In her video “China Doll,” Natalise portraits an Asian girl with all the stereotypical characteristics including heavy accents, horrible driving skills, nerdy and nail worker. What makes the video works is that she has done a clever job of pulling off the satires. Dig the witty lyrics too:
Don’t fuck with me; I gotta mind like a computer
I work a double shift; I could be your tutor.
Hey you got chopstix fever
Hey I ain’t no pleaser
Now hey no ornamental teaser
They like to strangle niggers, blaming niggers, shooting niggers, hanging niggers. Still you want to be a nigger too?
As always, Nas has never been afraid to speak his mind. “Chink nigger,” word!
From Steven Greenhouse’s The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker:
At a Koch Foods poultry plant in Tennessee, the managers were so intent on keeping the line running all out that Antonia Lopez Paz and the other workers who carved off chicken tenders were ordered not to go to the bathroom except during their lunch and coffee breaks. When one desperate woman asked permission to go, her supervisor took off his hard hat and said, “You can go to the bathroom in this.” Some women ended up soiling themselves.
That is insane.
Montana Meth Project’s ads featured strong graphical messages including “15 bucks for sex isn’t normal. But on meth it is.”
Before and after faces of meth. Damn!
The movie (clever, hilarious and well done)
Jill Leovy of Los Angeles Times documents homicide in L.A. through her blog. The blog started out with 17 names and reached 845 within a year.
Aliza Shvarts, a senior art major at Yale, wants to exhibit abortion as art:
Beginning next Tuesday, Shvarts will be displaying her senior art project, a documentation of a nine-month process during which she artificially inseminated herself “as often as possible” while periodically taking abortifacient drugs to induce miscarriages. Her exhibition will feature video recordings of these forced miscarriages as well as preserved collections of the blood from the process.
That is some fucked up shit.
With the rice price jacking up damn near double, we seek for a healthy alternative. Peep at what my lovely lady has packed for my lunch: Grilled chicken salad (assorted greens) with grapes, pineapple slices, strawberries and my favorite dressing raspberry walnut vinaigrette. She also threw in a yogurt, tangerine and banana for snacks. Damn, it’s only nine o’clock and I can’t wait for lunch already. Three more hours to go, but I might take an early lunch.
