Pop culture references which should probably be left obscure, but screw it.
Bubble: I wish I was more curvy. I wish I had breasts like yours.
Edina: No, you don't.
Bubble: Yes, I do.
Edina: No, you don't.
Bubble: I do. Great, big, large, pendulous breasts. I'd like to fill a bra.
Edina: No, you don't. Don't, just, just stop saying you do. You don't know what if feels like. You think just because you feel better with a couple of oranges stuffed down your cups, you know what it feels like. Well, you don't. It's hell.
Bubble: I don't have to wear a bra. I just stuff the oranges down me vest.
Absolutely Fabulous, from Series One, Episode Two - "Fat".
So I want to kill this waitress
She's worked her a year longer than I
If I did it fast you know that's an act of kindness
But I believe in peace
I believe in peace, Bitch
I believe in peaceI want to kill this waitress
I can't believe this violence in mind
And is her power all in her club sandwich
But I believe in peace
I believe in peace, Bitch
I believe in peaceI want to kill this killing wish
They're too many stars and not enough sky
Boys all think she's living kindness
Ask a fellow waitress
The Waitress, by Tori Amos, from Under the Pink.
Author Dwayne McDuffie was co-creator/co-owner of Milestone Media:
Milestone Media is a relative newcomer on the scene: their first series rolled off the presses less than three years ago. Yet, in that time, they’ve had one hell of an impact. Somewhere else in these reviews I mentioned that black characters are underrepresented in mainstream comics. Actually, it’s not just blacks, but just about anyone who’s not of white anglo-saxon background. And where are the superheroes who speak for Black and Asian and other communities, and educate (mostly white) readers?That’s where Milestone comes in. Since its inception it has billed itself as a “multicultural line of comics,” and it certainly was. Most of the heroes and heroines were Black, Asian or Latinos. So much for tokenism. Add to that the fact that the good people at Milestone are as multicultural as their creations, and you’ve got yourself one revolutionary line of comics.
Another great feature of Milestone is that they’re not afraid to tackle head-on difficult subjects like racism, antisemitism, homophobia, abortion, drug abuse, and others.
That's an older page, so it speaks of Milestone in the present tense, rather than past. And, possibly, future.
The Blacks in Comics panel [at SDCC] focused on creating positive momentum for black creators currently working in the comic industry. One of the major announcements from the panel was that Milestone Founders Dwayne McDuffie (Story Editor, Static Shock) and Michael Davis, are in negotiations with the online venture UrbanEntertainment.com (Undercover Brother) to bring back the Milestone Universe. How the universe will be utilized, or whether the venture will be online, print, or something new, is unknown.
Here's hoping.
Want to know more? Read Milestone Memories from Icon artist MD Bright and forgotten man Christopher Priest, and visit the Milestone Rave.
Be kind. Bring a bundt cake for your fellow ravers.
Not that I commented in this thread, but there's been coverage of these tracts of land here before. . .
I hope the meds wear off.
Thank you for quoting Tori in the context you meant it.
If you mean not getting political in your site - and I guess by political I mean bashing a particular side - I would actually recommned that. There are too many unthinking blinded people on both sides.
Dimn
PS you've damned your sire forever from all those cute kids when they look up MEGA SUPER HAPPY FUN SANRIO and NEOPETS :):):)
I'm still getting hits for Sailor Uranus, and I think there have been three names since then.
The kids are most definitely not all right.
Oddly, the pop culture discussions are better at bringing people together than the political discussions, which degenerate into name calling. There's probably a moral there, but I think that second set of pills is starting to kick in.