Ruben J. Casas, Curator
Don’t fool yourself. English isn’t inherently superior, or easier to learn, or more sonically pleasing. Its international usage comes from forceful assimilation and legacy of colonialistic injection. It isn’t a deed that one should take pride in.
— my uncle left this comment on his friend’s Facebook status, a white British man who was bragging about how easy it is to be a native English speaker when trekking to different nations. (via maarnayeri)
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Home is where the affectation is
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NEW POST: America’s seismic demographic shift is upending life in our suburbs, cities and our popular culture. So why are we still clinging to the same stories to make sense of these changes?
Agreed. What might the new stories be?
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(via Louis C.K.: I’m an Accidental White Person | Music News | Rolling Stone)
Where does Louis C.K.’s off-kilter comic vision come from? Turns out the answer may be “Mexico.” C.K. was born in California, but moved to his father’s native Mexico at age one – he and his family didn’t move back to the U.S. until he was seven or so. “Coming here and observing America as an outsider made me an observing person,” C.K. tells senior writer Brian Hiatt in the new issue of Rolling Stone. “I grew up in Boston and didn’t get the accent, and one of the reasons is that I started in Spanish. I was a little kid, so all I had to do was completely reject my Spanish and my Mexican past, which is a whole lot easier because I’m white with red hair. I had the help of a whole nation of people just accepting that I’m white.”
Accidentally white.
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226/365 Our panel at #4C13 (photo by Travis Margoni) (at Riviera Hotel & Casino)
Our 4C13 panel (photo Travis Margoni)
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Listen to a very brief snippet of what seems to be new (and quite funky) Daft Punk music from an ad that aired during last night’s “SNL”. Someone was nice enough to loop the clip’s audio for 10 minutes, too.
Funky funky
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Cover art of Science & Mechanics magazine, 1931
A vision of the future from the past….
Simcity me this
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HBO’s critically acclaimed series ‘Girls’ has been criticized for not being diverse enough. Long before ‘Girls’, two shows — ‘Living Single’ and ‘Girlfriends’ – featured professional African-American women. But the creator of ‘Girlfriends’ says times have changed, and the shows she now produces have more multicultural casts.
— ‘Living’ In Color, Long Before ‘Girls’ (via npr)
Once more, with feeling:
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