Today is June 19th. It is "Juneteenth," a sort of folksy black holiday that commemorates the day the Emancipation Proclamation was read in Texas, in 1865, freeing a quarter-million slaves - nearly 3 years after Lincoln did. Those Texans, always on the ball. I'm sure any delay was purely miscommunication.
Anyway, it's kind of a cool holiday in certain segments of the black community; part...
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Anyway, it's kind of a cool holiday in certain segments of the black community; part...
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Saw Fahrenheit 911 wednesday.
Michael Moore lacks the nuance as a filmmaker to dance himself out of his subject but this is by far his most restrained work. The first third of the film will blow you away with the connections he draws between the Bush clan and the Bin Laden clan. The incendiary point made here is not that he's sleeping with theenemy; it's...
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Michael Moore lacks the nuance as a filmmaker to dance himself out of his subject but this is by far his most restrained work. The first third of the film will blow you away with the connections he draws between the Bush clan and the Bin Laden clan. The incendiary point made here is not that he's sleeping with theenemy; it's...
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ilovemikehunt:
i'll check it.
my parents LOVE michael moore
i need to be checking out as many of these sorts of documentaries as i can, considering i am planning on making one. certainly, i need to know what to do, and, more importantly, what not to do.
i want to see that fast food documentary too.
my parents LOVE michael moore
i need to be checking out as many of these sorts of documentaries as i can, considering i am planning on making one. certainly, i need to know what to do, and, more importantly, what not to do.
i want to see that fast food documentary too.
anabel:
thanks for posting a/your review -- i am looking forward to the movie very much and i was hoping to hear from someone who saw an advance screening...
i left you a voice message & an email about the baseball game tonight...yep, i'm stalking you for those tickets if they're still available! heheheheh
i left you a voice message & an email about the baseball game tonight...yep, i'm stalking you for those tickets if they're still available! heheheheh
we just saw pj harvey in a small space.
she is all butch songs, all butch voice and all lovely, girlish, equine body.
with wrath. sinewy, erupting wrath.
she wore a pretty, strapless yellow dress, hair like Karen O's (or that cute housewifey dime from the glad-bag commercials - isn't she on some 'trading spaces' type show?), breasts wanting to squander free, and she sang...
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she is all butch songs, all butch voice and all lovely, girlish, equine body.
with wrath. sinewy, erupting wrath.
she wore a pretty, strapless yellow dress, hair like Karen O's (or that cute housewifey dime from the glad-bag commercials - isn't she on some 'trading spaces' type show?), breasts wanting to squander free, and she sang...
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piperrose:
Shit not half as much as what's goin on in your life.... Just working non-stop... Partying when I can.... Getiing more and more ink when I can.... When are you coming out this way?
piperrose:
Shit I am in Concord... Close enough to sf where we are all gonna be tonight.. You should come meet us... Hemlock in SF baby~~ you like beer right? 
I guess this needs an update. Although for the 4 people who periodically read it, just know that it's gorgeous in new york city and there's hardly any impetus to be indoors and on the computer.
however, it is time, as they say.
i produced a piece on a really excellent group of kids that's airing on mtv monday, if anyone out there has any...
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however, it is time, as they say.
i produced a piece on a really excellent group of kids that's airing on mtv monday, if anyone out there has any...
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anabel:
i missed that. i rarely watch tv. sounds interesting, though. 
piperrose:
What it is.... Its not every day that someone wants to be your friend....am i right?
What it is.... Its not every day that someone wants to be your friend....am i right?
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sweetavenue:
mary is so the hottest girl on sg. she's why i joined, obvs.
love:
Ah, I feel ya on that.
David Banner is one cool motherfucker. Unlike his other rap peers, when it came time to giveaway "golden ticket" prizes with his new CD, he did not give away a Mercedes Benz, a spinning diamond-encrusted G-Unit gold medallion or a trip to Detroit to see Eminem. No, Banner's prize? A college edumacation.
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love:
That's the awesomest thing I've ever heard. 
Yeah I don't like mase to much either, but I like that verse. Have you ever heard him talk in interviews? He talks kind of......slow, like speshul ed slow.
LOL.
Yeah I don't like mase to much either, but I like that verse. Have you ever heard him talk in interviews? He talks kind of......slow, like speshul ed slow.
LOL.
The Army Times has criticized Rumsfeld, one of their own, in a strong rebuke of his actions (inactions?) in the Iraqi prison scandal. They astutely note that the abuse was bred from a culture of neglect for their prisoners, starting with the dispatching of certain rights upon arrest.
Meanwhile, the Arabs, who have now been given their free pass on their own hypocrisy on this...
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Meanwhile, the Arabs, who have now been given their free pass on their own hypocrisy on this...
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It seems utterly bizarre that there are "rules" to war, at least as far as conduct is concerned, but there are. We are all humans. Even the "enemy."
The metatext of the Iraqi Prison Photos is that the soldiers in the jail saw the Iraqis as "the other." Whether the actions of those twentysomething foot soldiers were passed down through the military chain of command...
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The metatext of the Iraqi Prison Photos is that the soldiers in the jail saw the Iraqis as "the other." Whether the actions of those twentysomething foot soldiers were passed down through the military chain of command...
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sweetavenue:
it's fucking disgusting and has been on my mind constantly for days. i don't even know where to begin with what is going wrong over there and here.
what makes me even more insane is all the excuses i've heard people try to give to justify what's going on. it's sickening.
what makes me even more insane is all the excuses i've heard people try to give to justify what's going on. it's sickening.
sweetavenue:
heh. she does look like judy. peaches isn't what i'd call attractive, but she puts on a fucking great show.
fresh from the desert sun (and no, not the righteous, pseudo-spiritual accident that is Burning Man), we are here to tell all that will listen that Claudia is the truth.
She is your favorite love ballad, the catchiest pop song, the rockingest punk ditty, the most head-nodding, arm-waving, booty-shaking hip-hop jam all rolled into human form.
And we don't even know her.
She is your favorite love ballad, the catchiest pop song, the rockingest punk ditty, the most head-nodding, arm-waving, booty-shaking hip-hop jam all rolled into human form.
And we don't even know her.
love:
Ah that Ghost show sounds rockin! I wonder if ODB is ever gonna make an appearance again, I'd love to check him out live one time.
ilovemikehunt:
claudia = goddess.
yep.
i willl know her. yes. she said she might marry me if i put out 5 times a week.
yep.
i willl know her. yes. she said she might marry me if i put out 5 times a week.
what up, gangsta?
heading off to coachella and the desert. (ah, the desert...). and the (not-so?) secret pixies show friday night down in socal...
heading off to coachella and the desert. (ah, the desert...). and the (not-so?) secret pixies show friday night down in socal...
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sweetavenue:
good morning, my newest friend!
freyja__:
i see that you've applied to sgny.
we're having an open event to meet potential new members.
here's the info
see you there!
we're having an open event to meet potential new members.
here's the info
see you there!
Ginger is the throwback pictorial on the site today and word to god, she is The Hotness. word around the campfire is that she is very much missed, excommunicated to the other side of some SG political mess. tragic...
the new Sonic Youth album, Sonic Nurse, is rapturous. if you, like me, found everything they did after Dirty to be vague and disinterested, until they...
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the new Sonic Youth album, Sonic Nurse, is rapturous. if you, like me, found everything they did after Dirty to be vague and disinterested, until they...
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slightgeist:
I'll tell you mine if you tell me yours: mariemarionette.motime.com
And yes... desire and anticipation are wonderful things.
And yes... desire and anticipation are wonderful things.
I haven't seen much mention of a Juneteenth festival here in Atlanta, i'm sure there is one. It's funny though, lately i've been dipping my toes into Yoruba, which is related, sort of.
in a tangential sort of way.
anyway, hope the festival is fun and reverential in your neck of the woods.......
xoxo