August 2012
anthonyisright:
“One of the realities of working with mediated publications such as magazines is that editors have opinions, too. In the case of Nevermind, the five stars I originally assigned the album were docked one by Rolling Stone editor James Henke, who apparently took offence at Kurt and Courtney’s child rearing practices as described in Vanity Fair.”
An amazing anecdote from...
superdiscochino:
saxodrone:
I wish there was some movie like Idiocracy except instead of mocking poor white people with kids it would rip on middle class liberal white kids who worship Banksy and make fun of black people constantly and brag about not shopping at Wal-Mart
“welcome to whole foods. i respect your individual freedoms.”
karnythia:
I need to know why when we talk about bullying in schools, no one points out that children of color are often bullied for their race. Especially if they are not the majority group in that school. A whole lot of fights I got into were after someone had some slick shit to say about my hair, my color, or my body. That’s one of the things that never seems to come up when people start...
Choice Without Equity:
Charter School Segregation... →
The charter school movement has been a major political success, but it has been a civil rights failure. As the country continues moving steadily toward greater segregation and inequality of education for students of color in schools with lower achievement and graduation rates, the rapid growth of charter schools has been expanding a sector that is even more segregated than the public schools....
John Green's tumblr: I Didn't Build That →
kenyatta:
fishingboatproceeds:
So I own or co-own a few businesses that have experienced varying degrees of success. I am in the educational video business, and the book-writing business, and the merchandise distribution business, and the conference running business, and the making YouTube videos with my brother business, among others. These businesses employ people and generate more jobs per...
"LAPD commander removed in probe of rough arrest" →
strugglingtobeheard:
jcoleknowsbest:
knowledgeequalsblackpower:
THIS IS WHITE PRIVILEGE.
When you can get pulled over by the cops and expect to not get thrown to the ground…
and if that actually does happen, when you file your complaint, someone will actually do something about it. And the media will make you headline news.
This is white privilege when a LAPD… LAPD.. LAPD commander is...
The Candio
annkpowers:
Today I stumbled upon a term for a figure I really needed to name for the early part of my book: the African-American/Creole dandy or swell, who disrupts society with dancing and merriment. Scholars like Deborah Janson identify him as the “candio.” The term is connected to African diaspora religious practices, and was misinterpreted by white American observers as the name of a dance....
“I thought reaching into the pockets of U.S. smartphone users and annoying them...”
– Apple Rejects App That Tracks U.S. Drone Strikes.
Here’s an app that should be in every single American’s phone so that there is an awakening in the collective conscience of the country. Too bad Apple rejected it. Why? Because it lacks the basic guts to simply update you on American foreign policy...
“Among other things I wanted to capture the life of a late 20th-century...”
– A Conversation With D.T. Max About His New David Foster Wallace Biography | The Awl (via michelledean)
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microphoneheartbeats replied to your video: I’m still not prepared to present my semi-defense…
Semi-defense of Take Care = more consistently good production than Thank Me Later + Drake gets in its way less. Counterpoint: OTOH, it does not include the glory of ‘Shut It Down’.
I just listened to “Shut It Down” for the first time, and I kind of hate it—I closed tab before The-Dream...
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scumblebee:
nickminichino:
Unearned by the author. What I am saying is that I would have preferred that the book delve more into the issue of the trauma. Again, I’m speaking from my recollection of a book I read once eight years ago, and maybe because of that I just shouldn’t have opened my big mouth in the first place, but doesn’t the book end as soon as he remembers? That’s why I am asking...
scumblebee:
nickminichino:
rgr-pop:
(obligatory footnote about Laurie Halse Anderson and obviously The Hunger Games as a perfect wonderful unmatched PTSD narrative)
My recollection of The Perks of Being a Wallflower, from having read it once eight years ago, was of a pretty good book with a last-minute unearned abuse reveal that ruined the rest of it for me. Did I miss the clues?...
bad-dominicana:
brashblacknonbeliever:
Excalibur Gymnastics - We’re not racist!
deliciouskaek:
searchingforknowledge:
cgdageek:
ro-s-a-spar-ks:
The most interesting part of all of this is that the gym isn’t opening a dialogue about what Gabby is talking about, they are just outraged that she called them racist.
There’s nothing more scary to white people than being called racist.
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rgr-pop:
scumblebee:
so I know it’s like “so uncool” to care about the perks of being a wallflower on tumblr but I’m gonna go out on a limb and say it was really formative to my teen years especially as an awkward drug experimenting sexual assault survivor with a lot of memory repression issues, so all you “lol who cares about catcher in the rye pt II” side eyers can suck a cactus and also I...
Can a Computer Tell Us What Makes Paris Look Like... →
katherinestasaph:
Computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University and the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris have built an algorithm that uses images pulled from Google’s Street View to do much what Pixar’s artists did: Find the small details that appear frequently in Paris and — crucially — do not appear in other cities. In other words: You can’t evoke Paris with just the Eiffel Tower and the...
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notes on war
guerrillamamamedicine:
—my high school ap us american history teacher said near the beginning of the fall semester, it wasnt genocide that happened to the american indians, it was a war and the indians lost.
—it wasnt genocide that happened to africans in the new world, it was a war and the africans lost.
—all’s fair in love and war, right?
—so if all’s fair in war, then we cannot criticize...
