January 2012
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“After all, not knowing how to write is like not knowing how to make love. So why...”
– Allan Aquino, Schmotherator of The Undeniables
December 2011
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2011 Books
Books I finish reading with quotations ripped out of context.
1. Ignorance by Milan Kundera
They stayed in their country because they liked themselves and because they liked themselves together with their lives, which were inseparable from the place where the lives had been lived.
2. Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury
If your boy is a poet, horse manure can only mean flowers to him;...
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“The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but...”
– Thomas Edison
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“I guess it can’t be too often that two people can laugh and make love, too, make...”
– James Baldwin - If Beale Street Could Talk. (via thenegrosophisticate)
we do, we do, we do <3
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“Are you going to that gay pride parade?” my mother asked late one morning as I...”
– Jamilah King
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Is there a tar sands refinery near you? →
Los Angeles has Tesoro Refinery & ConocoPhilips Los Angeles Refinery, both in Wilmington.
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Chanda's Tumblrsaurus: One teacher's approach to... →
So wonderful. togetherforjacksoncountykids:
“It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel
Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got…
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“Michael Cho. Cau Thi Bich Tran. John T. Wiliams
Tycel Nelson. Oscar Grant. Fong...”
– Bao Phi
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12 pm Sunday 12/18
Me: I am making apple cinnamon oatmeal cookies right now right now! Haha.
Siftedfleur: Oooooo why r u talkin so sexy so early hahaha
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“So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and...”
– Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
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“If your experience is that your water comes from the tap and that your food...”
– Derrick Jensen (via cultureofresistance)
truth
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Flashback: A City of Sin and Beauty // Gardena in... →
Gambling advertisement for the city of Gardena, 1952 source: LA Public Library
A few months ago I sat on a bus with a couple of men in their sixties who had…
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“I write to record what others erase when I speak.” - Gloria Anzaldúa”
– (via twssonline)
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“Without funding for family planning, Texas can expect to see a 22 percent...”
– Jordan Smith, Rick Perry’s War on Women
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What the World’s Biggest Websites Looked Like at... →
They are kind of hideous by today’s standards. A part of me misses the crudeness.
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Akiba Solomon breaks down a White, Male,... →
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What If... at Gallery Nucleus Dec 10 - Jan 2 →
Looking for some weekend art in San Gabriel Valley? Check out the opening of a new show at Gallery Nucleus in Alhambra: What If…
What if it actually rained cats and dogs? What if money…
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Lantern Review
Reading Period for Issue 4 Closes on Dec. 21st
A reminder that our current reading period (for Issue 4) will close on December 21st. We are still looking for original poems, translation work, and lots, and lots of art to feature in the issue, so please do consider sending something our way! Our submission guidelines can be found here. (Our submissions form proper can be accessed via the button...
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Donate to 'American Revolutionary: The Evolution... →
Truth:
The Los Angeles-based writer/director Grace Lee’s next project is a documentary about this bad-ass, nonagenarian philosopher/activist:
American…
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