LOL didn’t know my stalker was a Lakers fan.
February 2012
4 posts
“Jeremy Lin might be the first normal Asian America has seen and it’s fucking great. He’s not famous because he ran around with a rice pecker in the Hangover. He’s not famous because Ari treats him like a Eunuch. Nor is he famous for singing “She Bangs”. He doesn’t have to act a fool to get on TV because he balls so hard mother fuckers can’t find him. Lin is saving the Knicks with super-human play, but he’s dispelling myths about Asian America by being otherwise hyper-normal and I thank him. He doesn’t have a duty to embrace Asian America, speak for Asian America, or represent Asian America because right now he IS Asian America.”
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- Eddie, dead-accurate as always. Jeff, too.
My heart is bursting. I’m grabbing on to this beautiful moment in pop culture and never letting go.
“Unless somebody was handing out Xanax with the foam fingers, Lucas Oil Stadium was ringing with the music of profanities last night. More to the point, television viewers were submitted to ad after ad that likened women—negatively—to sofas, cars, and candy. Mr. Winter didn’t have anything to say about that, so I’d like to raise both of my middle fingers to him and anyone who thinks profanity is somehow more harmful to our children than images of violence and misogyny.”
—Sasha Frere-Jones
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October 2011
1 post
“October 1, 2011 - TAMPA, FL - The Occupy Wall Street movement may have just received an unexpected surprise – United States Army and Marine troops are reportedly on their way to various protest locations to support the movement and to protect the protesters. Army serviceman Ward Reilly posted the following on Facebook: “I’m heading up there tonight in my dress blues. So far, 15 of my fellow marine buddies are meeting me there, also in Uniform. I want to send the following message to Wall St and Congress: I didn’t fight for Wall St. I fought for America.”
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#OccupyWallStreet - ‘The Marines are Coming to PROTECT the Protestors’ | in5d Alternative News | in5d.com | (via progressivefriends)
I didn’t fight for Wall St. I fought for America.
(via itstimefortruth)
I don’t even think thats the best line, here’s more of what the Marine said:
My true hope, though, is that we Veterans can act as first line of defense between the police and the protester. If they want to get to some protesters so they can mace them, they will have to get through the Fucking Marine Corps first. Let’s see a cop mace a bunch of decorated war vets.
(via newwavefeminism)
August 2011
3 posts
Oh no, literature.
When every guy you know thinks he’s Holden Caulfield, Jay Gatsby or Patrick Bateman.
High school PTSD.
July 2011
1 post
“I consider the “Tea Party Movement” to be one of the most brilliant sociological ploys. Perhaps unmatched since a million poor white southern farmers were talked into eagerly and courageously fighting to the death, in order to protect the feudal privileges of a tiny, slave-holding aristocracy. Yes, it is that impressive. Get them to think they are fighting for one thing, while dying for something else. Likewise, by holding up and waving an obsolete and irrelevant old “left-right political-axis,” today’s feudal lords have managed to stir Red America into a frenzy of unparalleled rancor toward every single group or profession that has both knowledge and professional skill — from scientists to teachers, civil servants, academics, medical doctors, attorneys, diplomats, skilled labor… amounting to a “war on smartypants.”
—David Brin (via azspot)
June 2011
18 posts
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“Poor people get tired of being fucking virtuous all the time. Because we don’t have the expendable income that middle class people do, to buy other things which comfort us like nice furniture, nice cars, electronics, trips to do fun things, etc. I may be inviting a lot of hate by admitting this, but sometimes when you’re poor, eating for entertainment is the only entertainment you can afford. If a dollar box of Twinkies makes you feel happy when the rest of your life is no fun, that is a dollar well spent. Sometimes my mom and I would spend $20 per trip on just junk food, but that was the only $20 we spent on anything frivolous the entire week/month/whatever. And by frivolous I mean anything other than bills and gas money. Again, living without this stuff makes you feel poor. Sometimes you need to have some small luxuries to feel human, and personally, my need to feel human is more important than my need for broccoli.”
—Elisha Aster, “How You Shop When You Are Poor”
I have a lot of empathy for Aster’s perspective. There are many folks who simply can’t “live more sustainably” or “do their part” without great sacrifice, and I think this is what’s missing from most of the dialogue on diet and nutrition. My mother grew up farming with her mom; I grew up coupon-clipping with mine. Between her wariness for canned/frozen food and her penchant for bargain hunting, we were able to eat healthily despite not being well-off. (Though like the author of the above quote, I consumed a lot of cheap protein at times.) I lived in a suburb of Los Angeles, so we were lucky; there are far fewer economically diverse options in most other places. The dietary options of poor people are limited everyday due to the cost of food, the availability of supermarkets, and the time needed to prepare healthful meals.
Did you grow up poor? Have your food options been limited by cost? Chime in via the comments or the following Food & Social Justice poll (which I started yesterday as part of a discussion on vegetarianism):
I have a lot of empathy for Aster’s perspective. There are many folks who simply can’t “live more sustainably” or “do their part” without great sacrifice, and I think this is what’s missing from most of the dialogue on diet and nutrition. My mother grew up farming with her mom; I grew up coupon-clipping with mine. Between her wariness for canned/frozen food and her penchant for bargain hunting, we were able to eat healthily despite not being well-off. (Though like the author of the above quote, I consumed a lot of cheap protein at times.) I lived in a suburb of Los Angeles, so we were lucky; there are far fewer economically diverse options in most other places. The dietary options of poor people are limited everyday due to the cost of food, the availability of supermarkets, and the time needed to prepare healthful meals.
Did you grow up poor? Have your food options been limited by cost? Chime in via the comments or the following Food & Social Justice poll (which I started yesterday as part of a discussion on vegetarianism):
Along the same lines: http://blackgirlsguidetoweightloss.com/health-news/elitism-on-a-food-stamp-budget/
What also gets lost in the bullshit hysterics over poor people buying tons of junk on food stamps is the reality that there’s a whole underclass that doesn’t even qualify for food stamps. You have to be a US citizen, for one. My parents say my brother’s birth was the thing that helped us out most in our early years in the US: we qualified for the WIC program, which does not require citizenship and provides new mothers with discounts on essentials like milk and eggs. Junk food was not a choice.
“Every thinking person is to some degree a libertarian, and it is this part of all of us that is bullied or manipulated when liberty is invoked to silence our doubts about the free market.”
—So good. Everyone should read that article. Parts 1 and 2 are kinda slow but 3 and 4 bring the boom.
“And the screw takes one last turn: By allowing for the enormous rise in (relative) income and prestige of the upper white collar professions, Keynesianism created the very blind spot by which professionals turned against Keynesianism. Charging high fees as defended by their cartels, cartels defended in turn by universities, universities in turn made powerful by the military state, many upper-white-collar professionals convinced themselves their pre-eminence was not an accident of history or the product of negotiated protections from the marketplace but the result of their own unique mental talents fetching high prices in a free market for labor. Just this cocktail of vanity and delusion helped Nozick edge out Rawls in the marketplace of ideas, making Anarchy a surprise best-seller, it helped make Ronald Reagan president five years later. So it was the public good that killed off the public good.”
—On libertarianism
“And despite the facade of cliqueishness, and female friendship, and the Romy & Michelle’ness of gal-pal fun times, let’s be real. We all know these manic pixie Muppet Babies are really just in it for the peen.”
—Didn’t understand my hatred for Zooey Deschanel until reading this. I also know a number of grown-ass women who talk in baby voices - the most egregious ladychild I’m thinking of refers to food as “snacky-wacky.” It’s really creepy and I am always torn between wanting to vom and wanting to smack her.
The Bird as Symbol in Current Culture →
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I first noticed the bird motif on the pro-ana sites. Girls described wanting to have bird bones, to be feather thin, ‘become frail’, to be light as air, be delicate, small, like a shimmering, (starving) sparrow.
The bird lust has seeped into other facets of culture, fashion…
