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All shootings aren't created equal?

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:24:41 -0500

American tragedies don’t occur on the southside of Chicago or the New Orleans 9th Ward. They don’t occur where inner city high school kids shoot into school buses or someone shoots at a 10-year old’s birthday party in New Orleans. Or Gary, Indiana. Or Compton. Or Newport News.

David Dennis asks (and answers) a compelling question: Why isn’t the New Orleans Mother’s Day parade shooting a national tragedy?

YES. THIS. THIS!!! vicemag: Please Don’t #FitchTheHomeless I’m...

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:25:37 -0500

YES. THIS. THIS!!!

vicemag:

Please Don’t #FitchTheHomeless

I’m sure by now you’ve seen that video that Los Angeles-based writer Greg Karber made where he hands out a buch of Abercrombie gear to homeless people. It’s embedded above if you haven’t.

Karber made the video in response to that stuff that Abercrombie CEO Mike Jeffries said about their “no women’s clothing above a size 10” policy. Essentially, Jefferies only wants “thin and beautiful people” shopping at his stores, because he doesn’t want the “cool kids” to have to endure the horror of seeing a fat person wearing the same outfit as them. I think we can all agree that the most shocking part of Mike’s statements is that they reveal there’s a person out there who thinks that the cool kids are wearing Abercrombie.

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Karber handed out A&F clothing to, as far as I can tell from the video, a fairly bewildered homeless population on Los Angeles’s Skid Row. His goal was to “rebrand” Abercrombie & Fitch by putting their clothing not on the cool kids that Mike Jeffries so loves, but on the homeless, who, I guess, are the opposite of cool.

Now, if you only think about it for a few seconds, it would appear that this is a great campaign. Karber wanted to make a point about Abercrombie & Fitch and to “clothe the homeless,” in his words, while doing it. Unfortunately, “Fitch the Homeless,” as Karber dubbed his campaign, is fucking stupid. For one thing, Karber doesn’t appear to ask these people if they want Abercrombie & Fitch clothing, or if he did ask them, he cut those parts from the video for some reason. He just sort of dumps polo shirts and A&F brand tees onto the residents of Skid Row, as if they were pack mules and he were a sherpa venturing into the mountains to deliver striped rugby shirts to a monastery.

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"But none of them realized as Dalí did that dreams are actually not indistinct and misty and floaty...."

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:23:54 -0500

“But none of them realized as Dalí did that dreams are actually not indistinct and misty and floaty. They happen in the middle of the afternoon. Crystal clear. …And dreams don’t have a subtext. You don’t think in a dream. The most unusual stuff happens in the most unusal way. All in broad daylight with no shade.”

- John Cooper Clarke, on Salvador Dalí (via nevver)

This is all of Stop Making Sense by the Talking Heads and it is...

Thu, 16 May 2013 11:31:23 -0500

This is all of Stop Making Sense by the Talking Heads and it is BRILLIANT. David Byrne is a genius, and I don’t throw that word around. What a fucking rock star.

Women of the 113th - Modification of the last infographic....

Tue, 14 May 2013 22:08:57 -0500

Women of the 113th - Modification of the last infographic....:

This is a great graphic. Also, COME ON YOU GUYS! We can do better.

laughingsquid: Wide-Angle Interior Shots of Sagrada Família...

Tue, 14 May 2013 21:33:00 -0500

laughingsquid:

Wide-Angle Interior Shots of Sagrada Família Church in Barcelona

This is beautiful, but it’s breathtaking in person.

sixbucks: jtotheizzoe: Oh, and one more treat to celebrate the...

Mon, 13 May 2013 10:06:29 -0500

sixbucks:

jtotheizzoe:

Oh, and one more treat to celebrate the end of the Cmdr. Hadfield era on the ISS as he readies for his return tomorrow.

Here he is singing David Bowie’s “Space Oddity”, in space.

Your head now has permission to explode.

Holy Fucking Science!

sixbucks: folkinz: loretta lynn: fist city

Thu, 09 May 2013 18:04:05 -0500

sixbucks:

folkinz:

loretta lynn: fist city

I love Missy SO MUCH.

Wed, 08 May 2013 15:54:16 -0500

I love Missy SO MUCH.

sixbucks: Muddy Waters: I Can’t Be Satisfied

Tue, 07 May 2013 18:57:35 -0500

sixbucks:

Muddy Waters: I Can’t Be Satisfied

deathfix: Deathfix 5/7/2013 Steve McQueen

Tue, 07 May 2013 15:43:49 -0500

deathfix:

Deathfix 5/7/2013 Steve McQueen

nevver: “The dirtiest book in our language is a quite astute...

Mon, 06 May 2013 20:28:56 -0500

nevver:

“The dirtiest book in our language is a quite astute manual telling people how to earn money by writing.” — Ezra Pound

notthefather: You _____ the father! (From Maury’s Facebook...

Mon, 06 May 2013 18:14:05 -0500

notthefather:

You _____ the father!

(From Maury’s Facebook page)

OMG, you guys. Maria, I immediately thought of you when I saw this.

Photo

Sun, 05 May 2013 08:18:53 -0500

God, you’re the worst.

Fri, 03 May 2013 23:58:51 -0500

God, you’re the worst.

Embroidery project? Embroidery project.

Thu, 02 May 2013 11:58:55 -0500

Embroidery project? Embroidery project.

I WANT TO SEE THIS MOVIE.

Wed, 01 May 2013 19:56:02 -0500

I WANT TO SEE THIS MOVIE.

"The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them."

Wed, 01 May 2013 19:50:56 -0500

“The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.”

- Maya Angelou (via ellielamothe)

TROOF.

yoisthisracist: jrbd asked: Yo, middle schoolers in Baltimore are using “yo” as a gender neutral...

Wed, 01 May 2013 19:50:01 -0500

yoisthisracist:

jrbd asked: Yo, middle schoolers in Baltimore are using “yo” as a gender neutral pronoun. Cool kids, or coolest? (I heard it on npr)

SHOUTOUT TO THOSE KIDS THEY SEEM DOPE

nevver: Bukowski How wrong we were…

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:47:33 -0500

nevver:

Bukowski

How wrong we were…