the thing you thought you should have said after being insulted, but its too late.
“There has to be some point to our existence, right? I think “getting your shit together” means getting your shit to where you want it to be. Not where everyone else has their shit.”
—

Woolie: I’m almost 30, man. I need to get my shit together. (via awesome-everyday)

AMEN. I’m working on that a little bit everyday, but it isn’t easy.

Tumblarity

Why is it you get points for recirculating the same content a million times, but not for uploading original content? Bad Tumblr, bad!

Thoughts on a tv show I've never watched

awesome-everyday:

Every time I see a photo post of some of those big-titted actresses from Mad Men, I’m kinda like… man. That was a shitty time for black people. Honestly it was shitty for everyone.

Even the music was kinda bad in the 60s.

The clothes were hot. The drinks were good. The men sucked a cow nut. Jobs were shit for ladies.

But mad men is a drama, so people dig it for that.

ramble ramble ramble

I also think this every time I watch movies that are set in the 17th-19th centuries. Im like, there wont be ANY black people in this movie that aren’t slaves, servants, or african wise people. I still love them though.

“it is less mortifying to believe one’s self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness.”
—

edith wharton, the house of mirth (via paperbackgirl) (via robot-heart)

Now I know I have to read this book.

new puppies are so exciting:)

new puppies are so exciting:)


Kindle on iPod Touch

OMG I can get sooooo many free trash books!!!!

Zappa

God, I love you.

pdvmorris: “I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men’s minds without their being aware of the fact.” ~ Claude Levi Strauss R.I.P. Claude Levi Strauss 100 and passed away on Saturday I only got around to reading his obit today and was remembering many of his great ideas and how much I liked his work on myths, a fave of the Flimwell Papers for sure. I can’t tell you how much I miss discussing structuralism, symbolism, and all the other -isms I spent 4 years of my life arguing over with drunk and stoned friends in college. Now all I argue about is whether or not I use the washing machine correctly.

pdvmorris:

“I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men’s minds without their being aware of the fact.” ~ Claude Levi Strauss

R.I.P. Claude Levi Strauss 100 and passed away on Saturday

I only got around to reading his obit today and was remembering many of his great ideas and how much I liked his work on myths, a fave of the Flimwell Papers for sure.

I can’t tell you how much I miss discussing structuralism, symbolism, and all the other -isms I spent 4 years of my life arguing over with drunk and stoned friends in college. Now all I argue about is whether or not I use the washing machine correctly.


Lou Jing is a Chinese pop idol who was recently the subject of a HUGE controversy about her parentage as the result of being a finalist on “Go Oriental Angel”, a Chinese American Idol-esque reality show. The photo of her links to a TIME article on her brief experience with fame.

Lou Jing is a Chinese pop idol who was recently the subject of a HUGE controversy about her parentage as the result of being a finalist on “Go Oriental Angel”, a Chinese American Idol-esque reality show.

The photo of her links to a TIME article on her brief experience with fame.


What do women want?

Click to find out!

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Here’s what we found, in brief: Women feel vastly underserved. Despite the remarkable strides in market power and social position that they have made in the past century, they still appear to be undervalued in the marketplace and underestimated in the workplace…

It’s still tough for women to find a pair of pants, buy a healthful meal, get financial advice without feeling patronized, or make the time to stay in shape. Although women control spending in most categories of consumer goods, too many businesses behave as if they had no say over purchasing decisions.

”
— “The Female Economy”, HBR Sept 2009, by Michael J. Silverstein and Kate Sayre
nameless + harmless = blameless

People often make judgments about the ethicality of others’ behaviors and then decide how harshly to punish such behaviors. When they make these judgments and decisions, sometimes the victims of the unethical behavior are identifiable, and sometimes they are not. In addition, in our uncertain world, sometimes an unethical action causes harm, and sometimes it does not. We argue that a rational assessment of ethicality should not depend on the identifiability of the victim of wrongdoing or the actual harm caused if the judge and the decision maker have the same information. Yet in five laboratory studies, we show that these factors have a systematic effect on how people judge the ethicality of the perpetrator of an unethical action. Our studies show that people judge behavior as more unethical when (1) identifiable versus unidentifiable victims are involved and (2) the behavior leads to a negative rather than a positive outcome. We also find that people’s willingness to punish wrongdoers is consistent with their judgments, and we offer preliminary evidence on how to reduce these biases.

"Mistakes" are the sea of opportunity.

At age 74, Yoshiko Shinohara is a towering figure in Japanese business. She has created a wealth of job opportunities, including many for women, by founding the temporary-staffing agency Tempstaff and lobbying to strike down laws that stifled the temp industry. Tempstaff now has approximately 3,300 employees and is a public company. For the past nine years, Shinohara has been on Fortune’s list of the 50 most powerful women in global business. It all started, she told Harvard Business School’s Anthony J. Mayo and Mayuka Yamazaki, with a personal choice she made when she was young.

soupsoup: southpol: Ezra Klein has some charts for you today. BEST HEALTHCARE SYSTEM IN THE WORLD!! AMIRITE GOP?!? But seriously though, make my education free, give me 7.5 hr shifts, and compensate me accordingly, and I will work my ass off in the hospital for 60 grand a year. Until then, my 200K in loans, my gray hair from working more than 100 hours a week, and my meager residency paycheck will all encourage me to be a specialist and charge for my office visits, procedures, etc.

soupsoup:

southpol:

Ezra Klein has some charts for you today.

BEST HEALTHCARE SYSTEM IN THE WORLD!! AMIRITE GOP?!?

But seriously though, make my education free, give me 7.5 hr shifts, and compensate me accordingly, and I will work my ass off in the hospital for 60 grand a year. Until then, my 200K in loans, my gray hair from working more than 100 hours a week, and my meager residency paycheck will all encourage me to be a specialist and charge for my office visits, procedures, etc.


People are dumb

awesome-everyday:

So there’s this article on Digg about how walmart is expanding into urban areas.

I left a comment saying that people in urban areas don’t need walmarts because there are plenty of places to shop.

Some asshole commented after me and proceded to explain to me how there are no places to buy veggies or ingrediants anywhere in poor urban neighborhoods.

I proceded to school his ignorant ass on the fact that I was raised in a poor urban neighborhood and was within walking distance to at least 5 supermarkets, and plenty of shopping districts.

Fuck that guy, and fuck walmart.

So I’m from Inglewood, and a Walmart tried to move into to our neighborhood maybe about 5 or 6 years ago. They did some pretty shady things to try and convince the community that they were essential to “poor urban neighborhoods”. Here’s some info:

http://money.cnn.com/2004/04/07/news/fortune500/walmart_inglewood/

http://www.walmartmovie.com/

http://articles.latimes.com/2006/jan/10/business/fi-walmart10

The bottom line is that we have enough targets, sam’s clubs, and other retailers sucking our communities dry and providing poor quality products and services without walmart’s help. Not only that, but they aren’t above bribing community leaders to get what they want. Not cool.