"Thank you. :) Every day I see you I always see you give me your smile face. You're the cool person I have ever see in my life. I appreciate that you are the one who help our school."
- Ms. Nakachi
from FFHound!
"Thank you for a pencil in the box because when I lost my pencil I took from the box. I hope to see you every day. Also you pretty smile face. I am lucky to be your student. Thank you for everything."
- Ms. Nakachi
from FFHound!
Then she wrote "Thank you!" four times and ended with "Thank you again."
- Ms. Nakachi
from FFHound!
I'm having a rough day. Y'all just gonna have to excuse a bitch. *wipes away tears*
- Ms. Nakachi
from FFHound!
I love that she gave it to me closed and when I asked "What is this?" she gave me a sly smile and walked away.
- Ms. Nakachi
from FFHound!
I just melted. I feel like the Grinch when he has the strength of ten Grinches plus two. *sniffle*
- LB is Li'l Roo.
Today was the first day in 5 years that I said to myself "I don't know how much longer I can do this." But, really, how can I not do this? These kids mean the world to me.
- Ms. Nakachi
from FFHound!
I just teared up too. That's so sweet I have no adjectives!
- Starmama
from FFHound(roid)!
You can have my adjectives, Starmama. *looks down shyly* :)
- Eivind
INORITE? I am so fortunate to work with these kids. Watching them grow brings me so much joy. They are really awe-inspiring.
- Ms. Nakachi
from FFHound!
haha, thanks. I love your, "putnamehere, you know you're my favorite, right?" It makes smile every time I read it, regardless of whose name is in there. lol I wasn't sure if anyone ever used your own awesome line on you, so I thought I'd try it out. :D
- Anna Haro
right? Shit is insane these days. I want to go back and get my MA, but uhh, I'm scared. :|
- Anna Haro
I used to say I'm leaving the country anyway, so fuck them. But I've been rethinking that and now I'm wondering how I'm supposed to live and pay this shit back. And, I'm with you, Nana. I don't see how I can do the work I want to do without an MA. But, who's gonna pay for that? That ho stroll is looking better and better.
- Ms. Nakachi
ho stroll? x___x Well, if I win the lotto or become a rich bitch by some other magical means, I will gladly fund your education, and not just because I love you, but because of the amazing work you do with/for kids.
- Anna Haro
oh girl, me too. I still want to believe so badly. When I was little, I would sometimes stand outside at night hoping they'd take me. #truestory
- Anna Haro
OMG you were a little cutie! (sorry, wife and I are a little baby-crazy right now...pagans in spring who have to wait till after grad school to spawn and all that)
- Neal "thePuck" Jansons
This pic scrolled by in my feed numerous times yesterday, and it just didn't register that I "knew" the two people in it! Apparently I have more clarity this morning! That's awesome you guys!! I have detected a certain 'affectionate' tone to your "comments-as-dialogue-with-threads." Very cool.
- jkram|ɯɐɹʞɾ
well now, I missed this entirely. I may have to initiate a new "Smoooove". Congrats to both.
- MoTO Gutter Bumbershoot
Me, too. I didn't really know him until recently and saw him on one of the Comedy Central roasts. There was just something earnestly superb about him.
- Akiva
Had he lived long enough I have no doubt he could have been the next Pryor. Also, as a comedian it blows my mind that he would go out there without a planned set. The fact that he made it doing that means he was ...genius is the only word I can come up with. that shit is really hard.
- Joe "The Enforcer" Pierce
He had the best one liners on those VH1 I Love The... and Best Week Ever shows.
- Eric - Feed of Dreams
I discovered him way too late in my life. :( Funny funny stuff. I watched a special of his on the elliptical at the gym, and I was literally LOLing, and I'm loud. Folks were turning around like o_O
- Anna Haro
I loved it every single time he was on the O&A Show. Listening to him and Jim Norton riff off one another for four hours at a time was just sheer brilliance. And his laugh. Holy shit when they'd get him going on a laughing jag, it was infectious. After he died, they did a week of memorial shows for him where they brought in all these other great comedic talents like Rich Vos, Jay Mohr,...
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- Hookuh Tinypants
NEW RULE--If you are over 25 and you and your boyfriend/girlfriend find it necessary to play out all of your torrid love drama on the web, the both of yous have to take a big time out. The internet can not handle all of your Pasión, and by Pasión I mean Stupid.
Does it just apply to love drama? Cause I had to hide two of my cousins because *everything* was drama.
- Kristin
No, Kristin. All drama applies. I'm just extra annoyed at the Love drama. It's so fucking stupid, and then to have all these idiots, who are not involved in any way, jump in on the drama/thread? AY DIOS. This is so my fault for accepting friend requests from high school folks. :|
- Anna Haro
I wanna have some torrid love drama, but the wife's watching me right now... OUCH!
- Ian May
Torrid love drama? I remember those days. Ah., the 80s.
- Steven Perez
from Android
no linky ?? Thats sad,.. I could do with a LOL this monday afteroon.. its boring !
- Peter Dawson
I feel that since all my torrid love drama is with myself, no one would be interested anyway. o.0
- Friar Will
And this woman. 101 years strong. The Panamanian Sensation. Her Honorable Majesty Esmerelda Victoria Spencer. My divine Mother. I love her more than I can ever express. Feliz Día de las Madres, abuelita.
I was incredibly fortunate to have a mother who introduced me to good literature at a young age and allowed me to borrow her books, even when I made a complete mess of them. Thanks to her influence, I have read many books that are considered great works of literature. At times, I wonder what would've happened if she read romance novels. #SaturdayFF
Raiding my mom's books was how I found James Baldwin and reading James Baldwin was how I first learned to write creatively. I'm feelin' this heavily right now. Thank you for posting it, mamacita. <3
- Ms. Nakachi
I'm so happy your mother was able to give you a similar gift, Nakachi. <3
- Kelli H., FF Squatter
It's like Anna said. Such a precious gift. She gave me life then she gave me the one tool I would need the most to live it. I get sentimental around mother's day, y'all have to forgive me. I love moms. All of them. Big love to you, sweetheart.
- Ms. Nakachi
Oh, and she's coming back next week. You know, you do your best to love, to be worthy of love and when you fail, when the love you sent has somehow become pain when it reached its destination, you wonder if you were ever the right one for the job. Maybe loving is something you just don't know how to do. Then, seemingly from nowhere, those things you have loved the most, loved in a place...
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- Ms. Nakachi
from FFHound!
I will not fear the backs of the departed. Go in peace when you leave me. May distance create the space we need to heal, even if that space must be several states wide. Let it be. Let it be honest. Let it be kind. Let it be full. Let it be its own way of loving.
- Ms. Nakachi
from FFHound!
It really was amazing. She's such a gentle, funny, and thoughtful human being. And, oh, you should hear her laugh. She's little like me and has gone blind in one sparkling, iridescent eye. Like the blind crone in folk tales, her wisdom sees so much farther than eyes ever could. She makes me want to grow old some day. She makes it look so inviting.
- Ms. Nakachi
from FFHound!
"Over the centuries, Facts became such a prevalent part of most people's lives that Irish philosopher Edmund Burke once said: "Facts are to the mind what food is to the body." To the shock of most sentient beings, Facts died Wednesday, April 18, after a long battle for relevancy with the 24-hour news cycle, blogs and the Internet. Though few expected Facts to pull out of its years-long downward spiral, the official cause of death was from injuries suffered last week when Florida Republican Rep. Allen West steadfastly declared that as many as 81 of his fellow members of theU.S. House of Representatives are communists. Facts held on for several days after that assault — brought on without a scrap of evidence or reason — before expiring peacefully at its home in a high school physics book. Facts was 2,372. Facts is survived by two brothers, Rumor and Innuendo, and a sister, Emphatic Assertion. Services are alleged to be private. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that mourners make a donation to their favorite super PAC."
- Anna Haro
from Bookmarklet
"Through the 19th and 20th centuries, Facts reached adulthood as the world underwent a shift toward proving things true through the principles of physics and mathematical modeling. There was respect for scientists as arbiters of the truth, and Facts itself reached the peak of its power. But those halcyon days would not last. People unable to understand how science works began to...
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- Anna Haro
"There was an erosion of any kind of collective sense of what's true or how you would go about verifying any truth claims," Poovey said. "Opinion has become the new truth. And many people who already have opinions see in the 'news' an affirmation of the opinion they already had, and that confirms their opinion as fact."
- Anna Haro
I received notice from tumblr that a post I made a year ago was removed due to copyright claim and warns if this persists I could have my account deactivated.
It wasn't a repost, but one I posted from deviant art with full credit given. I'm 99% sure this would have been anything other than an "all rights reserved" piece as I am pretty good about that. It was all right reserved when I rechecked, however. So, in other words, if one changes the rights on something to be more strict, which legally does NOT affect previous uses of that something, tumblr could still deactivate an account for having legally posted it. This irks me. I get it; it is very hard to show previous rights status after one changes it, but it still irks me.
- Michael W. May
iANAL, but I don't think you can tighten copyright after the fact. e.g., Public Domain or Creative Commons, then you decide to Copyright it later. But I don't suppose that stops people from making allegations. And of course the copyright regime favors assertions of copyright, so to defend against allegations is inherently difficult.
- Tinfoil 2.0
aye, I missed a word there, editted it. should be legally does /not/ change previous usage.
- Michael W. May
Yes. Users need to keep fighting the good fight against all of those horrible acronymed bills and treaties that further erode our rights (SOPA-PIPA-TPP-ACTA-CISPA-...)
- Tinfoil 2.0
I had someone who accused me of copyright theft a couple of years ago although I only use Creative Commons photos. It was a photo from Flickr and he changed the rights, by looking at the Google cache I could prove that he had changed the rights fairly recently from CC to All Rights Reserved. The annoying thing is that when he complained he was also rude and argumentative.
- M F
Copyright can be tightened after the fact. See this case that just got knocked down in the Supreme court. http://www.denverpost.com/breakin... "Golan said the law violated a basic principle of copyright — that works can't be taken out of the public domain once they are there — and restricted his free speech. In a 6-2 opinion issued this morning, the U.S. Supreme Court...
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- Joe
That ruling is fairly narrow and involves international agreements. Not certian that would translate directly to someone just changing his mind about something he posted long after the fact.
- Tinfoil 2.0
I don't even mind the thing being removed, though I believe I would be within my rights to have it remain. What I take umbrage with is the threat of account of deletion for not doing anything wrong.
- Michael W. May
Yeah, sites that automatically believe accusers suck. Unfortunately, it's more common because it's cheaper for them to suspend someone without investigation than to take the risk of a lawsuit.
- Spidra Webster
“You might call it Blackmotheritis - a nervous disorder afflicting millions of black women with adolescent and teenage children, particularly mothers of boys. It is a chronic condition of graduated severity, whose acute stage coincides with the son’s puberty. When his legs grow long, his voice deepens and especially when he gets a little fuzz under his lip, the mother’s suffering peaks. She knows that, from now until he has a midlife paunch and graying temples - and maybe not even then - when he is around things with dollar value, her son will be seen through the corners of eyes, over shoulders, through one-way mirrors, through surveillance cameras. Because he is black and young and healthy, a lot will be assumed about this young fellow, the best of which is that Ooh, I bet you’re a good basketball player; the rest of which is that Ooh, I bet you’d just like to take that, wouldn’t you?"
- Anna Haro
"This dread has been creeping up on us black mothers all along, bit by bit, but it is full-blown now. Overcome by fear and fury that our child could be falsely suspected and accused and roughed up or taken into custody (or worse) preemptively, we therefore succumb to the condition’s mandates. We fret and fuss and are, oh, so terribly nagging. Keep your hands out of your pockets. Don’t...
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- Anna Haro
"It is reassuring, but I know that he does not always remember. The other day, on a brief shopping foray, while we were looking over the compact-disc players, Joseph popped his hand beneath his shirt to just rub a mosquito bite. “Joseph!” I gasped. My son’s name fell hard from my mouth, as if it were a pain to say it. ”Get your hand … .” “OK, Ma,” he said impatiently, then muttered...
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- Anna Haro
Dear FriendFeeders who are hurting, in despair, depressed, troubled or plainly in deep sadness, know that there is hope as you've held on for so long in the first place. I know it hurts, but this too my friend, shall pass. (((to you all)))