ita, Eva Mendes is Cuban....so not really white. She grew up in Glendale and still lives there.

Today's google doodle is awesome! I love that you can play and record!

My silly nerd moment of the day -- you all know of Manhattanhenge, right? When I got home from walking the dog, I realized our driveway was experiencing Drivewayhenge, a similar, though less imposing, phenomenon.

In the article I read, the final line was something like "The marten is a member of the weasel family."

It was factual!

ita, Eva Mendes is Cuban....so not really white. She grew up in Glendale and still lives there.

Having grown up in South Florida I would note that some Cubans are white and some are black.

Basically, the white Cubans that came over after Castro's takeoer were the middle and upper middle class pre-revolution. While many Cubans still in Cuba or the ones that came over as Marielitos are black.

If you look at the Cuban baseball team, they're mostly black and Hispanic.

Which as an ex-HR person, I will note that Hispanic on your EEO reports is broken down into two categories nowadays with white and black categories.

Eva Mendes is Cuban....so not really white

Yeah, she can be white and Cuban. I didn't know if she was, though.

Cameron Diaz is pretty white. Isn't she supposed to be Cuban?

I have been feeling all Hulk SMASH today, so it makes sense that Feminist Hulk and I are on a wavelength.

I will note that Hispanic on your EEO reports is broken down into two categories nowadays with white and black categories.

Yes. But I'd argue that there is another missing category. In real life, she has a darker a complexion than both ita or me or my ex-boyfriend Malik (father was a Black Panther, yet he had a complexion lighter than my mother). I'd be hard pressed to say she was white Cuban.

Also, I'm always DEEPLY amused when my students apply for Cal States or UCs and they have to designate a race other than hispanic. Extreme indignity follows.

Cameron Diaz is pretty white. Isn't she supposed to be Cuban?

Yes. Definitely more white Cuban than Eva Mendes.

I just spent 4 hours drinking wine with my neighbors. A lot of wine. We might have migrated to the porch in a really bad thunderstorm to admire it because it was that awesome and SO FUCKING MUCH COOLER. It really was all of that.

I might hate tomorrow morning, but tonight was awesome.

And I wonder if my neighbor's boyfriend is at all creeped out that he has a fanclub. We don't want him for a boyfriend, really. But we all think he is the gold standard of boyfriends, and think FINALLY after many frogs with many warts, neighbor S has hit the jackpot. Even she's in shock, a year into it. He's already ruined it for one now-ex-boyfriend...

Most of the Cubans I went to high school with had dark complexions and black hair. They looked fairly Mediterranean. Swarthy, I guess.