Blog is a Mix Tape

Terminal Thoughts: The Truth About Grandma

2007-04-09T14:17:08Z

I always find being inside the terminal at the gate to be this kind of time out out of time. Stephen King wrote an entire story essentially on this concept. I'm in Denver right now but all my time pieces are back on west coast time. I've already b...

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speakeasy: My Mama Says...

2007-03-17T18:12:32Z

There are few things more thrilling than having a new house or an empty room to decorate. Our imaginations soar as we consider the many possibilities. In the same way, our lives offer us the opportunity to express ourselves within various contexts...

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Vox Hunt: Fictional Favorite

2007-03-03T17:58:35Z

Book: Show us one of your favorite works of fiction. How many versions of the same question can we have? If I was trying to impress you, but if I was just thinking about fun, well-crafted reads.

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QotD: Good Genes

2007-03-03T17:35:47Z

What family member do you most aspire to be like? Why? Submitted by MalieKai. My Uncle Mike. Because he inspired thoughts like these (originally published on the negro please blog, 01.06.03): There were times when my Uncle Mike, my mother and...

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Books: The Race Beat

2007-03-02T07:14:43Z

The Race Beat: The Press, The Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff (Knopf, 2006). Steven Ivory did a Black History Month Pop Quiz for the last NPR story for the event yesterday. The key question ...

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Denied!

2007-02-15T23:40:00Z

I'm so bummed. Who knows if I'll actually make it to NYC this weekend. I really really want to see my sister's performance. She said people were crying during dress rehearsal yesterday. The Black Terror is powerful! But so is a serious Nor'easte...

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I Have Seen the Future and it is Wii...

2006-12-26T15:05:56Z

After a morning of present opening, discussions of The Godfather of Soul, breakfast and dinner cooking, bread making and game playing with my sister, I left my parents' home in the afternoon with them using the opera browser on the internet channe...

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What Have I Done?

2006-11-25T18:55:23Z

I invited my family to check out Vox. Uhhhh... Quick, everybody hide the hookers & blow.

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@Work: Lincoln Heights

2006-11-20T22:24:12Z

http://abcfamily.go.com/lincolnheights/ It's just the teaser site, we'll have a full launch in a couple weeks but you can get a feel for the show - the grittiest show abc family has ever run and it features a predominantly black cast. In anothe...

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