Okay, since I was talking about Todd Bridges and John Hughes' inability to write blacks characters, here is a recent article by Cecil Brown on the Counterpunch website, Goodbye, White Friends!"White People Aren't Into Black People Anymore"http://www.counterpunch.com/brown04272010.htmlArticle mentions Clint Eastwood, Francis Ford Coppola, Morgan Freeman, Robert Altman, Richard Pryor, Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Louis Malle, Sean Connery, Johnny Depp, Heiner Muller, Volker Schlöndorff, Wim Wenders, Peter Aalbæk Jensen, Lars Von Tier and the Dogme bunch, Michael Moore, Bill Cosby, and finally,...
What is a Jejemon?
Know anyone who types "jejeje" instead of "hehehe"? That's a Jejemon! Usually seen around social networking sites (Facebook, Friendster and Multiply) and texting, jejemons are individuals who are tYpFing LyK diZS jejejeje, making all people viewing their profile raise irritated. Normal people like us must make an effort just to read and understand "jejetyping". Deciphering their text would cause a lot of frustration and hair pulling. And these jejemons are spreading fast. There has been also stereotyping on Filipinos on the term Jejemon. They say that Jejemons are trying-hard Filipino gangsters...
A May Bridal Fair
Boys and gals! Do check this out if you are planning your wedding.Also, check out these cool promos from the organizers:Onsite Booker RaffleFor every 500pesos of accumulated receipts at Before I Do Bridal fair entitles the onsite booker to 1 raffle coupon for a chance to win a 3day 2night stay at Pearl Farm Beach Resort! The more they book, the more chances of winning! Pre-register ongoing at http://mybridalfair.com/component/option,com_comprofiler/task,registers/ to enter for FREE!Best Prenup Photo ContestLet us know which one is your favorite and you could win a surprise gift from us....
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Wedding Set Up
The wedding reception set up is one of the most detail oriented part of the wedding. You have to decide a lot of things: what centerpiece to you, kind of flowers to order, kind of table numbers to be printed etc etc. The list of things to decide upon could go on and on. So to make things a little easier for bride-to-bes and groom-to-bes, we are featuring here wedding reception set up designs that you could pattern yours to. Enj...
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Philippines 2010 Presidentiables Comparative Data
Read an e-mail containing a "comparative data" of the top 4 presidentiables in the upcoming 2010 national election. Compare and be Informed of the Philippines 2010 Presidentiables. Choose the competent and Deserving. LEGISLATIVE PERFORMANCE AQUINO, Noynoy VILLAR, Manny Senate: 3 years Senate: 9 years Bills filed: 0 Senate chairs: 3 Laws passed: 0 Senate President Bills filed: 8 (including a Tarlac City Day (2005). Bills filed: 737 (2nd to Miriam Defensor) Congress: 9 yrs Laws passed: 10 (2nd to none) Deputy (i.e. not quite) speaker...
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Who was South Park trying to offend and why?
The thing about "transgressive art"---does it really count as offensive when you're trying to offend people other than those who watch your show? How many devout Muslims watch South Park? I guess some rather fanatical Muslims found out somehow that the South Park fellows portrayed the prophet Mohammad on their show. Hard to imagine they were regular viewers, though.It seems that a website for a group of al Qaeda sympathizers ran a photo of murdered film director Theo van Gogh (great-great grandnephew of Vincent van Gogh) killed after making an anti-Muslim documentary. The website said that the...
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Real Life Engagement: Tommee and Suyen
Hi, guys! Sorry or being away for sooooo long. Giving birth can really zap your energy and caring for our little bundle of joy really takes a lot of my time that I had no choice but to take a haitus for a few weeks (months?). Anyway, I am back and I promise to post again daily to help out grooms and brides to be out there to prepare for their big day. So for my come back post, I present this cute prenup from dear Sis Suyen and now hubby Tommee.Photographer: Jomel GregorioLocations: Greenbelt 3 Cinema, Bonifacio High Street and Rooftop of One TagaytayTheme: SuperheroI just love this last ...
Fire at Edsa Shangri-La Mall
Image From www.inquirer.netFire at Edsa Shangri-La Mall started about 10:30p.m. Friday in the storage room of Rustan’s Supermarket at the basement. The fire struck a 100 square meter storage room of the supermarket. “The cement walls were six inch thick, and the room was enclosed, so the fire was contained in a small area, but the smoke kept spilling out,” Mandaluyong Fire Marshal Nahum Tarroza told the Inquirer. There were still tenants and customers (mainly moviegoers) in the mall when the fire struck, and they were evacuated and led outside by mall guards.As of Saturday, the smoke continued...
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Twilight Saga Eclipse Movie Trailer
The final movie trailer for Twilight Eclipse is here after being introduced on today's Oprah Show. Eclipse is the 3rd chapter in the Twilight Saga starring Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner. It's scheduled to open in theaters on June 30, 2010. Check Oprah and one of the Twilight Series cast members, Dakota Fanning, introducing the new trailer, below:Here's the Eclipse Trailer clip from M...
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Next Generation iPhone Leaked
A real iPhone prototype was leaked when an Apple engineer named Gray Powell lost it in a German ales in Redwood City. It was even camouflaged to look like an iPhone 3GS. Seeing the pictures, Apple changed a lot in its design. Gizomodo was the one who got the phone and disassembled it. This is what Gizmodo found out about the leaked iPhone:What's new• Front-facing video chat camera• Improved regular back-camera (the lens is quite noticeably larger than the iPhone 3GS)• Camera flash• Micro-SIM instead of standard SIM (like the iPad)• Improved display. It's unclear if it's the 960x640...
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3D Book Technology Developed by South Korean Scientists
Image Via tech.bangladeshio.comThis is just awesome! Its like being in a futuristic movie. But of course you still need to wear those 3D glasses. But did you ever thought that this would become a reality? 3DTV has just recently started to launch and now this. Seeing the wildest animals and creatures popping out of your books and walking around in your book's pages.South Korean scientists in Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology have developed two story books for children using the 3D technology (Digilog Book Format) that makes characters literally leap off the page. the two books are the...
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Would you want a 3D-TV?
Image Via www.pcworld.com3D home entertainment brought to your own home. With James Cameron's 3D blockbuster "Avatar" fueling the want for 3D entertainment, 3D TV could be the next big thing in consumer electronics. That's why the electronic companies like sony, samsung, LG and others are pushing 3D-TV this year. Saw an actual Sony Bravia 3D-TV last weekend in Shangri-la Mall in Ortigas, Pasig. They were playing "Wheel of Fortune" in 3D. It's great to have your own 3D-TV at home but having a huge price tag and not to mention limited sources of content, I think it would take few more years...
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Lil Wayne | I'm Single Video Released While In Jail
Check out Lil' Wayne's latest video. It premiered yesterday on MTV. Lil Wayne didn't wait until after his year of incarceration. He is making music while in jail! Nothin' can stop Lil Wayne! Nino Brown... Where You At???UPDATE: Lil' Wayne Released From Pris...
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How Mike Wallace did it
Okay, here's how 60 Minutes' Mike Wallace got away with his aggressive interviews.It turns out that what he would do is politely ask all his questions. The interviewee would answer. When they were done, the person would leave. And Mike Wallace and the camera crew would film him asking the same questions again, but this time very aggressively. They would re-shoot those reaction shots of his. In case you were wondering why so many people put up with his crap all these years.Now his repellent son is on Fox News. Wallace's racismMike Wallace himself was exposed as a disgusting racist years ago. He...
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Kenny Chesney: Summer in 3D Movie Trailer
Kenny Chesney, the biggest ticket-seller of this century in any musical genre, has wrapped his latest concert tour, the Sun City Carnival. This weekend for a limited engagement in movie theaters nationwide, Kenny Chesney: Summer in 3D, will give fans the chance to live the fun, the friends, the songs and the moments that make Kenny Chesney the must-see concert experience to kickoff the summer seas...
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Mystery Science Theater 3000: Two competing camps?
Joel, Dr Forester and that guy who preceded TV's FrankWell, okay, I knew that Mike and two fellows who sound like Crow and Tom Servo have been hard at work. First they were doing commentary on DVDs that would otherwise have no commentary track. They were doing the MST3K thing on various bad movies.They noted the cruel irony---that in order to play characters forced to watch bad movies, they were actually forced to watch bad movies over and over and over to come up with their wisecracks.So they started watching better movies. Sort of. Independence Day, the Star Wars movies. They couldn't release...
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Nokia Unveils Three Cheaper Smartphones
Image Via www.mobilepasha.comNokia unveiled the C3, C6 and E5 smartphones. These smartphones offers strong messaging and social-networking tools at an affordable price. Nokia said that the three handsets feature a full QWERTY keyboard, offer instant messaging and give access to emails. The E5 is targeted at corporate consumers and has a suite of social-networking capabilities and productivity apps that can access over 90 percent of the world's corporate emails through Mail for Exchange and IBM Lotus Notes Traveler. [mobiledia]Model: C3Price: $125Platform: Series 40Camera: 2.0-megapixelScreen:...
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Viagra for Women?
Image Via www.newsline365.comA new Viagra(erectile dysfunction drug) is now on the works. Pfizer says that a female version of Viagra is possible. Most attempts to treat female sexual dysfunctions failed, but this new Viagra prototype from Pfizer offers that possibility. Pfizer hopes for a female-specific treatment for those with female sexual arousal disorder, FSAD.Researchers have already started to test the drug on rabbits and shows promising results. It can increase blood flow specifically to the genitalia, enhancing and extending the duration of arousal. But the drug would not help all types...
Flight Cancellations Worldwide: Iceland Volcano Eruption
Image Via news.yahoo.comAn ash cloud from Iceland's spewing volcano halted air traffic across Europe on Thursday April 15. Thousands of flights from European airports have been canceled, stranding tens of thousands of passengers, and officials said it was not clear when it would be safe enough to fly again. The flight cancellations is caused by the cloud of ash thrown up by the eruption of Iceland's volcano. Iceland's second volcano eruption in less than a month melted part of a glacier and caused heavy flooding on Wednesday, forcing up to 800 people to evacuate and grounding some...
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ABS-CBN's 'The Buzz' gets KC Concepcion as New Host
Image Via www.pep.phAfter several negotiations the actress/singer KC Concepcion, daughter Megastar Sharon Cuneta and first husband actor Gabby Concepcion, has finally accepted an offer to be the newest addition of showbiz talk show “The Buzz” replacing Ruffa Gutierrez. The announcement ended weeks of speculations regarding Ruffa Gutierrez's replacement. The speculations started after Gutierrez left the Kapamilya network for TV5 last month. It was earlier reported that Vice Ganda and Gretchen Barretto were among those who were considered.“The Buzz” made the announcement on Sunday when the show...
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Recent Eearthquakes Caused by HAARP?
Image Via nightwatchmanchronicles.comH.A.A.R.P. stands for High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program. It has been rumored that this is a "weather machine" that causes major calamities and is been the source and cause of the recent major earthquakes around the globe. The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) is an ionospheric research program jointly funded by the US Air Force, the US Navy, the University of Alaska and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).Its purpose is to analyze the ionosphere and investigate the potential for developing ionospheric...
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China earthquake kills hundreds in Xinhua
Image Via http://news.bbc.co.uk/A 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck China's Qinghai province early Wednesday at 7:49 a.m. local time. Many people were probably still at home and kids were just about to school.The USGS also recorded three strong aftershocks all within two hours of the first quake. The aftershocks were of magnitudes 5.8, 5.2 and 5.3. About 300 people were killed, state-run Xinhua News Agency reported, adding that another 8,000 have been injured. "We have to mainly rely on our hands to clear away the debris as we have no large excavating machines," police officer Shi Huajie...
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