May 2012
6 posts
Lost In The World
Love these photos.
puppetmouthe:
: It pains me to write this post but it’s a matter... →
fatwasandfanboys:
fatwasandfanboys:
It pains me to write this post but it’s a matter of life and death for a follower of mine. She is 17-years-old and living in an abusive situation. She has parents that won’t accept her Islamic apostasy, who hit her, who know she cuts herself but don’t care enough to get her help. She can’t leave…
Updates: I am waiting for Tah to get online. She does not...
Paper Darts: ART LIT - Blog - Grasping the Game →
Oh, the follies of attempting to discus complicated issues in a 600-800 book review. Things I failed to express to be able to fit/express:
Priviledge, Cultural Tourism, and “expanding one’s horizons”
The role Urban Fiction can play/plays in modern literature
Chuck D’s maxim that “Rap is the CNN of the Ghetto” (so frequently misquoted, I have no idea what the...
what does fatwas and fanboys mean →
Anonymous asked: what does fatwas and fanboys mean
A fatwa is an Islamic ruling made by either a self-appointed sheik-officer bro or a legitimate religious authority. A fanboy is a male-identified person who is a fan of something or someone. Fatwas and fanboys thus signifies male condemnation and male validation. For better or worse, fatwas and fanboys come with the territory of being a...
April 2012
4 posts
safy's blog: In Which I Squee About This Recording →
fatwasandfanboys:
This Recording is a site founded by former Gawker writer, Alex Carnevale. This Recording describes itself as being “dedicated to the enjoyment of audio, and visual stimuli.” Carnevale appointed his friend and fellow Brown alum Molly Lambert as the Managing Editor. In 2011, Lambert resigned after…
You know what’s really fun, meeting someone, getting to know them a...
“Having an identical ancestor of the main character’s 20th century husband—the...”
– Paper Darts: ART LIT - Blog - Josh and The Outlander break up
Part of my article at Paper Darts.
I kind of wanted to go over this again because this keeps coming up in my mind as being a more and more vile, and I initially left this continued exposition out of the PD piece.
I said in the...
March 2012
11 posts
Jonathan Frazen walks into a bar. Everyone leaves.
I would like to add to this.
Jonathan Franzen doesn’t go to bars, because serious drinkers drink at home alone in front of their books. Though he may sigh ironically and get dragged into one by a fan, who is also a serious drinker.
But yes, then at that point, everyone leaves.
“At the end of the speech, Scalia took questions from the audience. One person...”
– ThinkProgress
Today’s edition of “Fuck You, Guy,” starring Anton Scalia.
It was 5-4, dumbass. Not 7-2.
And I am over it.
And I have no idea how the question from the audience was framed, but it’s a valid thing to talk about since It’s a Fucking Landmark Supreme...
“Chabon takes inspiration from 19th-century masters such as Charles Dickens,...”
– Michael Chabon Attacks Prejudice Against Science Fiction | Underwire | Wired.com
Michael Chabon: The anti-Franzen?
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“But instead of sci-fi, the Japanese researchers behind the SpeechJammer looked...”
– New Video Shows Japanese Speech-Jamming Gun in Action | Underwire | Wired.com
Wow.
This means Jamie Drew has knowledge that can cause us all to stop talking.
February 2012
10 posts
I'd say we need this word in English too, but I'd...
A person who believes it is their destiny to stamp out all spelling and punctuation mistakes at the cost of popularity, self-esteem and mental well-being.
They’re out there. They’re reading this right now. Judging, smirking, analyzing. They care nothing about the actual meaning or fun of writing, but care everything about whether you used that semi-colon correctly. While we —...
Zizek on detective fiction.
The role of the detective is…to dissolve the impasse of…universalized, free-floating guilt by localizing it in a single subject and thus exculpating all others. (Looking Awry, 1991).
Looking Awry is possibly the first subconscious how-to manual for creative endeavors that involve any sort of human emotion with extreme power: terror, loss, lust, guilt, rage.
You read it. You get it. Then you...
My close friend's sister is trying to photograph... →
Sad thing is I know she’s a really good photographer and I guess this new work of hers just seems really unfocused and out there.
Sorry that was horrible. Yet, I couldn’t resist.
Very cool to see her quoted in the article about her research. Here’s to hoping we get to read more and more about her research in the coming years.
If there is to be any more tumblr hacking, let me...
I’ve changed the password and that should fix it, we’ll see. Let me know if you see more of it.
R.A. Casilao: This Is Pretty Cool. Huge Savings. →
manuscriptsandbourbon:
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I begin reading and writing along with Courtney... →
Cool. My own banner.
I would like to add one thing that sort of didn’t have room in the article. I love the work of Michael Chabon and David Foster Wallace. Just remember that. I do feel lucky to be doing this. Will be an interesting year.
There’s two more books on the list I’ve read before, but I’m not telling.
"Preemptive Policing" →
barretta:
This Village Voice report, on a policy whereby the NYPD is given a quota for random stops and searches of passersby, is disturbing on so many different levels. The article rightly describes the term “preemptive policing” as Orwellian; that this policy is clearly a wanton (and racially weighted) infringement of civil liberties is so obvious from the preponderance of evidence as to go...
January 2012
26 posts
Admit it, you want to read this, right?
jessnevins:
Our Lady, a Parable for Moderns (1938). Mary, the mother of Jesus, travels to the modern world with the help of a demon and a sorceress. Priests find her and imprison her in a convent so that the real facts of her life and her first born son will never become known. Satire to that point, but then the the priests exorcise her, and the whole thing becomes Catholic horror.
The author?
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“That family over there is Other, they do not comport themselves as we do”
– That WASP person everyone has already been making fun of.
I wish I could cross stitch because this is beyond hilarious and I would hang it on a frame above my computer. If anything, as a reminder of what we are up against.
(via redlightpolitics)
I couldn’t believe this was real. I...
Shit Republican Candidates Say...About Black... →
The last few years have been disgusting watching Republicans speak about Obama and frankly, in general, just about every racial minority. Santorum and Gingrich’s recent comments being over the top unbelievable things that people running for office should not be allowed to say and stay in the race. Lying about infidelity? Frankly couldn’t give two shits about it. However, if you have...
J.R. Blackwell: Job Creators →
I have long held that the internet is the true free market experiment. That it makes certain logistical advantages of physical commerce held by larger corporations irrelevant, and that stifling these is the greatest regulatory threat to free market capitalism.
Now…if you’re a capitalist, if you’re a laissze-faire capitalist, you should recognize this and be against the law....
Red Light Politics: Not celebrating any award for... →
redlightpolitics:
I cannot even watch that freaking movie without entering a mild state of panic. That movie, the idea of celebrating that movie, takes me back to my childhood and war time exercises during the Malvinas war (I know most people reading this call the islands “Falklands”). The whole “theme” of the movie takes me back to a very dark time, growing up in a dictatorship, seeing my...
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Everything's Ending Here...Literature in the 21st...
The Guardian books section is no stranger to proclamations on the death of literature. Last year Edward Docx made an ass of himself saying that because people weren’t reading literary fiction, language was dying (though I’m sure he doesn’t feel that way). The photo above comes from a post about 2011 Christmas as “The day of the Kindle” The other week they had a...
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This photo was taken in May. My guitar is still...
