(Maybe if I do a bunch of mini-reviews, I'll have a chance of catching up?) 51. Keith Black, MD, Brain Surgeon: A Doctor's Inspiring Encounters with Mortality and Miracles. This one works best, I think, if you think of it as an extended dinner table conversation. The writing style is somewhat clunky, but the man does have good stories to tell, and I learned quite a bit about brain tumors, ...
... a Kool or a Newport. Why do African Americans smoke menthols? Is it a cultural ... were packed with cigarette advertisements that featured African-American models and referenced black culture, like... particularly nasty results: According to the CDC, African Americans are at least 50 percent more...than white smokers, which is partly because African Americans metabolize nicotine more slowly. Recent ...
...colonize it, even with ultra-modern tech, would be eaten and killed by proto-Gaian forces of nature. But I still don't really know what to do with the Mexican, Peruvian, and for that matter, African cultures. Highlighting some major tribes might be fun, and I could just opt out (they were all killed by European plagues) but that seems kind of lame, and if I gave a few interesting tribes some token...
... an All-Punk Week somewherein the future, I promise. For tonight, I'm exhausted, and in need of rest. So I'll be brief today. Tomorrow morning I've got to get up and go play some African Marimba at the Milwaukie Farmer's Market. Feel free to join us from 10am-1pm. Today, for the finale, I've got a double header of acoustic instrumentals for ya. The first, is Anji , an acoustic number for...
... my house and I still miss Arbaugh and I'll miss my friends and roommates, I think I have a pretty decent future ahead of me. My current plan is to teach English in Wuhan, China for a year and then either join the Peace Corps in Africa or move to Oregon with Ben and adopt an African son and an Asian daughter. In terms of a career, however, I still have no idea what I want to do with my life.
... emotionally attach well to people. I have had pet birds a few times and I have to say screw all them other birds, these are the best: http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l207/georgeg_photo/AFRICAN-GUINEA-FOWL-A.jpg But right now they are visuallyappealing: http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm203/Happypaint_1972/DSC00405.jpg No, none of those are my pictures. I would take pictures of them ...
What better way to celebrate Juneteenth in a community dedicated to posting vintage photographs? Post actors in blackface , chillins enjoying some watermelon , and pictures of african americans being lynched . Wank ensues from some members, as one would expect. Some are completely oblivious. I'm too tired to write anymore. :V
... a bag of pistachios. The label read "Pistachios. Raw kennels." I think the teeny tiny puppies that would sleep inside pistachios would be totally adorable, but I'd prefer kernels, myself. Incidentally, in Black South AfricanEnglish, "kernels" and "kennels" are usually pronounced with the same first vowel (the one in "kennels"). This is irrelevant, but I thought it might be mildly interesting.
...more. I don't know if any of the other moms would agree with me. Maybe their kids are fine, but N often gets overwhelmed. She spent a lot of today's playgroup opening and closing the door to her room. Sometimes she just hung out in her room. I looked in once to see her sitting in her chair reading a book! The high point of playgroup was when N had a little Africandanceparty in her room.
... voice." It's also a history-making flick, with Disney's first African-American princess… It must be a pretty intense feeling knowing you're the first African-American princess. It's pretty amazing. For me, it means even ...
