January 2011
WatchNews Report for Sky News from 4 days ago.
NY TIMES: "The numbers in (Tahrir Square) appeared... →
Technically I am supposed to go to class today,...
Lora, wanna come over?
“The only way opposition to the U.S.-backed regime of Mubarak could be expressed...”
– Chris Hedges (via azspot)
Kept trying to figure out how to say this. Luckily, Chris Hedges already knew.
“Just because we don’t understand doesn’t mean that the explanation...”
– from A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
“Now, what about marketing to children? Ample science, along with statements by...”
– Why the Happy Meal is a Crime—and Not Just a Culinary One (via azspot)
WatchAziz Ansari talking about sheets.
You’ve seen this but should watch it again. Or if you haven’t, you need to.
I got new sheets for xmas. It’s like sleeping in lotion.
“Now imagine the exacting moment in which music breaks open and floods your...”
– from “The Triumph of James Blake” by Isa at Buggin’ Out
WatchMulti award winning Australian short film, Two Men, directed by Dominic Allen and shot in the Kimberly town of Fitzroy Crossing by Joel Betts, features a robust and dynamic cast of indigenous Australian non actors. Based on Kafka’s short story, Two Men Running, Allen’s short film has been screened in a swathe of international film festivals including New York, Prague, London, Melbourne...
“I can remember speaking to a 12-year-old boy, a football player, and I asked...”
– Shakesville: “My liberation as a man is tied to your liberation as a woman.” (via sarahgraham7)
“I can remember speaking to a 12-year-old boy, a football player, and I asked...”
– Shakesville: “My liberation as a man is tied to your liberation as a woman.” (via sarahgraham7)
WatchIn case you somehow missed this brilliant collaboration between Meerkat Media and The Puppet Kitchen.
WatchIn case you somehow missed this brilliant collaboration between Meerkat Media and The Puppet Kitchen.
“This, my lovely readers, is one of the major essences of Being A Privileged Ass....”
– from “Being Privileged (and not being an ass about it)” at Consider the Tea Cosy
“This, my lovely readers, is one of the major essences of Being A Privileged Ass....”
– from “Being Privileged (and not being an ass about it)” at Consider the Tea Cosy
If You Need Something (else) to Be Furious About →
I’m not embedding this video because I find its violence to be really really upsetting. But you can click and watch it.
It’s the raw footage of police in Marin county tasering a 64 year old man with a heart condition because he refuses to go the hospital (because, he says, he doesn’t have insurance). No, really. That’s really what happened.
There are no words. Get it...