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Blogging as a Beacon of Hope in ‘Julie & Julia’ « Cultural Voice-Over

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Riding the Google Wave

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STORY OF A DESPERATE BLOGGER

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Blogging About Culture and Interracial Marriages

As people around the world get closer through modern technology, and cultural and racial barriers give way to mutual understanding and respect; and interracial marriages are becoming more common.

As people around the world get closer through modern technology, and cultural and racial barriers give way to mutual understanding and respect; and interracial marriages are becoming more common. A number of mixed race and religion families are sharing their experiences in the blogosphere. To look at a culture and country through the eyes of an outsider is a learning experience.

At InterracialMarriage, the blogger-an Australian male is married to a Chinese woman who happens to be an atheist. Writing about the way they celebrated Christmas as family with their son, he finds himself in a fix trying to make sense of his wife's atheist views and belief in traditional Chinese rituals.

“Ms B may not believe in God because of a lack of proof, but this does not stop her believing in Luck, or in Feng Shui, or in Numerology, or in any other number of cultish beliefs that seem to have widespread basis within the Chinese community.

I sometimes notice Ms B performing strange rituals at home to ward off Bad Luck, and she has even cost us a lot of money in re-positioning our front and back doors, in order to capture Good Luck in our home through good Feng Shui.

Now I too see no basis in these beliefs, but I tolerate them for Ms B's sake. I guess this is what she too does for me with my religion.”

When it comes to a foreign culture reading between lines does not come easily, it seems; even when you marry someone from that culture. But what do you do when you try to embrace your significant other's cultural practices and end up standing out among colleagues?

At GoriGirl the blogger, a white woman married to an Indian Bengali man, shares her experience of “wearing sindoor as a white woman”. Hindu married women wear Sindoor (vermilion power) on their forehead and this practice is common in many parts of India and Nepal. But how about the practice in Washington DC?

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Closing Gitmo and the New Terrorist Threat

Article about the logic and consequences of the Gitmo closure.

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America Was Changed

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Politicians Continue to Pull the Veil Back

The story of the politician from America today!

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The Origins of the "SAVAGE SUN"

The moniker “Savage Sun” was born from the most lucid and frightening nightmare that I have ever experienced. The setting was late at night, on the corner of an unknown street in north Stockton, California, one block from a dead end. As the nightmare began, I recall that the weather was nice, the sky calm. I was talking with a stranger (a man), when suddenly, the sun came soaring over the horizon in all of its ferocity. The sun ascended with such speed, that it did not bring the daylight with it. There, above us all, the fiery orb looked intently down upon the Earth as it filled an entire quarter of the visible, starry night sky. The sun was personified (meaning it was alive), with a beastly expression, anger raging in its eyes, hatred emanating from its facial expression, and breathing heavily. As it loomed above the Earth in the most intense and threatening manner, the sun swayed and floated in a tight circular fashion, like a predator ready to devour its prey. I knew in this moment that the sun had come to destroy us, and to exact revenge against humanity for mankind’s recklessness, neglect, and lack of care for the Earth. In the reckoning of all reckonings, the sun inhaled a mighty breath and began screaming violently at the Earth with an infuriated roar that was beyond human comprehension.

As the sun bellowed in a deep, intense tone that dropped me to my knees, I could see the sun's breath streamlining down toward the Earth with a velocity and power that is unimaginable to the human mind. The suns breath itself was translucent, with a direct stream of Category 6+ hurricane wind at the center, wrapped by F6+ tornadoes on the outside (similar to some cable wire bundles). Spittle from the sun's mouth shot down to Earth as spitfire, hitting treetops of tall evergreens, exploding, and setting blaze to them immediately. The power of the bass within the sun's bellowing scream was so heavy and violent that I began to feel every bone in my body shatter from within, dropping me to my knees. The pain was overwhelming and the volume of the Sun's scream would easily drown out wails from a thousand banshees. Suddenly, I was lifted into space, above the Earth, where I could see the ongoing wreckage with a bird's eye view. As I was uplifted to outer space, about 50-100 yards in the air, I could see the surrounding area (around the neighborhood), and it was filled with evergreen trees, as if there was wilderness surrounding a small/medium sized urban area. The tips of a few of these tress were set ablaze from sun spittle. The center of the Earth remained, but the sun's scream continued to erode the edges of the Earth so that it took on somewhat of an oval (like an egg) type appearance. In this moment, I sensed the sadness in knowing that all that I loved was being destroyed forever.

I awoke to find myself drenched in sweat and trembling. I must have lain awake for more than 5 minutes, shaking uncontrollably as I attempted to process what I had just experienced. In case you are wondering, I had not done any drugs the night before, and I am accustomed to having violent nightmares, where I am murdered and other violent things play out, but I usually shake them off without much effect. No other nightmare ever compared to this one. I now question whether or not the pulsating bass of the sun's scream could have been a nocturnal seizure. I guess I will never know, but this how I conceived of the name 'Savage Sun", and I've been settin' fire to stages and tearin' down roofs ever since.

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Brooke Magnanti misses Belle De Jour job satisfaction [video]

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Pro-Castro mob attacks spouse of top Cuban blogger

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Fellow Bloggers--Advice Needed To Save A Lovely Blog!

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Cuban Blogger Reinaldo Escobar is Attacked by Castro's Mob

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Belle de Jour's Secret Identity Revealed: Research Scientist Dr. Brooke Magnanti

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Brooke Magnanti, Anonymous Blogger, Revealed: British Scientist Is Belle De Jour, Former Prostitute

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What is the True Conservative Position on Gay Marriage?

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Michael Jackson This Is It Review

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