faboo site - someecards

You can design your very own ecards at someecards.com, as I have done here, or use theirs, which are super funny and un-P.C.

http://www.someecards.com

Obama Cult of Personality 4: You know you must rock this

This is globalization, ladies and gentlemen. Barack Hussein Obama, half Kenyan, half US American man, by way of Hawaii, Indonesia, and Chicago, is the new President of the United States. Cut to 125th Street, where gentlemen from Senegal are selling Dutch wax cloth fabric (allegedly) fabricated in Mali, with a pattern depicting our new leader. Complete with US flags, "yes we can" slogans, and a lovely photograph of the photogenic President, several options for patterns are on view. A dress according to the shopkeeper imitating Michelle Obama's ball gown, is out front. (above) It adapted the Grecian style of the single-strapped gown designed by Taiwanese New York-based Jason Wu, to West African ladies' wear, critiquing or at least commenting on, the pattern of the original. The fabric was also incorporated into the Western t-shirt, as well as into an African man's shirt. Of course, I bought 3 yards and plan to rock my Western-style Barack Obama wax cloth dress this Summer.

Sometimes a cigar is....just a cigar?

Sometimes, when I look at certain products, I really understand that no one but a man could have invented them, even though my late 1980s-early 1990s generational academic training makes me break out in hives at the thought of any "given," "pre-ordained," "natural," "essential," "innate," qualities. Yes, un PC as it is, I am not sure that I can imagine a woman inventing the Wonder Boner.*



*And here is a big shout out to one of my most faithful readers, for sending me this hilarious made for TV ad. To all my fans out there, all three of you, thanks for sharing any items that fit in with my perverse sensibility, help me cope with academentia, and laugh at the fact that my life is sometimes a telenovela.

Mariah sings "Hero" to Pres. Obama

Obama Cult of Personality 3: Happy, Determined?

I have seen so many new Obama-related tchochtkes that I cannot begin to enumerate them all, soap on a rope, rings, watches, dildos (You can exclaim as you climax: yes he can, change has come!), you name it.





But the Chia Pet, that icon of 1970s sold on TV novelty gifts, never entered even my imagination as a possibility. Available on Amazon (see link below) for only $20, it comes in HAPPY and DETERMINED versions. 

I am not sure how I feel about the hair, however. The retro natural short Afro evoked by the freely-growing sprouts recalls the bigger hair of his youth, in contrast to the closely cropped style he rocks today. But somehow this makes me uneasy, because of the racialized characteristics of hair and its representations. Yet the hair lends itself to this type of growing sculpture more than the face, so it makes sense. Am I over-analyzing this? That is what I get paid to do! 

And anyway, I have spent years of my life obsessing on my own hair, first thanks to my female family members' fixation with its texture and how to "tame" it, what to "do" with it, then later years of arguing with people at beauty salons that did not "get" it. Thank goodness my current hairdresser does, she compares it to "a cross between Chinese hair and Black hair." Exactly. 
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001PKU2OI?ie=UTF8&tag=buzz0f-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B001PKU2OI

Let Freedom Ring

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Aretha Franklin, looking FIERCE in her lovely hat and coat, singing at PRESIDENT Obama's swearing in. A JOYFUL day!

Let freedom ring