Shahryar Rizvi’s blog
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links for 2011-04-22
Anatomy Of An Outrage of the Day: The “Spring Sphere” Scare – The Daily What Long story short, MyNorthwest.com posted a story regurgitating an exchange between an alleged “local private high school sophomore” named Jessica (no last name given) and KIRO Radio’s right-leaning talk show host Dori Monson, in which the 16-year-old claimed that a […]
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The Problem With… Lady Gaga’s “Judas” – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night
The Problem With… Lady Gaga’s “Judas” – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night. Just when I though I would have to quash a months-old single,Lady GaGa comes out from her egg. To think, I only heard the single last Saturday. The subsequent brain hurricane and the “Thiswaygate” that followed really motivated me to get something […]
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links for 2011-04-20
Saturday Throwback: 26 Common Food Labels, Explained (tags: food)
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links for 2011-04-17
Ta-Nehisi Coates: Lies Damn Near Everyone Told Me | The Atlantic (tags: history race war)
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links for 2011-04-11
Keanu Newsflash: Keanu Reeves talks 'Bill & Ted' three-quel | L.A. Times (tags: movies)
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Exotic, not foreign. Gang Gang Dance’s “Mindkilla”
New York-based group Gang Gang Dance recently released a video for a single called “Mindkilla”. With the Dune-inspired name, African beat, synthesizers and colorful images, I may adopt it as the theme song for my blog.
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American Akira: whitewashing, identification and appropriation.
The following is cross-posted from my Race, Gender and the Media class blog. I’m having a great time in that class. I tend to dominate in-class discussion, usually to answer misconceptions brought on by privelidge deniers, A few people in the class must think I’m a jerk. I blame the great coffee across the street, […]
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I caught the Twitter bug.
Yesterday, I opened a Twitter account after years of thinking it unnecessary at best, detrimental to my writing at worst. I expect this new format may keep me writing in a compressed, laconic style that my colleagues and teachers expect of me. It's a shame too, because my current assignments involve a long form narrative style and […]
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links for 2011-03-30
6 Fitness Tips Everyone's Heard (That Don't Work at All) | Cracked.com
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links for 2011-03-28
Why Do We Keep Falling For O'Keefe's Smear Jobs? | Mother Jones "Let's be brutally honest," Weigel told NPR when it finally got around to forensics six days later. "The rush is to get traffic and to get the people of your organization booked on shows to talk about it. [That] leads you to not […]
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