Author: Miriam

Normally I hate reality tv but…

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…I happened across Rockstar Supernova tonight. Generally I was surprised by the quality of the talent but I just about wet my pants when I heard Dilana. She has an amazing gravelly voice and an intense stage presence which captures and enthralls you and makes you almost afraid to look away.

I am an instant fan and given I spend most of my time bitching about the complete lack of talent displayed by most famous female singers this is a big deal for me.

Check out her performance here, but trust me, the itty bitty screen (and my speakers) don’t do her justice.

Holy fuck am I impressed! I mean for fucks sake she got a standing ovation from Dave Navarro and rendered Tommy Lee speechless!

And just so you know I’ve been singing since I was 14 months old and have performed professionally so I’m not just some couch expert either.

Wow!

Ok I’m probably scaring people now so I’ll shut up 🙂

Edit: its now on YouTube 🙂

Is this ad really racist?

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This ad was brought to my attention by an article on boingboing, and it got me thinking.
There is no doubt that some people have been offended by it but I personally don’t see what all the fuss is about.

Now this ad was displayed in Amsterdam but, no surprises here, most of the outcry seems to be coming from America where there is a lot of PC self-consciousness about proving to everyone that you’re not racist and a lot of African-Americans who seem to have a slightly shaky relationship with white Americans.

The major argument by those that think its racist are the following.

  1. It implies the use of ‘black’ and ‘white’ to describe skin colour (dude they’re perfectly viable descriptive terms not racist expressions of hate)
  2. It shows a white person dominating a black person.

Given the history of black slavery in America the second argument is understandable although still a little stupid. The first thing to keep in mind is that to the average European the idea of racism is so far from their mind that the only thought of black and white upon seeing this ad would be “what a visually effective contrast” which is exactly what sony were trying to do.

Now personally I think this visual would have had more impact and I think that there would have been none of the outcry over the image.

And what is the main difference?? The black woman is dominating the white. Which brings up an important point.

Racism is treating a person or making judgements about a person based on race.

So if you were offended by this ad, and would not have been offended by the ad if the two women swapped roles. Then you are racist.

Funky new inline comments

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I’ve just changed my template so that now if you hit ‘comments’ they sort of appear at the bottom of the post without having to go to a new page to see them which I personally think is a lot better.

This is where I found the code to do this as I am not nearly clever enough to figure it out myself:

The Alliance: Blogger Inline Comments

Incidentally you need to have javascript enabled for the show/hide comments thingy to work, so if you don’t javascript enabled and you want to leave/view comments then just hit the Respond button.

Because blue is just a tiny bit less frightening than pink

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Hello and welcome to the new and improved blue edition of Miriam’s blog. I decided that given 90% of my audience is in all likelihood male and pink can be a little bit of a shock to the system if you’re not really expecting it I might try a nice calming blue for a while.

And you’d better like it because due to minor issues with templates and modifications that I’ve made and other ickiness I had to go through and change every colour and http reference from rose to blue by hand because just shoving my modifications into the blue template turned it into a jumbled mess.

This just in: The google spellcheck doesn’t think that ickiness is a word… Shame on them!!!