February 2012
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OMG! Someone from a major blog network just reached out to me about joining up with them! And she said the magic words: “opportunity to share revenue.”
OMG! OMG!
13 Year Old Jada Williams Persecuted by the...
ladyatheist:
baddominicana:
thatmuchlove:
13 Year Old Jada Williams Persecuted by the Rochester City School District Over her essay on Frederick Douglass.
ai-yo:
jumpstart-therevolution:
theafrosistuh:
beautifulbrwn:
“On Saturday, February 18, 2012, the Frederick Douglass Foundation of New York presented the first Spirit of Freedom award to Jada Williams, a 13-year old city of...
Here’s an example of my workplace’s fucked-up culture.
I have tickets to see Radiohead tonight. I’ve had those tickets for months.
At 1 a.m. tomorrow morning, we will be launching the new project for which I was one of two leads. You know, the one that has been the bane of my existence for the past two months. The launch has been pushed back twice at this point, right? And...
“Physicians who don’t perform the required ultrasound could be convicted of a...”
– the really interesting part of the Alabama ultrasound law. (via ladonnapietra)
Grandparents.
Um.
(via 14kgoldnyc)
Are you FUCKING shitting me with this shit? I can’t even. I just fucking can’t.
(via thatonegirlsierra)
Oh please. I’d just love to see the kind of abusive fucknut who...
Why Zines?
sassyfrasscircus:
Hey Zinesters! Send pictures of your zine collection to sassyfrasscircus@gmail.com for inclusion in our pop-up zine library slideshow. Feel free to include responses to the question “why zines?” :D
Sponsor of Alabama ultrasound law has financial... →
gretchensaidso:
ladonnapietra:
Now isn’t that interesting.
You mean the lawmaker was motivated by something other than the desire to save widdle baby lives? Why, I never.
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I ran a mile in 6:39 this morning.
Nothing else can bring me down today. NOTHING.
What’s this? We are seriously arguing whether blackface is okay?
It’s official. I’ve fallen asleep and woken up in 1942. Because for fuck’s sake.
My former boss just tried to throw me under the bus on a huge conference call for daring to delegate work. Like, omg, how horrible of me, using time-tested management skills. I am so lazy.
Fortunately the big dude on the project loves me and my colleague and he finished the call by giving us huge props.
SUCK IT, FORMER BOSS.
“Franzen, though, has another point to make. “Edith Newbold Jones did have one...”
– From novelist Victoria Patterson’s (This Vacant Paradise) piece in the LA Review of Books that focuses on Jonathan Franzen’s recent New Yorker essay on Edith Wharton. (via libraryjournal)
I think Franzen has gotten to the point where people will ask him to write something, he’ll churn out a bunch...
I’m currently in the middle of revising my third issue of “All I Want is Everything.” I was nervous about the content but as I go back through it I realize I’m just fine with my choice of topics. I need to get over this idea that the only kind of writing people will find compelling must somehow involve sex or drugs or some combination of the two. It’s like...
nirak replied to your post: I’m really trying not to be a judge-y ass, but the…
I dunno what it says about me that it doesn’t bother me in the slightest. I know people like this IRL, and they’re fun to talk to at parties, at least.
It says that you are an exceptionally tolerant person and that I ought to take lessons from you. Because seriously, my face was like this: o_O
unknowablewoman replied to your post: I’m really trying not to be a judge-y ass, but the…
if you can’t judge otherkin, then life isn’t worth living
I’ve never seen anything quite like it. I mean, good for them if they truly feel they are Therlian or whatever, but our refusal to acknowledge that such things as Therlians (!?!) exist doesn’t exactly constitute oppression. Not...
I’m really trying not to be a judge-y ass, but the otherkin tag…omg.
dykings replied to your post: Ugh, I just got myself all worked up. I swear,…
oh yes, I have ALL THE FEELINGS about being a former Catholic. just wrote a loooong post the other day: (dykings.tumblr.com/post…)
Whoa, I got goosebumps from reading that. Thanks for sharing it. I understand so much of what you wrote there, it’s crazy.
orgrandomness replied to your post: My last post just led me to take a short trip down…
Oh man, Sars and Wing Chun. Good times, good times. Also, the internet is a small place, and I seem to share a lot of reading hangouts with you.
Ha, I wonder if we’ve bumped into each other at other places. Has your name always been orgrandomness?
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iena replied to your post: My last post...
My last post just led me to take a short trip down memory lane to visit my old online stompin’ grounds, back in the late 90s and early 2000s, when everyone had online journals and we all spent hours posting to discussion boards. OMG so old!
Anyway, it’s so weird to see that Pamela Ribon of Pamie/Squishy has written books and that stee of Plaintive Wail writes for Weeds now and that...
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This is easily the most fun I’ve had at work in months. I feel like Bart fucking Simpson.
“We’ll live like kings! Damn hell ass kings!”
Ugh, I just got myself all worked up.
I swear, sometimes I think I’m okay with my history as a former Mormon and that I have come to terms with the good things about it (which there were some very good things), and sometimes I even get defensive of Mormons because, hey, my family, but then other times I get so frustrated and rageful that I can’t even deal.
Edited to add: are other...
Navel gazing: wtf posthumous baptisms edition
someauthorgirl:
There is definitely a part of me that feels somewhat meh on the (weird, disrespectful, and downright bizarre) Mormon practice of posthumously baptizing people. Being that I do not believe in the ritual for starters. Like, okay, you did that. It is my feeling that in the grand scheme of the universe/Universe, it is pointless. But hey, I’m not here to judge how someone lives...
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bricksandmortarandchewinggum:
Is her partner of 31 years also a Santorum supporter?
I am officially fascinated. Someone call TLC and get her a reality show.
I know. I want to know how they can support someone who thinks they are no different than dudes who fuck horses for kicks.
Watchsomeauthorgirl:
stfuhatemongers:
mohandasgandhi:
kohenari:
In response to the Mormon practice of baptising dead Jews — including those who died in the Holocaust — Stephen Colbert circumcised all the dead Mormons by proxy on his show last night.
“Mormon tov!”
May Yaweh bless you, Stephen Colbert.
Most of them were already circumcised. Love, a slut in Utah
I love you, Stephen. You...
I am literally about two seconds away from taking everything related to hardbody.com off my facebook/RSS reader. I’m really into strength-training and nutrition but I hate how much fucking body-policing they do. Seriously, how many more times do they have to do informal polls as to whether or not a famous woman is a “hardbody”? ENOUGH.
Like a Hole in My Head
thewhywhygirl:
phdork:
I’ve been thinking about getting my nose pierced. Just for a leeeetle tiny silver stud.
But I’m a would-be-professional academic white broad in my 30s, and it might just look
stupid
presumptuous
I should have done this 15 years ago, when I had a good excuse (youth, stupidity).
Whatta y’all think?
I think if there is a place you can get away with it, it is...
The more I see articles like this, the more I realize I need to get my fucking memoir finished already.
thelalatheory:
What does it mean that listening to the Beatles makes me as happy as this does? By which I mean very happy. The outraged comments are good for a laugh too.
Reminds me of the time I was in one of my journalism classes and the professor mentioned Bob Dylan. Half of the youngsters were like, who? Meanwhile, everyone over the age of 28 was like *headdesk*
A little girl lies about eating candy bars, so her stepmother and grandmother make her run for three hours, until she has a seizure and dies?
What in the actual fuck.
