Monday May 10, 2004

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Saw "Super Size Me" and "Lipstick & Dynamite, Piss & Vinegar: The First Ladies of Wrestling" over the weekend.

Gonna buck the trend and say that "Lipstick & Dynamite" was the better of the two. More when I can articulate why....

Friday May 07, 2004

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Just started reading the book "Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word" by Randall Kennedy which has me chewing on the provocative relationship between words, identity and society.

Any way you look at it, the "N" word is ugly, racist and inflammatory. But Kennedy poses some jarring questions: how is it different when Ice Cube uses the word in a song as opposed to...
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cybele:
Context, context, context. (I'd contribute more, but I've a BITCH of a headache right at the moment. Ooops.)

Randall Kennedy is great...

Thursday May 06, 2004

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New playing in this sandbox. Are the other kiddos friendly? Let's see, shall we? EL SUICIDO LOCO Holy christ, I have NO friends! Somebody, anybody?!? kiss
cybele:
I thought you weren't lookin' for no pity, bub??
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