February 2010
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
– George Eliot (via caraobrien)
Hollon. I actually have a decent amount of respect for Green Day (Dookie was one of the two first CDs my dad bought to accompany our first CD player). BUT. Who decided it was a good idea to turn a Green Day album into a Broadway Musical?
“But how great is YouTube? Endless entertainment. Endless! Every day. What the...”
– Leonardo Dicaprio (via invierno:speakfree:bookthief:lizzymaxia:giveme-a-reason: littlelamb)
Smart boy, that one.
January 2010
WatchLove all the little kid hugging happening in this trailer.
Haiti, the earthquake, and my family : The New... →
My nearly six-foot-tall twenty-two-year-old cousin—the beauty queen we nicknamed Naomi Campbell—who says that she is hungry and has been sleeping in bushes with dead bodies nearby, stops me.
“Don’t cry,” she says. “That’s life.”
“No, it’s not life,” I say. “Or it should not be.”
“It is,” she insists. “That’s what it is. And life, like death, lasts only yon ti moman.” Only a little while.
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Confession: Just caught myself speaking aloud in a...
Watch“I’m sorry John, when you are talking all I can think is: ‘What Torah portion did this guy read at his bris-mitzvah’?” -Wyatt Cenac
“Conservatives believe in tradition and preserving the best of the past, and the...”
– From Conservatives and Mass Transit: All Aboard? by Matt Lewis at Politics Daily
“We got to face some facts. That the masses are poor, that the masses belong to...”
– Fred Hampton, Power Anywhere There’s People speech 1969
“Why should we accept that the “talent” of someone who writes jingles for an...”
– Howard Zinn (via fyeahsocialism, robot-heart-politics, azspot)
“[T]here is nothing mystical in Haiti’s pain, no inescapable curse that haunts...”
– from “To Heal Haiti, Look to History, Not Nature” by Mark Danner at the NYTimes
Favorite New Tumblr: Fuck Yeah Ghost Towns →
“The lesson of that history is that you must not despair, that if you are right,...”
– Howard Zinn (via sometimesagreatnotion)
“During the years that I was on faculty at the University of Chicago, my graduate...”
– From “The Obama I Remember” by Melissa Harris-Lacewell at The Nation
“I always wondered why Howard Zinn was considered a radical. (He called himself a...”
– Bob Herbert’s beautiful op-ed about Howard Zinn’s life at the New York Times
Not okay. Not okay. Not even a little tiny bit... →
I have nothing nice to say about Dov Charney already. But American Apparel has reached a new low with their “best bottom” contest.
“As adoptees of color many of us have inherited a history of dubious adoptions....”
– from the Adoptees of Color Roundtable Statement on Haiti
“Our goal is not just an environment of clean air and water and scenic beauty....”
– Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson’s speech on the first Earth Day up at the new Gaylord Nelson and Earth Day site
“It’s the worst Supreme Court decision since the Dred Scott case.”
– Representative Alan Grayson (D-FL) on the Citizens United v. FEC decision, as quoted by Nick Bauman at the Mother Jones blog
Bunch Of Phonies Mourn J.D. Salinger →
CORNISH, NH—In this big dramatic production that didn’t do anyone any good (and was pretty embarrassing, really, if you think about it), thousands upon thousands of phonies across the country mourned the death of author J.D. Salinger, who was 91 years old for crying out loud. “He had a real impact on the literary world and on millions of readers,” said hot-shot English professor David Clarke,...
If the question is “How many times can one listen to African Alphabet Song as performed by Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Kermit the Frog and still love it as much as the first time?”
The answer is: infinite.
Guy #1: Wow, they indicted five cops in that beating last year in Shenandoah. Guy #2: Yeah, it was a hate crime. Guy #1: The victim was gay? Guy #2: No, dude, he was Mexican. Guy #1: What? Since when is it a crime to be Mexican? Guy #2, after pause: Everyone on this train thinks you are a fucking idiot, and I agree with them. —Uptown 6 Train, Overheard in New York
