*what is and what should never be

Newly Published Poem and Interview | "55 Club" (Austin Hart)

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:43:00 -0400

Newly Published Poem and Interview | "55 Club" (Austin Hart) : Many thanks to the wonderful staff of...

And when he wrote his magazine editors, with a conviction and ardor rarely seen from a person so...

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:12:15 -0400

And when he wrote his magazine editors, with a conviction and ardor rarely seen from a person so...

In Which We Explore The Archives Of David Foster Wallace

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:00:00 -0400

In corresponding with David Foster Wallace, “Stephen Lacy, a CFO, … offered this as the...

poptech: Crazy plane-crash site photos. (Everybody lived in...

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:35:04 -0400

poptech:

Crazy plane-crash site photos. (Everybody lived in these).

<3 thank you, Mr. Rogers

Mon, 20 May 2013 16:49:59 -0400

<3 thank you, Mr. Rogers

mollylover: tastefullyoffensive: 9 Cats Taking Selfies This...

Sun, 19 May 2013 13:24:00 -0400

mollylover:

tastefullyoffensive:

9 Cats Taking Selfies

This is my favorite post on the entire Internet

simply amazing.

"It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors,..."

Sun, 19 May 2013 13:01:03 -0400

“It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting...

"In the summer before he died, sitting with him on his patio while he smoked cigarettes, I..."

Sun, 19 May 2013 01:38:29 -0400

“In the summer before he died, sitting with him on his patio while he smoked cigarettes, I...

meme4u: 98 year old Dobri Dobrev, a man who lost his hearing in...

Sun, 19 May 2013 01:07:13 -0400

meme4u:

98 year old Dobri Dobrev, a man who lost his hearing in the second world war, walks 10 kilometers from his village in his homemade clothes and leather shoes to the city of Sofia, where he spends the day begging for money.

Though a well recognized fixture around several of the city’s chruches, known for his prostrations of thanks to all donors, it was only recently discovered that he has donated every penny he has collected — over 40,000 euros — towards the restoration of decaying Bulgarian monasteries and churches and the utility bills of orphanages, living entirely off his monthly state pension of 80 euros and the kindness of others.

I need a male perspective, what do you do when you are a really awkward female and like a really awkward male and throughout the school year you never tell him but he finds out bc you're just really awkward around him and then a year goes buy and you still like him even though he moves to another place and the only form of communication is facebook but youve never actually had a conversation with him. Should I just meet more interesting people or go out on a whim and confess? I know sad right?

Sat, 18 May 2013 17:49:50 -0400

i don’t think it’s sad! it’s human to feel things for others … only serial...

5 Reasons The Me Me Me Generation Doesn’t Like the New...

Sat, 18 May 2013 00:50:09 -0400

5 Reasons The Me Me Me Generation Doesn’t Like the New Daft Punk Album | via Complex

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Fri, 17 May 2013 18:08:38 -0400

<3

Fri, 17 May 2013 18:00:53 -0400

nothing much more depressing than realizing at 1:29 am you have a meeting at 8:30 am.

Fri, 17 May 2013 01:30:19 -0400

the-half-boy: thepeoplesrecord: The troubling viral trend of...

Fri, 17 May 2013 00:28:16 -0400

the-half-boy:

thepeoplesrecord:

The troubling viral trend of the “hilarious” Black poor person
May 7, 2013

Charles Ramsey, the man who helped rescue three Cleveland women presumed dead after going missing a decade ago, has become an instant Internet meme. It’s hardly surprising—the interviews he gave yesterday provide plenty of fodder for a viral video, including memorable soundbites (“I was eatin’ my McDonald’s”) and lots of enthusiastic gestures. But as Miles Klee and Connor Simpson have noted, Ramsey’s heroism is quickly being overshadowed by the public’s desire to laugh at and autotune his story, and that’s a shame. Ramsey has become the latest in a fairly recent trend of “hilarious” black neighbors, unwitting Internet celebrities whose appeal seems rooted in a “colorful” style that is always immediately recognizable as poor or working-class.

Before Ramsey, there was Antoine Dodson, who saved his younger sister from an intruder, only to wind up famous for his flamboyant recounting of the story to a reporter. Since Dodson’s rise to fame, there have been others: Sweet Brown, a woman who barely escaped her apartment complex during a fire last year, and Michelle Clarke, who couldn’t fathom the hailstorm that rained down in her hometown of Houston, and in turn became “the next Sweet Brown.”

Granted, the buzzworthy tactic of reporters interviewing the most loquacious witnesses to a crime or other event is nothing new, and YouTube has countless examples of people of all ethnicities saying ridiculous things. One woman, for instance, saw fit to casually mention her breasts while discussing a local accident, while another man described a car crash with theatrical flair. Earlier this year, a “hatchet-wielding hitchhiker” named Kai matched Dodson’s fame with his astonishing account of rescuing a woman from a racist attacker. But none of those people have been subjected to quite the same level of derisive memeification as Brown, Clark, and now, perhaps, Ramsey—the inescapable echoes of “Hide yo’ kids, hide yo’ wife!” and “Kabooyaw,” the tens of millions of YouTube hits and cameos in other viral videos, even commercials.

It’s difficult to watch these videos and not sense that their popularity has something to do with a persistent, if unconscious, desire to see black people perform. Even before the genuinely heroic Ramsey came along, some viewers had expressed concern that the laughter directed at people like Sweet Brown plays into the most basic stereotyping of blacks as simple-minded ramblers living in the “ghetto,” socially out of step with the rest of educated America. Black or white, seeing Clark and Dodson merely as funny instances of random poor people talking nonsense is disrespectful at best. And shushing away the question of race seems like wishful thinking.

Ramsey is particularly striking in this regard, since, for a moment at least, he put the issue of race front and center himself. Describing the rescue of Amanda Berry and her fellow captives, he says, “I knew something was wrong when a little pretty white girl ran into a black man’s arms. Something is wrong here. Dead giveaway!”

The candid statement seems to catch the reporter off guard; he ends the interview shortly afterward. And it’s notable that among the many memorable things Ramsey said on camera, this one has gotten less meme-attention than most. Those who are simply having fun with the footage of Ramsey might pause for a second to actually listen to the man. He clearly knows a thing or two about the way racism prevents us from seeing each other as people.

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Now that you know this is a thing, please stop sharing these memes. Poor Black people speaking candidly about various serious incidents isn’t a hilarious joke.

Brilliant, true, and unfortunate.

gilliansze: CBC | Cinq à Six | April 6, 2013: How I Started...

Fri, 17 May 2013 00:01:13 -0400

gilliansze:

CBC | Cinq à Six | April 6, 2013: How I Started Writing (listen to the interview here)

lols

Thu, 16 May 2013 23:56:08 -0400

lols

Advice: What is the best advice your mother ever gave you? (via Quora)

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:42:58 -0400

Advice: What is the best advice your mother ever gave you? (via Quora): Just Wait it out - Patience...

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Wed, 15 May 2013 22:28:31 -0400

You have to be somewhere at any given moment. But what is a moment but a fraction of time. And if time is just a concept, a figment of the human conscious, why cant location be a concept? It is. It's only significant to our reality, to our concept of reality. But why do we have to be somewhere? We don't. We don't have to be anywhere. It is non existent where we are. Our place in not only time, but reality is questionable. It is nothing more than our mind, our conscious, trying to make sense

Wed, 15 May 2013 21:37:31 -0400

i think, therefore, i am here? well said, but how do you use this information? :)