December 2010
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“[The famous comedian, Richard Pryor] was born Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas...”
– — Richard Zoglin, in his 2008 book Comedy at the Edge, published by Bloomsbury, pp. 19-20, 44 (via canisfamiliaris)
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“Jerry Seinfeld once famously made a show of retiring all of his material and...”
– The Year of Louis CK (via johnness)
“The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we...”
– Carlos Castaneda (via notforpublicconsumption)
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“I am really glad that we made out on my stoop cause I think you’re rad”
– favourite quote of 2010.
Migrant farm workers: Fields of tears →
At a time of high unemployment, many Americans are convinced that these aliens take American jobs. As a test, this summer the United Farm Workers (UFW), the main agricultural union, launched a campaign called “Take Our Jobs”, inviting willing Americans to work in the fields. In the following three months 3m people visited takeourjobs.com, but 40% of the responses were hate mail, says Maria...
“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in...”
– Buddha
(via ageofreason)
Watchryking:
Road to ruin: Developers plan to destroy the Serengeti by developing a highway through its heart.
“The reason for this is that in much of the northern hemisphere, the prevailing...”
– Why are the East of Cities usually Poorer?
Coffee drinkers have more frequent sex than...
Pop Media Have Classified Every Behavior or... →
canisfamiliaris:
Brilliant.
@LeeHasAnxiety: "So do the girls from 'Toddlers &... →
“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a...”
– Jeanette Winterson; Art Objects: Essays on Ecstacy and Effrontery (via wordpainting)
Illusion of Truth →
azspot:
This is what psychologists call the illusion of truth effect and it arises at least partly because familiarity breeds liking. As we are exposed to a message again and again, it becomes more familiar. Because of the way our minds work, what is familiar is also true. Familiar things require less effort to process and that feeling of ease unconsciously signals truth (this is...
Watchthepilgrimslanded:
Watch these hillbillies absolutely crush the dance floor. GGG-G-Unit
Teach your 6 year old about social construction
jhnbrssndn:
At the next event where you might be expected to take photographs (a national holiday, a family event, a vacation), don’t take photographs when you would normally do so. Take them rigorously at predetermined times (every hour, the same time every day, etc) no matter what is going on. Instead of smiling groups or shots of individuals posing before a landmark or scenery, you will have...
"Misandry on TV" →
ryking:
Fifty-nine TV commercials (and counting) depicting men as stupid, lazy, immature, or as legitimate targets of female-on-male violence.
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fur packed action - everything
shazzaamm:
breeders - oh!
WatchElectric Pow Wow Drum (by Bear Witness)
via nativeskins
No police in Mexico town after last officer... →
the-madame-hatter:
Erika Gandara’s house was set on fire by unidentified gunmen before she was abducted last week, according to the state prosecutor’s office.
All her colleagues had resigned or were killed in the region’s drug war.
More than 30,000 people have died in drug-related violence since 2006 when the President announced a crackdown on the cartels.
In case anyone here ever asks me...
Mohawk media. →
fatsy:
It’s a small town with one ice cream shop but two TV channels, a place where radio stations outnumber hardware stores. Kahnawake is a Mohawk community near Montreal known for producing courageous steel workers who construct tall buildings and for harbouring lucrative Internet gambling and cigarette enterprises that exist in legal limbo. Kahnawake is also a town of 8,000 people with a...
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