January 2012
23 posts
The Jezabels - City Girl
“I get out on the...
“Now in order to do this, we must answer and deal with one or two myths that are...”
– Dr. Martin Luther King, 1963 speech at WMU
“The dormitories are cement cubes, 12’ by 12’, and in that space there are 13...”
– Mike Daisey, describing the living conditions of Chinese employees of Foxconn in Shenzhen. Excerpted from http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/454/mr-daisey-and-the-apple-factory (via foulmouthedliberty)
I became a feminist the day that my father first told me the story of how angry he was when I was born because I was a girl.
“If this time through we don’t get it right, I’ll come back to you in...”
– EMA - Anteroom
Libertarianism is the belief that, after turning, the steering wheel will right itself without intervention. Not because of the engineering we take for granted, but as a result of some innate force. Its an imbalance in intelligent people, born of informational and cultural seclusion in a society where value is put on things happening under layers of veils and shadows. Its the precarious...
The problem with not really having girl friends is that, when you say that your uterus feels like the armies of Mordor are about to burst forth from it, there’s no one to really get what you mean.
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree,...”
– Albert Einstein (via oceanicboundaryloss)
“So…telling people what to eat seems to be quite the thing to do, no?
“And telling people to eat whatever they want is…well, it’s incredibly controversial.
“It’s just not done.
“You know why I think it’s controversial? Not just because we live in a culture that’s messed-up, food-wise, but because we, as a culture, seem to take the worst possible view of human...
“I cannot help feeling that, when a voluntary weight-loss diet (by cutting out or significantly reducing broad swaths of the diet) imposes such demands on you, it’s destructive. It’s isolation from the larger culture and a way of bonding with others, done through emotional blackmail of the evilest sort: No one will love you unless you’re thin, or at least repenting of your fatness by making...
Obelisk
is my favorite word.
If its in your nature, you'll never win
I’ve been thinking about this Zola Jesus lyric constantly.
