March 2012
“And black is beautiful, man. I wouldn’t trade being black, being who I am, for...”
– Really powerful piece on race/Trayvon Martin by David Brothers—this part specifically made me cry, but there’s a lot of great things in it, go read it. (via mercurialblonde)
“The Watchmen of Film is like what…Breathless? Let’s say you adapted Breathless...”
– Me, on why some works can’t be taken out of the medium in which they are created (via mercurialblonde)
outlawpoet -aggregator-: “What’s Genocide?” by... →
quixotess:
swarajist:
their high school principal told me I couldn’t teach poetry with profanity so I asked my students, “Raise your hand if you’ve heard of the Holocaust.” in unison, their arms rose up like poisonous gas then straightened out like an SS infantry “Okay. Please…
“It’s a well-worn ritual - the expression of outrage and “shock”, as President...”
– Mark Levine’s op-ed for Al Jazeera English on imperial hypocrisy is so true, it actually stings. Recommended.
Of course the action in question - which is always the latest in a whole series of actions, with the previous ones conveniently forgotten by the time the next one happens - can “not...
Wasteland 2 by inXile entertainment - Kickstarter →
I am a happy fanboy today.
Basically, the guys responsible for Wasteland (that I haven’t personally played yet) and then went on to start the Fallout franchise with two of my favourite games are now appealing to the fans anyone interested in helpind to fund the sequel to their seminal game after several years spent in development hell.
And here’s the fun part : it’s...
“…architecture has been warped and separated from anything important and no...”
– Rem Koolhaas (via ummhello)
“Art is not a mirror held up to reality
but a hammer with which to shape it.”
– Bertolt Brecht (via lejardinsauvage)
This is the baddest quote of all time, and entirely my approach.
(via outlawpoet)
“The old mouse was brought out and plugged in beside the new mouse. Still, The...”
– McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: In Which I Fix My Girlfriend’s Grandparents’ WiFi and Am Hailed as a Conquering Hero. (via stryker)
