The lizards were anti-climatic.
a fat lot of good this'll do you.
UX’s most sensational caper (to be revealed so far, at least) was completed in 2006. A cadre spent months infiltrating the Pantheon, the grand structure in Paris that houses the remains of France’s most cherished citizens. Eight restorers built their own secret workshop in a storeroom, which they wired for electricity and Internet access and outfitted with armchairs, tools, a fridge, and a hot plate. During the course of a year, they painstakingly restored the Pantheon’s 19th- century clock, which had not chimed since the 1960s. Those in the neighborhood must have been shocked to hear the clock sound for the first time in decades: the hour, the half hour, the quarter hour.
What if, instead of starting up pointless companies that never make money and vanish within years, we all spent our time doing stuff like this?
But ultimately there comes a moment when a decision must be made. Ultimately two people who love each other must ask themselves how much they hope for as their love grows and deepens, and how much risk they are willing to take…It is indeed a fearful gamble…Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, so that, together we become a new creature.
To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can take…If we commit ourselves to one person for life this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession, but participation…It takes a lifetime to learn another person…When love is not possession, but participation, then it is part of that co-creation which is our human calling, and which implies such risk that it is often rejected.
“The Irrational Season” ~ Madeleine L’Engle
For reference/context, South Carolina’s population is 66.2% white and 27.9% black.
Um, wow.
(via paxamericana)
I think the lesson here is: Fuck Gwen Stefani, open for Nickleback.
-Dr.Boyce Watkins (Speaking on Jay-z’s decision to stop using the word bitch)
Best post of the day in my book.
(via jumpstart-therevolution)
Okay. So I agree with this. But. Can we also acknowledge that people do grow? That sometimes it takes a personal situation/major life event to make that change happen? And that Jay Z is not solely responsible for why this is “a world where…” It was that world before he ever spoke a word. He upheld that world, yes, but he didn’t create it. And if he is evolving and speaking against it now, while taking responsibility for his part in previously upholding it, I don’t see how it does women any benefit to keep poking at him. I also would like to know why these critiques are so much harsher against men of color than against white men. Why is it that Jay Z will, seemingly, never be able to be sufficiently remorseful but white men are barely critiqued for the way they talk about/to women, and women of color specifically, at all?
(via notyourkinddear)
i really need for Professional Black Mouthpieces (TM) to stop taking shot at hip hop because they know it’ll get them on the air. esp if they don’t listen to it. ESP if they don’t listen to anything that was made after 2002.
and also? way to per usual vastly underestimate hip hop listeners’ ability to have nuance. jesus, Jay Z fans are probably not going to refer to his daughter as a little bitch. at least, not anyone that matters. because that’s disrespectful and stupid. it doesn’t work like that. if it did, there would be way more rap songs calling other people’s daughter’s bitches, b/c Jay Z isn’t the first rapper to have a daughter. fyi.
and all this concern trolling for Blue Ivy really needs to stop. i understand the internet wasn’t what it is now when Eminem first came out, but i have yet to see ANY sort of similar concern trolling for Hallie, or any similar suggestions that the music he makes somehow makes him unable to be a suitable parent, and he *still* raps about murdering women. frequently. still have yet to read a blog post giving *her* advice about how to navigate this treacherous, sexist world.
(via so-treu) Ya heard? I am over this shit . You honestly don’t like Jay-z cool. I know and have read folks who don’t but this transparent use of somebody who still doesn’t know where their own FEET are to get at him or the problem of hip hop needs to damn stop. Or wait its perfect because just like the hip hop you despise you think women’s bodies are game board pieces (via blackamazon)
THOUGHTS?!
I don’t remember this level of critique coming out against the Beastie Boys when they started breeding. Just sayin…
(Source: osram-akoma, via newwavefeminism)
THANK YOUI’ve seen the below quote (in italics) floating around Tumblr recently, and per usual, I’ve got some opinions. It seems like most people are popping all sorts of e-boners over it, but every time I see it I can’t help but shake my head.
I’m a little tired of people acting like the be-all, end-all…
I honestly expect reblogs from all of my followers that are online right now. I don’t care what kind of blog you have, this is important to me.
ditto^
(Source: torevolution, via danielleh)
OMG! Adorbz of the Day: Inside every modern, independent, working woman is an adorable little girl named Lua McDowell.
[vvv.]
I can’t decide if this is cute, or mind-boggingly sexist.
