Racialicious has an interesting entry on "Stuff White People Do: Pose In Cowboy Drag," which is about the myth of the cowboy and how politicians use it to appeal to conservative white voters. A fair percentage of real cowboys from wild west history were actual black or Latin American, and worked as laborers. It's easy to forget that while watching ( Read more... )

It's been a while since I last posted. My family internet connection has been wiggy for days and wouldn't let me log on. Frustrating as hell.

Anywho, life is good. Haven't been writing lately. I've been doing some research on China, though, and I can't wait for March.

I was slightly annoyed by one such reading, Martial Arts: a complete ( Read more... )

There is a dead body outside ( Read more... )

I went to the library, and checked out six books about Chinese mythology and martial arts, plus two travel videos on the area. All of this is research for a script I want to begin (re)writing in march. It's an idea I have been contemplating for a long time. I even wrote a full length script based on the original premise and then chucked it after ( Read more... )