compare this kid...
with a young lin-manuel miranda...
the similarities are very intriguing...
.jmm.
9.29.2008
9.21.2008
my mother may hate me for this...
This is a piece written by Eve Ensler (The Vagina Monologues), shared with us on Idina's fan page...my mom will hate me for agreeing with this, but I do. Sarah Palin is scary...
By Eve Ensler (activist, feminist, author)
"I am having Sarah Palin nightmares. I dreamt last night that she was a member of a club where they rode snowmobiles and wore the claws of drowned and starved polar bears around their necks. I have a particular thing for Polar Bears. Maybe it's their snowy whiteness or their bigness or the fact that they live in the arctic or that I have never seen one in person or touched one. Maybe it is the fact that they live so comfortably on ice. Whatever it is, I need the polar bears.
I don't like raging at women. I am a Feminist and have spent my life trying to build community, help empower women and stop violence against them. It is hard to write about Sarah Palin. This is why the Sarah Palin choice was all the more insidious and cynical. The people who made this choice count on the goodness and solidarity of Feminists.
But everything Sarah Palin believes in and practices is antithetical to Feminism which for me is part of one story -- connected to saving the earth, ending racism, empowering women, giving young girls options, opening our minds, deepening tolerance, and ending violence and war.
I believe that the McCain/Palin ticket is one of the most dangerous choices of my lifetime, and should this country chose those candidates the fall-out may be so great, the destruction so vast in so many areas that America may never recover. But what is equally disturbing is the impact that duo would have on the rest of the world. Unfortunately, this is not a joke. In my lifetime I have seen the clownish, the inept, the bizarre be elected to the presidency with regularity.
Sarah Palin does not believe in evolution. I take this as a metaphor. In her world and the world of Fundamentalists nothing changes or gets better or evolves. She does not believe in global warming. The melting of the arctic, the storms that are destroying our cities, the pollution and rise of=2 0cancers, are all part of God's plan. She is fighting to take the polar bears off the endangered species list. The earth, in Palin's view, is here to be taken and plundered. The wolves and the bears are here to be shot and plundered. The oil is here to be taken and plundered. Iraq is here to be taken and plundered. As she said herself of the Iraqi war, "It was a task from God."
Sarah Palin does not believe in abortion. She does not believe women who are raped and incested and ripped open against their will should have a right to determine whether they have their rapist's baby or not.
She obviously does not believe in sex education or birth control. I imagine her daughter was practicing abstinence and we know how many babies that makes.
Sarah Palin does not much believe in thinking. From what I gather she has tried to ban books from the library, has a tendency to dispense with people who think independently. She cannot tolerate an environment of ambiguity and difference. This is a woman who could and might very well be the next president of the United States. She would govern one of the most diverse populations on the earth.
Sarah believes in guns. She has her own custom Austrian hunting rifle. She has been known to kill 40 caribou at a clip. She has shot hundreds of wolves from the air.
Sarah believes in God. That is of course her right, her private right. But when God and Guns come together in20the public sector, when war is declared in God's name, when the rights of women are denied in his name, that is the end of separation of church and state and the undoing of everything America has ever tried to be.
I write to my sisters. I write because I believe we hold this election in our hands. This vote is a vote that will determine the future not just of the U.S., but of the planet. It will determine whether we create policies to save the earth or make it forever uninhabitable for humans. It will determine whether we move towards dialogue and diplomacy in the world or whether we escalate violence through invasion, undermining and attack. It will determine whether we go for oil, strip mining, coal burning or invest our money in alternatives that will free us from dependency and destruction. It will determine if money gets spent on education and healthcare or whether we build more and more methods of killing. It will determine whether America is a free open tolerant society or a closed place of fear, fundamentalism and aggression.
If the Polar Bears don't move you to go and do everything in your power to get Obama elected then consider the chant that filled the hall after Palin spoke at the RNC, "Drill Drill Drill." I think of teeth when I think of drills. I think of rape. I think of destruction. I think of domination. I think of military exercises that force mindless repetition, emptying the brain of analysis, doubt, ambiguity or dissent. I think of pain.
Do we want a future of drilling? More holes in the ozone, in the floor of the sea, more holes in our thinking, in the trust between nations and peoples, more holes in the fabric of this precious thing we call life?
.jmm.
By Eve Ensler (activist, feminist, author)
"I am having Sarah Palin nightmares. I dreamt last night that she was a member of a club where they rode snowmobiles and wore the claws of drowned and starved polar bears around their necks. I have a particular thing for Polar Bears. Maybe it's their snowy whiteness or their bigness or the fact that they live in the arctic or that I have never seen one in person or touched one. Maybe it is the fact that they live so comfortably on ice. Whatever it is, I need the polar bears.
I don't like raging at women. I am a Feminist and have spent my life trying to build community, help empower women and stop violence against them. It is hard to write about Sarah Palin. This is why the Sarah Palin choice was all the more insidious and cynical. The people who made this choice count on the goodness and solidarity of Feminists.
But everything Sarah Palin believes in and practices is antithetical to Feminism which for me is part of one story -- connected to saving the earth, ending racism, empowering women, giving young girls options, opening our minds, deepening tolerance, and ending violence and war.
I believe that the McCain/Palin ticket is one of the most dangerous choices of my lifetime, and should this country chose those candidates the fall-out may be so great, the destruction so vast in so many areas that America may never recover. But what is equally disturbing is the impact that duo would have on the rest of the world. Unfortunately, this is not a joke. In my lifetime I have seen the clownish, the inept, the bizarre be elected to the presidency with regularity.
Sarah Palin does not believe in evolution. I take this as a metaphor. In her world and the world of Fundamentalists nothing changes or gets better or evolves. She does not believe in global warming. The melting of the arctic, the storms that are destroying our cities, the pollution and rise of=2 0cancers, are all part of God's plan. She is fighting to take the polar bears off the endangered species list. The earth, in Palin's view, is here to be taken and plundered. The wolves and the bears are here to be shot and plundered. The oil is here to be taken and plundered. Iraq is here to be taken and plundered. As she said herself of the Iraqi war, "It was a task from God."
Sarah Palin does not believe in abortion. She does not believe women who are raped and incested and ripped open against their will should have a right to determine whether they have their rapist's baby or not.
She obviously does not believe in sex education or birth control. I imagine her daughter was practicing abstinence and we know how many babies that makes.
Sarah Palin does not much believe in thinking. From what I gather she has tried to ban books from the library, has a tendency to dispense with people who think independently. She cannot tolerate an environment of ambiguity and difference. This is a woman who could and might very well be the next president of the United States. She would govern one of the most diverse populations on the earth.
Sarah believes in guns. She has her own custom Austrian hunting rifle. She has been known to kill 40 caribou at a clip. She has shot hundreds of wolves from the air.
Sarah believes in God. That is of course her right, her private right. But when God and Guns come together in20the public sector, when war is declared in God's name, when the rights of women are denied in his name, that is the end of separation of church and state and the undoing of everything America has ever tried to be.
I write to my sisters. I write because I believe we hold this election in our hands. This vote is a vote that will determine the future not just of the U.S., but of the planet. It will determine whether we create policies to save the earth or make it forever uninhabitable for humans. It will determine whether we move towards dialogue and diplomacy in the world or whether we escalate violence through invasion, undermining and attack. It will determine whether we go for oil, strip mining, coal burning or invest our money in alternatives that will free us from dependency and destruction. It will determine if money gets spent on education and healthcare or whether we build more and more methods of killing. It will determine whether America is a free open tolerant society or a closed place of fear, fundamentalism and aggression.
If the Polar Bears don't move you to go and do everything in your power to get Obama elected then consider the chant that filled the hall after Palin spoke at the RNC, "Drill Drill Drill." I think of teeth when I think of drills. I think of rape. I think of destruction. I think of domination. I think of military exercises that force mindless repetition, emptying the brain of analysis, doubt, ambiguity or dissent. I think of pain.
Do we want a future of drilling? More holes in the ozone, in the floor of the sea, more holes in our thinking, in the trust between nations and peoples, more holes in the fabric of this precious thing we call life?
.jmm.
9.06.2008
UCBW Local 181...
Well I am now on a bowling team! A BROADWAY bowling team with "In the Heights," to be exact :)
We are the "Underage Cousins of Bodega Workers" (if you've seen the show you'll understand) and our motto is "Free soda or we walk!"
We had our first week this Thursday night after the show and can I just say that my love for the show and my job grew 1000 times! Much of the cast showed up to watch and hang out, a few of them are actually on the team, including the star of the show, Lin! He was one of the highlights of my night, starting with when I walked over to our lanes and he came up to me and gave me a hug! We all continued to goof around all night, which made it even more fun :)
So the cast members who I was mingling with the most were of course, Rogelio and Shaun Taylor-Corbett (who is the reason the second game ROCKED), Krysta Rodriguez, Michael Balderrama, Robin de Jesus, Rickey Tripp and Lin. The others who were there were Priscilla Lopez, Janet Dacal (the two of them were talking and drinking all night and P.Lo kept smiling at me hehe) and Karen Olivo. The last 3 I listed, plus Robin, aren't on the team, but were there (I think it was for the drinks haha)...
Anyway, the first game was kind of painful for Krysta and I...we tied for the lowest score of 66...I knew getting a strike in the first frame was a bad sign...lame. The second game, however, was MUCH better! For about half of the game, Shaun and I were tied. Which of course, caused competition like no other! The words "Bring it!" were exchanged several times between us, which made us focus more and actually making us better! But in the end, I won. HAHAHA SHAUN!!! 116-111 :)
I am so excited for the rest of the season! I am so glad I don't have classes on Fridays! It was obviously meant to be :) But yeah, if you're not doing anything on Thursday night at 11:30 and want to go to Port Authority to the bowling alley, come watch us Broadway folk try and bowl! I can guarantee a good time!
.jmm.
Oh and here is a friendly reminder...(I'm 2nd from the bottom):
We are the "Underage Cousins of Bodega Workers" (if you've seen the show you'll understand) and our motto is "Free soda or we walk!"
We had our first week this Thursday night after the show and can I just say that my love for the show and my job grew 1000 times! Much of the cast showed up to watch and hang out, a few of them are actually on the team, including the star of the show, Lin! He was one of the highlights of my night, starting with when I walked over to our lanes and he came up to me and gave me a hug! We all continued to goof around all night, which made it even more fun :)
So the cast members who I was mingling with the most were of course, Rogelio and Shaun Taylor-Corbett (who is the reason the second game ROCKED), Krysta Rodriguez, Michael Balderrama, Robin de Jesus, Rickey Tripp and Lin. The others who were there were Priscilla Lopez, Janet Dacal (the two of them were talking and drinking all night and P.Lo kept smiling at me hehe) and Karen Olivo. The last 3 I listed, plus Robin, aren't on the team, but were there (I think it was for the drinks haha)...
Anyway, the first game was kind of painful for Krysta and I...we tied for the lowest score of 66...I knew getting a strike in the first frame was a bad sign...lame. The second game, however, was MUCH better! For about half of the game, Shaun and I were tied. Which of course, caused competition like no other! The words "Bring it!" were exchanged several times between us, which made us focus more and actually making us better! But in the end, I won. HAHAHA SHAUN!!! 116-111 :)
I am so excited for the rest of the season! I am so glad I don't have classes on Fridays! It was obviously meant to be :) But yeah, if you're not doing anything on Thursday night at 11:30 and want to go to Port Authority to the bowling alley, come watch us Broadway folk try and bowl! I can guarantee a good time!
.jmm.
Oh and here is a friendly reminder...(I'm 2nd from the bottom):
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