August 2012
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Watch(via Exclusive New Lawrence Of Arabia Trailer | Movie News | Empire)
Lawrence Of Arabia returns to the big screens [in the UK] in its fully spruced form on November 16. You can pick it up on Blu-ray from September 10.
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“I do not believe that just because you’re opposed to abortion, that that makes...”
– Sister Joan Chittister, Catholic Nun (via timehasflewn)
holy shit i love this quote
(via glitter-femin1sts)
I vote we stop using the term “pro-life” and change to “pro-birth”, and every time someone asks “What does that mean?”, you can explain this and the other racialized, classist, misogynist,...
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“We were happy, studying hard. Neither one of us had a job, because Mitt had...”
– Ann Romney, Mitt and Ann Romney—Portrayed by Sister Romney as Struggling, Just-Getting-By, Stock-Selling Students at BYU
(via robot-heart-politics)
Oh my god, Ann! This sounds JUST LIKE my parents’ story! You know, the one where they were so poor that they had to work three low-wage jobs apiece,...
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“The moon, it turns out, is a great place for men. One-sixth gravity must be a...”
– E. B. White, July 26, 1969
Also see Carl Sagan echo the same sentiment in 1971.
(via explore-blog)
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That Confused Freak: sivivolk: cauda-pavonis:... →
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cauda-pavonis:
ednatheflighty:
I measured my proper inseam for real today and it came out to a staggering, bewildering, incredible (actually entirely disproportionate) 28 inches. For reference, I am 5’6” otherwise known as “Not Incredibly Short Or Anything, All Things…
Apparently average inseam is 45% of your height. Remember that inseam measurement finishes almost at the...
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The Clearest Images Of Another Planet You've Ever... →
Go then; there are other worlds than these.
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“Frodo Baggins looked at the ring. The ring was round. It was a good ring.”
– —Lord of the Rings, if written by Ernest Hemingway. (via theparisreview)
They left out the best part (IMO): “The hole at the heart of the ring was also round. The hole was clean and pure. The hole at the heart of the ring had an emptiness in it that made Frodo Baggins remember the big skies of the...
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cauda-pavonis:
aligash:
i feel pretty
oh so pretty
i feel pretty
and witty
and briiiiiiiiiiiight
wait wait “pretty, witty and BRIGHT”?!! What happened to “gay”?!
Actually, in the original stage musical, the lyrics are:
I feel pretty, Oh, so pretty, I feel pretty and witty and bright! And I pity Any girl who isn’t me tonight. [source]
The film changes the lyrics...
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Richard T Scott
‘Richard T. Scott sees our epoch with the eyes of Rembrandt - an attitude nearly revolutionary on the scene of contemporary art.’ - Gregory Picard, Critic, Artinfo France
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More Roberto Ferri
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Interviewer: Do you think that rock music could push people to take drugs?
David Bowie: I'll go the other way on that. If I had a fan of mine who got through university and became a doctor, would I also get the credit for that please?
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I will share the credit for my PhD with David Bowie if he would like to meet up and talk through the deal...
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What am I saying?
shitmystudentswrite:
What am I saying, you ask? I will explain with my analyzing.
Glad we got that cleared up.
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“It’s Time We Talked About Chris Brown’s Crazy Mom”
– Tracie Egan Morrissey at Jezebel
Has this made the rounds yet? (I have deadlines so haven’t been able to check Tumblr much for the past few days). But in any case, have we forgotten Tracy Traceee Traicey Tracie “I will ban a WoC just for misspelling my name” Egan Morrisey’s hipster and not so...
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“Home is where one starts from. As we grow older
the world becomes stranger, the...”
– The Four Quartets, T.S. Eliot
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On being thirty
I don’t think I’m particularly sad to leave my twenties behind. Thirty sounds like a serious sort of number. Less footloose than twenty-nine. There’s something unreal about the roundness of it, 3-0. All I think, though, when I think about 30, is how my life is different to what I expected when I used to imagine what being 30 would be like. As a teenager, I assumed I’d be...
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Movies That Hate You (Special): The Hunger Games →
sivivolk:
ash-wednesday:
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More linkspam.
I’m posting some of this stuff because it’s hyper-critical of things I liked at the time I read or saw them, and it makes me think I tend to view media uncritically, and I hate that I don’t often pick up on the problems or flaws until someone else points them out.
Or it could be that a lot of that review is kind of rubbish?
I feel like I...
Movies That Hate You (Special): The Hunger Games →
sivivolk:
More linkspam.
I’m posting some of this stuff because it’s hyper-critical of things I liked at the time I read or saw them, and it makes me think I tend to view media uncritically, and I hate that I don’t often pick up on the problems or flaws until someone else points them out.
Or it could be that a lot of that review is kind of rubbish?
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Untitled: missvoltairine: the fact that... →
missvoltairine:
ash-wednesday:
missvoltairine:
the fact that statistically more meat is consumed in north America than in other parts of the world does not mean that rural poverty doesn’t exist in North America
there are many factors at play in how much meat is consumed in various communities, many of which are…
Wow, I keep seeing posts come up on Tumblr that attack vegans, though they...
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Untitled: missvoltairine: the fact that... →
missvoltairine:
the fact that statistically more meat is consumed in north America than in other parts of the world does not mean that rural poverty doesn’t exist in North America
there are many factors at play in how much meat is consumed in various communities, many of which are…
Wow, I keep seeing posts come up on Tumblr that attack vegans, though they never seem to link back to any...
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Watchthelostbrigade:
the lost brigade: episode 3 (HEY LADIES!, pt. 1)
this week’s episode is a very special one and comes in two parts (so far, at least). it’s all about the ladies this week and your host is celebrating her favourite female front women, song writers, performers, singers and heroines of her world all through an hour of tunes and some gushing. this episode, part one, is full of some...
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“I, too, am a fan of the female body, but I’m in no hurry to assign it magical...”
– Todd Akin debates legitimate rape vs. rape vs. rape-rape | Death and Taxes
( I know you’ve all seen lots of articles on this issue already, but I liked this quotation. Ha!)
“But not before this summer has the channel given us a show that has the lustre...”
– Nancy Franklin for The New Yorker, Sept. 12, 2011 (via smokeandsong)
I haven’t actually watched this yet but this is the best/most absurd review. I love it when fangirling escapes into print media. 