Still babysitting. K-Bug has gone off to her party. The 3 year old fell asleep (shoulda taken that nap we tried earlier) while watching Cars. Gonna have to wake him up soon. The 11 month old is being a clingy snuggle bunny (alternating between being endearing and annoying {I miss the luxury of peeing alone}). It is funny how much more vocal she is when her brother isn't in the room. Parents aren't due here for another couple of hours.

Allyson, if I believed for a second you'd tell black people how to define themselves, I'd make sure you checked yourself before you wrecked yourself.

But this woman is AWFUL. Jezebel totally wins, because they're getting a ton of pageviews, and I don't think for a second they care one way or another about her shittiness.

Hood cred! Hood cred! Can you believe it? She's trying to explain to people *why* she's earned the right to tell black people how to live, because she has some undefined HOOD cred. I despair that I have to accept that people are so stupid. And I'm appalled that she's raising a biracial kid with such blatant issues.

It never hurts to get a sanity check, Allyson, because shit slips through even when you mean the best (who hasn't fucked up ever?), but you could never be her.

OK, is it weird that I won't wash certain things together? Is it even sensical?

I've been trying to convince myself for months that I can wash my bathmat with some capri pants, because they are some of the few all-white things I own, so I could bleach them all together.

Highlights thus far include him swinging his santa hat around while singing "I whip my hair back and forth"

That is HILARIOUS.

She's trying to explain to people *why* she's earned the right to tell black people how to live, because she has some undefined HOOD cred.

Holy crap. Seriously.

Late, but

NEW COMPUTER WALLPAPER!!

made me laugh out loud.

My main worry was that I was comparing two black men, Chuck D and Neil deGrasse Tyson, in how each made me feel, and using Chuck D's raps about oppression and fighting back to make me walk taller and gain confidence when I feel intellectually intimidated. I wanted desperately to be very clear that I understand what Chuck D is talking about and am not appropriating his culture in some weird misunderstanding. It seemed a very privilegey line to walk. I compare their oratory styles, and didn't want to wander into the "my, isn't he articulate" territory.

I wanted to say, "This makes me feel powerful. This is what these things mean to me," without losing what Chuck D means when he says that most of his heroes don't appear on no stamps.

Holy shit I just read her. The arrogance is astounding.

Hey Allyson, have you seen this? [link]

Oh hells yeah. My Beasties. I saw a recent photo of Adam Yauch and he looks so frail. I'm heartbroken.

The arrogance is astounding.

You see why I'm saying you might make some missteps, but you won't be her? And, unlike her, you get that there are missteps, and that you might make them, and that's really the important distinction right there. Quantum motherfucking leap.

I understand what you say about getting something out of someone else's response to a struggle that you don't have to go through--that's definitely got the potential to go bad. But, seriously, if you stick to a) what it means to you and b) not trivialising what it means to the group in question, you've done a lot of the due diligence. Because I suspect you do get what Chuck D is on about.

I have TOTAL hood cred!

I have FOUR hoodies!