On Why 'The Little Mermaid' Is The Greatest Movie of Our Time
See, here's the thing: I have this very, very vivid memory of watching "The Little Mermaid" for the first time as a child - but it was not the Disney version and instead of getting married, Ariel killed herself to save the prince. I was fucking traumatized and cried a lot.
When the Disney version came out, I didn't want to relive the trauma, but all my friends were so into it, so I watched it and then because I'm a contrary little bitch, got super angry when Ariel didn't die at the end. Ursula, because she did die, became my FAVORITE.
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On Lines On A Transit Altercation Precipitated By General Inconsiderateness
I do not get what the big deal is about eating food on public transit? Sometimes it's a necessity. (Not saying it was in this case, but I know that there are days when I'll eat a breakfast bagel or a sandwich on my way to work because that's the only downtime I know I'm going to get to eat and if someone got in my face about it, I'd be fucking furious. Especially if they used the term "animal" to describe me fulfilling a basic human function.)
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On Cannibals Seeking Same: A Visit To The Online World Of Flesh-Eaters
Straight up fascinating. Whoa.
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On Rap Music Is Good Now Because Rappers Aren't Afraid To Be Weird
I think the acceptance of some of the more mainstream "black weirdos" (Nicki Minaj, Janelle Monae, Kelis, Cee-Lo, Rihanna, etc.) also has a role in why rap suddenly seems to be inundated with a new wave of weird rappers. There's money in that image, when there wasn't before.
Still, this was an interesting piece and I liked it.
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On Wildly Segregated High School to Try Something Radical
@Baboleen: But do the feelings of success on the part of the teachers/aides matter in a situation like this? Like… isn't it more important if the students feel successful? (Honest question.) I sometimes think that when it comes to education reform too many people want what's easiest but not necessarily what's right. There is so much not being addressed when we okay the segregation of classrooms based on intelligence alone, for instance, that it kind of makes me nauseous just thinking about it!
(Standardized testing, since you bring it up, is another one of those instances where I think this sort of thing applies: we're not really thinking of certain communities when we implement it, are we?)
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On Wildly Segregated High School to Try Something Radical
These anecdotes are so interesting to me because I guess I just had particularly successful inclusion classroom teachers or something? I was an advanced student and it was only in the segregated classrooms that I felt I was getting fucked over educationally because it was only in those classrooms that entire lesson plans were hi-jacked by students just for the hell of it. Seriously, the disruption was so terrible in those classes because, duh, "advanced" intellectually doesn't negate behavior problems, particularly in areas that serve largely poor and working-class communities of color. The inclusion classrooms I was in, on the other hand, had teachers who knew how to deftly work around a smart kid with a smartass mouth.
…though, also, maybe it was just that I did not live in Evanston, which, yeah sounds pretty fucked up.
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On Wildly Segregated High School to Try Something Radical
Man, I remember going on a college "tour" in high school and at one of the colleges, the tour leaders actually said to our not-majority-white faces, "WOW! You guys are the honor students?! And you go to a PUBLIC SCHOOL? How'd that happen?" It was one of those soul-crushing moments but it also left us feeling incredibly smug as hell. I dunno. My addition to this conversation is basically high school sucks, fuck tracking. Ha.
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On How to Eat at Chipotle
If it ain't carne asada fries, I am not interested. #teamsocal
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On Let's Do This Thing! It's Election Night! Let's Meet and Discuss!
Dear Kentucky: Rand Paul is not an appropriate reply to Al Franken as no one will be laughing at the end of this nightmare.
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On Why 'The Little Mermaid' Is The Greatest Movie of Our Time
@Annie Malamet@facebook: YES. Holy shit, I've not seen this version since that one viewing as a kid and was maybe a little convinced I'd made it up, but that's it! The little dive, in the last part, proved it. Thanks!