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September 1941. Sheldon Springs, Vermont. “Feeding machine...

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:52:48 -0600

September 1941. Sheldon Springs, Vermont. “Feeding machine that grinds wood into pulp, one of the last stages in making paper at the Mississquoi Corporation mill.” Medium-format nitrate negative by Jack Delano. -Shorpy

Madison tomorrow! Himal Chuli dahl, roti, basmati, tarkari,...

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:00:00 -0600

Madison tomorrow! Himal Chuli dahl, roti, basmati, tarkari, samosas, chai…I’m putting a lot of emphasis on consuming delicious things but the best part will be seeing my old friends and introducing them to new friends and then getting all gay together.

I’d love it if reporters/writers stopped using ‘blonde hair/blue eyes’...

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:13:14 -0600

I’d love it if reporters/writers stopped using ‘blonde hair/blue eyes’ descriptions to pull sympathy from the audience when the characteristics have nothing to do with the story. I know it can sometimes be valuable to the exposition but all I see is a big ass swastika flash across the page even though I could’ve sworn we won WWII.

2 days until we hit that almost completely ‘more...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:00:00 -0600

2 days until we hit that almost completely ‘more bars’ state. Can’t wait to get a pack of Spotted Cow from the drive-thru liquor shack off of County Rd A. via Eric and Strange Maps

This is usually what I think about when Michelle Obama gets up...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:01:27 -0600

This is usually what I think about when Michelle Obama gets up there and talks about childhood obesity. And while her campaign is all about making our children healthy and telling them to eat vegetables and to be active her husband is the head of a government that seems to have no problem continuing subsidizing meat, dairy and corn to the point that the groceries surrounding our kids are 90% filled with stuff that’s bad for them and made in really disgusting ways. Not to mention the negative impact all that has on the livelihood of people all around the world. She’d do more good just telling the country why Monsanto, Tyson, Purdue, etc should go fuck themselves. via Shakesville

Gay. And Ugandan. Click-thru for more via Fransee

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:40:58 -0600

Gay. And Ugandan. Click-thru for more via Fransee

3 days until Madison. Lao Laan-Xang soup, but I’m...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:49:19 -0600

3 days until Madison. Lao Laan-Xang soup, but I’m reeeeaally excited for pineapple tofu curry squash.

4 days until we go to Madison. Imma eat this..it’s been...

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:11:17 -0600

4 days until we go to Madison. Imma eat this..it’s been too long.

Weary Traveler’s Bad Breath Burger

“When the “al-Qaida Seven” and their two DoJ colleagues fought to defend alleged...

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:22:32 -0600

“When the “al-Qaida Seven” and their two DoJ colleagues fought to defend alleged terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, they weren’t fighting to protect jihadist murderers. They were defending the U.S. Constitution—the great whomping chunks of the Bill of Rights that Cheney and her friends are so eager to write out of existence. They did it because that’s what lawyers are ethically obligated to do. They did it because—as Spencer Ackerman points out—the Military Commissions Act of 2006 expressly provided that detainees get defense lawyers. And they did it, as Jay Bookman notes, for the same reason John Adams agreed to represent British soldiers charged with killing civilians during the Boston Massacre in 1770. Because long before Liz Cheney was born and long after she’s gone, the Bill of Rights requires serious people to take it seriously.”

-Dahlia Lithwick on Liz Cheney’s McCarthyism 2.0, revealed in this new web ad campaign.

girlfriendisahomo: Coco Rosie teaser vid for their new album,...

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:09:52 -0600

girlfriendisahomo:

Coco Rosie teaser vid for their new album, Grey Oceans. (via MusicSlut <3) Psyched!

Whoa, Look at the Lilith Fair Lineup

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:43:16 -0600

Whoa, Look at the Lilith Fair Lineup

I’m banning myself from posting here until I finish something for ChiPo, which you should...

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:38:00 -0600

I’m banning myself from posting here until I finish something for ChiPo, which you should totally visit on a daily basis.

Update: No one but Jen knows this but I failed this mission. I had to scrap the entire subject because I was starting to bore myself. Still working on it.

My cat acts bad and know when she acts bad because she runs to hide before I can grab and discipline...

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:29:56 -0600

My cat acts bad and know when she acts bad because she runs to hide before I can grab and discipline her. Unfortunately any kind of attention is positive to her so the only thing that you can do is put her on a time out/solitary confinement. Usually it’s my bedroom but I tried the bathroom this weekend and after 10 minutes she had dug out all the tampons from under the sink, unrolled the toilet paper and opened the medicine cabinet and found a bevy of Q-Tips, her favorite toy. She was on her 6th by the time I caught her. She’s lucky she’s so damn cute.

Record grooves through an electron microscope, the bumps are...

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:36:31 -0600

Record grooves through an electron microscope, the bumps are dust. via

Someone recently taught Pat Robertson what ‘the...

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:22:55 -0600

Someone recently taught Pat Robertson what ‘the downlow’ is: ‘a phenomenon that apparently is in the African American community’. He appears dumbfounded by this scary black + gay combination. via FourFour

When You're About To Die

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 04:51:00 -0600

Nothing has been scarier than being between a median and a double-semi whose driver decided not to check the blind spot and head on over two lanes to occupy the space you’re in while you’re in it at 2 in the morning while it’s snowing. You don’t honk because you can’t ever seem to when you need to but if you do this dick isn’t going to know where it’s coming from and just might swerve the wrong way and make things worse. So in a split second you decide you’re in this on your own and you put on your left turn signal for reasons you won’t be able to figure out later because that’s so dumb next time don’t bother signaling your death ok? You head toward the median lane with the brake but you start swerving because there’s ice on the ground and you’re going way too fast to be there. You know you’re about to hit the median that now seems a mile high but the truck is half a fucking block long and all you see on the right are a bunch of little lights teasing you like ‘ha ha yes, oh yes, this truck is never going to end and you will die’. But you’re about to hit the concrete at 60 mph so you whisper ‘fuck it’ and decide to head back; if you’re going to die and no one else is on the road you’re going to clip this fucker because FUCK HIM..at the very least he’ll realize what he’s done and it’ll hurt his career. If you’re lucky you may spin so that the median hits the passenger side instead of yours. But somehow the truck ends inches from your bumper and you slow down to get back in the median lane and stop. This all happens in 5-10 seconds. Time is relative and about-to-die-before-you-got-to-see-Bjork-in-concert time is really fucking long.

Life doesn’t flash before your eyes because your focus is on the little details surrounding your pending death; there are tons of lights, all the yellows, oranges and reds intensify and it’s suddenly way too bright, perhaps this was the light? You inexplicably take off your right glove. You shiver. Then you finish singing the Joanna Newsom song that is ending because you can’t waste it; you appreciate that Good Intentions Paving Company would have been a great song to die to. You rub your eyes clear of tears. You get back on the road and wonder if you actually did die so you pinch yourself like in the movies. You do!

When you get home your cat is unusually happy to see you and it creeps you out. You think about the last people you saw and are glad you hugged them (I’m glad I hugged you, Jen). You think about making a bucket list. You think about making a fuckit list. You think about making a will. You think about getting things worth putting in your will. You realize 90% of the shit you worry about isn’t worth it and that you should learn to think about that episode of Roseanne where Darlene writes ‘To Whom It Concerns’ the next time you worry about your body image or to think about how great Badu’s upcoming album is going to be, like a handful of bucks, when you find yourself thinking of how shitty someone you don’t talk to anymore is.

And then because you’re 20-something you blog about it.

newsweek:soupsoup: Briliiant use of contextual content: Whose...

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:07:42 -0600

newsweek:soupsoup:

Briliiant use of contextual content:

Whose pocket is this elected official in?

The Sunlight Foundation is showing top campaign contributors next to the speakers when they appear on the Health Care Reform feed.

8 Black Gays You Will Meet In Your Lifetime

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:00:00 -0600

8 Black Gays You Will Meet In Your Lifetime:

thegang:

this is basically a hot, boiling, scorching, torching mess - but it will make you laugh. (via novaslim)

Tweeting The Abortion Process

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:09:00 -0600

Tweeting The Abortion Process:

Angie the Anti-Theist, already a mother, is live-blogging/tweeting her process of abortion to demystify it for others. She is of course getting a lot of hate mail, which is scary because she’s not doing this anonymously.

Rep. Anthony Weiner (D) says, for the record, the Republican...

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:35:00 -0600

Rep. Anthony Weiner (D) says, for the record, the Republican party is wholly owned by the insurance company. They whine, make him agree to retract his statement, he does and then immediately says it again except enhanced, clearer and with more passion. via GQ