Bus Auntie?

19Mar08

I just got this forwarded over the Harvard Caribbean Club list (I am such a poser, I know). A Jamaican “Bus Auntie” dis?

Bus Uncle was a video that got passed around like crazy in 2006, but most of you have probably never even heard of it. Although almost totally unnoticed in [...]

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Tags: bus uncle, Jamaica, mad jamaican woman, memes

Mavado’s New Video

14Mar08

As many of you may know, one of my life goals is to be able to pretend I’m Jamaican. Part of this training involves, obviously, listening to lots of dancehall music: it’s a tough job, but I think I’ll make it through somehow.
Anyway, I should be sleeping right now since I haven’t in a while, [...]

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Tags: copyright, dancehall, mavado, music industry, pirating, vp records, youtomb, youtube

Lollerskates

07Mar08

I really, really, really want to visit the National Museum of Rollerskating in Lincoln, Nebraska. You think I can get money from Harvard to do it somehow?

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Tags: rollerblading, rollerskates, rollerskating

Asian-American Studies at Harvard

05Mar08

(Liveblogging…or trying to)
A committee within the Asian American Association of Harvard is attempting to set up an Asian-American studies track at the college, and this lecture is the first of a lecture series on Asian-American culture presented by Prof. Eric Tang (who teaches this really interesting-looking class called “Afro-Asian Encounters in the New World.”
Professor Tang: [...]

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Tags: asian american studies, asian-americans, eric tang, ethnic studies, race