January 2012
Atheist Temple: Nonbelievers To Get Place Of...
so-treu:
praisethelorde:
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zorascreation:
Atheists have long criticised devout followers of faith. But now it seems Atheism is stealing from that very religious tradition by erecting a temple of worship.
Author Alain de Botton announced plans to build an Atheist temple in the U.K., reports DeZeenmagazine.
A collaboration with Tom Greenall Architects, the structure will be...
"It is not an automagical process on a level... →
maura:
FUCKING PREACH IT MIKKI.
“Why did the apple cross the river? …So it could drown.”
– funny joke time took an unexpectedly morbid turn today.
“I don’t do hip-hop. I only do tap and ballet.”
– gosh you guys, The One Who Cries is really working overtime not to endear herself to me. (this followed a classmate’s comment that she did do hip-hop, which came up because we had a 3 minute dance party during which The One Who Cries sat still and scowled until we were back on the rug at which...
“Divorce is sometime you can’t heal from by yourself because you will go...”
– thursday mornings there’s some meeting that means I cover morning supervision at the upper school. the bulletin board tells me fourth grade is working on literary essays? anyway this sentence caught my eye.
In later years she would remember the courtroom as being made entirely of wood: floor, walls, ceiling, judge’s stand, benches she had to remind herself weren’t called pews. All wood, and there was an American flag. It would be nice to say they walked in children and walked out no longer quite, that there died their innocence and coalesced their nascent maturity, but it would be...
Bromance
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Bromance
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Aristotle’s classical description of friendship is often taken to be the prototype of the bromance.
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"Chicks, man" is not a critical stance.
maura:
“Chicks, man” is not a critical stance.
chicks, man: not a critical stance.
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“She’s not as much of a reader as I am, but I don’t hold it against her. After...”
– patrick pineyro, the last book i loved: ulysses, @ the rumpus. gosh it’s nice seeing someone who loves books saying this.
"And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.":... →
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r0bertbrowniejr:
Yesterday my mom posted a picture on Facebook of my 5 year old brother Sam wearing a pair of shoes he picked out for his first day of preschool.
She explained to him in the store that they were really made for girls. Sam then told her that he didn’t care and that…
This is such a cute picture.
oh my god i’m dying LOOK AT THAT SMILE LOOK AT THOSE SHOES
“I have tried hard—but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can...”
– All my life, I’ll never get over Lily Bart. (via michelledean)
I don’t know that i could call her a favorite character but she burned herself into me like few others.
“I think this record is depressing to you because it makes you feel that you’ve...”
– Liz Phair to Chuck “Guy Among Guys” Klosterman, “The Exile Factor,” Spin, July 15, 2003
This entire interview is golden, meaning filled with Klosterman being the kind of douche for which Liz has no patience, and Liz, in fact, having no patience for him as he tries to bait her into insulting her own...
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Actual Black Person.: ok →
so-treu:
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mynameisjuthika:
did anyone not like wuthering heights or is it just me?
i read this book in 7th grade
hated every minute of it
i pretty much told my teacher she had no taste in books after she recommended this to me along with Jane Eyre and other euro-centric…
honestly reading jane eyre and wuthering heights made me regret that i ever...
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“I never did it [LSD] for fun. Too strong. I mean, a lot of my friends did, but,...”
– Jack Nicholson on his qualifications for writing The Trip (1967), in the 2011 documentary Corman’s World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel (via nickminichino)
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he's making the argument that feminism (just like...
milkeemountainmama:
oh, except it *HAS*. only—that “dark space”???? IS NOT CENTERED ON FUCKSTAIN MEN WHO TRIED TO KILL THEIR EX!
it is, as I stated previously, focusing on the WOMEN—the women who bought drugs instead of buying food for their kids, the women who murdered their children, the women who spent time in prison or were “whores” in school….or—here’s a thought—
THE WOMEN WHO HAVE KILLED...
TRIGGER WARNING: Child rape
so-treu:
quixotess:
milkeemountainmama:
anoldladyonfire:
Please do not click “More” if you do not want to see Hugo Schwyzer’s reaction to Joe Paterno’s death.
And … you don’t. Not really.
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i mean—i wonder if there’s “shades of gray” on how much he loved those kids that he never protected?
why can we always find “shades of gray” when it comes to those in power? but the rest of...
I Propose a New Educational Mandate →
To wit, a mandate that educational mandates be in line with actual current research on education rather than pulled out of someone’s butthole.
So, for instance, some teacher(s) at this school in Georgia thinks that “Each tree had 56 oranges. If 8 slaves pick them equally, then how much would each slave pick” and “If Frederick got two beatings per day, how many beatings did he get in 1 week? 2...
What I Kept Thinking While Reading "Pulphead,"...
maura:
Would a woman’s magazine in 2012 ever hire a writer who would write about such a wide breadth of topics, and with stylistic authority to boot?
for a high school history project I put together a fake teen magazine from the 60s and my research consisted of browsing seventeen magazine, July-December 1968. completely blew my mind, it was like a different publication. in some ways it was...
random fear of mine
that someday i will be at someone’s house for dinner and they will serve fish and i will try to eat it and gag. i am kind of a picky eater when left to my own devices (it’s sort of a problem) but mostly can get through whatever if i think i ought to for the sake of politeness, but some types of fish and other seafood make me legit taste-the-bile gag the second i try to put them past my...
Susannah Breslin: How To Get Married →
susannah breslin writes about getting diagnosed with breast cancer three weeks after marrying a man she had known for less than two, in a kind of fractured way that suits the subject matter and, to me, came across as unexpectedly affecting. these days i am grateful whenever i find things on the internet (this in forbes, of all places) that make me think “i am very glad to have read...
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"But it WASN'T JUST about Slavery!"
velocicrafter:
Thank you, SinIdentidades for sending this my way. I bolded some key points, because, let’s be honest, the Confederacy didn’t go to war over their right to have special postage stamps or the right to print their own money. & they also didn’t go to war because they protested the abolition of Blue Laws or some shit.
Constitution of the Confederate States of America, the major...
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sincere questions:
theremixbaby:
if you can be a nerd about comedy or sports or beer or cars or other traditionally not-nerdy things then why can’t you be a nerd about shoes or reality tv or skin-care or pilates or celebrity gossip or hair dye? are girls who take multiple pictures of their outfits every single day to post on lookbook.nu actually the biggest nerds in the world? what about subcultural girl-nerdery?...
a story about a time i did one of those "simulated...
i haven’t watched the video yet! i will but man, videos on computers are hard for me? but i will. but first a story because it is about one of my secret hall of fame kids — this girl who was so smart and some way of saying “well-spoken” that isn’t incredibly condescending but i mean she was an eighth grader who could probably talk circles around a lot of college kids...
Anime and the Social Construction of Race
zeezeescorner:
A common misconception about anime cartoons amongst uninitiated audiences in majority-English-speaking countries is that anime characters are drawn to look ‘White’ rather than ‘Asian’. First of all, neither of terms are factual fixed categories - they are social constructions. That is, the meaning attached to race, whether ‘White’, ‘Black’, ‘Asian’ and so on, and the groups...
cannot stop scrolling through the nail polish tag
this tab will never be closed omg
“…No group in the world has had more money spent on it to have its genetics...”
– Rediscovering Black History. Review of The Black Book. New York Times Magazine (11 August 1974): 14+ Reprinted by the permission of International Creative Management, Inc. Copyright 1974 by Toni Morrison.
from What Moves at the Margin; Selected Non-Fiction Edited and with an Introduction by...
tangential note on co-sleeping
for the only one of our four Very Challenging Students i haven’t come up with a title for yet i was talking about her family situation with one of our social workers once and the first thing she mentioned, when she mentioned that certain things needed to change at home, was that the girl & her mom sleep in the same bed. which, i don’t know, the girl is six, not a baby i don’t...
karnythia:
Indian couple have children taken away by Norwegian social workers because they fed them with their hands, slept in same bed
notyourkinddear:
mehreenkasana:
mynameisjuthika:
fumblingtowardshappiness:
jonathan-cunningham:
An Indian couple have had their children taken away by Norwegian social workers because they were feeding them with their hands and sleeping in the same...
Rehire Disabled Store Clerk Who Was Fired Over... →
thecurvature:
Kyle Dowie didn’t let life get him down. The mentally disabled man worked for 25 years at a grocery store, sorting returned bottles and cans—a job many people would consider dull or even dirty. But Dowie took pride in his work and got excellent performance reviews—until he was fired over a twenty cent bottle deposit. Dowie made a point of retrieving discarded bottle deposit slips...
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if one moment you are talking about the general...
this is possibly symptomatic of greater ills in your writing.
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“That looks like a love dinosaur.”
– this is how The One Who Bounces described a classmate’s drawing the other day. sometimes the universe just drops little presents in my lap.
“Do you ever wonder what parents think when they look in the classroom and see...”
– my teacher, who is a beanpole-physiqued twentysomething living in Williamsburg who once played the first 60 seconds of my girls as transition music for his first graders, asks the questions that really get at the heart of the nation’s education concerns.
All That, and An Old Lady on Fire: If you see a... →
talldarkbishoujo:
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dancingsamuraii:
cultphilosophy:
It can land you in prison for 10 years. Clicking the link opens up something that will force you to perform a DDoS attack on certain websites (for example, the MPAA website). The goal is to take all of the…
“808s” was a landmark record for Auto-Tune in black pop, proof that it could be a...”
– It sort of seems like Alex Pappademas is being an asshole when he says the above, after opening this piece on Auto-Tune by just about tripping and falling, mouth-first, on Bon Iver’s dick:
Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon, whose “For Emma, Forever Ago” is the most acclaimed...
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kovaniy:
you know I wonder if back in the day when The Final Problem came out Victorians were sending out letters with “Dear sir, have you read the latest Holmes story yet? I simply cannot handle it. I have cried an unseemly amount of tears. I cannot. Oh God.” and then there’s just a big ink scribble because keysmashing wasn’t an option
little drawings of crying people in the margins
“The nature of academic and research librarianship changed today. Today, all...”
– So this just happened. (Twitter channel.)
paging New Yorkers, this time with actual details...
katherinestasaph:
an occasion of “it’s my birthday” that my schedule actually lets me celebrate! It’s also Isabel’s birthday (actually, that was Monday, just like mine was actually Tuesday!)
So yes: Saturday afternoon. Message for details / the Facebook invite.
yes this!!! we would love to see you there!!!
They went once together to the beach, where she was eternally fascinated by the way the world either halved or doubled itself there into two easy planes of blue; as well as the way it lent temporary heft to concepts like eternity. She watched clams erase themselves under sand, watched him pick up a piece of coral and place it back gently, as though it were still alive. Everything took on a...