Alex Burger

12 April, 2014

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2Pac: All Eyez on Me Chris Abani: The Virgin of Flames “If you don’t answer my calls I’m going to massage a crocodile at the zoo (a dead one).” 
— A Zimbabwean friend telling me he’s angry because I didn’t pick up his call.


Selma, my Selma

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Drove through Selma this am. Shocked at the state of downtown – this was always a magical place to me and now it’s a ghost town. What has happened to one of the birth places of the civil rights movement?

5 April, 2014

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Quote of the week:
Digable Planets: Blowout Comb Tracy Letts: August, Osage County “You told me again you preferred handsome men but for me you would make an exception . . . We’re ugly but we have the music.”
— Chelsea Hotel by Leonard Cohen sung by Meshell Ndegeocello. 


29 March, 2014

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Quote of the week:
Maria Callas: Legend Sandra Saayman: Breyten Breytenbach, A Monologue in Two Voices “ Malala pipes”
— A derogatory expression in South Africa to say someone is useless, referring to homeless boys and girls who live in big concrete pipes.


15 March, 2014

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Fred Hammond: Purpose By Design Omar El-Khairy: The Keepers of Infinite Space “You can’t be fucked, without a penis going in.”
— A Croatian expression that means you can’t just pretend or imagine things. If you want something, you have to really do it!

1 March, 2014

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Quote of the week:
Fela Kuti: Original Suffer Head Cush Jumbo: Josephine and I “You see what you look for, and you look for what you know”
— A radiologist friend Jessica Panko explaining the challenges or reading ex-rays

22 February, 2014

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Ayo: Joyful Dan O'Brien: The Body of an American “Sometimes I feel more fulfilled making Christmas cards with the mentally ill.  I want to live and I want to love. I want to catch something that I might be ashamed of.”  
— The Smiths Frankly Mr. Shankly