Archive for October, 2006
boo!!!
Happy Halloween! What’re you gonna dress up as tonight?
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Tags: holidays
rini presente!!!
Today was the opening of the Rini Art Exhibition at Galeria de la Raza. I did not know who Rini was until very recently, but I have seen her artwork around for many years. She spearheaded an entire genre of art with her black-and-white images called “xerox art,” which activists and organizers could copy [...]
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Tags: art, Rini Templeton
invincible army…
In sum, we are an army of dreamers, and therefore invincible. How can we fail to win, with this imagination overturning everything. Or rather, we do not deserve to lose. ~Subcomandante Marcos
In memory of Brad Will, who was shot and killed this afternoon while reporting in Oaxaca.
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Tags: Brad Will, death, Oaxaca, quotes
edgy eft…
Ubuntu 6.10 was released today. aka… Edgy Eft. Who comes up with these names? The next one is Feisty Fawn, btw.
Everyone’s probably upgrading to 6.10 right now so I think I might wait a bit until the load lessens on the Ubuntu servers.
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Tags: linux
rain delay…
Rainy weather in St. Louis forced postponement of the fourth game of the World Series today. I thought the Detroit Tigers would have no problem beating the St. Louis Cardinals. And I think all baseball fans outside of the state of Missouri thought the some. And now, the Tigers find themselves down [...]
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Tags: baseball, sports
more lasagna…
I bragged early on here about the killer vegan lasagna that I made a couple of months ago. Well, Debbie and Nishu, who recently got married, invited us over for dinner, and sought to dethrone me by making an incredible vegan lasagna of their own. Unlike my lasagna, which was “cheesy” and “meaty,” [...]
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Tags: food, friends
bike woes…
About five months ago, I professed to my not being a bike geek. My bike is my primary mode of transportation. I don’t need to know how to take it apart and put it back together again. I just need it to work.
Well, last night, as I was biking home, I got [...]
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Tags: cycling
great people…
There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet. ~Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr.
Emma Lozano, remembering her brother – community activist and union organizer Rudy Lozano
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Tags: quotes
women of color…
The Women of Color Resource Center hosted their 8th Annual Sisters of Fire Awards today, honoring 5 extraordinary women and their leadership in community organizing, the arts, and social analysis. The recipients this year were:
- nationally acclaimed editor of ColorLines Magazine, Tram Nguyen;
– New Orleans-based attorney and director of Advocates for Environmental [...]
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Tags: fundraisers, gender, racism
happy diwali!!!
Today is Diwali, “the festival of lights.”
Best Diwali Wishes to All of You.
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Tags: desi, Diwali
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