This book is based on a movie that is based on a book. I’m not sure which part is more confusing.
Its actually a fantastic book. The real title of the novel is called “Push”. This book has the entire novel push plus some extra stuff.
1 week agothe thing you thought you should have said after being insulted, but its too late.
One day in April of 1976, Chicago Daily News columnist Mike Royko decided to focus on Frank Sinatra’s arrival in the city ahead of a live show. In his column, Royko described the constant placement of Chicago cops outside Sinatra’s hotel as ‘wasteful’, derided his supposed ‘entourage of flunkies’, and remarked on what appeared to be - to Royko at least - a wig on the singer’s head. Luckily for us, Sinatra saw the column and wrote this fantastically unrestrained letter to Royko in response.
Full article here and click photo to view full letter
1) I need my own stationary.
2) This is the greatest response to haters that I have ever seen.
1 week agoYesterday was horrible, I was harassed in class and called a dyke.
No wonder I hate people.
People are horrible…but I’ve found that the more things like that I’ve endured, the stronger it’s made me in the long run. Hang in there!
That’s horrible! I’m so sorry that such a thing happened to you:(
1 week agoOMFG. I have found the mecca.
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Now Hill had to tell the girl: Her little brother, the 6-year-old she had fed, bathed and babied as if he were her child, was dead. The killer was her mother’s ex-boyfriend, a convicted rapist with a long rap sheet.
“This film is nothing more than a moral vacuum with a deviant message and as such should be of concern.”
— Monsignor Franco Perazzolo, on New Moon. 2 weeks ago
Checking myself....
I’ll put an apple in my mouth right now and stfu, because comparing homophobia to racisim is kind of like comparing the holocaust to american slavery.
Both of them are tragic, but in very different ways.
And with that: Lunch!
I would actually argue that racism and homophobia are more similar than the Holocaust and slavery, but that’s just me. The only difference between someone not liking me because I’m Black vs. because I’m gay = they can always see I’m Black (i.e. my experience in the world is determined by others’ perception of my skin color). I think homophobia is almost more tragic because it people treat it as a betrayal—like the person in question lied to them about their “real life” or hid something from them. It leads people to think that if only they acted differently/thought differently, everything would be ok, when obviously (for intelligent people) that is false.
Even so, when you think of racist behaviors and ideas in a historical sense, its not that much different than behaviors and ideas about gay men and women now. That, and its not like serious racism doesn’t exist anymore. There are definitely people in this world who would look at me and despise me because of how I look. There are people who would be disgusted by the fact that I date someone who isn’t black, and there are people who are amazed that I can speak, and read, and do math, and think like a normal person. I think the major difference is that no one is going to look at a gay man or woman, and make judgments about their inherent abilities as a person (intelligence, intellectual curiosity, abstract thinking, learning ability, capacity for compassion, etc), whereas, when people look at me, they automatically make those judgments.
Come to think of it, there are people who are amazed that I can do anything, being that I am also a woman. Go figure.
3 weeks agoWhat do you say when a friend of yours tells you something that makes you so sad for that person, that you can’t do anything but cry?
I just recently found myself in this position. A friend of mine recently disclosed some very personal information to me and I broke down and cried in front of him. I was so sad for him, and so sorry that his circumstances pushed him to do things that he didn’t believe in or agree with. He responded by also crying, because I was so upset, and then we had a good cry together.
3 weeks ago
Besides the many, many ways in which this article is offensive to men, women, and anyone with a brain, this sentence stood out to me:
Outside the office, these women use their type A careerist energy to become multitasking machines—they run the board of their favorite charities, challenge their men on the ski slopes, have a healthy post-Cosmo attitude toward threesomes, decorate to Martha Stewart’s standards, make steak chili on game day, and, while dishing it out, present a solid case for why the Steelers should go for it at fourth and one.
Ladies, in order to be the perfect female, not only do you have to be professionally and physically successful, but you also have to be knowledgeable about football and have a healthy attitude towards threesomes. That one phrase caused INTENSE anger in me. Because you know, if you’re not interested in having another person in your bedroom, obviously you are UNhealthy and something is seriously wrong with you. Forget freedom of choice and making your own decisions about your own body, you big prude. Of course, that third party will be a female, preferably one your guy is attracted to, preferably one of your good friends.
All this from a women’s magazine. Barf. -M
The most vapid and senseless article I’ve read in my life. If your partner isn’t a partner, and that is what you are looking for, then get rid of them and look for a new model.
“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.
1 month agoTumblarity
Why is it you get points for recirculating the same content a million times, but not for uploading original content? Bad Tumblr, bad!
1 month ago