.. cultures that don't stress the individual over the group, loners and outsiders, linguistics, poetry, urban education, power to the people, projecting my emotions onto my cat, sustainable local economies for urban centers, my kids: past present and future, things you make with your hands, inclusive public spaces, thoughtful conviction, "love and logic" tactics, my inability to idealistically conform to the capitalist work ethic, breaking the rules to make something better, creative curriculum that draws on pop culture, aw hell naw, urban lonliness, breaking my consumption addictions, determining to solve the problem, finding the humor in it, panache, let's get out of here, revolution disguised as reform, the morning Strawberry letter, making it better, human dignity, America's Funniest Home Videos montages, wondering if loving some forms of color-matching means I have been totally indoctrinated into capitalism, discovering beauty in the mundane, zumba, misadventure, pretty much anything choreographed, quiet time alone, sentence diagraming, feeling neutral about people I don't know so don't take it personally because then you will upset me too i'm sensitive and we will never like each other, planning, quiet observation, never the same outfit, harmless excess, dancin, doing exactly what you say I can't, undermining whiteness unconditionally, obsessing over details, thank god for the block, kitties, making up themes for everything (especially outfits), talking to myself when i'm in the house alone, getting over, thank you but no thank you, word that is actually bond, creating order in a world full of chaos, running jokes, they look like stripper shoes but we like that, it's okay cookie: don't crumble!
Музыка
Juvenile, TI, Destiny's Child, Ghostface, Jay-Z, Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, Scarface, Biggie, Marvin Gaye.. anyone who's smooth-talking or can convey pain and party music in general (except nobody listens to techno).
Фильмы
Jackie Brown, House of Mirth, Giant, Half Nelson, The Barefoot Contessa, Dame La Mano, Baumbach's Kicking and Screaming, Out of Sight, ATL, Roots, the Dirty Dancings, Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, Clueless, Paid in Full, The Company, Reckless, Boomerang, Casablanca, The (original) Big Sleep, Eve's Bayou, Menace II Society, 25th Hour, Waiting to Exhale, Noises Off, Good Will Hunting, 21 Grams, West Side Story, Rushmore, Honey (yes), Sin City, Cooley High
ТВ
Supernanny, Girlfriends, The Wire, All of Us, Law and Order SVU, Project Runway, Soul Food, Boston Public, Twin Peaks, Different World, Scrubs
Книги
There are No Children Here, House of Mirth, Revolutionary Suicide, Not Without Laughter, Little Women, Clockers, The Corner, All God's Children, Am I Black Enough for You, The Hood Comes First, Savage Inequalities, Honky, and pretty much anything else about racial identity or education reform.
Кумиры
Pierre Bourdieu, Huey Newton, Dan Eldon, A. Phillip Randolph, David Simon, Barbara Ehrenreich, Alex Kotolowitz
University Of Missouri-Kansas City
Kansas City, MO
Закончил: N/A
Ученая степень: Master's Degree
Специальность: Curriculum and Instruction/Secondary certification, English
2007 до настоящего времени
University Of Missouri-Columbia
Columbia,Missouri
Закончил: 2006
Статус студента: Выпускник
Ученая степень: Bachelor's Degree
Специальность: photojournalism
Второе образование: Black studies
Клубы: A Way With Words and Numbers
Я хочу найти: PSA: One Simple Way to Avoid Being "That Dude"
Trust me, this is for your own good/ego. Messages that don't ask women something regarding their profile info are insulting and bely a lack of creativity or willingess to read 2 minutes worth of text--not sexy. They shall be ignored, along with your totally random friend request. :)
hello dear friend. certainly you are still fabulous and smart, but i think i need to see you just to be reminded of how much so. valentines will come and maybe go, but girlfriends are forever. ♥ dinner or lunch sometime next week?
Hey, I did a lecture at a college today and some professors took me out afterwards. But I wanted to wish you the best! I wanted to make you a personalized birfday card, but lacked the technical know-how (even though I had the images). Here it is. I'll try my best to write this weekend!
But Olbermann, through a spokesman, was complimentary of his first time being mocked on "SNL" — a position his MSNBC colleague Chris Matthews has been in over the years.
“I’m not Sarah Palin,” Olbermann said. “I know how valuable it is to me. And it’s funny. "
I went to school thinking I would do sports broadcasting because of Keith. I'm torn on this one.
P.S. Useless nugget, Matt Damon took a black chick to his prom and got into beef with some Boston townies. Working on putting that into Wigger Please once I get confirmation.
where are you? for you, and only you, i am willing to donate my entire harry potter box set along with brand spanking new twilight books... answer my calls dag nabbit. we already got kicked out the band, now what.
my new job starts tomorrow... sitting around with puffy feet waiting for the baby to come. If you are looking for a swollen friend to kick it with, I'll be here. :)