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the MEI

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About Me



i don't know you ... but i'm trying to love you. because you are human. you are divine. you're invited to click on this link and read more about my journey to find ... LOVE in other places .

My Interests

FOOD, painting, music, reading, film, politics, thrift stores, yoga, human nature, poetry, culture

I'd like to meet:

everyone i'm sposed too

Music:

anything i like

Movies:

a taste, a snapshot, the fat that flows to the top ---- lucky number slevin, memento, women on the verge of a nervous breakdown, daughters of the dust, the royal tennenbaums, sankofa, city of god, amelie, traffic, steven seagal movies (and what??), waking life, reservoir dogs, wedding crashers, la strada, kill bill, underworld (yeah so??), rashomon, snatch, blade runner, she's gotta have it, pulp fiction ....

Television:

not much -- iron chef, dave chappelle, laguna beach: the real OC (keeps me focused on re-appropriating the means of production), being bobby brown

Books:

my classics:: native son by richard wright, the prophet by khalil gibran, the house on mango street by sandra cisneros, push by sapphire, for colored girls who considered suicide when the rainbow was enuff by ntozake shange, 100 years of solitude by gabriel garcia marquez, secrets by nuruddin farah, their eyes were watching god by zora neale hurston

My Blog

the cleaning lady

He made it rain today In my heart She fell on my cheeks There was a hush in my brain Then we all started to speak At once I ran to miss the bus I walked so I would be late I eat in the gardens At noo...
Posted by the MEI on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 06:57:00 PST

the arrogance de-coded: get back to the back of the bus, darky

  ya know ... i been reading articles from 'real' newspapers/magazines as well as less fancy blogs which are claiming that my main man, bam bam, is ... arrogant ... he is too self confident ... h...
Posted by the MEI on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:08:00 PST

tastes great/less filling: we could all be wright

tastes great/less filling: we could all be wright i read about 53 1/2 blogs a day. all about the u.s. democratic primary. i kinda skip mccain and nader blogs ... just not as riveting to me. i am admit...
Posted by the MEI on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:17:00 PST

eggplant

sawdust swept awayOr a hole that just won't closeOld Italian movies and big cars with large enginesDry creeks then wet creeksRain, blood, and the lamb in the nightshadeLace turning yellow Half-chewed ...
Posted by the MEI on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 08:32:00 PST

nigga v. nigger

i have strong ideas and opinions about the N-word and the debate about who should and should not say it and what it means when it is uttered. i recommend this book for anyone who is engaged in this p...
Posted by the MEI on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 07:26:00 PST

artichoke

and i sit i pick the lint out my skirt i rub the soft plastic cover of my cell phone i thumb the pages of my really no really good book i take clouds apart and put them back together again i ride the...
Posted by the MEI on Sat, 07 Jul 2007 04:24:00 PST

death of a saleseman (2004)

my love unravels like the minutes in time waiting for you to answer my predictions that you will come i loved you once twice five times and i am counting all the indigo love moods in between and we ce...
Posted by the MEI on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 05:23:00 PST

about me 2: brambles' words of wisdom

the quote below from brambles perfectly sums up my thoughts on any study of 'ghetto society' and i also hold this quote close to my heart because i am engaged in the study myself. i often encounter ...
Posted by the MEI on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 06:52:00 PST

mobutu-town

ally all the friendlies mark all the baddies with an Xbuild all the bordersyou likethere is no line thattruly separatesman from manso no maybe bout itsomalia doesn't reallyexist and ethiopia doesn'tow...
Posted by the MEI on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 08:55:00 PST

times square: self love in neon stereo

you remember me/ you fished/ i got caught/ you couldn't throw me back/ i stick to you/  i enfold your shoulders/ i stroke your calves/ i am pillow/ i am endlessly absorbing your impact/ ...
Posted by the MEI on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 08:44:00 PST