Entries from April 2007

Monday,April 30,07

Graffiti Graffiti Graffiti

Who doesn’t like Graffiti? Well, some people don’t…So I take that back. Graffiti is art at it’s most honest state. For those out there like me who love some graffiti here are some that I’ve seen over the past few years that are just amazing!

I love the “tube” lines in the background…

Saturday,April 28,07

Gere and Shetty…WTF?

 
JAIPUR, India -An Indian court ordered the arrest of Hollywood star Richard Gere on Thursday for kissing Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty at an AIDS awareness event this month saying it was an obscene act committed in public.
Gere’s repeated kisses on Shetty’s cheeks at an event to promote AIDS awareness in New Delhi sparked protests in [...]

Saturday,April 28,07

3 Men Charged With Smuggling Khat Through Ottawa Airport.

 
An airport worker and two other men have been arrested and charged with smuggling the drug khat into Canada through Ottawa International Airport.
Osman Ismail Hassan, 37, of Ottawa, Abib Ige Aden, 49, of Ottawa and Abdi Muse Ibrahim, 46, of Toronto face drug charges after an investigation by the Ottawa Airport Authority, Canada Border Services Agency, [...]

Friday,April 27,07

Rihanna- Good Girl Gone Bad?

As much as I love Rihanna’s style and look. I have to say that this new look is risqué. The girl doesn’t have a power-house voice. So, what do you have to go by: looks, style, and innovative ideas. When you’re that young you shouldn’t put yourself out there like that. The media is just [...]

Thursday,April 26,07

“Suede, Where art thou?”

 
A couple years back, maybe two at most, there was this magazine that Essence magazine launched called: Suede. I remember purchasing an issue or two.
It was love at first sight! It didn’t have too much celebrity gossip, ( which, if you can’t tell by my previous post… I can’t stand) it had real stories, great [...]

Thursday,April 26,07

How To Write About Africa

Binyavanga Wainaina

some tips: sunsets and starvation are good
Always use the word ‘Africa’ or ‘Darkness’ or ‘Safari’ in your title. Subtitles may include the words ‘Zanzibar’, ‘Masai’, ‘Zulu’, ‘Zambezi’, ‘Congo’, ‘Nile’, ‘Big’, ‘Sky’, ‘Shadow’, ‘Drum’, ‘Sun’ or ‘Bygone’. Also useful are words such as ‘Guerrillas’, ‘Timeless’, ‘Primordial’ and ‘Tribal’. Note that ‘People’ means Africans who are [...]

Wednesday,April 25,07

The Truth About Globalization

“We won the battle of decolonizing our continent, but we lost the war on decolonizing our minds.” – Philip Emeagwali
read more | digg story

Tuesday,April 24,07

Prussian Blue – Are These Little Girls Lost?

 
Prussian Blue is a white nationalist folk teen duo formed in early 2003 by Lynx Vaughan Gaede and Lamb Lennon Gaede, fraternal twin girls born on June 30, 1992, in Fresno, California and brought up in the United States.
The group has strong ties to the National Vanguard organization, a white nationalist group formed by disaffected [...]

Tuesday,April 24,07

The Somali Untouchables

BY BASHIR GOTH
If you think that Dalits (untouchables) exist only in India think again. We have them in Somalia. But what makes the situation of ours even worse is that unlike India where people belong to different races, languages and colours; Somalia is the most homogenous country in Africa with people belonging to a single race [...]

Monday,April 23,07

StarBurst Berries & Cream Commercial.

This has got to be one of the weirdest, yet funniest commercials I’ve seen in a long time!