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Tiffany @webinista.com · 27/09/2026

Again with the avocado, but this time using oil pastels.

Oil pastel drawing of an avocado on an orange background.

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Tiffany @webinista.com · 15/09/2026

See? It’s fine. You can tell I was trying to paint an avocado.

A painting of an avocado against a teal background from my sketch book. Acrylic paint and paint marker on paper.

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Tiffany @webinista.com · 20/08/2026

Enjoying the hell out of this book so far.

Cover of “You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty” by Akwaeke Emezi.

The cover is lime green with the title in black letters. An illustration of a brown-skinned woman with golden braids takes up the left edge. She’s holding a red hibiscus bloom.

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Tiffany @webinista.com · 23/07/2026

I took one photo. It only has four pages/two popups. They flip the page every week. I may go back next week to see the other side. It’s very whimsical. I also enjoyed the small display of popup books from the library’s collection.

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Tiffany @webinista.com · 22/07/2026

Spider-Man is at the Sparks game.

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Tiffany @webinista.com · 19/07/2026

Added a layer of turquoise and it’s kind of dope?

An abstract, multilayered mono print featuring an opaque turquoise layer atop a background of yellow and fluorescent pink.

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Tiffany @webinista.com · 19/07/2026

Trying to make lemonade out of gel printed lemons.

A fluorescent pink and yellow abstract print on white paper.

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Tiffany @webinista.com · 21/06/2026

This photo is terrible, but gives you the idea of what it’s like.

A brown and olive green scrub landscape. In the distance are two mesas dotted with deep green bushes.

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Tiffany @webinista.com · 19/06/2026

Bestie forced me to go out for dinner. (Chef Papa in LIC.)

Saigon at Sunset, a passionfruit orange and prosecco cocktail, and a dragonfruit mojito.

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Tiffany @webinista.com · 14/06/2026

Now I have to fix my jacket.

Jacket that says Knicks 2 time NBA Finals Champions.

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Tiffany @webinista.com · 01/06/2026

Ummm. Hmm. (From page 238 of “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa” by Walter Rodney. The Verso Books edition.)

Fascism is a deformity of capitalism. It heightens the imperialist tendency towards domination which is inherent in capitalism, and it safeguards the principle of private property.
At the same time, fascism immeasurably strengthens the institutional racism already bred by capitalism, whether it be against Jews (as in Hitler's case) or against African peoples (as in the ideology of Portugal's Salazar and the leaders of South Africa).
Fascism reverses the political gains of the bourgeois democratic system such as free elections, equality before the law, and par-liaments; it also extolls authoritarianism and the reactionary union of the church with the state. In Portugal and Spain, it was the Catholic church—in South Africa, it was the Dutch Reformed church.

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Tiffany @webinista.com · 27/05/2026

Did MSNow really make Ali Velshi dress like Steve Kornaki to deliver election results?

MSNow News personality Ali Velshi. He is wearing a blue gingham-checked shirt with a tan puffer vest and brown chinos. Velshi is standing in front of a screen displaying images of candidates in the Texas Republican primary.

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Tiffany @webinista.com · 15/05/2026

Anniversary dinner with the wine pairing and some LA lagniappe. C I’m #drunj y‘all. cc: @misterjt.bsky.social

Five empty wine glasses on a marble counter.

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Tiffany @webinista.com · 11/05/2026

Bam is very nice and very tall.

Basketball player Bam Adebayo and gme. He’s a foot taller than I am. I am 5’7” maybe 5’8”.

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Tiffany @webinista.com · 23/04/2026

Making time to read this book nearly 30 years after I was supposed to in college.

Cover of “How Europe Undeveloped Africa” by Walter Rodney with a forward by Angela Davis.

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Tiffany @webinista.com · 09/04/2026

Celebrating the natty at Pauley with a few thousand friends.

Pauley Pavilion interior with seats for the team, a podium and UCLA backdrop, and UCLA in lighted letters.

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Tiffany @webinista.com · 28/03/2026

You should‘ve heard the simultaneous “OOH! Pork-belly nachos!” my husband and I let out when we saw Korean-style pork belly nachos on the menu. At BMO.

Yellow corn tortilla chips topped with cucumber, pineapple, chilies, soy-marinated pork belly, cheese, and cilantro.

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Tiffany @webinista.com · 26/03/2026

Reminder that the Getty Museum has stunning views of the city and hills. Admission is free. Parking costs $25, but Metro is $1.75. There’s a bus stop right outside of the museum‘s grounds.

A view of the hillside to the west of the Getty Center. A row of birds of paradise flowers are in the foreground.

The sky is a brilliant blue with streaks of cirrus clouds.

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Tiffany @webinista.com · 15/03/2026

I enjoyed this production of “Turandot.” The singers are incredible. They’re also doing performances next weekend. The show itself is a little problematic. PoP moderates that and gives a history lesson in the program.

Poets, playwrights, and composers have now interpreted and adapted this story into many different languages, through many different time periods, and cultural lenses. The oldest rendition of Turandot was in Farsi from 12th century Persia; it then resurfaced in French in 1722, only to be turned into a play in Italian in 1762, and then further romanticised into a separate play in German in 1801. The name Turandokht was first introduced in the French story, Les Mille et un jours, and the setting of Peking (modern-day Beijing) was first used in the Italian play, Turandot instead of its historical setting of Persia. The Chinese setting was continued in Schiller's adaptation in German, and was how Puccini first experienced the play before adapting it into an opera. Puccini's librettists Adami and Simoni continued to set the story in China.
By setting the story in Peking, China, these Western storytellers used limited ideas of a faraway land they had never experienced and combined these ideas with Italian operatic traditions to create a fantastical love story. Puccini took the creative liberty to commission a set of custom-tuned gongs for Turandot after he made the same choice for his earlier opera, Madama Butterfly.
A Chinese folk song "Mo-Li-Hua" is used throughout the opera, taken from a songbox Puccini was given by Italian diplomats. Taking from Italian theatre, Puccini was likely inspired by commedia dellarte clowns as the source of inspiration for Ping, Pang, and Pong.
Times have changed and the social awareness of audiences has adjusted to the world around them. When setting a production of Turandot in China, many current audiences look at the characters of Ping, Pang, and Pong and find these comedic characters offensive for being caricatures mocking Chinese people through stereotypes. For an Italian composer to lift a folk song or not collaborate with experts in traditional instrumentation for a modern composition these days would not fly!

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Tiffany @webinista.com · 22/01/2026

Hello from Vernon, CA. 🤦🏽‍♀️

Street-spanning sign that reads City of Vernon established 1905.

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Tiffany @webinista.com · 22/01/2026

The Bruins are up by 14 after one quarter.

UCLA has 22 points. Purdue has 8 points at the end of the first quarter.

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Tiffany @webinista.com · 10/01/2026

Testing the limits of the paper in this sketchbook/notebook with a mix of gel ink, pigment ink and a broad nib dip pen, and some watercolor paint. This paper does not handle wet media especially well.

Goals January 19-25, 2026 drawn in modern calligraphy letters. Numbers 1-5 are drawn in a broad nib style. Abstract water color mountain range along the bottom edge of the page. In and watercolor paint.

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Tiffany @webinista.com · 07/01/2026

I (almost) have first-hand experience of performing transactions 50 years ago.

Conceptual and Analytical Problems i connect
1. List some financial transactions you have engaged in over the past week and note how you paid for then
How might each one have been carried out 50 years ago? (LO1)
2. How were you, or your family or friends, affected by the failure of the financial system to function normally during the COVID pandemic? (LOI)
3. List three items you formerly bought with cash but now purchase with a debit card. (LOI)

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Tiffany @webinista.com · 03/01/2026

Pieces from “Monuments“ at MOCA Geffen in Los Angeles.

A replica of the car named General Lee from “The Dukes of Hazzard” nose down in some sand. The General Lee is named after a confederate general and the hood of the car is emblazoned with the confederate battle flag.

A statue of a confederate leader after protestors covered it in paint and knocked it off of its pedestal into its head. The head is flattened. (I think it’s Robert E. Lee, but don’t quote me on that.)

Part of the granite base of a Robert E. Lee or Jefferson Davis sculpture removed from Richmond, Virginia. It’s a lion head with a mouth covered in red paint resembling blood.

Part of a granite base from another statue honoring the Confederacy. Here, however, the artist has re-carved portions of the granite base into Carolina rose petals.

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Tiffany @webinista.com · 01/01/2026

I don’t like this game.

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Tiffany @webinista.com · 27/12/2025

At least there’s a Corgi Cup

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Tiffany @webinista.com · 22/12/2025

Oops. Forgot the photo.

Brown craft / packing with large, green dots painted on it.

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Tiffany @webinista.com · 01/12/2025

This is a much more accurate way to understand the Rwandan genocide. I might need to read or re-read some things. (Yes, I know about Gourevitch’s book on the subject.)

Louise (Mushikiwabo) was profoundly offended by descriptions of the massacres as some 'mindless ethnic slaughter and "tribal" violence instead of the politically motivated, long-planned, systematic mass extermination of a people by Presidential Guards and the death squads acting under orders. The genocide was not spontaneous. It was not a savage outburst of innate African tribalism. It was the outcome of a methodical, state-orchestrated campaign over decades to dehumanise Tutsis as a means to amass power.'

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Tiffany @webinista.com · 30/11/2025

In the house for UCLA vs Tennessee. So are Coach Rivers, D-Rob, and Rae Burrell of the Sparks. And yes, Candace Parker, formerly of the Sparks is here too.

Lauren Betts of UCLA scores over a University of Tennessee defender.

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Tiffany @webinista.com · 30/11/2025

Hmm. (From page 348 of “An African History of Africa.”)

There were undoubtedly powerful moral arguments by white abolitionists, such as William Wilbertorce, based on the belief that God created all men equally, which triggered widespread discussion, much heart searching and guilt in Europe and the Americas. However, new economic realities also lay behind abolition. There was a transition away from mercantile capitalism as European nations and North America began to industrialise in the early nineteenth century.
And for the Industrial Revolution to succeed, large quantities of raw materials, such as palm oil, which was vital as a lubricant for factories and machines, needed to be imported.
Since tropical materials such as cotton and rubber could be acquired in Africa, the argument for keeping the enslaved labour there instead of transporting such people elsewhere was a compelling one.
There is a strong consensus among African intellectuals that the economic motive was instrumental, even paramount, for the abolition of slavery. As Professor Allen pointed out,
'the very nations that had been involved as beneficiaries of the slave trade, Britain and the United States, were the ones leading the transition to industrial capitalism'. Certainly the continued exploitation by Europeans of African workers (even forced labour) in the decades after abolition undermines the argument that abolition was a triumph of morality.

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Tiffany @webinista.com · 24/11/2025

The lettering could use some improvement, but I like how tomorrow’s page looks.

Notebook-as-Planner for Monday, November 24. Mon 24 is written across the top in yellow cursive letters and pink shadowing.

My first to-do reads “Meditate.”

To the left is a reminder that I have a package of dip pen nibs arriving.

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Tiffany @webinista.com · 02/11/2025

First two prints! They’re terrible, but I’m learning!

Two five by seven abstract prints made using a piece of a tetra pak box and pasta machine with black ink.

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Tiffany @webinista.com · 28/10/2025

Someday we will talk about why black and brown candidates are perceived to be leftist/radical/Marxist label despite being wholly centrist candidates. 🙃