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Happy 70th, John Lennon!

  • October 9, 2010 12:01 am

Today would have been John Lennon’s 70th birthday. In honor of this occasion, wanted to share my favorite Lennon song…”Julia.” Here’s a lovely cover version from Priscilla Ahn:

And the original:

YOMYOMF Mixtape: Anew Mix

  • April 7, 2010 1:10 pm

And speaking of resurrection, a more apropos theme you could not find for the the return of YOMYOMF’s Mixtape feature.

Above The Clouds – Paul Weller

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With You I’m Born Again – Billy Preston and Syreeta

By The Time I Get To Phoenix – Glen Campbell

By the time I get to Phoenix, she’ll be rising.

God – John Lennon

I was the Dreamweaver but, now I’m reborn. I was the Walrus, but, now I’m just John.

32 Flavors – Ani DeFranco

And God help you if you’re a Phoenix, and you dare to rise from the ash. A thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy while you’re just flying past.
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President Obama In Bed With China’s Hu Jintao

  • February 22, 2010 1:50 pm

Saw this picture over at Racialicious:

It’s a float from a German Carnival parade that depicts President Obama and Chinese leader Hu in bed together. As you can see–Obama is handing his Chinese counterpart a whole wad of cash alluding to the debt the U.S. owes China. What makes this image even more bizarrely racist is not only Hu’s yellow clothing and coolie hat or even the white German folk dressed up as yellow coolies, but that drawing of the John Lennon and Yoko Ono-esque interracial couple on the side of the float. What the fuck is up with that?

Ah, leave it to the Germans, with their long history of racial and cultural sensitivity, to come up with something like this.

Remembering John Lennon

  • December 8, 2009 12:21 am
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Countless words have been written about John Lennon over the years so I don’t really think there’s anything new or profound I can add.  I was just a kid in elementary school when he died exactly 29 years ago so I was too young to really understand his impact and why his death hit people so hard.  I grew up listening to the Beatles so the music was a part of my life from my earliest memory and of course it was great.  But it wasn’t until I was much older before I understood that the Beatles and John Lennon, in particular, was about more than just awesome music.  Read more...

SAF Seeking…. SWM for costume piece

  • October 30, 2009 2:28 am

Now if you don’t know, I’ve been dating the white meat since the new millennium began.  As much as this may offend my fellow Offenders, it makes my mom quite happy.  However, the real reason why I date white men…as of right now…. at this very moment… is… they complete the costume.

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I’m looking for the perfect “Richard Heene” to add to my “Mayumi Heene” costume.  I’ve been constructing the perfect “Balloon Boy Parents” costumes since Falcon Heene was found in a cardboard box in the attic.  Mylar balloon, 3 marionette dolls to pose as children (1 that throws up on cue), and shirts that say, “We were on Wife Swap!”  All I need now is an egotistical, self-indulgent, angry, kinda red-necky white guy with an updated bowl cut from the 1980′s.  Read more...