I saw "Law Abiding Citizen" Saturday, and I absolutely hated it. I cannot in good conscience recommend that anybody see this dog; if you've seen the trailer, you've already seen the most powerful parts anyway.

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Because of my ambiguous skin tone, I am often taken for races other than Latin; I've been called everything from black to Korean to Hawaiian. This amuses me now, but in years past I considered it vital, a survival mechanism. My mother was obsessed with the idea that I needed to "pass" in white society by any means necessary to ensure my future ( Read more... )

Eric's father called last night for him; thankfully, Eric was out doing laundry and I was putting the kids down for the night and didn't get to the phone in time. I called Eric to let him know and waited for him to call me back and tell me what happened ( Read more... )

Eric likes to call me a "stealth Mexican" since he maintains that my ethnic heritage is not immediately apparent from my looks. I guess that's true enough, since folks back home usually thought I was either white or half Asian; out here I'm often taken for Hawaiian or another sort of Pacific Islander. That should give you at least some idea ( Read more... )

My sister's daughter, 4-year-old Catherine, entered the local Head Start preschool this week. She's having a little trouble getting used to, shall we say, the environment ( Read more... )

Just in case some of you folks thought I was overreacting when I worried about the possibility of hate crime against me and my children ( Read more... )

Okay, this officially scares/upsets me ( Read more... )

So I've been feeling like shit since Thursday. Cough, aches, congestion, the works.

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Recent events have left me somewhat confused and in a difficult position. As a Dodgers fan, I find myself in the odd situation of feeling a need to defend the Dodgers' hated rivals, the San Francisco Giants.

Allow me to explain. The Giants haven't been doing that well lately (neither have the Dodgers, but that's another entry.)

( Inflammatory remarks ahead )