December 2009
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it's gonna be a happy new year
I wrote something for Global Comment today—should be up tomorrow—about the decade, the politics of it all, and how it was the decade that Americans woke up and got involved again.
Maybe that’s me projecting, though, because the arc of the last ten years for me more than anything else is the formation of my social conscience.
I don’t have any deep thoughts about that at...
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“I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you’ll dream dangerously and...”
– this was my last thing posted in 2008, and it’s such a wonderful wish that i feel like we should fuck auld lang syne and just read this every new year’s eve. courtesy of neil gaiman, who says he’s planning to write another for this year sometime later today but i’ve got to get my merriment started...
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“It starts with Kylie, Kylie and Doctor Who. Kylie is The Doctor; her former self...”
– GlobalComment » Spinning around: the 00’s in pop
Matt Sheret does music writing like it’s meant to be done. Read the whole thing—you won’t regret it for a second.
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“Yeah, I will always have an asterisk after my name, but I hope I’ll have two...”
– Bill Clinton (via brooklynmutt)
Ohh SNAP. I love this. You go, Bill Dawg.
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Really too bad that we can’t say that about any of the other things that happened during his term in office. Like NAFTA, DOMA, DADT, the Telecom...
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“It’s so true, isn’t it? I have tended to think of telling stories differently...”
– Thoughts on storytelling « Zero at the Bone
I like this. Thanks, Chally.
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“Dictionary editors, linguists and even radio DJs say we have entered a semantic...”
– The Washington Post diligently observes that there isn’t a name for this decade. (via andrewgraham) (via apsies)
Oh yes there is! This decade is properly called the Aughties.
(via amandaw)
In prepping our year/decade-end show at GRIT, we called it the Oughties, the Naughties, and then our guests...
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Watchisabelthespy:
IRON MAN 2 TRAILER OMG OMG OMG
holy shit ROBERT. DOWNEY. FUCKING. JUNIOR. HOW. ARE. YOU. EVEN. REAL. he is so unbelievably beautiful and sexy and unggghhh. and god help me but i love a smart ass - “i’ve just privatized world peace!”
also i actually fist-pumped and said out loud SAMMY J! when samuel l. jackson showed up.
also i still hate scarlett johannson, sorry. there is a...
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“Senate Democrats are requiring middle class families to give the proceeds of...”
– http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/12/15/health-care-on-the-road-to-neo-feudalism/ (via mollycrabapple)
this is why you cannot separate the health care bill from corporate giveaways.
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ekswitaj:
On the other hand, getting arrested for reading Finnegans Wake would make an interesting addition to my CV.
Hmmm, which book would I get arrested for? Would it be something apropos, like Howard Zinn? Or the gorgeous Molly Ivins biography I just got for Christmas—Molly would appreciate that, I think. Maybe I’d read the Constitution, just to be a total asshole.
Nah,...
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“I have mixed feelings about this. One thing this bill does is transfer...”
– Yglesias (Apart from the debate on this healthcare package, and rather on the subject of health care in this country.)
Uhm. I rather think all of the above would be nice, but I could give you a few reasons I’d put “non-preventive, non-catastrophic” health insurance at #1 on that list of things to...
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“The fact that the bill isn’t instantly going to improve the lives of anybody...”
– Another commenter on Feministe
Whoops! There I went! Erased in 0.5 seconds!
Has anybody seen me? I can’t find me.
THIS is the criticism of the bill that gets me right angry. It’s all about sticking it to the corporate elite. Not about the wellbeing of the people suffering on the ground, who may...
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Fuck BEYONCE. Yes I said it.
isabelthespy:
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There’s a sense of humility that comes with the kind of success that she’s attained in her life, and she hasnt shown ANY. Making Jay Z attach her damn maiden name to his is pure FUCKERY.
WAAAAHHH??
Wait a sec…so if a girl doesn’t take her husband’s name, she lacks a sense of humility? Should we argue that every...
it’s 10:39 on christmas morning and what 20 years ago was a mad rush to the tree to open presents is now a leisurely morning lying in bed reading Fun Home, a christmas gift-of-sorts from my boss (you wish you had my boss) and then hitting the Internet to check Twitter and Tumblr and be thrilled that at least on a holiday morning no one’s turning a legitimate political disagreement into...
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“Certainly, the discussion of welfare has always been bogged down by moralistic...”
– pandagon.net - we are the public option (via clingtomymouth) (via amberlrhea)
I am so serious about drafting our own slut manifesto. Who’s with me?
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“The principle point which is not strongly stated is that these types of activism...”
– Right Lifestyle « Smiling Buddha Cabaret (via guerrillamamamedicine) (via jadedhippy)
we cannot purchase the revolution.
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Gwenbell’s Best of 2009 Blog Challenge:
Dec 23: Web Tool
Oh goodness. Well my current workflow wouldn’t happen without Google Docs and a wiki—and I’ve decided that I’m going to figure out a way to use Google Wave for the show as well, but I don’t know if that counts. 2009 was definitely the Year of Twitter for me—even got paid to write an article about...
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Gwenbell’s Best of 2009 Blog Challenge:
Dec 22: Startup
I really don’t know if I know any startups. I’ve found a lot of new businesses, but that’s because I moved cities. Does the cantina that opened in Philly near my house before I moved count? Because I spent several nights there putting away delicious frosty margaritas and mojitos before kissing Philthadelphia goodbye...
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“If we could put a gesture in the Smithsonian, it would be the...”
– Melissa Gira Grant » Here’s Your Fucking Jetpack: The 00’s & the Sex Future That Wasn’t
Melissa, this is awesome.
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“I didn’t campaign on the public option.”
– President Obama, reminding us that we got what we voted for! (via notthatkindagay)
Humorous, considering his campaign website still contains his promise of creating a public option for those without health insurance. You’d think if you were going to lie so blatantly about your stated positions on...
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“Jesus did not say, ‘if I be lifted up I will draw some’.” Jesus said, ‘if I be...”
– Archbishop Desmond Tutu (via loveandzombies)
I’m pretty sure that Desmond Tutu is my favorite person alive. If I met him I would want to just hug him and cry.
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the REAL cost of buying handmade
jadedhippy:
telegantmess:
stitchesandpurls:
Recently got asked about if I could make an adorable baby hat like the one pictured below… found some lovely patterns to try on Ravelry. Since then- they have decided not to use me, probably due to cost. So lets have a little chat about that…
Fortunately or unfortunately those of us who make handmade goods cannot compete with bargains. When you...
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“The Senate thinks this single mother ought to be able to afford $11,900 in...”
– La Lubu commenting on Feministe (via amandaw)
EXACTLY.
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