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Name: Peter
Birthday: 2/4/1984
Gender: Male
Interests: AIM sn: pkboi24, Movies, sports, working out, chillin, games, computers, cars, electronics, stuff
Expertise: Your mother
Occupation: Student
Industry: Medical
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Member Since:
1/12/2003
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| You NEVER start with the big things. It's always stuff you don't
notice, like "Toasted Oats" instead of "Cheerios" or knowing inside
that you don't need an A when a B+ is good enough. I mean, it's not
like you suddenly decide one day to give up your dreams of becoming an
astronaut for a job on Wall Street. You don't tell yourself "I think
I'll compromise my dreams and just take the easy way out." It's NEVER
like that. You ALWAYS start with the small things. That's how they get
you. You give an inch here, a foot there, and before you know it you're
miles and miles from where you started with only a faint recollection
of how you got there. So you figure, "Eh, I'll just stay for a few
minutes." And that's where you fail, because the minutes man, the
minutes, they turn into hours, and the hours turn into days and those
turn into weeks and months and years and marriage and counseling and
kids and divorce and taxes and loans and grandkids and diabetes and
cancer. And on your 60th birthday, there you'll be, still miles away
from where you were, except now you don't even remember that you were
once somewhere else. You'll think that you've been there all along, and
you won't be able to explain that dull sense of longing you wake up
with in the morning. You'll ignore it because you figure "Eh, it's
nothing big." But that's how they get you, man, they start with the
small things.
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| Okay, I'll admit it. I'm watching Mulan II on the Disney channel right
now. Min is in Miami this weekend and I'm home alone. Not to say of
course, that I watch Disney flicks because I'm lonely. It's really more
out of nostalgia, I suppose. I always find it interesting how you can
be exposed to the same thing at different points in your life and
realize through your reactions how much you have changed. The last time
I watched Mulan, I thought: Regular Disney flick, nothing special.
Right now, I'm looking at the characters and I'm thinking: This is
ridiculous, it's not like Chinese people go around making toons about
cowboys speaking bad English (Although we do make movies about cowboys
of a different sort, but in the defense of Ang Lee, at least they're
culturally accurate.) And also, why is the dragon a black guy? If
everyone else is speaking awkward English, why is the dragon speaking
in ebonics? This is blatant misappropriation of foreign culture. Just
because it is for kids, doesn't mean that cultural insensitivity can be
excused in the name of comedy. If anything, kids in America should be
taught at a young age about the importance of cultural respect. Here is
what Mulan teaches children:
- Chinese people really ARE good at kung fu
- Chinese people mistreat women
- Everything that is different about Chinese people can be turned into a joke
- Ancestor worship
- "Aiya"
- Ying/Yang
- Family Honor
I know, you think I'm overreacting. It's just a stupid cartoon movie.
Well, blackface minstrel shows were just a form of entertainment. For
almost a century, people went around pretending to be black, thinking
it harmelss and quite comedic to mock African American culture by
smearing their faces with shoe polish. Things haven't changed quite as
much as we would like to believe. The old wrongs have not been
eradicated. Their howls may have softened into whispers over the years,
but the message has remained the same.
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| Dawn of summer yet
Temperature in the 90's
The pounds melt off me
sipping lemonade
barefeet, boxers, wifebeater
sweat sizzles off skin
Sweet watermelon
I spit the seeds black as night
the white ones I keep
Branford Marsalis
A Love Supreme, a remake
God smiles through the sun
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| What happens when you let a couple of white guys into a Shanghai KTV
I don't want to eat this cake.
The note says "From now on, it's all mine." Bachelorette party, no doubt. From the looks of it she's marrying a big black guy.
Now it looks like she's eating a piece of turd
Tina, if you're reading this, they apparently do "get down" in Shanghai...
Example #1
Example #2
Just look at that shit in the second picture, thigh all up on the table and what not...shameless... | | |
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