Remixes

Because Liza's a Polyglot Pirate

or should I say, a multilingual pirate lover? -
I put CK's website through the Pirate Speak translator and got back this Mission statement:

[quote]

Voyage

culturekitchen be a community blog aimed at cultural creatives who believe progressive activism starts in th' galley, th' bunkroom, th' homeport, th' wallet. 'Tis open fer all who believe th' decline o' progressive an' libertarian values be havin' set us aft as a democratic nation.

culturekitchen be published by Liza Sabater.

'T one o' th' top progressive an' feminist blogs in th' United States.

Use our private messagin' system t' contact th' lass' or send th' lass' an email . . .[/quote]

My essays came back with fun titles too,
the best of the bunch perhaps,
being how PirateSpeak translated "Stupid Girls" into "lily-livered lasses."

So what do you think?
Be we wan'ing that homeport maidenhead as booty
for our cursed crew of swabbie wenches who sail th' high-tech high seas?

Smiling

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Fourfour'ed and loving it

La negra here likes her gossip and pop culture blogs. After a day of being high on mothering, politics and web development I have to wind down on a more earthy note. My nightly treats include my first blog love, The Corsair (exaggerated cough suggesting feigned detachment), my new BFF Perez Hilton, Ms Thing Miu Von Furstenberg and my new loves, D Listed, Crunk and Disorderly, Concrete Loop. Then there's FourFour.

Rich Juzwiak has become my go-to guy for the hysterically funny blow-by-blow recaps he turns out every week for America's Top Model, Project Runway and the "because the parody writes itself" of Being Bobby Brown. Rich has turned TV digesting into a comedic tour de force.

He also has become one of my music sources. It's his writing of pop music, sometimes supplying his own mashups and mixes that makes this man shine as a pop culture critic.

It's no wonder I have turned into Steve Jobs wet dream.

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Words to live by

Who could have imagined that in the United States, with its independent judiciary, thousands of men could be rounded up in the night -- many only because of their Muslim religion or foreign nationality -- without recourse to a trial, without even an acknowledgment that they had been arrested? Who could have dared to suggest that there would ever be "desaparecidos" in America? And there it was as well, torture being discussed as a legitimate option to protect a community in peril, and then being used in Guantanamo and Afghanistan, and even obscenely photographed in Iraq -- yes, there they were again, the depressing echoes of my Chile.

But worse perhaps than all of this was the erosion of the moral compass of America, the seeming indifference of the seeming majority to the suffering of others, the casual acceptance of "collateral damage" as an unquestioned consequence of the war on "terrorism," the demonization of an ubiquitous foe who had to be destroyed without second thoughts -- and often without first ones as well; without, in fact, any thoughtfulness at all. That was far more terrifying than the criminal attacks on New York and Washington: To realize that the Chile of strongman Augusto Pinochet was not that far away, not that difficult to imitate, that it was already hovering in the future and ready to materialize if we were not vigilant.

— Ariel Dorfman, Memories of Chile in the Midst of an American Presidential Campaign
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