Randy Rodriguez http://randyrodriguez.net No Way (Man) Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:59:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 A short audio recording of my female cat, Chica, snoring with a brief introduction by Primus. Randy Rodriguez no Randy Rodriguez gatos2x@gmail.com gatos2x@gmail.com (Randy Rodriguez) 2009-2010 Randy Rodriguez No Way (Man) Randy Rodriguez http://randyrodriguez.net/wp-content/uploads/powerpress/doscats.jpg http://randyrodriguez.net Random Thoughts: Suicide and Heroes http://randyrodriguez.net/random-thoughts-suicide-and-heroes/ http://randyrodriguez.net/random-thoughts-suicide-and-heroes/#comments Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:43:56 +0000 doscats http://randyrodriguez.net/?p=865 I’ve been trying to sort my thoughts this morning.  I feel like writing something, need to write something.

Organize the chaos of sentiments. Assert my rational capacities over and against my dark irrational self.

I’ve been trying to understand suicide recently:

the two young best girl friends from Pennsylvania who created a pact to stand in front of [...]]]> http://randyrodriguez.net/random-thoughts-suicide-and-heroes/feed/ 0 Can you spell a-p-p-e-a-s-e-m-e-n-t? http://randyrodriguez.net/can-you-spell-a-p-p-e-a-s-e-m-e-n-t/ http://randyrodriguez.net/can-you-spell-a-p-p-e-a-s-e-m-e-n-t/#comments Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:57:24 +0000 doscats http://randyrodriguez.net/?p=852 Maybe I’m being unfair, too hard on him, expecting too much for a man of color, the first to be the President of a nation that continues to be in denial about its history of institutionalized racial inequality. (Tea Party anyone?)

Maybe I should be like others who give him a break for trying to be [...]]]> http://randyrodriguez.net/can-you-spell-a-p-p-e-a-s-e-m-e-n-t/feed/ 2 Incorporating the imagined body http://randyrodriguez.net/incorporating-the-imagined-body/ http://randyrodriguez.net/incorporating-the-imagined-body/#comments Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:32:50 +0000 doscats http://randyrodriguez.net/?p=818 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 reproduce notions of cultural authority and power.

More specifically, I have addressed in other essays on [...]]]> http://randyrodriguez.net/incorporating-the-imagined-body/feed/ 0 Not so nice Obama http://randyrodriguez.net/not-so-nice-obama/ http://randyrodriguez.net/not-so-nice-obama/#comments Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:16:51 +0000 doscats http://randyrodriguez.net/?p=808 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 be “nice” and respectful, to avoid confrontation for fear offending anyone, especially the real and [...]]]> http://randyrodriguez.net/not-so-nice-obama/feed/ 0 Tiger and the Buddhist Path http://randyrodriguez.net/tiger-and-the-buddhist-path/ http://randyrodriguez.net/tiger-and-the-buddhist-path/#comments Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:15:20 +0000 doscats http://randyrodriguez.net/?p=766 “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, but I was raised a Buddhist, and I actively practiced my faith from [...]]]> http://randyrodriguez.net/tiger-and-the-buddhist-path/feed/ 0