April 2011
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Reliving the homocore 90s this afternoon.
This is...
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Happy Easter
Andrew Sullivan had a hissy fit over the assumed bigotry against the faith of Christians in this video from the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence in San Francicso: I admit that’s it’s not all that funny and I probably would have wandered away after a few minutes. However, it’s delivered in such a glib, and at times innocent, fashion, that I have trouble attributing bigotry as the...
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“The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen...”
– Ferdinand Magellan (1480 - 1521 AD)
“You know what else are hideous and ugly eyesores? Utility poles and power lines....”
– Balloon Juice » NIMBY
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-4-24) →
Tortoise (45)
Dusty Springfield (14)
Buzzcocks (10)
Dirty Projectors (9)
Directions In Music (8)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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“‘‘[You]…need to relax when guards are being more aggressive.’’”
– “Doctors” At Gitmo
Despicable. Losing their licenses is the least they deserve.
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“Reading the Gospels in a literalist and empirical fashion is to mistake the form...”
– The Bible’s Many Contradicting Voices
There are some very good reasons not to read The Bible in a literalist and empirical fashion. The Number One being — unless a priori you believe that it’s The Truth — that The Bible is philosophy, at best, which means it’s fiction,...
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WatchPop Up Galleries Presents House of Art (by JUANELE AR)
JUANELE AR’s first video working with Axel Byrfors, a Swedish video artist and expat living and working in Buenos Aires.
If you’ve ever wondered what Argentines mean when they say, la buena onda, this video captures it perfectly.
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“To put it in layman’s terms, the study suggests that if you want to be a...”
– Is Facebook geared to dullards?
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“In Misurata. Indiscriminate shelling by Gaddafi forces. No sign of Nato.”
– Tim Hetherington, RIP
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“The ways in which culture is distributed and archived has become profoundly more...”
– Archiving Is The New Folk Art
That sounds like neurosis to me. It’s interesting; but it’s not art.
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“I end up feeling I’m in a nation of zombies.”
– David Wojnarowicz: Against His Vanishing
Prophet, artist, mad man. One of my heroes.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-4-10) →
Social Distortion (20)
Hall & Oates (16)
Beck (14)
NYNDK (14)
Arson Garden (13)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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“Of all the futures a science fiction novelist has predicted, one in which...”
– Samuel Delany’s massive new novel finally has a publisher and release date!
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“One party wanted to embrace torture as a virtue; the other ended it without much...”
– The Kids These Days
What happened to the frakin’ Enlightenment? And how many young adults even know what that is?
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“Everyone knows that God would only love the bullies who are doing his will. His...”
– Irish Anti bullying PSA
I will never forgive or forget the violence, real and spiritual, that religious fundamentalism has condoned, contributed to, fostered, looked away from or done to LGBT people.
Never.
That includes Catholics, Baptists and Pentecostals. They are all guilty; and we have...
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“Totalitarian repression is something they [The White House] could live with, and...”
– Libya, Waiting to See
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“Driver, heal thyself.”
– The Surprisingly Normal Demographics Of Biking
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-4-3) →
The Del Fuegos (24)
The Clash (22)
Emmylou Harris (21)
Glee Cast (13)
R.E.M. (11)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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“Isn’t it more interesting and useful to explore where exactly folks...”
– The View From Somewhere - Conor Friedersdorf
I heart Conor.
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