tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71249857423473701702011-04-21T17:12:23.083-04:00Ana Gorgonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17761473627460752391noreply@blogger.comBlogger351100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7124985742347370170.post-11971650391328801432009-01-27T23:29:00.003-05:002009-01-27T23:33:20.054-05:00

I have officially started classes again. Soon I will be inundated with readings and papers and such. And in that spirit, I present this:

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Today is finally the day.It's been too long. Come back to me, baby.

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So I was going to write some deep, introspective analysis of my feelings about this day, about how every time I take a step back to think about what just happened today... it's overwhelming. I was going to give it a title like "Dear Barack Obama: A Letter from a Person Clinging to Hope." But then Jay Smooth had to go ahead and say it all and say it better. So I'm going to save myself some

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Via Feministe, I found out about another way to signal an end to the Bush years--with a view of my shoe. Organized by Lisa at My Ecdysis, I am joining other bloggers and borrowing a page from Muntader al-Zaidi, the 29-year-old Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at Bush to demonstrate his anger at the destruction that the US invasion and occupation of Iraq has inflicted. And here it is.Muntader

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About five years ago, I was listening to the radio and I tuned in partway through the program. I could tell that they were broadcasting a speech and that it was one I had not heard before. The speaker explained why he opposed the Vietnam War, and it took me many minutes before I realized that it was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.Because, while I had learned about him and the civil rights struggle

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Stonewall just sent me this list from Harper’s Index. Since I’m already gearing up for inauguration day tomorrow, it seemed like a good time to recall the fuckedupedness of the past eight years. You should read the whole list, but here are a few that jumped out at me, for various reasons:Number of news stories from 1998 to Election Day 2000 containing “George W. Bush” and “aura of inevitability

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If I never hear another stand-up comedian deliver a joke that starts "You know what's the difference between men and women?" it will be too effing soon.That is all.

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ABC has a new show called "What Would You Do?" and I hadn't even seen promos for it. I'll admit that I was drawn to it because of another show with the same name that I was very familiar with once upon a time.But this show is creeping the hell out of me. Here's the premise: the show's producers create artificial situations using actors who break social rules or commit major transgressions.

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It would seem that while I was drinking bubbly and counting down the seconds to 2009, the illegality of the war in Iraq took on an additional dimension. I'm nearly two weeks late to comment on this, but it's disturbing enough to be worth a mention.On January 1, according to an article by Bruce Ackerman and Oona Hathaway, Congress' authorization for the war in Iraq expired. Bush had not sought

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It's not just because of my massive student loans that my ears perk up whenever I hear people talking about anything related to debt. (That's a very big reason, but not the only reason.) It's intriguing how you can't talk about debt without getting caught up in a whole web of issues: morality, justice, fairness, retribution. The ties that bind you to your creditor/debtor are unlike any other

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If I feel like I've manage to establish some sort of direction for my life over the past few years, it's because of the people that I've been lucky enough to have in my life. I'm not trying to make this sound like a Hallmark card, but I'm genuinely grateful for having met the mentors who have helped me figure out who I want to be and how to get to that point.And it's often felt like an accident.

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I can't help but feel that it's no coincidence that I completely dropped off the face of the blogosphere as soon as the school year started and I was up to my ears in master's-degree-getting. But it's a new year--and I'm out of class for the next couple of weeks--and I am re-inspired. I make no promises (to my very small audience) about whether I will continue to blog. I'm commitment-shy like

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I'm home from work today, and while flipping through channels, I've come across one of the most atrocious things I've even encountered on TV--even on MTV. They are doing an hour-long promo for the premiere of the show, Exiled, tonight. Apparently, it's a spin-off of the Sweet Sixteen series, where they take the same spoiled brats previously featured, and ship them off to faraway countries. And

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The following is at the request of Stonewall. He would like me to let the record show that he has a theory about the US presidential elections. He believes that, come November, Barack Obama will win by a landslide and that it won't even be close. And that any suggestion by the media that this will be a close contest is an attempt to boost their ratings by creating drama and suspense.

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Someone else must've seen that. I turned on So You Think You Can Dance, and what should I see. The guy who just danced disco (Gev), during the rehearsal segment, was wearing a t-shirt with an emblem of one of the famous Abu Ghraib photos, the one with the hooded man standing with his arms slightly apart. And across the front of the hooded man's silhouette was a stained American flag. I'm sure

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I decided to break out my iPod on the subway today, tuning into the podcast NPR Driveway Moments. I don't know how long this particular radio story had been languishing on my iPod, but I am glad that I finally got around to it. It's long, almost 25 minutes I think, but completely engaging.The host asks him whether he was afraid of dying, and while he did say that he really did not want to leave

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It was a long day at work, and I'm just wrapping it up now. I watched Hillary and Barack give their speeches tonight, and my Washington Post news alert in my email inbox confirms it: Barack did it. The nomination is his. I'm almost too tired to process this, and I'm exhausted just thinking about the months ahead. How many times we're going to rehash the same-old-same-old nonsense, about

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LOST was AMAZING tonight. I was in a trance for hours.Some thoughts and questions:Sun and Jin have always been my favorites, and I have argued endlessly about whether he was dead or still alive on the island. The scene where the freighter blew up broke my heartI totally called who was in the casket! I knew all along that it was Locke! Although the events of this season did cause me to

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This is interesting. MADRID: When she was appointed Spain's first female defense minister in April, the aspect of Carmé Chacón that drew the most public attention was not her gender, nor her rapid rise through the ranks of the governing Socialist party, but her prominent prenatal bump.Chacón, who began leave Tuesday after giving birth to a boy, became an instant symbol of the Socialist

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Sometimes, I am overcome by the strength of my affection for Charlie. There are peaceful moments, when we sit together in silence. I am at the kitchen table, holding a cup of hot coffee between my hands, and he looks over at me with sleepy eyes and a handsome face. I remember all the times we've fallen asleep together watching TV, or the times he's waiting for me when I come home from work.

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I am currently in love with the song "No Air" with Jordin Sparks and Chris Brown. But check out the video about 4min20sec in -- Jordin's nose ring switches sides!You have to get up pretty early in the morning to pull one over on me.

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I just finished watching You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train, the biographical documentary about the life and ideas of Howard Zinn. It has inspired me to re-read A People's History of the United States... sometime very soon. My reading list has ballooned to a daunting number, so I might need to re-shuffle the order and move it closer to the top.My first encounter with Howard Zinn was as a

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Let me start off by saying that I have supported Barack Obama since the beginning of this whole election process. The first time I found out who he was -- with his speech at the 2004 Democratic Convention -- I was intrigued. I kept tabs on him every now and then, and I read first his book Dreams from my Father and then The Audacity of Hope. (I was much more impressed by the former.) He has

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Do you know what really sucks? If you get that notification email from Netflix saying, "Thanks, we received Movie X on this date." And then you have the thought, "Hey, I don't remember what's next on my queue. I hope that it doesn't suck." But you don't take the time to log into Netflix to make sure that Movie Y doesn't suck and that you don't need to maybe switch it to Movie Z. And then a

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So yes, this is a little behind schedule. But I do have something to say about The Real World: Hollywood, which I have indeed been keeping up with.What is up with the girls in that house? Yes, I'm talking about you, Kim and Sarah. And I'm not even talking about "Ghetto"-gate from a couple of weeks ago. It seems that on every episode, they have something mean and judgmental and snarky to say

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I saw this little beauty at a Barnes & Noble today. I'm looking over the table with all the new non-fiction, and this title jumped out at me. I don't know if it was the bright pink or the jaw-dropping misogyny. Don't Be That Girl. Which girl, exactly? The author proceeds -- as far as I can tell -- to list out all of the "typical" behaviors of women that he finds pathetic and unappealing.

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Look, it's the CSI guy!

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I saw this article today from the Times in the UK, listed on Racialicious. I have renamed it, because that seems to be what the writer is going for -- so why not make it clear. And maybe that's what Rebecca Walker is trying to say as well -- she obviously harbors resentment for her mother's choices and statements. But the author certainly has some strong definitions of an earlier generation of

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This blog post is at the request of Stonewall."Politics is not a team sport." -Chris Matthews, May 6, 2008.For some people, it's all about the ego.UPDATE:"Regular people want to know that you share their enemies." -Chris Matthews, May 6, 2008.Who are my enemies...? I must not be a regular person.

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Another big primary night, and I'm thinking about skipping the TV coverage and going out to dinner with Stonewall instead. But I'm watching now.Chris Matthews just asked someone about whether the Jeremiah Wright issue didn't have as much impact as "some people would have hoped." Yeah, like you, Chris?And speaking of Jeremiah Wright, I caught his interview with Bill Moyers on PBS last weekend.

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I watch Grey's Anatomy, and I'm not going to lie, it's one of my favorite guilty pleasures. But I just caught up on last week's episode ("Piece of My Heart") and there was a line that jumped out at me. When Izzy is talking to the HIV+ woman who has just found out that she's pregnant and wants an abortion. And yes, the point is that Izzy does a terrible job of explaining to the woman that with

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For a little fun and nostalgia:

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Watching a segment on Paul Farmer on 60 Minutes... Since reading Mountains Beyond Mountains a few years ago, my first reaction to anything having to do with Paul Farmer is always positive. But I'm instinctively suspicious of how 60 Minutes might decide to portray him and his work and the issues....pause to finish watching the segment...My first thought is that I sorta want to read Mountains

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To pick up on something I sorta said yesterday, the blogosphere is a really freakin' ugly place. I spend a lot of my time on the internet reading blogs, letting one entry lead me to another, reading through peoples comments -- generally weeding through it all. And "weeding" is a fairly apt term, because there are definitely some weeds out there, clogging everything up. No doubt, part of it is

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This isn't the first blog I've ever had, just the first in a long while. I lost interest years ago, after having had some unsettling blog-related experiences that convinced me that maybe the blogosphere wasn't for me. And now I'm back and I'm looking forward to starting fresh. In the past few years, and especially in the past few months, I've been reading other peoples blogs more and more, and

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