(30 October 2006) Baratunde was just selected to audition for Def Comedy Jam on Friday Nov 3rd!! The show will be at Providence’s Black Repertory Theatre. 10:30pm
Archive for October, 2006
seriously. this flag is on the side of the bus. they need to explain. let’s call a congressional hearing
I love Monster Toys: creature, originally uploaded by bbaltimore.
I’m sorry. I can’t help it. I’m a black man. Kerry Healey is a white woman. I better not see her in my garage, or there’s gonna be a rape-a-thon son!!!! I’m taking pledges now at 1-888-RAPE-HEALEY. Operators are standing by with condoms.
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Just caught wind of a comment made by House Homeland Security Chairman Peter King (R-NY) who said being in Baghdad is a lot “like being in Manhattan.”
… yeah if he’s talking about the Manhattan of Sept 11, 2001!
idiot. how dumb does he think we are?
the “e” is for evangelical. don’t be left behind
when the rapture comes, the last thing you want is to get stuck in traffic. actually the last thing you want is to be a non-believer, but right after that is traffic!
It’s hard to imagine that almost one year ago to the minute, I sat at this very computer and typed up a farewell message for my mother who passed on October 12, 2005.
Parts of me are still offended at the audacity displayed by a world which has decided to move on despite the loss of the most important and wonderful person in my life.
Parts of me celebrate randomly the memories and sayings of a woman who often created her own language.
Parts of me are angry at hospitals and cancer and her.
Parts of me just want a hug that I’ll never get again.
In one year, I still have not gone through most of my mother’s things. That has been too hard.
What I have tried to do is invoke her spirit and tell her story wherever I can: during standup, MCing the recent Black Alumni Weekend at Harvard, and in this very blog.
Over the next year, I will push to tell that story more aggressively and across more media. She left me a tremendous collection of LPs which will make their debut in the podcast. I have some incredible in-the-moment conversations of our drive West across the USA, moving Ma to Tacoma, WA. And there is more.
So stay tuned for years more of the story and spirit of Arnita L Thurston. And many thanks to friends and strangers among you who have send love and support and flowers and chocolates in the past year. You are appreciated (even if I haven’t emailed all of you back).
Everything else is irrelevant and imadertia.
I miss you, Ma.
- Baratunde, son of Arnita
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