bite of Pythias...

how did i miss the fact that two years in a row Miss USA fell during the Miss Universe competition....

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:33:42 -0400

how did i miss the fact that two years in a row Miss USA fell during the Miss Universe competition. How foreshadowing…

A tumblr match...

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:06:00 -0400

The other day I spotted a random rubber glove on the sidewalk outside the Port Authority.

It freaked me out a little.

Actually, rubber gloves randomly spotted anywhere always freak me out.

As soon as I read happycap’s post I remembered frangry’s previous post and just knew that he and Frangry were destined to be together forever. Being grossed out together by rubber gloves and… well.. that may be all they have in common. but it’s a start.

Not quite a palindrome but satisfying nonetheless

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:20:16 -0400

justsayjolie:

Ahhhh. My followers and followees have both settled into multiples of four. DANA! FOURS!

good to know. when i unfollow you i’ll be sure to convince 3 other people to peace out with me…

"It was a procedure that produced a bumper crop of new voters: Just before Santa Clara County..."

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:09:08 -0400

“It was a procedure that produced a bumper crop of new voters: Just before Santa Clara County immigrants were sworn in as U.S. citizens, they got voter-registration cards and were shown how to fill them out. At the conclusion of the naturalization ceremony, most new citizens had signed the cards and handed them in to become registered voters. But in March, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services declared that the county registrar of voters must not hand out those cards until the recipients are officially citizens. And now voter registration has plunged by 82 percent.”

- County voter drive blocked - San Jose Mercury News
WTF WTF WTF???? Homeland Security is saying elections officials aren’t “allowed” to hand registration cards to non-citizens? That is the most insane thing I’ve ever heard. Of course they can’t hand in the form before they are officially citizens, but you can hand any damn person any damn piece of paper you want to. This is so obviously an effort to suppress new citizens from voting (more likely dems.). If you think I’m crazy, just take a moment and go check out the waiting times for naturalization right now at C.I.S. Admittedly, applications are always way up during an election year, but the delays over this summer are completely about delaying the naturalizations until after voter registration deadlines have passed. Sometimes this just makes me want to give up on caring… oh wait, that’s what they want - see I’m an ideal citizen already.

I’ve finally found a first edition copy of bertrand russell’s “what I...

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:17:30 -0400

I’ve finally found a first edition copy of bertrand russell’s “what I believe.” it wasn’t expensive, but I’ve looked for it forever. I read it and I wish it had a “share on tumblr” button.
This will be somethig I treasure for the rest of my life.

free icecream...

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:31:51 -0400

right now. Sw corner of 50th and 7th in an m&m van. Who knew they made ice cream bars? Hurry before I nom them all!!!!

Keep practicing happycap, you’ve got potential at that...

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:31:07 -0400

Keep practicing happycap, you’ve got potential at that football toss game…

Happycap putting in an admirable performance, yet tragically...

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:18:31 -0400

Happycap putting in an admirable performance, yet tragically came up short in the end against the espn champion biteofpythias….

Schrodinger’s lolcat (via dantekgeek) Damn. I googled...

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:56:00 -0400

Schrodinger’s lolcat (via dantekgeek)

Damn. I googled this to see if anyone had done it and of course they had. It didn’t exist until i googled it… (haha laughs at own joke)

still would have been better if they’d said “Livn in ur” instead of “in ur”

claudia: jessicagoldharalson: Elizabeth Hasselbeck gets...

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:02:16 -0400

claudia:

jessicagoldharalson:

Elizabeth Hasselbeck gets schooled on her white privilege — and bursts into tears — in a heated discussion of the “N” word with Whoopi Goldberg on The View.

The best (or worst) part is that she really does seem to want to “get” why it’s OK for the black community to use the N word in private and white folks can’t, but she’s so stuck by the blinders of her own unexamined prejudice that she has no idea how to have a real dialogue. She really doesn’t get why her status as a white, wealthy housewife might impede her objectivity.

Her desire to move beyond race is certainly admirable, but her utter refusal to acknowledge systemic racism and to think that “everything is better” really represents what’s still wrong with race dialogue in this country.

Oh, Elisabeth. Bless her heart.

Get the blinders off Elisabeth. It’s time.

i can’t stand elisabeth, but her aside, what you see in this conversation is where much of the country is at in this dialogue. b/c it is elisabeth and she’s got her history it is easy to just write her off as an idiot. But moving forward it will be really important for us to think long and hard about strategies for pushing people to confront privilege and injustice in a way that they don’t just shut down to in defensiveness. finding that line is going to be a difficult task.

Bryant Park Broadway Performances

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:33:04 -0400

working on some paper revisions today in Bryant park and just by chance it is broadway day in bryant park. Start at 12:30, but soundchecks/practicing now. I really love this city, and as lame as it may be to broadway aficianados (and self-respecting people of all stripes) - I love phantom. There I said it bitches. I will now be humming all I ask of you all weekend…

"I’m looking for a caring, God fearing, Christian man, with good conservative values who can grow..."

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:17:56 -0400

“I’m looking for a caring, God fearing, Christian man, with good conservative values who can grow spiritually with me.”

- The first Match.com profile I read

FUCK. This is NOT looking good.
(via ganderthoughts)
I read this and wondered whether the woman meant God fearing or faring… Then I laughed b/c they are really the same thing for most.

OMG OMG… i just heard from a friend that colbert made a...

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:56:00 -0400

OMG OMG… i just heard from a friend that colbert made a joke i always make!! in certain work presentation contexts i make use of a particular new yorker cartoon (the one with the dog seeing a shrink with a caption “they moved my bowl”) and i always say i like it mainly b/c it is the only new yorker cartoon i ever understood, which always kills (self-deprecation always does, unless you’re conan obrien and then it gets tired quick). In fact I used that cartoon and a version of that joke as a tumblr post last year.

well on last night’s colbert he poked fun at the obama cover and uses that joke… but then at the very end of the clip he shows one other new yorker cartoon out of the tens of thousands that have appeared in the magazine over the years and yep… he showed the dog at psychiatrist cartoon!!! this made my day. and over the years as i reshape this story in my mind it will definitely be along the lines of “remember that time colbert stole my shtick from my blog”

"I think that we’ve proven that both parents are important in the success of a family so, no, I..."

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:57:41 -0400

“I think that we’ve proven that both parents are important in the success of a family so, no, I don’t believe in gay adoption”

- The Raw Story | McCain: Two gays only count as one parent, therefore they shouldn’t be able to adopt
McCain you fucking suck. You can personally believe anything you want about what is best for children, but how dare you use your position of authority to state a flat out fallacy that “we’ve proven” that same-sex parents are harmful to children or provide a less than ideal climate for child development. The American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, both APA’s (psychiatric and psychological), and the National Association of Social Workers have all looked at decades of longitudinal study of children reared in same-sex families and offered briefs attesting to the state of the literature. An extensive literature, which clearly demonstrates that not only have the children in 2 parent same-sex families faired just as well, when one considers the discrimination many of these children face - they actually appear to be incredibly resilient. McCain you can dissaprove for religious reasons, or reasons of political expediency, but you simply will not be allowed to state a falsehood about what “we know” about what is good for children.

Straight Talk Express

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:41:00 -0400

Cindy McCain: (playfully twirling McCain's hair on '92 campaign trail) You're getting a little thin up there.
John McCain: (face reddened in front of reporters) At least I don't plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you cunt

"Did you hear the one about the woman who is attacked on the street by a gorilla, beaten senseless,..."

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:36:41 -0400

“Did you hear the one about the woman who is attacked on the street by a gorilla, beaten senseless, raped repeatedly and left to die? When she finally regains consciousness and tries to speak, her doctor leans over to hear her sigh contently and to feebly ask, ‘Where is that marvelous ape?’”

- Senator John McCain’s 1986 joke about women enjoying rape via Raw Story

The woman in front of me just had caterers show up in central...

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:00:49 -0400

The woman in front of me just had caterers show up in central park! She has 2 servers staying throughout and she just told them where she wants the bar set up! “and at intermission you will take down the first courses and put up the fruit and brownie trays.” she just told them she expects 50 people… Ha! As I type the old guy to the right of her blanket acreage just told her that they better be quiet during the music… This could get interesting!

So, it turns out I have once again overestimated how early I...

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:07:30 -0400

So, it turns out I have once again overestimated how early I need to arrive somewhere… Oh well, as long as I don’t drink all the wine before my group shows with the food after they leave their real jobs. And to any potential stalkers with good spatial awareness, please bring me bug spray!!

GM to cut salaried workers, production, dividend: "Mental Recession" worsens...

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:31:00 -0400

GM to cut salaried workers, production, dividend: "Mental Recession" worsens...: people’s perceptions are really starting to get me down. i hate this mental recession we are in. i just thought away a fifth of GM’s workfoce. Remember when getting a job at “the motors” and other union shops was a ticket to upward mobility for families in this country? oh well, off to listen to the orchestra and drink wine in the park… la di da da…

Dad uses toddler as shield against TASER

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:23:00 -0400

Dad uses toddler as shield against TASER:

toomuchawesome:

“That’s pretty sad,” said LaPorte Police Chief of Detectives Clyde Crass.

how do you say don’t tase me dude in baby-ese? this dad should have bad things done to his nether parts for this…