April 2010
2 posts
rape culture →
(someone sent this to me a while ago, and im still thinking of it, so i thought id post it)
America: The Grim Truth →
February 2010
2 posts
ok, so my tumblr has now devolved into little more than self-indulgence for my severe berlinomania. god i miss that place! the following is from a recent guardian article about car burnings in the german capital and other left-wing efforts to stave off gentrification…
“A recent meeting at SO36 discussed non-violent ways to keep out “unwanted” residents. Erwin Riedmann, a...
“Berlin is not a rich city, so the scene is not at all about money or society or...”
January 2010
1 post
“The exasperating thing about Emma Goldman is that she makes herself so...”
– It’s not so much that I love Emma Goldman (which I do). It’s that: this is how friends should always talk about each other.
December 2009
1 post
Watch
November 2009
11 posts
Watch
“facebook came up with a new “status cloud” application that shows...”
– email i got from sam this morning
Watchsaturday night. spontaneous dance party on berlin subway car. need i ever again explain why this city beats any other!?!?
“Der Sommer kam und Berlin war der schönste Platz auf Erden. Wir hatten das...”
– Goodbye Lenin (via utahrd)
The summer came, and Berlin was the best place on earth. We had the feeling we were at the center of the world, somewhere where something was finally HAPPENING. And we were happening with it.
hipster: dead end of western civilzation →
yes, im reading adbusters back issues….
(also: why the hipster must die @ http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/features/4840/why-the-hipster-must-die)
if women ruled the world, nothing would be... →
also interesting: pop culture glorifies male vulgarity? http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/2526/
October 2009
1 post
ahahahahahah
World Briefing | Europe
Italy: Premier Vows to Stay On
By RACHEL DONADIO Published: October 9, 2009
Two days after Italy’s highest court deemed unconstitutional a law granting Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi immunity from prosecution, Mr. Berlusconi said he had no plans to step down. “I am the best prime minister ever,” he said at a news conference on Friday, Italian news media reported....
September 2009
1 post
http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com →
August 2009
7 posts
anna akhmatova
Three things enchanted him:
white peacocks, evensong,
and faded maps of America.
He couldn’t stand bawling brats,
or raspberry jam with his tea,
or womanish hysteria.
… And he was tied to me.
woman marries eiffel tower →
woman marries fairground ride →
two letters
some days, being alive seems too much to bear …
31 July 1942
Dear father! I am saying gooodbye to you before I die. We would so love to live, but they won’t let us and we will die. I am so scared of this death, because the small children are thrown alive into the pit. Goodbye forever. I kiss you tenderly. Your J.
Postscript by 12-year-old Judith Wischnjatskaja to a letter written...
July 2009
11 posts
marriage round up
ok, so i’m getting really caught up in this whole discussion of marriage-as-institution thats been gracing the pages of major mainstream media outlets the past weeks. a round-up of the highlights:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/29/opinion/29douthat.html (this is the best one)
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200907/divorce
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1908243,00.html
...
“Sexual intercourse is not intrinsically banal, though pop-culture magazines...”
– andrea dworkin
And that's exactly why I love Berlin...
utahrd:
“When we look at the kind of places children choose to play in when it is possible to choose, these places tend to have an appearance of being forgotten or vacated by adults. They look somewhat unkempt. They may be places that have just grown up with little or no help from a landscape designer. Children seem to like places that look un-designed. That children choose these places is not...
June 2009
30 posts
honduran coup is deemed below-the-fold news. oliver goldsmith comes to mind:
“While the slightest inconveniences of the great are magnified into calamities; while tragedy mouths out their sufferings in all the strains of eloquence, the miseries of the poor are entirely disregarded; and yet some of the lower ranks of people undergo more real hardships in one day, than those of a more exalted...
file under: american gubernatorial circus →
sabino:
Idioteque - Radiohead (Live in Paris) .
Watchno matter how many times i see it, it never gets old
Watchempowerment project’s “the panama deception” (it’s ridiculous and fabulous and really bad for my insomnia how many documentaries you can watch online for free…). false premise, stupid propaganda name for military operation, enemy dictator previously backed by US government, obsequious media establishment, economic enslavement…ring a bell?
revenge of karl marx →
interesting article on the continued relevance of marx (yes, this is a link to an article by christopher hitchens; please don’t judge me)
hypocrisy, barbarism, and so on →
why is it permissible in america, but horrific in iran? yet another example of national doublethink. at least glenn greenwald always has good stuff to say, see him on government surveillance in the obama administration: http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/04/06/obama/
8 yr old girl asks for divorce →
this is from a year ago, but i always find myself coming back to it again and again…this girl is my hero
little willie john trumps peggy lee times a...