February 2011
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Lois Lowry is not a man
My childhood shattered a little bit on Friday, when talking to Cousins M & G. First, Lois Lowry is not a man. (!!!!!!) Second, she wrote 2 more books after the Giver as sequels. You can’t just write sequels 7 years later when the children who read your books are no longer children! Thanks a lot for letting us know. >:l
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A Year of Full Moons
(A picture of la little Luna since this is about the moon)
January: The Full Wolf Moon
According to lore, under this moon, wolves would howl in hunger outside Native American villages. People tend to eat too much, drink too much and play too much when the moon is full in January, trying to fill a winter emptiness.
February: The Full Snow Moon
February is traditionally when the heaviest snow...
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Iiin west Philadelphia, born and raised.... →
on a playground is where I spent most of my days…
Yea sing it, Fresh Prince. Blight, broken windows… just like undergrad. Although broken windows theory is almost universally recognized, I can’t 100% agree with it. Or maybe I just don’t agree with the solutions it recommends - these “solutions” are just another word for gentrification. Perhaps it just...
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Teaching Kids from the Hood How to Be White Collar →
Though I sound kind of sarcastic, I think it’s a Good Idea. It’s true - we have dual economies, and this is one good way to integrate the two. But you also gotta have ways to train workers in each respective economy also. Still have to teach youth workers hard skills if the work they want/can find is in that “other” economy “in which millions struggle to find jobs and...
“It may not happen in the first instant, but within ten minutes of meeting a man,...”
– Kadife, when asked by Ka how he can convince her older sister that she can trust him (excerpt from Snow)
Agree? (via booth8)
agree! unless he’s a master of disguise and makes himself out to be a different person than he really is in that 10 minutes.
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World of Whisk(e)y →
Having never acquired the taste for carbonated drinks, I’ve been greatly limited in terms of alcoholic beverages. The way people talk about beer makes me so so jealous, and I fervently wish I could enjoy beer. For all of my adult life, I’ve been a hard alcohol and mixed drinks kind of girl. My go-to drink is always Vodka Cran at American places and soju at Korean places. Bo-ring. Last...
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"Some fear Communist ideology in the classroom." →
Could you get more xenophobic?! Outside Los Angeles, the Hacienda La Puente Unified School District was set to receive similar funds from the Chinese government through the Confucius Classroom network. But backlash from community members who cited “communist propaganda” meant they ultimately had to turn it down. In what world does learning the language of a country secretly instill...
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Rah Rah Redevelopment!
Gov. Brown wants to get rid of redevelopment agencies in his new proposed budget. Redevelopment seems to always be taking the hit, with previous attempts to take $ from redevelopment agencies.
Heard Councilmember Jan Perry (awesome) speak on redevelopment on Which Way LA last night. Also heard an IDIOT republican assemblymember from OC talk anti-redevelopment. Must admit he drove me absolutely...
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Rah Rah Redevelopment!
Gov. Brown wants to get rid of redevelopment agencies in his new proposed budget. Redevelopment seems to always be taking the hit, with previous attempts to take $ from redevelopment agencies.
Heard Councilmember Jan Perry (awesome) speak on redevelopment on Which Way LA last night. Also heard an IDIOT republican assemblymember from OC talk anti-redevelopment. Must admit he drove me absolutely...
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“It’s safe to say there was a collective sigh of brown relief when the...”
– Daisy Hernandez. Great piece I heard on NPR last night about the shooting in Tucson. In short, the only reason the nation is taking a few days to reflect on the animosity in politics today is precisely that the shooter was not Latino.
“It’s safe to say there was a collective sigh of brown relief when the...”
– Daisy Hernandez. Great piece I heard on NPR last night about the shooting in Tucson. In short, the only reason the nation is taking a few days to reflect on the animosity in politics today is precisely that the shooter was not Latino.
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