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If you didn't use Summer's Eve before . . . well, you still shouldn't. Ick.
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011
"This is America. Our vaginas speak English."
If you didn't use Summer's Eve before . . . well, you still shouldn't. Ick.
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"A good disguise"?
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Can't journalists just say, "this was a terrible tragedy", and leave it at that? Because it was a terrible tragedy.
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Thursday, July 21, 2011
"In Texas, it's way easier to get a gun than a college degree."
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That is probably true in most states. I watched Bowling for Columbine.
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Sunday, July 17, 2011
My Mummy likes this commercial:
I like this commercial:
Yet neither of us will be switching to 4G, despite the "network of possibilities." But, thank you for the entertainment, AT&T!
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Sunday, June 26, 2011
"I don't get to talk, but I wear fabulous suits."
First of all--SPOILER ALERT for almost every action movie ever--the black guy dies, after Kevin Bacon self-righteously compares mutants to African slaves, and gives the black guy a pointed look. Btw, the only black guy does have a name: it's Darwin, like the lovable dolphin on seaQuest DSV. (We'll miss you, Jonathan Brandis.)
Second, did the wardrobe department run out of fabric for the ladies? James McAvoy and the other guy had their bodies completely covered from neck to toe, even on the sunny beach scenes. Yet all of female characters (all four of them, in supporting roles) were required to appear semi-naked for most, if not all, of their scenes. Mystique and Rose Byrne insisted upon wearing miniskirts during the rainy season in London and while representing a government agency, respectively. The former couldn't even close her X-Men jumpsuit the whole way, because ladies' zippers don't go up that far? Did they need to be sexually objectified for the entire movie?
Third, these ladies needed to take a page from Storm and Jean Grey in X2 (otherwise known as the best X-Men movie), because none of them seemed to be able to act on their own without the help or guidance or condescension of some man. None of them were allowed to carry their own story line. Each of female characters seemed to exist mainly to assist, serve, praise and/or sexually entice one or more of the male characters in the movie. Way to keep the wimmins in their place.
Fourth, if Charles Xavier could use Cerebro to identify all of the humans in the world, why did he end up selecting almost exclusively the young, pale, painfully thin, American ones? For example, were there no mature, chunky, Indonesian women in the mutant population? And to make matters worse, as Tasha Robinson points out in her review at the A.V. Club, "the few non-Caucasian characters are all dead or evil by halfway through the film". Dead. Silent and evil. Barely clothed and evil.
That's exactly the kind of message a film about escaping the Nazi regime should embrace: only let the white men boss people around; show the true despicable nature of the coloreds; and make sure the ladies are all scantily-clad and submissive. Mutant and proud!
(Side note and SPOILER ALERT: Hugh Jackman was pitch perfect in his cameo appearance. Way to make that mortgage payment, Wolverine.)
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Friday, June 10, 2011
"Do we really need Ryan Reynolds and Ryan Gosling?"
Yes, we do. But considering The Green Lantern and whatever this Vice Versa/Freaky Friday ripoff is, I say it's Gosling for the win. The smirkiness begins at 1:30:
Who's that curly-haired guy?
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Saturday, June 04, 2011
I don't like trail mix,
but I do like this Target commercial. Hooray for more diversity in media and for M&Ms!
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Sunday, May 29, 2011
This topic makes me sad,
Dark Girls: Preview from Bradinn French on Vimeo.
but having the discussion makes me glad. It's important to talk about difficult subjects, even if they make some people uncomfortable. In the words of Leslie Bennetts, author of The Feminine Mistake, "The facts don't change just because you refuse to look at them."
via Jezebel, "The Heartbreaking Reality Of Being A Dark-Skinned Black Woman"
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Monday, May 23, 2011
"I was in *NSYNC with you!"
"That's MC Skat Kat!"
Justin had quite a Saturday night:
"Bring it on down to Liquorville!"
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Friday, May 06, 2011
Did I miss the gay part?
"Beer for guys who like to do other guys."
Here's the whole Budweiser commercial, which comes with the following disclaimer on YouTube:
This video or group may contain content that is inappropriate for some users, as determined by the video uploader.
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It's still funny a week later.
"Donald Trump has been saying that he will run for President as a Republican, which is surprising since I just assumed he was running as a joke."
"Donald Trump owns the Miss USA pageant, which is great for Republicans, because it will streamline their search for a Vice President."
"Donald Trump said recently he has a 'great relationship with the blacks.' Though, unless 'the Blacks' are a family of white people, I bet he's mistaken."
Zing!
Additional hilarity from President Obama:
"I want to make clear to the Fox News table, that was a joke. That was not my real birth video. That was a children's cartoon. Call Disney if you don't believe me. They have the original longform version."
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Tuesday, May 03, 2011
Celebrating books by certain successful people
I attended the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books this weekend. Hooray for books! I got to meet Lela Lee of Angry Little Girls fame, and I had her sign my copy of her new book. Hooray for me!
At the panels I went to, most of the audience was older and white. Unfortunately, most of the panelists were, too. Except for the Jada Pinkett Smith/Sistah Souljah stage, and the Writing between Races panel (which was the best! Click these words to learn about the five fabulous panelists), almost all of the people on the panels I attended were white. Most of them were male, more of them were affluent or comfortable, most of them were over 40. All of them were over 30. At least two of the panels had only white male speakers.
No, I did no select the panels I attended based on their abundance of old, rich white men. I chose topics that interested me, like authors who also write for TV, and novelists for young adults. Seeing the panelists magnified an pernicious problem of publishing: the vicious circle of who is allowed to speak in our society. To speak on a panel at the festival, you must have published a successful book. The people who have books published are usually white and mostly male, especially in nonfiction, even if the topics of their books are not other white people. Which leaves a bunch of people, like me, discouraged and dissatisfied, about the types of stories that being told, or more precisely, the types of stories that are not being told.
Outside of the panels, the crowd of thousands milling about the booths and stages was more diverse. Thought at the Patton Oswalt stage, the audience was more diverse in age and possibly in economic background than it was in color. Mostly different sizes and shades of white people. But I did stand next to one of the other two black ladies in the audience. Progress!
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Saturday, April 30, 2011
"They're wedding gnomes!"
Forget CNN or the BBC. Here is my favorite coverage of the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton:
"Oh no. Do you know what?"
"What?"
"I'm thinking about the fact that one in five public sector workers in Britain are about to lose their jobs."
"Yes, that is very sad, actually."
"Isn't it terrible?"
"Yes."
Yeah, dude. It's horrible! Though, I do like those gnomes. Funny hats.
Victoria Mather, friend of the British royal family, has a different take on the situation:
"I think the British taxpayer is being very mean about moaning about paying for this wedding. I mean, it's a privilege, isn't it?"
Thank goodness it's not my privilege. My taxes are going to better things, like three illegal wars on foreign soil.
"I'd prefer to be paying for the royal wedding and cleaning the streets afterwards and for all the security than to be paying for illegal immigrants to claim benefits and live in sinker states."
"Oh! Why not make it a race issue?"
"Yes!"
No!
Did Mr. Oliver say that the royal wedding will cost taxpayers 20 million pounds (at 2:38)? Based on current exchange rates, that's about 33 jillion dollars! You know how many British weddings I could throw for £20 million? About 20. Wedding planners don't come cheap.
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Friday, April 29, 2011
"Thank you for knowing my name . . . Brendan Fraser?"
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"I want to be so famous that I'm the pop culture reference that people would make to try and be racist to me."
So do I! Except not in a mean racist way. More in a model minority way, like when people compare me to Oprah or Queen Latifah or Whoopi Goldberg, or other successful black women on the TV who have some extra padding in the tuchis. Though I haven't gotten Mo'nique or Wendy Williams yet. I'm sure that day will come.
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"We're at a research facility, and the cat's missing!"
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"We're okay with you murdering people with your needle gloves. But racism?"
Tsk tsk.
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"Why won't Barack Obama release his elementary school report cards?"
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"I have no proof that he's even a black man! He could be white! And if that's the case, I don't understand why we're questioning his legitimacy."
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They're not my Republican friends.
"The issue it seems to me is with a $1.6 trillion deficit, it is insane to think that the only way you're gonna move toward a balanced budget is by slashing college Pell grants, by cutting Medicaid, by converting Medicare into a voucher program, by cutting programs that working class people and middle-class people desperately need. And at the same time, our Republican friends say, 'Well, we're gonna to do all of these terrible things to the most vulnerable people in America, but you know what, we're not going to ask billionaires to pay a nickel more in taxes.' I think that that is insane."
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"Working people have rights. Health care should be a right of all people, not just a privilege of the wealthy."
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Monday, April 25, 2011
Actor? Painter? Korean pop star? Ice cream magnate?
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"I'm so Renaissance than under my suit I'm wearing a codpiece."
I'd like to fancy myself a Renaissance Lady, or a polymath, if you will. But apparently, I need to step my game up. Let's start with the ice cream. I've got ideas, Ben & Jerry.
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I do enjoy the little boy eating the Pill, but
I do have two questions about Bridesmaids:
1. Why is this the only movie with an all-female cast coming out this year? I need more movies about platonic lady-friends.
2. How does Maya Rudolph's character have only white friends? Does producer Judd Apatow want to maintain his consistency of keeping any brown people from mucking up the screen? (Watch his movies, and tell me I'm wrong.) This whitewashing syndrome is not exclusive to Mr. Apatow's projects, but it is glaringly apparent in this movie. It's worse than when Rashida Jones's character in I Love You, Man had only white friends and conveniently had no family at all. (What, Quincy couldn't make an appearance?) Or when Jennifer Lopez had no family either in Monster-in-Law.
3. Why did I watch Monster-in-Law?.
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