Slog - Comments on Big homie’s telling me, ‘Represent your hood with a book in your hand.' http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/big_homies_telling_me_represent_your_hoo Harry Allen has obtained a publishers' promotional video of memoirist Margaret B. "Jones" Seltzer talking about being a gang member from South Central L.A. Of course, Seltzer wasn't a member of any gang, and this video is from before she was busted. It's pretty fascinating, watching her act in her fictional persona. She's not a bad actor, I guess, but this video really doesn't make me want to read the book--it sounds like an endless string of cliches and stereotypes, loaded down with inspirational nothings, which I think was what the book was like, also.... Copyright 2008 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:47:23 -0800 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:29:56 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by infrequent she only had to act well enough to fool those who didn't know anything beyond the stereotypes.

]]> infrequent http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/big_homies_telling_me_represent_your_hoo#c1010079 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/big_homies_telling_me_represent_your_hoo#c1010079 Books Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:54:01 -0800 Comment by JimBob She does have great tatties!

]]> JimBob http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/big_homies_telling_me_represent_your_hoo#c1010109 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/big_homies_telling_me_represent_your_hoo#c1010109 Books Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:12:07 -0800 Comment by Papayas OMG, she is such bullshit.

]]> Papayas http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/big_homies_telling_me_represent_your_hoo#c1010431 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/big_homies_telling_me_represent_your_hoo#c1010431 Books Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:28:48 -0800 Comment by Kent M. Beeson Harry Allen? PE's Media Assassin?

(checks link)

Holy shit, it is! Awesome.

]]> Kent M. Beeson http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/big_homies_telling_me_represent_your_hoo#c1010434 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/big_homies_telling_me_represent_your_hoo#c1010434 Books Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:29:56 -0800