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"Here’s all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, and men are stupid. And the main..."

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 03:31:22 -0400

““Here’s all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, and men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.”

- George Carlin (via the-virgin-and-virgil)

marinaomi: kateordie: awkwardsituationist: cambridge...

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 03:27:39 -0400

marinaomi:

kateordie:

awkwardsituationist:

cambridge university students were asked on campus why they needed feminism. here are 60 answers. click the link for over 600 more.

*Repeatedly fist-pumping the air with glee*

YES.

slaughterhouse90210: “Was it too much to want that? Was it too...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:55:51 -0400

slaughterhouse90210:

“Was it too much to want that? Was it too much to want him? Yes and yes. In the back of my mind, the nasty thought always lingered that I would be happier if I did not want so much.”
—Anton DiSclafani, The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls

How I feel when I'm obsessed with something that nobody else understands

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:48:03 -0400

whatshouldwecallme:

surisburnbook: In case you needed a reminder there is still...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:43:54 -0400

surisburnbook:

In case you needed a reminder there is still goodness and beauty in the world, here’s Channing Tatum holding hands with his baby daughter Everly.

kingsleythehusky: milkywaywhite: Animals With Stuffed Animals...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:38:14 -0400

kingsleythehusky:

milkywaywhite:

Animals With Stuffed Animals Of Themselves
Here are some animals hanging out with stuffed animal versions of themselves, which is clearly a thing that animals should be doing a lot more often.

reblogging for the husky. i can never find a red/brown husky plush :(

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Sun, 16 Jun 2013 19:54:42 -0400

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Sat, 15 Jun 2013 00:41:37 -0400

buster is my favorite. hands down.

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 00:39:55 -0400

buster is my favorite. hands down.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 00:25:12 -0400

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

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Sat, 08 Jun 2013 12:13:24 -0400

slenclerman: eat-draw-write: theamericankid: I applaud anyone...

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 11:26:40 -0400

slenclerman:

eat-draw-write:

theamericankid:

I applaud anyone with that much patience as I myself, have none.

With this. I can’t even.

wtf man i cant even sharpen a pencil right

ARE YOU KIDDING ME

collegehumor: 8 Game of Thrones PSAs [Click for more] Westeros...

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 16:46:57 -0400

collegehumor:

8 Game of Thrones PSAs [Click for more]

Westeros has problems, but you can help.

Hahahahaha.

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Fri, 07 Jun 2013 16:43:01 -0400

fringe-element: John Cho on saying no to Proposition 8,...

Sun, 02 Jun 2013 18:17:54 -0400

fringe-element:

John Cho on saying no to Proposition 8, California’s ban on gay marriage. [x]

More proof that John Cho is in fact PERFECT.

tears!

rainbowrowell: crossedwires: niqaeli: I admit, I don’t know...

Sat, 25 May 2013 11:58:47 -0400

rainbowrowell:

crossedwires:

niqaeli:

I admit, I don’t know Cho that well, so I am glad there are other readings to be had!
And if he is just calling it out simply because he’s tired of it and he feels comfortable doing so even on his own films now, I think that’s fantastic. There’s certainly plenty for him to be calling out.

Heh. Well, I don’t know John Cho either. But he has talked about race & representation before* (and not in a ‘we’re all human, it doesn’t matter’ way), so it’s not completely ‘out of character’ for him to bring it up. I think it probably would be easier on him if he didn’t say anything, but I’m glad he does.

*Re Harold & Kumar (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHEkLBZI1IM 4:07 mark): If you have a Korean and an Indian guy as your leads, you must address race at some point in the movie. You must, because the audience is noting it, really. The other thing is, I think, comedy at its best, treads in taboo waters a little bit. It has to have that transgressive quality to it, and race is the biggest taboo in America. I mean, people are very reluctant to talk about race and yet when you do jokes about race, uh, that work, people are very happy to release tension and laugh about it. But it has been interesting. I’ll make an observation. During the first tour for the first movie, we were talking about race all the time with journalists. It was almost like a process— looking back, the first movie was more concerned with race, but we talked about it so much, I felt that it was in a way…a way of justifying our presence in a motion picture.

And from an interview in 2009 http://www.asiaarts.ucla.edu/090703/article.asp?parentID=110145>:

JC: I recall from the Harold and Kumar movies is my struggle with the advertisers.

APA: What happened there?

JC: There was all this racial humor in the movie, and the advertising department wanted to say “Starring the Asian guy in American Pie, and the Indian guy from Van Wilder…” and they did go with that, and they submitted that to me for approval, and I said, “I don’t like it.” They asked me why, and I explain it to them, and that was tricky because it’s difficult explaining to my own representatives, why that didn’t jibe with me, because everyone kind of felt like it was keeping in tone with the movie. And I said, “I don’t like it. We’re poking fun at racism in the movie all the time, but it puts the audience on the wrong side of the racism joke.” So they were playing with the wording a little bit in the edits, and they kept coming up with versions to make me happy, but they were essentially the same thing, and I finally said, “you are not going to make me happy. You’re dancing around it, and you’re clearly attached to this idea, and I want you to know that no version of this idea will make me happy. And if you’re afraid that I won’t show up to do promotion because of this bitterness, you can rest assured that that’s not true. I consider promoting a movie part of my duties, and I will show up nevertheless. But you can either use this campaign and know that I’m unhappy, or you can change it and know that I’m happy. That’s it. Stop trying.” And eventually they went with it, and it’s one of those things where I look back and I’ve very proud of the movie, but that’s the thing I remember.

APA: Last question…for Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay, Viva La Union recorded a song for the soundtrack with the line, “I want my own Chinese baby” — what’s that about?

JC: When I was thinking about it, I thought of a literal baby. There’s a kind of lack that children fill, that’s just the dark side of being a parent, I think. And there’s an accessory quality to Chinese babies in America, and I just think it’s funny. I just liked it. And you know, I would know people who would fawn over Asian babies more, and it got me to thinking, there’s this belief that Asian babies are really cute, and it got me thinking that our whole race is infantilized to some degree, and it manifests itself in different ways. You infantilize a woman, and she becomes eroticized. You infantilize a man, and he becomes emasculated. You infantilize a baby [laughs] — and it’s possible, it appears that you can infantilize a baby even more. [laughs] The babies need to be cuter than white babies. And it’s just a weird thing that I felt like said something about mainstream America’s relationship to Asians in general. So that’s where it came from.

Also this interview: http://blog.angryasianman.com/2008/04/q-with-john-cho.html

“And yes, I do feel a responsibility, and always have, and it’s been an odd burden for me. Even when I started and no one gave a shit, I was trying to avoid doing roles—and it’s no accident that I’ve never done something with a chop suey accent. It’s no accident that I’ve never played those parts. I strongly believe there are a lot of Asian American actors who think that that’s the price to pay before you get to wherever you’re going. And I take real issue with that. Because you have to maintain integrity from the start, and on a personal level, you have to not do something that’s going to make you sick to your stomach.

But on a political level, how are things supposed to ever change if there’s someone willing to do it? I can tell you now, having worked in the business, that you can gather an army of people to hold picket signs and stand outside the studio, and say, “we destest this portrayal”… but it doesn’t matter if there’s a guy—who they know, a peer—who’s willing to do it, who stands in front of the crew and does the buck-tooth accent. If he or she is willing to do it, it makes the protestors look like extremists. It makes this guy look like the normal guy. Because we all work in the same industry. So the willingness of one actor negates a thousand protestors and a thousand angry letters.”

(So I can see why Butawhiteman Cantbekhan playing Khan would be deeply upsetting to him, even if Cho wasn’t in this movie.)

What I love about all these John Cho quotes is how thoughtful he is. Like he knows how complicated these issues are, but he’s still committed to doing the right thing. I especially like what he said about putting the audience on the wrong side of the joke.

heinoushalberd: myfiddleisbroken: markperrett: This is...

Wed, 22 May 2013 13:29:09 -0400

heinoushalberd:

myfiddleisbroken:

markperrett:

This is insanity.

CREDS: architizer:

The mind-bending sculptures of Jonty Hurwirtz

Rejuvenation

2008 | Copper and Chrome

Kiss of Chytrid

2009-2010 | Resin, Powder and Steel

WHAT. NO.

This is amazing

exactly how i feel about these posters.

Wed, 22 May 2013 13:11:23 -0400

exactly how i feel about these posters.

i liked him better before he started killing zombies. Quote...

Wed, 22 May 2013 13:07:41 -0400

i liked him better before he started killing zombies.

Quote Company

and my worship of selena gomez continues.

Sun, 19 May 2013 23:54:05 -0400

and my worship of selena gomez continues.