This week I have been rereading Paul Dresman’s The Silver Dazzle of the Sun, well worth poring over for the ring of the words and in my case for the way in which it transports one to the West, that Asian painting. I have been looking at this book with its photographs of beautiful and … More Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: Paul Dresman, Ceramics
Let Me Ride, recorded January 15, 1935. Axé.
I can tell it is January because I am spending a certain amount of time giving people tips for handling their first campus interviews. Mostly what I am telling them is to calm down. If there is anything they forget to ask now, they will have a chance to ask it later. I am good … More On Being Where One Is
Read the Freedom Rider. I never could stand Barack Obama or Michael Eric Dyson, anyway. And when I see Ford, who has research and analytical skills, talk to Dyson, who has only sophistry, I feel well justified in preferring journalists to professors. I think people are voting for Obama because they think he can cause … More Glen Ford
“The holy grail, for management, is to scab a UPS strike,” said Charles Richardson, a researcher who has analyzed UPS on behalf of the union. Richardson argues that the technological leap forward at UPS is really about “stealing knowledge” and making smart machinery that can be operated by not-so-smart scabs. Currently, work at UPS is … More Ominous
“If you’re not white, you’re considered Black.” That explains it. If we are really lucky, we will be in Trinidad for Carnaval. Take it away, Lord Kitch. Everybody’s there, one and all. Axé.
Check out this Argentine condom commercial. Via A Black Girl’s Guide to Buenos Aires, also known as ¡¡¡Hola Morocha!!! Axé.
“Those of us who have made war know how to recognize the paths by which it is prepared and brought near,” Marcos said. “The signs of war on the horizon are clear. War, like fear, also has a smell. And now we are starting to breathe its fetid odor in our lands.” Marcos’s assessment supports … More Chiapas Alert
The film The Great Debaters exceeds expectations. I want to go again. Here is some excellent commentary on the film by the Anxious Black Woman, and here is some information on the real life Melvin B. Tolson, a poet. We should all be so brave. It was I who taught Black Diamond his first lesson … More Melvin B. Tolson
It is not the weekend, but it should be. These are the Dynamites, with Charles Walker and Ernie Vincent, in Nashville, 2005. Axé.
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