February 2010
On Language: Crash Blossoms →
champagnecandy:
ekswitaj:
dorianisms:
meloukhia:
One of my favorite crash blossoms is this gem from the Associated Press, first noted by the Yale linguistics professor Stephen R. Anderson last September: “McDonald’s Fries the Holy Grail for Potato Farmers.” If you take “fries” as a verb instead of a noun, you’re left wondering why a fast-food chain is cooking up sacred vessels. Or consider...
January 2010
How to take good photos
champagnecandy:
ekswitaj:
pasithee:
Take photos everyday.
Even if you don’t want to. Force yourself to do it. Even if you don’t have an interesting camera. Even if you didn’t go anywhere interesting that day. Take photos of something. Your toes, the patterns of shadows on the wall, whatever. Take photos every single day and don’t go a day without taking at least one photo.
Repeat steps 1...
Art Blogs
iheartmyart:
art-related:
I’m putting a list together of my favorite art blogs to bring to a class of Trinity College Studio Art majors tomorrow and I thought I’d share it with you (in alphabetical order)!
BOOOOOOOM!: That’s seven O’s, I counted them so I could provide you with the correct link. Lots of fantastic images for every article. Sometimes I wish there was a little more text,...
“whether you’re doing something deliberately saucy (like wearing a naked-dress)...”
– Amanda Palmer’s Armpit Hair Attracts Hail Of Online Criticism - amanda palmer - Jezebel
I like her. I am pro-Palmer and pro-Gaga and unashamed.
(via champagnecandy)
I agree. Also, to take the point about presenting themselves outside the standard beauty box even further… you know who...
Nicole Richie Claims She Never Had An Eating... →
robot-heart-politics:
Daniel Saynt is positively aghast that Nicole Richie might be ashamed to admit a (possible) eating disorder…even as he makes fun of her both for being too thin and too fat. Nice.
Aside from being offensive, I’m just so fucking tired of this conversation in the media ALL the time. It’s mean AND unoriginal. Isn’t anyone else bored by this. Bored...
Mad Men’s Michael Gladis Reviews His Co-stars’... →
pioupiou:
There’s a slideshow.
woot!
HEY McCain, this is what an argument looks like...
Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.), a retired three-star Navy admiral who’s trying to win the Democratic nomination for Senate from Pennsylvania, has issued a statement checking McCain:
“As the senior ranking military Veteran in Congress, I am compelled to respond to Sen. McCain’s opposition to President Obama’s commitment to allowing all American troops to serve their country openly and honestly. How can...
Does McCain have any principles left to speak of?
I’m so tired of this man making big, meaningless statements. He wants everyone to know where he stands, but never actually EVER backs up what he says with any reasoning. And everyone pays attention with reverence and makes a big deal out of it. Why? Because he ran for president twice and lost? Because he’s old? WTF? Here is today’s statement regarding “Don’t...
Howard Zinn: The Historian Who Made History →
champagnecandy:
fyeahsocialism:
Howard Zinn, my hero, teacher, and friend died of a heart attack on Wednesday at the age of 87. With his death, we lose a man who did nothing less than rewrite the narrative of the United States. We lose a historian who also made history.
Anyone who believes that the United States is immune to radical politics never attended a lecture by Howard Zinn. The rooms...
“Why should we accept that the “talent” of someone who writes jingles for an...”
– Howard Zinn (via fyeahsocialism)
or, for instance, the “talent” of somebody who works as an investment banker and tanks the economy but somehow still requires a multimillion-dollar bonus?
Howard Zinn makes such sense that if more people heard him or read him this country would be a different...
“Having an ending has allowed writers to control the pace of the story and decide...”
– via
Squee! (via thecurvature) so close…
“When you assess and evaluate a war, when you assess and evaluate any policy, you...”
– Howard Zinn (via azspot) (via robot-heart-politics)
“Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is the numbers of people all over...”
– Howard Zinn, “The Problem is Civil Disobedience” speech at Johns Hopkins University, November 1970 reprinted in Voices of a People’s History of the United States
The spine of my copy of Voices is broken at this page (484), because this passage informs everything I do, everything I teach,...
Former Justice O’Connor Sees Ill in Election... →
“She has become increasingly vocal in recent years about doing away with judicial elections. Most states elect at least some of their judges; federal judges are appointed.
“Judicial elections are just difficult to justify in a constitutional democracy in which even the majority is bound by the law’s restraints,” Justice O’Connor said Tuesday.
She added that last week’s decision was...
State of the Union in brief
Dear Obama,
A little less conversation, a little more action.
And also… Please…
To the left, to the left, to the left…
Dear Bob McDonnell,
More nukes? Best healthcare system in the world? More deregulation? Quoting scripture in your response?
FUCK that noise!
Sincerely,
Me
“The one lesson Barack Obama has learned in his first year in office is that...”
– Alex Pareene, on the Spending Freeze - Gawker: The Pandering Guide to the State of the Union (via darrenandthemachine) (via kalamazu) So frustrating…
20 Greatest Extended Takes In Movie History →
austinkleon:
This is the kind of blog post that Boxee’s Add To Queue feature was made for…
This is a great list. Love that it includes the actual clips to watch!
kari-shma:
Pink Floyd | Wish you were here
...
texts about nime chow (my favorite cambodian...
me: nime.
me: chow of nimeal descent.
me: chow to the nimth degree.
me: nime to the power of chow.
me: chow, nimeally speaking.
me: chowally-enhanced nime.
me: do you see where i'm going with this, or do i have to continue?
me: listen...i'm going with or without you. don't make me do this alone.
joanne: yes! yes! i'll go! jeez...
we only had it three days ago and already, reading this, i would not mind having some right now.
Menifee school officials remove dictionary over... →
After a parent complained about an elementary school student stumbling across “oral sex” in a classroom dictionary, Menifee Union School District officials decided to pull Merriam Webster’s 10th edition from all school shelves earlier this week.
School officials will review the dictionary to decide if it should be permanently banned because of the “sexually...
5 Jokes About The Apparent Eagerness Of Certain... →
champagnecandy:
abbyjean:
A member of the House Democratic Caucus goes to the doctor. The doctor says, “I have bad news and good news. The bad news is you have a broken foot. The good news is, you’re a congressman, which means you have health insurance, which means you’ll be able to get treatment without going totally bankrupt, unlike many of your constituents, who you are actively betraying...
“As a female artist who has dated guys in bands and often been accused of being...”
– Kathleen Hanna on Yoko Ono (via suckmyleftone) (via gauntlet) (via fuckyeahyokoono)
((heart)) them both so much!
