February 2010
118 posts
January 2010
97 posts
“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the...”
– Howard Zinn
“I came across a fascinating little thing once… I was reviewing a book called...”
– Marina Warner
“As Howard Zinn has often pointed out, history told from above — from the...”
– Viggo Mortensen (via azspot) (via rosasparks) (via telegantmess) (via jadedhippy)
OH HAI VIGGO. you’re not only gorgeous, you’re smart, talented, and Down for the Cause. And your reading of IWW speeches and fluent Spanish in The People Speak had me squealing.
(I have discovered the problem with...
“You lug buckets of shit from one pond to another. Babies fall out of wombs like...”
– Don Mee Choi, “Weaver in Exile 4.” Source: La Petite Zine.
thisislobster:
bigfun:
Cocteau Twins - Alice
...
“I want to remind you that, fifty years ago, racial segregation here in the South...”
– Howard Zinn (via azspot) (via robot-heart-politics)
on joanna newsom, strangeness, and "authenticity"
bowfolk:
agrammar:
… who is apparently set to release a triple LP. Her music is distinctly polarizing, right? It’s pretty obviously Not For Everyone. People who have bad reactions to it will point to various turn-offs. There’s the way she uses her voice, of course, which is singular and highly affected: it creaks like an old door and can remind people of anything from little girls to old...
Weigh Less, Pay Less: Whole Foods Offers Discount... →
applesandseeds:
This is just horrible.
FACT:
sadydoyle:
champagnecandy:
I sort of hate any sort of criticism of women that comes in the form of OH SHE WORE SOMETHING REVEALING, because it just still strikes me as slut-shaming, which admittedly I’m oversensitive to after years of a controlling fucked-up relationship that messed up my own relationship to my body. So I support Amanda Palmer running around naked, and I support them being...
“And you’d think that fellow nerds, regardless of race and gender, would...”
– Bao Phi, “Nerds of Color”
“If the library is, as Borges put it, a model of the universe, we must try to...”
– Umberto Eco, “De Bibliotheca” (via quiet-time) (via libraryland)
“For the non-religious among us, the law of conservation of energy offers the...”
– Natalie Angier’s The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science (via vivalalibris) (via viciousfrenzy)
