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Tuesday, September 25, 2007
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I'm grieving, you're a voyeur. We're a match made in hell.
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- One Hour 52 Minutes....
- Into the Wild
- Kyle, Annoyed, with Bag
- Frank Mulatto UPDATE
- Refreshingly Frank Mulatto to Save World
- Call For Memories
- Merry Christmas
- Politics in Black and White
- A Personnel Suggestion for Mr. Ahmadinejad
- I Could Teach Tom Cruise a Thing or Two About War
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- Well, We Made It Home
- I Torture Bugs, Horses Aren't Scary, and Some Vans...
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- We're Not as Poor as We Think We Are
- I'm Craving My Brother's Grave
- Baboons Put Me to Shame
- 42 Down, 150 To Go
- Me vs My Mom: Cage Battle Update
- Well Folks
- There's No Way to Say This Without Sounding Like a...
- Johnny Mars Knows Jack About Chick Flicks
- I'm Sick
- Trouble the Waters
- How to Cook a Pygmy Goat
- Where I Was
- It's a Bad Day
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- Heavy Things
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- Guilty
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- How I Get to Work
- Things I'm Sick Of
- School Is Starting and We're Not Who We Used To Be
- Not Every Character Needs a Soulmate
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- Food I Eat, Part 2
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Favorites
- What the Hell is Going On?
- I Heart New York City Shoe Repair Shops
- If You're Under 30, You May Not Want to Read This...If You're Over 30, You Likely Don't Have To
- This One's So Good It Deserves Its Own Post
- Hallelujah
- God in South Africa
- I Heart New York 2
- Merry Christmas
- I'm Craving My Brother's Grave
- Where I Was (9/11)
- Heavy Things (Float On)
- How I Get to Work
- School is Starting and We're Not Who We Used to Be
- Charles Baxter Sucks
- I'm Under a Lot of Pressure Here
- Eau De Weekday Morning Toilette (Poop Story)
- Courtney Cox Was At My Brother's Funeral and I'm Not Sure How to Feel About It
- I Have a Question For You
- I Love Tall Men
- Cat Looks Like Lion, Dog Flies, Is Autistic
- A Lot of People Loved My Brother (Memorial Speech)
- My Brother's Grave is the Shit
- "I Have Found the Promised Land and It is Beautiful" or "Dad, You Can Skip This One" (Bra Story)
- The Nitty Gritty
1 comment:
Thanks so much for this link.
Last year, I took the UW's required "Ethnic Literature of the United States" class and discovered that my dated knowledge and understanding of racial issues were glaringly ethnocentric in almost every area. I was ashamed. Looking back, even the title of the class is offensive to me now. Someone needs to restructure American Literature curriculum from K to college.....
But since falling in love with James Baldwin, Maxine Hong Kingston, Louise Erdrich and many others, I am encouraged. Their writing is now assigned to my two teens for reading projects, and we also participate in our campus "Students Opposed to Acts of Prejudice" (SOAP) acitivities. It isn't easy in the rural Midwest to find opportunities to educate on these and other subjects, but hopefully their generation will do better than mine in the areas of social awareness and social responsibility.
Our national culture and community desperately need a refreshed education in these areas of racial injustice and inequality - and insightful, thoughtful, masterful writers with a commitment to that end - have always been and will always be the inspiration for such scholarship....hmmm.
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