October 2009
britticisms:
New Washed Out!
“Olivia” by Washed...
So I'm hired? →
Yay!
“When men focus on their urge to punish the rapist with their bare hands, instead...”
– Kate Harding, Not That You Asked: Some Advice For An Advice Columnist - cary tennis - Jezebel (via igather)
Assistance: Costco Will Expand Food Stamp Program... →
It turns out more Costco customers use food stamps than CEO James D. Sinegal originally thought, because after a test run earlier this year the company has decided to roll out the program nationwide.
“GNO is like the closest thing to war that is not, in fact, war. It is war, but...”
– McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Susan B. Anthony and Sacagawea’s Guide to a Bitchin’ Girl’s Night Out.
Audra Mae - ‘The River’
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Turning tides
V: I know you hate Halloween, but we're having a potluck
Nico: Oh, I'll be there
V: Really?
Nico: If there's food involved, I'll bite my tongue. Could be a funeral, could be for Kwanzaa, but if there's pie involved, or stew, I'm down.
gamesockson:
kelsium:
rosasparks:
My mother is schizophrenic. I don’t like the flippant overuse of crazy, either. Hell, even I use the word probably too much. However, there is still quite a difference between ‘crazy’ and COLORED or ORIENTAL.
I have never, ever heard lame used, except in silly vernacular.
Take that back, my uncle is a farmer. He uses lame to describe his livestock.
But I...
The Stereotyping of Rape Victims →
gauntlet:
Do jurors need educating? Research suggests that jurors may still have misconceptions about how rape victims are most likely to behave, both immediately after the attack, and whilst giving evidence in court. So should we be looking to systematically educate juries about the range of possible responses to a sexual assault? Jenni is joined by barrister David Wolchover, and by Jennifer...
“The thing is, these people who committed this crime are not “animals”,...”
– Comment here on the high-school gang rape in California. (via katoleary) (via historicupstart) (via igather)
the raveonettes: bang!
my new favorite song of...
The Saturdays - ‘Ego’
“For the record, many countries spell certain English words differently. For...”
– Twitter / Jason Sweeney (via aniero, msbeth, loscheiner, and musicbrain)
MEN - ‘Credit Card Babie$’
I pray at...
“Your complicity will not protect you from the patriarchy and its many...”
– Commenter at IBTP (via historicupstart, thepoliticalpartygirl, katoleary, gamesockson)
Seriously thought I was going to miss my flight
I’ll place the blame squarely on my illiteracy because I went the whole Vancouver stint under the distinct impression that I was jetting out of YVR at 8pm, when it was actually closer to 7.
The plane smells like a somewht pleasant combination of mall Chinese food and it looks like I’ve got the entire row to myself. This is only good because it means I can probably just scoot one seat...
IT'S DECORATIVE GOURD SEASON, MOTHERFUCKERS. →
I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait to get my hands on some fucking gourds and arrange them in a horn-shaped basket on my dining room table. That shit is going to look so seasonal. I’m about to head up to the attic right now to find that wicker fucker, dust it off, and jam it with an insanely ornate assortment of shellacked vegetables. When my guests come over it’s gonna be like, BLAMMO!...
Explain Something To Me
seriouslythough:
daveholmes:
I’m looking at a lot of the anti-marriage-equality ads from Maine, and reading a lot of the arguments supporting the repeal, and one phrase keeps coming up. If gay marriage remains legal, “gay marriage will be taught in schools.”
Can anyone tell me what that means?
How, currently, is marriage taught in schools? Is there some sort of marriage class that kids have...
I just printed a homemade birthday card for my...
jaimeleigh:
Yeah, whatever, it’s fucking 1995 up in here.
Only if you used Print Shop Deluxe.
“While it’s tempting to call them ‘baristi’ because of the Italian roots, the...”
– Fake AP Stylebook (via nerdshares)
The Gossip - ‘The Breakdown’
This is...
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I just chatted up JD Samson, so basically my life...
Flickr People Tagging →
Flickr has just rolled out a new feature, People Tagging. It looks to be essentially the same as tagging people on Facebook, and while I’m sure it’ll annoy those who don’t want every drunken, less than flattering photo of themselves directly linked to themselves, it seems like a perfectly natural addition to Flickr as a way to boost the social networking aspect.
To please every walk of life,...
WatchLiving Decay (fairy tales in the middle on nowhere) on Vimeo
In the summer of 2008 Dolk and Pøbel, two Norwegian street artists, set to work in the Norway’s Lofoten Islands countryside to create large-scale murals on the sides of soon-to-be-destroyed abandoned houses. “Living Decay” examines four such murals.