Song of a Reformed Headhunter (Free subscription) | yesterday
Acts of Faith is the biographical story of a man growing up American, (South) Indian and Muslim. Patel's Ismaili Muslim parents moved from Bombay to the United States in search of a better life, and so Patel grew up between worlds. If the coming-of-age story sounds familiar, Patel enlivens it with well-chosen anecdotes and an interesting cast of characters, including a meeting with the Dalai Lama....
Hamster's Wheel (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
LGBT people born today: 1869 – Konstantin Somov – Russian Artist – Died 6 th May 1939 1904 – Robert Odeman – German Pianist / Actor / Composer – Died 14 th January 1985 1914 – Charles Hawtrey – UK Actor – Died 27 th October 1988 1938 – Richard Lipez – US Author 1943 – Jerry Hunt – US Composer – Died 27 th November 1993...
feminist blogs (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
[this image of James Baldwin on the cover of Time magazine's 17 May 1963 ECD issue, is from here] When James Baldwin speaks of "America" he is using the term most used often by many people to describe "The United States of America". It's the term that was, and is still today, used by many people to refer to this strange land that, as Andrea Dworkin once noted with stunning accuracy,...
Dialogic (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Baldwin, James. “If Black English Isn’t a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is'” The Real Ebonics Debate: Power, Language, and the Education of African-American Children . eds. T. Perry and L. Delpit. Boston: Beacon Press, 1998: If … one managed to change the curriculum in all the schools so that blacks learned more about themselves and their real contribution to this culture, you...
Ed Batista (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. - James Baldwin My colleague Trina Roach tweeted this quote the other day, and it caught my attention. (And I'm not alone--a...
Royals Review (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Because it's amusing to figure out who is similar to who. Batters is most similar to or In 2008, he was most similar to Alberto Callaspo Smoky Burgess Don Slaught Alex Gordon Howard Johnson Darnell Coles Joe Foy Billy Butler Kent Hrbek John Olerud Keith Hernandez David DeJesus Tony Gonzalez Coco Crisp Roy Weatherly Jose Guillen Kevin McReynolds Joe Rudi Kevin McReynolds Mike Aviles Tony Eusebio John...
Kenyanpoet - A Kenyan Artistic Space (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Virn Instruments company , a firm run by Kahenya Kamunyu whom I first met during the first ever Bar Camp in Kenya a year ago has embarked on a unique project dubbed Ukurasa (page in kiswahili) Ukurasa is a social media site for books that is geared towards the exchange of books through either sale or sharing as well as place where would be writers can get to write books online through their personal...
Jeremiah's Vanishing New York (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Before 2009 is over, there's still time to visit the Lenox Lounge and celebrate its 70th year in Harlem. photos from my flickr Opened in 1939, the Lenox Lounge was, according to its website, "the back drop for many jazz legends such as Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, and John Coltrane . The Jazz Club also known as the Zebra Room was once used by the Harlem Renaissance writes James Baldwin and Langston...
Madalina Nicolescu Violist (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
WireTap Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
You know, for a good portion of my life I've been thoroughly convinced that San Francisco just doesn't like Black people -- well, at least not poor , trans , previously incarcerated, or homeless ones . But it looks like I was wrong. City politicians and developers (it's okay if they're the same, right') really do like Black folks. Especially dead ones (They, like, totally dig Jimi Hendrix !). The latest...
Isak (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
By now, surely I've made it quite clear how much I love James Baldwin. So I am pleased to see that his interview with The Paris Review is now available online. (It is also collected in the second volume of The Paris Review Interviews, a must-have collection of conversations with the most fascinating writers of the last sixty years.) An excerpt: Interviewer: Do you think painters would help a fledgling...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
James Baldwin was one of the world's finest writers. He was also black and gay. In the 1950s and '60s, when he produced some of his best work, he could have been lynched for being both.
Daily Painters International Art Gallery (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
ARTIST~MARINA PETRO, SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY USA "Shadows" 5x7 inches on canvas panel Purchase at my ETSY SHOP or email me for other purchasing options. (link is below.) Today's Quotation: "The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone." -James Baldwin Email Me Blog Be my fan on...
Daily Painters Marketplace (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
ARTIST~MARINA PETRO, SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY USA "Shadows" 5x7 inches on canvas panel Purchase at my ETSY SHOP or email me for other purchasing options. (link is below.) Today's Quotation: "The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone." -James Baldwin Email Me Blog Be my fan on...
Ghost Word (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
In 1963, the author James Baldwin came to San Francisco to explore the increasing sense of bitterness and isolation felt by urban youths in America. He chose San Francisco in order to peer beneath its veneer of liberal acceptance. He found a city that he declared was no better than Birmingham, Alabama. Racism and discrimination were everywhere, if a little more genteelly hidden. A KQED television...
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