Barrett Garese

"Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) intends to run for president — of the United States — and he’s been a guest..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:59:00 -0700

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Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) intends to run for president — of the United States — and he’s been a guest on Alex Jones’ show.

In other words, the guy raising the specter of Obama using “weather weapons” to kill Oklahomans is the same guy helping influence several Republican policymakers in 2013.

Maybe it’s just me, but I find that rather alarming.

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- Reaching the ‘weather weapon’ stage (via wilwheaton)

I dunno, seems about par for the course for me. Is this any less crazy than kowtowing to a national radio host who devoted an entire week to calling a private citizen a slut or actively courting a TV host that thinks gay marriage causes hurricanes?

"Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:17:30 -0700

“Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive. Ambition is only understood if it’s to rise to the top of some imaginary ladder of success. Someone who takes an undemanding job because it affords him the time to pursue other interests and activities is considered a flake. A person who abandons a career in order to stay home and raise children is considered not to be living up to his potential-as if a job title and salary are the sole measure of human worth. You’ll be told in a hundred ways, some subtle and some not, to keep climbing, and never be satisfied with where you are, who you are, and what you’re doing. There are a million ways to sell yourself out, and I guarantee you’ll hear about them.”

- Bill Watterson (via mikekarnell)

spiegelman: I recently saw Eric Garcetti bowl seven strikes in...

Mon, 20 May 2013 12:59:48 -0700

spiegelman:

I recently saw Eric Garcetti bowl seven strikes in a row. It was at a campaign event just before the primary election, at the Spare Room in the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. Eric’s technique is probably better suited to discus throwing. He hurls the ball with such force that by the time it makes contact with the ground it’s already halfway down the lane. The momentum of his own arm lifts both his feet off the ground, so that for a moment he bobs in the air like a buoy. I’m not sure the pins get knocked down so much as they dive out of the way of Eric’s throw in fear of obliteration. The frames that were not strikes were all spares, except for one, which was an eight.

If you want to know about Eric Garcetti’s actual achievements in office, about how, during his terms representing East Hollywood, Silver Lake, Echo Park and Atwater Village on the City Council, those neighborhoods transformed from gang-ridden cesspools into some of the most dynamic and desirable areas of Los Angeles, go ahead and Google that. I support Eric for that, and also for a handful of other small details you might think are unrelated to the skills you need as Mayor of Los Angeles, but which I think demonstrate something essential.

Here are some additional minor data points.

Eric Garcetti dances like a Jewish kid who grew up in the Valley —which is to say, really well. Jewish kids from the Valley are raised on hip hop. At some point everyone had a home video that taught you how to breakdance. You showed off for girls at bar mitzvahs by demonstrating the moves you spent months learning in secret. At some point Eric mastered the pop and lock. He will bust it out with little provocation. The professional dancing crew that inaugurated the South Los Angeles campaign office was genuinely impressed.

The first time I heard Eric Garcetti speak was at a fundraiser for his City Council reelection campaign in 2005. I remember it well because I embarrassed myself. Eric was talking to the room about the history of Spanish missions in California, and he asked “How many of you here have been to the mission of Los Angeles?” I was the only person to raise a hand. He looked me dead in the eye and said, “That was a trick question. There was no Los Angeles mission.” While I shrunk back cringing into the crowd he went on to explain why this was, and demonstrated what I would come to realize was an encyclopedic knowledge of the history of Los Angeles.

Before the Mayoral campaign, when he had a bit more free time, Eric Garcetti would never turn down a game of Lexulous, the Facebook equivalent of the Scrabble knock-off Words With Friends. He’s the only person I cannot beat at that game.

Steve Lopez, the usually cantankerous columnist for the Los Angeles times seems genuinely won over by Eric Garcetti, which is something, because Steve Lopez doesn’t ever seem to get won over by anything. Here’s one of his typically acerbic passages, from January: “Since my knee replacement surgery less than two weeks ago, I’ve been popping narcotic painkillers that come with long lists of potential side effects. Among them are vomiting, hallucinating and impaired thinking. It is perhaps that third one that made me feel compelled to write about the race for mayor of Los Angeles.”

But jump ahead to last week, when Lopez admitted that he is “humbled” by Eric Garcetti’s experiences. “He’s George Plimpton, Bono and Seinfeld’s Mr. Peterman all rolled into one,” wrote Lopez about Eric. “When he says: ‘And then there was the time I commandeered a snowmobile at the North Pole while on a climate-change fact-finding mission and located Salma Hayek’s lost purse in the frozen tundra,’ he’s not kidding.” You may detect a hint of sarcasm, but the fact that it’s only a hint is telling.

The title of Steve Lopez’s article is “You name it, Eric Garcetti has done it.” But that misses the point. From what I’ve seen, you name it, Eric Garcetti can do it. You might be tempted to dismiss him as one of those annoying guys who is good at everything, until you realize that he’s not good at everything, he’s only good at the things he loves —but he loves a lot of things. He loves service, he loves Los Angeles, he loves the pop and lock. And the thing about someone who has that kind of heart, who gives his all to the things he loves until he masters them, that sort of heart is infectious. It wins people over. Even curmudgeons like Steve Lopez.

The office of Mayor in Los Angeles is not like the office of Mayor in New York or Chicago. In eastern cities, the executive is invested with large amounts of unchecked authority. Eastern mayors, to some extent, rule by decree. Not so in Los Angeles, which spreads executive power over several independent bodies and offices. To be successful as mayor here, you have to exercise what they call “soft power,” which Wikipedia describes succinctly as “the ability to attract and co-opt rather than coerce.” The secret to soft power is winning people over. The secret to winning people over is to demonstrate a lot of heart.

There are specific reasons I’m in the tank for Eric Garcetti. I think he’s a leader. Not only do I think he’s the leader that Los Angeles needs, I think he’s the leader everyone needs. I want to see what he can do as Mayor. Please join me in voting for him tomorrow.

I’ve only met Eric Garcetti a couple times, but his responses to what I can only describe as my “pointed” questions earned my vote entirely. He’s got good ideas, a massive work ethic, and a seeming inability to abandon hope. He also recognizes Los Angeles’ potential as one of the world’s great cities, while not using it as an excuse to sugarcoat the areas that desperately need attention. In two minutes he can explain how homelessness, parks, LA city business taxes, encouraging schools to teach computer programming, and revamping LAX are all connected to the success of the city, and you realize that he’s right on all counts. Eric Garcetti earned my vote tomorrow, and I encourage you to read about him, his platforms, and his accomplishments in the links above for yourself.

Downtown Lobby: Coachella 2014 Details Announced

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:49:00 -0700

Downtown Lobby: Coachella 2014 Details Announced:

downtownlobby:

Last week we got a little teaser from festival organizers telling us to expect an announcement on Monday at 10am. Now we know that the 2014 edition of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival will be taking place on April 11th - 13th and then again on April 18th - 20th. Yes the two…

Caachella - now offering payment plans on tickets you purchase a year before the concert and nine months before lineups are announced. Do we need any more evidence that attending Coachella officially has literally nothing at all to do with the music anymore?

"You mean the generation that paid three times as much for college to enter a job market with triple..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 08:00:29 -0700

“You mean the generation that paid three times as much for college to enter a job market with triple the unemployment isn’t interested in purchasing the assets of the generation who just blew an enormous housing bubble and kept it from popping through quantitative easing and out-and-out federal support? Curious.”

- When comments are better than the article, Atlantic edition (“The Cheapest Generation: Why Millennials arent’ buying cars or houses, and what that means for the economy”)

Priceless.

(via lauraemily)

Did Kanye just bring back Drum And Bass?

Sun, 19 May 2013 21:10:26 -0700

ericmortensen: kateoplis: Kanye turns the page on...

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:29:01 -0700

ericmortensen:

kateoplis:

Kanye turns the page on rap.

Kanye’s work is always conceptually and musically interesting, but his vocals are rarely compelling. I hope he’s secretly taking singing lessons and will unleash the results at some point in the near future.

Also…Gary Glitter.

I’ve always seen Kanye as an artist who just happens to work in music. I feel like if he didn’t find hip-hop, he’d be throwing paint off of a building in Chicago and filming it melt through the snow. He just strikes me as someone with voices bursting to get out, and music was the manner in which he learned to express himself.

My Workout For Saturday May 18

Sat, 18 May 2013 14:06:00 -0700

I earned 3165 points for my workout on Fitocracy!

Barbell Bench Press +812 pts
- 135 lb x 10 reps (+79 pts)
- 175 lb x 7 reps (+98 pts)
- 190 lb x 4 reps (+89 pts)
- 185 lb x 5 reps (+94 pts)
- 185 lb x 5 reps (+94 pts)
- 185 lb x 5 reps (+94 pts)
- 185 lb x 5 reps (+94 pts)
- 165 lb x 5 reps (+82 pts)
- 165 lb x 6 reps (+88 pts)
Pendlay Row +357 pts
- 135 lb x 5 reps (+49 pts)
- 155 lb x 5 reps (+56 pts)
- 165 lb x 5 reps (+60 pts)
- 175 lb x 5 reps (+64 pts)
- 175 lb x 5 reps (+64 pts)
- 175 lb x 5 reps (+64 pts)
Reverse Grip Bent-Over Rows +80 pts
- 135 lb x 5 reps (+16 pts)
- 135 lb x 5 reps (+16 pts)
- 135 lb x 5 reps (+16 pts)
- 135 lb x 5 reps (+16 pts)
- 135 lb x 5 reps (+16 pts)
Standing Barbell Shoulder Press (OHP) +79 pts
- 115 lb x 5 reps (+79 pts)
- “Nope,” said my left shoulder.
Hang Clean +240 pts
- 115 lb x 5 reps (+43 pts)
- 125 lb x 5 reps (+46 pts)
- 135 lb x 5 reps (+49 pts)
- 145 lb x 5 reps (+53 pts)
- 135 lb x 5 reps (+49 pts)
Clean +310 pts
- 135 lb x 5 reps (+62 pts)
- 135 lb x 5 reps (+62 pts)
- 135 lb x 5 reps (+62 pts)
- 135 lb x 5 reps (+62 pts)
- 135 lb x 5 reps (+62 pts)
Barbell Deadlift +793 pts
- 185 lb x 5 reps (+92 pts)
- 225 lb x 5 reps (+121 pts)
- 275 lb x 5 reps (+169 pts)
- 225 lb x 5 reps (+121 pts)
- 275 lb x 5 reps (+169 pts)
- 225 lb x 5 reps (+121 pts)
Dips - Triceps Version +117 pts
- 5 reps || weighted || 45 lb (+39 pts)
- 5 reps || weighted || 45 lb (+39 pts)
- 5 reps || weighted || 45 lb (+39 pts)
Hanging Straight Leg Raise +15 pts
- 10 reps (+5 pts)
- 10 reps (+5 pts)
- 10 reps (+5 pts)
Barbell Incline Bench Press +362 pts
- 135 lb x 5 reps (+67 pts)
- 145 lb x 5 reps (+72 pts)
- 150 lb x 5 reps (+74 pts)
- 155 lb x 5 reps (+77 pts)
- 145 lb x 5 reps (+72 pts)

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Is This Virtual Worm the First Sign of the Singularity? - The Atlantic

Sat, 18 May 2013 09:55:21 -0700

Is This Virtual Worm the First Sign of the Singularity? - The Atlantic:

“A far-flung team is trying to build the first digital lifeform to work out the basic principles of the brain.”

Once Upon a Time, the Universe Was Really Weird : Discovery News

Fri, 17 May 2013 19:49:00 -0700

Once Upon a Time, the Universe Was Really Weird : Discovery News:

If they’re correct, the three dimensions of space and one dimension of time that make the four-dimensional spacetime we live in today isn’t how it’s always been — the Universe may have existed in a lower dimensional state in the past.

The thinking goes like this: Shortly after the Big Bang, the Universe possessed only one dimension of space and one dimension of time. It was basically a straight line. As the Universe began to cool, and expanded, this one dimension of space became “wrapped up” in such a way to create two dimensions of space and one of time — a plane, like a sheet of flat paper.

Three Stories about Government Overreach

Thu, 16 May 2013 17:46:53 -0700

squashed:

First, Benghazi. As the story goes, the Obama administration tried to pass off a terrorist attack as an anti-American protest in order to secure reelection and/or coddle our enemies and/or persecute Christians. And it turns out that there’s no actual evidence for that story. So the real story is why the Obama administration hasn’t given us the evidence we demand. Or maybe the real story is the Republicans prioritization of political gamesmanship over any pretense of sound government. This is not a scandal. It’s an obnoxious distraction—and most people have figured this out at this point.

Second, the AP phone record subpoenas. Perhaps somebody else could explain this to me. It sounds like some information leaked that was both extremely newsworthy and extremely sensitive for legitimate national security reasons. There was an investigation into the leak—and I don’t think anybody disputes that a leak of that type was worth investigating it. Holder recused himself from the investigation. AP and the press are angry that they were drawn into the investigation and feel that they should get extra protections. (It’s not an unreasonable request). And the Obama administration is now asking for a press shield law to provide the extra protections. I don’t believe there is any allegation that any laws were broken. Nor do I think anybody is even claiming an attempt to intimidate or harass the press. I see a controversy—but not a scandal.

Of course, it’s also a story about percieved encroachments on press freedom … so there are some reporters who are really into it. I get that. And I’m not trying to say that the entire media is composed of entitled whiners. At least, I’m not trying to say it expressly.

Third, the IRS flap. Okay. This one was bad. And as more details emerge, it’s starting to look like at least a couple IRS employees may have had a political agenda. And there’s a good story in here for any libertarian seeking an anecdote about public officials abusing power.

The Republicans want answers. They expect people to be fired. They want criminal prosecution. On Wednesday, John Boehner asked who was going to go to jail over this scandal.

Except … the Justice Department had announced a criminal probe in the matter on Tuesday. The acting head of the IRS has already been asked to resign—not because he personally targetted the groups, not because he directed people to target them, not because the targetting happened on his watch, but because he knew that the targetting and didn’t immediately blow the whistle. So this looks like a case of something bad happened on Obama’s watch and he brought the hammer down before the Republicans could even get their talking points together. This is a scandal—but I don’t think it’s the Obama Administration’s scandal.

So … right. The new narrative is that these three stories are some kind of perfect storm of scandals that is going to plague Obama’s entire second term and relegate his Presidential library to the log next to the sewage treatment plant. I don’t buy it. I count one Republican fabrication, one fight over the balance between press access and national security, and one legitimate scandal in a politically isolated agency that Obama has aggressively responded to.

Of course, there is a real scandal. This whole sequestration thing. Cuts in programs are okay … until they start annoying wealthy people. So the Federal Aviation Administration cuts get reversed. But massive cuts in emergency unemployment benefits have gone largely without comment.

Smart thoughts on the current “scandals” the GOP really hopes to ~~exploit~~ invent.

Authors who would have loved Tumblr

Thu, 16 May 2013 14:06:00 -0700

Douglas Adams
Philip K. Dick
Sylvia Plath
Jane Austen

All for completely different reasons.

"Me, I just heard the opening bit about how Josh Holloway’s character had had a chip implanted into..."

Thu, 16 May 2013 11:27:26 -0700

“Me, I just heard the opening bit about how Josh Holloway’s character had had a chip implanted into his brain that gave him the full power of the Internet and thought to myself that if CBS is so intent on people no longer making fun of it for being a network for old people, maybe it shouldn’t have picked up a drama pilot where the hero’s superpower is the ability to use the Internet.”

- I love upfronts coverage so fucking much. (via lizlet)

artdawdlings: Bruce Mau’s Incomplete Manifesto for Growth....

Thu, 16 May 2013 09:23:06 -0700

artdawdlings:

Bruce Mau’s Incomplete Manifesto for Growth. Currently at 43. Very cool - I mean interesting.
Allow events to change you.
You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you. You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth: the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them.

Forget about good.
Good is a known quantity. Good is what we all agree on. Growth is not necessarily good. Growth is an exploration of unlit recesses that may or may not yield to our research. As long as you stick to good you’ll never have real growth.

Process is more important than outcome.
When the outcome drives the process we will only ever go to where we’ve already been. If process drives outcome we may not know where we’re going, but we will know we want to be there.

Love your experiments (as you would an ugly child).
Joy is the engine of growth. Exploit the liberty in casting your work as beautiful experiments, iterations, attempts, trials, and errors. Take the long view and allow yourself the fun of failure every day.

Go deep.
The deeper you go the more likely you will discover something of value.

Capture accidents.
The wrong answer is the right answer in search of a different question. Collect wrong answers as part of the process. Ask different questions.

Study.
A studio is a place of study. Use the necessity of production as an excuse to study. Everyone will benefit.

Drift.
Allow yourself to wander aimlessly. Explore adjacencies. Lack judgment. Postpone criticism.

Begin anywhere.
John Cage tells us that not knowing where to begin is a common form of paralysis. His advice: begin anywhere.

Everyone is a leader.
Growth happens. Whenever it does, allow it to emerge. Learn to follow when it makes sense. Let anyone lead.

Harvest ideas.
Edit applications. Ideas need a dynamic, fluid, generous environment to sustain life. Applications, on the other hand, benefit from critical rigor. Produce a high ratio of ideas to applications.

Keep moving.
The market and its operations have a tendency to reinforce success. Resist it. Allow failure and migration to be part of your practice.

Slow down.
Desynchronize from standard time frames and surprising opportunities may present themselves.

Don’t be cool.
Cool is conservative fear dressed in black. Free yourself from limits of this sort.

Ask stupid questions.
Growth is fueled by desire and innocence. Assess the answer, not the question. Imagine learning throughout your life at the rate of an infant.

Collaborate.
The space between people working together is filled with conflict, friction, strife, exhilaration, delight, and vast creative potential.

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Intentionally left blank. Allow space for the ideas you haven’t had yet, and for the ideas of others.

Stay up late.
Strange things happen when you’ve gone too far, been up too long, worked too hard, and you’re separated from the rest of the world.

Work the metaphor.
Every object has the capacity to stand for something other than what is apparent. Work on what it stands for.

Be careful to take risks.
Time is genetic. Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow. The work you produce today will create your future.

Repeat yourself.
If you like it, do it again. If you don’t like it, do it again.

Make your own tools.
Hybridize your tools in order to build unique things. Even simple tools that are your own can yield entirely new avenues of exploration. Remember, tools amplify our capacities, so even a small tool can make a big difference.

Stand on someone’s shoulders.
You can travel farther carried on the accomplishments of those who came before you. And the view is so much better.

Avoid software.
The problem with software is that everyone has it.

Don’t clean your desk.
You might find something in the morning that you can’t see tonight.

Don’t enter awards competitions.
Just don’t. It’s not good for you.

Read only left-hand pages.
Marshall McLuhan did this. By decreasing the amount of information, we leave room for what he called our “noodle.”

Make new words.
Expand the lexicon. The new conditions demand a new way of thinking. The thinking demands new forms of expression. The expression generates new conditions.

Think with your mind.
Forget technology. Creativity is not device-dependent.

Organization = Liberty.
Real innovation in design, or any other field, happens in context. That context is usually some form of cooperatively managed enterprise. Frank Gehry, for instance, is only able to realize Bilbao because his studio can deliver it on budget. The myth of a split between “creatives” and “suits” is what Leonard Cohen calls a ‘charming artifact of the past.’

Don’t borrow money.
Once again, Frank Gehry’s advice. By maintaining financial control, we maintain creative control. It’s not exactly rocket science, but it’s surprising how hard it is to maintain this discipline, and how many have failed.

Listen carefully.
Every collaborator who enters our orbit brings with him or her a world more strange and complex than any we could ever hope to imagine. By listening to the details and the subtlety of their needs, desires, or ambitions, we fold their world onto our own. Neither party will ever be the same.

Take field trips.
The bandwidth of the world is greater than that of your TV set, or the Internet, or even a totally immersive, interactive, dynamically rendered, object-oriented, real-time, computer graphic–simulated environment.

Make mistakes faster.
This isn’t my idea — I borrowed it. I think it belongs to Andy Grove.

Imitate.
Don’t be shy about it. Try to get as close as you can. You’ll never get all the way, and the separation might be truly remarkable. We have only to look to Richard Hamilton and his version of Marcel Duchamp’s large glass to see how rich, discredited, and underused imitation is as a technique.

Scat.
When you forget the words, do what Ella did: make up something else … but not words.

Break it, stretch it, bend it, crush it, crack it, fold it.

Explore the other edge.
Great liberty exists when we avoid trying to run with the technological pack. We can’t find the leading edge because it’s trampled underfoot. Try using old-tech equipment made obsolete by an economic cycle but still rich with potential.

Coffee breaks, cab rides, green rooms.
Real growth often happens outside of where we intend it to, in the interstitial spaces — what Dr. Seuss calls “the waiting place.” Hans Ulrich Obrist once organized a science and art conference with all of the infrastructure of a conference — the parties, chats, lunches, airport arrivals — but with no actual conference. Apparently it was hugely successful and spawned many ongoing collaborations.

Avoid fields.
Jump fences. Disciplinary boundaries and regulatory regimes are attempts to control the wilding of creative life. They are often understandable efforts to order what are manifold, complex, evolutionary processes. Our job is to jump the fences and cross the fields.

Laugh.
People visiting the studio often comment on how much we laugh. Since I’ve become aware of this, I use it as a barometer of how comfortably we are expressing ourselves.

Remember.
Growth is only possible as a product of history. Without memory, innovation is merely novelty. History gives growth a direction. But a memory is never perfect. Every memory is a degraded or composite image of a previous moment or event. That’s what makes us aware of its quality as a past and not a present. It means that every memory is new, a partial construct different from its source, and, as such, a potential for growth itself.

Power to the people.
Play can only happen when people feel they have control over their lives. We can’t be free agents if we’re not free.

fuckyeahfeminists: Costco CEO Craig Jelinek supports raising...

Thu, 16 May 2013 08:00:07 -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.

This is why I have a Costco membership and not a Sam’s Club membership.

Mental Health Blog Day: Jessica's Adventures in CrazyTown

Wed, 15 May 2013 15:41:45 -0700

geekyjessica:

Today is apparently Mental Health Blog Day according to my friend Dr. Andrea Letamendi (Read her blog, it’s amazing: www.underthemaskonline.com)

I guess that means it is as good a day as any to talk about Jessica’s Adventures In Crazytown.

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Mental Health is an under-discussed issue. You may relate to Jessica’s experiences or you may not, but you should definitely read her post on her own Mental Health journeys.

The robot threat: In the long run, we are telepathic androids | The Economist

Wed, 15 May 2013 08:43:02 -0700

The robot threat: In the long run, we are telepathic androids | The Economist:

With that title, how can you not click?

"I have gained far more self-esteem from being able to pick up heavy shit that I ever have from being..."

Tue, 14 May 2013 16:30:00 -0700

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I have gained far more self-esteem from being able to pick up heavy shit that I ever have from being able to zip up a skin-tight designer dress. I became a more capable, energetic, independent, and mentally focused person once my focus shifted from what my body looks like to what my body can do

But it’s just tragic - no sarcasm here- really really tragic how a large majority of young girls in America spend their time obsessing over their weight, devoting time, energy, emotions, and effort into being skinny.

It’s tragic because you have to the think of all of the potential that is lost when a whole generation of girls care more about fitting into minuscule pants instead of… oh I don’t know… running for student council, pursing a passion, studying, volunteering, playing sports, working, furthering woman’s rights… the list could go on and on. My main point is, girls waste so much time on being skinny – because we are taught that is is important if we want to be successful- when we could be devoting their efforts to becoming so much more powerful than simply skinny.

”

- This Trendy “Strong is the New Skinny” Thing (and what it could mean for the next generation of girls) | Sophieologie

Today’s soundtrack.

Tue, 14 May 2013 14:38:07 -0700

Today’s soundtrack.

annetdonahue: adeleblog: My Medical Choice by Angelina Jolie...

Mon, 13 May 2013 22:38:44 -0700

annetdonahue:

adeleblog:

My Medical Choice by Angelina Jolie for The New York Times. Incredibly impressed by this woman, time and time again.

Actually the bravest. And most honest. And just plain good.

Read this, and read it now.