Not the long walk home that will change this heart

letterstogodptiii: tea-books-and-blankets: yaygocats: discomplete: “i want to wear shorts...

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:45:14 -0700

tea-books-and-blankets:

yaygocats:

discomplete:

“i want to wear shorts because it’s hot but i really hate my legs” an autobiography

“I want to wear shorts but i didnt shave” the sequel.

“I want to wear shorts but I don’t tan and I’d rather not blind you” The trilogy

“I want to wear shorts but my huge dick always sticks out” a pop-up book

Cameron Esposito: Tell your rape jokes. Expect to be challenged on them.

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:43:29 -0700

Cameron Esposito: Tell your rape jokes. Expect to be challenged on them.:

cameronesposito:

Seems like every 6 months or so - maybe once a year - there is a debate about rape jokes. Here’s how it goes:

A dude tells jokes about rape or deals with hecklers in way that includes rape. A woman hears these jokes or is the heckler. She publicly states that she is upset or didn’t like the joke…

idgiebay: crimsonobsession: idgiebay: court-records-net: What...

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:26:38 -0700

idgiebay:

crimsonobsession:

idgiebay:

court-records-net:

What was a rumor no longer is. Miles Edgeworth and Trucy Wright join the fight in Dual Destinies.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

….No words for how happy I am right now.

are you gross sobbing yet

I am too happy for happy sobbing. With me, that’s saying something.

crede mihi, Natalie: I'm so glad everyone is out of the house

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:25:28 -0700

crede mihi, Natalie: I'm so glad everyone is out of the house:

beamkatanachronicles:

loopy-lupe:

Because I’m legit screaming and crying right now.

Trucy is back.

A case is in Trucy’s school. Where everyone has the uniform of Yumihiko Ichyanagi.

Miles Fucking Edgeworth is back. And he’s chief prosecutor. Rival against Phoenix as well.

Best…

silencedrowns: womaninterrupted: soundlyawake: thecakebar: Ap...

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:24:23 -0700

silencedrowns:

womaninterrupted:

soundlyawake:

thecakebar:

Apple Pie Cookies Tutorial {click link for full recipe and tutorial}

STOP

Damn you.

No sarcasm, the most inspiring and idea-inducing recipe I’ve seen on my dash in ages. I can think of about five variations I’d like to try off the top of my head. Mmmmm cookies.

naruhodos: long time no see get it get it

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:20:40 -0700

naruhodos:

long time no see get it

get it

fuckyeahfeminists: Costco CEO Craig Jelinek supports raising...

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:15:28 -0700

fuckyeahfeminists:

Costco CEO Craig Jelinek supports raising the minimum wage.

Costco announced record profits today, averaging $10,000 in profit per employee compared to $7,400 at Walmart.
The secret to Costco’s success is paying employees well, providing benefits, and giving them an opportunity to unionize.

So large corporations’ excuses that treating & paying workers well would damage profits are all a crock of shit.

architizer: Finally, a Treehouse for Adults! “It seems almost...

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:14:10 -0700

Photo: Wilkinson Residence by Robert Harvey Oshatz Architect. 2002.

Photo: Wilkinson Residence by Robert Harvey Oshatz Architect. 2002.

Photo: Wilkinson Residence by Robert Harvey Oshatz Architect. 2002.

Photo: Wilkinson Residence by Robert Harvey Oshatz Architect. 2002.

Photo: Wilkinson Residence by Robert Harvey Oshatz Architect. 2002.

architizer:

Finally, a Treehouse for Adults!

“It seems almost inexplicable that a house with such bold forms and so dramatic cantilevers could remain even remotely anonymous, yet, as the shadows of leaves cast dappled light over the weathering copper, as the curving lines of the shingles begin to resemble the grains of sawn timber, and glass throws back images of the surrounding forest, it becomes completely obvious that this building is at peace with its environment.” Click through to read more!

Don Cheadle, on Robert Downey Jr.’s train-of-thought-derailing...

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:13:20 -0700

Don Cheadle, on Robert Downey Jr.’s train-of-thought-derailing hands (x).

"Whenever I start feeling too arrogant about myself, I always make a trip to America. The immigration..."

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:11:23 -0700

““Whenever I start feeling too arrogant about myself, I always make a trip to America. The immigration guys kick the star out of stardom. They always ask me how tall I am and I always lie and say 5 feet 10 inches. Next time, I am going to get more adventurous. If they ask me ‘what color are you?’ I am going to say white.””

- Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan on being detained at the U.S. Airport—twice. (Once, he was detained while promoting a film called “My Name is Khan” which was ironically about a person with the last name Khan suffering from repeated racial profiling.)

Multiple actors and other prominent individuals in the film industry with the last name “Khan” have been detained when entering the country. Irrfan Khan (The Life of Pi, Slumdog Millionaire, Spider-man) described the three times he was stopped—while on the way to receive honors for his roles in films such as The Namesake—as “humiliating.” Actor Aamir Khan was stopped and stripped searched in 2002. Director Kabir Khan, was reportedly detained at least three times in 2008 while filming in the United States. The New York Times ended up remarking on The Dangers of Fying While Khan

This much is clear:

Despite being an incredibly common surname, in the United States, Khan is a racialized last name and those who carry it suffer from additional, insulting, stigma and scrutiny.

There is no shortage of talented actors of South Asian descent whether from within the United States, from the UK, or Bollywood—and many of them even have the last name of Khan.

With Star Trek Into Darkness the name “Khan” is once again stigmatized as antagonistic, but the actors named Khan, the Khans of the world, and those who look like Khans once again have no voice about how they are represented in American media.

If you’re an award winning actor named Khan, you will still get stopped and humiliated at the airport. When that rare character in American media finally shows up sharing your name, he will be played by a white British man. That actor will wear your name for one movie and sneer and strut to great critical acclaim. You will wear your racialized name, your skin color, and hope you don’t get detained another time.

(via racebending)

This is why fuck Boogerdoodle Catmulch

(via satanic2chainz)

Lucy Liu Talks Candidly About Racism And Stereotypes In Hollywood

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:09:36 -0700

Lucy Liu Talks Candidly About Racism And Stereotypes In Hollywood:

ossianistic:

asiansnotstudying:

One of my favorite US actresses, Lucy Liu, is in Net-A-Porter’s Graphic Issue, which has me all kinds of excited. Because the only thing better than watching Liu at work is seeing her in fantastic frocks and reading interviews with her; she often has sharp, insightful comments on Hollywood and acting, while remaining quite modest and mellow.

She seems like she would be a lot of fun to hang out with.

(Lucy, come over some time! We’ll have tea and cookies!)

So Lucy Liu. At 44, she’s got a fair amount of experience in Hollywood, starting in the time-honored traditions of small guest roles and working her way on to “Ally McBeal.” She’s flitted back and forth between film and television, but as she herself points out, a lot of the roles she’s taken on have been really, really stereotyped.

You see, Lucy Liu is perfectly happy naming, and talking about, the elephant in the room: racism is a problem in Hollywood. Liu’s been cast as a Dragon Lady (Ling Woo on “Ally McBeal” for example), martial arts star (“Charlie’s Angels” and “Kill Bill”), and, of course, mysterious sex worker with links to the Chinese mafia (“Payback”).

Lucy rockin’ it at the “Kung Fu Panda” premiere.

Photo credit: Eva Rinaldi.

What she’s not often cast as is a woman who happens to be Chinese-American, a role where her race could be acknowledged and wrapped into the plot, without turning her into a total stereotype.

I wish people wouldn’t just see me as the Asian girl who beats everyone up, or the Asian girl with no emotion. People see Julia Roberts or Sandra Bullock in a romantic comedy, but not me.

She rightly notes that race confounds any casting decisions, making it impossible for her to be seen neutrally as an actress who might fit well in a role. Instead, her race is front and center in any discussions about how to use her in film and television:

it [becomes], ‘Well, she’s too Asian’, or, ‘She’s too American’. I kind of got pushed out of both categories. It’s a very strange place to be. You’re not Asian enough and then you’re not American enough, so it gets really frustrating.

Liu’s experiences in Hollywood, of course, mirror that of larger society, where Chinese-American women can find themselves in a strange social bind as they straddle multiple communities.

The daughter of immigrants, Liu has close ties to the Chinese community, but she’s also not entirely of the Chinese community, as she tells readers in the Net-A-Porter interview. She defied her parents to pursue an acting career, for example. Yet, at the same time, she’s not viewed as wholly “American” because of her race.

I love that her two favorite roles have been in “Lucky Number Slevin” (well worth checking out if you haven’t already) and “Watching the Detectives,” because both roles mark a departure from what people might think of as Liu’s ouvre, a reminder that actresses are often sandwiched into specific types of roles against their will. It’s not that Liu wants to be an action star or a Dragon Lady, but that these are the roles offered to her, and the ones she’s forced to take.

The fact that she’s getting more established and fighting to be on projects that aren’t pushing her into the stereotype corner is awesome, and I love seeing her in those roles. Her latest project, “Elementary,” definitely doesn’t cover stereotyped ground. As Joan Watson, she’s breaking all kinds of boundaries for an old and much-beloved classic. A companion to Holmes who’s not just a woman, but a Chinese woman?

Lucy Liu at a USAID Anti-Trafficking conference.

Photo credit: Crespo Events.

Her casting in that role wasn’t without controversy, though. While the producers were very committed to exploring the Holmes/Watson dynamic as a friendship, with her race reflective of larger racial diversity in New York, fans were explosively angry about the decision to put Liu in the role. Considerable racial hatred was dredged up by people lobbying against her casting. Liu’s response when asked about it kind of encapsulated the many reasons why I love her:

If I didn’t try anything different, I’d still be doing a Calgon ad. You have to be a pioneer, which means doing things that are not scheduled and different. When you do stuff, it’s not always to please other people–it’s to please yourself. For me, the more individual you make something, the more universal it can be. You have to be a pioneer.

Lucy Liu is rocking on with her bad self in an environment heavily dominated by older white male decisionmakers, where white actresses have the pick of the roles and the paychecks, where it’s still acceptable to cast white people in roles of color, and where actors of color often find themselves pushed into boxes it’s very, very hard to escape. She’s fighting all the things actresses need to deal with in an industry where sexism is still a looming issue, plus the tangle of racism in Hollywood.

I love and admire her frankness on the issue, and her willingness to confront it through her career and the projects she works on. Thanks for being a pioneer, Lucy.

God I love her. I can’t wait for school to end so I can get caught up on Elementary. All haters know where the door is.

rollad20andkissme: meehighmeelo: supersugoiautism: thatscience...

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:06:35 -0700

rollad20andkissme:

meehighmeelo:

supersugoiautism:

thatscienceguy:

Long exposure picture of a Lightning Bolt hitting a Tree!

holy shit

God dammit Azula

Can’t tell if this is a half-baked edit or if nature is actually fucking insane.

tealgeezus: cute-stuff-bart: samarecarm: I love Wally and...

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:05:36 -0700

tealgeezus:

cute-stuff-bart:

samarecarm:

I love Wally and all, but Bart is another kind of adorable. And yeah I told myself not to do so much fanart, but I just really really like people who run really really fast.

Back to practicing now!

TOO FAST TOO FURIOUS

Too Fierce!

LOVE THIS SO MUCH. Poor Bart doesn’t get enough love. :(

Working Families Flexibility Act Passes House Over Opposition Of Democrats, Labor

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:01:25 -0700

Working Families Flexibility Act Passes House Over Opposition Of Democrats, Labor:

robot-heart-politics:

Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Depression-era statute that serves as the bedrock of U.S. labor law, hourly workers must be paid time-and-a-half for every hour they work over 40 in a week — both to reward workers for their extra hours and to discourage employers from pushing workers too hard. The Republican measure would instead give employers and their workers the choice to use earned “comp” time instead of pay, an opportunity already afforded many public-sector employees.

According to Democrats, such an option would be ripe for abuse by employers, and in practice it might not be an option at all for some workers.

By lowering the cost of overtime for employers, labor advocates worry the measure would dilute the primary governor on the 40-hour week and pressure workers into taking comp time rather than pay, even if their choice is ostensibly protected by law. The bill would give workers the option to “cash out” their accrued comp time at a later date if they choose, but Democrats noted that such a situation would amount to an interest-free loan for employers. Labor unions and worker advocacy groups strongly opposed it.

In a sign of the union opposition to the bill, Chris Townsend, political director for the United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America union, told HuffPost that such a measure could “liquidate the whole concept of paid leave.” Rather than giving workers the standard two weeks of vacation or a handful of sick days, Townsend argued, employers could invite workers to “earn” their time off by working overtime.

If you want to give workers the ability to commit time at home, advocate for mandatory paid sick leave and paid time off.

All this does is erode the 40-hour work week, which really does help families achieve balance, and cut costs for employers who work their employees in excess of 40 hours a week. Time-and-a-half is better than comp time because 1) an employer can arbitrarily decide when a worker can and can’t take their comp time, meaning it might not be flexible for employees at all, and 2) workers aren’t paid the extra dollar amount for working in excess of a standard work week. It will be a 1:1 payout situation instead of a 1.5:1 payout, and the point of making overtime more expensive is that working in excess of 40 hours a week is difficult for families and makes work-life balance almost impossible to achieve.

You might as well call this bill “Work Harder for Less Act.”

krismoth: queenbean3: ask-the-sorceress: upperstories: oh my...

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:01:10 -0700

krismoth:

queenbean3:

ask-the-sorceress:

upperstories:

oh my gOD HE’S WEARING THE OUTFIT??????

HOW DID I MISS THAT?!

((HE WAS HER DREAM BOY ALL ALONG

YES))

THIS MOVIE

I missed that the first time and about kicked myself.

bunnybundy: transportationnation: The city of Minneapolis lit...

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:00:05 -0700

bunnybundy:

transportationnation:

The city of Minneapolis lit the I-35 bridge like this Tuesday night to celebrate the passage of marriage equality in Minnesota.

Outstanding!!

wired: watercutter: motherjones: nickbaumann: Awesome icons...

Thu, 16 May 2013 15:59:17 -0700

wired:

watercutter:

motherjones:

nickbaumann:

Awesome icons of the Female Saints of Television, by Spencer Salberg. Prints are available here.

“Our Lady of Having it All”

Love. Love. Love.

Everything about this is spectacular. Prayer cards, anyone?

fayren: My set of illustrations for 7 Patch Problem, which I...

Thu, 16 May 2013 15:59:01 -0700

fayren:

My set of illustrations for 7 Patch Problem, which I will have with me at Fanime (and all my other conventions!). They will also be available as prints. <3

whogivesacrapwhatmyusernameis: This right here

Thu, 16 May 2013 15:58:41 -0700

whogivesacrapwhatmyusernameis:

This right here

mushinpen: “I want you to have this.” ~Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ~ (◕◡◕...

Thu, 16 May 2013 15:58:02 -0700

mushinpen:

“I want you to have this.”

*~Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ*~ (◕◡◕ )~*Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ~*