This is the social pattern of our generation.
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)
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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.
Vaguely Political: Republicans, you’re doing this losing thing all wrong.
It ok be, GOPers. You no cry.
As a life-long pinko-commie-liberal, I’ve had a lot of heartache in my day. I stayed up all night long as a lowly 11 year old in 2000 waiting for Al Gore to be declared president. I latched on to the Ent and the Hair in 2004 hoping for some relief from George W. Bush. None of that happened.
Vaguely Music: A Semi-serious Review of Joe Jonas’s Solo CD
Did you know that the Jonas Brothers broke up? Me neither. They may be on hiatus, or whatever, but the oldest one is married and the youngest had a side project (or so my 8 year old sister tells me), which left poor Joe in the cold. But being the talented singer/tambourine player that he is, Joe figured that his adoring fans would follow him in his journey to Solotown, just like we did with Justin Timberlake in 2003.
The result is “Fastlife,” an album that my mother bought me as a joke. Haha, Mom, joke’s on you.
Quick aside: I’m about to spend 24 hours on 3 separate planes plus 10 or so hours in the airport with layovers. I’m not in a position to turn away free music or free books. Also, I adore pop music. Obviously, we’re too old to be considered the Jonas Brothers’ target market, but you have to admit that “Burnin’ Up” was really catchy.
But here’s the deal: this album is exactly what you’d expect. It’s one part of a kid’s group trying to grow up and be sexy. Nothing new. We saw it with Britney, Xtina, Justin Timberlake, Miley, etc. Our parents saw it, our grandparents saw it, tale as old as time. What’s slightly different is that this time it’s even weirder. I’ve never had a problem with artists trying to grow up. It might not have made for good music, but neither would a 30 year old singing about the super cute guy she has a crush on (omg y’all, Taylor Swift in 10 years?!?). What I have a problem with is Joe “Purity Ring” Jonas telling me that he’d like to get drunk and “get into my lane” even though he’s tired of my game-playing and I should stop acting like “it’s [my] first time.”
Dude! Isn’t it YOUR first time?
Anyway, back to this (sorry, I had to go shower). This album isn’t sexy, but it’s trying so, so hard.
This entire thing was written so I could say one thing.
Dear everyone, I do not care if you are a virgin or not. Dear celebrities, stop marketing yourself by your sexuality or lack thereof.
Vaguely Television: Current TV, Al Gore’s Public Access Channel
“I love Current TV.” This was a phrase I said a ton from about 2006 to very recently. When the network abandoned their heavy focus on user created content a few years ago, it began to consistently fall further and further down my list of most-viewed TV. I still tuned in for info_Mania, a show created by the creator of the Daily Show, and a few Vanguard documentaries—besides this, however, I lost interest.
Putting the power of TV creation in the hands of the fantastic online community over at Current.TV (now Current.com) was revolutionary and the channel proved to be a vibrant mix of humour, news, and short-form documentaries. All of the content was limited to 5-10 minutes and the network featured a progress bar in the bottom left of the screen.
It was all quite informative, quickly paced, and the idea that anyone could produce content that had a chance of airing on TV was earth shattering—except it wasn’t. Slowly, the channel began to expand into the area of more traditional shows. The peak of this was definitely the Yahoo! Current show that eventually became info_Manai. The deepest darkest valley of Current’s long-form shows consisted of extreme sports highlight packed together in a versy SpikeTV kind of way.
Then last year happened and Keith Olbermann was looking for a new home. That new home would eventually be announced at Current.
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