sophisticatedajumma:

I never understood how someone like Hitler and Ayatollah Khomeini came into power. I witnessed the anger. It was like a pot of water just simmering slowly. Little things started to happen and the whispers and hush voices among my countrymen became louder. We all saw things but we were afraid to be the one to rock the boat. I was long gone before Ayatollah took over. My dad was smart. He said when a man can bring out anger in an entire nation, he should be feared. Overnight stupidity and ignorance ruled our country and our lives changed.

“The stock explanation for his success is this: he has tapped into the anger of the American people. As one man said, “We are voting with our middle finger.” Sounds more like a comment for a gang-fight than a presidential election. Anger-fueled reactions have caused trouble ever since Cain was angry at Abel.” Max Lucado

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outofprintclothing:

Book Madness: Elite 8 matchups are set!

Voldemort vs. White Witch … Sauron vs. Lady Macbeth

Aslan vs. Frodo … Harry Potter vs. Atticus Finch

Voting ends Thursday, April 3, 11:59AM ET!

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heaven-by-the-sea:

You want a revolution?  I want a revelation

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marvelassembles:

Thank you ‘Parks and Recreation’ for 7 seasons, 125 episodes and many weird characters who brought light in our life!

“It really was. It was something that nobody took for granted, and nobody thought this was going to last forever. The fact that we never knew we were coming back all the time made us feel very present in the moment. Schur and I kind of stuck to a “no assholes” policy, and it helped a lot, and that was the tone when
you got on set: “Ah, these people all like each other, and everybody
does their job, and nobody complains, and everybody has fun.” I was
really proud that everybody would come to our set and have such a good
time and feel good about it. So it was real. And those things, some of
us more than others, knew that those things don’t always last forever,
so we were really just enjoying the moment while you could” – Amy Poehler

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myend-ismybeginning:

Source.

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saoirseronandaily:

Saoirse Ronan as Eilis Lacey in Brooklyn

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drnerdlove:

lesserjoke:

Scott Lynch:

I was a hard-core Sesame Street viewer from about 1979 to 1984, and my memories of the show are the sort of deep nostalgic tangle you’d expect, with a great deal of idiosyncratic noise blended into the signal. So, for many years, I carried around a vague but emotionally vivid recollection of a Sesame Street episode in which Big Bird and Snuffleupagus had witnessed the the passage of a soul to the ancient Egyptian afterlife, complete with the weighing of the human heart against a feather. I shit you not.

For all those years, I just assumed that I was nuts, or that I was conflating a memory of a childhood dream with a childhood television experience. Not long ago, I was trading Sesame Street memories with that girl I like, and I determined to Google-fu my way to the truth.

In the 1983 special Don’t Eat the Pictures, assorted humans and Muppets are stuck overnight in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. While Oscar, Bob, Cookie Monster, Olivia, and some small children are having the sort of mild and educational adventures you’d expect, Big Bird and Snuffy meet Sahu, a 4,000-year-old Egyptian prince (!) condemned to wander eternally in spirit form (!!) unless he can answer a riddle posed by a demon (!!!) that appears to him each night at midnight. I am not fucking with you. This really happened.

There’s Sahu!

ACTUAL DIALOGUE from Big Bird: “Oh no! The demon’s gonna be here any second now!” And here’s the appearance of that demon, played by James motherfucking Mason.

Keep reading

Actually, I want to point something out here.

Don’t Eat The Pictures aired in November of 1983. For those of you who remember Sesame Street in the 80s, remember what happened in November of 1982?

That’s right: Mr. Hooper died and Big Bird learned about the permanence of death.

Now, a year later – almost on the anniversary of losing his friend, someone who he thought would be in his life forever – Big Bird encounters a lost soul. Someone who, through no fault of his own has been damned to wander the earth for 4000 years. 

And even though BB and Snuffleupagus help break the curse on Saru, the kid still gets fucked over by Death.

Again: a year after Big Bird has learned the existence of mortality, he is now seeing another friend being cheated by the universe. 

Only this time, he’s actually face-to-face with Death himself. 

This is the moment that Big Bird has been waiting for: to get up in Death’s grill and to tell him to go fuck himself. 

After the unfairness of losing Mr. Hooper and now seeing the arbitrary cruelty of the universe, Big Bird is FACE TO FACE WITH A GOD AND NO FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE IS GOING TO STOP HIM FROM SEEING JUSTICE BE DONE.

Big Bird stares into the eyes of one of the primal forces of the universe and makes it blink. All because of the pent up rage and frustration at losing his friend and his inherent sense of fairness and justice.

This is why Big Bird is important. 

Do not. Fuck. With. Big Bird.

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kataklysmic:

shade of pale

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Kind-Hearted Reality Shows I Would Like To See – The Toast:

primarybufferpanel:

copperbadge:

A coworker linked me to a list of every television show I ever wanted to see.

Top Chef: Team Version: You know, like Top Chef,
but instead the whole cast works together to create huge, whimsically
themed feasts they then all sit down and eat. There are no judges.

The Great British Bakeoff where they all work together to make amazing noms for a different charity event each week.

A show that visits a new knitting circle/Stitch&Bitch each week and asks people about their knitting and listens to their stories

Reading these totally made me think of Craftversations – which is an actual show you can watch!

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trashybooksforladies:

and if there’s a reason I’m still alive when everyone who loves me has died… [x]

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shipwreckedcomedy:

Which authors would YOU invite to a dinner party? Shipwrecked Comedy reveals their dinner party guest lists. 

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thnkfilm:

“The world’s like all TV planets on at the same time, so I don’t know which way to look and listen. There’s doors and… more doors. And behind all the doors, there’s another inside, and another outside. And things happen, happen, happening. It never stops.”

Room (2015)
dir. Lenny Abrahamson

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“When Trump announced that he was running last summer, his lack of establishment support and high unfavorables made it extremely easy to very smart people to confidently assert that he had almost no chance at securing the GOP nomination. I certainly predicated my own horrible, no-good, very bad predictions on this kind of analysis. So why has it been proved wrong? My hypothesis is that GOP decision-makers also read the same analyses and concluded that they did not need to do anything to stop Trump. Sure, his poll numbers stayed robust even after he kept saying racist and insulting things, but there were good auxiliary hypotheses to explain why that was the case. They kept reading analysis after analysis in 2015 about how Donald Trump had little chance of winning the GOP nomination. They read smart take after smart take telling them that Trump didn’t have a chance. Even as the media covered Trump, even as late as the South Carolina debate, pundits were also talking about how his latest transgressive comment would doom his chances. So GOP party leaders didn’t take any action. Except that the reason smart analysts believed Trump had no chance was because they thought GOP leaders would eventually take action.”

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Casting Doubt #5

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“Having been enslaved for 250 years, black people were not left to their own devices. They were terrorized. In the Deep South, a second slavery ruled. In the North, legislatures, mayors, civic associations, banks, and citizens all colluded to pin black people into ghettos, where they were overcrowded, overcharged, and undereducated. Businesses discriminated against them, awarding them the worst jobs and the worst wages. Police brutalized them in the streets. And the notion that black lives, black bodies, and black wealth were rightful targets remained deeply rooted in the broader society. Now we have half-stepped away from our long centuries of despoilment, promising, “Never again.” But still we are haunted. It is as though we have run up a credit-card bill and, having pledged to charge no more, remain befuddled that the balance does not disappear. The effects of that balance, interest accruing daily, are all around us.”

– The Case for Reparations, Ta-Nehisi Coates
(via smokeandsong)

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radivs:

Ore Mountains in the Winter by Petr Beneš

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the-eldest-woman-on:

Currently.

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asterisk-:

I love how fast the light changes, 12/26/2015 pt.2
Instagram

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