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You did not just say "colored friends", did you? You sound like my husband's southern grandmother.

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Have any African-Americans ever done even passably well on a reality tv show?

Cue the cheesey music!
 

Me too. During a really bad rain storm in Philly. I was driving home from having dropped someone at the airport and was approaching a light that had just turned red. I stepped on the brakes and nothing, I tried everything you are supposed to do, but still nothing, I went right through the light. And the car was so waterlogged that all that happened when I hit the horn was a real weak gurgling noise.

Cue the cheesey music!
 

You know, come to think of it, that wasn't too long after the shooting on the freeway incident. Hmmm.

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Vee (sp?) on Survivor. Didn't she win?

Academic hi(gh)jinx
 

In lawschool, a friend and I were in this class taught by a raving critical race theorist, who was completely out of her mind. We collected a list of her most outrageous phrases from lectures (all of which were primo crit-satire material) and had a competition to see who could use the most of them in writing the final exam. Despite using the phrases "hegemony of patriarchal dogma" and "the racist oppression of the primacy of facts" more than once, my friend won. I seem to recall a phrase something to the effect of "the unmaking of the literalist historical narrative of the oppressor and the non-making of a free narrative of subjective experience of the unseen" put her over the top.

We both got As. We laughed and laughed.

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They did really well on "Roots," all things considered.

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Yes. Both women I believe. One won Survivor and one came in first or second on Big Brother.

Now that I think about it, Rubin and Justin on AI.

Academic hi(gh)jinx
 

for real or in your head? I have had some funny experiences with shrooms. I don't know if this is common, but we used to eat shrooms at the tail end of the buzz from X so it was easier. One time I was certain there was a purple man sitting in a urinal who was talking to me. And once I think there was some hallucinogenic stuff mixed in with my X because this girl's face suddenly became plaid. It stayed that way for a long time. I even remember the tartan. It was like pastel blue and dark blue. weird.

these days generally I just talk to the purple man sitting under my desk because I am chicken about getting caught and getting deported.

Cut the Cheese
 

So, like, I keep having this recurring nightmare over and over where I show up for a test I never studied for. It's an algebra test and it's my evidence professor giving the test and he is really pissed because I skipped class for the entire semester. So he asks me what I know about algebra and my bubble totally bursts and to top it off, I miss the school bus home and have to walk all the way back, twenty miles, all uphill and I am so, like, out of shrooms.

So then I wake up and I am, like, totally pissed because I realize that going to work every fucking day sucks way more than flunking exams ever did.

And I'm not taking any fucking tests on the internet to tell me whether I am going to hell because I am, like, so totally there.

Anxiety dreams
 

I sometimes have the "trapped at Camp Crystal Lake and Jason is in the lodge and the only working car is a standard transmission and I have to drive it to escape" dream.

But I just chalk this up to a combination of too many Friday the 13th movies and not being able to drive a stick.

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Vecepia won Survivor, but she could swim decently. Danielle came in second on BB3, where the only water is the hot tub.

Academic hi(gh)jinx
 

New board motto?

lisa g
 

You need to cut back on the 'shrooms.

TM

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Well, I don't know what else to call them. African-American doesn't seem quite right because most are not African or American. Some are African, others are various islanders (Haiti, T&T, Aruba) with green cards. Privately the SO and I use tan, since he is tanner than I am, but I don't want to offend anyone in FB land.

So what is the PC phrase du jour?