January 2009
good mouring: birthing and death rites. →
+ documenting (re)birthing (including baptism) and death rituals throughout the african diaspora. i think the closer we get to reconciling our fears around death and birth rites, the more genuine…
December 2008
good mouring: birthing and death rites. →
+ documenting (re)birthing (including baptism) and death rituals throughout the african diaspora. i think the closer we get to reconciling our fears around death and birth rites, the more genuine…
innovations/2009: passive heating, DIY adjustable... →
No Furnaces but Heat Aplenty in ‘Passive Houses’ The concept of the passive house, pioneered in this city of 140,000 outside Frankfurt, approaches the challenge from a different angle. Using…
2007 throwback: you got my back?: coalition... →
i wrote the article below for wiretapmag back on june 21, 2007. i was not sure if this is of bad taste to post now, but i believe it needed to be (re)posted because the strength of any movement…
innovations/2009: passive heating, DIY adjustable... →
No Furnaces but Heat Aplenty in ‘Passive Houses’ The concept of the passive house, pioneered in this city of 140,000 outside Frankfurt, approaches the challenge from a different angle. Using…
2007 throwback: you got my back?: coalition... →
i wrote the article below for wiretapmag back on june 21, 2007. i was not sure if this is of bad taste to post now, but i believe it needed to be (re)posted because the strength of any movement…
links: rap music originated in medieval scottish... →
+ rap music originated in medieval scottish pubs, claims american professor
Professor Ferenc Szasz argued that so-called rap battles, where two or more performers trade elaborate…
mubarak new year! →
mubarak (happy) islamic new year! today is the first day of muharram 1430. muharram is the first islamic month of the year and one of the sacred months. it is recommended that you fast on the 9th…
'this operation is an attempt to re-establish the... →
yesterday, i went to my masajid and unintentionally made a commitment to learn how to perform janazah (islamic funeral services). i will learn how to wash the body, cut the shroud etc. i cannot…
in south africa i thought about the possibilities... →
listening to: rjd2-making days longer and here’s what’s left music can really mess up your mood—or your delicately constructed, yet shallow feelings of satisfaction. i cried today. i am…
in south africa i thought about the possibilities... →
listening to: rjd2-making days longer and here’s what’s left music can really mess up your mood—or your delicately constructed, yet shallow feelings of satisfaction. i cried today. i am…
'this operation is an attempt to re-establish the... →
yesterday, i went to my masajid and unintentionally made a commitment to learn how to perform janazah (islamic funeral services). i will learn how to wash the body, cut the shroud etc. i cannot…
links: rap music originated in medieval scottish... →
+ rap music originated in medieval scottish pubs, claims american professor
Professor Ferenc Szasz argued that so-called rap battles, where two or more performers trade elaborate…
mubarak new year! →
mubarak (happy) islamic new year! today is the first day of muharram 1430. muharram is the first islamic month of the year and one of the sacred months. it is recommended that you fast on the 9th…
via slant truth: dear black republicans →
When friggin’ Newt Gingrich seems to be more offended by racist bullshit than you are, well, all I gotta say is that it becomes painfully obvious that you are getting played. …
an artist →
“Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty…
hellovagina:
You said, ‘I Love You.’ Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long to hear? ‘I Love You’ is always a quotation. You did not say it first and neither did I, yet when you say it and when I say it we speak like savages who have found three words and worship them. I did worship them but now I am alone on a rock hewn out of my own body.
...
hellovagina:
Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.
— Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper
side hustles because california is about to be... →
so the state of california is broke (or will be by february) which means i am picking up side hustles. i haven’t heard anything scary from my job yet, but i am going into action mode as of now….
vegan soul kitchen →
this looks promising… Vegan Soul Kitchen (VSK): Fresh, Healthy, and Creative African-American Cuisine is the forthcoming book by Oakland-based eco chef, food justice activist, and…
happy boxing day! →
Boxing Day is a public holiday in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Hong Kong and countries in the Commonwealth of Nations with a mainly Christian…
photography, design, and typography links. →
The Chicago Seven: Lee Weiner, John Froines, Abbie Hoffman, Rennie Davis, Jerry Rubin, Tom Hayden, Dave Dellinger, Chicago, September 25, 1969, © 2008 The Richard Avedon Foundation
via roses&machetes: hip hop preseident, maybe not. →
h/t @ roses & machete (bolded emphasis mine):
Hip Hop activist and writer Rosa Clemente just penned an insightful article on the dangers of calling Obama the first ‘hip hop president:”
lust for comfort. →
verily, the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral. —the prophet, khalil gibran (p.33)
be ready: possibilities/washing revolutions →
laundry @ california. (december 2008)
i woke up this morning feeling pretty darn good. cut the essay down from 3316 words to 1866, sent some important emails, and ate papaya slices….
whopper virgins & the fast food nation:... →
the quotes below speak for themselves. i will say that in addition to all the commentary on race and hunger politics, i’d like to add some quick gendered commentary. like “virgin” colonial lands…
economics: Irrationality and shopping “addiction”... →
h/t @ curate via popmatters This passage gets at an irony, a contradiction, in consumerism. Consumerism proliferates on the basis of the ideology of choice; we believe that thanks to…
paradox of plenty →
While Africa is blessed with much natural wealth — gold, diamonds, ores from tin to uranium, oil and ivory — it has also long been a target for plunder. Listen to Ian Fisher recount how some,…
good mo(u)rning. →
the sky, yesterday. (december 2008) morning yoga and stretches are good. they teach body-love especially as you watch your body move in ways you have never imagined. as you feel…
@social design notes: spot.us, commodify your... →
all h/t @ social design notes:
spot.us. What will happen to investigative journalism when news is free and the old newsprint conglomerates have evaporated? Spot.us is one interesting,…
forced sterilizations, black bodies, and medical... →
i read about reparations for eugenic sterilization in north carolina over at guerillamamamedicine and cripchick. a snippet from the AP article: A state House panel recommended the…
h/t @ jack&jill politics: the untold story of... →
_________ h/t @ jack&jill politics: The Untold Story of Hurricane Katrina’s Hidden Race War
Appalling. The Nation has a video above that describes Katrina’s hidden race…
i lack training. →
public sector strikes @ johannesburg ZA. (june 2007)
i lack any formal training in photography but it is something that i want to seriously pursue. i don’t know about lighting or…
perishable evidence: memories →
trying to recover a dream (2:30 pm PST) plane crash but crammed in a car i think with my brothers space ships and jackets, maybe costumes performance, randy calling and announcing us people…
via blacklooks: charity porn →
______ h/t to blacklooks: Just when I thought it was safe to go outside I discover that a Japanese porn company is making “charity porn. I don’t want to subject readers to my…
nostalgia/i bought a record player: CROSLEY... →
lights on some california highway. (december 2008)
i was thinking of posting my detroit techno record to a friend in chicago because i did not have a record player. he suggested…
nomads, nostalgic pavement, nowhereian (*n's)/'i... →
last day of school before winter break. (december 2008)
+ do you remember?: do you remember when this blog was completely political? i would comment on myself occassionally, but my…
push. →
fallen leaves near work. (december 2008)
+ there are more updates then i have time to share. i need to clean before i do much of any reflection. i bought two things yesterday with…
