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  • No One Wanted The Ugly Cupcakes

    This one time, in 6th grade (around 1990), I brought some cupcakes to class.  Ya, this was back before schools started banning cupcakes and other sweets, and we weren’t fat back then either.  Not many of us anyway, but that’s beside the point.  I only vaguely remember why I brought those cupcakes to class, but…

  • Culture Clash: Small-Town American vs. Somalian Immigrant Culture

    This is a paper I wrote for my 100 level Anthropology class.  It deals primarily with an incident that occurred in Lewiston, Maine, between the residents and a massive influx of Muslim Somali immigrant refugees, and the reactions of both sides.  The paper was written along specific guidelines, as well as from an anthropological and…

  • An 18 Year Old High School Student Got Hit By An Express Train Today At Union Square

    This morning when I was rushing to CCNY for a morning World Humanities class, I saw police stringing yellow tape across the top of the stairs leading down to the 4 5 6 platform at Union Square.  I stopped for a moment and glanced down and all I could say was “shit”, and then I…

  • Significance and Consequences of ‘Xenia’ in The Odyssey

    (Image from: LordAlford.com) This is a paper I wrote for my 100 level World Humanities class.  It deals with concepts of hospitality in The Odyssey. The guidelines for this paper are as follows: What is xenia?  What are the basic expectations that come with proper xenia?  List TWO examples of good xenia in The Odyssey,…

  • “The Three-Headed Male Figure”—African Art (Kuyu)

    You may remember last week I posted about the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s bizarre laptop policy.  This post is about the reason I was there.  I had to write an essay for my 100 level Art History class on either a Greek, Indian, Egyptian or Sub-Saharan African sculpture from the museum.  You’ll notice in the…

  • Weird Emails–One of the Risks of Blogging

    I meant to post this quite a while ago, but I kept getting distracted with school work and other things to blog about.  Back on the 11th of February, I wrote a post that was inspired by something we were discussing in my anthropology class, a possible connection between the ancient Egyptians and the Olmecs…

  • Filipino Food in Lower East Manhattan–Johnny Air Mart

    The name of the place is a little odd, but it makes sense.  This little store on Avenue A between 13th and 14th street carries Filipino goods, most of which I assume are shipped in by air.  It’s not a very large store, but it has a lot of the food products that I came…

  • Communists at CCNY Protesting President Obama and US Action in Libya

    This was one of those moments where I stopped and did a double-take.  I mean, you read about Communists in the US, but the ‘evilness’ of Communism is so deeply ingrained in American society that you never really expect to see people putting their faces on the name.  This table was set up on the…

  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Bizarre Laptop Policy

    Sunday afternoon I went to the Met as part of an assignment from my Art History class.  I was supposed to go there, find a sculpture, either Greek, African, Indian, or Egyptian, and then write a 3 page paper detailing its form and presentation.  I had this wonderful plan in my head.  I would show…

  • Donation Point For Japan in Union Square (Manhattan) Today

    Earlier today, on my way to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I saw members of the New York Japanese-American Lions Club in Union Square, asking for donations for relief efforts in Japan.  I made a donation myself, directly to the Japanese Red Cross through Google’s Crisis Response page.  Even so, I found myself wanting to…