February 2012
“As a resolutely working-class singer who penned songs about psychological pain...”
– Adele: The new Kurt Cobain - Music - Salon.com
“Kuno’s image in the blue plate faded. For a moment Vashti felt lonely....”
– Our Media, Ourselves: Are We Headed For A Matrix? : NPR
But the computer age didn’t invent that fear. British author E.M. Forster had these same thoughts more than a century ago. In 1909, right after writing A Room with a View, he penned a story about a cave without a view — a sci-fi...
Heart on Your Sleeve? So Over. Try Patriotism on...
http: //www.nytimes.com/2008/04/19/nyregion/19about.html
Once, on an episode of “Seinfeld,” Cosmo Kramer got into a fight at an AIDS walk when someone tried to make him wear an AIDS ribbon, as noted by James Joyner on the blog, Outside the Beltway:
KRAMER (to organizer at desk): Uh, Cosmo Kramer?
ORGANIZER: Uh ...O.K., you’re checked in. Here’s your AIDS ribbon.
KRAMER: Uh, no thanks.
ORGANIZER: You don’t want to wear an AIDS ribbon?
KRAMER: No.
ORGANIZER: But you have to wear an AIDS ribbon.
KRAMER: I have to?
ORGANIZER: Yes.
KRAMER: See, that’s why I don’t want to.
ORGANIZER: But everyone wears the ribbon. You must wear the ribbon!
KRAMER: You know what you are? You’re a ribbon bully.
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Vogue: Meryl Streep and The National Women's... →
The Meryl Streep Vogue shoot and the promoting of The National Women’s History Museum http://bcove.me/vdsxiasi #vogue #streep #NWHM
What I say, what some people hear
What I say: I'm a feminist.
What people hear: I hate men.
What I say: I'm Pro-Choice
What people hear: Death to all babies!!
What I say: I'm pro- gay marriage.
What people hear: I'm a raging homosexual.
What I say: I like rock music.
What people hear: I'm a emo cutter freak.
What I say: I'm undecided about religion.
What people hear: I worship satan.
“I was distressed this xmas to hear someone (between my own generation and my...”
– my friend Larry’s Facebook status (via bohemianarthouse)
