August 2010
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Still rocking my socks
@blunted215: #BrownTwitterBird has his eye on the sparrow… cuz she thick n all.
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Kinda Hate They Ever Gave Colored People Wifi, Eh? →
Or, more specifically, they have just discovered that black people have discovered the Internet. Oh, you think the Internet is near ubiquitous? Au contraire my enlightened mon freres. See, black people apparently live in an alternate reality where the Information Age is on CP time. In the perfect ode to the mythical monolithic black folks, How Black People Use Twitter, set out to do a...
'Unemployed JD' Goes On Hunger Strike To Protest...
Glad you said it. You saved me the time. I did the exact same thing and made another choice. Granted, still in post graduate studies but with an eye towards applicability, flexibility, debt loads, etc. And I’m as unprivileged as they come. Yet, I figured it out?
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A Valedictorian After My Own Heart →
Here’s a kid that gets it. For once I don’t have anything to add. Enjoy the moment. I imagine it will pass quickly.
The following speech was delivered by top of the class student Erica Goldson during the graduation ceremony at Coxsackie-Athens High School on June 25, 2010
Here I stand
There is a story of a young, but...
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TWITTER NEEDS TO LEARN GRAMMAR!
I thought it when the feature went live but I didn’t want to be the one to say it…and have no one respond because no one talks to geeks. Glad someone doesn’t have my obvious hang-ups.
theyuniversity:
The above Tweeps are right: it should be “WHOM to Follow.” Without getting too technical, think of it this way: you would say, “I follow hiM,” not “I follow he,” right? The M...
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Rare Color Photos from The Depression
What a treat. Especially the ones of black folks. There aren’t many of us in color as we weren’t often considered worthy of documenting. I’d love some of the stories I see in these images. For instance, I notice in the one of workers leaving a plant that the workers are integrated but all of the black men are in the same line to the far right? Interesting. Also would love the...
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Woman Wears 6 Items Of Clothing For A Month --...
I would actually love to have six well-made, perfectly fitted pieces that all work together. My dream is to wake up every morning, fall into whatever my hands land upon, pull together a chic ponytail and walk out the door.
atariboy:
Interesting test in frugality and how observant humans are(‘nt).
During her experiment — something called a “shopping diet,” actually — which ended on Wednesday,...
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http://www.amazon.com/Queen-Palmyra-Novel-P-S/dp/00... →
Enjoyed it. I’m not usually a fan of non-black writers trying to capture black dialogue and cadence. Trust me, I’d love for most of them to be good at it but sadly that is rarely the case. It’s not broken English but rhyme. Few people can do it. I’m also not a fan of anything that is hailed the “new” whatever. In this case it is being hailed as the...
