Fuck Yeah, Zac Roberts!

makinaro: “Where did you get that shirt, Maki?”

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:19:51 -0400

makinaro:

“Where did you get that shirt, Maki?”

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Wed, 12 Jun 2013 18:23:46 -0400

wisdomspearl: Life is too short to live it fast just a lined...

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 14:14:17 -0400

wisdomspearl:

Life is too short to live it fast

just a lined tattoo concept

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Tue, 04 Jun 2013 14:02:57 -0400

fucktheory: No, Really. Who Gave This Person A TV Show? Lena...

Sat, 25 May 2013 15:29:34 -0400

fucktheory:

No, Really. Who Gave This Person A TV Show?

Lena Dunham recently explained, in three easy steps, ~~why she’s a dumbass~~ why she “can’t just laugh off a porn parody of Girls.”

Her reasoning:
“1. Because Girls is, at its core, a feminist action while Hustler is a company that markets and monetizes a male’s idea of female sexuality.

2. Because a big reason I engage in (simulated) onscreen sex is to counteract a skewed idea of that act created by the proliferation of porn.

3. Because it grosses me out.”

The essence of my refutation is on the card above; there’s not much to add except “Holy crap fuck off.” Porn “grosses you out” but you’re going to be the evangelist who fixes the world’s “skewed idea” of sex? Here’s a newsflash - many, many people enjoy and consume pornography. People of all stripes, creeds, and preferences. There are many kinds of pornography out there. There are, statistically speaking, way way way more people out there who love porn than there are people out there who have their own private glass house on HBO. So you can see why I think you’re kind of an asshole if you think your incredibly odd niche-sexuality should be imposed on a huge porn-loving public.

While debate about the value of pornography, especially in feminist discourse, generally center on the problem of representation (does it show sex “accurately”? are the representations “biased”?) Lena isn’t smart enough to stay in the domain of representation, where she might actually kind of have a valid point. She has to go and make the economic move. It’s not just that she personally finds something distasteful, which is a fair argument. No, Lena has to stage her own personal affect as a political struggle, opposing her “unskewed” sexual preferences (which conveniently line up with her version of “feminism”) to the uncritical “monetization” of sexuality produced by “a company that markets and monetizes a male’s idea of female sexuality.”

The problem with this bad-faith opposition (other than the fact that it’s bullshit, of course) is that it entirely elides the reality of the marketing and distribution of cultural commodities of any kind, all of which have a specific relation to the market. There isn’t a commodity that isn’t subject to marketing; we just market different commodities differently, that’s all. Lena, however, needs her own special high horse to ride. But here’s the dirty secret that Lena would never admit, because her work is “a feminist action”: the audience for Girls is far, far less representative of normative desire than the porn market is. You know why? Because nobody has any fucking reason to sit and watch a porno they don’t actually enjoy. Well, maybe not nobody. But the point is, “pornography” actually answers to the statistical norms of supply and demand much more clearly than “cultural” phenomena like Girls.

People who buy porn go out and buy the porn they like. The sales of porn reflect pretty directly the kind of porn people want to watch, and the reason for that is that, again, very few people would sit and watch a porno they don’t enjoy. People might deny enjoying a porno they do enjoy, but very few people would claim to enjoy - or even sit through - one that they didn’t. But there are any number of reasons why someone might watch Dunham’s crappy show even though its depiction of sexuality is entirely alien to them. Social pressure, for example. From other hipsters. Or from the news media. Or maybe they have a partner who watches it. Maybe they’re hanging out with friends and their friends watch it. Either way, the chance that a viewer of Dunham’s show would be exposed to a version of sexuality that is “skewed” in relation to their own desire is infinitely greater than the chance of the same thing happening to a consumer of pornography. So who’s the one who needs correcting here?

The only real reason to be upset about this porn parody, as I see it, is that the producer and actors of that porn parody are being paid so much less than Dunham and her actors. THAT’s a monetary injustice, and a very real one. But that would also never occur to Lena, who prefers to restage political economy in the same way that she restages sexuality, dating, and life in New York: as a taste-making mirror of her own goddamn issues.

No, but seriously. STFU.

Winston is the best.

Thu, 16 May 2013 10:40:09 -0400

Winston is the best.

voetry: wow

Sun, 12 May 2013 11:13:49 -0400

voetry:

wow

dreaminginspanish: He doesn’t care about the possibility of not...

Fri, 03 May 2013 11:23:46 -0400

dreaminginspanish:

He doesn’t care about the possibility of not looking towards where he is walking and getting run over.

Ignorance is a disease and it only kills you in the end.

To be fair neither of the kissing dudes are looking either and could just as easily be struck with a meteorite or bird.

Public displays of affection kill.

"(TRIGGER WARNING) “Don’t you know that slavery was outlawed?” “No,” the guard said, “you’re wrong...."

Fri, 03 May 2013 11:21:08 -0400

“

(TRIGGER WARNING) “Don’t you know that slavery was outlawed?”
“No,” the guard said, “you’re wrong. Slavery was outlawed with the exception of prisons. Slavery is legal in prisons.”
I looked it up and sure enough, she was right. The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution says:

“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”

Well, that explained a lot of things. That explained why jails and prisons all over the country are filled to the brim with Black and Third World people, why so many Black people can’t find a job on the streets and are forced to survive the best way they know how. Once you’re in prison, there are plenty of jobs, and, if you don’t want to work, they beat you up and throw you in a hole. If every state had to pay workers to do the jobs prisoners are forced to do, the salaries would amount to billions… Prisons are a profitable business. They are a way of legally perpetuating slavery. In every state more and more prisons are being built and even more are on the drawing board. Who are they for? They certainly aren’t planning to put white people in them. Prisons are part of this government’s genocidal war against Black and Third World people.

”

- Assata (via michellehuxtable)

I tell my students this every single semester.

(via notesofanativesister)

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Fri, 03 May 2013 11:11:24 -0400

lordbandog: bwansen: deadinmagazines: stopdropandrun: Jonatha...

Fri, 03 May 2013 11:08:46 -0400

"The Twins" - depicting the attacks of 9/11

"A Boo Grave" - depicting Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse and torture

"GOT HIM" - depicts Seal Team 6 's raid and takedown of Osama Bin Laden

"Dear Leader" - depicting North Korea and their threats against the world.

"White Nights" - depicting Jim Jones and the fall of Jamestown

"Obama Nation" - depicting Obama's rise to presidency and politics

"Holy Smoke" - depicting a monk, Thich Quang Duc who burned himself, protesting the Vietnam War

"Acid Washed" - depicting acid attacks in Muslim countries

lordbandog:

bwansen:

deadinmagazines:

stopdropandrun:

Jonathan Hobin Re-Creates the World’s Most Infamous Tragedies with Children

more of the album here

This is really offensive.

I’m not sure how to feel about this. Art: Mission accomplished.

This is the best art I’ve seen all year.

Happy May Day!

Wed, 01 May 2013 22:47:33 -0400

Happy May Day!

"The gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment may be our last. Everything..."

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 15:59:57 -0400

“The gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment may be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.”

- Homer, The Illiad (via happyfacesmileyperson)

nightowlin: This is where the party endsI can’t stand here...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:30:22 -0400

nightowlin:

This is where the party ends
I can’t stand here listening to you
and your racist friend
I know politics bore you
but I feel like a hypocrite talking to you
and your racist friend
-They Might Be Giants, Your Racist Friend

You know this has happened to you at some point.

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Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:23:20 -0400

comedycentral: In need of a series finale? Why not September...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:45:40 -0400

comedycentral:

In need of a series finale? Why not September 4?

That’s right, the final season of Futurama is coming, with the season premiere airing June 19 at 10/9c and the finale scheduled for September 4.

Special guests this season will include Larry Bird, Dan Castellaneta, Sarah Silverman, George Takei, Adam West and Burt Ward.

As always, we’ll be counting down to the season premiere with 50 days of exclusive advanced images, storyboards and preview clips. So stay tuned for that.

In the meantime, click the gif to watch a teaser video for the upcoming episodes.

Six seasons.
Four movies.
Futurama, you will be missed.
And re-watched over and over again.

thistr3reads: isthiswittyenoughforyou: perpetualvelocity: The...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:37:37 -0400

thistr3reads:

isthiswittyenoughforyou:

perpetualvelocity:

The laST ONE

HAROLD REMEMBERED TO PUT ON HIS SASSY PANTS TODAY

all of this. every last bit of it.

I once had a question that read:
The clock ticked like a ____.
I filled in the blank with “ham sandwich.”
The teacher marked that as wrong.
One of these days I’m going to use ” The clock ticked like a ham sandwich. Not at all, because it was dead.” and she’s not going to see it, probably because she was old and will be dead.

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Sun, 21 Apr 2013 21:29:49 -0400

xthegirlwithkaleidoscopeeyesx: Members of the Animal Liberation...

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 21:25:12 -0400

xthegirlwithkaleidoscopeeyesx:

Members of the Animal Liberation Front free animals from a research lab at the University of Iowa, smash computers and destroy records.

Doesn’t destroying the records mean they’re just going to have to do all the research again?

homerrssimpson: this is my favourite simpsons scene

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 21:23:04 -0400

homerrssimpson:

this is my favourite simpsons scene