like a pair of bottle rockets

silentdraperunners: TOMORROW! feat. James Yeh of @giganticmag....

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:14:10 -0400

silentdraperunners:

TOMORROW! feat. James Yeh of @giganticmag. RSVP!!

Tonight! 10 pm! Free!!

mfortki: Die Antwoord’s new video is a little bit about America...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:39:11 -0400

mfortki:

Die Antwoord’s new video is a little bit about America and possibly, sodomy.
Also, terrible timing.

uhhhhhhhhh, wow.

femfreq: Human Angle: Queer Games: The Secret Avant Garde of...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:21:48 -0400

femfreq:

Human Angle: Queer Games: The Secret Avant Garde of Videogames
Don’t miss this excellent video highlighting queer-focused games featuring Mattie Brice and Anna Anthropy!

This is awesome! Shout out my friend Leigh who’s in this!

roxa: Anamanaguchi played Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:13:43 -0400

roxa:

Anamanaguchi played Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night and it’s awesome. I recently saw them two days in a row here in SF and their concerts were phenomenal. Such amazing dudes.

Legitimately heartwarming.

Audio

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:02:57 -0400

annefrankzappa: This is literally the best post I’ve ever made,...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:02:10 -0400

annefrankzappa:

This is literally the best post I’ve ever made, so I’m bringing it back.

serious lols

"I didn’t expect the Mad Men episode to generate as much interest—after all, the scene, despite more..."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:06:12 -0400

“I didn’t expect the Mad Men episode to generate as much interest—after all, the scene, despite more clearly depicting a lack of consent, is far less explicit than the one in Girls. But I did anticipate general acknowledgement from writers and critics that Dick had been, if not raped, at least violated or mistreated by Aimee. That didn’t happen. To my surprise and dismay, I found that the vast majority of responses (including The Atlantic’s) glossed over the encounter, benignly describing Dick as “losing his virginity” or having his virginity “taken” by Aimee. Even more disturbing were those that portrayed the exchange as something positive, even empowering. According to one participant in a roundtable discussion at The Wall Street Journal, Aimee “guides [Dick] through his first sexual experience.” A recap at The Daily Mail, despite recounting Dick’s protestations, underplays the interaction as a mere “tryst.””

- Don Draper Was Raped - Abigail Rine - The Atlantic (via clambistro)

ACLU <3 Rapgenius

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:05:14 -0400

onemanbandstand:

adamserwer:

This is so great:

More here.

i’m gonna be real with you guys: i did not see this coming.

"April 27. Incapable of living with people, of speaking. Complete immersion in myself, thinking of..."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:03:54 -0400

“April 27. Incapable of living with people, of speaking. Complete immersion in myself, thinking of myself. Apathetic, witless, fearful. I have nothing to say to anyone - never.”

- Franz Kafka, Diaries of Franz Kafka (via delicateswans)

ugh kafka what a narcissist god go take a selfie

"Rap music is so diverse in its themes, its style, its content but when it becomes a vehicle to be..."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:59:23 -0400

“Rap music is so diverse in its themes, its style, its content but when it becomes a vehicle to be talked about in mainstream news, the rap that gets in national news is always the rap music that perpetuates misogyny that is most obscene in its lyrics and then this comes to stand for what rap is. Really its for me the perfect paradigm of colonialism, that is to say, we think of rap music as a little third-world country, that young white consumers are able to go to and take out of it whatever they want. We would have to acknowledge that what young white consumers, primarily male, oftentimes suburban, most got energized by in rap music was misogyny, obscenity, pugilistic eroticism and therefore that form of rap began to make the largest sums of money.”

- bell hooks, cultural criticism — rap: authentic expression or market construct? (via descroissants)

bell hooks kilin it as per ushe

(via fake-it-real)

"Her narratives are chronological and often feel like an assemblage of notes and dialogue with no arc..."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:20:54 -0400

“Her narratives are chronological and often feel like an assemblage of notes and dialogue with no arc or character development. The men in her vignettes are particularly thin — some by necessity, because they’re strangers and what she knows about them is already limited — but mostly because the narrator is only concerned with her own feelings and reactions. The men exist only as mirrors upon which she can view herself; they are not whole, three-dimensional people but aggregations of reactions to Marie Calloway.”

- From Elizabeth Spiers piece on Marie Calloway over at Flavorwire. The thing that sticks out to me here is how the criticism of Calloway’s male characters is identical to that which is frequently used to describe women (especially women that male protagonists sleep with) in books written by men. It seems an obvious point, but I can’t help but wonder how different the reaction to and criticism of Calloway’s work would be if she was a man. Also absent from this piece is the idea that perhaps she had larger intentions that are manifesting themselves in the persona of “Marie Calloway,” which I’m not sure I believe, but her work does seem more than a little performative, and she is too insightful about gender and too aware of people’s perceptions of her to not be doing some of this on purpose (but I guess still none of those things address “is it good?”). I feel like a male equivalent for Marie is David Shapiro of Pitchfork Reviews Reviews, who now writes for the Wall Street Journal and at least for awhile was going to have a movie made based on his life. I can’t remember people criticizing him to nearly the extent that is happening here. Watching Marie’s Tumblr and Facebook, a theme that she has pointed out herself in the criticism surrounding her book is people actively wishing she and her writing not exist. That’s a pretty intense level of discomfort with an author and their work. I feel like if people’s only objection was that it was “bad,” they probably wouldn’t get so worked up about it existing in the first place.

"Jesse and Celine’s original dilemma wouldn’t exist today, and the gently ironic,..."

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:59:00 -0400

“Jesse and Celine’s original dilemma wouldn’t exist today, and the gently ironic, numerous references to digital relationships make this very apparent. But it’s also clear that genuine contact between people is difficult, or absent. As he watches his daughters play in the sea, Jesse receives a text from his father that his grandmother has died. The news is instantaneous, but the ability to be physically present in that crucial moment is impossible. And doesn’t knowing something the minute it happens, yet being completely helpless in the face of it, seem like even more of an injustice?”

- Nice piece on This Recording about Before Midnight.

oldtobegin: anarcho-queer: ACLU Study: Marijuana Arrests Far...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:43:53 -0400

oldtobegin:

anarcho-queer:

ACLU Study: Marijuana Arrests Far More Likely For Blacks Than Whites

Black people are arrested for possessing marijuana at a higher rate than white people, even though marijuana use by both races is about the same, the American Civil Liberties Union reports in a new study.

The analysis of federal crime data, released Tuesday, found marijuana arrest rates for blacks were 3.73 times greater than those for whites nationally in 2010. In some counties, the arrest rate was 10 to 30 times greater for blacks.

An overall increase in marijuana possession arrests from 2001 to 2010 is largely attributable to drastic increases in arrests of black people, the ACLU said.

Ezekiel Edwards, lead author of the study, attributed the disparate arrest rates to racial profiling by police seeking to pad their arrest numbers with “low-level” arrests in “certain communities that they have kind of labeled as problematic.”

Blacks were arrested at a rate of 537 per 100,000 people in 2001. In 2010, their arrest rate rose to 716 per 100,000. The 2001 number for white people was 191 per 100,000 and rose to 192 per 100,000 in 2010, the ACLU said.

Despite the disparate rates, far more whites were arrested in 2010 for marijuana possession, 460,808, compared to blacks, 286,117.

The unequal arrests rates are not confined to a single U.S. region or to urban areas with larger black populations, the ACLU said. That discrepancy is found throughout the country, regardless of the size of the black population of the location and at all income levels, the data shows.

African Americans living in counties with the highest median household incomes, $85,000 to $115,000, are two to eight times more likely to be arrested for marijuana possession than whites. In counties with median household incomes of $22,000 to $30,000, the arrest rate for blacks is 1.5 times to five the rate as for whites, the report said.

in other news, water is wet.

"Given that black sexuality was also something that was first regulated by slavery and then by..."

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:38:31 -0400

“Given that black sexuality was also something that was first regulated by slavery and then by systemically racist post-slavery laws in combination with a deluge of stereotypes in mass media that persist until now, an album which puts fucking white women on the same level as calling out the prison industrial complex makes sense, and isn’t wholly unique to Kanye.”

- insightful stuff about Yeezus over here

actuallygrimes: (F) (U) (C) (K) (Bi) (Tc) (He) (S) (Ge) ...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:17:29 -0400

actuallygrimes:

(F) (U) (C) (K) (Bi) (Tc) (He) (S) (Ge) (Tm) (O) (Ne) (Y)

hahahahahahaha this is the best thing i have ever seen in my entire life. hehehe

(took this from jezebel btw —)

yessssssss

Photo

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:09:31 -0400

Photo

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:38:54 -0400

silentdraperunners: TOMORROW! feat. James Yeh of @giganticmag....

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:34:26 -0400

silentdraperunners:

TOMORROW! feat. James Yeh of @giganticmag. RSVP!!

thejogging: Ke$sha In The Rye, 2013 √ okay

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:24:31 -0400

thejogging:

Ke$sha In The Rye, 2013

√

okay

My dad as the MC in a 1980’s community theater production...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 18:39:14 -0400

My dad as the MC in a 1980’s community theater production of Cabaret. My mom is the Kit Kat girl on the left.