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And because I love etymology,
Brother Ali - Uncle Sam Goddamn
“You don’t give money to the bums
On a corner with a sign bleeding from their gums
Talking about you don’t support a crackhead
What you think happens to the money from your taxes
Shit, the government’s an addict
With a billion dollar a week kill brown people habit
And even if you ain’t on the front line
When massah yell crunch time you right back at it”
Brother Ali is on that next level shit.
Technorati Tags: brother ali, undisputed truth, rhymesayers
Fasting
There’s hidden sweetness in the stomach’s emptiness.
We are lutes, no more, no less. If the soundbox
is stuffed full of anything, no music.
If the brain and belly are burning clean
with fasting, every moment a new song comes out of the fire.
The fog clears, and new energy makes you
run up the steps in front of you.
Be emptier and cry like reed instruments cry.
Emptier, write secrets with the reed pen.
When you’re full of food and drink, Satan sits
where your spirit should, an ugly metal statue
in place of the Kaaba. When you fast,
good habits gather like friends who want to help.
Fasting is Solomon’s ring. Don’t give it
to some illusion and lose your power,
but even if you have, if you’ve lost all will and control,
they come back when you fast, like soldiers appearing
out of the ground, pennants flying above them.
A table descends to your tents,
Jesus’ table.
Expect to see it, when you fast, this table
spread with other food, better than the broth of cabbages.Jalaluddin Rumi
Thanks to Yakoub Islam. I’m trying to find a better translation though, especially after seeing things like this.
Block Thinking
http://www.straitstimes.com/Free/Story/STIStory_157069.html
Dispelling the fog of prejudice
By Charles Taylor
THE suspect word almost everywhere in the world now, especially in Europe, is ‘multiculturalism’.
People say things like: ‘I used to be for openness and toleration of difference, but now I see where it’s leading.’ But where is it leading?Almost every reason for toleration’s apparent fall into disrepute concerns Islam. Even simple requests, such as that of Muslim schoolgirls to wear headscarves in class, are suddenly freighted with immense political significance and treated as issues that must be resolved at the highest level of government.
People - and their elected leaders as well - often have the feeling that such seemingly innocent proposals are in fact part of an ominous ‘hidden agenda’.
That agenda is ‘Islam’, which many imagine to include all the terrible things that we read about in the press: the stoning of adulterous women under syariah law in northern Nigeria, the amputation of thieves’ hands in Saudi Arabia, honour killings of women who refuse arranged marriages in Pakistan (or even northern English cities such as Bradford and Manchester), the willingness to justify suicide bombings.
Prince
This is really quite good. Check it out when All Along The Watchtower goes right into Best of You.
the sartorial evolution
Jenab did a post awhile back about her fashion evolution, so I thought I’d do the same. I don’t have the dramatic flair that she does, but I’ll try my best.
Pass the kacang puteh
KacangPuteh@Selegie
Originally uploaded by e-chan.
Rounding up the movies this year so far…
