January 2012
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It's like someone took notes on things I hate and...
Unexamined privilege, other than extremely shallow attempts then heralded as “brace”
Pretentious, affected writing
Fetishization of whiteness/WASPiness
Obsession with bragging about own ancestry (I have an untested theory that anyone who talks about her ancestors who signed the Declaration of Independence/were on the Mayflower as if this is some amazing accomplishment of hers is...
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GIF wish list
-“You stupid bitch!” scene from Deep Blue Sea
-“What is this freak of nature?” from MST3k’s Jack Frost
-“Alright, pal. You just asked for a sleighful of whoop-ass.” also from MST3k’s Jack Frost
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Procrastination
Me: Wow, I have so much work to do on this huge, overarching project on something I presumably care about a lot.
(types a few sentences)
Me: Aaaannnnnd now I am suddenly overcome with inspiration and ideas for old/new stories that have absolutely nothing to do with my actual project due in a few months.
Happens every time. Was like this when I was working on my undergrad thesis, and is...
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sometimes i end up on a teenager's tumblr
and i wonder, good god. was i this horrible when i was their age?
the answer is probably yes.
but even when i was 18 or 15 or 13, i knew that dressing in a “native american” costume or putting on “war paint” was RACIST, unfunny, and uncool. oh, and RACIST.
Heroine Chic
Super interesting! I learned something today. :3
lareviewofbooks:
EVIE NAGY on Miss Fury, the first female superhero. Art by Tarpé Mills
Tarpé Mills Tarpé Mills & Miss Fury: Sensational Sundays 1944–1949 IDW Publishing, July 2011. 240 pp. DC Direct, the merchandizing arm of publisher DC Comics, produces a line of collectible busts called “Heroes of the DC Universe.” Apparently, the...
December 2011
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If you'd like to know anything about:
The history of Mexican land reform, from pre-1900s to now
The history of the Mexican illegal drug trade, from pre-1900s to now
The relationship between Mexico’s liberalization of the agricultural sector and the illegal drug trade
…be sure to let me know. I just finished a 20 page paper (SINGLE SPAAAACED) and I have lots of feelings about this.
A few things that I want to remember...
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“IF THESE STUPID KIDS DON’T STOP FANCASTING ZOOEY DESCHANEL AS ANNIE CRESTA...”
– Sonia
I ugly laughed.
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my throat hurts
my throat hurts
November 2011
12 posts
HULU
stop giving me mormon.org ads! noooooo.
more cause and effect
discover pinterest
number of thesis pages written actually becomes a negative number
making corn tortillas from scratch
so far, so good. unfortunately i didn’t inherit the powerful forearms and flexible wrists of my mexican ancestors, because pressing these flat was a bitch.
cause and effect
Watched The Thing, got two hours of sleep.
:/
October 2011
21 posts
p.s. if you can't tell, i'm grumpy and hungover.
i recommend eating pizza in bed and watching futurama on netflix, STAT!
god forbid there be zombies in A BOOK ABOUT... →
‘I can see the disgruntled reviews on Amazon already: “I don’t get it. This book’s supposed to be about zombies, but the author spends pages and pages talking about all this other stuff I’m not interested in.” Broad-spectrum marketing will attract readers for whom having to look up “cathected” or “brisant” isn’t just an irritant but a moral affront.’
INTELLIGENT GENRE FAN =...
Sonia got me looking at cosplays. →
And this links to a Jenova cosplay. Jenova, for those of you who had lives in high school, was the freaky alien baddie in Final Fantasy VII. She exists mostly in-game as a) a severed head, b) increasingly gross-looking monsters, c) the puppet master/scary voice in the head of the game’s other main baddie. (What can I tell you, it’s a complex game.)
I’m honestly really impressed...
morning thoughts
Slowing pruning my FB friends list of people who post ignorant, uninformed, defensive, or mocking statements about OWS. I am sick to death of corporate shills/millionaire sympathizers/conservative morons. I refuse to apologize for being intolerant OF THEIR INTOLERANCE. Unless you are somehow a secret billionaire or a Fortune 500 CEO, you have no fucking reason to be mocking them for at least...
“It is not the job of the protesters to draft legislation. That’s the job of the...”
– Lo and behold, after weeks of terrible Occupy Wall Street coverage, The NY Times publishes a strong, clear, and well-reasoned editorial expressing wholehearted support for the movement.
(via judyxberman)
I would like this quote to run for Congress, because it’s got the right idea.
(via...
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“We ate the birds. We ate them. We wanted their songs to flow up through our...”
– Margaret Atwood, Ophelia Has A Lot To Answer For (via imnotafraidofstorms)
Lovely. The other cool thing is that she and her husband (who compiled ‘The Bedside Book of Birds’) are big bird-watchers.
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Here's an interesting fact: There were 600 people...
brittanibotulism:
abaldwin360:
WTO
Occupy Wall St.
JP Morgan has also made a massive, $4.6 million dollar donation to the NYPD today. Such a strange coincidence. http://theelitist.net/nypd-receives-jp-morgan-donation-mass-arrest-of-protesters-at-occupywallstreet
Thanks to reddit user emptyhunter
Woah.
This is horrifying, actually.
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