January 2011
214 posts
Jan 30th
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Jan 30th
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Jan 30th
Sign the Petition Calling on President Obama to... →
Jan 28th
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i am not religious and I don't really know the...
radicallyhottoff: (i.e. does it mean fundamentalists are getting ready to take over dictators ala Iran? I just don’t know about Egypt to know)—but for some reason, it just made me teary eyed and my throat choked up. I’ve seen hundreds of protests—many MANY of them violent—and I have never in my life seen such a thing. It reminded me of Civil Rights protestor’s voices rising up in spirituals as...
Jan 28th
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Vivir Latino: Tear Gas, Rocks, Rubber Bullets.... →
As we have been writing about, in Puerto Rico protests continue against rising fees in the university system but there are also protests against the violence being used against students and journalist attempting to do their jobs and cover the struggle. Yesterday about 30 students were arrested during acts of civil disobedience carried out by the colonial Capitol Building. Originally ...
Jan 28th
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listening/watching the Al Jazeera live cast
radicallyhottoff: and the sounds are incredible—thousands and thousands of voices chanting and yelling in unison, loud booming (like fire crackers, small guns etc), car horns….
Jan 28th
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X Japan signs a contract with EMI Music North... →
Rock band X Japan has signed a 3-year exclusive agreement with EMI Music for production and distribution of their music in North America. Their first release through EMI is the single “Jade,” scheduled for March 15. This will be the band’s first single in North America, and their first CD single anywhere since “THE LAST SONG” in 1998.
Jan 28th
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Detroit Has Grocery Stores →
James Griffioen’s “Yes There Are Grocery Stores in Detroit” is a look at the oft-repeated “truth” that “Detroit has no grocery stores.” Griffioen points out that while there aren’t any national chains in the USA’s 11th-largest city, there is a large regional chain, several good independent stores, and at least one fantastic local,...
Jan 27th
Zine go print print!
Cutting and pasting and arranging will soon commence. I feel sort of like I imagine Dr. Frankenstein did…
Jan 26th
My Tumblr is not tumbling :(
I have to keep refreshing the page. Anyone else having problems?
Jan 24th
“If people are going to hate me, I want them to hate me for the right reasons.”
–  Marilyn Manson
Jan 24th
WatchWatch
jaded16india: And This Is How Third-Phust World Peeps Save Real Third World Peeps Lyke Me All The Tyme*. Phust of all, write a book poem memoir list poster about the Third World, make it different from Your World. If possible talk about cows goats sheep emus camels pigs hens and bullocks. Because the First World is animal-free, obviously.  Then, mention all the extreme cases you can find of...
Jan 24th
Jan 24th
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Jan 24th
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STFU Fatphobes: Fatty McFat FAT! →
stfufatphobes: I’ve been thinking a lot lately about fat characters on television, both our lack of representation and the way we are represented when we do appear. If you didn’t read it, Tasha Fierce’s Size Matters column at Bitch featured a lot of great discussions of fat characters, with particular examinations of the intersections between size and race, the ways that framing shifts...
Jan 24th
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Jan 23rd
“I wasn’t an atheist, but heaven just seemed so far away.”
– From Jesus Boy by Preston L. Allen
Jan 23rd
microaggressions: I’m new to the Australia. Woman who’s training me for new job out of nowhere starts telling me about where I can get ribs and greens - you know, the foods my people like. I’m black, she’s white. I’m vegeterian. I tell my white boyfriend and he says, “She was just trying to be helpful!” ……
Jan 23rd
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hollow →
hollow just like a doll i’m empty inside waiting for someone to move me and name me give me a… […]
Jan 23rd
Jan 23rd
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Jan 22nd
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“How’s an intelligent person supposed to react when he discovers that he’s merely...”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via fuckyeahpalahniuk) (via mangoislandfugitive) (via detroitbred) Holy fuck Tumblr, this is the question that haunts my mortality. Word. (via progressive-insanities) I’ve driven myself to tears over this question (via kumasiroseincolorado) (via etrehumain) Did somebody just...
Jan 22nd
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brookoli replied to your post: We will now return to our regularly scheduled programming. Oh no we won’t. We won’t?
Jan 22nd
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We will now return to our regularly scheduled...
Green tea! 5 new library books to read! CHOCOLATE! Bleach fanfic! And AWAAAAAAAY we go!!!!
Jan 22nd
part of supporting someone is actually listening...
threeoh4: that means, if you don’t understand, you shut the fuck up and listen to them until you do or until they stop talking and you can ask for clarification. part of listening isn’t interrupting them to say things like “i don’t understand why this is such a big deal to you,” or “you’re not the only one who’s had shitty things happen to them,” or “we’ve all got our own cross to bear,” or...
Jan 22nd
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I'm tired of polishing my nails.
Maybe I should just color them in with permanent marker…
Jan 21st
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Jan 21st
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Jan 21st
brookoli replied to your post: Weird dreams again! That is so freakin deep. For real. Just don’t let him talk you into starring in any of his videos, k. Um… Dunno if I can promise that. This is MARILYN MANSON we’re talking about….
Jan 21st
And lost a follower.
brookoli: poisonpassion80: Why do you not like me, people? Are we supposed to pay attention to these things? I unfollow people for the ficklenest reasons. You really would not want to know why. Really. But I have so few to begin with!
Jan 21st
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Weird dreams again!
I dreamed that I was dating Marilyn Manson, and he made me remove my elaborate make up because “it has no shock value anymore. Society has become immune to casual shock. Let’s just be normal; that’ll shock ‘em.” HUH?
Jan 21st
And lost a follower.
Why do you not like me, people?
Jan 21st
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Plastic Tree returns with new album →
The management agency for visual-kei band Plastic Tree delivered some good news on Thursday: vocalist Ryutaro Arimura has completely recovered from Guillain-Barré syndrome and will be resuming activities, including the band’s nationwide tour that starts this March.
Jan 21st
Hello new followers!
Please try not to run away screaming, kay? :) *smooches*
Jan 20th
FUCK
Today’s lesson brought to you by the letter F and the number 4.
Jan 20th
Having one of those moods
where “fuck” is used like a punctuation mark.
Jan 20th
Jan 20th
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Jan 20th
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Jan 20th
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Jan 20th
I feel a manicure coming on.
Black nail polish, anyone?
Jan 20th
Jan 20th
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Jan 20th
atapestryofdisasters-deactivate asked: saw this, thought you'd like (fair warning, there is music on the page when you open it. i had my volume up on 100 and got the scare of my life): http://heavysweetskin.tumblr.com/post/2833179095
Jan 20th
Jan 20th
I should really stop oogling the pretty people...
but they’re so PRETTY!!
Jan 20th
Just one of those days
when I feel like a fraud.
Jan 19th
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I just need to stop eating.
Maybe that’ll help….
Jan 19th
leonineantiheroine asked: How many books do you read a week?
I know you like sci-fi...what other genres do you like?
Are you still working on your NaNoWriMo novel?
Jan 19th