Santana on Tavis
for Carlos (haiku)
black magic shaman
eighteen inches mind to heart
journey of the soul
Labels: Carlos Santana, poetry, Tavis Smiley
It's your chance to speak your mind about what's going on in politics, pop culture, and more. What's pissing you off or rocking your world? (For more inspiration, aggravation, and edu-mi-cation, check out PopandPolitics.com)
for Carlos (haiku)
Labels: Carlos Santana, poetry, Tavis Smiley
Time for DC to get the same rights we're "spreading" throughout the Middle East.
There wasn't a parental warning on the site. I didn't have to fork over my credit card number or proof of age. And yet I'm freely paging through images of hundreds of pouty women clad in the most outlandish of role-playing fetish gear. There oughta be a law ... against the superskanky women's costumes at SpiritHalloween.com!
“I think it’s damaging because it’s not just one night a year . ... If it’s all the costume manufacturers make, I think it says something bigger about the culture as a whole.” Tanda Word, Texas Tech student, prefers being warmly dressed on Pumpkin Day
Poor Pope Benedict XVI. Like Sammy Hagar to David Lee Roth, he's having a hell of a time living up to his superpopular predecessor. Pope John Paul II got his own comic books, a flash Popemobile, and calls for canonization. Pope Benedict got the keys to the Vatican and some poorly-made flaming effigies.
Ok, so we've all seen the news reports of how teen author Kaavya Viswanathan got busted for plagerism... but check out this great take on her situation:
I really really hope this isn't true. There's an account on Playahata.com about a writers' friend who is in Iraq. Basically, there are American soldiers who feel like they can rape and pillage just for the hell of it: