Tyler Perry Project: LiveBlog “Diary of A Mad Black Woman”
I’m liveblogging my watch of Tyler Perry’s Diary of a Mad Black Woman. Watch along with me! Starts at 10am EST.
Category Archives: Media
Tyler Perry Project: Heads Up, First Movie This Weekend
The first movie I’m watching for the Tyler Perry Project is Diary of a Mad Black Woman. I’m going to start at 10am eastern time this Saturday. A few people have indicated a desire to watch my head implode, so there will be a live
Baratunde Thurston Lays It All Out For America
This has been linked everywhere but I’m going to post it again because everything he says is true and this needs a signal boost to the sky. Perhaps when our alien overlords do finally come, they will spare some of us because of this man.
ABW’s The Tyler Perry Project
Tyler Perry’s little outburst at Spike Lee has shown up so many times in my newsfeed that I finally broke down and read about the press conference and then this letter he posted on his website called “They Are Trying To Kill Madea!”1 My first
Rape Culture USA: How race, class, misogyny and homophobia intersected in the Kelly and Antoine Dodson story
Today in my class we were trying to learn a camera technique. We decided to use funny youtube videos to illustrate the proper way to shoot the scenes we wanted. And my classmates decided that the Antoine Dodson videos were such GREAT candidates because man,
I turned it into a story but the hole in my heart is still there
Last year when I was a guest on Hour of the Wolf I read my 9/11-inspired story Until Forgiveness Comes on the air. Jim Freund liked it so much and liked the radio-y/NPR-esque-ness that he suggested we should record it as a radio play. I
There Is No Ground Zero Mosque
It’s not often I cede the floor to a white guy, but Keith makes some good points. Bottom line, this community center everyone is trying to get you up in arms about is: A) Not a mosque, and B) Not at Ground Zero. Oh, and one
Since Dr. Laura Can’t Give Advice To Black People Without Being A Racist Twit, We’ll Give It A Shot
I would have written an angry rant about Dr. Laura’s crazypants meltdown on air in which she just enjoyed saying the word nigger so much she had to say it about a dozen times while telling a black, female caller that she was hypersensitive, except
The Last Airbender’s Target Audience Thinks Whitewashing Is Wrong, Too
I wish that M. Night would read this moving essay by a young Chinese American adoptee about how the whitewashing of The Last Airbender made her feel as both a fan of the show and as an Asian person. I wish he would read it
Realms of Fantasy Columnist Condones Whitewashing When “Magic” Is Involved
(crossposted from my personal blog) I know that pointing out RoF Fail is a little like kicking a puppy, but you know how it is when Nick Mamatas sends you a link clearly meant to induce blog-worthy rage — you just have to accommodate him. So, LJ