Since I watched controversial Russian ice dancers Domnina’s and Shabalin‘s faux Australian aboriginal folk routine earlier this week during the 2010 Olympics “original” ice dance competition, I have been thinking about how the cultural “other” is imagined and enacted to […]
In a recent blog I wrote critically about the fearful tendencies I experienced growing up in a conservative white community as a biracial child. I drew the parallel of my own experience to current U.S. president Obama’s seeming need to […]
“I have a lot of work to do, and I intend to dedicate myself to doing it. Part of following this path for me is Buddhism, which my mother taught me at a young age. People probably don’t realize it, […]
(I found this piece while searching for up-to-the-minute news on the internet about Tiger Woods. For people who want to know, indeed, who need to know, this will answer all your questions about our last, great [brown] hope. Prepare to […]
I found a new website some time ago titled JacksonPollock.org that allows users to create their own computer art using a “drip” method reminiscent of Jackson Pollock’s. I haven’t spent much time with it, but tonight I dropped some virtual […]
This past Sunday I read in the NY Times “internet” section about a social/dating website called okcupid.com. It was started by four mathematicians who were dissatisfied with all the other social networking/dating websites. They did some number crunching to figure […]
Growing up working class and biracial in Utah, son of a Mexican American man and Scots-Irish woman, in a white, politically conservative, Mormon community, I was always reminded to “not cause problems.” Especially by my Mexican American father. It made […]
Here’s a wonderful segment that encapsulates in general terms scholar Nina Baym’s prescient critique of male writers’ and literary critics’ anxiety over their loss of control over the definition and boundaries of the American literary canon, especially as the loss […]
I’ve been up for almost two hours this morning. (It’s 6:50 am as I type this.) I guess six hours of sleep was enough rest. Baldo and Chica were in their selected sleeping sites, but anticipating my rise. I got […]