January 2010
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Lauryn Hill - Ex-factor/Manifest (Live in Japan)
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November 2009
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fair and kind →
damn good indie pop/rock
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Watchitsamazing:
Alicia Keys performs ‘Doesnt Mean Anything, ‘Empire State Of Mind’. ‘Dont Know My Name’ & her latest single, ‘Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart’ live in New York City.
…she never ever fails to give me the chills.
love her. love her love her love her.
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October 2009
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iLL-Literacy ft. Passion - The HereNow
You should...
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“It’s funny. When you date someone, it’s like you’re taking one long course in...”
– Ted (How I Met Your Mother, 5x03) (via heartwarming) (via thisloveisdifficult) (via pinkeezy) (via mhight) (via isabelthespy)
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Zee Avi - Slow Hands (Interpol cover)
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“Who is championing Filipino American literature on a national level? Who is...”
– “Some Filipino American Literature Questions,” Barbara Jane Reyes
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NYT - Woman's Shattered Life Shows Ground Beef... →
Stephanie Smith, a children’s dance instructor, thought she had a stomach virus. The aches and cramping were tolerable that first day, and she finished her classes.
Then her diarrhea turned bloody. Her kidneys shut down. Seizures knocked her unconscious. The convulsions grew so relentless that doctors had to put her in a coma for nine weeks. When she emerged, she could no longer walk. The...
Is there a Tumblr theme with a customizable header...
Looking through the theme garden & it’s kind of disorganized, & I can’t tell by previewing whether header images can be changed.
stanks
September 2009
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Typhoon Ondoy September 26, 2009 →
The vultures everywhere are coming all out in force. Here are some of the things we’ve seen online:
1. Government officials allegedly not distributing relief goods in Provident Village Marikina because no media to cover their distribution.
2. Citizen apparently being told by SSS person that no funds are available for calamity loan.
3. DSWD allegedly repacking ABS-CBN relief goods in Pasig,...
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as I found out ten days ago,
sensitive:
obvious revelations can still be heartbreaking
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Muellmar Magallanes saved at least 30 people in... →
With the help of an older brother, Mr Magallanes tied a string around his waist and attached it one-by-one to his three younger siblings, whom he took to higher ground. Then he came back for his parents.
But Mr Magallanes, a strong swimmer, decided to go back for neighbours trapped on rooftops.
He ended up making many trips, and eventually saved more than 30 people from drowning, witnesses and...
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WatchYeah, I’m a five-foot Yeah, I’m a looker Good enough to eat but I’ve never been a sucka …
—EyeASage
And if you missed it: last year’s Married to the Hustle
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Near the street where I live.
Without a doubt, the best part about my new spot in the Central Richmond is the LOCATION.
These are just a few of the places in walking distance from my little (as yet undecorated) room.
Bazaar Cafe - a regular haunt of extra-credit seeking folks from the USF English department, where current and/or former students host events over the course of the school year. I’ve only been to one of...
August 2009
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Kundiman for Melissa Roxas (PDF) →
Let us participate in a community of cymbals through poems— bringing noise and sound and outrage and unremitting memory to what has happened to Melissa and what continues to happen to activists and artists around the world who dare to take a stand against injustice. Let us encircle them, encourage them and fight for them. There is power when people agree to stand and speak together.
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A...ha? Questionable non-conclusion #6,3200
It went like so:
1. Three or four weeks ago, T made a joke about my having terrible taste in men.
2. A couple weeks ago, I wrote a poem for Melissa Roxas.
3. Since writing this poem, I’ve been thinking of the Philippines much more than usual lately.
4. This results in another poem written for the Pinay-centric show my women’s group is in the process of putting together.
5. This...
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I can make this a little more vague.
I’ve gone through enough emotional stripdowns this summer to really admit to myself that being able to discern certain things right away is utterly useless if I don’t follow through on those things.
—-
What? You didn’t have to read it.
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YES. FINALLY.
I wrote and finished a poem for the first time in the last two and a half months.
The muse has begun to blink and stir from her summer hibernation.
Salamat.
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“I’m sure this will have no more effect on “Nice Guys” than it...”
– No more Mr. Nice Guy - Salon
The truth.
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July 2009
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Excerpts from Barbara Jane Reyes' _Diwata_. →
I got chills.
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“I think I’m probably the only person I know who is good at something that causes...”
– another Junot interview, from Narrative Magazine this time.
(And I don’t actually go looking for his interviews. They just keep showing up in my inbox or being linked to me by friends. I do read other people.)
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“Roxas said that after six days in captivity, she was driven to Quezon City...”
– Fil-Am activist names torturers - INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos (via curate)
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“he isn’t looking at anything
he isn’t looking for something
he isn’t looking...”
– “Doveglion” (via eecummings)
aka Jose Garcia Villa, who Cummings wrote this poem for.
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90 days from today
I turn 21.
Is it too much to hope for that in three months, I will
-be in school
-have a place to live
-have a job
And is it too much to ask that in three months I’ll finally be over this part of my life where I keep making the same mistakes? At least for a little while? I’d like time to make new and different mistakes instead. Like, rather than further fucking up my...
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Junot Diaz interview in Guernica Magazine →
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On finding things out through social networking.
10:54 PM (PST): My former roommate tweets about how awesome bartending school is. I’m elated for her, and I tweet this back.
10:57 PM (PST): A casual friend, a young single mother, a poet whose words have moved me, updates her Facebook status: He cheated on me. Something inside me breaks for her. I don’t know what to say, if I can even say anything helpful.
I retreat to a fresh...
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June 2009
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Seven things I love.
I’m waiting to get copies of photos from Mom and Dad’s beautiful wedding before I post about it. And I’d like to take some time to think about all the things that have happened over the past week. June has given me a lot of hard conversations with people I love, a lot of emotional struggle and realizations. I’m still processing what it all means, still trying to make the...