November 7, 2009
The Hudson River Project: Sunset (11-7-09)

The Hudson River Project: Sunset (11-7-09)

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‘I don’t care about your stupid sunset.’ —Dante

‘I don’t care about your stupid sunset.’

—Dante

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‘Goodbye, New York City.’ —A barge on the Hudson (11/7/09)

‘Goodbye, New York City.’

—A barge on the Hudson (11/7/09)

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Death Culture at Sea/Senso

He won’t take the time to see
He has ways to find your mind
He looks grateful when it’s time to pay
These are weapons you can’t buy
Please don’t tell me that I didn’t warn you
He has ways to find your mind
He looks grateful when it’s time to pay
He’ll just keep you for a while
Try to listen to the things you’re saying in the day
He won’t take the time to see
He’s not waiting for some kind of breakthrough
He has ways to find your mind
He looks grateful when it’s time to pay
He’ll just keep you for a while
Try to listen to the things you’re saying in the day
He won’t take the time to see

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‘zzzzzz…Hegelian dialectic….zzzzz’ —Zephyr

‘zzzzzz…Hegelian dialectic….zzzzz’

—Zephyr

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November 6, 2009
‘Why does this ___ keep taking pictures of me, yall?’ —The George Washington Bridge

‘Why does this ___ keep taking pictures of me, yall?’

—The George Washington Bridge

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‘Good morning, Washington Heights — did yall miss me?’ —The Sun

‘Good morning, Washington Heights — did yall miss me?’

—The Sun

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“ The former imam at a Silver Spring, Md., mosque where Major Hasan worshiped for about 10 years described him as proud of his work in the Army and “very serious about his religion.” The former imam, Faizul Khan, said that Major Hasan had wanted to marry an equally religious woman but that his efforts to find one had failed.
The New York Times article about Nidal Hasan. This may just be me projecting my own ish, but I can’t read this without thinking: ‘I bet this guy was a closet-case.’ Or even if he wasn’t/isn’t, the point remains: the world is filled with men who are driven to violence/insanity/extreme forms of antisocial behavior because they can’t express themselves sexually, which is a real cost of our stupid civilization in 2k9. It’s time to start connecting the dots between rampant homophobia and unhinged lunacy, because one definitely feeds the other. Oh and guess where TONS of closet-cases end up because they think that it will deflect suspicion or perhaps ‘cure’ them: well yeah, the church, but also the fucking army. (Ok, I’ll get back to your regularly scheduled lolcats now!)
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The Helsinki Train Station in 1984. If anyone has been to Cranbrook, the high school/art academy outside of Detroit (which I recommend highly, if you’re ever in the vicinity!) you might recognize the similarity between the Helsinki train station and the Cranbrook campus, e.g. the towers are almost identical. Both were designed by Finnish modernist Eliel Saarinen, whose son Eero — one of the first ‘fac brats’ (<3 u) at Cranbrook! — went on to design the St. Louis Arch, the TWA terminal at JFK and a bunch of other kick-ass mid-century modern furniture.

The Helsinki Train Station in 1984. If anyone has been to Cranbrook, the high school/art academy outside of Detroit (which I recommend highly, if you’re ever in the vicinity!) you might recognize the similarity between the Helsinki train station and the Cranbrook campus, e.g. the towers are almost identical. Both were designed by Finnish modernist Eliel Saarinen, whose son Eero — one of the first ‘fac brats’ (<3 u) at Cranbrook! — went on to design the St. Louis Arch, the TWA terminal at JFK and a bunch of other kick-ass mid-century modern furniture.

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You guys, Norbit was an absolutely terrible movie.

sistermarymartha:

Sheer buffoonery.

Armond White’s review of Precious is interesting, but he gets a serious side-eye. Read his review of Norbit. Seriously. Read it.

You wanna talk about perpetuating racial stereotypes? Norbit does it, while also perpetuating stereotypes about fat black women, and women in general.

Girl, bye.

OMG, this was EXACTLY what was going through my mind when I read the review. (I didn’t see Norbit, though, so I refrained from posting. And I’m lazy. And ambivalent.) But for some reason, though, I seem to remember a lot of folks being kinda unhappy about it vis-a-vis gay stereotypes, too? (Or maybe I’m just confusing it with 98 percent of Hollywood releases in the last __ years?)

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