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final post

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:13:16 -0400

final post

going through my posts tomorrow to save the ones i like, but deleting soon. sorry. it’s about...

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 21:41:00 -0400

going through my posts tomorrow to save the ones i like, but deleting soon. sorry. it’s about time.

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Sun, 14 Apr 2013 20:56:38 -0400

vintagegal: Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 20:56:11 -0400

vintagegal:

Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

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Sat, 13 Apr 2013 10:19:51 -0400

scabie: does anyone wanna give me money ill send u a pic of my boobs or something

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 17:09:30 -0400

scabie:

does anyone wanna give me money

ill send u a pic of my boobs or something

brandnewbutused: i just found a random george harrison disc hidden in the jacket for the clash’s...

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 17:05:18 -0400

brandnewbutused:

i just found a random george harrison disc hidden in the jacket for the clash’s combat rock and there is an improvised track called “thanks for the pepperoni” and the title alone has made my day

just phoned for a taxi and the guy i spoke to signed off with "YELLOW N GREEN DONT GET IN BETWEEN, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN??"

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 14:13:00 -0400

dingraha:

i love that so much

cotonblanc: Tesselphotography cornelie tollens Fashion Images...

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:27:58 -0400

cotonblanc:

Tessel
photography cornelie tollens

Fashion Images de Mode Nº4 (1999)

drbeastly: Tanie Bruguera

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:21:40 -0400

drbeastly:

Tanie Bruguera

pikeys: 1/2, China, 1998 by Zhang Huan

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:21:20 -0400

pikeys:

1/2, China, 1998 by Zhang Huan

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Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:19:14 -0400

seriouslyamerica: TW: domestic violence quickhits: You can...

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:11:48 -0400

seriouslyamerica:

TW: domestic violence

quickhits:

You can stop pretending that guns protect women now.

New York Times:

Early last year, after a series of frightening encounters with her former husband, Stephanie Holten went to court in Spokane, Wash., to obtain a temporary order for protection.

Her former husband, Corey Holten, threatened to put a gun in her mouth and pull the trigger, she wrote in her petition. He also said he would “put a cap” in her if her new boyfriend “gets near my kids.” In neat block letters she wrote, “ He owns guns, I am scared.”

The judge’s order prohibited Mr. Holten from going within two blocks of his former wife’s home and imposed a number of other restrictions. What it did not require him to do was surrender his guns.

About 12 hours after he was served with the order, Mr. Holten was lying in wait when his former wife returned home from a date with their two children in tow. Armed with a small semiautomatic rifle bought several months before, he stepped out of his car and thrust the muzzle into her chest. He directed her inside the house, yelling that he was going to kill her.

What saved Holten was not another gun, but a phone. She dial 911, then hid the phone. “The dispatcher heard Ms. Holten begging for her life and quickly directed officers to the scene,” the report tells us.

“For all its rage and terror, the episode might well have been prevented,” NYT goes on. “Had Mr. Holten lived in one of a handful of states, the protection order would have forced him to relinquish his firearms. But that is not the case in Washington and most of the country, in large part because of the influence of the National Rifle Association and its allies.”

I know that the NRA would argue that Stephanie Holten would’ve been better off had she been armed too. But exchanging gunfire with a lunatic does not guarantee success. And since her kids were present, tragedy would be all that more likely. Gun fanatics live in a fantasy world, informed by action movies, where the “good guy” always comes out on top. But in the real world, criminals aren’t automatically incompetent. Justice is a human construct, not a law of physics. In a gun v. gun confrontation, either party can lose. This is why people with guns are more likely to be shot — if I’m a criminal and someone pulls a gun on me, they’re my primary target. And of course, belief in the “good guys always win” theory promoted by the NRA causes people to take stupid risks.

The fact is that there are people who should not have guns. More guns is not the answer here, fewer guns obviously are. There are situations — and this is one — where meeting the NRA’s definition of “pro-gun” is in reality just pro-crime. Cory Holton is obviously scum. He can live without his guns.

And his ex-wife and kids would stand a better chance of living as well. A woman’s chance of being killed by an abuser increases by 700% if he has access to a firearm. That’s just a fact. And it’s a fact the NRA doesn’t want you to know, because they want to be able to sell guns and ammo to criminals like Stephanie Holton’s stalking, abusive ex-husband.

cavetocanvas: Ori Gersht, Still from Big Bang, 2006

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:11:12 -0400

cavetocanvas:

Ori Gersht, Still from Big Bang, 2006

brandnewbutused: i did a cool thing

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 23:56:34 -0400

brandnewbutused:

i did a cool thing

Mom: R u living a 3 is company?

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 20:32:00 -0400

Mom: R u living a 3 is company?
Mom: a 70s show
Me: Kind of but i'm john ritter lol
Me: omg mom I know what threes company is
Mom: Suzanne somersault got her start
Mom: Simmers
Mom: LOL

howtotalktogirlsdialectically: “The Goya who painted The...

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 19:08:19 -0400

howtotalktogirlsdialectically:

“The Goya who painted The Madhouse must have experienced before that grovel of flesh in the void, that nakedness among bare walls, something related to a contemporary pathos: the symbolic tinsel that crowned the insane kings left in full view suppliant bodies, bodies vulnerable to chains and whips, which contradicted the delirium of the faces, less by the poverty of these trappings than by the human truth which radiated from all that unprofaned flesh. The man in the tricorne is not mad because he has stuck an old hat upon his nakedness; but within this madman in a hat rises - by the inarticulate power of his muscular body, of his savage and marvelously unconstricted youth - a human presence already liberated and somehow free since the beginning of time, by his birthright.”

— Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

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Thu, 11 Apr 2013 19:06:08 -0400

I have so much to do, and I don’t want to do it, but I have to do it and I know my life will...

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 14:32:00 -0400

I have so much to do, and I don’t want to do it, but I have to do it and I know my life will crumble even more so than I feel like it is now if I don’t. Thankfully I am not as depressed as I thought I was, because if I can go through these thoughts and let my rational brain win and let it power my legs to go to my last FLEFF class today even though I really don’t want to and don’t have to but I should and really in the end, must, I am going to. I’m going to walk back up to campus in the rain in my way too hot for a humid April day green velvet dress and watch the presentations of people who didn’t even bother to come to mine on Monday.

So, I guess I’m not depressed.

I WILL GET BETTER THIS SUMMER OK

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 22:23:00 -0400

I WILL GET BETTER THIS SUMMER OK