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Rick Roirdan Presents
Rick Roirdan Presents My children and I are huge fans of Percy Jackson. We absolutely adore The Kane Chronicles and The Magnus Chase Series. Roirdan’s writing style is both intelligent and funny. Though often dealing with darker themes, he keeps … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, education, Literature/Pop Culture, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged African, African American, Arizona, Aru Shah, Aru Shah and the End of Time, Aru Shaw and the City of Gold, Aru Shaw and the Tree of Wishes, Aztec, City of the Plague God, Cuban, Educational, Funny, Ghana, Gum Baby, Hindu, India, Intelligent, Kwame Mbalia, Magic, Mayan, Mesopotamian, Mexico, Middle School, Multiverse, Mythology, Native American, Navajo, Paoloa Santiago and the River of Tears, Percy Jackson, Race to the Sun, Rebecca Roanhorse, Rick Roirdan, Rick Roirdan Presents, Roshani Chokshi, Sal and Gabi Break The Universe, Sal and Gabi Fix The Universe, Santeria, Sawat Chadda, Sense of Humor, Tehlor Kay Mejia, The Dragon Pearl, The Kane Chronicles, The Magnus Chase Series, The Star Touched Queen, The Storm Runner, Tristan Strong Punches A Hole In the Sky, West Africa, Yoon Ha Lee, Young Adult
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Halloween Costumes
Halloween Costumes When I was four my mother took a picture of me next to a scarecrow she’d made and placed on the porch. This was at our apartment on Broadway, so it must have been around 1979. I … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Event, Flashback
Tagged 1977, 1979, 1985, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, An Acceptable Time, bell-bottom jeans, Broadway, Bugs Bunny Halloween Special, camera, Candy Cigarettes, Cape, Cari Lynn Vaughn, Ghost of an Indian Princess, Halloween, Hippie, Jack in the Box, Jane in the Box, Joke Book, Madeline L'Engle, Marvin The Martian, McCall's, Mom, My Mother The Rich, Native American, Nikki, Ohio, Parade, peace sign earrings, Pictures, Raggedy Anne, Rose Blue, Scarcrow, Sewing, Shelby, Simplicity, Third Street, tiara, tie-dyed, Trick or Treat, white gloves, Witch
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Dia De Los Muertos
November 1, 2017 Dia De Los Muertos Dia De Los Muertos or Day of the Dead is a Mexican Holiday celebrated around Halloween. In the 1960s the Mexican government had the Aztec festival declared a National Holiday. In the Aztec … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Event, Mythology, Politics/Economics
Tagged 1960s, 2017, All Inclusive, Anglo-Saxon, Aurora, Aztec, Belle, blantly racist, bones of the dead, born mortal, Calveras, children who have died, Cinderella, Coco, Colonialism, Cultural Appropriation, decorate graves, Dia De Meurots, Disney, Families, Fashion, festival, Festivals, Goddess of the Dead, Greeks, Hades, Halloween, Honoring, Indigenous Roots, Intent, Jasmine, La Calvera, Latin Culture, Latina, Latino, Maya, Mexico, Mictecacihautl, Moana, Multicultural, Native American, offerings, openly mock, Overacting, Persephone, Pocahontas, Princess Tiana, Racist, Respect, sacrificed. ancestors, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, special, Sports Teams, Sugar Skull, The Book of Life, Underworld, Unique, White
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Forever The Age of Adeline
September 14, 2015 Age of Adaline The Age of Adeline is a 2015 romance starring Blake Lively. Earlier this year, Ana and I saw the ads for it and decided that Adaline and Henry Morgan would make the perfect couple … Continue reading
Posted in Flashback, Literary Criticism, Movies/TV
Tagged 2003, 2008, 2014, 2015, 400 years old, ABC, Ageless, Amelie, Book, Canceled, Children, Close to People, Death, Detective, Forever, Fox, Immortality, J Mills Goodloe, Jamie Lannister, Kids, Lonely, Matt Miller, Native American, New Amsterdam, Nikolja Coster Waldru, NYC, Pete Hamill, Rebirth, Spell, Supernatural, Temporary, The Age of Adeline, True Love
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War and Peace In The Global Village
War and Peace in the Global Village Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore 1968 The village has indeed become global. Marshall McLuhan was right. No man is an island any more. The earth itself is an island. ~Time Magazine, 1981 The … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Literature/Pop Culture, Science/Philosophy
Tagged 1968, Ashley Montagu, B.F. Skinner, Caesar, Civilization, Death, Edmund Burke, Emerson, Herman Hesse, Hollywood, Inca Empire, Japanese, John Treble, Marshall McLuhan, Napoleon, Native American, Okakura Kakuzu, Peace, Quentin Fiore, Rev John Bryde, Siddhartha, Tea Ceremony, The Human Revolution, The People of the Dream, War, War and Peace in the Global Village, Western
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Real Genius
Real Genius Val Kilmer Val Kilmer came to my attention in the movie Willow. His long black locks and killer sword wielding skills were incredibly attractive. Not to mention he was smart, sarcastic and down right funny at times. His … Continue reading
Posted in Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV, Music, Poetry
Tagged 1988, 1992, 1995, 2011, Batman, Cari Gilkison, Cherokee, Dream, Eastern Philosophy, Father, Frances Ford Coppola, Funny, George Lucas, Jack Kilmer, Jim Morrison, Joanne Whalley Kilmer, Julliard Academy, Kevin Spacey, LA, Madmartigan, Maggie Gilkeson, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Mercedes Kilmer, My Eden After Burns, Native American, New Mexico, Oliver Stone, Poetry, Real Genius, Santa Fe, Sarcastic, Smart, Sword Wielding, The Doors, The Ghost in the Darkness, The Missing, Thunderheart, Top Gun, Top Secret, Twixt, Val Kilmer, Warick Davis, Willow
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Reservation Blues
Reservation Blues Cari Gilkison, English 575: Post-Colonial Literature, Winter 1997 Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie shows that there is no hope for Native Americans to redress the effects of colonization. Alexie feels that there is no hope of ever … Continue reading
Posted in History, Literature/Pop Culture, Religion
Tagged Ancestry, Big Mama, Cari Gilkison, Cari Lynn Vaughn, Christianity, Christopher Columbus, Colonized, Freedom, God, Going off the Right Path, hope, Horses, Indian, junior, Native American, OSU, Post-Colonial Literature, Reservation, Roots, Rservation Blues, Screaming Horses, Sherman Alexie, Ten Commandments, Thomas, Urban Indian Blues, White Man, White Man's God, William Buckley, Winter 1997
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