December 2009
“I must learn to love the fool in me, the one who feels too much, talks too much,...”
– Theodore Isaac Rubin (via littlemiss) (via howdysailor) (via lyriquediscorde)
FYI: I am one of those "humorless" feminists who...
katoleary:
sexismandthecity:
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The thing about people who can joke about this shit, or even make insensitive comments about it and then turn around and say things like, “You need to pick your battles” when called out on said insensitive comments, is that they can only see these issues in the abstract. For basically every single hurtful, offensive thing someone says,...
“And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain...”
– Life After God, Douglas Coupland (via lyriquediscorde) (via northerndownpour)
“I think one of the reasons why kids today have quarterlife crises is because...”
– Twenty Something: Instead of traveling, writing and trying to figure out what we want, should we be marrying and having babies? (via robot-heart) (via thenermal) (via katoleary)
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entropicflux:
awesomejuice:
kickdrumheart: chriskelly:
Is it bad that when someone tells me they still have a yahoo account I assume they’re a little bit dumb?
Not like non-functioning dumb. Precious, fragile dumb.
I think this about basically anyone who has a non-gmail email address.
Same. Get with the times and bow to our overlords, already.
Even worse - the people who still have...
“You created a situation in which the nonprofits who were supposed to carry the...”
– An Open Letter To Chase About Their Big Charity Transparency Fail | Social Entrepreneurship | Change.org
I’m ready for the transparency movement to find another descriptor but otherwise - nail on the head.
“Indeed, critics have speculated that the encounter with Wilde, an exponent of a...”
– Sherlock Holmes’ London | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian Magazine
I can work with this.
“They never could get it through their heads that what they liked was something I...”
– Artie Shaw (via factsarenothing)
“When you’re in bed with Coke, when you’re shilling for the Fortune 500, do you...”
– Lefsetz Letter » Blog Archive » Gleevec
fight! fight!
maura johnston: i'm just sick of teenage girls being the people who are "ruining music"
maura johnston: as a former teenage girl i think old white guys are MUCH WORSE
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“Why does NORAD track Santa?
Twenty four hours a day, 365 days a year, NORAD...”
– Santa Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
The NORAD FAQ on Santa might be the best thing ever.
NO, SERIOUSLY, IT CONTAINS THIS: the only logical conclusion is that Santa somehow functions within his own time-space continuum.
The Fake Decade - Fakes - Gawker →
wow but this sums up so many things I find ridiculous. and wraps them all in a bow, too. it’s a festivus miracle.
Everyone on my tumblr feed looks the same
spytap:
Those santa hats make it almost impossible to glance down the page and see who’s posting what.
Tumblarity and icon fuckery: the two recent Tumblr developments I find least impressive.
“One was a survey of 1.3 million Americans done over four years by the Centers...”
– NYC - New York in Last Place in Happiness Rating - NYTimes.com (via meganwest)
You missed this bit:
We’re from the Harry Lime school. If you’ve seen the film classic “The Third Man,” you will remember that character’s admonition: “In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror,...
“One was a survey of 1.3 million Americans done over four years by the Centers...”
– NYC - New York in Last Place in Happiness Rating - NYTimes.com
“For maybe the past decade or so, little girls have inhabited a universe that is,...”
– The power of pink | From the Guardian | The Guardian (via amberlrhea)
I think what’s going on with pinkification is a little more complicated than that. It’s saying to girls that they can be smart (read books, play Scrabble) or successful (Monopoly) or even like sports (as fans: how many pink...
“Irving Berlin, the most prolific of Tin Pan Alley music men, composed...”
– The Bowery Boys: New York City History: ‘White Christmas’ roots in the Lower East Side
“People post ridiculous ‘art’ to Tumblr. These pieces frequently make it into...”
– That’s Not Art, by Garrett Murray. Because love is a gift you can’t return unless you have the receipt and set it free…[via]…ellipsis…(hugs)…. (via merlin)
Finally. Someone who hates the most popular meme on Tumblr as much as I do.
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“For many, the prospect of handwriting dying out would signal the end of...”
– Culture & Society Articles | Miller-McCune Research Essay — Handwriting Is History | Miller-McCune Online Magazine
I’m still digesting this marvelous article. I enjoy the understated exploration of the ways thoughts are codified as they’re put into into writing.
I love sending...
“It sometimes seems like this idea of the lazy, whining musician is something of...”
– Pundits - Do Keep Up! - MTT - Music Think Tank
WatchThis one’s for Jay and Barrett, for completely separate reasons.
“The Young Victoria,” starring Emily Blunt as the 18-year-old queen of England...”
– ‘The Young Victoria’ — latimes.com
Did she hear Bronwen and I talking after the movie? ‘Cause we called dibs on the “Team Alfred” shirts.
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Ahh! You went and didn’t take me! Sad panda…. :(
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I won tickets to a screening on Twitter and offered the +1 to the first...
“The Young Victoria,” starring Emily Blunt as the 18-year-old queen of...”
– ‘The Young Victoria’ — latimes.com
Did she hear Bronwen and I talking after the movie? ‘Cause we called dibs on the “Team Alfred” shirts.
“So take right now, for example, there is a right-wing populist uprising. It’s...”
– Noam Chomsky (via azspot) (via soupsoup) (via ericmortensen)
My mom likes listening to Rush while she drives. In the passenger’s seat or the backseat I grew into having an intense hatred for his rhetoric because it’s the type of rhetoric that’s meant to inflame. He gives an...
“Now they’re saying that we can’t have gay marriage because it would confuse the...”
– This Is Your Kid On Gay Marriage | TV | A.V. Club (via yayponies)
“If you don’t like the Internet, you’re not going to be able to...”
– Vevo—a music site we didn’t need | Digital Noise: Music and Tech - CNET News
Hulu - Green Wing →
turnabout:
Seriously, if you don’t laugh while you watch this show, there is definitely something wrong with you. I cannot recommend this show enough.
You can’t not like this show. Seriously.
“At this point, The Copyright Wars became, and, to this very day, are “an effort...”
– Music as Commerce: Understanding a Mindset - hypebot
Radio rights, anyone?
“The problem is that institutional decline at this point amounted to cultural...”
– Music as Commerce: Understanding a Mindset - hypebot
“Rushkoff contends, “In the zero-sum logic of corporatist economics, creating...”
– Music as Commerce: Understanding a Mindset - hypebot
Expect more quotes from this article.
“She wanted badly to please him, to say something like It was a turning point;...”
– Found Objects : The New Yorker
