Almost

funny depiction of a nauseating piece of news I heard on the radio.

http://boingboing.net/2014/06/30/an-illustrated-guide-to-amer.html

Magic

Make Believe Documentary

Fun website name...

http://www.thehoneyladies.com/

~~~~~

(but scary predicament...

http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2014/06/27/325640795/white-house-task-force-to-save-bees-stirs-hornets-nest )

Revisiting

Cut Chemist ~ The Garden  &  Beyond from The Animatrix

W-W-W-Whimsy

Many people around the planet are thrilled and excited about the World Cup. Some others, not so much. This very creative ad also reminded me that when I asked a group of about 30 young people to list off their favorite sports and mentioned the World Cup, none of them acted very excited--maybe some of them were, but they didn't act like it--and one girl wrote, "I hate soccer."

 http://time.com/2915617/world-cup-whimsy-mcdonalds-ad/

(Bread and circuses are for boys, says whimsical McDonald's ad?)

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To be fair....

http://time.com/2927761/likeagirl-always-female-empowerment/

revisiting

Cut Chemist ~ The Garden & Beyond from The Animatrix

better bookcover nostalgia

(ebay)

bayminibinge

nonononononono
http://www.vulture.com/2014/06/how-to-tell-youre-a-woman-in-a-michael-bay-film.html

yesyesyesyesyesyesyes

Beagle Baying With Tornado Siren
US Marine Surprise His Beagle Dog

Talking Dog Cute Beagle Puppy a Beagles Funny Baying

Here is my dog guiness

bored vid and i was singing my fav song yesterday from the BE...

beagle puppy howl

clearlyitslate

http://foreveryoungadult.com/2012/02/24/oh-petals-on-the-wind-a-blowing-all-day-long-chapters-9-12/

http://foreveryoungadult.com/2012/02/24/oh-petals-on-the-wind-a-blowing-all-day-long-chapters-9-12/

http://foreveryoungadult.com/2012/02/24/oh-petals-on-the-wind-a-blowing-all-day-long-chapters-9-12/

A meet B

A! The Ghost Writes Back by Amy Boesky

"For six years during my twenties, I worked as one of the principal ghostwriters for a mass-market series for teenaged girls called Sweet Valley High."

B! From Russia, With Love... by Erin Callahan

"Sweet Valley High 5: All Night Long
in which Jessica dates a rapey college guy with a mustache, and Elizabeth and Todd break up for reasons I can't remember
Number Of Drinks Taken: 13.
First Page On Which the Twins Are Described As "Blonde, Blue-eyed, All-American Good Looks" or equivalent: Page 2, I think"


A world without SVH #5 All Night Long is not a world in which my fourth-grade self was destined to exist...

a partir de 1979, pues

Bodymind mysterious

http://www.onceuponasaturday.com/69-darwin-3/

To this guy, people in favor of "trigger warnings" are close to being dangerous proponents of censorship, deserving of ridicule:

"When People Choose, They Choose Wrong"

I don't think everyone thinks that way. "Wanting trigger warning" does not necessarily equal "wanting to ban books." Or wanting to forget everything. To me, ridiculing traumatized people about wanting "trigger warnings" seems kind of like yelling at a person with severe dyslexia for not naturally having high level reading abilities, or something.  I do not know why some people are more easily triggered by certain words / images / experiences than others. For that matter, why do some people have issues with sugar or alcohol and others can gaily chomp away / drink away without almost any sort of negative side effect?

http://blogs.psychcentral.com/panic/2014/02/low-blood-sugar-and-panic-attacks-how-are-they-related/

Why are some  "able to hold their liquor" and others for some reason are not "able" to do so?

http://psychcentral.com/lib/alcohol-consumption-and-genetics/0004943


Why can some people read on the bus without getting sick???!!!!!

http://www.greathillsent.com/blog/post/my-doctor-says-the-rocks-in-my-head-are-making-me-dizzy-what-now--the-bppv-problem.html

Looks so good to me

http://www.salon.com/2014/06/21/5_ways_to_help_girls_survive_a_world_of_sexism_partner/

1. Support girls’ creativity.

2. Volunteer with girls.

3. Help girls develop a sense of humor.

4. Encourage physical activity.

5. Travel with girls. 

 ~~~~~

"Societally, 'we teach men to distance themselves from the experiences of women and girls,' said Tony Porter, one of the organization’s co-founders. Boys aren’t encouraged to befriend girls, he said. When they do, they are teased about romantic or homosexual implications. To encourage mutual respect, however, boys and girls must be allowed the space to form meaningful bonds."

http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/6/feminism-boys-educationmisogynysexismgenderequality.html

 

12 Delights

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower

chanson du matin

Awoke with an old 80s tune running through my head. Couldn't make out any of the words but thought I could ID the voice...and found it.

3

From http://cironline.org/blog/post/heres-look-3-plans-stop-rape-fields-6422


No. 1: Focus on contractors who provide growers with labor

"There’s a push right now in the California Legislature to ratchet up the accountability on the middlemen who provide growers with the seasonal workers they need to pick vegetables, prune orchards or thin vineyards."

No. 2: Get advocates directly into the field

"'You have to go to the people,' Segura said. 'You don’t wait for them to come to you, especially for those with high risk factors and barriers to accessing services, and farmworkers are very much that.'”

No. 3: Turn to drama

"A Spanish radio soap opera tells the harrowing story of Juana, a Washington state farmworker who starts a new job at a local orchard with her friend Lupe....The script is drawn in part from the experiences of 20 Yakima Valley female farmworkers who helped create a University of Washington-sponsored public health campaign."

miresomemediamaniamonotony

J. M.:  5 Things
Ashley Scott & The Rock (Walking Tall)
Gridiron Gang trailer
Girls and Guns
22 Jump Street trailer

hot criminal

http://www.buzzfeed.com/saeedjones/time-for-an-oz-marathon

leads to literary quiz

http://www.buzzfeed.com/saeedjones/who-said-it-james-baldwin-or-audre-lorde

You got 10 out of 13 right!

You’re definitely familiar with both Baldwin and Lorde’s work, but they were wonderfully prolific. If you’ve already read Lorde’s autobiography Zami: A New Spelling Of My Name and essay collection Sister Outsider, you might find The Cancer Journals especially moving. If you already own James Baldwin’s Collected Essays and are still craving more of his brilliance, The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings was published in 2010.

Curious to see how mugshot felon's fame unfolds...

~~~~~

Maybe they can put him in the stands the next time there's a World Cup camera pan. 

 

hilarious car window moments

something else, not the same http://libertyhillhouse.blogspot.com/2010/08/making-medieval-swords.html

a round little boy in a big green t-shirt swinging a thick green "sword" at an unarmed girl also running around in the yard until she turns around and chases/hits him...

Thoughts of traveling

"

http://tropdamour.co.za/tag/travelling-dreams/

A part of me LOVES traveling. LOVES it.

And then there's the other part.

"It’s not for the fainthearted. It’s for the Joan of Arcs, the warrior goddesses, the Valkyries."

"Of course, I’ve had my share of danger, of close calls, of almosts, while traveling solo. There was time I was locked in a Honduran border patrol office and the official took off his clothes, telling me that he was going to rape me. And the time I was on a crowded Calcutta street and a group of men groped me. And the time a Colombian taxi driver refused to let me out of his cab and drove me around for hours, talking dirty to me. And the time I discovered my hotel room in Bangladesh was full of peepholes and I had been watched for months. And the time an Englishman, the husband of a dear friend, offered to take me on a day tour of London and instead took me to a hotel and held my wrists so tight he bruised..."

http://www.alternet.org/gender/after-i-was-raped-i-couldnt-even-leave-house-now-i-travel-world-solo


The part that says, maybe one of the privileges of being an anxiety-riddled poor who doesn't travel much is that you don't have to live up to certain  "bravery" stories.

~~~~

Another fun activity is slightly changing the words to the The All By Myself  in Las Vegas Airport video:

All by myself
just wanna be
all by myself...

~~~~

But that aside...

"Only about half the country takes as much as one flight a year; I’m willing to bet that virtually every U.S. citizen gets in a passenger car at least once per annum. And while most of those car trips are the business of everyday life -- getting to work, procuring food, etc. -- most of those flights are either vacations, or elite workers flitting to conferences and business meetings.

Those trips are simultaneously less necessary and more carbon intensive; almost eight times as many passenger miles are traveled by car as by plane, but passenger car travel only accounts for 3 to 4 times as much greenhouse gas emission. Moreover, while we may eventually wean cars off of gasoline, air travel will, I’m told, pretty much always require hydrocarbons; nothing else can contain so much energy in so little weight, which means they’re the only way to get the plane off the ground. Air travel is not only bad for the environment now, but also will be bad for the environment 30 years from now."

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-12/air-travel-is-worse-than-a-hummer-with-wings.html

The beauty of tonight

NO MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES  & WHO IS THE CUTEST IN THIS

She's crafty...

Some close-up shots of whatever she was doing with her hands would have improved this tutorial, but A for Amusement...



3:25: "If you've never used it before, it works wonders. And if you've never smelled it before, it smells like my Dad's cirrhosis psoriasis medication."

E~musique

First and last from Room Noises.

It will be difficult to top this

for Father's Day

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/george-rr-martin-michigan-based-ceo-upcoming-game/story?id=24125027

Such

Anticipation

Violet heart

(Have ordered The Chronicles...)

Old book cover

http://www.aartichapati.com/2011/08/tss-musings-tree-grows-in-brooklyn.html

~~~~

(And introduction to the book)

There’s a tree that grows in Brooklyn. Some people call it the Tree of Heaven. No matter where its seed falls, it makes a tree which struggles to reach the sky. It grows in boarded up lots and out of neglected rubbish heaps. It grows up out of cellar gratings. It is the only tree that grows out of cement. It grows lushly…survives without sun, water, and seemingly earth. It would be considered beautiful except that there are too many of it.

-A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Introduction

 http://www.brokencitylab.org/blog/a-tree-grows-in-detroit/

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tree%20of%20heaven

From Lynn Beisner (pseudonym)

"Contrary to Will’s assertions, I have never encountered a trigger warning in a college classroom, but I’m sure they must be present in some. I’m sure it must be a horrible inconvenience for a professor who has to insert a boilerplate line into a syllabus, and it must be annoying to read such a warning if you, as a student, have no such triggers. Surely that pain and annoyance outweighs the risk of a PTSD relapse for students who have been assaulted."


 http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2014/06/10/privileges-ive-experienced-survivor-sexual-assault/


*****

"For more than a decade, I have been working or studying on college campuses. And I can say that, as George Will asserts, sexual assault victims who report being victimized get all sorts of privileges. They get special tutors who sit with them during tests. Their papers are practically written for them, and they barely have to show up to class.

Wait, sorry, those are athletes I’m thinking of.

I remember one class where we were discussing an issue related to sexual assault, and a woman was so rattled by the discussion that she confessed to having been the victim of a recent sexual assault. Let me tell you how many people lined up to escort her to a counselor, to make sure the assault was reported to campus police.

Nobody. That’s how many people did that.

But there must have been a huge payoff in the status she was afforded. Who doesn’t want to be known as a 'crazy bomb' that could go off at any second?"

 http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2014/06/10/privileges-ive-experienced-survivor-sexual-assault/


*****


"A few years ago, I received a rape and death threat against my daughter so gruesome and personal that I have felt obligated to write under a pseudonym since.

The truth is that George Will is lying. There is no privilege or status granted to those who have been sexually assaulted. We are counted as liars or trouble-makers. We become the objects of gossip, attacks, and other people’s projected shame."


 http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2014/06/10/privileges-ive-experienced-survivor-sexual-assault/

A blue hand

By Sharon Walker  http://intimesoftrouble.com/cover-art/#novel

O

http://www.misterkitty.org/extras/stupidcovers/stupidcomics332.html

Why do I get the feeling

That David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, Alex Graves, et al. would have gotten along really well with Christopher Columbus?

"How innocent it looks now, the controversial Jaime-Cersei scene, with its single demure assault of a grieving woman by her brother beside the poisoned corpse of their incestuously-begotten son. The next episode gifted us with a whole flotilla of angry cocks as - in another departure from George R.R. Martin's source books - the Night's Watch assaulted en masse the already serially abused daughter-wives of Craster. It made for grim viewing. Watch the scene for long enough and the Cersei-Jaime-corpse caper takes on the fond, sepia edges of an Edwardian picnic. Ah, for the rapes of yesteryear."

http://jezebel.com/game-of-thrones-sex-and-hbo-where-did-tvs-sexual-pion-1586508636

Real-life Leslie Knope???

http://www.fastcocreate.com/1679180/meet-the-man-behind-parks-rec-paintings-forks-in-twilight

"...whose gregarious personality and penchant for perfectionism propelled her extensive career in community service..."

~ Emily Ishigaki obituary

Cheery Rosemary

Edison Lighthouse song:

Men in skirts

Yesterday, two young man were discussing whether it's okay or not okay to follow a girl around if you are interested in her. Near them was a bunch of literature about "rape culture." (Coincidence?) 1st one: I don't know about following someone around, man, how can that be consensual? 2nd one: Well, I am very open-minded. Things are different in other countries. Me: But a lot of women have had at least one encounter with a guy where they felt unsafe...it's a gray area and people don't always agree. 2nd one: stares at me coldly until I look away/walk away and starts talking about the artistic merits of Japanese pornography. Later I ask the 1st one how they got on the topic. I was wondering if it had anything to do with the literature nearby. 1st one: He said he wants me to harass him. Me: What?! 1st one: He wants to wear a skirt and then he wants me follow him around and harass him. (Okay dude...if you think that putting on a skirt and picking out a guy you have pre-selected to follow you around and "harass" you will help you figure out some things...)

http://www.godammit.com/2010/09/12/gratuitous-cute-guy-post-iii/

Fantasy

From http://www.katieheaney.com/post/86753385834

"Something I fantasize about a lot is threatening my friends’ rapists. In college, the morning after one of the times it happened, we ate breakfast in the cafeteria and tried to negotiate our continued existence in the same confined space as them (because, though the school would find out, they would not be expelled), and I saw them joking about it. My school was small and you either ate on one side of the cafeteria or the other, and their side was the same as ours, and so I saw them. They had taken turns raping my friend and filming it on one of their phones. At breakfast I saw them mimicking the act of filming with an old-timey camera, like you do when you play Charades. They laughed and so did all the guys sitting with them. They were popular..."