January 2012
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katherinestasaph asked: Maybe? But I also feel like when you're in middle school, you might not be able to do that but you're also not responsible for your financial well-being*. Like, right now, at any time I could totally tell off everyone, but it'd also mean I could basically kiss my entire career, and thus my ability to pay rent and stuff*, goodbye. *(insert all caveats about privilege here and here)
katherinestasaph:
I really wish someone had told me when I was in middle school that when you grow up, life is exactly like middle school, complete with popular kids, burn books and everything.
I’ve been thinking recently how much this is true, but at least in “grown-up” life one has better coping mechanisms aka the ability to tell people to fuck off without being tongue tied...
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rockmusicer:
I feel like I’ve had such a long, hard, busy day and really all I did was buy Springsteen tickets
I do enjoy the thought of attempting to explain to someone that the reason I’m so worn out is from buying concert tickets…not even standing in line somewhere to buy them, but just buying them online.
I FEEL THE SAME WAY! I was emotionally physically and mentally spent by...
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“We grew 300 varieties of fruits, vegetables, herbs, and flowers, many heirloom...”
– The Soul of Slow Food: Fighting for Both Farmers and Eaters - Atlantic Mobile
This is some depressing shit.
I would add that it’s not just the people who grow our food who can’t afford to buy what they produce — the people who make our food (cooks, chefs, and restauranteurs) are often economically...
Abortion safer than giving birth: study →
keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:
That statistic will only matter to you if you care about the welfare and health of actual living, breathing pregnant people. Which I do.
S.W.V.L.: My ticket stub from last night says... →
swvlswvl:
My ticket stub from last night says “Jeff Mangum: 2012 Spring Season.” I’m thinking this morning about what a wonderful phrase that is, how unlikely it once would have seemed. It’s a new year, and Jeff Mangum’s comeback tour is rolling on. In a few months he’ll play Coachella. How lucky are we?
Simon is tumbling! yay.
“When a woman does not want to be pregnant, the drive to become unpregnant can...”
– The Way It Was, Mother Jones, 2004
Hey ho, rock 'n roll, deliver me from nowhere:... →
illbeonthathill:
As with “Born in the U.S.A.,” it’s Springsteen’s powerful employment of ambiguity that allows this song to mean all these things at once: it’s an anthemic call for compassion, and a scathing look at how we’ve fallen short; it’s despairing yet inspiring; it damns while it…
“Occupiers aren’t running for office. They have their sights set higher.”
– Occupiers aren’t running for office. They have their sights set higher. - The Washington Post
“A lot of people have focused on how inconvenient the protests are – but...”
– Carrie Brownstein: ‘We’re Okay With Making Somebody Feel Uncomfortable’ on ‘Portlandia’ | Movies News | Rolling Stone
December 2011
47 posts
“We’re talking about a French-speaking Mormon vulture capitalist named Willard,...”
– Political Animal - Predictions gone wrong
Watch(via http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/christmas-for-the-jews-song/50599)
"Negotiating with Speaker Boehner is like nailing...
leftish:
~ Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY)
“In the annals of history, only Orwell, Voltaire and maybe a half-dozen other...”
– I knew Christopher Hitchens better than you - Salon.com
“My idea of success,” he said, “is personal freedom.”...”
– 6 - House of Mirth - Book 1 - by Edith Wharton (1862-1937)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JANE
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