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when the rains have gone."Marge Piercy (via dustbinflower)
excerpt from “Complaint of the Exhausted Author”
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L’esprit de escalier is the story of my life.
Also, pochemuchka.(Source: youwereyourownpony, via guerrillamamamedicine)
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Notes Thomas Frank on commodified dissentNobody wants you to think they’re serious today, least of all Time Warner. On the contrary: the Culture Trust is now our leader in the search for kicks upon kicks. Corporate America is not an oppressor but a sponsor of fun, provider of lifestyle accoutrements, facilitator of carnival, our slang-speaking partner in the quest for that ever-more apocalyptic orgasm. The countercultural idea has become capitalist orthodoxy, its hunger for transgression upon transgression now perfectly suited to an economic-cultural regime that runs on ever-faster cyclings of the new; its taste for self-fulfillment and its intolerance for the confines of tradition now permitting vast latitude in consuming practices and lifestyle experimentation.
Consumerism is no longer about “conformity” but about “difference.” Advertising teaches us not in the ways of puritanical self-denial (a bizarre notion on the face of it), but in orgiastic, never-ending self-fulfillment. It counsels not rigid adherence to the tastes of the herd but vigilant and constantly updated individualism. We consume not to fit in, but to prove, on the surface at least, that we are rebels.
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Notes"Men make angry music and it’s called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they’re angry and militant."Ani DiFranco
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Notes"One of the arguments we often use for not writing is this: “I have nothing original to say. Whatever I might say, someone else has already said it, and better than I will ever be able to.” This, however, is not a good argument for not writing. Each human person is unique and original, and nobody has lived what we have lived. Furthermore, what we have lived, we have lived not just for ourselves but for others as well. Writing can be a very creative and invigorating way to make our lives available to ourselves and to others. We have to trust that our stories deserve to be told. We may discover that the better we tell our stories the better we will want to live them.". :: azspot :: .
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"Their art is one side of them. There is so much more. What you are getting is one tiny iota; the art, the document, the after-effect of what led up to a person becoming what they are."
Lydia Lunch
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"Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straightjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is dead dogma; its physical form brute force."
Rudolf Rocker
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“Draw me an atom”
This amazing gif by xverdxse is close to my idea of what an...
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“For in a very concrete way Europe has stuffed herself inordinately with the gold and raw materials of colonial countries: Latin America, China and...”
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while we're talking about drugs
Zimmerman was on Adderall, Temazepam, and a medication called Librax.
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“You were once wild here. Don’t let them tame you.”— Isadora Duncan; Isadora Speaks: Uncollected Writings and Speeches of Isadora Duncan (via ...
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Teacher: Why did you not study?Me: A year has 365 days for you to study. After taking away 52 Sundays, there are only 313 days left. There are 50 days in the summer that is way too hot to work so there are only 263 days left. We sleep 8 hours a day, in a year, that counts up to 122 days so now we're left with 141 days. If we fooled around for only 1 hour a day, 15 days are gone, so we are left with 126 days. We spend 2 hours eating each day, 30 days are used in this way in the year, and we are left with 96 days in our year. We spend 1 hour a day speaking to friends and family, that takes away 15 days more and we are left with 81 days. Exams and tests take up at least 35 days in your year, hence you are only left with 46 days. Taking off approximately 40 days of holidays, you are only left with 6 days. Say you are sick for a minimum of 3 days, you're left with 3 days in the year to study! Let's say you only go out for 2 days... You're left with 1 day! But that 1 day is your birthday!... ...
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“We let Willow cut her hair. When you have a little girl, it’s like how can you teach her that you’re in control of her body? If I teach her that I’m...”
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“For women, getting angry is socially unacceptable, even when the anger is over violence, discrimination, misogyny, and other forms of oppression....”
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legitimate criticisms of feminism:
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ennui (one of the trendy magazines that never never capitalized the first letter of its name) was the preferred...
