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My name is Alexander but, upon attending orientation for my new school, my second grade teacher refused to call me this. At the age of seven, I had to make a decision about what my new name would be. For about three minutes, my teacher Mrs. Grossman said name after name that was a shorter version of Alexander. With my middle initial being C, She eventually came to A.C. I liked that, so it was decided then that was what she would call me. This name stuck since then. But, my friends in high school and my cousin Jay (who my family calls JR or Cricket, don't ask.), thought this was too long as well. I know, the struggle of two syllables. With A.C. being too long, these objectors started calling me the monosyllabic Ace. When I went to college, I thought that A.C. was juvenile, and I tried to become an Alex. I hated people calling me Alex; it sounded really dumb to me. So, I reverted back to being called A.C. But, anyone who figured it out called me Ace. Ace, A.C. call me what you will. But, if you call me Alexander and are not a matronly Black woman or my old African American Studies professors, you will get an unfriendly glare. I'm still working on how I would glare at someone thought a computer networking site, but, once I do, it's SO on.

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Contemporary Art, Music, Writing, Conversation, Penmanship, Exercising, Social History, High Fashion, B Movies, Trash Culture, Stock Car Racing, Popular Culture, Critical Theory, Hanging out in cemetaries, Bourbon

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Is It Meta To Self-Promote? Apr 9

I am working on a current events and cultural blog. I wonder if blogging about blogging elsewhere is truly meta or just self-promotion.

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Movies

Viridiana, Office Space, The Virgin Suicides, Bottle Rocket, The Life Aquatic, Rushmore, The 400 Blows, Over The Top, Deep Blue Sea, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, They Shoot Horses Don't They, Pink Flamingos, Multiple Maniacs, Serial Mom, Polyester, Female Trouble, Alphaville, Barbarella, Santo & Blue Demon vs. The Monsters, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, What Have I Done To Deserve This?, Psycho, Vertigo, Shaft, Coffy, Foxy Brown, Black Caesar, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Dr., Inland Empire, Dig!, Style Wars, Beat Street, La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2, Lost in Translation, Ordinary People, Heavenly Creatures, City of God, Secrets and Lies, The Crying Game, The Conformist, American Beauty, Sex Lies and Videotape, Lady Snowblood, Vampyros Lesbos, Jackie Brown

Music

X-Ray Spex, Essential Logic, The Wedding Present, Old Time Relijun, The Smiths, Eric B. and Rakim, Young People, Young Marble Giants, Howlin' Wolf, PJ Harvey, Kylie Minogue, Etienne De Crecy, B-52's, OMD, Nico, Saint Etienne, Au Revoir Simone, Broadcast, The United States of America, Blood Red Shoes, Stereolab, Romeo Void, Joao Gilberto, Stan Getz, Astrud Gilberto, Dusty Springfield, New Order, Comsat Angels, Dwarves, The Sonics, The Gories, Thee Milkshakes, Beat Happening, The Brian Jonestown Massacre

Television

The Final Report, ESPN Classic, Mythbusters, House, Friday Night Lights, Ugly Betty, Dancing with The Stars, Designing Women, The Office, 30 Rock,

Books

White Noise, White Teeth, The Tunnel, The Bell Jar, Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Bonfire of the Vanities, Lilith, Crabgrass Frontier, The Beauty Myth, The Conquest of Cool, No Logo, Moneyball, Dialectic of Enlightenment, Autobiography of Malcolm X, Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, Valley of the Dolls, On Beauty, All the President's Men, A Good Man Is Hard To Find, Their Eyes Were Watching God

Activities

Relaxation, Writing, Reading, Listening to Music, Watching Movies, Driving through the Mountains, Visiting American Historical Sites, Going to Museums, Walking through Urban Areas, Driving through Urban Areas