Posts in: Off-topic
- New gig
- I mentioned it briefly in a link dump a couple of days ago. I am now an interactive developer at Fletcher Martin, an ad agency downtown (and yes, we know we need to do something about that site. It’s been the same since at least 2000). I left Georgia Tech last month because I thought it [...] [30 Aug 2006]
- Atlanta, GA: Montreux Jazz Festival, Labor Day Weekend.
- Okay, Friday night, the Underground is officially the place to be. Why? The FREE Montreux Jazz Festival. Montreux has been missing in action from the Atlanta festival scene for a few years now. But it’s back this year. But let me tell you why you just really, really need to go Friday night: Joi and Anthony David [...] [29 Aug 2006]
- D-Nice is a photographer? WTH?
- I see I need to start paying more attention to things and people. One of my childhood crushes and rapper of one of my favorite jams (”Takin out you suckas and you don’t know how I did it) is also an amazing photographer / photo blogger. And he’s a fellow Black Weblog Awards finalist. So [...] [29 Aug 2006]
- A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
- Rohinton Mistry wrote a masterpiece with this book. Set in India during the 1975 State of Emergency under Indira Gandhi, A Fine Balance is the heartbreaking story four people whose lives were profoundly interwined and profoundly changed by the cultural norms and the government’s choices. Ishvar and Om leave the cruel, caste-based violence of their rural [...] [3 Aug 2006]
- “Broken Boy Soldiers” - The Raconteurs
- Okay, so one morning I woke up and the TV was on MTV. And I heard something about “Jack White” — as in the dude from the White Stripes, who would be my favorite rockers if I actually paid attention to rock music. Then I saw the video credits. Something about “Steady As She [...] [2 Aug 2006]
- BlogHer ‘06: Quotes about sex taken completely out of context
- All heard at BlogHer ‘06 … Granted, most of these were from the excellent session “Let’s Talk About Sex,” so they’re just mostly out of context. “Can you write a song about my pussy? It’s white and its name is Stanky.” “Some people are licking toast and getting off on it.” “I’m kinky and bi too.” “Sex is yucky, [...] [29 Jul 2006]
