The top "news" is my current cover photo: me, hubby, and cat-son Sidney. A close second is my Profile pic, reminding San Francisco peeps to save the date for my January 26th show at Martuni's. Next: a shared Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater photo (by Andrew Eccles): the gorgeous lines of Alicia Graf Mack. Then a reprinted conversation:
Guy at party, just learning that his friend "Barry" is gay, and being asked for a "real man's" opinion: "we'd better not ask Barry!"
My husband: "Barry is a real man; he's just gay."
That's why I married him! ♥
Next, a tag of me performing at Cafe Flore, a post about my first marathon row (42,195 meters), more IBWFF pics and pics from Costa Rica, tags in pics from my nephew’s high school graduation, more status updates about rowing (thanking Friend Gabrizzle for motivating me), a link to Jezebel’s "A Complete Guide to 'Hipster Racism'", a tag from my Idiocracy party, birthday and holiday greetings, my "Blatinas" video, and the NAACP's call for stories regarding the economic crisis.
Biggest moments? I don't know how FB determined such a thing, loads of respect though I have for the programmers. Here are my moments:
Posted on my wall
"Thought of you, my love. Unfortunately." [with a link to I'm a Commercial Actress and I'm Constantly Being Told I'm Not "Black Enough" on www.xojane.com] My comment:
"Thought of you, my love. Unfortunately." [with a link to I'm a Commercial Actress and I'm Constantly Being Told I'm Not "Black Enough" on www.xojane.com] My comment:
Really sad. Really not surprising. Really frustrating that the author goes along as well as doesn't blame casting agents (but then, she'd have to blame herself, too). Really tiring that no one questions the legality of these employment practices (makes me think of folks going along with Jim Crow). Really great that it made you think of me. Perhaps I am making a dent after all.
My own posts
(12-12-12)
So for the second time in only a few months (that's been told to my face), a "progressive" casting person has openly refused to cast a brown person as a villain because of not wanting to feed stereotypes, even when a brown person is the best thespian for the job. These are my thoughts: look asshole, if you cast your heroes diversely, it won't harm the world to cast a villain of color, and while you think you're helping, you're just keeping another brown person out of a job while increasing the number of White people in leading roles. I appreciate the thoughtfulness, but damn!
(12-07-12)
Mehmet Cengiz Öz [only one person seemed to get this one]
(12-07-12)
Reason # 100101010100 I really dig my beau:
Me: "I'm totally cool with any son of mine wearing mascara...."
Chris: "Wait, why is he wearing mascara? If it's just a cross-dressing glam thing, then it's okay, but if it's because he's goth, then I've failed as a parent."
(11-30-12)
My singing gave my cat a urinary tract infection. #600dollarsbecauseIhateyourvoice
(11-29-12)
"The purpose of this is not for you to flex your nuts but work on your form." - my hubby upon learning that at the PMAX Indoor Rowing Time Trials on Sunday, I will have by far the fastest 5K, "so should I enter a harder heat, the 10K?" No! .... Okay, who wants to join me? You don't have to flex your nuts....
(11-27-12)
So it IS possible to eat too many kiwis....
(11-19-12)
Dream so dull, I woke up out of sheer boredom....
(10-04-2012)
[with the link to a survey of shows] Dag nabbit! "Supernatural" is on the "worst of" list for not hiring a single female or non-White director for the 2011-2012 television season. Sadly, then, I'll have to turn it off. Dammit! I love that show! Well, "Grimm" is on the "best of" list; time to turn it on instead.
(06-26-12)
yoga on the veranda
Costa Rican breakfast
read "Catching Fire" on the veranda
take a dip in the infinity pool
head to market in Playa de Coco
say "hola" to the Jacuzzi iguana Art Linkletter
grab a late lunch/early dinner of fresh fish, vegetables, and rice
watch the sunset on the veranda
say "hola" to raccoon couple Eddie and Ralph
more laps in the infinity pool with a bat fly-by
go to bed so I can do it again tomorrow!
I have way too many posts promoting W. Kamau Bell (BTW, he’s got an NAACP Image Award nom’!), a bunch of posts for free events from concerts to Geek Outs, shared pics from Truth Beckons (Stop Making Stupid People Famous) and Occupy Bahrain (the thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people), and a bunch of pics I posted on Intelligent, classy, well-educated women who say F*ck a lot.
But for the full picture, you must see the quotes I pulled from the various links I shared:
(12-12-12)
So for the second time in only a few months (that's been told to my face), a "progressive" casting person has openly refused to cast a brown person as a villain because of not wanting to feed stereotypes, even when a brown person is the best thespian for the job. These are my thoughts: look asshole, if you cast your heroes diversely, it won't harm the world to cast a villain of color, and while you think you're helping, you're just keeping another brown person out of a job while increasing the number of White people in leading roles. I appreciate the thoughtfulness, but damn!
(12-07-12)
Mehmet Cengiz Öz [only one person seemed to get this one]
(12-07-12)
Reason # 100101010100 I really dig my beau:
Me: "I'm totally cool with any son of mine wearing mascara...."
Chris: "Wait, why is he wearing mascara? If it's just a cross-dressing glam thing, then it's okay, but if it's because he's goth, then I've failed as a parent."
(11-30-12)
My singing gave my cat a urinary tract infection. #600dollarsbecauseIhateyourvoice
(11-29-12)
"The purpose of this is not for you to flex your nuts but work on your form." - my hubby upon learning that at the PMAX Indoor Rowing Time Trials on Sunday, I will have by far the fastest 5K, "so should I enter a harder heat, the 10K?" No! .... Okay, who wants to join me? You don't have to flex your nuts....
(11-27-12)
So it IS possible to eat too many kiwis....
(11-19-12)
Dream so dull, I woke up out of sheer boredom....
(10-04-2012)
[with the link to a survey of shows] Dag nabbit! "Supernatural" is on the "worst of" list for not hiring a single female or non-White director for the 2011-2012 television season. Sadly, then, I'll have to turn it off. Dammit! I love that show! Well, "Grimm" is on the "best of" list; time to turn it on instead.
(06-26-12)
yoga on the veranda
Costa Rican breakfast
read "Catching Fire" on the veranda
take a dip in the infinity pool
head to market in Playa de Coco
say "hola" to the Jacuzzi iguana Art Linkletter
grab a late lunch/early dinner of fresh fish, vegetables, and rice
watch the sunset on the veranda
say "hola" to raccoon couple Eddie and Ralph
more laps in the infinity pool with a bat fly-by
go to bed so I can do it again tomorrow!
I have way too many posts promoting W. Kamau Bell (BTW, he’s got an NAACP Image Award nom’!), a bunch of posts for free events from concerts to Geek Outs, shared pics from Truth Beckons (Stop Making Stupid People Famous) and Occupy Bahrain (the thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people), and a bunch of pics I posted on Intelligent, classy, well-educated women who say F*ck a lot.
But for the full picture, you must see the quotes I pulled from the various links I shared:
"You don't expect quark-gluon plasma effects [with lead-proton collisions]," said MIT physicist Gunther Roland. "It was supposed to be sort of a reference run — a run in which you can study background effects and then subtract them from the effects that you see in lead-lead collisions."
"Basically this is a movie about how 280,000 people died so one white kid could learn to be less of a snot." [about The Impossible]
HILARIOUS: "ADVERTORIAL NOTICE - The following document and information
resource is factitious and includes supposititious content that is
reproduced and assumed. The function of this information is to spotlight
products and services which have their own unique authoritative
document and information."
"Never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Crabtree, a professor of pathology and developmental biology, suggested our intellectual peak came when humans were mostly nonverbal and were stressed out trying to think of ways to not get eaten by wild animals."
"Racism is like a wily little bacterium. It doesn't just roll over and die once we swallow our antibiotics—it mutates and evolves and hides itself in plain sight, and then all of a sudden, fuck, my arm fell off. Dickhead bacteria."
Finally, my FB Friend of the Day, which really translates to my 300 biggest moments. I showcase Friends - each on their very own day - for their talents, any services or merchandise they are currently plugging, and their general awesomeness, thanking them at the end of the post for something they brought into my life. As I explained to a Friend who inquired, Friend of the Day came about because I decided: (1) I didn't want to accumulate Friends, i.e., I wanted to actually know folks on my list, not just have 4,000+ so that I could boast about it; and (2) I want to appreciate them so that they know I don't take them for granted. Used to be I wrote letters to folks; now I'm totally cyber-ed out like the rest of us, and I don't want to lose that part of acknowledging the people in my life, whether I see them in person or not. I figure if I can't spend a minute of each day celebrating someone on my Friends list, then I'm really not a friend at all and have gotten WAY too busy/self-centered/isolated/etc.. In short (too late for that!), I want to keep my values in check and not lose big chunks of my humanity in this collapsing world....
"Never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Crabtree, a professor of pathology and developmental biology, suggested our intellectual peak came when humans were mostly nonverbal and were stressed out trying to think of ways to not get eaten by wild animals."
"Racism is like a wily little bacterium. It doesn't just roll over and die once we swallow our antibiotics—it mutates and evolves and hides itself in plain sight, and then all of a sudden, fuck, my arm fell off. Dickhead bacteria."
Finally, my FB Friend of the Day, which really translates to my 300 biggest moments. I showcase Friends - each on their very own day - for their talents, any services or merchandise they are currently plugging, and their general awesomeness, thanking them at the end of the post for something they brought into my life. As I explained to a Friend who inquired, Friend of the Day came about because I decided: (1) I didn't want to accumulate Friends, i.e., I wanted to actually know folks on my list, not just have 4,000+ so that I could boast about it; and (2) I want to appreciate them so that they know I don't take them for granted. Used to be I wrote letters to folks; now I'm totally cyber-ed out like the rest of us, and I don't want to lose that part of acknowledging the people in my life, whether I see them in person or not. I figure if I can't spend a minute of each day celebrating someone on my Friends list, then I'm really not a friend at all and have gotten WAY too busy/self-centered/isolated/etc.. In short (too late for that!), I want to keep my values in check and not lose big chunks of my humanity in this collapsing world....
So thank you, Facebook, for my 2012 Year in Review. But my REAL 2012 is about these amazing people you've made it possible for me to honor, publicly ... within the confines of my private FB settings. The attempt to make an app for my moments reminds me of just how important these real folk are, how there's nothing like flesh and blood. Whether it be my adoration of Michael Gene's Sullivan's relentless anger, the honor of being an intellectual resource to Erin Merritt, or the deserved humility and shame about my own dysfunction pointed out to me so brilliantly by JoAnne Henry, these big moments are each an experience that can't be tagged ... thank LBJ! (Lesbian Black Jesus)
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