Alex Burger

23 July, 2016

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Drake: Take Care Richard Calland: The Zuma Years, South Africa's Changing Face of Power

“If you haven’t forgiven yourself for something, how can you forgive others?”
–Dolores Huerta

16 July, 2016

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Sweet Sounds: Best of Shwi Nomtekhala Stephen Karam: The Humans

“When two men are fighting and the wife of one of them intervenes to drag her husband clear of his opponent, if she puts out her hand and catches hold of the man by his privates, you must cut off her hand and show her no mercy.”
–Deut. 25:11

9 July, 2016

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DJ Ganyani: Ganyani's House Grooves 8 Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter: Hamilton, The Revolution

“They promised us Game of Thrones and they gave us Game of the Folding Chairs”
–A colleague discussing a local drama on South African TV

2 July, 2016

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Mi Casa: Mi Casa Ha-Joon Chang: Economics, The User's Guide

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.”
–Aristotle

18 June, 2016

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Yo-Yo Ma (Artist) and J.S. Bach (Composer): The 6 Unaccompanied Cello Suites Complete Angela Davis: Freedom is a Constant Struggle

“The habit of looking at the spectacle has forced us to gloss over the nooks and crannies.”
–Njabulo S. Ndebele

11 June, 2016

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Notorious B.I.G.: Life After Death The House That Race Built: Original Essays by Toni Morrison, Angela Y. Davis, Cornel West, and Others on Black Americans and Politics in America Today

“I went so numb on Christmas day
I couldn’t feel my hands or feet.”
–Joni Mitchell, Face Life

Umlilo – Seasons 3 Finale Monday!

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Umlilo Season 3 already here!  Very proud of the work everyone has done.  But Season 4 then starts right up,  cant’ wait – by far my favorite Season.  We got to take the show in new, unexpected, and I think very rich directions.  A big shout out the cast, crew, director, writers, and producers for making this happen.

 

 

I’m on TV . . .

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Well not TV exactly, but a video of me is on the IFC website . . .

Actually did these interviews and edited these videos – I was in Washington DC last week at a gathering of Sustainability professionals from around the globe. We asked people to tell their stories, and at one point I jumped in front of the camera and did so myself.

So here I am – in the “Personal Journeys” category.  Check it out.

I realize that my frame of reference for this video goes all the way back to college days from my senior thesis which was center around a book by Donna J. Haraway –  Simians, Cyborgs, and Women:  The Reinvention of Nature.  In the book she talked about growing up Catholic and how as a Catholic she was always “drawn to the belly of  the beast.”  Well, so am I.