December 2011
12 posts
The thing about flying while brown is that
I FEEL LIKE I AM GOING TO HAVE A TSA/SS STORMTROOPER SAW MY HEAD OFF. But, the prospect of having New Year’s in Miami/Key West is a siren holler too strong to resist.
Comments From Matchbox 20's "3 AM" Youtube Page
-I have spent most of my life in this century, but it would have been a hell of a lot better to grow up in the 90s where music like this was being made. Sigh.
-I’m not trying to start a musical debate but the 90s has some of the best music of all time. The music industry has gone to absolute crap nowadays. I just hate how so much true talent goes unrecognized now. These guys would...
99% of what I'm thinking during a conversation
-“is this how you think?”
-“do you think I can believe you?”
-“do you really think I’m this kind of person?”
-“I’ve heard this before”
-“do you ever listen to yourself?”
-“holy shit, you are an idiot”
-“holy shit, you are oblivious”
-“holy shit, do you have any autonomy?”
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This lady gets me
Jhumpa Lahiri’s characters tend to be immigrants from India and their American-reared children, exiles who straddle two countries, two cultures, and belong to neither: too used to freedom to accept the rituals and conventions of home, and yet too steeped in tradition to embrace American mores fully. These Indian-born parents want the American Dream for their children — name-brand schools, a...
