Entertainment Weekly recently published an article on the “Top 20 Heroes and Villains in Popular Culture” (both lists can be found here). I’m delighted that my favorite movie hero, Ellen Ripley, ranked #5 and wow, what a nice surprise to see Foxy Brown (#13) featured three spots higher than Jack Bauer (#16) on the hero [...]
Archive for March, 2009
26 Mar
“Changing Seasons”
Now the steely gaze of a Female Cop, (too tough to love) will begin to soften and linger a moment longer on the District Attorney’s back. A newborn baby is about to be stolen, but Mr. T is coming by, and the gang has just touched down in sunny Acapulco. Now come the time slots [...]
24 Mar
Bookmark This: The Obama Blogosphere
Given how successful Barack Obama’s presidential campaign was in conveying his message through the web, it comes as no surprise that a number of Obama-themed blogs continue to flourish during his first year in office. Here are a few of my favorites: Literary Obama: Think Obama meets The New York Times Book Review; this site [...]
19 Mar
Mistaken Identity; or, Ankh If You Love Isis
I’ve been wearing a small gold Ankh necklace almost every day for the past seven years. Often the hieroglyph is mistaken for a Christian cross, but seldom do I use the opportunity to explain what the symbol conveys about who I am. To be honest, I’m not entirely sure myself. But if I’m not able [...]
12 Mar
Thank you!
Just wanted to send out a big thank you to all of our fabulous readers for your support during my bar-exam-sabbatical! It feels strange to be on the other side of it all. Now that I’ve achieved this major “milestone” in my life, I’m not quite sure what to do with all of my free [...]
9 Mar
Watchmen Baby Love
My take on the film, Watchmen, is best characterized by the feeling I get when my daughter gives me a picture she has colored at school. I’m not expecting a perfect or flawless work of art; I’m just so thrilled that such a work exists and I am without words to evaluate it with anything [...]
6 Mar
Where’s Frieda?
Fear not, fellow TBoH readers! Foxy Frieda, our caped crusader of social justice will be back on these pages soon to educate and inspire. She’s been away studying day and night for the Louisiana Bar Exam and, if her vision board is any indication, she will be completing and passing the last leg tomorrow. Good [...]
4 Mar
Desegregate Our Bookstores!
I went to Literature and did not see me. I went to Contemporary Fiction and did not find me, but when I fell back a couple of steps I found a section called African American Studies and there, arranged alphabetically and neatly, read undisturbed, were four of my books including my Persians of which the [...]
3 Mar
Bookmark This: Color Online
The blog, Color Online, earned a special place in my heart when I discovered, posted in the sidebar, the words of black poet Gwendolyn Brooks from her 1967 work, “The Chicago Picasso”: Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home. The mission of Color Online is “the promotion, empowerment, [...]
