July 2010
114 posts
“My inner life lacks dignity. There’s nothing I can do about that.”
– Charles Baxter, The Feast of Love. let’s say i relate and leave it at that. (via isabelthespy)
Uh, yes.
June 2010
129 posts
Phalanges! Phalanges, phalanges, phalanges,...
novazembla:
Babysitting with Bones.
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“[…] let me just say, wow do i ever NOT understand how anyone could want to...”
– very filled with dreams: not that i am not sort of a hypocrite
Isabel, you have made me feel better about the world.
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Fat Les - Vindaloo
I pretty much literally could...
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“Saving Grace is not about redemption. Saving Grace is about an out of control...”
– Another Netflix review, this one by “SyFy Freak.”
“The nude backside of a female copulating for several minutes upon a man.” I just… don’t even know, you guys.
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“This series is severely flawed. Holly Hunter is an amazing actress, and she...”
– A Netflix review of the TV show Saving Grace, written by one “Uncle Dickie,” who, I am horrified to see, is “69% similar” to me.
(For the record, I’m really enjoying the show. A foul-mouthed Holly Hunter gets her swerve on [in all senses] and hangs out with an awesome...
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attention facebook ads
I have absolutely no interest in the following:
Reading about how evolution is scientifically unsound
Renting an apartment in Reykjavik
Purchasing a bidet
Attending a self-help seminar of any sort
Entering my (nonexistent) babies in beauty contests
Kindly go and eat a bag of dicks. kthxbye
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“Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.”
– Virginia Woolf, from A Room of One’s Own
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Dostoevsky suicide fears for station →
abbyjean:
A new metro station named after the famously gloomy Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky has opened in Moscow despite fears it could attract suicides. The station, called Dostoyevskaya, is decorated with brooding grey and black mosaics that depict violent scenes from the 19th-century writer’s best-known novels. One mural re-enacts the moment when the main character in Crime and...
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Knowing Coves: i will not go quietly →
jhameia:
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THERE ARE MANY FIERCE HISTORICAL CHINESE WOMEN WHO HAVE LOOMED LARGE IN MY CONSCIOUSNESS. I AM JUST SAYING. HOW MANY CAN YOU NAME? FIERCE HISTORICAL CHINESE WOMEN? THIS IS A FUCKING AUTOMATIC REBLOG. Fierce Chinese ladies? Yep, auto reblog because I’ve spent my whole life around…
Tumblr iPhone app, I hate you
Thanks for that SUPER USEFUL UPDATE you just did. I especially appreciate the following wonderful new features:
I can no longer add anything to reblogs.
I can no longer edit posts I’ve made, because the app dies every time I try.
Every time I reblog something, it takes me all the way back to the most recent post, and I have to scroll and reload pages and pages to get back to where I...
Dorianisms: jhameia:
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I was then tasked with... →
jhameia:
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I was then tasked with the rather unpleasant task of rendevousing with her parents and filling them in. This was the first time I’d met them. After she was discharged we all decamped to their place, for plenty of chats and cups of tea and hugs. I met the WHOLE fucking family that…
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RaceWire: Wisconsin Law Fouls Out American Indian... →
tart-tart:
poc-news:
After decades of campaigns by native communities, a new law in Wisconsin aims to force schools to finally scrub brown-skinned warriors off the astroturf and scrap the feather-clad mascot costumes. The law, SB25, raises the stakes in the game of racial politics in school sports. Wisconsin, which has a relatively progressive policy on integrating native culture into its...
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Annaham writes stuff (and refers to herself in 3rd...
annaham:
This time, on the “inner critic” as the enemy of Professional Creative Types, what that construction forgets, and mental illness:
There’s another assumption in writings about the importance of “turning off” the inner critic, which is that all children have a magical reserve of resilience and that is why they are so creative. These children simply don’t care what anyone else thinks,...
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Actor Jason Bateman Cuts in Line for iPhone 4,... →
abbyjean:
Jason Bateman today was on the receiving end of cat calls and evil eyes from exasperated Apple customers today after he was allowed to cut in front of hundreds (some say thousands) of people waiting at The Grove to purchase their reserved iPhone 4. The “Arrested Development” actor was reportedly sitting in line like everyone else until an Apple employee spotted and snagged him out to...
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Corporate welfare and California's budget deficit →
abbyjean:
I believe we can all agree on the root cause of the state’s $20-billion budget gap. It’s welfare: all those millions of taxpayer dollars going to recipients who line up for their government handouts instead of competing in the marketplace on a level playing field like the rest of us, who don’t pay their fair share of taxes and who get protected by a politically powerful lobby....
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Attention drivers
I don’t actually believe that patience is a virtue. But I’m pretty sure that not fucking killing pedestrians is.
Please act accordingly, assholes.
“Later Buddy told me the woman was on a drug that would make her forget she’s had...”
– The Bell Jar (via foxism) (via fuckyeahsylviaplath)
“People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a...”
– Banksy, from Cut It Out (via zaschell) (via nedhepburn) (via antropofagia) (via so-treu) (via nezua) (via zuky)
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“Anti-choice legislators have the mistaken belief that placing one more hoop, one...”
– M. Tracey Brooks: Lawmakers Should Be at Least as Thoughtful About Abortion as Women Are (via ihatethismess) (via robot-heart-politics)
Good post, but I can’t help it, I have to object to that title (and last paragraph). It’s the “at least” that really gets me — the...
don't you think mental health issues should be...
isabelthespy:
LOL, i know, trying to make like there is a prayer of high school health classes being reformed into something useful and beneficial. but while we’re dreaming! shouldn’t there be a unit on mental health? or at the very least, depression?
because first off, maybe then some depressed kids would know to get help. probably not all of them, since part of depression is being convinced...
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Felons, Outlaws...and Immigrants: A Civil Death
novazembla:
nezua:
curate:
lowendtheory:
Civil death (Latin: civiliter mortuus) [1] is a term that refers to the loss of all or almost all civil rights by a person due to a conviction for a felony or due to an act by the government of a country that results in the loss of civil rights. It is usually inflicted on persons convicted of crimes against the state or adults determined by a...
The Recession Wiped Out Decades of Progress on... →
abbyjean:
According to a new report (pdf) from the Foundation for Child Development, virtually all progress made for children since 1975 will be wiped out this year. “Specifically, the CWI indicates that the rate of children living in poverty in 2010 will be the highest it has been in 20 years,” the FCD predicts, ”with almost 22 percent of youth living below the poverty line.” That’s an...
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Twitter / FEMINIST HULK: TRICK TO SMASHING GENDER... →
novazembla:
queermovieman:
TRICK TO SMASHING GENDER BINARY: MAKE SURE IT NOT SIMPLY BREAK INTO TWO NORMATIVE PIECES. HULK CREATE GENDERQUEER DEBRIS!
Brilliant.
