Monday, December 7, 2009

soothing

As of right now I cannot help but smile at this cover:



Performers are Kacie Sheik, Allison Case and Katie Kiyan from HAIR the musical.

tiring and annoying

The racism "framework", as I like to call it, is about blacks and whites. Seriously. It's like nails on a freakin' chalk board. There are other people who aren't black or white that experience racism.

It's so bipolar it makes me sick.

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

cool

We Real Cool

We real cool. We
Left school. We

Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We

Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We

Jazz June. We
Die soon.

- Gwendolyn Brooks

Friday, October 9, 2009

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

America: Fail

I couldn't agree more on how this article tries to explain how the lack of frugality skewed our perceptions on materialism. Maybe there's too many words being invented by our tech driven society that they forgot such a word as "frugal" existed.

Remember Jack Benny? Cheapness was his shtick; on his radio and television shows he occasionally made hilarious subterranean visits to his money, which was protected by locks, alligators, and an ancient security guard who, from the look of him, had last seen action at the Second Battle of Bull Run. “Your money or your life,” to the rest of us, is Hobson’s choice; to Benny, it was an existential crisis.

Ah, those were the days—a halcyon time when, the Depression still a fresh memory, Americans enjoyed both affluence and restraint. Willy Loman’s refrigerator payments notwithstanding, consumer indebtedness at mid­century now looks like a mere flyspeck, at least from the towering mountain of debt atop which we sit.