February 2012
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TL;DR: I'm old & bitter & don't understand this...
Hey y’all, I know it’s kind of cliche/annoyingly cryptic move to be all, “I’m Taking a Break from the Internet,” but — I have to Take a Break from the Internet.
Also, I’ve un-followed and/or “hidden” a lot of people from my blogs & Facebook, so please don’t take this as a personal affront. Despite my previous mocking entry, the...
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Too Dark; Less Time
Phrases I Will Not Miss upon Exiting Art Skool (a poem)
this piece is so successful because…
my personal journey
in our postmodern society
as we are constantly bombarded by images
well, i really feel that…
the rise of digital technology
in the natural world
speaks to the female form
that color just POPS
i like the way you solved that problem
contrasty
whimsical
dreamlike
...
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retail adventures
katydidnot:
rgr-pop:
I mean seriously, what the fuck is wrong with people?
i was always really confused working retail because i spent a lot of time reading complaints by employees when i was younger (age like, 13, livejournal) and my retail experiences were for the most part pretty good.
but like i think this is largely because of the kinds of jobs i had (vintage store, coffee stand,...
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Is this really the only planet I can survive on? →
I must not argue on the Internet. I must not argue on the Internet. I must not argue on the Internet. I must not argue on the Internet. I must not argue on the Internet.
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How Love Came to Us (Eric Evans)
dreaminginthedeepsouth:
How Love Came To Us - Eric Evans - Gradually, and working its way slowly, through all things, beginning even long before we knew each other. Through emptiness, through aimlessness, the spirit’s daily wandering in the desert of the familiar, fed by nights of exhaustion and driven by occasional despair, by grief, loss compounded upon loss. Through the patient forbearance of...
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“Then, They Told Me That The Most Current Theory... →
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“Contact sheets should be as private as a toothbrush and ought to be guarded as...”
– Elliott Erwitt (via Iconic Photos)
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“Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? … Well,...”
– John Steinbeck, East of Eden (via human-voices)
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“Three a.m drunks, all over America, were staring at the walls, having finally...”
– Charles Bukowski (via thechocolatebrigade)
Disclaimer: Usually the Bukowski myth (another tortured alcoholic male writer, oh spare me) fills me with a rage that burns my eyes, but reputation aside I’ve occasionally read some True Shit from him that gets me all teary-eyed.
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“The girl groups were possibly the only interesting music happening between the...”
– from my History of Rock’n’Roll textbook…
ETA: If anyone wants to make me a Girl Group mix/playlist… ya know… I haven’t really delved into this genre yet. (I mean the Crystals, the Ronettes, the Marvelettes, etc. as opposed to Bikini Kill, Bratmobile, Le Tigre et...
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Why do anarchists only write with lowercase...
anticapitalist:
because they’re against capitalism.
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My class’ blog gets the best spam comments. I haven’t read robot poetry this good since ‘04!
How much does the setysm weigh? And what happens when it runs out of juice when I’m screaming down some brutal switchback?
Lot of smarts in that psointg!
Holy conicse data batman. Lol!
We need a lot more isngihts like this!
Deep thinking – adds a new dmiensoin to it all.
What...
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Race for the Cure to Being Relevant →
“… I want to prove that charitable giving is not wedded to the act of shopping. And since I’m so much better at pointing out what’s wrong with everything than at offering solutions, here’s what you should do if you want to help the fight against breast cancer:
1. Donate directly. Call or visit the Sloan-Kettering or Johns Hopkins/Avon cancer research institutes and...
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in Which Academic Discourse Is Often a Luxury →
rgr-pop:
mappingthemoon:
Infighting & class warfare among the “radicals” means CAPITALISM IS WINNING.
I’m pretty sure the existence of homeless people means CAPITALISM IS WINNING, but whatever.
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So anyway: a) what you are doing is classist b) and if we are not allowed to talk about how stuff is classist unless we are poor, we are certainly not allowed to talk about “class...
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in Which Academic Discourse Is Often a Luxury →
Y’ALL incidentally I think we could all stand to learn a little lesson from The Hobo Ethical Code (“created by Tourist Union #63 during its 1889 National Hobo Convention in St. Louis Missouri”):
Decide your own life, don’t let another person run or rule you.
When in town, always respect the local law and officials, and try to be a gentleman at all times.
Don’t take...
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in Which I Revisit My Lost Youth
Mindless Self Indulgence: “Backmask” (above), “2 Hookers & an 8-Ball” (below)
January 2012
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“For capitalism to function, workers must only be able to access the products of...”
– via CrimethInc., Work: Capitalism, Economics, Resistance (emphasis mine)
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BUT WHAT ABOUT TEH MENZ
“What is a ‘sugar baby,’ you might ask? You may know the term ‘sugar daddies,’ which refers to men who offer women gifts, money and other lifestyle perks in exchange for a relationship. Effectively, sugar babies are the young ladies who benefit from these types of arrangements. There can be sugar mommies too! We can’t leave aspiring male sugar babies out in...
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dear mad men fandom, five invalid reasons for... →
feministfilm:
sunneinsplendour:
So this is a post that has been a long time coming, ever since I started tracking the Betty Draper tag basically and was exposed to a whole new level of vitriol that I didn’t think a fandom - whom I always used to consider pretty classy - was capable…
I just started watching Mad Men and I’m only in the middle of Season 3, so I’m not sure if...
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peripatetic (ramble)
Most of my writing comes from my 1.7-mile walk home from work at night:
On my mother’s side of the family, there is a sort of casual tradition about using variations of Mary in the girls’ names. (Mom’s side is Catholic & abundant with girl-children.) I always liked this tradition because it was unspoken and unofficial, just a thing that began to happen, and nothing really...
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Pulp: “The Fear” when you’re no...
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“As we mark the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, we must remember that this...”
– Obama’s statement on the anniversary of roe vs. wade (via songinbminor)
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“Don’t you think that some people are going to have a hard time believing...”
– ABC-godforsaken-“NEWS” is interviewing Linda Lauren, a self-proclaimed “TRAVEL PSYCHIC” on the validity of her powers.
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personal experience with pms post
katydidnot:
have you guys ever read the thing about that (feminist) woman who realizes PMS is in a large part a socially constructed disease, and then her cramps ~magically go away~? i’m not going to find that, but this post is pretty much the opposite of that.
so i never really took concerns about emotional aspects of PMS seriously because i was dong an asshole thing of “not listening to...
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The 5 stupidest habits you develop growing up... →
I do all of these things. I’ve never been able to articulate it as well as John Cheese over there… but here’s an anecdote re: “You Develop a Taste for Shitty Food”
A couple years ago, I got a student loan refund and decided Colby & I deserved to have One Fancy Dinner Date. We went to the Porterhouse Grill and I ate steak and mashed potatoes and it was so...
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“Living [at Spillage House] was such an amazing experience for me. It was the...”
– late-night phone call from a friend & former punkhouse roommate.
Ah… the Persistence of Memory. (…It’s still there.)
When I moved out of Spillage after putting in three years’ time, I was burnt-out and on the verge of a nervous breakdown, suffocating under a pile of...
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Me: "christina aguilera is the rolling stones to britney spears beatles, as it were."
Me: that is from the internet radio station this kid is playing here
Colby: wow
Me: i just died
Me: X________X
Colby: x------------x
Me: almost
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rgr-pop:
I would hate to be insensitive to people with addictions. I know what it’s like to feel like your body and your head and all of your time has been invaded by something and you can’t control it. I understand what it’s like to have a chronically underestimated mental illness, I know what it’s like to be looked at like you’re just not trying hard enough.
I also know what it’s like to have...
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