Random Facts about me for this Halloween:

Halloween and Christmas are my two favorite holidays.

My favorite holiday movie is Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas.

From October to January I play holiday music nonstop.

Between GMX (yes that report is forthcoming) and today, I've rocked Captain America, I was Clark Kent, and a Gryffindor student ( Read more... )

‎"What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty ( Read more... )

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And one of my favorite quotes:

"First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate ( Read more... )

Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season. For New Years I met up with my sister who was having a lovely night on the town. Being dolled up, she wanted to get some snapshots. Who better than to call than her photographer for a big brother ( Read more... )

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Sick of the holiday season? The rampant consumerism? Society's greed? And everyone acting rude and obnoxious jerks and embodying everything that goes opposite of what this holiday season is supposed to be about ( Read more... )

As I mentioned in Random Fact #12, I don't celebrate Thanksgiving...or for that matter Columbus Day or the Fourth of July, as longtime readers are aware.

The next person's mileage varies obviously but to me it would be the equivalent of Africans commemorating the Fantastic Cruise we took to the "New" World.

I usually hate this time of year for ( Read more... )