Only. Skin. Deep.
A few years ago, I boarded a plane heading to a small American college-town. It was my first time in the United States, and I was starting my freshman year at a prominent institution of higher...
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Resisting Expectations: An American in Accra
I can’t count the number of times I was asked the question, usually from locals whom I had met only moments earlier: “So, is it what you expected? Is Africa what you thought it would be like?”...
Marie Antoinette
Every single person I come across seems to hate this movie. It's "silly." It's "weird." It's "NOT HISTORICALLY ACCURATE!" download Drop Zone movie download Towelhead aka Nothing Is Private dvd...
The American Ways
"THE AMERICAN WAY" is possibly the catchiest tried and true maxim of all American clichés. It is most often used by Americans in fond reference to matters which make them proud, and there are many,...
Burkhas, Bikinis, and Other Lies
“You're in deep doo-doo now," was my 6th grade math teacher's favorite expression, the one that signaled a mini-Apocalypse in the form of a D grade, or a detention, or a shrill call to the parents...
It’s the Movies, Stupid!
George W. Bush won for a simpler reason than all political pundits would like to admit. It has nothing to do with the economy, security, Iraq , gay marriage or moral values – all highly...
Whatever Gets You Through the Night
By now, most people have seen the images of war-crimes that went on in the Abu Ghraib prison. This is Rush Limbaugh's response to the torture, as tactful and intelligent as always: ”This is no...
Wet Dreaming, Sort Of
On Bernardo Bertolucci's "The Dreamers” Decadence is good for you. Take your decadence like you take your vitamins. I understood this whilst freezing my bum off outside a Canadian Cineplex,...
On Virginity
“What IS virginity?” I first knew that different people would answer this question differently as I rode down an escalator in a German shopping mall a few years ago; my friend turned toward me...