“All is Full of Love” by Björk
Sometimes I just think I’m glad this song exists. It feels weird to take lyrics so seriously at this age. It feels like the practice of my life as a teenager. It feels like something you do when you feel vulnerable and life at 16 or 17 or 18 is vulnerable. But so is life at 24, perhaps more so. And if life as a teenager means not realizing how vulnerable and earnest one is, then perhaps life at 24 is realizing all of this, but still taking time to be in the moment of one’s worries and emotions and hopes. As in, not being afraid of how you feel and wanting something more. Sometimes it’s nice to listen to the lyrics of a song and feel connected to them. It’s a heady feeling, that connection between song and heart and head.
From One Muppet To Another of the Day: At a press conference to promote the London premiere of the Muppets movie, Kermit and Miss Piggy respond to Fox Business host Eric Bolling’s claim that the film pushes a liberal pro-environment anti-capitalist agenda in an effort to brainwash kids.
Photography and the internet are such amazing things.
Yup, just another night in the war zone. Putting a bottle of wine in a plastic bag and walking from 27th Street to 14th Street to go eat banh mi. Seeing almost no people on the way, my twilight stroll was unhindered by—apparently—flames. The only disruption being the drone of 4 low-flying police helicopters circling downtown with searchlights. (And however many blocked streets it takes to illegally kettle 200 people in front of the YMCA.)
My stress dream last night combined my two greatest fears: nuclear war and armed social collapse. I survived the accidental detonation of one of the warheads stored at the Lawrence-Berkeley labs in Livermore, CA, only to be shot several times in front of the Humanist Hall.
I look forward to new and creative iterations of this dream in the months to come.
Photos from the ongoing police-protester standoff in Oakland right now. All of the photos were taken by Intifada Tent, a Twitter user currently live-tweeting from Oakland. The tear gas canister pictured above is, according to @IntifadaTent, the same brand used by the Israeli military.
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Shit is about to go down in Oakland.
Wanted to make sure I’m the only person who thought “William of Orange” would be a great name for a continental modernist furniture collection. Don’t steal my idea.
Billy Bragg singing “Which Side Are You On” in Germany during the ‘84-‘85 Miners’ Strike in Britain.
The love I have for young Billy Bragg and his black polo shirt is so pure and perfect.
apparently this young white woman is discovering really cool corners of the internet and compositing them into a really cool new phenomenon - single topic gimmick tumblrs. in fact, her coolest single topic tumblr is on people who take screenshots of themselves doing sl porn. she did this from may 30th to sept 21st 2011. and she appears to be not very tolerant of the wide panoply of human sexuality: “Awful stills from Second Life made for those who cannot get laid in First Life. ”
have we all not gotten high and trolled people’s flickrs who only post pictures of themselves in second life, preferrably the flickrs where it’s just pictures of them over and over, sometimes with their friends having fun, but mostly them? it doesn’t all have to be sexual, it’s enough that they like taking pictures of themselves.
it’s not like it’s been a hobby of mine since 2006.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gabrielleohare/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23788916@N05/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/charllielane
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/simplybea/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/violetbatriani/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/emmylin/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ethereal_warrhol/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/makochin_sl/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/midoon/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gogolita/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dmetall/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shootemupstudio/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/supmasecondlifedawg/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29482453@N08/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ponyo-kozlov/
