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January 2010

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No More Strangers Mix Volume 4 → winniecooper.net

christianflores:

This is good listening for:

-bathing puppies

-knitting cat sweaters

-baking cupcakes

-pillow fights

-learning to use an abacus

I haven’t tried those, but I can recommend:

-checking facebook

-taking a shower

-getting dressed

-staring at things in your room and wishing your laundry would do itself

-tweeting

Jan 29, 20103 notes
“

If the reports are to be believed, Women’s Studies programs are disappearing at many Canadian universities. Forgive us for being skeptical. We would wave good-bye without shedding a tear, but we are pretty sure these angry, divisive and dubious programs are simply being renamed to make them appear less controversial.

The radical feminism behind these courses has done untold damage to families, our court systems, labour laws, constitutional freedoms and even the ordinary relations between men and women…

”
—

National Post Editorial Board

Make a really angry, confused, disbelieving face with furrowed brows and hold that. It will give you some idea of what I looked like when I read this.

Also: WHATTHEFUCK.

Jan 28, 2010
AXE COP! → axecop.com

This made my day the best day.

skinnyghost:

This is so amazing.

okayfine:

29-yr old illustrator draws his 5-yr old brother’s comic. Pretty hilarious.

Jan 28, 201021 notes
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Media Analysis - rape gets no attention, even when it's aggregious

I am not in the right place to comment on this yet.

From my friend Rob:

So a friend posted this link:

http://hiphopwired.com/2010/01/27/autistic-woman-raped-in-broad-daylight-no-one-stops-to-help/

Basically, a woman was raped in broad day light on a busy city street and no one stopped to help. She suffered from Aspberger’s and the rapist was a minor. You’d think this would generate some press. Interested to see how other media would cover this, I googled it.

Here’s what I found:

http://news.google.ca/news/more?um=1&cf=all&ned=ca&source=hp&cf=all&ncl=dT8stYomc7OcHUM9B1cMt9ScgQF-M

Note that only one major paper covered the story: The Washington Post. Here’s their “article”:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/20/AR2010012004050.html

Note how vanishingly short it is, how sparse on details. A women, with a disability, was raped in public. End of story.

Anyone else noticing how little attention this crime is getting? Anyone surprised by that?

Here’s the thing. Had this crime been, “Terrorist attempts to attack, fails” it would have made world news. Had the story been, “Kraft buys Cadbury” same deal. Hell, had it been “man finds hilarious puppy” it would have made regional news, and maybe been a YouTube hit.

Violence against women, unless it’s a massacre, gets no media attention. This was a broad daylight, violent rape in a crowded street. By a minor. Against a women with a disability. It meets the classic formula for news: Violent offence committed by marginalized youth against sympathetic victim. Yet, no press. Because, I’m guessing, it was “just a rape.”

Jan 27, 2010
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-24) → last.fm
  1. The Beatles (156)
  2. Wu Tang Vs The Beatles (32)
  3. Gogol Bordello (27)
  4. Queen (21)
  5. Sigur Ros (16)

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Jan 25, 2010
“It’s very hard—no matter how much we hear about it—to believe in our own death. Many spiritual practices try to encourage us to take our own death seriously, but it’s amazing how difficult it is to allow it to hit home. The one thing in life that we can really count on is incredibly remote for all of us. We don’t go so far as to say, ‘No way, I’m not going to die,’ because of course we know that we are. But it definitely will be later. That’s the biggest hope.” —Pema Chodron, When Things Fall Apart (via nightmarebrunette) [autoreblog]
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Got Your Money Wu Tang Vs The Beatles

Got Your Money - Wu Tang vs The Beatles (Enter The Magical Mystery Chambers)

Jan 19, 2010
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-17) → last.fm
  1. Gil Scott-Heron (66)
  2. Björk (41)
  3. Erykah Badu (28)
  4. Fleetwood Mac (22)
  5. Fiona Apple (15)

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Jan 18, 2010
“

Dear Pat Robertson,

I know that you know that all press is good press, so I appreciate the shout-out. And you make God look like a big mean bully who kicks people when they are down, so I’m all over that action. But when you say that Haiti has made a pact with me, it is totally humiliating. I may be evil incarnate, but I’m no welcher.

The way you put it, making a deal with me leaves folks desperate and impoverished. Sure, in the afterlife, but when I strike bargains with people, they first get something here on earth — glamour, beauty, talent, wealth, fame, glory, a golden fiddle. Those Haitians have nothing, and I mean nothing. And that was before the earthquake. Haven’t you seen “Crossroads”? Or “Damn Yankees”? If I had a thing going with Haiti, there’d be lots of banks, skyscrapers, SUVs, exclusive night clubs, Botox — that kind of thing. An 80 percent poverty rate is so not my style. Nothing against it — I’m just saying: Not how I roll.

You’re doing great work, Pat, and I don’t want to clip your wings — just, come on, you’re making me look bad. And not the good kind of bad. Keep blaming God. That’s working. But leave me out of it, please. Or we may need to renegotiate your own contract.

Best,
Satan

”
—Lily Coyle, Minneapolis in the Star Tribune
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