I did an interview with Ashly Kissman on the weekend about being a multiracial girl. She also interviewed her mother and younger sister about the issue. Her mother is biracial, and was born in Liberia. Her sister is 16 and you can tell from her interview that she has yet to grow up a little bit and admit that sometimes things hurt and sometimes people are jerks. Anyway, they’re not that long, and they’re worth the time it takes to listen. They’re all really great and strong women. Simendea’s interview is especially good.

Amanda Kissman (younger sister)

Simendea Kissman (mother)

Ashly Kissman

They’ll be air on CFUV on Wednesday November 8th at 5 pm PST. With some awesome musical selections and hopefully a brand spankin’ new news anchor, Diana… She’s fabulous.

For those of you who care about random facts… also on Wednesay mercury will be passing across the Sun’s face beginning at 1:13 pm PST…It will only be visible using a properly filtered telescope though…and only in the Western half of north america for 2.5 hours… Just so you know.

I think if I thank her once more she’s never going to speak to me again in fear that the only thing I can say anymore is "thank you so much!!" but, I’ll try my luck…thanks again!! The following link is for the interview I did with Lindsay earlier today.

The more I listen to it, the more I think I did a pretty horrible job, and at around the 30 minute mark the sound card of the computer went wonky. By wonky I mean it slowed the recorder down to 1/2 pace and dropped our pitched by about 2.5 whatevers.

I tried to fix it, and I got it pretty close, but if we start to sound a little funny - its because my boss won’t listen to me when I say "We need a new computer in the news room."

I also pronounced a ‘p’ on ‘pseudo’ more than i pronounced the rest of the word, even. And I was so nervous that words over 7 letters long never came out properly. Ha ha ha.

Anyway, here it is. Enjoy it. Love it. Embrace it. Listen to it again, and the rest of my show tomorrow night, 5 -6 (8 -9, east coast darlings!) at the CFUV site.

Download Lindsay2.mp3 (15947.8K)

Go here and you can send questions to Ellie Smeal. She doesn’t really seem to be answering the questions that she gets asked, and she hasn’t made more than 4 posts in the past 2 days… and today is her last day… but maybe if you’re lucky she’ll attend to your questions.

Not gonna lie… I was a bit excited for the discussions with her, but am horribly dissapointed. Such is life. Ellie is the founder of the Feminist Majority and has been a member of NOW since 1970. I thought she’d be a little bit more active in the discussion.

Here it is boys and girls, the interview with Mr. Alon Levy. Listen to it on the show at 5 by going here!

I think this is the other interview I’m going to play tonight, but I’m not entirely certain.

I just realized that I should probably point out that I really like Feministe, and Jill and that I am a fun feminist myself. So hopefully people dont get angry at me for railing it.

You know there is something horribly wrong with your life when you don’t even remember getting up at 7:41 am to your beeping alarm, and resetting it to wake you up 3 hours later. That means I missed a class, just barely made it to another… but did manage to get more than 4 hours of sleep last night. Yay. (And I fell asleep in the Carpe Diem [atheist, agnostic, non religious] club tonight. Oops. President was not impressed… was *really* not impressed when I retorted wtih "yeah well your heirarchial group is stupid.")

So, I’m just going to do a bit of a linky link round up then I’m going to bed, because I have reset my alarm to go off at 7:41 again for tomorrow, and I actually need to get up this time. I skip my 8:30 am class all the time.

E.O Wilson does an interview with Grist Magazine about his religious experiences and environmentalism and all that jazz. Speaking of interviews, tomorrow around this time I will be posting an interview that I did with Mr. Levy today. …Its taking me forever to edit it because we both say "um" so often, and we got in an argument at the end of it that I want to 1/2 use, but I can’t use all of it because we’re jerky to each other. Stupid Alon.

Amanda posts about Bush lovin’ all them fellow yankees to death, and links to a really really interesting post by Lindsay. Aww. Sometimes, I really don’t want to move to America.

Jessica, rightfully so, gets pissy about this article. I had my doubts about third wave feminism for a while… but I’m starting to see the good behind… most of it. It’s a tricky ‘wave’ but whatever. People need to stop trying to put labels on things and just lets us have goddamn abortions.

I think I really give off the impression that I read the same 3 or 4 blogs every day, when really… I never ever link to the one I read the most… but I will today. Kos did an interesting post on Doolittle today. And actually his midday open thread from today is probably the best one thats been posted in a while. One that was posted, not by Kos… but at daily kos, is a really good read - Do We Need An Atheists’ Right Movement? Good schtuff.

I think McBoing is my favorite poster at punkass. (I’m quite the fan of Marc aswell, it’s a toss up.) I liked this post from him today, (well actually this is the post…) Have I ever done my celebrity rant on here before? I don’t think so. I’ll get around to it eventually. It’s midly entertaining. Modonna (who says her adoption was legal, dammit!) is one of my favorites to attack… (well, post-awesome feminist stage).

It’s being blogged about everywhere, but I’ve decided that I like the post at Feministe the most about it. Yes, she was asked to remove her veil, yes that was stupid, yes religion is stupid. Grr.

Ahh, and there is SO MUCH NEWS. I’ll just post the one article… its actually the only one that I read all the way through. but trust me… there is SO MUCH NEWS!! Anyway - the Tigers are agreeing to talks, and I think thats nice. …I also think I’m overtired because I seem to think it’ll help the probelms in Sri Lanka.

And finally, I remember a time when I used to actually care about hockey. Now I don’t, however, I do have this horrible heart sinking feeling when I see Peter Forsbergs team lose 9-1 against Buffalo. Tragic… ‘k, maybe I still care a little. But I have less time and a lack of TV this year. (Forsberg apparently weighs 4 more lbs this year btw… I …hate that I know that. And he’s only gotten 2 goals this year. Seriously Peter. You used to be good.)

*Update* Tamil Tigers… d’oh.