February 2009
88 posts
“If you were worried ‘bout where
I been or who I saw or
what club I went...”
– You Got Me by The Roots, feat. Erykah Badu
I am in love with this song.
Went downtown today with the homie @milamonster, parked somewhere between Broadway and Spring, on 5th. As I was parking, I recognized a guy from high school and freaked out. Hoped he didn’t notice me. He was chatting on a cell, so he didn’t. He walked by and the world was all right again.
I don’t think I can lay low in Los Angeles for that much longer. We are the sum of our...
January 2009
48 posts
“I like scrolls and rolls and things with pockets for other things to hide in or...”
– languisity
I don’t know if I will be able to run this business and the lab at the same time, even though there is a clear need for both services. I need a clone, or at least a partner in crime. I mean, creation.
“I lay down and slept; I awoke, for the LORD sustains me.”
– Psalm 3:5
there was a fight at work today
two girls, one camera, eight cops, twenty-three gawkers, one grouchy old man, one frightened intern, twenty-three loud voices, six people still in the computer lab, one nosy neighbor, fourteen empty computer stations, one annoyed new intern, one late supervisor, three laughing girls, seven tall black men, thirty “oooohs!”, sixty feet running, four loud sirens, one blocked street...
The kids find a movie website and random...
Kid 1: Did you see Gothika? It's a scary ass movie!
Kid 2: Yeah but it's old!
Kid 1: It's scary, though. Scarier than The Grudge!
Kid 2: Yeah, that's true.
Kid 3: Have you seen The Grudge in Japanese? That's scary man!
Kid 4: Dude Notorious! I saw that movie! This guy is a great rapper!
We Real Cool
misterjt:
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
(Via e1ectricfeel)
I remember first reading this poem in a sixth- or seventh-hand copy of a collection of Brooks’ poetry. I memorized it, quoted it in essays, painted it in pictures, spit (wack) rhymes with clever back references to it. You...
Asa (Asha)
We saw Asa tonight.
Let me repeat that. We. Saw. Asa. Tonight.
After her performance, we stood in line laughing about recent coverage on Nigeria, our excitement about meeting her growing as we got closer. We were giddy; I thought my 3rd sister was the giddiest, but when we got up to the autograph table, my 1st sister jumped in front, lyric-covered mug in hand. It was a yellow mug -...
Peace, Fam?
I intended to stay off the blogging and twittering and internet noise circuit for a week as our church family finished it’s annual month of prayer. But even as I struggled to stay offline, I realized how much the Internet means to me, how much power there is in writing, sharing and linking.
This last week has been a crazy whirlwind of emotions from last minute scrambles to get websites...
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Oh, nothing...
… just MY NEW FAVORITE WEBSITE:
Flowing Data has some incredible flowcharts, visualizations and SOURCE CODE.
Geek on, baby. Geek. On.
“Man. We’re gonna have to buy her album to get her sign it. Dang it.”
– Two of my sisters at two completely different times, in the exact same tone, on seeing Asa.
Earthquakes and Heart Attacks
I work on Central Ave. where trucks and trailers barrell through the 35mph zone at 50mph. Whenever they roll through, the buildings shudder and my heart drops. I think we are experiencing an earthquake until I hear the roar of the trucks as they clear the intersection.
When an earthquake really hits, we probably won’t know for a while. We will just be waiting for the trucks to roll...
I want to make a difference
But more than that, I want these kids to make a difference. Do they have goals? Do they want to see the world the way I wanted to see the world? Barack Obama is now President Barack Obama, yeah… but what does that mean for 16 year olds who need jobs to keep the rent up? What does that mean for generations of mothers who despereately need healing? Who stay on MySpace positing pictures of...
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i have so many ideas going on in my head right now it’s hard to breathe i think i will explode because i know that they are great ideas, but you don’t know how great they are and the only one who knows the greatness of these ideas is so far away in santa cruz and i am scared to leave los angeles to go and make these ideas happen with her and i know that these ideas need to be heard...
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The Revolution Will Be
Televised
Mobilized
Digitized
Streaming
Prosthetized
Serialized
Blogged
Syndicated
Plagiarized
Widgetized
You-Tubed
Wikified
Make your own revolution.
What I Found This Week #2
Love it or Lose It
[madebybrian]
Distilled Clothing
DNS Lookup Utility
Levitated
30 Must Have Logo Books
Mothers be good to your daughters, too.
My mother, she has five kids. She says the first syllables of each of our names before finally calling the right one. To call me, she’ll say: “It - To- Mah- Goo- ANN!”
Artsy Fartsy
I’m probably going to catch a lot of grief for this but:
I’m sick of seeing skinny white women in your artsy photographs. I know this is not your fault… you probably don’t hang around a lot of brown folks, anyway. But I think brown women should have the chance to feel beautiful, too. Brown women should be able to go through thousands of these indie photographs a week...
Chicken
The only thing holding me back from being completely vegetarian.
Okay, that and an occasional burger craving, too.
“Life is not what I thought it was
Twenty four hours ago”
– Switchfoot
Words, Words, Words, Words
I went to the bookstore today - finally found one in the next city - and it was so depressing. There it was, this huge spread of books, stationery, music, DVDs, magazines and coffee, and all I could think was, “This is too much.”
Walking around a bit (muttering to myself all the way), I found people tucked in random aisles and corners. The couple splayed out in the Business...
In All The Wrong Places
I am supposed to working on a job search workshop, but all I can think about is how nice it is outside. Whenever I have the chance to step outside, I feel like I should be in Santa Cruz with Jessica, Mona and Jenna and Mary and her boyfriends. There’s a place at the campus that is the edge of the world. I am almost breathless just thinking about it. I should be there during the day to...
Children's Children
When they hear These songs, born of the travail of their sires, Diamonds of song, deep buried beneath the weight Of dark and heavy years; They laugh. When they hear Saccharine melodies of loving and its fevers, Soft-flowing lies of love everlasting; Conjuring divinity out of gross flesh itch; They sigh And look goggle-eyed At one another. They have forgotten, they have never known, Long days...
“As a feminist, as a human being, it is my duty and my desire, to support the...”
– from Alas, a blog
Nollywood in Photographs
(via Heading East)
Pieter Hugo traveled West Africa and put together a rather gruesome interpretation of the burgeoning Nollywood industry. Nollywood is the nickname given to the Nigerian film industry: Nigeria + Hollywood = Nollywood.
Warning: many of these images are pretty gruesome.
WOW Hymns →
I’ve got this compilation on repeat.
Original Thoughts: Regaining The Right To Create...
I’ve been posting images, links, articles, etc. all weekend, so here’s my addition to the noise.
I work at a computer lab in the heart of south Los Angeles, in a community which has been defined and redefined by policy, media, encroaching gentrification and theoretical socialists for decades. It was once a place thriving with the creative jawns of the Harlem of the West, the Dunbar...
Who’s Buying What? http://www.good.is/?p=13994 (pretty data)
KNITTING FOR PSYCHOS →
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I am not a psycho.
But I love to knit.