Stamped: January. 7. 2011
Brooklyn, New York
Music: The Babies, a four piece rock and blues band based out of Williamsburg, just finished up a tour in Europe and are getting ready to get on the road again for a set of dates at the end of the month. Whitney Summer caught up with The Babies (Kevin Morby, Cassie Ramone, Justin Sullivan, Brian Schleyer) in their apartment, where they shot several photos for their upcoming year.
In the past week I’ve been to the cinema twice (The Artist, and The Descendants – both fairly good), stocked up my fridge (meatballs and pizza on the menu this week) and arranged to catch up with friends. Oh and I’ve been called “an irate woman”, “a daft woman”, a “silly, silly woman” told I “must look like the old back of a bus”, to “Get a life!” and that “I need an operation, to remove the chip from [my] shoulder” – all by people I don’t know and have never met.
What is my crime? Just politely contacting my local bus company to let them know that I don’t like it when their bus drivers use terms such as “love”, “darling” and “babe”. I pointed out that I generally find their drivers friendly and courteous but that when some of them use that language I find it demeaning. I wasn’t angry, I didn’t ask to make a formal complaint, I wasn’t trying to get anyone into trouble, I’m not trying to get anyone fired, I didn’t threaten legal action – I just thought they might like to know how the actions of some of their staff made me feel.
Textbooks are fucking expensive, and if your professor doesn’t require a physical copy (most don’t - they just want you to have the book at hand. Or maybe even not. Some professors literally give no fucks about whether you have the book or not) and you don’t mind having your…
For friends and followers still in school. Another good tip, if you have an ereader, is to get the textbook edition on that, if it’s available. Might be more expensive than the above methods, but I still saved about $300/quarter after starting to buy books on my Kindle.
This could be useful!
Republicans don’t even acknowledge that racism exists. There were a couple of new stats in the paper last week. One showed how blacks were treated way worse than whites by mortgage lenders. The other was about Haley Barbour, the governor of Mississippi who just pardoned like 200 prisoners as he was leaving office. Two thirds of the prisoners he pardoned were white, even though the prison population in Mississippi is two thirds black. And another study found that the odds would be ONE TRILLION TO ONE that that would be coincidental.
And what is the Republican solution to these outrageous inequalities? There isn’t one. And that’s the point. Denying racism is the new racism. To not acknowledge those statistics, to think of that as a ‘black problem’ and not an American problem. To believe, as a majority of FOX (News) viewers do, that reverse-racism is a bigger problem than racism, that’s racist.
Bill Maher (via barbiehighheels)
Denying racism is racism.
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(Source: thesoapboxschtick)
I was just listening to The Babies on East Village Radio and Justin (drummer) just trolled the host. God, that interview was terrible.
“Misfits. Are they a new band? Are they local?”
“Yeah, they’re local.”
*Cue laughter from Justin, Cassie, and Kevin.*
Good Movies For Girls—The Works of Hayao Miyazaki
With the talk ofLego feeling the need to suddenly segregate their toy lines and the mixed messages magazines are sending, I started thinking about my nieces, ages 5, 3, and 7 months. Before I know it, they won’t be spending as much time with my sister and brother-in-law, and will be bombarded with these messages that they’re supposed to be a certain way. I know they won’t be able to avoid every message, but I want them to be aware that they can say no—I can be who I want to be! Life isn’t all about chasing men and living up to a very unrealistic standard presented to me by the media!
I’m thinking the best way to do this is to introduce them to the works of one of the greatest animated filmmakers of all time, Hayao Miyazaki. [Read More]
Yes please! I will worship at the shrine of My Neighbor Totoro til the day I die.
