Scripters Needed!!

The Ndebe Project is looking for Scripters - people to test the script. It's very easy and takes very little time. Every couple of days a short list of words to be transcribed will be posted and we would like Scripters to transcribe the list and scan or take photos of their writing and post them in the group gallery along with feedback about the process. We would like to see how well other people are able to write with the script and the feedback helps in making adjustments. The project is as you know, totally open source so there is no compensation for Scripting (but there's no compulsion to script either) but we appreciate all the help we get and promise to express our gushing thanks to those who volunteer small portions of their time to Script.

If you'd like to Script please let me know either in the comments here or on the Ndebe blog or on the group page on Facebook.

Shameless Plug

Hey everyone so my gorgeous friend Nev is featured on Black Girl With Long Hair as one of the Now and Then transitioners. Nev recently (well not soooo recently) cut her hair (which was natural before and soooo pretty and then she relaxed it) and is now back to being natural so go over there and check her out!!!

A Random Post about Language

So one of my pet peeves is the fact that many Nigerians (and especially Igbo Nigerians) refuse to speak their language in public. Being that I attend school in America, this baffles me even more. The ability to speak a language other than English is invaluable in this country because it gives you privacy no matter where you are. At my school most of the Nigerians are Igbo and not only are they Igbo they all seem to be from Anambra (myself included). Imagine the conversations we could have! The lively in-jokes, the nostalgic memory sessions, etc. Yet every single one of my friends absolutely REFUSES to speak Igbo to me.

To understand the extend of the ridiculousness, whenever we're all sitting together and gisting, I invariably get told "hush! Your voice is too loud, those oyinbos on the other table will hear you!"

Do you know why this statement pisses me off? Because if everyone would just agree to gist in Igbo then I wouldn't have to worry about the oyinbos down the road hearing me.

It absolutely baffles me. The Japanese students all speak Japanese to each other. They don't care if noone else around understands them. In fact they usually have a very disgusted look on their face if you suggest to them that they should speak in English for your benefit. Same thing with the French students who are even more adept at ignoring any nearby English students, same thing with the Germans and the Arabs.

Only the Nigerians insist on speaking English, whispering like witches for privacy when they could all have been at ease.

Once when we were waiting in line for something and I saw my friend and went up to him and said "Kedu? I ma ebe anyi ga no?" - I was saying hi and asking if he knew where we were all going to sit - He became very embarrassed and whispered angrily to me not to speak "that bush language to him in front of these white girls".

I was like O_o.

Other excuses I've gotten from my friends are that they are not fluent in Igbo. You know what I told them? I said ' how will you ever become fluent if you don't practice? If we all spoke Igbo to each other, surely after a month our fluency would have jumped up a couple of notches"

But no, Igbo is bush, Igbo will make white people think less of them, Igbo will make black americans think less of them, they don't want to be associated with 'that'... what does 'that' even mean?

So I'm stuck with 8 Igbo people that I can't speak Igbo to. Go figure.

You know what really pisses me off though? You will find Igbo people trying to suck up to these same Japanese, French, and German students, proudly speaking to them in their broken French while the French kids look on in amusement. I have never encountered a single international student that was even remotely interested in learning a word of any of the African students' languages, yet all the African students can't wait to show off the five new words they've learned in Chinese or whatever while the real Chinese students laugh at them.

Yeah I know, this is a very badly written rant but I'm high on Halloween candy so whatever.

On the flip side btw, I've noticed that watching so much Inuyasha is making me understand Japanese whether I'm willing to or not.

I woke up yesterday and realised that I somehow magically and miraculously am beginning to understand what is happening in the cartoon even when I'm not looking at the screen.

So far I understand the following words

Neko - Cat
Inu - Dog
Ano - But
Daijobu? - Are you alright
Kaze - Wind
Kaze no Kizu - Wind Scar
Arigato - Thank you
Sayo nara - Good bye
Aniki - Big Brother
Otouto -Little Brother
Chichi-ue - Honored Father
Haha-ue - Honored Mother
Baka - Fool/Idiot
Baka na koto o - Don't say foolish things
Otou-san - Daddy
Okaa-san - Mommy
Onee-we/san - Sister
Fuujin no Mai - Dance of the Dragon
Bakuryuha - Backlash Wave
Kaza Na - Wind Tunnel
Houshi - Monk
Taijiya - Demon slayer
Youkai - Demon
Hanyou - Half Demon
Ningen - Human being
Saimyosho - Naraku's poison insects
Sugoi - Amazing
Katana - Sword
Osuwari - Sit
And many more. It is very strange. It's like watching this series suddenly filled my head with all this extra information.

Anyway that's my random language post. Very disorganized but hey, Kit Kat makes you high.

Chinese People Don Come Again

So I came across a post on China Smack (which is really a very fascinating website btw) about a young rural Chinese girl and her family who work in a brick making factory.

I read the article and saw pictures of a young, beautiful, and hardworking girl pulling wagons of bricks all day long while simultaneously looking after her three younger siblings in order to help her family.

Like so,

Unfortunately,

I saw the comments.

Despite the very obvious Chinese-ness of this girl and her surroundings, lo and behold, this beauty caught my eye:

Wow.

Really? No seriously. Really????

So, anybody who is poor or suffering, no matter their ethnicity, no matter what they look like, no matter where they are, no matter where they are from, no matter what the situation is must be in/from Africa.....

Other charming anecdotes from the amazing Chinese netizens:

The following ones were in response to a Chinese girl that posted a picture of herself and her Black boyfriend on her MySpace page:

Wow.

Blank Stare.

O_O

I'm in Love with a Japanese Demon

I cannot believe I have watched all 167 episodes of Inuyasha. Even worse, I cannot believe I have spent the past two weeks reading Sesshomaru/Rin fan fiction.

I need to get this out of my system. I can't do anything useful with myself. All I want to do is read stories about Sesshomaru and Rin to my heart's content. To make matters worse, I just returned my books to library and I have a $130 late fee!! It's not my fault I love reading. This is going to bankrupt me. I'll have to pay them in $5 monthly installments at this rate. Or maybe I can sell some of my shoes to raise the funds... sigh.

Where was I? Yes, back to Sessh. Oh my goodness his name is the most beautiful thing ever: Sesshomaru. What's even sexier is what his name means.

Sesshomaru - The Killing Perfection. And it describes him perfectly.

Frankly, in my opinion, the whole Inu family is hot. There I was, minding my own business, thinking Sesshomaru was hot when I stumbled upon the 3rd Inuyasha movie and discovered the heavenly goodness that is Sesshomaru and Inuyasha's father, Inu no Taisho. *high pitched squeal of delight accompanied with weak knees and thumping heartbeats*.

This is totally insane but I'm in love. Like head over heels in love with this family.

First there's the half-demon (Hanyou) Inuyasha who is pretty cute but in a teenage boy kind of way:

Then there's his dripping, oozing hot older brother Sesshomaru who is a full-blooded demon (youkai)

Did I mention that Sesshoumaru is the Lord of the Western Lands? So that's Sesshoumaru-sama to you and me.

Then just when you think it can't get any hotter, comes along their sexy-as-fuck father, Inu no Taisho (The Great Dog General)

Personally he can Kaze no Kizu me any time of night and day. He is so freaking hot. And this is someone's father. Sure he's a full-blooded Inu Taiyoukai and he's over 3000 years old and he doesn't age but damn!! Why don't men or youkai like this roam the world freely for the happiness of women everywhere?

The best thing about Inu no Taisho is that while Sesshomaru is sexy but aloof and cold as ice (with an amazingly sexy/dreamy baritone voice I might add), Inu no Taisho is all those things but passionate and gruff and wild and dashing and very very male with an even deeper even sexier even more dreamily masculine voice. Plus he's ten times hotter than his son, and unlike him, he's not bishie despite the white hair. Damn!!Oh my goodness. I know Inuyasha is a children's program but seriously, the sexiness coming off it in waves is something else.

Usually I leave the analysis of Japanese cartoons to Eccentric, and I can hardly say I did any sort of analysis here besides shamelessly prostitute myself to Inu no Taisho and Sessh, but seriously yo, every time I watch the scene where Inu no Taisho is talking to Sesshomaru right before he fights Takemaru to save Izayoi (who is pregnant with Inuyasha) and dies, I want to melt into a pile of jelly.

He might be a cartoon but I'd have no problem letting this Chichi-ue have fun with my chichis.

For those who want some... (NSFW)

I grabbed this off YKYDAW. It appeared in my blog feed so I think they just put it up today so I guess if you look now you'll see it's further down the blog.

Enjoy.

Disclaimer: Because somebody is going to say something.... I just copied and pasted these pics off their website. They are not my property. I have not altered them in any way. They are the property of You Know You Dead Azz Wrong as is evidenced by their logo and website on the pictures.

So this is not the first naked picture I have put on this blog. What baffles me is the fact that although I didn't say anything disparaging about this picture, everyone has automatically assumed that I am trying to.

When I put the naked photo of the other lady up I don't remember anyone being upset about it. I think those of you who claim that I put the photo up to mock her think so because internally you look at this picture and mock the woman in it.

It is also rather annoying since I have said emphatically and many times now since yesterday that I do not think fat people are ugly and that I do not think Black people are ugly yet certain people keep insisting that I do even though everything I have said is contrary to their ideas.

Why can't this picture of this woman just be up for everyone to appreciate? Why does it have to be a mockery of fat people? I never said anything of the sort and if you think that this photo is a mockery then that is because YOU find this photo funny. I don't. I simply said that this wasn't my preference. I'm not averse to it but at the same time I don't particularly seek it out. That's not bigotry although some of you desperately wish it were. When I start denying people employment opportunities because of their weight then you come talk to me about bigotry. When I start saying mean and cruel things about or making fun of fat people you come talk to me about bigotry. When I start refusing to sit next to fat people, refusing to have fat friends, refusing to take things from fat people, taking delight in the suffering of fat people, taunting fat people, preventing the fat people in my life from receiving and making use of opportunities, humiliating and insulting fat people, when I start shunning fat people then come talk to me about bigotry.

So far all I have said is that very fat and very thin people are unhealthy which is the truth. I have also said that many people subconsciously find extremely fat and extremely thin people less attractive than regular sized people because they appear unhealthy to our subconscious and that affects our perception of beauty in them. It's also the same evolutionary reason why women like tall strong masculine men, but that's another story. The fact that I do not actively like some things does not make me bigoted, and while weight discrimination is a very real and very serious situation, my preference for regular porn is not weight discrimination.

I do not have to justify my sexual preferences to you. Sometimes I get tired of blogging because it feels like there are always these random people hanging on every word I say as if they are waiting to catch me out and jump up screaming "Aha! I knew it!". I get confused when people do this and then I wonder what exactly do you think you know? I think sometimes you forget that I am a PERSON. I am a COMPOSITE of many different things. Just because you read more about some stuff than other stuff on my blog does not make that the sum total of who I am. I was absolutely infuriated when someone suggested that I was on some sort of campaign advocating for dark skinned women or natural hair or whatever. I have NEVER said I was campaigning for anything, I have NEVER said I was officially or unofficially advocating anything, and I sure as fuck never said I was trying to save anyone so give me a fucking break.

Humans do all sorts of contradictory things for all sorts of reasons and while the validity of anyone's reasons are debatable I've told you mine. Take it or leave it. I've told you what my reasons are and nothing you say or do will make them any different no matter how much you want them to be. What is even more annoying are the people that try to put words in my mouth and claim I said this when I said nothing of the sort. People that even right now still claim that I said skinny people are the only sexy people when I made it crystal clear that thinness is not something to be glorified just as fatness is not something to be glorified. People who continue to insist that I must have gone and changed something in the post even though the post is still as it was when I first put it up.

Everybody needs to chill out. It is not that serious. Take a moment and fucking breathe. I put this picture up because some of the original comments asked if I did not think fat people could do porn too and then I saw this photo in my blog feed and it was a coincidence because we had just been talking about fat porn. If you like the photo then say so. If you don't like it then say so. I won't start screaming my head off calling you a bigot just because fat porn doesn't appeal to you. I honestly think some of you apply the words 'bigot' 'hate' and 'hater' a little too easily. There ARE things in this world which are not considered ideal for very valid reasons. There are lots and lots of reasons and some might be different from others but I've told you mine.

I happen to dislike fat porn because it doesn't do anything for me. I look at it and I feel nothing. There are lots of other types of porn that I dislike. I dislike gay porn. Many of you dislike gay porn. Does that make us ALL bigots? Guess what? Not only do I dislike fat porn, I dislike gay porn, bestiality porn, child porn, blood porn, vore porn, goth porn, and scat porn. I guess that makes me a huge bigot because I don't like my sex with animals, kids, blood, sea creatures, choking, or faeces.

Sometimes I think some of you just want to find a way to twist everything I say in order to label me a bigot just because I sometimes point out real acts of discrimination. All human beings possess likes and dislikes. I am human and there are things that I will dislike whether you like it or not. And there IS a huge difference between simply disliking something and disliking something because of racist ideology. Afterall, if I declare that I hate broccoli from the very depths of my heart and soul but I eat broccoli every single day does that make me a hypocrite? Sure I hate broccoli but I also know that it has vitamins and nutrients that I need. It doesn't mean that I won't hate every moment I have to chew it. I doesn't mean I won't hate the very act of swallowing it. It doesn't mean I won't feel like throwing up just setting my eyes on broccoli but there are OTHER VALID REASONS why I should eat broccoli irrespective of my personal feelings about it.

I'm talking about broccoli because some of you claim that if I say one thing and I do another thing then it automatically makes me a hypocrite. No it does not. Every body's fucking life is made up of saying one thing and doing the exact opposite. Does that make us all hypocrites? If there are other reasons that lead you to do what you do does that not make a difference? Sure murder is murder but not all murderers get the death penalty or even the same sentence. That is because the reasons behind have to be examined and the situation has to be examined.

There are no blanket rules for anything. Anybody that told you that there are blanket laws that apply as absolutes lied to you. It doesn't work that way. It never works that way. There will always be exceptions. And speaking of exceptions I might as well just say this about the whole generalization thing. Aside from those who constantly jump down my throat screeching bigotry are those who lurk in the shadows waiting to decry everything I say as a sweeping generalization.

I have said it before but I will say it again for everyone's benefit. Unless I actually say ALL Nigerians/Americans/Aliens/Animals/Spirits, etc then I am NOT referring to all. Yes, I know that you know someone who isn't like that. Guess what? I also know someone who isn't like that. There are no absolutes in this world besides death and I know that.

I think I've typed enough about this. I guess this is part rant part disclaimer part annoyed steam let off.

Further Update:

It seems everyone is misunderstanding something very crucial. "Black Porn" is a genre of porn. It is often not well made (or at least it would APPEAR so by watching it) with the generally bad actors and their terrible acting and general lack of plot or direction not to mention a number of other factors (- e.g. the flourescent light thing I pointed out). I would say it is the Nigerian Home Video to mainstream porn's Hollywood Blockbuster (which often - at least seemingly- have bigger budgets and access to better actors).

Same pretty much goes for interracial porn although I dislike Interracial porn for the fact that it amplifies racial stereotypes and is often unapologetically racist. (e.g. the title of one Interracial porn film I saw was "There's a Nigger in my Sister"). Needless to say, for this reason I generally avoid interracial porn.

Speaking of Lemon...

This is PRECISELY the reason why I never watch Black or Interracial porn.

Dear Nolly/Ghollywood. Thank you for permanently ridding me of all further sexual desire. I shall now proceed to join a convent.

I understand that this is technically a step forward, and I understand that these are the first steps towards us becoming comfortable with sex scenes in our movies and on our television, but if this is how anybody's sex is in real life then I seriously pity/ feel sorry for them.

This has to be the most stomach churning thing I have seen this week (and trust me I spent this ENTIRE week reading/watching lemon - including gay lemon - story for another day).

Skip to 0:42 to be reminded why you'd rather just leave the representations of sex on film in the hands of white people for a change.

I mean, what was up with her face and the dragging lip? There are ways to drag your lip and still look sexy. There was NOTHING sexy about his preview. NOTHING whatsoever. It looked like a too-hard attempt to appear sexy but it failed miserably. Shit. I could jerk off watching paint dry and I still wouldn't jerk off to this.

In other words

What the fuck is this?

In fact, I might just come back and do a whole new rant post about why I hate Black porn.

No offense, but NOBODY wants to see (even marginally) fat people rolling about and touching themselves dramatically like great chunks of butter. I'm fat and I assure you, every sexual adventure I have ever had that I ever cared to record in any manner occurred expressly when I was thin. Since things are different these days, I respect myself and keep away from sex, skimpy clothes, and camcorders of every kind.

There is a reason why Hollywood actors and actresses train for months with world renowned Olympic coaches before they do their sex scenes. And that reason is like all good lemon, you want to feel liquid heat run between your legs when you watch the film not barf all your beans and garri on the head of the person in front of you.

I swear I'm going to do a post on Nigerian porn but excuse me while I go scrub my eyes out with Bleach.




And by the way, who the hell has sex with a harsh overhead flourescent light on? Mood lighting anyone? Romance fail much?