latimes: Enter the Bruce Lee statue Film and kung fu legend Bruce Lee, who broke barriers on the silver screen and television with his all-too-short career in the 1960s and 1970s, has been honored with a 7-foot statue in Chinatown’s Central Plaza. Following the 40th anniversary of Lee’s sudden passing, and Chinatown’s 75th year in Los Angeles, the statue will be on permanent display once local businesses raise the $150,000 needed to install the bronze Lee. For a glimpse into Lee’s significance for many of his young fans: John Kreng, 44, staked out a spot with his friends hours before the statue’s unveiling, trading Bruce Lee stories and reminiscing. Growing up half-Thai and half-Chinese in an all-white neighborhood in Maryland, Lee’s films were inspiring, Kreng said. “Here’s this hero who looks like me on the screen,” Kreng said. Read more over at L.A. Now. Photos: Robyn Beck / AFP skanlous because this really should be in oakland and/or seattle where he actuay lived. latimes: Enter the Bruce Lee statue Film and kung fu legend Bruce Lee, who broke barriers on the silver screen and television with his all-too-short career in the 1960s and 1970s, has been honored with a 7-foot statue in Chinatown’s Central Plaza. Following the 40th anniversary of Lee’s sudden passing, and Chinatown’s 75th year in Los Angeles, the statue will be on permanent display once local businesses raise the $150,000 needed to install the bronze Lee. For a glimpse into Lee’s significance for many of his young fans: John Kreng, 44, staked out a spot with his friends hours before the statue’s unveiling, trading Bruce Lee stories and reminiscing. Growing up half-Thai and half-Chinese in an all-white neighborhood in Maryland, Lee’s films were inspiring, Kreng said. “Here’s this hero who looks like me on the screen,” Kreng said. Read more over at L.A. Now. Photos: Robyn Beck / AFP skanlous because this really should be in oakland and/or seattle where he actuay lived. latimes: Enter the Bruce Lee statue Film and kung fu legend Bruce Lee, who broke barriers on the silver screen and television with his all-too-short career in the 1960s and 1970s, has been honored with a 7-foot statue in Chinatown’s Central Plaza. Following the 40th anniversary of Lee’s sudden passing, and Chinatown’s 75th year in Los Angeles, the statue will be on permanent display once local businesses raise the $150,000 needed to install the bronze Lee. For a glimpse into Lee’s significance for many of his young fans: John Kreng, 44, staked out a spot with his friends hours before the statue’s unveiling, trading Bruce Lee stories and reminiscing. Growing up half-Thai and half-Chinese in an all-white neighborhood in Maryland, Lee’s films were inspiring, Kreng said. “Here’s this hero who looks like me on the screen,” Kreng said. Read more over at L.A. Now. Photos: Robyn Beck / AFP skanlous because this really should be in oakland and/or seattle where he actuay lived.

latimes:

Enter the Bruce Lee statue

Film and kung fu legend Bruce Lee, who broke barriers on the silver screen and television with his all-too-short career in the 1960s and 1970s, has been honored with a 7-foot statue in Chinatown’s Central Plaza.

Following the 40th anniversary of Lee’s sudden passing, and Chinatown’s 75th year in Los Angeles, the statue will be on permanent display once local businesses raise the $150,000 needed to install the bronze Lee.

For a glimpse into Lee’s significance for many of his young fans:

John Kreng, 44, staked out a spot with his friends hours before the statue’s unveiling, trading Bruce Lee stories and reminiscing. Growing up half-Thai and half-Chinese in an all-white neighborhood in Maryland, Lee’s films were inspiring, Kreng said.

“Here’s this hero who looks like me on the screen,” Kreng said.

Read more over at L.A. Now.

Photos: Robyn Beck / AFP

skanlous because this really should be in oakland and/or seattle where he actuay lived.

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nbaoffseason: Rasheed Wallace might be the most hip-hop of all NBA players.  Here Sheed poses with Adrock of the Beastie Boys (who got him to sign his custom AF1’s), Pete Rock, DJ Premier, and Geechi Suede of Camp Lo, and Trugoy and Posdnous of De La Soul. Legends. this HELLA clean, no doubt. however, he also HATED on E-40 which in my biased book(s) makes him just as “hip-hop” as ‘anti-that’ in the same realm. dont big up ghostface killa with all ur might and then sh*t on his west coast counterpart at the same time. not a good look. nbaoffseason: Rasheed Wallace might be the most hip-hop of all NBA players.  Here Sheed poses with Adrock of the Beastie Boys (who got him to sign his custom AF1’s), Pete Rock, DJ Premier, and Geechi Suede of Camp Lo, and Trugoy and Posdnous of De La Soul. Legends. this HELLA clean, no doubt. however, he also HATED on E-40 which in my biased book(s) makes him just as “hip-hop” as ‘anti-that’ in the same realm. dont big up ghostface killa with all ur might and then sh*t on his west coast counterpart at the same time. not a good look. nbaoffseason: Rasheed Wallace might be the most hip-hop of all NBA players.  Here Sheed poses with Adrock of the Beastie Boys (who got him to sign his custom AF1’s), Pete Rock, DJ Premier, and Geechi Suede of Camp Lo, and Trugoy and Posdnous of De La Soul. Legends. this HELLA clean, no doubt. however, he also HATED on E-40 which in my biased book(s) makes him just as “hip-hop” as ‘anti-that’ in the same realm. dont big up ghostface killa with all ur might and then sh*t on his west coast counterpart at the same time. not a good look.

nbaoffseason:

Rasheed Wallace might be the most hip-hop of all NBA players. 

Here Sheed poses with Adrock of the Beastie Boys (who got him to sign his custom AF1’s), Pete Rock, DJ Premier, and Geechi Suede of Camp Lo, and Trugoy and Posdnous of De La Soul.

Legends.

this HELLA clean, no doubt. however, he also HATED on E-40 which in my biased book(s) makes him just as “hip-hop” as ‘anti-that’ in the same realm. dont big up ghostface killa with all ur might and then sh*t on his west coast counterpart at the same time. not a good look.

Jun. 18 2013
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nbaoffseason: Ladies and gentlemen, tonight’s lead official is Joey Crawford. If he has to watch Tim Duncan and the Spurs celebrate a title, he’s going to end up ejecting himself for weeping. the grand wizard of the nba

nbaoffseason:

Ladies and gentlemen, tonight’s lead official is Joey Crawford. If he has to watch Tim Duncan and the Spurs celebrate a title, he’s going to end up ejecting himself for weeping.

the grand wizard of the nba

Jun. 18 2013
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#douchelord
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Jun. 18 2013
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“I respect you. I wanted to be a rapper. I wanted to be a ball-player. Today, like most black men under 40, I am neither. You do the Dougie when convenient. You brush your shoulder off when convenient. You admonish black folks for not being you when convenient. We worry about your safety in spite of this. We wish you would talk to them about race and responsibility sometimes.

Please complicate your analysis.

Today, I teach and write. And rap to myself. I am an above average writer and teacher. I am working on being better at being human. I am not a father, nor husband. The most mediocre white man at my bougie job has 16x the wealth I have. My grandmother has the beginnings of dementia, and she is still way smarter than me. She was only allowed to work the line at a chicken plant. She has no wealth, but lots of love for both of you. She prays for your safety. Please complicate your analysis. Working class white security guards have entered my office 3x times asking to see my ID. Every time, I tell them, “Fuck you. Show me yours.” I desperately cling to intellectual superiority over them. They powerfully claim whiteness and relative wealth over me. This has nothing, and everything, to do with my wanting to be a rapper and baller. I respect you. We respect you. Please complicate your analysis. Imani Perry writes books you should read. Please tell the truth.

Kiese Laymon is the author of Long Division and How To Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America.”
—

Dear First Lady and President, | Cold Drank

brilliant.

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Jun. 18 2013
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“The law has nothing to do with justice, and injustice can’t be left unchallenged. So I decided to be a writer. Writing can’t change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.”
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well paint me green and call me gumby.

Jun. 18 2013
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creatingaquietmind: :) lol ah shit

creatingaquietmind:

:)

lol ah shit

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Jun. 18 2013
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“Practice is important because you learn to write by writing. No one ever learned to write in any other way.”
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English Composition and Grammar, John Warriner (via nickmiller)

repetition is the key to mastery.

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Jun. 18 2013
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“integrity”s (masashi) my middle name, but lately i been feelin like…

the way to be’s a little lame…and maybe that’s just real life. / speculation: nihilist. self-pity meets self-hatred…then love comes down like thunder clouds - community is sacred / friends and fam are precious man, protect ya like a dental dam. our gentle hands defending lands, it’s ‘borderline’ offensive. damn…

Jun. 18 2013
#senbei #iono
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currently almost always.

currently almost always.

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Jun. 17 2013
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jheneaiko: 6:16 . Happy Birthday to the GREATEST .

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6:16 . Happy Birthday to the GREATEST .

Jun. 15 2013
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#gemini #GOAT
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fatherswrites:

pbsparents:

Sesame Street Tackles Incarceration. 

“Highlights from Sesame Street’s new initiative: Little Children, Big Challenges: Incarceration. Alex talks with Abby Cadabby, Rosita, and Sofia about his dad’s incarceration, real families with young children share their own experiences with parental incarceration, and an animation shows a family’s trip to visit a parent in prison.


Little Children, Big Challenges: Incarceration, a bilingual (English/Spanish) multimedia initiative, provides much-needed resources to support and comfort young children throughout their parents’ incarceration. Learn more athttp://www.sesamestreet.org/incarcera…”

Great work Sesame Street. Now go tackle the racist law issue.

Jun. 15 2013
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Jun. 15 2013
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found in translation.

found in translation.

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