HYNam

Hong Chun Zhang / Hong Zhang
from White rabbit collection: "...Zhang Chun Hong was schooled from an early age in the rigors of gongbi (literally “detailed strokes”), a style in which plants, birds, animals and insects are rendered with minute precision. The subject of Life Strands (2004) and many of Zhang Chun Hong’s other works is hair: in this case a single, riverine plait that cascades down the wall and across the floor. If it were not so large—more than 11 metres long—it might easily be mistaken for the real thing, lopped off and still hanging from the hairdresser’s scissors."

every paragraph leads me to think: "what a tool." so glad he thinks that there's no correlation between class size and student performance. do not vote for Romney, for the sake of your children!

via maggie eighteen (of west philly):
Madaline G. Dunn, 78, who said she has lived here for 50 years and volunteers at the school, said she is “personally offended” that Romney would visit her neighborhood.
“It’s not appreciated here,” she said. “It is absolutely denigrating for him to come in here and speak his garbage.”
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter (D) addressed protesters and the media, quipping that Romney “suddenly somehow found West Philadelphia.”
“It’s nice that he decided this late in his [campaign] to see what a city like Philadelphia is about,” Nutter said. But, he added, “I don’t know that a one-day experience in the heart of West Philadelphia is enough to get you ready to run the United States of America.”
“You want to have an urban experience?” Nutter added. “You want to have a West Philly experience? Then come out here and talk to somebody in West Philly.”

The “Flashed Face Distortion Effect”: by flashing ordinary portraits aligned at the eyes, the human brain begins to compare and exaggerate the differences, causing the faces to seem hideous and ogre-like.

for students of in the air tonight :)

Mara Keisling, executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality: "People are being killed out there, and CeCe is being punished for not being killed."

A Sex confession

I watched some sexual photos and im not feeling good

"Mutantfrog Travelogue smartly pointed out that repetitive questions aren't only limited to nationality or race, but also profession. I'm sure doctors get asked the same questions over and over and over again. I always try to take the questions and remarks in good stride—sometimes there are jerks, because, well, there are jerks everywhere."

外国人登録制度、7月9日に廃止へ 60年の歴史に幕
hmmmmm... goodbye gaijin cards, hello gaijin-marked ID cards? weird last sentence, too, never heard about that...

for 参考s

"There are no refreshments or merchandise at The Stone. Only music."

in case this website lasts longer than @jennyholzer's Twitter account - plus, these are alphabetized...

hmm

yume de aeru, kamoshirenai.

dan's comment lol

to watch, with hulu+ password :) :) :D
y'all know I love coming of age stories.

waiting for my paragraphs to be reviewed...

greetings from Kanemoto of Club Noon:
今回の摘発を受けて現在の法律では「無許可営業」ということは免れないと痛感しました。そして、この摘発をもってClub DAWN～NOONの歴史は終わったと観念しました。
現在私は、起訴され保釈として釈放されています。これから公判される身なのですが、支援していただける弁護士団と共に、行き過ぎた捜査に対して戦う所存です。そして、NOONや私に関わった方々で、「SAVE THE NOON」という活動が起こっていると留置場の中で知らされたときは、驚きと共に大変元気づけられました。そこで、25年間クラブに関わってきた私としましては、風営法という整合性のとれていない法律がクラブを規制していることに対してどうしても納得ができませんので、留置場の中でこの法律の改正に務めることを決意しました。「SAVE THE NOON」の成功を心より願います。

RT @cultivat: 「Cities and Comics 街とコミック」展 ＊ 日本から参加の２誌 ＊ 「CHOJIN CLUB」 　　　　　　　　　 「KyoCo」

RT @cultivat: 「Cities and Comics 街とコミック」展 ＊ 日本から参加の２誌 ＊ 「CHOJIN CLUB」 　　　　　　　　　 「KyoCo」

やりすぎー！！！！って

when cooking for diabetic dad -- low carb (but high ricotta...)

RT @mmmcglynn: In which I talk about two of my favorite M words, Monica and Menstruation over at @auxpop

チリやで

- a homemade Sri Lankan-inspired curry powder, deeply toasted cashew nuts, a handful of green beans, two handfuls of tiny cauliflower florets, and a bit of tofu for good measure
- might serve it over a bowl of grains, worked into an omelette or crepe, or like this - on its own.

黒ごまラブ

"Try one of these variations: Place browned bacon or sauteed mushrooms between potato layers, top with Gruyere cheese after removing foil, or add fresh thyme leaves to cream mixture."

side dishos

homemade v.burgs

mmmutter

mmm...

"The image of the feminist as a mirthless, hirsute, sex-averse succubus is a friendly-fire casualty of the Republican 'war on women.' It's a grave loss to conservatives, who have used this faithful foot soldier as a comfortably grotesque stand-in for the real people whose liberties they have sought to conscribe: women."
"In activism, an image problem becomes a structural problem: Twisted but resonant stereotypes make women hesitant to identify with the movement to expand their rights. And if women won’t organize and advocate on their own behalf, the work of anti-feminists is done."
"In 2012, the anti-everything platform was occupied not by feminist agitators but the GOP politicians they were battling."

smoking & relapsing

Watching Phil Donahue as an adult: the audience "woos" at nearly anything; Phil plays the "dunce" way too well; I actually agree with several callers.

the ultimate dealwithit.gif, except in text form

NAMI CHAN

state of the pop music: "Is the Insufferable Karmin Run Already Over?"

for more 日本語

COOKOO
COOKOO

"No Child Left Behind sets up a whole high stakes testing regime and holds schools to various standards, one of which enables politicians, school boards, etc., to declare schools “failing.” But the phrase has been made generic, and the term is, importantly, politicized. Politicians run on the basis of fixing the failing schools."

"Media has never been more consolidated. 6 media giants now control a staggering 90% of what we read, watch, or listen to."

"Shelby Knox, feminist activist."

OMG RT @apheck Seriously, I just can't. Red Vines thong. Knit with chopsticks. I'm dead now. I died laughing.

to any remaining gay Republicans...

かわいいっす

"My initial reaction was to contact Mr Gove and invite him to shadow me for a full week, at school and at home, working days and the weekend. This would demonstrate to him that teachers are already “working as long as is required to do the job”, not just the 32.5 hours he quoted. It would show him how far off the mark his 8 or 16 pupil class sizes really are. It would allow me to introduce him to children who, for a variety of reasons, simply are not capable of achieving five A* to Cs including English and maths. It would also allow me to show him that not being able to reach that level of formal education doesn’t mean those individuals can’t be of value to society.

"What good would such an offer have done, though? Mr Gove would surely have politely turned me down. My next thought was to keep a timesheet and send it to him."

"However, when writing in caps, “took my tablets too early now i can’t sleep fml” goes from being slightly pathetic to “TOOK MY TABLETS TOO EARLY NOW I CAN’T SLEEP FML” — uncompromisingly psychotic and fearlessly manic."

"Even though it's incredibly important that individuals have the right to make decisions about their lives, to suggest that "choice" is somehow the explanation of things that are wrong with the world, or to suggest that "choice" alone will solve the problems, is to significantly diminish complex lived experiences."

"To some extent, this is mainly a personal beef. I get annoyed whenever anyone slaps a label on something and then presumes that the label itself says all that needs to be said. Whenever a critic or a potential audience member sniffs about “dad rock” or “chick lit” or “one for the fanboys,” it raises my hackles. If you’d rather not engage with what a piece of art actually is—as in, what it expresses and how well it expresses it—then fine. But don’t presume some kind of superiority because of that choice. One of the biggest fallacies in the way we talk about art is this idea that somehow personal taste equates to quality: That each of us miraculously only enjoys movies and music that are the best of their respective medium, and ergo, any movies and music we don’t enjoy must be terrible."

"seven of Jason's best minutes, which are as cringey and hilarious as teenagehood itself"

apart from the roundup/summary of Derbyshire dreadfulness, bookmarked for especially cogent comments re being Asian-American in America (not necessarily redundant):

Michael Cho:
"So Asian-Americans, when they do have legitimate issues of racism and discrimination that face them, get reactions of, 'Its not that bad, especially if you consider what has happened to African-Americans or Latinos.' And this argument is especially prevalent in Southern California. Or, because Asian-Americans are still a growing group with no solid definition, as in we have 5th generation Asian-American as well as people who immigrated 3 months ago, America still treats us as "the other," and is dismissive of our issues.
"And the reaction for a long time was, 'Keep your head down, study hard, make money and Americans will respect you.' But there are generations of Asian-Americans, who have read Ron Takaki, Maxine Hong-Kingston, Helen Zia, Carlos Bulosan, Frank Chin, Urvashi Viad, Frank Wu, David Henry Hwang, etc. who want a voice in American politics, and want to have a more active role for Asian-Americans politically and socially. The want you to remember the internment and Vincent Chin, they want you to know how fucked up it is when NBC Sports runs headlines like 'Michelle Kwan Beaten By American Lipinski.' When those voices are raised, people don't want to hear them. There are a lot of reasons for that. But because Asian-American issues have constantly be delegitimized, or marginalized by American society, or other communities of color, we are forced to elevate these incidents which affect our community..."

willwriteforfood:
"...But then, as you pointed out so well, that attitude also renders actual complaints about discrimination or bias illegitimate. Look at all the "don't be so sensitive" comments on Gawker's own stories about Jeremy Lin, as though Asians need to wait until some "real" racial incident to call out racist attitudes, while completely ignoring all the many instances of actual violence against Asians..."

via Kelsey: too many good ones!!! E.T.Boz!!

to go through

delica-licious. via skwak & bigzom

RT @3x1minus1 This is great. RT @travis: mandatory reading before arguing on the internet: #ICantPrintThisPosterLargeEnough

well!♡♡♡

checkerboard

I'll get this yet!

and this too: http://www.cinquephotography.com/Work/total-strangers/10699909_r6T2e/1/771736392_RVQPA#!i=771736392&k=RVQPA

$0.000001 per word

les papillons.

eternal putiputi

"gods are born from oil."

groovy!

"ok lets see if that thing with glasses chicks suddenly becoming super weird feminine when they whip off their glasses works"

“Our ancestors were one of only two dozen or so animal lines ever to evolve eusociality, the next major level of biological organization above the organismic,” Wilson writes. “There, group members across two or more generations stay together, cooperate, care for the young, and divide labor in a way favoring reproduction of some individuals over that in others.”
...
“A good first step for the liberation of humanity from the oppressive forms of tribalism would be to repudiate, respectfully, the claims of those in power who claim they speak for God, are a special representative of God, or have exclusive knowledge of God’s divine will,” he advises, and he includes in that group purveyors of “dogmatic political ideologies based on unchallengeable precepts, left and right.” Rounding out this view, he adds: “Their leaders may mean well. But humanity has suffered enough from grossly inaccurate history told by mistaken prophets.”

"When Ann Romney’s husband, who faces a gender gap in some polls, uses her experience and insight as a megaphone for women’s concern over fewer paid jobs, he mistakenly assumes that all women are fungible. Which was, I take it, Rosen’s original point."

via Kim

'corky's debt to his father' always helps me clean a room. rather than question it, will tweet it. then, clean it.

loved this ep

like

via Heather :)

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I'm looking to listen to the masters on 1540 AM radio to see if it is ahead of the television broadcast. I will phone you and you can put the phone next to the radio.
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