This is the social pattern of our generation.
This is the cause of our generation. Only we can rise up and have our voices heard. Acting now will save us the agony of regret in the winters of our lives. Call your congressman. Call Jack Donaghy.
Remember Community every minute of every day. Cherish it while you can.
(via schwegler)
Frank on Gossip Girl
Frank is tackling Gossip Girl head on. I’m not sure, but I think he may have injured Serena van der Horribleperson.
Frank here: I’m currently in the middle of writing a long post where I equate Chuck and Blair to Han and Leia in Star Wars (and not in a good way) because I have lost whatever last bit of sanity I have left.
With everyone freaking out about Google’s new privacy policy, I wonder if everyone will take Eleanor Waldorf’s lead and start using Bing? It’s doubtful since Bing pilfers through your Facebook data in ways that would make Google+ blush. The only search engine that seems to be up on privacy is DuckDuck Go. Though, you’re probably wondering what that is as you read this post.
P.S. Remember that time Jenny Humphrey Binged cancer? That was nice.
Those of us who love 30 Rock can’t believe the low ratings that it and its other critically acclaimed NBC Thursday night shows pull. Everyone we know watches, and everyone relates to Liz Lemon. What we forget is that we’re not everyone. It’s probably even a good thing that we aren’t.
Liz Lemon is for those of us who stay at home on the internet on Saturday nights, helping to debunk any theories our teenage siblings’ friends may have had about twenty-somethings being cool. Thankfully we live in an age where somewhat sad, unsocial behavior is embraced by a relatively well-received portion of our culture. Considering that 85% (!) of spring 2011 graduates returned to live with their parents, it’s probably a good thing that there’s some margin of acceptance for drinking alone and acting like our cats are our best friends (although, can I call for a moratorium on that one? Jesus fuck. Your cat is a cat. We get it). Still, while we should appreciate not having to feel too entirely alienated during our time of pathetic, lonely desperation, it’s also for the best that there are still other people out there, living lives completely apart from out internet zeitgeist. It’s a damn shame that they have the power to cancel programs that the rest of us love (COMMUNITY DON’T GO COME BACK INTERNET LOVE COMMUNITY) through sheer ignorance, but without them, we’d probably be somehow even less happy.
(PS I KNOW THAT THIS IS FROM 2 MONTHS AGO BUT IT IS STILL THE WORST LET’S TALK ABOUT THAT FELLOW AWFUL SELVES)
Wahlberg says he'd have fought 9/11 hijackers
“If I was on that plane with my kids, it wouldn’t have went down like it did,” Wahlberg says. “There would have been a lot of blood in that first-class cabin and then me saying, ‘OK, we’re going to land somewhere safely, don’t worry.’”
He would have scared the terrorists away with his funky bunch.
(via today)
STOP PIPPA
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Hella Nervous by Gravy Train!!!! is the most important song in the world. You know it’s true because they’ve got FOUR exclamation points in their name. On last.fm they’re described as a “trashy electro band from Oakland, California with rapping about sex and junkfood, preferably in conjunction. If the music is explicit, then so is the stageshow. Many songs are about gay/lesbian love and in a typical concert all members make out with each other and encourage audience participation.” If that sounds more corny than appealing, then it probably is. But Chunx, Hunx, Funx, and Junx (and formerly Drunx, who definitely should’ve been replaced since he/she had the best name aside from maybe Junx) put out such delightfully catchy dirty music that I was into it as a fairly prudish teenager. Though that’s hardly a selling point, it carries over well into debaucherous [post] collegiate life. I’d make this my theme song but then I might never get a job.
Queer Activism is Horrible
Jakke posts:
I went to this discussion organized by my school’s Pride group on allyship, because basically I figured it would, I don’t know, provide ways to approach supporting friends who are having a really hard time with their sexuality in really traditional households, or at least something like “we are trying to organize a group to educate law enforcement about transgender people, and we need someone with a van and someone to run the website”. Because, you know, I benefit from all this activism and I probably should be somehow giving back, right?
Nope. Presenters were two young white gay dudes who spent most of the time talking about how hard it was to be a masculine gay guy when everyone assumes you’re going to be passive and effeminate. Everyone who wasn’t a gay guy left immediately at this point. I was tempted, but my seat was really far from the door.
Anyway, then they wrote a list of negative gay stereotypes on the board, as follows (verbatim):
- effeminate
- drug addiction
- HIV+
- promiscuous
Which… okay, fuck the entirety of that list for so many reasons. I was going to start arguing with them, but I’d already argued with a shitload of the other stuff they’d said and it didn’t make any difference and clearly anyone who wasn’t actively getting up to leave was totally engrossed by all this. I made about a dozen people push their chairs in to leave. While I was leaving, a guy started saying something about how hard it was for him to be gay and blind and Arab at the same time, and the presenter shut it down with an anecdote about a gay bar he’d visited while travelling the world.
And these two are both social workers! Like, in addition to the activisty stuff, this is their job! And still they can’t produce anything useful or helpful or not really jarringly offensive. Apparently real-life social justice is just like Internet social justice, but marginally more awkward to step out of the room.
- Marriage, the Word “Queer,” and “Is My Boyfriend Gay?” (thehairpin.com)
- D.C. Alterna-Queer Site The New Gay Goes Bye-Bye (queerty.com)
- WATCH: Looking For Queer Identity In The Muslim World With “Both/And” (queerty.com)
- Queer Invasion!- (theradicalcheerleaders.wordpress.com)
Live Tweeting the GOP Debate.
We hope you have lots of booze on hand.
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