December 2011
American Horror Story
Right, so I take back pretty much everything I said about American Horror Story, because it really got its shit together towards the end. Unfortunately, it took roughly 6 hours of total film, or 8 weeks if you were actually watching it on TV, to work out what made it good. Maybe US TV audiences are more forgiving, and allow a show more time to grow and flourish, but you have to understand that 12...
I'm seeing a lot of posts themed around 'I am not...
artifist:
I won’t pick out any specifically, out of respect, and that this is not in response to any one person who says this, but the whole concept. The idea that a writer is something more, something transcendent.
I am a writer because I write. The same as my dad is a delivery man because he delivers things, and my mum is a teaching assistant because she assists a teacher.
I hate this...
“To those who might wish to “torrent” this video: look, I don’t really get the...”
– Louis CK, on his new special, Live at the Beacon, which is only available via his site. (via kaseyanderson) Amen. (via soupsoup)
Co-signed by Wil.
(via wilwheaton)
^Co-sign.
(via carnivaloftherandom)
I don’t know anyone who can argue with this logic. I mean, I’d still download it...
"My ex thought he could control lightening. You...
thiscuntsays:
diurnalvariations:
- Mary, who is now dating someone awesome who doesn’t believe he can control the weather.
why am i not surprised that he believed that at all?
trump card indeed.
Huh, for once there’s someone with a crazier ex than me. I’m impressed.
“It was not gender discrimination or sexist oppression that kept privileged women...”
– bell hooks - Where We Stand: Class Matters (via fivedollarradio
)
bam!!!!!! which brings me to white, elitist latinamerican feminism. pushing novelas about highly-skilled, uber-educated white latinas wanting to have equal standing and power with their fellow elite white men. still the focus is...
artifist:
It probably would’ve been smarter to do this in the first place, but I’ve now made Fuck Yeah, Thomas Sankara. I’ll make another post when it’s reblogged all the posts I’ve posted here if people don’t want to re-read the same quotes, but please, do share as much as you can.
“Well, I’ve changed the course of music five or six times. What have you done...”
– Miles Davis to Nancy Reagan at a White House dinner in 1987 after she’d inquired as to what he’d done with his life to merit an invitation. source (via marxisforbros)
Eh this is completely wrong. He was actually quite fond of the Reagans. It was at a White House dinner however. Here is what...
As if I didn't love Sankara enough:
artifist:
Elisabeth Nicolini: “You came to France recently to participate in the Tree and Forest Conference, where the problem of advancing desert was raised—a problem of great concern in your country. Have you read many books on this topic?”
Thomas Sankara: “[Smiling] No, they’re too dry.”
Credit Where It's Due Though
Crazy older ladies boy toy managed to pronounce Samhain correctly. I mean, he got little of the surrounding mythology correct, but he at least pronounced it right, which is pretty impressive by US standards.
Started Watching American Horror Story
I’m a third of the way through series 1 and … I’m just not getting it.
It feels like the writers rented a book about how to write a horror movie, but never bothered actually watching one. There’s no engagement with the premise whatsoever, it’s just premise. And the worst part is, it’s actually a really good premise; Desperate Housewives written by Stephen King....
Facts about Thomas Sankara's regime
artifist:
I gotta be honest as much as I love his speeches I’m like, hesitant to find out more about him because you KNOW there’s something horrible hidden away somewhere. Been scorned by revolutionaries too much in the past. Apparently Sankara shut down the unions and stopped the free press, but his reasoning for the union-busting actually sounds pretty legit (in his words, at least). And well,...
Facts about Thomas Sankara's regime
ceesboudoir:
He sold off the government fleet of Mercedes cars and made the Renault 5 (the cheapest car sold in Burkina Faso at that time) the official service car of the ministers.
He reduced the salaries of all public servants, including his own, and forbade the use of government chauffeurs and 1st class airline tickets.
He redistributed land from the feudal landlords and gave it directly...
milkntwosugars:
I think it’s probably the most authentically London movie full stop. Even with zombies it manages to paint the most accurate portrayal of life in the suburbs of London that I’ve ever seen in a film.
And I will love it forever.
Hot Fuzz does it as well. As silly as it got, it was a pretty accurate portrait of a small English town considering the circumstances.
I can't wait for all the Facebook statuses about...
seriouslyamerica:
AllAboutJesuschrist.org:
Was Jesus born on December 25? There is no evidence for this date. So then, who decided that Jesus’ birth would be celebrated on that date? The early Christian church did not celebrate Jesus’ birth. It wasn’t until A.D. 440 that the church officially proclaimed December 25 as the birth of Christ. This was not based on any religious evidence but...
Doctor Who (spoilers below)
chronicallyinebriatedfangirl:
i figured a detailed discussion about season six plot points is more germane on this blog so I ask again:
what????
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The Doctor is an assumed name (as is The Master, or The Commissar for example), not his real name, which is presumably a closely guarded secret. Way back in the (shows) past, when we first met River Song, she whispers his name in The...
Irish slavery
King James I and Charles I led a continued effort to enslave the Irish. Britain’s famed Oliver Cromwell furthered this practice of dehumanizing one’s next door neighbor.
The Irish slave trade began when James I sold 30,000 Irish prisoners as slaves to the New World. His Proclamation of 1625 required Irish political prisoners be sent overseas and sold to English settlers in the West Indies. By the...
Anyone Know Any Good Backwoods Noir?
Like Twin Peaks or Fargo.
Erm ...
weaklemondrink:
I thought it was puritan in origin. I mean its obviously a Hebrew WORD, but I thought it was like, you know,.Amish names or whatever. Hebrew, but not Jewish.
Yeah, I’ve done a bit of reading about it since and Dickens most certainly intended him to be Puritan rather than Jewish. Considering Fagin was explicitly Jewish, and that’s not exactly the most flattering...
Erm ...
Just started watching the Muppets Christmas Carol, and only just realised now that Scrooge is a money lender … with a Hebrew name … who refuses to celebrate Christmas …
Have I just … have I accidentally thought too hard about this and ruined Christmas?
Yesterday I heard a cat fart.
It was pretty much the greatest Christmas ever.
Dear historians and occultists,
mrgearmond:
this is actually the first im hearing of any european influence in voodoo/hoodoo aside from “it arose from slaves brought to places BY europeans” or whatever. i dunno. maybe its a bit of a different history in america because the first time european influence ever comes up in history of african based culture in americas is with jazz.
I can’t point you to any direct sources...
milkntwosugars:
Sometimes, I think that some of you really believe that Britain is is just wet, cobbled streets, filled with 62 million Morrissey’s.
That’s just Manchester.
Dear historians and occultists,
zorascreation:
The African-American folk magic belief system of Hoodoo has a bit less to do with Europe than previously believed. Pretty much all of the systems of ritual and material directly derive from West & Central African sources, such as:
hot-foot “tracking” powder
goofer or gopher dust (graveyard dirt)
mojo bags as a carry-on item (the term mojo derives from the Yoruba phrase of...
Reblog if there's no snow for Christmas where you...
witchsistah:
femmenoire:
metalhearted:
Which is awesome because I get to wear my utterly impractical but FIERCE shoes and boots.
I was talking to my parents yesterday and apparantly it was like 14 degrees outside for them. On Christmas day. That’s a pleasant summers day by Irish standards.
NO! Dr.Who, you are a show for children, YOU DO NOT GET TO MAKE ME FEEL LIKE THAT!
You know that .gif where Troy from Community is shouting MY EMOTIONS? Imagine that is posted right now, BECAUSE THAT IS EXACTLY HOW I FEEL!
Seriously, I am a grown ass woman, a childrens TV show should not make me cry. Repeatedly. FUCK YOU MOFFAT!
Reasons I Love London
It’s 3:30 on December 25th, but because 90% of the people who live in this area don’t celebrate Christmas I can still pop around to the shops and buy a buttload of alcohol like it’s no big deal at all.
FUCK YEAH!
Shameful Confessions
As much as I hate Grammer Nerds, I have to admit that whenever I mention bell hooks I always make sure it’s in a sentence with at least one other proper noun so that a casual observer will know that it’s how she chose to spell her name and not just me being too lazy to hit the shift key.
It’s a small thing, but it matters to me.
teramerapyar:
feralnostalgia a réagi à votre billet : I’m listening to that Madonna álbum where she…
haha, my friend teaching ESL in Honduras says she heard “Laffy Taffy” playing in her bank there. apparently USAmerican music gets a blanket pass for being (locally) incomprehensible and sounding like wealth.
This seems to happen a lot in non-Anglophone countries. In the lobby of a posh hotel...
thiscuntsays:
thelibraryharlot:
fannishminded:
greglestrades:
A letter written by Mr. Stephen Fry to a girl suffering from depression.
This man is my goddamn hero for so many reasons. Not least this.
This is beautiful and I love him even more.
do we need any more reasons to like stephen fry? i didn’t think so.
Steven Fry can have a free pass for up to ten (10) ladyboy jokes...
Went Christmas Shopping
Got some bitchin’ stuff.
Oh Good, It's Finally Stopped Pissing Down Long...
At 5pm.
The place I’m going to is, I’m pretty sure, open until around 8, but still. I’m not going for anything in particular, just seeing if I can find something I think The GF might like. 2 hours is nowhere near long enough for a comprehensive browse.
Me and poo.
fuckyeahgenderstudies:
As i don’t need to go right now, i thought i’d stop holding in some truths about myself and ablutions instead, in light of my previous post.
Like most women, i’ve held in poos and farts. I still haven’t done an audible fart in front of my SO. It’s a problem. And it so shouldn’t be—it’s just a psychological obstacle i can’t currently circumperambulate. Within the first...
Wage slavery without the wages: workfare schemes...
artifist:
Under new proposals, Job Seeker’s Allowance claimants who haven’t found a job once they have been through a work programme will do a 26 week placement in the community.
Participants will complete 30 hours of compulsory work a week in order to benefit their communities and develop basic employability skills.
Speaking at a Parliamentary Liaison Committee today, the Prime Minister...
And you thought the States were bad
midnightrevue:
I’d like to take a moment to underline that ‘right wing’ inherently means LESS state control, so to call this ‘right wing wanking’ is pretty wrong, really. Less state control is bad in some ways, like failing to pull the banks and corporations into line to prevent taxes which should be spent on public services from having to, say, bail them out. Ahem....
