About a year ago I vowed to pick up reading books for leisure again. I have a library card and have actually checked out a few books. I registered for PaperBack Swap, an online community where one can trade books for the price of postage. I now have about 30 exciting books to be read […]
“When you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, […]
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Le Sigh! Essence Loving Your Hair SoundOff makes me SMH!
Not too long ago, the media waves were alive with that Sesame Street piece in which a dark skinned muppet with kinky hair sings and dances proclaiming for the world to hear that she loves her hair – her curls, her afro, her cornrows, her twists, her braids, her pigtails undsowieter. I blogged about it […]
Not so subtle: Black Harvard alumni mistaken for “gangbangers”
Scenario: Recent Black graduates of Harvard University RSVP’ed for a party to be held at a new club in Boston during homecoming week. As they started to line up outside the club, the bouncers became convinced that they saw local “gangbangers” in the mix. The owner was called. The organizers of the party, themselves recent […]
Subtle racism & preconceptions of beauty
…and while we are at it, can these African artists stop preferentially using obviously non African or biracial women in their videos as the object of their interest? Goodness, isn’t it enough that American Blacks do that? And now we have home-grown music telling us that the average African woman is not good enough! To […]
Hilarious Vintage Advertisements
Over on the digital journalism website owni.eu they’ve posted an article titled Top 48 ads that would never be allowed today. Some of them are hilarious in the sense that no person in their right mind today would ever hint at some of what is portrayed or suggested in these advertisements…at least in public. For […]
Flashback – Yazz
I love house music. I love techno. Some people find that weird. When I explain that I lived for a while in Germany, “it all begins to make sense”. I don’t see why though. The two are mutually exclusive. About a decade ago when you could download songs from the internet I searched for and […]
East German children shows
Since I had been missing my man Droopy, I sought him out on YouTube and was not disappointed. And as it is, one video leads you onto another and then another and then a whole flood of childhood memories. I chuckle when I find myself in company of people trying to include me in reminiscing […]
Droopy the genius
One of my favourite cartoon characters. I can’t say what the attraction was but there was an attraction. I loved his understated and unassuming way as well as his monotone voice. Yet he was so shrewd, so versatile, able to outwit all the bad characters (Wolf, Spike) and such the ladies man, or rather dog. […]
Things that adults (parents) did that irritated me as a child
I posted this on Facebook several months ago, but I’m again thinking about the craziness of my childhood so here’s the repeat. 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0 You know something? From the child’s standpoint, adults are some of the craziest and most confused people on earth. Yeah, childhood is bliss and all but I so enjoy my freedom, clarity, […]
A lover of mangoes. A woman - smart, without pretense, lefthanded, Afropolitan - navigating this thing called life. An unapologetic believer in social justice and karma. Choosing to radiate positive energy and be true to myself. Here, my musings.