am I dreaming?

I can't keep up with all of the lovely things President Obama has been doing since taking office just a few days ago. Giving a shout out to us "non-believers," speaking to a Middle Eastern tv channel, reaching out to Muslims, signing an equal pay act, revoking Bush's ban on giving money to international organizations that promoted safer sex and birth control, allowing stem cell research, promoting rights for unions and workers, sponsoring increases in funding for education, condemning bonuses for corrupt Wall Street executives, he also used the "p" word - POOR, saying the economic stimulus is not just for the Middle Class but for those aspiring to join it, including the poor. I hoped that his avoidance of this word during the campaign did not mean that he did not care about the poor since his own background and Michelle's are working class, his mother was on food stamps at one point, and he was a community organizer, but I wasn't totally sure he would go there. Every time I turn on the TV or read the papers I feel like it's a Christmas miracle, LoL.

Boy, do I feel vindicated

My sister just made my day by sharing a news story claiming that women with "large derrieres" and "pear-shaped figures" are healthier and less prone to a variety of ailments.

Great, so even though in the NYC straight dating market we apparently pale (well, maybe pale isn't the right word since many of us are women of color, LoL) in comparison to the size O bleached blonds at least we will live longer, single. 

In any event, historically, women seem to dig my bootylicious figure, so that's a plus right there. 

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,477434,00.html

Cartoon of the day

Priceless cartoon shared by a lady friend who has a fabulous blog. This is one of those, if women ran the world scenarios that I think about for example:

If women ran the world, tampons would be free (Viagra is subsidized by insurance).

If women ran the world, sexually harassing male faculty and/or male faculty dating grad students would not get tenure. (I grant that in some rare cases this does happen.)

If women ran the world lesbians in porn would not all look like Pamela Anderson.

And so on.

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