January 2010
“First beat I did, was in seventh grade, on my computer. I got into doing beats...”
– Kanye West in an interview with Style.com (via treasurepleasure) (via fuckyeahkanyewest) (via gallerypiece)
LOLOL WHAT IS GOING ON (via seaponies)
kanye is the gift that keeps on giving.
“Buns of steel have taught us to be ashamed of the way we live our day-to-day...”
– Susan Douglas, “Narcissism as Liberation” (via agirlcalledchris) (via sexismandthecity) (via bethbluestocking)
susan douglas is so cool. if you haven’t read the mommy myth, change that right now! and then when you’re done, read where the girls are! (where the girls are is more fun, but...
poppygallico:
The more I think about it, the more I think how neat it would be for a kindle-type thing to be developed that can handle magazines. I just think that magazines are infinitely more wasteful and disposable than books, as well as having much less value for money, and no matter how interesting one looks like I will not buy it for those reasons. You can get everything from a magazine...
“Says ABC News, “Young’s accounts paint a portrait of Elizabeth as a controlling...”
– Kate Harding (via amandaw)
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,”—that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need...”
– John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn (via unichronic)(via meepmeepmeep)
(via suicideblonde)(via infinitebutterflies)(via libraryland) (via quote-book)
I HATE THIS QUOTE SO FUCKING MUCH IT MAKES ME WANT TO PUNCH THINGS.
fuckyeahrocknroll:
musicradar:
rebjukebox:
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fuckyeahrocknroll:
eternalplaylist:
The Pains...
reblogging because it reminded me of a...
txtsfrmlstnght:
(419): her dad is making me watch Glen Beck, i only agreed because i penetrated his daughter earlier.
me: don’t worry about it! how bad could it be?
him: like, “i’m fucking your daughter” bad.
examples of stuff i think about when i wake up in...
poppygallico:
how Christian Siriano is like our generation’s Mozart, not in a “child prodigy” kind of way, but in a “I’m so super awesome I shall only compose for myself, not for commission!” / “I’m so super awesome I shall only create high fashion, not ready-to-wear for fatties!” (read: normal-sized people) kind of way.
Yeah I don’t understand what the fuck goes on in my brain sometimes,...
“Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the...”
– Voltaire
artpixie (via silentsigh)
dude! what an awesome quote! voltaire just got so many coolness points in my book!
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“I think we need more post-coital, and less post-rock.”
– Los Campesinos!
dude that sounds awesome
txtsfrmlstnght:
(406): i knew she was high when she broke up the cookies into her glass of milk and ate it like cereal
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ekswitaj:
guerrillamamamedicine:
Stanley Milgram: Obedience to Authority Or Just Conformity? | PsyBlog During the course of the experiment, each time the ‘learner’ made a mistake the participant was ordered to administer ever-increasing electrical shocks. Of course the learner kept making mistakes so the teacher (the poor participant) had to keep giving higher and higher electrical shocks, and...
i am about to pass out but
you know if you do want to take poetic license with/bastardize (circle one) godel’s
incompleteness theorems they’d lend themselves to it pretty easily - to do that thing liberal arts kids (yours truly included) love to do and i always suspect science kids kind of hate, and take a scientific truth on a metaphorical level, what it’s kind of saying is that you always have to take...
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kaninchenzero:
allmyeye:
Fight neurobigotry, one post at a time.
“The humanitarian aid to Haiti can not be controlled by the United States and...”
– Somali ‘Pirates’ Plan to Send Treasures Taken from Rich Countries to Haiti | RaceWire (via bmckinney)
guerrillamamamedicine:
How Other People’s Unspoken Expectations Control Us | PsyBlog
So to manipulate this, just before the conversation, along with biographical information about the person they were going to meet, the men were given a photograph. Half were shown a photograph of a woman who had been rated for attractiveness as an 8 out of 10 and half were given a photo of a woman rated as a 2...
guerrillamamamedicine:
Daniel Gilbert and colleagues put these two theories head-to-head in a series of experiments to test whether understanding and belief operate together or whether belief (or disbelief) comes later (Gilbert et al., 1993).
In their classic social psychology experiment seventy-one participants read statements about two robberies then gave the robber a jail sentence. Some of...
“And there never was an apple, in Adam’s opinion, that wasn’t worth the trouble...”
– Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett (via quellequaintrelle) (via neilgaiman)
the following exchange actually happens in legally...
vivian: run home, elle. and take off that skank costume.
elle: oh! is that so, vivian? how unfortunate! because - [runs to grab someone's glasses and puts them on] i'm gloria steinem, circa 1963, researching for her feminist manifesto, "i was a playboy bunny." are you actually calling gloria steinem a stank?
feminist caricature: WHO'S calling gloria steinem a stank????
one note on diversity in public schools
reachingtheshore:
isabelthespy:[click the link]
You lived in Bronxville? lol I mean, great post! But, hey, my guy is from Mount Vernon and I lived in Fleetwood for a couple of years.
ha, i also (during part of high school) lived in what was technically mount vernon but was closer to the fleetwood metro-north station for a couple of years! SOUTHERN WESTCHESTER REPRESENT.
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my brain really doesn't feel like operating all of...
my tummy feels kinda weird and it was really cold today and i spent like two and a half hours on the subway and i kind of just want to knit (finished one armwarmer!!! one more to go!!!) and watch something vapid yet entertaining.
so i think i’m gonna chill with however many parts they haven’t removed from dailymotion for copyright of legally blonde: the musical. which yes, i saw in...
“Then mortals be merry, and scorn the blind boy; your hearts from his arrows...”
– (blind boy = Cupid/Love) in the interest of fairness: sometimes opera is cool. this is the ending of Eccles’ Semele, which was SADLY altered in Handel’s version. i guess they decided they didn’t want the moral of their opera to be “it’s cool that semele’s dead,...
this was gonna be another rant about how much i...
because listening to madonna reminded me of some conversations i’ve had that remind me about how much i hate it when opera fans slam pop music for being stupid, because LOL LIKE OPERA IS THE MOST INTELLECTUALLY ENGAGING THING IN THE WORLD. but i thought it would be more fun to teach by example. below, some selections from john eccles’ opera semele (1707; not performed until the...
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“Democrats, let me explain this to you: the Republicans ARE FUCKING WITH YOU. Do...”
– can we just fire Keith Olbermann and give Jon Stewart an hour MSNBC? please? please?
while watching the colbert report
me: i wanna marry him.
my mom: you'll have to fight me for it.
I'm still having that problem ...
thecurvature:
isabelthespy:
thecurvature:
where reblogging causes the thing that the person I’m reblogging said to disappear, or at least to not show up on the dashboard.
But it only happens sporadically. And strangest of all, it only seems to happen with Isabel? WTF?
WHOA! i think maybe then that’s actually a problem tumblr is having with me? because often if someone reblogs me on my...
one note on diversity in public schools
i’m a little interested, on a second glance, at how often people assume that private schools are more homogenous - or “less diverse” - than public schools. i’m not saying they’re not, necessarily, but it strikes me as a little weird - and more than a little inaccurate - to assume that because someone went to public school, they necessarily were in a more diverse...
I'm still having that problem ...
thecurvature:
where reblogging causes the thing that the person I’m reblogging said to disappear, or at least to not show up on the dashboard.
But it only happens sporadically. And strangest of all, it only seems to happen with Isabel? WTF?
WHOA! i think maybe then that’s actually a problem tumblr is having with me? because often if someone reblogs me on my dashboard, the thing i said...
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katoleary:
OK, so. I started out in private Catholic school. I attended private school for kindergarten and the first six weeks of first grade. In kindergarten, my teacher would stay after school with me to read because I was a stronger reader than the rest of my class, BUT she also told my parents to tell me to stop asking questions in class because I was confusing the other kids. So from...
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katoleary:
meloukhia:
via Kaninchenzero.
Terrifying.
oh god, i wanna throw up.
“A 12-year-old boy and 13-year-old girl from Northwest Indiana are accused of...”
– Child porn charges for sexting at age 12? :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
So this problem’s not going away. We’re going to continue making sex offenders out of our kids if we don’t change the law. (via sexartandpolitics)
aghhh THIS IS SO MESSED UP. child porn laws are there to PROTECT CHILDREN which...
thecurvature:
deadgrotty:
“Cherish” — Madonna
...
poppygallico:
Apart from the fact that I don’t actually like movies, I think the main reason I steer clear from foreign ones is because I can’t read subtitles and play on the internet at the same time.
i have that same problem! speaking of subtitles - it’s bad enough that a movie that at best could have been a fantasy-action thrill ride (and yet couldn’t even manage that) even HAD...
once in my sociology methods class
we had to do an “ethnography” assignment (quotes because i think that, done properly, ethnography can actually be a very legitimate and sometimes even useful form of sociological research, but this was… not that) that involved going into one boston’s poor neighborhoods and writing down observations about it.
which: how gross is that, to send harvard students explicitly on...
jessica hopper should be sort of ashamed of...
agrammar:
desnoise:
acrophobicbird:[see link]
agrammar: [see link]
I don’t know that I fully agree with any of the sides here, but it does seem unfortunate to start getting into “who’s the less privileged, a white American woman or a Persian-American male who tells Details he has been buying $32 deodorant since his mom started getting it for him.” … I agree, it’s ironic and disappointing...
“The term ‘serious actor’ is kind of an oxymoron, isn’t it? Like ‘Republican...”
– Johnny Depp (via fuckyeahjohnnydepp)
heeeee.