February 2010
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Torching the Velvet
Me: The only way that BBC can redeem Torchwood is if they make it about the Victorian Lesbian Couple and Jack having crazy adventures. Also, they have to hire Kate Beaten as a writer
Amanda: Yeah, and they could hang out with Nan and Flo from Sarah Water's novels. They could call it Torching the Velvet.
January 2010
Pinkwashing
newleft:
Just how aware are you of breast cancer? At least in my experience, it’s virtually the only kind of cancer I see talked about in any mainstream news outlets. I’m not trying to attack anyone who has to deal with the horrific experience of cancer, but the pink ribbon campaigns are approaching it in precisely the wrong way.
Past a certain point, more awareness doesn’t help anyone. Most of...
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svenska
I’m trying to learn Swedish. I’ve downloaded the most recent Kent album and the fantastic movie Let The Right One In, as to immerse myself in the language a little. I might watch some Bjorn Gustaffson comedy, if I can find it with decent-quality subtitles. Does anyone out there have suggestions for Swedish-language movies or music I should watch/listen to?
“Her parties were the stuff of legend. At her soirees, she had gilt nude male...”
– “The Most Scandalous Woman in the World” (via filthygorgeousthings)
this is the opulent insanity i both hate and desire.
Food Marketers Try "Local-washing" →
criticalculture:
pieto:
“The ingenuity of the food manufacturers and marketers never ceases to amaze me,” remarked author Michael Pollan. “They can turn any critique into a new way to sell food.” Marketers are appropriating language from the “eat local” or “locavore” movement, which encourages support for small farms, sustainable practices and better treatment of animals. Now, “several big...
“Dude, Ahab, you’re a dick! Just so we got that clear.”
– my roommate Iain, yelling as he watches Moby Dick
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Lady Gaga, Balls-Out: Recuperating Queer... →
criticalculture:
because Lady Gaga is always performing, she simultaneously never actually exists, fully inhabiting Richard Dyer’s assertion that “we never actually know [stars] directly as real people, only as they are to be found in media texts.”1 Onstage and off, in interviews and in her lyrics, Lady Gaga collapses the distinction between star image, character, and performance, thus...
hrg.
uniquelythesame:
indielowercase:
sick on a friday night, thinking about the internet and performative identity. makes me want to delete my facebook and only post vague weirdness anywhere online. hrrrrg.
somewhat inspired by this article in the frisky.
might edit this post to make more coherent thoughts later.
Sick on a Friday? Hey me too!
In response to the article: What is real life...
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hrg.
sick on a friday night, thinking about the internet and performative identity. makes me want to delete my facebook and only post vague weirdness anywhere online. hrrrrg.
somewhat inspired by this article in the frisky.
might edit this post to make more coherent thoughts later.
Documentary about sex-workers living under Sharia... →
pythoness:
(via isotoldyouso)
criticalculture:
jhnbrssndn:
hereharehere:
“So it’s especially disheartening that their name has been reassigned, and not to any foolish but vigorous crop of tyros, but to parasites. Eric Fredericksen defines the hipster as “a consumer of (sub)culture, a person who substitutes taste for creative drive.” That sort has probably been around forever, but didn’t really become an identifiable...
oh hi new fave gif ever
helveticunt:
ibleedmonthly:
melissaschiller:
gifparty:
dead. i am dead.
almost spat hot toddy on the keyboard
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“Both Howard Zinn and J.D. Salinger died on Lewis Carrolls birthday…...”
– Sky Cohen
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