Monday, December 29, 2008

best movie of 08





go see it now. grimey like city of god, yet full of romance like the notebook. good cinematography and overall story. super good movie for everybody to see. one of my favs now :)

-cristina

EYE CANDY: Part 1


Fabritzio from The Strokes

Friday, December 26, 2008




good documentary on the lives of 3 young adults with autism. check it out.

-cristina

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Discussing the B word

so i came across this very concious women and the media blog and was drawn to a post about the word bitch by Veronica Arreola. the post has lots of good points and i like the fact that she embraces the word instead of totally put it down.

from her post:
"1] I do believe we can reclaim the word and take the edge off if we embrace what people want us to feel bad about when they call us that - in other words, be proud that we’re strong, opinionated women. Don’t let people use that word on you to make you feel bad.

2] Bitch was central to the sexism in the Presidential campaign. Thus, I believe that it is central to our discussion on media, politics, and feminism to look at how we personally feel about the word and when it is appropriate to use it.

3] As a mom, I have to come to place where I can discuss this with my daughter one day. She’s only five, so I have a few years. But since I have contributed to Bitch magazine in the past and hope to do more, that conversation may happen before other parents. I’m waiting for the day she ends up telling her whole class that “Mommy is in Bitch!” and I get the phone call from the teacher."

read full blog: http://www.wimnonline.org/WIMNsVoicesBlog/?p=1220

-cristina

super jealous



OMG! i totally wish i was beyonce in that video. he is wayyyyy too fine. beyonce looks beautiful as always, but he's my main focus during the video.

-cristina

Burrito confused for newborn infant



wow. who ever that person was...must've been on some shit for real!

-cristina

Monday, December 22, 2008

this made my morning



i dont think ive been scared like that since my uncle used to scare us with his old man mask.

-cristina

Friday, December 19, 2008

i concur



i've been having very interesting political convos lately...and this front cover just proves my point. obama fo yo mama!

-cristina

Thursday, December 18, 2008

N*E*R*D



"sooner or later" video. i loved this album...it stays playing on repeat in my car. one of the best this year.

-cristina

Obama is one cool cat






http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1866765_1815160,00.html

these pics make me love him even more :)

-cristina

Sunday, December 14, 2008

FUCK BUSH!



Thats what u get Naggah, I wished it wouldve hit your ass.



-Clari

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Environmental fugitives

The government is starting a different kind of most-wanted list — for environmental fugitives accused of assaulting nature.

These fugitives allegedly smuggled chemicals that eat away the Earth's protective ozone layer, dumped hazardous waste into oceans and rivers and trafficked in polluting cars.

And now the government wants help in tracking them down.

In its own version of the FBI most-wanted list, and the first to focus on environmental crimes, the Environmental Protection Agency is unveiling a roster of 23 fugitives, complete with mug shots and descriptions of the charges on its Web site at http://www.epa.gov/fugitives.

A top EPA enforcement official said the people on the list represent the "brazen universe of people that are evading the law." Many face years in prison and some charges could result in hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines.

"They are charged with environmental crimes and they should be brought before the criminal justice system and have their day in court," said Pete Rosenberg, a director in the agency's criminal enforcement division.

On display will be John Karayannides, who allegedly helped orchestrate the dumping of 487 tons of wheat tainted with diesel fuel into the South China Sea in 1998. Karayannides is believed to have fled to Athens, Greece.

Also at large are the father and son team of Carlos and Allesandro Giordano, who were arrested in 2003 as the owners of Autodelta USA, a company that was illegally importing and selling Alfa Romeos that did not meet U.S. emission or safety standards. The two men are believed to be hiding out in Italy.

Raul Chavez-Beltran, another fugitive on the list, ran an environmental cleanup company in El Paso, Texas, that is accused of transporting hazardous waste from factories along the Mexican border and improperly disposing and storing it in the U.S. In one case, he allegedly stockpiled mercury-laced soil from an environmental spill in a warehouse.

The launch of the most-wanted list comes as EPA's criminal enforcement has ebbed. In fiscal 2008, the EPA opened 319 criminal enforcement cases, down from 425 in fiscal 2004. And criminal prosecutors charged only 176 defendants with environmental crimes, the fewest in five years.


-Clari

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Up for grabs....



-yeah I'm officially being a hater I couldn't be any happier
Common is back on the market gals...

Go support my chulito Common today!



"Today is the birthday of a new child of mine."-Common
--gabs

Got To Have Them!



I guess Ill be calling up the old manager...


-ClaRi

Friday, December 5, 2008

karma's a bitch.



O.J. Simpson was sentenced to 15 years in jail in a dramatic conclusion to his armed robbery case. He will be eligible for parole in six years.

-cristina

Prop 8 the musical

See more Jack Black videos at Funny or Die


pretty funny skit. hopefully things like this will help open people's eyes.

-cristina

my man performing on jay leno



the hottest [scientist/teacher/whatever look he's going for] around <3
...p.s. my bday is coming up...and shows are always a great gift idea :)

-cris

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Feliz (belated) Cumpleanos Carl!


from your sisters.. love ya

Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love












... her work is so powerful. Yes, it might seem a little vulgar and violent at times, but these are all things we subconsciously feel about the past. We hardly ever get the chance to visualize those thoughts, and Kara Walker shows us her own personal struggle throught her art. Hate it or love it.
--gaby

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Snooooooop and Martha Stewart


... sooo funny. i love martha!

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Tomorrow Night


PAC DIV will be opening up the show.. congrats boys!

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

This is my shit.

new video from Blu and Mainframe (Johnson and Johnson)
p.s if you still have not purchased Blu's self titled album that came out a couple months back..YOU ARE SLIPPIN!


-gaby

Monday, November 17, 2008

Rehab!


Dizzam JT...WOW!

-ClaRi

Saturday, November 15, 2008

My boos from Puerto Rico


Calle 13 concert tonight!.. I've been waiting for them to finally come to LA so im excited. yey cris!
gaby

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

16 TOES!


...and the baby from China didn't have any thumbs on his hands either. they say it might be from environmental pollution.

read more:http://shanghaiist.com/2008/11/12/guangdongs_eighttoed_wonder.php

im always amazed by medical stuff like this lol...i shouldve been a doctor or sumthn
-cris

Tim Burton takes on Alice in Wonderland


"In 2010 Tim Burton will take on the iconic Lewis Carroll story of 'Alice in Wonderland' and translate it to the silver screen in a way that only Tim Burton can. This, surely darker, take on the beloved classic has already brought in such actors and actresses as Johnny Depp to portray the Mad Hatter, Helena Bonham Carter to portray the Red Queen, Anne Hathaway to portray the White Queen, (Both queens a strange choice for 'Alice in Wonderland' considering they were not in the original book, they were in Lewis Carroll's sequel book 'Through the Looking Glass'.) Alan Rickman to portray the Caterpillar, Matt Lucas to portray Tweedledum and Tweedledee, and relative new comer Australian actress Mia Wasikowska to portray Alice."

sneak peek: http://infdaily.fusebox.com/2008/09/our-first-look-at-tim-burtons-alice-in-wonderland.html

cant wait for this to come out :)
-cristina

smh


NAIROBI, Kenya - The United Nations said Tuesday that a Somali stoned to death by Islamist militants after she had been accused of adultery was a 13-year-old girl who had been raped while visiting her grandmother.

In the first such public killing by the militants in about two years, she was placed in a hole and stoned to death on Oct. 28 in a rebel-held port city, Kismayu, in front of a crowd, after local leaders said she was guilty under Shariah, the legal code of Islam based on the Koran.

read the story: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/05/world/africa/05somalia.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

super sad story. it disheartens me to know that stuff like this still goes on in the world all in the name of religion, and all for the sake of men. uhg. to all the men in the world...u guys got it easy.

-cristina

Sunday, November 9, 2008

Saturday, November 8, 2008

the world revolves around diddy

"I felt like my vote was the vote that put him into office. It was down to one vote, and that was going to be my vote"
-P. Diddy

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whaa??!!! i soooo thought it was my vote that did it! damn it!

-cristina

east los foo



Los Descamisados is designer work wear, inspired by the East Los Angeles Latino community.

-cris

this is so us.




imagine me and gabs with a gourmet catering company? how cool would that be. chef gaby and pastry chef extraordinaire cristina lol... all we need is entertainers (we'll pay you in food)...whos in?

-cris

prop 8 protests



even the governator said "the people have spoken"...they need to reverse that decision quick. REVERSE PROP 8!!!

-cristina

Friday, November 7, 2008

Haitian school collapses...





Haitians help victims of the College Promesse Evangelique school that collapsed on November 7, 2008 in Petion-ville, Haiti. More than a dozen people were killed when the school in the Port-au-Prince suburb with 700 pupils collapsed Friday, a police spokesman said. The first floor of the
three-storey building collapsed and "dragged down the rest of the building as the pupils were in class," said one distraught woman who had hurried to the school to find her child.
-ClaRi

Thursday, November 6, 2008

"Barack Obama will win because..."

One of my 5th grade students wrote this...


this made me laugh so much. yes there's sooo many spelling errors, but i thought his idea was well thought out and most importantly honest.

-Ms. Ramos aka Ms. Gabs

NYC and Vegas fotos

Viva Las Vegas.






NYC!!