A really snarky friend of mine who is an NPR junkie once remarked that she didn't think black people really listened to the Tavis Smiley show. She figured the show was on the air to give white liberals something to pat themselves on the back about.
Reading between the lines of this letter, I think Mr. Smiley is saying pretty much the same thing. If that's the case, I admire his willingness to walk away and spend his energy and talents elsewhere.
Poster #6 is pure genius.
Earlier this term, the campus film society here showed Deep Throat to a packed house. It was fantastic. Nothing like 300+ undergraduates giggling in unison at a cheesy, '70s dp scene.
Good luck.
I stay away from danger, danger stay away from me
I kind of react on y'all niggas and then I flee
Whatever you say is a mirage
And on top of that, huh, nigga fuck y'all
I'm the law of the land, got girls Uncle Nuggah
I gagagaga got girls on the command
I got the government lost on Gilligan Island (Nigga Please!)
By December, CIA gettin' paid taxes back
From the Candy Cane, Santa came, back in the big hurricane
You ain't shaggy anymore D8, I ain't in your ballgame
I became, ain't your doggy bag ho same
You gotta make Ol' Dirty a better man
In the world if you wanna live
Fuck y'all, God don't forgive
I don't answer phones
I'll never reveal the Wu-Tang secret, and if you don't believe
I'll kill your shit
"The people of Illinois rendered a very clear decision on Tuesday by handing Alan Keyes the greatest election defeat in Illinois Senate history. Barack Obama's attention is focused on the important work he now must do for all the people of Illinois."
Translation: Don't feed the troll.
Please do not foul this thread with talk of the lothesome Cubs.
Before this series, my favorite moment of the season was watching Nomar bat into a double-play in his first at-bat as a Cub.
Absolutely beautiful.
Joe Torre was asked in the postgame how he thought Steinbrenner was going to react to the loss. "He'll be disappointed," he said.
You don't say.
I live on the south side of Chicago. I'm a white guy, but I'm poor, so I take public transit a lot. One night, I was waiting for the bus around 12:30 after a concert. Everyone at the bus stop was black, working guys finishing up a night shift, and the streets were empty. After a while, a pickup truck filled with rednecks pulls up to the stoplight in front of the bus stop. They're playing classic country, Willie Nelson or something. The guy in the passenger seat turns to his buddies, grins, rolls down the window and cranks the volume. For what seems an eternity, they sit there with the music blaring, literally echoing off the buildings around us. Then the light changes and they squeal the tires and head off to Indiana or wherever.
Several uncomfortable minutes pass. Then one of the guys standing with me turns and says, all hesitant-like: "Man, do y'all actually like that music?"
This commercial kinda reminded me of that.
Hear, hear, el_hombre.
Though this proposal does creep me out a bit, it's only because of the potential for the sort of backlash demonstrated here.
There are still people alive who survived a wholesale systematic attempt at genocide by the Germans and abettted by anti-semites in Poland, Austria, France, etc etc. The ongoing presence of anti-semitic violence in Europe and the Arab world attests to the fact that special attention ought to be paid this most pernicious of ideologies.
Do other groups deserve similar monitoring? Sure. Are Jews worldwide in a precarious position, I'd say yes. Does the U.S. government have a right to call the French and others on the carpet for the anti-semitic sentiments expressed routinely by their citizens? Absolutely.
It's not a zero-sum game, folks.
As if Thabo Mbeki's moral cowardice were not enough, now the African tinfoil hat brigade get another august spokesperson.
Adherence to this obstinate myth makes good post-colonial political sense, but it is bad medicine. Where these people could be using their platforms to speak out vocally for cheaper (or S. Asian generic) anti-retroviral therapies and aggressive funding for public health, they are instead building shallow pan-africanism on the backs of the dead and dying.
The Nobel Committee should revoke her prize.
Come on skrik, we're talking about literary theory. As far as I'm concerned, if you're not building things, you're already a fraud.
Within the fraudulent game of shuffling words on paper, Derrida was an undeniable master. I have been reading his essay "On the Name" for literally 5 years. It's an engagement with Plato's Timaeus that relates late Platonic metaphysics to Derrida's own theory of language.
I don't understand this essay, nor do I expect that I ever will. But it has undeniably enriched my reading of Plato. So I guess I'd vote to put away the broad brush and to discuss the man with charity on the day of his death.
A really snarky friend of mine who is an NPR junkie once remarked that she didn't think black people really listened to the Tavis Smiley show. She figured the show was on the air to give white liberals something to pat themselves on the back about. Reading between the lines of this letter, I think Mr. Smiley is saying pretty much the same thing. If that's the case, I admire his willingness to walk away and spend his energy and talents elsewhere.
posted by oligopistos 19 years ago
In "Inquisitive Imp: Pornography Club."
Poster #6 is pure genius. Earlier this term, the campus film society here showed Deep Throat to a packed house. It was fantastic. Nothing like 300+ undergraduates giggling in unison at a cheesy, '70s dp scene. Good luck.
posted by oligopistos 20 years ago
In "Squeek squeek squeek ahhhh."
I want those three minutes back.
posted by oligopistos 20 years ago
In "Sock Full Of Bees"
Meh. Tell me when they make "Condom Full of Bees".
posted by oligopistos 20 years ago
In "R.I.P. O.D.B."
I stay away from danger, danger stay away from me I kind of react on y'all niggas and then I flee Whatever you say is a mirage And on top of that, huh, nigga fuck y'all I'm the law of the land, got girls Uncle Nuggah I gagagaga got girls on the command I got the government lost on Gilligan Island (Nigga Please!) By December, CIA gettin' paid taxes back From the Candy Cane, Santa came, back in the big hurricane You ain't shaggy anymore D8, I ain't in your ballgame I became, ain't your doggy bag ho same You gotta make Ol' Dirty a better man In the world if you wanna live Fuck y'all, God don't forgive I don't answer phones I'll never reveal the Wu-Tang secret, and if you don't believe I'll kill your shit
posted by oligopistos 20 years ago
In "Tanks against US citizens? Freedom?"
Video is mirrored here.
posted by oligopistos 20 years ago
In "What is killing Arafat?"
IBD?
posted by oligopistos 20 years ago
In "Yasser Arafat: "clinically dead"?"
Hopefully "clinically dead" means "no longer able to dispatch 16 year old boys to Tel Aviv to blow themselves up"...and "regular dead" means rotting for an eternity in hell.
posted by oligopistos 20 years ago
In "Alan Keyes has yet to comprehend why he lost."
"The people of Illinois rendered a very clear decision on Tuesday by handing Alan Keyes the greatest election defeat in Illinois Senate history. Barack Obama's attention is focused on the important work he now must do for all the people of Illinois." Translation: Don't feed the troll.
posted by oligopistos 20 years ago
In "From New Age to Abu Ghraib:"
Wait, when was goatse ever our friend?
posted by oligopistos 20 years ago
In "This FPP intentionally left blank"
Surely not these blue pills, f8x.
posted by oligopistos 20 years ago
In "They're going all the way..."
Please do not foul this thread with talk of the lothesome Cubs. Before this series, my favorite moment of the season was watching Nomar bat into a double-play in his first at-bat as a Cub.
posted by oligopistos 20 years ago
Absolutely beautiful. Joe Torre was asked in the postgame how he thought Steinbrenner was going to react to the loss. "He'll be disappointed," he said. You don't say.
posted by oligopistos 20 years ago
In "This damn hp ad always freaks the hell out of me"
I live on the south side of Chicago. I'm a white guy, but I'm poor, so I take public transit a lot. One night, I was waiting for the bus around 12:30 after a concert. Everyone at the bus stop was black, working guys finishing up a night shift, and the streets were empty. After a while, a pickup truck filled with rednecks pulls up to the stoplight in front of the bus stop. They're playing classic country, Willie Nelson or something. The guy in the passenger seat turns to his buddies, grins, rolls down the window and cranks the volume. For what seems an eternity, they sit there with the music blaring, literally echoing off the buildings around us. Then the light changes and they squeal the tires and head off to Indiana or wherever. Several uncomfortable minutes pass. Then one of the guys standing with me turns and says, all hesitant-like: "Man, do y'all actually like that music?" This commercial kinda reminded me of that.
posted by oligopistos 20 years ago
In " US to rate its allies on their treatment of Jews."
Hear, hear, el_hombre. Though this proposal does creep me out a bit, it's only because of the potential for the sort of backlash demonstrated here. There are still people alive who survived a wholesale systematic attempt at genocide by the Germans and abettted by anti-semites in Poland, Austria, France, etc etc. The ongoing presence of anti-semitic violence in Europe and the Arab world attests to the fact that special attention ought to be paid this most pernicious of ideologies. Do other groups deserve similar monitoring? Sure. Are Jews worldwide in a precarious position, I'd say yes. Does the U.S. government have a right to call the French and others on the carpet for the anti-semitic sentiments expressed routinely by their citizens? Absolutely. It's not a zero-sum game, folks.
posted by oligopistos 20 years ago
In "AIDS "a plot""
As if Thabo Mbeki's moral cowardice were not enough, now the African tinfoil hat brigade get another august spokesperson. Adherence to this obstinate myth makes good post-colonial political sense, but it is bad medicine. Where these people could be using their platforms to speak out vocally for cheaper (or S. Asian generic) anti-retroviral therapies and aggressive funding for public health, they are instead building shallow pan-africanism on the backs of the dead and dying. The Nobel Committee should revoke her prize.
posted by oligopistos 20 years ago
In "Jacques Derrida, RIP"
Come on skrik, we're talking about literary theory. As far as I'm concerned, if you're not building things, you're already a fraud. Within the fraudulent game of shuffling words on paper, Derrida was an undeniable master. I have been reading his essay "On the Name" for literally 5 years. It's an engagement with Plato's Timaeus that relates late Platonic metaphysics to Derrida's own theory of language. I don't understand this essay, nor do I expect that I ever will. But it has undeniably enriched my reading of Plato. So I guess I'd vote to put away the broad brush and to discuss the man with charity on the day of his death.
posted by oligopistos 20 years ago
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