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WCDT 7-11 February 2011 (1856-1860)

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jwhouk:
Well, yeah - unless they went on TV on either Sullivan or some other variety show (Sullivan was already over and done by the time I was old enough to remember), you never saw them unless you happened to go to a concert.

Akima:

--- Quote from: jwhouk on 12 Feb 2011, 08:47 ---...you couldn't find the original?
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I probably could have done, but Vonda Shepard is awesome. Her musical interludes, and of course Lucy Liu as Ling Woo :-D, were the only reasons I watched Ally McBeal. As for The Left Banke... Carl is quite correct, I didn't know they existed, but I can't imagine anything much less rive gauche that that squeaky-clean, squeaky-voiced lead singer.

akronnick:
But Akima, you can't even see his eyebrows his hair's so long!!!!!

And the Guitar player's hair is DOWN TO HIS COLLAR!!!!!!

They're not following the standards and fashions of when I was in my twenties, you know, 1938!*

I bet they smoke the reefer!




Filthy commie hippies!


*I was actually born in 1975. I was acting like I was much older than I actually am.

Carl-E:
You guys are both too funny...

...and so was that group.  They were American, but obviously trying hard to emulate the Beatles' "mop top" look. 

And failing, miserably!

JackFaerie:

--- Quote from: Black Sword on 09 Feb 2011, 20:14 ---
Should I have put in bold that I'm Colombian? That I am a cultural and ethnic minority where I live, more so because the vast majority of Hispanics in the US are Mexican, which is very much culturally different from my own heritage? Should I have added that my first language was Spanish and I didn't learn English until I was six years old? Should I add that I do not feel any particular connection to the American culture I am surrounded with and identify first and foremost with my Colombian heritage? Should I add that my ex is now my ex at least in part because she could not reconcile the good Indian girl with the good American girl struggle? Or do you want to stay on your soap box and feeling high and mighty over...what?

"Nobody can understand without living it first?" So clearly the entire topic of a parent's suicide cannot be done unless your parent suicides, and it cannot be done well enough for it to be a case study in properly done drama in a web comic. Clearly, the additional pigment in my skin makes me utterly unable to comprehend what a guy with an epicanthic eyefold experiences and what girls with bindis feel and TELL ME THEY FEEL. Obviously, what a person says about their experience is utterly unreliable, thereby rendering thousands of years of researching methodology invalid because a person said something and others corroborated it.

I continue to wonder why you're deliberately ignoring the fact that I would like it tastefully done. Get off your soap box already.

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Dude, seriously?  It's great that you have apparently unresolved issues with your ex and her identity and now are putting all Desi people under the same umbrella as the ONE particular community you've been exposed to, but why in the world should Jeph be interested in that story?  It doesn't really go with the slant of his comic and, in context of what else has been/has not been covered, would be tying Padma's entire identity to her nationality. She's just be "that Indian chick, with the Indian cultural issues."  This is something not all minorities are fans of.

Meanwhile I know some Indian girls who, yes, struggle with the whole FOB/good Indian girl thing. And I know some Indian girls who have always lived in diverse environments or had Americanized parents or just due to their own personality, have never thought much about it--or had thought about it when they were much younger, but currently are at peace with themselves and are happily American (but of Indian descent,) or Indian (living in America), or something in the middle, or something else entirely.  (I even know recent immigrant Indian girls who are not at all bothered about being "good Indian girls.") Padma seems to be quite old enough that even if she went though that sort of identity crisis, it probably happened quite a bit earlier.

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