June 2010
Happy Memorial Day!
conservativeradical:
The presence of black soldiers infuriated the city’s slaveholders. Captain Rogers met one of them when a soldier in his company told him that a Jacksonville resident owned one of the soldier’s daughters, “and he would like to get her if possible. I had him pilot me to the house,” Rogers wrote: “The lady was at home and before I had a chance to state my mission she said: ‘I...
May 2010
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whoops
Definitely procrastinated my way out of something I had wanted to do before tomorrow (he writes at 2am). What a sucker rookie maneuver. I know better.
“Among the crowd was Michelle Martin, who teaches Japanese at Pleasant Valley...”
– Yoshida, the ‘Knuckle Princess,’ Arrives in U.S. - NYTimes.com
“Knuckle Princess” is a pretty sweet nickname.
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five hundred for what?
My mom’s going to be in Georgia to visit my grandmom the second to last weekend in June. At this point, I haven’t seen her in… three years? Had to have been late summer 2007, so pushing three years at this point. I know my baby brother was a few months old at that point, and that was also the first time I met Hassan, her husband.
Y’know, I hadn’t realized it’d...
“Later Johnson would think of her as a touchingly, human presence in a sea of...”
– At Arlington, each soldier has a special lady - Military- msnbc.com
This is a really good thing.
WatchBig Boi – Shutterbugg (Video) | 2dopeboyz
There are only two supergroups that matter to me: the Wu-Tang Clan and Dungeon Family. My eyebrows went up when the Dungeon Fam cameoed in this video. I can’t wait for the full Sir Lucious Leftfoot album. Highly anticipated over here.
(OutKast > RAGU, by the way.)
“Starting with Carrie’s arrival in New York on June 11, 1986, King’s...”
– Sex And The City 2
armond white never fails to deliver
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“I sure did and wasn’t impressed by the ending. It seemed less than the...”
– from an email from my grandmom, on the end of Lost. I can’t say as I disagree with her—the last season really made the flaws over the past six season obvious. I watched it, due in large part to inertia. The ending was just… it wasn’t awful, but it forced me to think about the...
“Looking to keep up the releases of the Air Jordan Force Fusion series, this...”
– Air Jordan Force Fusion XII (AJF 12) – Obsidian – White | FreshnessMag.com
…my favorite sneaker (Air Force 1) and my favorite model of Jordans (Air Jordan XII) in the same shoe? Golly.
WatchNah Right » Video: Big Boi - Shutterbugg (Preview)
tronned outkast
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my own personal film festival
Sean did it because Wolkin asked him to. I’m doing it because I can. I’m picking movies for a personal film festival. These aren’t my favorite (that would be Out of the Past), but I love all of them. No explanations, though the titles of each day should give you an idea what I’m going for. Feel free to chime in. If you’re really puzzled, I’ll explain in the...
The Blog of Gene Luen Yang - The Last Airbender... →
This is a good read.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-5-23) →
Ghostface Killah (15)
Young Jeezy (11)
Cam’ron (11)
Asher Roth (7)
Pill (5)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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home of the braves
I have an Atlanta Braves fitted I wear a few times a month, usually when my hair is long enough to comb (rare) and I don’t feel like combing it (common). Usually I just throw on a skully, since that covers my ears, too, but I figured why not roll with the Braves today? I bought the road cap because the colors are better—it’s easier to match a dark blue and white cap than it is...
“The creator of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and some of the most frequently...”
– After keeping us waiting for a century, Mark Twain will finally reveal all - News, Books - The Independent