Los San Patricios
Quizas un poco tarde en el dia para poner este video celebrando el dia de San Patricios, pero justo lo encontre. Simboliza algo significante en cuanto a la cuestion de la hibridez cultural en general y en la vida de […]
Author: doscats
Social crirtic and writer. Ph.D. University of Minnesota (American Studies)
My Happiness Creed!
Note to reader: I wrote this piece about six weeks ago and submitted it to the “humor” page of a prestigious magazine that deals with important cultural and historical issues in the United States. Their announced acceptance/rejection time line has […]
Random Thoughts: Suicide and Heroes
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 […]
Can you spell a-p-p-e-a-s-e-m-e-n-t?
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 […]
Incorporating the imagined body
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 […]
Not so nice Obama
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 […]
Tiger and the Buddhist Path
“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, […]
Tiger Woods’ body found!
(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 […]
Bouncing Ball
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 […]
My humor place…
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 […]