January 2011
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I want juice but I have wet hair and by the time I...
stupid ass winter, a person can’t just take a jaunt across the street in their jammies and slippers like it ain’t no thing.
Have y’all ever had someone move into your house at a time of year when there aren’t many people looking and you just needed someone and they seemed nice enough… to discover that actually, they are pretty nice but it doesn’t make up for how kind of annoying they are. Just a personality difference or something, but even their way of being friendly is vaguely annoying because...
stupid ass immigration policy
A friend of mine has been dating a really great Mexican guy who’s been living in Canada on a work visa for the past 3 years. His deal is so legit its crazy, like, his employer sponsors him and the government did a labour market assessment and approved him as the appropriate choice for the job he does. But I guess he overstayed his visa and when he went back just now to apply again so he...
Tomorrow
Now carries the onus of making up for every health and laziness based setback of the past week.
how am i supposed to transcribe an interview when i can’t take my burned hand out of this bowl of cold water to type? its getting worse… more than 30 seconds now and it starts to hurt again.
any home remedies spring to mind?
i just grabbed a hot skillet with my bare hand
and now my skin is crispy. :(((
Egyptian Activists' Action Plan: Translated - The... →
“We don’t expect anything from Obama, whom we regard as a great hypocrite. But we...”
– Egyptian blogger and activist Hossam el-Hamalawy talks to U.C. Irvine history professor Mark LeVine at Al Jazeera.
(“We Don’t Expect Any Help From America, Just To Leave Us Alone.” | The Awl)
Al Jazeera English is streaming live the events... →
grimmertown:milessmiles:fyeahafrica:
Alternatively, visit them on facebook and click the “Watch Live” tab.
My firefox window has crashed 3 times in less than that many minutes since I started listening to this… wtf??
Otherwise, super interesting. I wish I could listen without problems…
I probably have bronchitis
I need: a snuggle, a soup.
Feeling like a giant sack of dicks.
Must leave house. Must write exam.
:((((((((((((
Ohio Mom Kelley Williams-Bolar Jailed for Sending... →
lukesimcoe:
Sure, but what happens when everyone wants to do that. I’m not suggesting that the response here is not ridiculous, but the real issue isn’t that a woman was put through the ringer because she wanted to send her kids to a better (funded) school, but rather that the school closest to her was underfunded in the first place.
Stories like this fan the flames of the David (individuals)...
my new roommate has been drinking my coffee every...
and someone, i’m not sure who, finished off the very last of it this morning before i woke up.
this is unacceptable roommate behaviour. doesn’t everyone know that? NEVER finish the very last portion of something you’ve been sponging off your roommate, especially coffee. that’s just a kick in the balls.
Ohio Mom Kelley Williams-Bolar Jailed for Sending... →
barthel:
Williams-Bolar decided four years ago to send her daughters to a highly ranked school in neighboring Copley-Fairlawn School District.
But it wasn’t her Akron district of residence, so her children were ineligible to attend school there, even though her father lived within the district’s boundaries.
The school district accused Williams-Bolar of lying about her address, falsifying...
Insomnia
wtf 4 am.
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Drugs DO make you cool. →
lexolex:
File this under: things sociologists get grant money to prove, that any kid could have just told them for free.
today in successfully being an adult
I paid my tuition
I paid my taxes owing in full
I emailed the professor I work for after a week of ignoring his last message
I filled out the “confirmation of income” form that Quebec requires me to fill out every semester.
I cancelled my Y membership from the neighbourhood branch I moved away from last June. (After having wasted $20 every month paying for a gym I wasn’t...
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k-punk: Old Haunts →
towerofsleep:
“There is nothing inside us,” Parkin mordantly declared. “There are no ghosts in these machines. Man is matter, and matter rots.” Yet Parkin’s own statement establishes that there are ghosts in the machine, that a certain kind of spectrality is intrinsic to the speaking subject. After all, who is it who can talk of having no inside, of man being rotting matter? Not any substantial...
on etiquette
Seriously guys, if you’re going to post a picture of a cat with no skin on it’s face (that is somehow, apparently, alive and in no pain but requires someone to put eyedrops in it’s unlidded eyes because it can’t blink) or like, rotting bodies or something, you could maybe just NOT post that picture and maybe post something blurred out instead and a description of the story...
“[F]rom a materialist perspective, we can argue that objective conceptions of...”
– Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity (via 20yardsoflinen)
I’m down with this.
Free to Do What? - Notes on curating contemporary... →
towerofsleep:
This is a case study of “Free” at the New Museum that I wrote for a Museums & Galleries course in the fall. The show is up until the 23rd and since the paper isn’t likely to be published or presented anywhere in this form (though I’m submitting a condensed and altered version to a conference in a couple months), I thought I’d just throw it up here for any interested parties....
“There is a tendency to invoke pain as an argument against existence; this way of...”
– Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche & Philosophy p. 130
The French Reaction to the Release of Anti-Oedipus →
agrubstreethack:
This article presents an interesting overview of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. The following is an abstract from the article recording some of the reaction Anti-Oedipus received following publication. Particularly interesting is the second paragraph, where Lacan and Badiou both disavow Deleuze and Guattari’s project and Foucault suggests why they got such a mixed...
apparently hotmail's spam filters are racist
I’ve been getting a lot of emails through the moodle for my philosophy class. They are all from my fellow students posting response paragraphs to the week’s readings. But I’ve noticed that hotmail’s spam filters seems to be suspicious of some but not others, even though every email is essentially the same in every detail except for the name of the student. They all have...
towerofsleep:
“Yes, online petitions and “like” buttons do not work to bring about social change. Everyone has figured that out and I really do not see anyone substantive on the cyber-utopian side arguing that they are that important. I believe this has become is a convenient strawman allowing the literati (like, say, Malcolm Gladwell) to proclaim, “I’m too sophisticated for lolcats.” But I...
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Other Emotions Invented by the Internet(?)
cureforbedbugs:
A persistent, mild, wry amusement, somewhere between smug self-satisfaction and a contact high. My wife sez: “I know you saw something funny on the internet when you get that stupid smile on your face. I hate it.”
Reblog ego boost leading to momentary delusions of grandeur. “Fifteen ‘likes’ and three reblogs without critical commentary. I AM SHAPING PUBLIC DISCOURSE!”
Mindless...
Five Emotions Invented by the Internet →
cureforbedbugs:
The state of being ‘installed’ at a computer or laptop for an extended period of time without purpose, characterized by a blurry, formless anxiety undercut with something hard like desperation. During this time the individual will have several windows open, generally several browser ‘tabs,’ a Microsoft Word document in some state of incompletion, the individual’s own Facebook page...
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swiss whistleblower rudolf elmer plans to hand... →
commonunity:
“The offshore bank account details of 2,000 “high net worth individuals” and corporations – detailing massive potential tax evasion – will be handed over to the WikiLeaks organisation in London tomorrow by the most important and boldest whistleblower in Swiss banking history, Rudolf Elmer, two days before he goes on trial in his native Switzerland. British and American...
Commercialized Transgression, Cultural Studies,...
ourcatastrophe:
loneberry:
… I get the sense that most people who celebrate Lady Gaga for her performance artist schtick aren’t critical of capitalism. Counter-critics assert that Lady Gaga is not glorifying commodity culture but parodying it by offering herself as a “figurative mirroring or projection of consumer culture.” The problem with such an argument is that ironic derision, risk,...
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I can't even handle the amount of horrible news I...
Their political climate makes me want to curl up in a ball and die.
Also, let's not forget Sri Lanka
ourcatastrophe:
starsgowaltzing:
littleorphanammo:
Australia, Brazil, and now Sri Lanka is in dire, dire straits
325,000 people are displaced with the death toll at 27 and rising. Many have no access to clean water or food, with a fifth of the countries crops under water. The following agencies are currently providing direct aid to Sri Lanka, please consider donating.
Oxfam Emergency...