Category: Culture
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Vice Vice Baby
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2014/02/19/daily-prompt-rick-roll/ There aren’t many vices that would make me raise an eyebrow for more than an second. I assume that most people have multiple; some that they are willing to share and others of a more private nature. The only issue I have with vice are those who do everything in excess. You know the…
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The first time I fell in love
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2014/02/14/daily-prompt-its-friday-im-in-love/ It should be no secret that the first time I fell in love, it would be with a character from a book but the first time I fell in love with a book; it was a more memorable occasion. I was in High School in America and my English Teacher had told us only…
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E-Book Resources
Since I gave in to the almighty E-book I’ve been looking for ways to save money on books. I was sad to lose the idea of free borrows until my Library started offering E-books and I have a few resources to share. E-books in general are usually a sliver cheaper so it does help you…
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I could teach you how to speak my language, Rosetta Stone
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2014/02/10/daily-post-take-that-rosetta/ If you don’t get the lyric reference, I won’t judge you. If you do; yay you! I’ve had quite a few brushes with language; because of my interest in culture. I go on these culture interest binges and of course, a big part of understanding cultural nuance is language. Growing up in a melting…
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The benefits of trendy fitness
I’m not sure how I feel about it all to be sure. I work in the Sporting Goods Industry and I see all kinds of fitness levels all day and have for almost 8 years. The one thing that’s happened within that time is the sub culture that exploded surrounding “fitness”. With this new trend…
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Why is Battlefield 4 so broken?
I’m not sure any one has the answer to that question. It seems inconceivable that a franchise game, the fourth one in, has this many issues. We have become game testers for developers. They don’t even bother finishing the game before they take our money. 1. What is “0” health? Why is this now something…
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Your turn to wash the dishes
While I love cooking, I hate washing dishes. Yes, hate. The “deal” in my household is whoever cooks, is absolved from washing dishes. This still doesn’t work because I hate washing dishes, even on the days when I didn’t cook. I can’t identify what it is about the task itself that I hate; but I…
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Humanizing Man-Hood – Vin Diesel’s cover of Stay
I woke up to something that really warmed my heart. Mr. Diesel plays one of my favorite characters; Riddick. This video is the one in question: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5t-CmCwhZo My first reaction? I was trying to harmonize with him, he needed some back up. He was on pitch (when he was singing in the right octave) and seemed…
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Writing through the Blues
So if you’re on twitter you know the phrase “tweet through it”; that kind of sums up what I’m trying to do with this blog. I have this problem with consistency when the negative feelings about myself and my writing creep in. 2013 was such a tough year for my family and I and I…
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Memories : Pictures and Phone Calls
Growing up in the Caribbean in the 90s with limited technolgy meant that every day things like watching TV and taking photographs were a luxury. I remember my class mates assuming that my family was rich because at one point, we had a TV and a telephone at our house. Part of the weekend culture…
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Daily Prompt: Teaching
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2014/01/25/daily-prompt-teaching/ I’ve had a lot of great influences in my life that have taught me a varied set of lessons, all apt and necessary whether or not I knew it at the time…well…*shrug* I didn’t want to go into another long drawn out post about great people that influence me. I have touched on a…
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Why I’m not worried or sad about Justin Beiber
Let me preface this with linking to my previous posts about Chris Brown. You can find it here: First Post: https://angirach.wordpress.com/2009/02/22/rihanna-chris-brown-and-fame/ Second Post: https://angirach.wordpress.com/2011/03/27/why-im-finally-mad-at-chris-brown/ Okay; I try not to write about pop culture here too much because I’m not a therapist or psychologist and while my opinion seems like it’s based on fact; it’s not. All we…
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Book Four: The House of the Wind by Titania Hardie
Not quite what I would typically read but I’m trying to be a bit more open
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Daily Prompt: Kindness
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2014/01/23/daily-prompt-kindness-2/ It’s entirely to easy to be braggadocios when an opportunity to play up a “good” trait is presented so instead, I’ll write to you a bit about how I learned to be kind. My Mother left for a New York and I was sent to stay with my Grandmother (very typical scenario in West…
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