Mad -

Jan
31st

Tue

The Sartorialist: Lunch for 25 (by The Sartorialist)

LOL @ Kanye that black man has made it

Jan
27th

Fri

Picking up garbage in Dahab (by davidzet)

This is kinda what I want to do in life.

Jan
10th

Tue

Lew to Replace Daley as White House Chief of Staff - NYTimes.com

Hugely smart move

Jan
7th

Sat

Kanye West – DONDA Lyrics | Rap Genius

i love this man

Jan
5th

Thu

The Rites of a Prison Cemetery - Slide Show - NYTimes.com

Jan
3rd

Tue

It’s vital, of course, to stay in touch with the world, and to know what’s going on; I took pains this past year to make separate trips to Jerusalem and Hyderabad and Oman and St. Petersburg, to rural Arkansas and Thailand and the stricken nuclear plant in Fukushima and Dubai. But it’s only by having some distance from the world that you can see it whole, and understand what you should be doing with it.

— The Joy of Quiet - NYTimes.com

Dec
14th

Wed

Beijing air goes from 'hazardous' to off the charts, literally | The Observers

Nov
16th

Wed

WHITE DUDES CRY AND DO MIXTAPES, WHITE GIRLS WILL RAPE YOU. THEY WILL ALSO ASK YOU OUT, NO FUCKIN PROBLEM. ANY OTHER SPECIES OF BITCHES WILL NOT ASK YOU OUT. NOT NEVER! UNLESS YOU’RE A PROFESSIONAL ATHLETE OR HAVE MORE THAN TWO COMMAS IN YOUR CHECKING ACCOUNT BALANCE.

— How White People Date, Part 2 | The Impersonals

A campus chorus sang “believe in freedom” around midday, and several students read Alan Ginsberg’s 1955 poetic anthem to generational independence, “Howl,” with successive groups shouting out the lines so those in the back of the crowd could hear.

In the early afternoon, hundreds of protesters split off from the crowd and marched down Bancroft Way into downtown Berkeley, blocking traffic as they waved signs and called out chants including “student power!”

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More than 1,000 UC students strike on Sproul Plaza

Does our generation really not have anything of our own to shout?

Nov
9th

Wed

All of this has left Oakland’s blacks and Latinos in a difficult position. They rightly criticize the police, but they also criticize the other invading army, the whites from other cities, and even other states, whom they blame for the vandalism that tends to break out whenever there is a heated protest in town: from the riots after the murder of Oscar Grant by a transit police officer in 2009, to the violence of the last two weeks downtown and, most recently, near the port.
Someday we may discern the deeper historical meaning of these latest events. For now, what’s striking are the racial optics. How did Asian-Americans respond to the sight of a diminutive Asian-American mayor being hooted off the stage by a largely white crowd at an Oct. 27 rally? And where was the sympathy when, in years past, unarmed blacks and Hispanics were beaten or killed? Why did it take the injury of a white protester to attract attention?