Rags 'n' Bones

Green Day - MURDER CITY That I know of this has never been...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:18:47 -0800

Green Day - MURDER CITY

That I know of this has never been confirmed but I’m absolutely certain this song is about the Oscar Grant riots, it’s weird how I feel like I shared something with them by virtue of living in the same city during that time.

"I got a glimmer of an answer last year as I sat in a board room hashing out the winners for one of..."

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:33:47 -0800

“

I got a glimmer of an answer last year as I sat in a board room hashing out the winners for one of the awards for which I am a judge. Our short list was pretty much split evenly along gender lines. But as we went through each category, a pattern emerged. Some books, it seemed, were “ambitious.” Others were well-wrought, but somehow … “small.” “Domestic.” “Unam —” what’s the word? “— bititous.”

I don’t know about you, but when I hear the word “ambitious,” what I think is “Nice try. Better luck next time. Keep shooting for the stars!” I think many things, but never among them is the word Congratulations.

But, incredulous, again and again, I watched as we pushed aside works that everyone acknowledged were more finely wrought, were, in fact, competently wrought, for books that had shot high but fallen short. And every time the book that won was a man’s.

“I just want to say,” I said as the meeting closed, “that we have sat here and consistently called books by women small and books by men large, by no quantifiable metric, and we are giving awards to books I think are actually kind of amateur and sloppy compared to others, and I think it’s disgusting.” (I wasn’t built for the board room.) “But we can’t be doing it because we’re sexist,” an estimable colleague replied huffily. “After all, we’re both men and women here.”

But that’s the problem with sexism. It doesn’t happen because people — male or female — think women suck. It happens for the same reason a sommelier always pours a little more in a man’s wine glass (check it!), or that that big, hearty man in the suit seems like he’d be a better manager. It’s not that women shouldn’t be up for the big awards. It’s just that when it comes down to the wire, we just kinda feel like men … I don’t know … deserve them.

”

- Lizzie Skurnick for President. (via stillawannablessedbe) (via gauntlet) (via thecurvature)

thecurvature: ekswitaj: icallbullshitonthat: ssjessica1286: (...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:48:46 -0800

thecurvature:

ekswitaj:

icallbullshitonthat:

ssjessica1286:

(via jjjjasmine)

Point? Legalize it.

"White privilege: Not having to release a statement condemning it every time some white guy shoots..."

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:03:53 -0800

“White privilege: Not having to release a statement condemning it every time some white guy shoots people.”

- via Ezra Klein (via savingpaper) (via ziatroyano) (via clingtomymouth) (via bowfolk) (via robot-heart-politics)

Word. And then even if you did, having people believe it’s sincerity without question.

(via listofnow)

(via thecurvature)

MsSGhcrBRevised.jpg (image)

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:18:47 -0800

MsSGhcrBRevised.jpg (image)

guerrillamamamedicine: lainemarie: (via jengillen)

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:32:51 -0800

guerrillamamamedicine:

lainemarie:

(via jengillen)

guerrillamamamedicine: materialworld: meshkaret:…Beautiful. lo...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:47:49 -0800

guerrillamamamedicine:

materialworld:

meshkaret:…Beautiful.

loveyourchaos:asredaspoppies:ilovefat:lovemeformexox:Kal Barteski

The Ordinary Person’s Guide to Empire State of Mind

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:02:05 -0800

The Ordinary Person’s Guide to Empire State of Mind

kari-shma: wha? (via *Cinnamon)

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:47:49 -0800

kari-shma:

wha? (via *Cinnamon)

Prison Photography

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:01:52 -0800

Prison Photography

thecurvature: fuckyeahjohnlennon: youroldarchenemycatwoman: wa...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:45:50 -0800

thecurvature:

fuckyeahjohnlennon:

youroldarchenemycatwoman:

waxandmilk:

Really diggin Paul’s look there with the squared-off tie. Really though, everyone here is pretty much on their maximum swagger.

via nickdrake

Reblogged for Ringo looking SO VERY BRITISH with his lovely purple umbrella. Also love John’s green umbrella (GREEN AND PURPLE ARE WIN) but he looks like he’s pouting so…

savethekitties: brownpau / catbird

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:18:49 -0800

savethekitties:

brownpau / catbird

"Gwen, Gwen! …My bike’s got a bell."

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:33:48 -0800

“Gwen, Gwen! …My bike’s got a bell.”

- Ianto Jones, “Lost Souls”

kari-shma: Onexposure - 1x.com - Photo: Window cleaners by...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:48:49 -0800

kari-shma:

Onexposure - 1x.com - Photo: Window cleaners by Jacek Stefan

kari-shma: (via i <3 Light)

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:03:50 -0800

kari-shma:

(via i <3 Light)

savethekitties: meinekatze / daizydaizy: ムサシさんおととい。伝説のまっすぐ寝。

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:17:48 -0800

savethekitties:

meinekatze / daizydaizy: ムサシさんおととい。伝説のまっすぐ寝。

kari-shma: Keep your head up (via i <3 Light)

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:32:49 -0800

kari-shma:

Keep your head up (via i <3 Light)

champagnecandy: isabelthespy: idiotfangirl: thetreesspeaktome:...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:47:18 -0800

champagnecandy:

isabelthespy:

idiotfangirl:

thetreesspeaktome:

wekissedthestars:

bestmistakeexx:

tracethesky:

kreachar:

I’m looking for 100 at least. So spread it far and wide.

Thank you, wonderful stranger. : ) <3

what my mother doesn’t know

The Private Series; Bad Girls; Ellen Hopkins; Saving Zoe

DEFFINITELY The Private Series. and Saving Soe, The Catcher in the Rye, and all of Sarah Dessen’s books

The Things They Carried, Middlesex, and The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

any book by francesca lia block

the golden compass, the subtle knife, the amber spyglass.

les miserables. shit, that book didn’t just change my life, it IS my life.

The Mists of Avalon; Loving in the War Years

When Johanna agreed to shoot with me it was under one condition;...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:02:00 -0800

When Johanna agreed to shoot with me it was under one condition; I was not to try to hide or cover up the fact that she had recently given birth.

In her first e-mail to me she wrote, “There has been a lot of attention given to photograhing pregnant women lately, but not post partum women ( at least not specifically post-partum). I think it would be interesting, it’s not something you generally get to see.”

Fine Nudes

champagnecandy: abbyjean: world distribution of child...

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:36:47 -0800

champagnecandy:

abbyjean:

world distribution of child malnutrition. interesting that the purple (higher percentage of underweight children) is a band rather than mapped to a continent.

best illustration of why we call it the “global south.”