no, i didn't watch the oscars, but i did happen to notice that the departed won best picture.

just gonna repost this:

my six word review of The Departed

INFERNAL AFFAIRSWAS ( Read more... )

INFERNAL AFFAIRS
WAS
SO
MUCH
BETTER.

( a few more words )

just wanted to post the permanent link for reappropriate_x's post and discussion on dave chappelle's lost episodes, in particular the racial pixies sketch.

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Discovering A Different Space Of Resistance, zmag ( Read more... )

Boycott Disney, Pirates of the Caribbean, caribbean amerindian centrelink ( Read more... )

so just judging from the trailers and the excellent way disney glossed over the issue of slave labor in the caribbean in the first movie, i wasn't too hopeful about the portrayal of natives and people of color in the second pirates of the caribbean movie.

luckily it turns out my worries were completely unwarranted!


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"Light infantry is your branch of choice because the coming race war and the ethnic cleansing to follow will be very much an infantryman's war," he wrote. "It will be house-to-house, neighborhood-by-neighborhood until your town or city is cleared and the alien races are driven into the countryside where they can be hunted down and 'cleansed.'"

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A journey into the most savage war in the world, johann hari (via yeloson in a roundabout ways from sex_and_raceMy travels in the Democratic Vacuum of Congo ( Read more... )

The Miseducation of Dave Chappelle, reappropriate_xIt's no secret that I don't particularly like Dave Chappelle. When he was doing the "Chappelle's Show" on Comedy Central, there were times when I simply had to leave the room. I find the endless toilet humour and inane racism of his comedy grating, and although I appreciate some of his sketches (for example, "The ( Read more... )