Cheri Cheva's She's So Money is on my nightstand, waiting to be read.  Yesterday, I flipped to the back flap to read about the author: 
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I pass a group of young Desi (or Indian-American or South Asian or Brown) guys on a street corner.  If you don’t look closely enough, they could be a group of young Black (or African-American or Black-American) guys.

They might have on baseball caps, huge baggy jeans hanging off the wrong part of their bodies, and t-shirts that go almost to ( Read more... )

This weekend, I was interviewed for a magazine article.  Nothing to do with my book, or even writing, for that matter.  The topic of the hour was body image.  This is a topic I could on and on and ON about (and have, as seen in this post), but I'll refrain just this once :D.  Before the interview, all sorts of thoughts went through my head about ( Read more... )

Check out this most recent skin lightening product coming out of India.  There's an article on the SAJA Forum about it here.  The product is a Pond's cream called White Beauty, with Ogilvie and Mather behind the marketing campaign...

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You could Youtube the entire ad campaign -- it's like five or six spots that are soap-opera style and it really did ( Read more... )

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You may have noticed in a previous post I mentioned two confessions, but made only one.  Okay, here's the other one:  a while back, I watched Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay.  I haven't posted about it because I just don't know what to write.  Did I like it?  Meh.  Was it good?  Meh.  Was it total frat boy humor?  Totally.

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This is one of the best videos I've seen in a long time.  Seriously.  I was like, clapping and whistling and totally delighted.  And the look on Simon Cowell's face is priceless.  Thanks to NC from SAWCC for forwarding!  If you're reading this on my website, click here, or copy and paste the URL into your browser: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= ( Read more... )

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The book currently causing an uproar in children's publishing is My Beautiful Mommy, by Big Tent Books, due out on Mother's Day.


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