January 2012
10 posts
stfuwhiteliberals:
“In a development typical of Arizona, the students who walked out on Thursday, protesting the elimination of the district’s Mexican American studies program, have – without a hearing – been directed to perform janitorial duties this Saturday: an amazing message, right out of Newt Gingrich’s playbook (he has been campaigning in the GOP presidential nomination race, proposing the...
I absolutely love the "shit girls say to" series
The “gay guys” and “lesbian” and “black girls” ones were all super awesome and dead on and enlightening and made me cringe.
BUT: let’s turn a bit of this on the dudes, huh? I think these videos are great for making people check their privilege. Would be great to identify some of the microaggressions perpetrated by white dudes— god knows I can think...
Email from Mom
My nana’s dog, Rex used to ride the bus from JB& S Lees where she lived (and my dad worked) to go to West Bromwich and back. He was well known to the riders and would wait outside to jump on the platform and then sometimes take it back or walk home…..He was a very smart dog and would do tricks for sausage links, including standing up and turning around… he also fetched...
December 2011
17 posts
I need a new show
Preferably something with lots of episodes that I can zone out with over Christmas break.
Things I watched/am watching this season:
Homeland
Revenge
Top Chef
Work of Art
Misfits
Downton Abbey
Parenthood
Breaking Bad
Fringe
Glee
Shows I have loved in the past (partial list):
6 Feet Under
Sopranos
The Wire
Buffy
Party Down
Arrested Development
Freaks and Geeks
SaTC
True Blood
...
This is why bntr needs more than 3 bubbles.
harryh: I’ve gotta go get drinks w/ a candidate
me: NEWT???>
harryh: yes, with newt
me: ah, well ask him about the rumor that he needed a custom helmet when he played high school football b/c his head was too big
<— true story
harryh: I will do that and get back to you
me: good, the people have a right to know about his giant head
nobody likes a...
My Favorite Albums of 2011 (not really in order)
1. Portugal. The Man - In the Mountain in the Cloud
2. Florence & the Machine - Ceremonial
3. LIGHTS - Siberia
4. Jay Z & Kanye West - Watch the Throne
5. The Naked & Famous - Passive Me, Aggressive You
6. Cults - Cults
7. TV On the Radio - 9 Types of Light
8. Foster the People -Torches
9. YACHT - Shangri-La
10. M83 - Saturdays = Youth (favorite track on this is “Kim...
November 2011
10 posts
The food poisoning diet
Breakfast: Nothing, nauseous
Lunch: A bowl of plain couscous (which really confused the Quebecois waitress) and Perrier
Snack: Extremely small yogurt
Dinner: Half of a bowl of potato leek soup (very salty), two pieces of toast, Perrier.
Sigh. FYI, if you get food poisoning you’re supposed to stay on the BRAT diet for a while: Bananas, Rice, Applesauce and Toast. Yogurt is also OK...
“Google knows it. Viacom knows it. The Chamber of Commerce knows it. Internet...”
– STOP SOPA, SAVE THE INTERNET - Boing Boing (via fred-wilson)
“The CIA admitted in 1998 that guerrilla armies it actively supported in...”
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Michelle Alexander, from “The New Jim Crow.” Michelle’s source for this information includes a book by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair called “Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs, and the Press.” She also cites two different newspaper articles and a 2004 magazine article written by Cockburn...
“If we teach women that there are only certain ways they may acceptably behave,...”
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Harriet J on Another post about rape (via archenemies)
Oh my god, this. All of this.
(via one-bite-at-a-time)
Oh look, another way in which women are royally fucked by constructs of femininity.
(via whynotshesaid)
October 2011
14 posts
“The play Euripides didn’t have the balls to write.”
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Tilda Swinton, in a lively interview in The Guardian, on her new film “We Need to Talk About Kevin.” (We saw it at Telluride last month and it demolished our soul.)
Now that’s a fantastic quote.
(via alittlespace)
The book is scary as FUCK. I can’t imagine how horrific the movie will...
7 tags
My corporate blog's comment of the day
Left on my team blog which I run, http://www.socialmediacollective.org.
After being in relationship with her for seven years, she left me, i did everything possible to bring her back back but all was in vain. I want her back because of the love I have for her, I begged her with everything, I tried to entice her with money, made promises but she refused. I explained my problem to someone online...
4 tags
Why breastfeeding supremacists can suck my left...
jessicavalenti:
Yesterday, when I quoted Lorrie Hearts about a hospital’s decision to stop making free formula available to new moms in an effort to be “baby-friendly”, I got a lot of supportive comments and questions through Tumblr. (Thanks, y’all!) I also got a lot of hate and misrepresentation directed at me through Twitter. (Does this decide the never-ending social media battle in my head?...
