Mary Blair (today's Google Doodle) & synesthesia
I’d never heard of synchromism, and now I’m super interested in it as artistic movement and general mid-century design influence.
I haven’t lived in DC in years; wish this existed when I did!
“How Fucked is Metro?”: Finally, a Web site that tells DC commuters how it really is on the Metro. (There’s a less-fucked SFW version, too.)
Reblogged from ShortFormBlog
get out of there cat. you cannot be in my dishwasher. i mean you’re not even a dish and you don’t food all over you. and you don’t need a washer anyway. you clean yourself because you are a cat.
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What can I say, I like things to be sorted properly.
[Picture: Background — a six piece pie style colour split, alternating cream and brown. Foreground — a picture of an alpaca. Top text: “ [Crochet under knitting tag] ” Bottom text: “ [Must. Control. Anger.] ”]
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Stuff Sick People Have to Put Up With: Words that I don't think should be banned or censored:
Really interested in this, because I do think that considering language and its evolution is important. At the same time, I think it’s important to distinguish between language that is being reclaimed by a group for their own use (“crip”) and language that serves to erase and devalue people’s experiences, and is primarily used by non-group members (“retarded” - which is not on this list, likely for this reason). Context does matter.
It matters at an individual level, as well - I’m currently working on reducing my use of “crazy,” focusing particularly on any contexts in which it describes a person or is used to mean “bad.” I’m not sure yet what I think about it used as an intensifier (“that party was crazy awesome!”) - I don’t think it communicates deficiency, it’s being used to mean “very.” Still thinking about this.
stuffsickpeoplehavetoputupwith:
- deaf (including figurative use)
- Deaf
- the deaf (including figurative use)
- the Deaf
- cripple (including figurative use)
- crippled (including figurative use)
- insane (including figurative use)
- disabled (including figurative use)
- disability
- lame (including figurative use)
- blind (including…
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It's not Britney, bitch.
This is real life, and it is more disturbing than that Onion piece from several years back about the discovery of the mummified corpse of “the real Michael Jackson” (pre-Jackson’s death, of course):
So sure — Britney was a lousy role model from the get-go, but g-ddamn if her syrupy exhibitionism wasn’t intoxicating for all the reasons it was destructive. Nobody asked you to take Britney Spears seriously, so it wasn’t a big deal to grow out of it. But looking back, I’d take the naive giddiness exhibited in Britney & Kevin:Chaotic over the muzzled detachment of I Am the Femme Fatale any day.
If only the outrage over a rehabilitated 29-year-old woman (who went nuts for a few years but had been way too sexy before that so clearly she required containment) becoming the personal and financial property of a man she never even liked was half as loud as the chorus that once proclaimed her sexual ‘antics’ as degrading to women.
I just recently realized that “Till the World Ends” was Britney - it’s totally generic, I assumed it was Ke$ha. But I had no idea the conservatorship was permanent. That’s terrifying.
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