's been the topic of conversation on tv lately thanks to Michael Richards' faux pas.
So black leaders and enternainers and others have joined together to call a ban on the use of the word n****r.
Now, I hate this word.
I can't even use it.
I've tried, and it makes me feel physically ill.
This isn't cos I'm so great.
It just is.
I've often thought that it is used way too much and that it is damaging no matter who uses it or in what context.
If I didn't think about it, I would gladly support a "ban" on the word.
But...
I don't think you make things go away by banning them.
You give them power.
But at the same time, I think everytime the word is used an angel loses it's wings (sorry for the metaphor - it just popped into my head).
But ban it?
I think it's way cool if folks just stop using it.
If it just kinda fades and loses it's power that way.
But I don't know about coersion.
I truly don't know where I stand on this issue.
What do YOU think?
Our new puppy, Stella, and I were out for a walk and she sniffed Phillip Glass' leg.
So I say "Stella, stop sniffing Phillip Glass' leg"!
It was pretty funny.
He lives half a block from us.
We see him almost everyday.
For those of you who like poetry (shudder), here is a funny thing:
It's from a series that Francis Heaney wrote called
If Poets Wrote Poems Whose Titles Were Anagrams Of Their Names
Is A Sperm Like A Whale?
William Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a sperm whale, sperm?
Thou art more tiny and resolute:
Rough tides may sway a sea-bound endotherm,
But naught diverts thy uterine commute.
Sometime too fierce the eye of squid may glint
And make a stout cetacean quail;
Methinks 'twould take much more than bilious squint
To shake thee off the cunning ovum's trail.
Yet still thou art not so unlike, thou two,
Both coursing through a dark uncharted brine
While fore and aft there swims thy fellow crew;
And note this echo, little gamete mine:
As whales spray salty water from their spout,
So with a salty spray dost thou come out.
So who's sexy and funny as shit?
That would be Saeta!!!!!
Hokaaaayyyyy....
JUST WONDERIN:
1) Who's the best drummer of all time?
2) What's the best chinese food place that delivers to you?
3) Have you read Angela's Ashes?
4) Meg Ryan or Meg Tilly?
5) Whatcha got down there? Airstrip? Shaved? Wild and woolly?
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2) What's the best chinese food place that delivers to you?---king's garden in cranston, RI
3) Have you read Angela's Ashes?---no but I've seen the movie. does that count for anything?
4) Meg Ryan or Meg Tilly?---the old version of meg ryan
5) Whatcha got down there? Airstrip? Shaved? Wild and woolly?---completely waxed...PERV!
1) Who's the best drummer of all time? Me, Duh.
2) What's the best chinese food place that delivers to you?Happy Garden Chinese fooooood
3) Have you read Angela's Ashes? Way to copy Jeopardy!
4) Meg Ryan or Meg Tilly? Meg Ryan but only When Harry met Sally and before.. with the exception of that one movie where she played a raging drunk and Andy Garcia was her husband.
5) Whatcha got down there? Airstrip? Shaved? Wild and woolly? I just got waxed this week.. I hate body hair.