3 days ago
From: PostBourgie
Title: On Dialect, Dialogue and Good Books
This Came Up in a Google Search, Ain't it Cute? The conversation last week about Ebonics got me to thinking about Faulkner and James Baldwin, and the way certain dialects in this country get no respect. I’m teaching undergrad creative writing for the first time, and this summer I spent a good amount [...]
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3 days ago
From: PostBourgie
Title: Random Brewer Gut-Buster
Because it’s funny. Arizona’s Gov. Jan Brewer cracks during debate. Via Julianne Hing, at ColorLines.Similar Posts: Random Midday Hotness: She Stylin’ on Y’all. So Much Swag He Can Give Some Swag Away. The Other Consequence of That Arizona Bill.
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3 days ago
From: PostBourgie
Title: Machete:”This Time they F@$%’d with the Wrong Mexican”
Mex-ploitation at its finest (or worst depending on who you ask) brings “Machete,” the Robert Rodriguez film about a machete-wielding Mexican superhero (played by Danny Trejo), border vigilantes, dangerous drug lords, corrupt politicians and cliche one-liners like “We didn’t cross the border, the border crossed us!” in in theaters Tomorrow, September 3. If [...]
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4 days ago
From: PostBourgie
Title: On White People and The Blues
John Lee Hooker – Hobo Blues In an attempt to summarize a dining experience I had that didn’t exactly rub me the right way, I explained to a friend: “You know how white people will come home after work and turn on the blues? … It was kind of like that.” Music for me [...]
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6 days ago
From: PostBourgie
Title: Your Monday Random-Ass Roundup: Of Sheep and Honor.
Without much prompting or need, the good Reverend Dr. Glenn Beck and about 87,000 – or eleventy-jillion – of his minions rallied Saturday at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to restore America’s honor. Which is all well and good. Assuming you believe honor is something to be valued above all else. And all this [...]
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1 week ago
From: PostBourgie
Title: Blogging Mad Men: Season 4, Ep. 6, “Waldorf Stories.”
Mad Men episode with Don and company at the CLIO awards airing the same night the Emmys?  Thanks for the synchronicity, AMC! We open with Don and Peggy interviewing Danny Siegel, who can barely get through a sentence without mentioning Roger’s name. Most of the pitches are variations on the same [...]
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1 week ago
From: PostBourgie
Title: Media Matters Rounds Up Glenn Beck’s Most Racist Moments
Crossposted from ColorLines: As the nation marks the 47th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin have taken to the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to, as they put it, restore our nation’s honor. The Washington Post reports that  “an overwhelmingly white crowd of tens of [...]
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1 week ago
From: PostBourgie
Title: In the Back of the Kitchen.(SPOILER ALERT)
Top Chef’s contributions to the reality show genre don’t come from exciting cliff-hangers or the evil machinations of those who would only win by cheating: the ingredients that make it work best are good chefs cooking food that looks pretty and makes you want to eat it. Occasionally, there’s a key rivalry or [...]
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1 week ago
From: PostBourgie
Title: If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don’t Rise, Part Two
Say what you will about Spike Lee’s polemics; the man knows how to craft a powerful narrative. Whereas Part One of If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don’t Rise opened with the excitement of the Saint’s Superbowl win, the opening montage of Part Two—filled with footage of the havoc wreaked by the oil [...]
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1 week ago
From: PostBourgie
Title: Random Midday Hotness: Eliza Skinner Loves Tyler Perry.
Similar Posts: Dear Tyler Perry… When Tyler Perry’s Book-to-Film Adaptations Are Enuf. Random Midday Hotness.
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1 week ago
From: PostBourgie
Title: The Double Standard on Sexual Exploration.
So, I’m guest blogging at Feministe right now and, in my first post, I pointed out how annoyed I get about the sexual double-standard when we talk about kids exploring their sexuality for the first time. When boys start to masturbate, it’s just natural; when girls do it, it must be [...]
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1 week ago
From: PostBourgie
Title: The Senator Your Senator Could Smell Like.
Via.Similar Posts: NYS Senator Diane Savino Votes ‘Ay’. Your Tuesday* Random-Ass Roundup: Senator-fold Random Middday Hotness: What *Should* Your Man Smell Like?
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1 week ago
From: PostBourgie
Title: Some Nitpicking on Ebonics.
In rushing to dismiss the DEA’s call to hire speakers of Ebonics, a lot of people are getting a small but important thing mixed up. Here’s the Black Snob: Ebonics, depending on who you ask, is either a real or a completely imagined thing. Proponents argued that some black people were speaking a whole [...]
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1 week ago
From: PostBourgie
Title: If God Is Willing And Da Creek Don’t Rise.
We love to see the underdog persevere. It makes us feel good, and like all monumental sports wins, it glosses over truth and makes it seem like progress is immediately possible. It’s telling that Spike Lee begins his Katrina documentary If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don’t Rise with the Saint’s Superbowl [...]
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1 week ago
From: PostBourgie
Title: On Antoine Dodson and Memes.
Coming in on the tail end of a meme is always interesting. Sometimes it’s just as hilarious as everyone who was on it from the beginning said it was. Sometimes it’s not hilarious, and rather, just pretty effed up. Case in point: Antoine Dodson, also known as the “Bed Intruder” dude. I was vaguely [...]
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