I still have M.I.A.'s swagger-worthy Grammy performance in my head. Can't seem to get over the fact that she did all that on her due date. And for wearing what a good friend called her "You're damn right I'm knocked up!" get-up. Swagger-worthy in.deed.


M.I.A,T.I.,Jay-Z,Lil Wayne,& Kanye West - Swagga Like Us
by Alisvideo

There's something about today, despite its tiny tragedies, or perhaps because of them, that's given me some of the most poignant metaphors and similes I've come across. There was something I did earlier today that was akin to showing up at the altar having forgotten the rings ( Read more... )

Watching a 9-month pregnant M.I.A. performing "Swagga Like Us" with T.I., Kanye West, Jay-Z, and Lil Wayne was an experience. Might've been one of the better performances of the evening ( Read more... )

via matociquala, the esteemed jaylake on why you have to be a glutton for punishment to succeed in this business. Yes.

And the wonderful ccfinlay, who was actually an admin back when I first joined the OWW (back when it was sponsored by Del Rey) and is a phenomenal writer offers an incredible promotion for his new book about witches in the Revolutionary War era. Namely, ( Read more... )

CALAMITY JANE!!!!!!!!!!

Your return fills me with untold joy. re: Deadwood Season 2. Yes, I can haz obsession again.

To do this weekend (because it's worked so well in the past:

* Put together mini beatsheet for police procedural script

* Start beatsheet for Ancona pilot

* Catch up on War and Peace reading.

* Synopsize A Season in Tears for ( Read more... )

So I'm a big step closer to teaching middle school English in Baltimore next year. Details as things progress. Suffice it to say, it is not at all what I expected to find myself on track to doing at the beginning of the year. And I'm exhilarated and anxious and hopeful at the same time, all of which I probably should be feeling ( Read more... )

Watched the first half of the inauguration with politically-minded friends to the snarky commentary that peppered much of election night. The speech was beautiful and long as fcku! But still satisfyingly sobering. The highlights, though, include that moment during Rick Warren's prayer when one of Obama's daughters, who'd had her eyes closed, opened ( Read more... )

and three shots till drunk...

I decided I'd be a little self-centered today, what with it having been MLK Day yesterday and our first Black president inaugurated later today pending nation-rending snafus. P.S. Most of my acquaintances have scuttle-butted the classes they have this week for the opportunity to be, as suricattus puts it One with History. I ( Read more... )

So the semester course schedule has been figured out and just needs to be verified and whatnot. But, guess what. No extraneous paperwork needing to be signed ( Read more... )

The Snowpocalypse continues ( Read more... )