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Won't you please save this African-American baby?
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2012-01-28
Source: indiesart.com
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2012-01-27
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2012-01-25
(via stopremembering)
Source: everythingisgoneforever
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2012-01-24
Welp.
May we revise (for reasons of space) to read: “Miles Klee’s dick gay-married a baby. Totally messed up!”
I have “liked” this several times because it keeps getting reblogged with terrific commentary so fuck it, I’ll reblog it, too.
Source: choire
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2012-01-08
ha. i never had an avid-knitter for a grandma. but i still love this joke.
(via mynameisalix)
Source: sleepwithshadows
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2012-01-04
Sharing Herb with bowling clubs and civic groups can take its toll.
Source: comicallyvintage
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2012-01-03
In an ideal world no one would talk before 10am. People would just hug, because waking up is really hard.
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Zooey Deschanel (via espanagirl)
eww, this made me throw up in my mouth a little bit. just kidding. cool quote, bro.
(via colorthecoasttt)
Source: espanagirl
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2011-12-31
Source: glitter-and-dubstep
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]amy winehouse, me & mr. jones (live)
you already know this, but in case you get drunk tonight and forget: if someone asks what the best part of this song is the answer is when the backup singers say “don’t mean diiiiick” in the second verse (go ahead and sing it… see?) followed closely by their crooning “big black jeewwww” a little later. that part comes in second because it’s a little too on the nose. but those are the answers, should someone ask. which is likely.
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Random Intel: Bell Hooks, Postmodern Blackness
couple spot-on excerpts from bell hooks, postmodern blackness:
[8] Writing about blacks and postmodernism, Cornel West describes our collective plight:
There is increasing class division and differentiation, creating on the one hand a significant black middle-class, highly anxiety- ridden, insecure, willing to be co-opted and incorporated into the powers that be, concerned with racism to the degree that it poses constraints on upward social mobility (ed. note: this is me!) ; and, on the other, a vast and growing black underclass, an underclass that embodies a kind of walking nihilism of pervasive drug addiction, pervasive alcoholism, pervasive homicide, and an exponential rise in suicide (ed. note: also me! holla!). Now because of the deindustrialization, we also have a devastated black industrial working class. We are talking here about tremendous hopelessness.
[15] Postmodern culture with its decentered subject can be the space where ties are severed or it can provide the occasion for new and varied forms of bonding.
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Source: tendaysdown
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a friend told me i should put up more pictures of myself. it would help “personalize” the tumblr. make it more intimate. I don’t know if I buy that since i’m making it up right now…. but hey, can’t knock it till you try it (it = lying).
BUT, because I have to basically go insane and do all sorts of crazy things in the next year I do think things will get more personal (and insane)… sorry, in advance. but i think/hope we’ll find a balance for 2012.
also, i think i need a new hi-def camera for xmas. cause my “traps” (that’s what the trapezoid looking muscle between my neck and shoulders is called, right?) are definitely more well-defined than this picture is illustrating.
ha. i just looked up trapezoid to add some extra hot sauce to that joke and i saw this:
now if i go to the massage parlor or a trainer or photoshopper or something i’m going to write down one of those formulas when i refer to my “traps”. oh i think i just want to get a massage or work on my “a+b over b-a square root divided by four blah blah”. and then we’ll all laugh and i’ll get my massage for free. annnnnd scene. The Traps Diaries.
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Occupy! The OWS Inspired Gazette #3
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The Nostalgia Of Kobe II
So last week, I wrote about the nostalgia of Kobe and expectations that he will have a huge year based on how disgruntled he is. Of course, a day later, news came out that Kobe’s wife Vanessa was filing for divorce.
While the idea of holding onto Kobe because of nostalgic feelings about his prime years still applies, it seems I was making a huge reach on why he has been so on edge. Instead of a burning desire to prove everyone who was doubting him and his team wrong, it was his personal problems manifesting to the surface. But what this new set of circumstances presents is another question: whether what happens off the court with Kobe matters at all as it relates to his on court performance?
I’m going to say no, but with a caveat that it’ll be really easy to merge the his struggles on the court and correlate them to his off the court issues, especially given his age. It’s going to be a lot easier to attribute any decline in his game this year to off court distractions. But if how Kobe handled the scrutiny of his sexual assault case from 2003 is an indication, news of his divorce will be nothing but a footnote going forward.
What fascinates me more about this season for Kobe is that we’re entering the final part of his career narrative. At this point, it’s about getting to six championships and matching Jordan. It seems that with more superstars carving out their own niche in recent years, and even more failing to live up to expectations, we’re drifting away from the obsession of anointing someone as Jordan’s successor. Lebron can be Lebron. Durant can be Durant. They don’t need to live in someone else’s shadow. Whether that speaks more to what they can do versus what they can’t is another discussion entirely.
Staying with Kobe, six rings will give him a narrative that holds up historically as well as anyone.
And what makes his chase for number six that much more intriguing is the fact that he now has a new head coach that no one thinks he can coexist with, and a starting line-up that includes two big men - one who shrunk in the spotlight last year, the other incapable of staying healthy for extended stretches - a forward named World Peace and a point guard who probably had his last relevant NBA moment negotiating the collective bargaining agreement.
This Kobe isn’t suppose to win another title. Not this year, not unless the team retools to catch up with the rest of the Conference who have improved dramatically. Circumstances are now different for Kobe than in years’ past.
Kobe’s been a front runner for most of his career. Save that period from Shaq departing to Gasol arriving. And when I think back to those years, when he carried the likes of Smush Parker and Kwame Brown to the brink of a first round upset of the Suns, I remember them as Kobe’s best individual years — whether it was by necessity, or the fact that they coincided with his prime.
This is the Kobe I expect to see this year. This is the Kobe that the Lakers are going to need. And if that’s the Kobe that comes through and carries his team, we just may need to re-write his historical ranking one more time.
I can’t wait.
co-sign this. i was borderline tired of kobe during the shaq years. then absolutely anti-kobe after the gasol trade. and now i’m really shocked to find my self rooting for him now that he’s officially an underdog. if he can pull one more out before the curtain falls it would absolutely validate his legacy as an all time great.
(via eatcerealwithwater)
Source: stevenlebron
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