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Adam Gnade: A PERSONAL PLEA (UPDATED)

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:14:31 -0500

Huge thanks to anyone who’s been helping us save Pioneers Press in this stupid shitty time. Words of encouragement, orders, letters, reblogs, whatever, it all helps. We’re fighting pretty hard to make this work and it’s a goddamn struggle, but we couldn’t do it without you guys.

-Adam

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explore-blog: Sister Rosetta Tharpe – gospel music’s first...

Mon, 06 May 2013 15:46:33 -0500

explore-blog:

Sister Rosetta Tharpe – gospel music’s first superstar, the godmother of rock and roll, “the original soul sister,” reconstructionist – waiting for The Blues Train in Chorlton, 1963.

n-a-s-a: A Year on the Sun Image Credit: NASA, Solar Dynamics...

Mon, 06 May 2013 15:44:29 -0500

n-a-s-a:

A Year on the Sun

Image Credit: NASA, Solar Dynamics Observatory

Finally cleaned my room, y’all!

Wed, 01 May 2013 00:57:03 -0500

Finally cleaned my room, y’all!

This is Bagel Boy (aka Charlie Bucket, Monster) a puppy I helped...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 23:16:35 -0500

This is Bagel Boy (aka Charlie Bucket, Monster) a puppy I helped foster this week. I wasn’t able to keep him due to my apartment situation. Missing out on being the momma to this amazing pup has really lit a fire under my ass. Part of being present in the moment is making sure you are currently living the life you want to live…Not waiting, hoping for a money tree or for something to change magically, for someone to hand you your wishes. It means working each moment to live your best life. (And if your best life includes a rad dog, be ready to accept when the multiverse drops the raddest and cutest one in your lap.)

nevver: Replace the Moon with a Planet (I’m the Moon;...

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 03:17:24 -0500

mercury

venus

mars

jupiter

saturn

uranus

neptune

nevver:

Replace the Moon with a Planet

(I’m the Moon; She’s a Planet.)

Photo

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 23:16:54 -0500

michellealexisnewman: Hunks. ©Lauren Randolph/©Michelle Alexis...

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 16:03:10 -0500

michellealexisnewman:

Hunks.

©Lauren Randolph/©Michelle Alexis Newman

Models: Patrick Babbitt & Callin Passero

Styling/Hair/Makeup: Gillian Leos

pals!

School was nice because you could say, “Hi, this week was emotionally very difficult, and I...

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 03:39:16 -0500

School was nice because you could say, “Hi, this week was emotionally very difficult, and I tried to do my work but found at times I just couldn’t do anything at all. So here, this is not my best. And actually, I would really appreciate an extension.”
But in adult life there are no extensions. There isn’t extra time. You just have to go. And you will be bewildered at everyone’s capabilities, everyone’s ability to just keep chugging along. It will feel impossible and you will want to say it isn’t worth it. You will want to give up. And maybe you will. I don’t know. Maybe that will feel best. I don’t know what to tell you because I don’t know what to do either.
A beautiful person will die. Your grandma’s house will burn to the ground. You will be across the country and unable to do anything. Unable to even offer a hug. So jokes will seem pointless. Comedy will seem like the dumbest thing you ever heard of. Who needs a fake headline when the real ones are hard enough to swallow. Or is that the point? Is that it? I don’t know and don’t know if I care to know. I am angry and I am sorrowful and I have many things to say that a bit can’t carry. There is so much beyond me that I cannot even think about because I will lose my mind. It will just explode. And if does, maybe pick up the pieces and assemble them into something really clever that can tell the story in a humorous way that allows people to get it while also detaching themselves. Because I am too close, too connected, too emotional. There is so much to do and I can hardly get started.

(Hashtag Tumblr as Livejournal)

Photo

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 13:41:19 -0600

Kitten.: 'Mountain Dew Commercial Disguised as a Love Poem' by Matthew Olzmann

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 04:14:23 -0600

Kitten.: 'Mountain Dew Commercial Disguised as a Love Poem' by Matthew Olzmann:

meganfalley:

Here’s what I’ve got, the reasons why our marriage
might work: Because you wear pink but write poems
about bullets and gravestones. Because you yell
at your keys when you lose them, and laugh,
loudly, at your own jokes. Because you can hold a pistol,
gut a pig. Because you memorize songs, even commercials
from thirty years back and sing them when vacuuming.
You have soft hands. Because when we moved, the contents
of what you packed were written inside the boxes.
Because you think swans are overrated.
Because you drove me to the train station. You drove me
to Minneapolis. You drove me to Providence.
Because you underline everything you read, and circle
the things you think are important, and put stars next
to the things you think I should think are important,
and write notes in the margins about all the people
you’re mad at and my name almost never appears there.
Because you make that pork recipe you found
in the Frida Khalo Cookbook. Because when you read
that essay about Rilke, you underlined the whole thing
except the part where Rilke says love means to deny the self
and to be consumed in flames. Because when the lights
are off, the curtains drawn, and an additional sheet is nailed
over the windows, you still believe someone outside
can see you. And one day five summers ago,
when you couldn’t put gas in your car, when your fridge
was so empty—not even leftovers or condiments—
there was a single twenty-ounce bottle of Mountain Dew,
which you paid for with your last damn dime
because you once overheard me say that I liked it.

garconniere: queersforfeminism: OOOOOOOH MAN yes yes yes

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 18:43:13 -0600

garconniere:

queersforfeminism:

OOOOOOOH MAN

yes yes yes

literaryjukebox: I discovered these common, self imposed...

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 14:29:42 -0600

literaryjukebox:

I discovered these common, self imposed restrictions are rather insidious, though they start out simple enough. We begin by worrying we aren’t good enough, smart enough or talented enough to get what we want, then we voluntarily live in this paralyzing mental framework, rather than confront our own role in this paralysis. Just the possibility of failing turns into a dutiful self-fulfilling prophecy. We begin to believe that these personal restrictions are, in fact, the fixed limitations of the world. We go on to live our lives, all the while wondering what we can change and how we can change it, and we calculate and re-calculate when we will be ready to do the thing s we want to do. And we dream. If only. If only. One day. Some day.

Every once in a while — often when we least expect it — we encounter someone more courageous, someone who choose to strive for that which (to us) seemed unrealistically unattainable, even elusive. And we marvel. We swoon. We gape. Often , we are in awe. I think we look at these people as lucky, when in fact, luck has nothing to do with it. It is really about the strength of their imagination; it is about how they constructed the possibilities for their Life. In short, unlike me, they didn’t determine what was impossible before it was even possible.

[…]

If you imagine less, less will be what you undoubtedly deserve. Do what you love, and don’t stop until you get what you love. Work as hard as you can, imagine immensities, don’t compromise, and don’t waste time. Start now. Not 20 years from now, not two weeks from now. Now.

Debbie Millman in Look Both Ways: Illustrated Essays on the Intersection of Life and Design

Song: “This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)” by Talking Heads

iTunes :: Amazon

Kristen M Liu makes stuff (and draws stuff), on Tumblr I also...

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 14:10:32 -0600

Kristen M Liu makes stuff (and draws stuff), on Tumblr

I also love her website

supersecretpowwow: Posted a few pages of my comic, The Haunted...

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 21:18:47 -0600

supersecretpowwow:

Posted a few pages of my comic, The Haunted Mask. It will be in Zach Worton’s NOW YOU DIE!! available at SPX! :)

Mario creates and plays beautiful melodies and beautiful...

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 20:43:00 -0600

Mario creates and plays beautiful melodies and beautiful lyrics.

I sing like I’m storing hard candy in my cheek and want to rhyme California with “mourn ya”.

Glad this guy still lets me sing with him whenever we’re in the same state. <3<3<3

ssdmmfr: Printshop: Tugboat Print shop “The Moon” 35.5” x 30.5”...

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:26:55 -0600

ssdmmfr:

Printshop:

Tugboat Print shop

“The Moon”

35.5” x 30.5”

Woodcut Print on White BFK Paper

Paul Roden + Valerie Lueth

2012.

“THE MOON” woodcut print is currently in production at Tugboat Printshop. This is the largest print we have made together EVER! The woodcut image prints bleed off the edge of a 35.5” x 30.5” sheet of white paper. A subtle blue background of grey stars frames the radiant moon. “THE MOON” woodcut is printed directly from 2 hand-drawn, hand-carved, and hand-printed wood blocks onto paper. Pictured above is the first proof!”

THIS!

i once saw you kiss your hand. i mean french kiss. at first i thought you were licking something...

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 12:28:33 -0600

i once saw you kiss your hand. i mean french kiss. at first i thought you were licking something off it, perhaps a remnant from an earlier snack, perhaps blood from a scrape. or maybe you were using your teeth to scratch an itch that nails couldn’t satisfy. then i realized you were kissing it. almost…passionately. i was jealous. i wanted to be disgusted or at least curious but i was only very, very jealous.
i kissed my palm behind your back and bit the heel of it.
you turned around, shook my hand.
i think that counts.
yes.

to me, it all counts

Saturday, January 12, 2008 i have gotten rid of some bad habits.but then i was lonely without...

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 12:24:17 -0600

Saturday, January 12, 2008

i have gotten rid of some bad habits.
but then i was lonely without them.
so i developed new ones.
(it was so easy!)

#1 rule for supporting someone who experiences systemic oppression(s) you don't experience

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 00:19:44 -0600

themodernistwitch:

- you are not the center of conversations about said systemic oppression(s)

- value the words and voices of those who do experience said systemic oppression(s)

- support and boost those voices

- shut up and listen

- shut up and listen

- shut up and listen